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Responding to urgent human need
Until you've been through one, it's impossible to understand fully what a hurricane is. Sadly, the same can be said of an earthquake, of course, when we think of our neighbors in San Francisco, China, Soviet Armenia, and Mexico City, all of whom have experienced devastating earthquakes.
There's something ironically reorienting, however, about the experience. The routine of ordinary life—even at its busiest peaks—fades to insignificance as more fundamental things take center stage.
Care for family and home, readiness to help neighbors and strangers, and the most compelling empathy for people in disaster-swept or war-ravaged communities clearly become the most important concerns. It is during such lucid moments that we begin to realize that life can be lived in far different ways from those we might ordinarily consider.
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December 4, 1989 issue
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"It is the will of the people which will prevail"
with contributions from Nien Cheng
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Making the Monitor available to all mankind
Richard A. Nenneman
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God's government: justice for all
Clifford Kapps Eriksen
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An agenda for loving
Katherine Hildreth
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FROM THE Directors
The Christian Science Board of Directors
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Is it realistic to pray?
Allison W. Phinney, Jr.
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A willow by the watercourse
Jane Partis McCarty
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Responding to urgent human need
Michael D. Rissler
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Last February my husband and I went on what should have...
Kathleen Walker with contributions from Channing Walker
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I can remember a time in my life, a few years ago, when I...
Bruce A. Cunningham
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My due date came and went
Suzanne Stewart Shute