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Trapped by marriage?

The commitments of marriage and family life are sometimes pictured as limitations. But as the writer searched for a truer sense of freedom, she found these commitments full of joy.
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When we call it "romantic fantasy," it all sounds harmless and at the same time delightfully real.
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True love

Love has to last us through the hard times and the lonely times. This kind of love could only come from God, divine Love.
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Poem

Upward flight

The startled water bird leapsSwift as thoughtFrom dreaming on the placid pondTo soaring, onward circling heights.
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Threatening little boy? Or child of God?

The human mentality seems full of all sorts of fears and hates. Yet these can yield as we reflect what the Bible calls the Mind that was in Christ Jesus.
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In a conversation a young mother told us how much her third-grader likes the children's section of the Sentinel.
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Breakthroughs in spiritual healing come moment by moment. They grow from new views of God and our own nature as His loved creation.
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"The Tennessee embryos-custody trial, the abortion argument rekindled by the U.
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FROM THE Directors

Some members have found great blessings in taking more seriously, especially during recent years, a brief reference, in the Manual of The Mother Church by Mary Baker Eddy, to not circulating incorrect literature.
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Editorial

Islands of innocence

Purity and innocence are qualities often associated with children. Yet aren't these childlike qualities utterly central in a world where greed, impurity, and pollution are major challenges?
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Promises that are kept

It may be more important than we realize to do all we can to be faithful to our commitments.
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Poem

The forsaken garden

The mulberry tree has gone,and the swing where I swung,and the smooth green lawns that I knewwhen the years were young.
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Testimony of Healing
During the summer between my junior and senior years at college, doctors diagnosed that I had a tumor on the pituitary gland.
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Testimony of Healing
The village in which I grew up was a typical northern English village.
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Testimony of Healing
Before I started to study Christian Science I was afflicted each winter, without fail, with what the doctor diagnosed as a septic throat.
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Testimony of Healing
When I returned home after the Second World War, during which time I had experienced divine Love's protection and guidance, I prayed to be led to a position from which I could serve mankind in an effective and practical way.
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No one can say when you'll realize you're ready.
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