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Frowns and flatteries
Conformity. Wanting to be popular. It's a feeling many of us may remember having as we grew up.
The strongest impulsion to be the same as everybody else in order to be liked usually wears off as we develop individual skills and travel diverse paths. But the tendency can still be more of an influence in adult years than we might expect. To the extent that it remains, it would slow our spiritual progress and healing.
Society generally frowns on what departs from its presently accepted opinions and ways of doing things. Occasionally the frown turns into something more—something like a scowl. And sometimes the scowl deepens into specific opposition.
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June 18, 1990 issue
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Expression, not depression
Kathleen Sue Markwood
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Gaining a deeper understanding of God
Ralyne Nawman Robb
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Healing through prayer
Nancy Hormel Reinert
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Frowns and flatteries
Allison W. Phinney, Jr.
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No erasing the record
Michael D. Rissler
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To be freed of what is considered a severe physical condition...
Roy K. Bottorff with contributions from Harriet R. Bottorff
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In early childhood I was enrolled in a Christian Science Sunday School,...
Barbara Adams Larsen
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Some years ago while I was measuring the dimensions of...
O. Lincoln Cone
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Our family was preparing to return to our home from a vacation...
Jo Ann Gerber with contributions from Deonna Gerber