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How we can pop the bubble
Even when problems seem to have us surrounded or trapped, the way out is near at hand.
Recently I heard a professional storyteller tell a story of a bubble and a king. Briefly, the story relates that there once was a giant, beautiful bubble. All the townspeople were astonished at its grandeur. When the king came, however, he called the bubble "trouble." Immediately the bubble engulfed the king, and he couldn't get out. His three knights used their fearsome weapons to try to pop the bubble, but to no avail.
At last a little girl saw the bubble and walked up to see its grandeur and beauty. The townspeople warned that the bubble was "trouble" —the king had said so! But the little girl was not deceived by what others thought or feared. She replied to the townspeople, "It's a bubble, and if you treat it like a bubble, it will act like a bubble." She then touched the giant, beautiful bubble very softly—and it popped!
To the king the bubble was trouble. He saw it as trouble. He believed it was trouble. And hence, he experienced it as trouble. It was an impenetrable problem to him and to those who believed as he did. But to the little girl, who knew the facts and wasn't fooled by what others said and believed, the bubble was a bubble, and she proved this by popping it.
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September 3, 1990 issue
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Our environment and "the right kind of dominion"
with contributions from Nancy Richardson Hansen
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Redesigning for peace
Nordfrid Moersberger
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Inspired decisions
Leo C. Rogers
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How we can pop the bubble
Lynn A. Gray Jackson
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Somewhere in you
Godfrey John
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A perpetual harvest of good
Ann Kenrick
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Ready to learn?
Michael D. Rissler
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Something to cheer about
Margaret Fogg Worthing
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I have been a student of Christian Science for many years
Louise C. Marks
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Seven years ago my husband passed on unexpectedly
Ishbel Graham
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I feel very blessed to have been raised in Christian Science
Karen Williams Seward with contributions from David W. Seward