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Runaway lives?
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Soon after I'd started the long, steep descent down the mountain I saw the first sign: "Runaway truck ramp—1 mile." Then, "½ mile," then "¼ mile," and finally the ramp—a long dirt track leading off the highway and graded steeply upward, so that a runaway rig could go barreling onto it and run out safely to a stop. I passed two of these ramps before I reached the valley floor.
Pretty smart highway planning, I thought. And what a relief to any truck driver who'd lost his brakes! Instead of careening down the mountain to disaster, he'd know there was safety ahead, a respite, a quiet stopping place.
All this set me to thinking about times when my own life had seemed like a runaway, hopelessly out of control. Have you ever felt like that? Most people have. Where a relationship, a job (maybe no job), our health, our bank account, the terrible state of the world, advancing age (too fast!), or a combination of such things can bring us to a point of utter helplessness and resignation.
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March 18, 1991 issue
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Dear Reader
The Editors
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Spiritual lessons for hard times
Richard D. Soule
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What we can do about mistakes
Margaret Campbell
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The immediacy of God's healing power
Audrey H. Walter
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Love's outreach
Jane R. Harwood
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SECOND THOUGHT
Beverly Beckham
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Giving from the heart
Elaine Natale
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Women in the battle zone
Ann Kenrick
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At various times in my early childhood I attended a Christian Science Sunday School,...
Ruth Esther Dougan
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Christian Science has been a great gift to me
Erica Sieverding
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For years I suffered intensely from menstrual cramps
Holly S. Morris
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Gratitude for the good Christian Science has brought into...
Elsie A. Sparling