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I am learning to be grateful for every opportunity for spiritual...
I am learning to be grateful for every opportunity for spiritual growth and spiritual unfoldment.
Last winter I had such an opportunity. One Sunday morning in January I was in the parking lot across the street from our church. After finishing a conversation, I turned to make a quick dash back to the warmth of the building. Unaware that I was standing with my back to an angular guy wire that ran from the top of a utility pole to the ground, I caught my ankles in the wire, and my movement propelled me with great force, face-down to the pavement. I sprang up immediately, embarrassed to have made such a blunder. As I ran toward the building I noticed that blood was falling on the pavement, so I headed for the men's room to clean up, wondering if I would be presentable to teach my Sunday School class of lively, inquisitive young boys.
From the moment I fell, I had affirmed my oneness with God, but had not then thought of this happening as an opportunity for spiritual growth. Rather, I was thinking of it as a distraction to my teaching the class.
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October 9, 1995 issue
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Health—unaffected by the weather
Russ Gerber
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Disasters are not inevitable
Joanne Ward Humbert
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Young people find strength in diversity
by Kim Shippey
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Dear Sentinel
with contributions from Aimee E. Henderson, Hannah Casboult, S. Casboult
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God's grand purpose for you—dominion
Linda Jo Beckers
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The permanent relationship we all have
Jacklyn J. Williams
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A grievance healed
Mary Elizabeth G. Baker
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Listen
Stuart R. Johnson
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Upward progress—powered by grace
Susan Jackson Cobb
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Money and family harmony
Sharon Slaton Howell
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Following Christ by night ... and day
Mary Metzner Trammell
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The greatest benefit that I attribute directly to the understanding...
Bambah-Jean Riedel
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I am learning to be grateful for every opportunity for spiritual...
B. Frederick Smith