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"You can kiss your house goodbye," yelled our neighbor in...
"You can kiss your house goodbye," yelled our neighbor in panicked fear, speaking to us on the phone before evacuating her own home. (We were not home at the time.)
The fire in Chelan, Washington, had just leapt over Highway 97, and was about to consume the canyon where four families, ours included, reside. We were told that the videotape on the television news showed flames shooting up to huge heights, and self-constituted winds resembling hurricane force. I called our answering machine and heard the telephone line crackle with static before going dead.
"Home is a power, not a place" came to thought. (This idea comes out in the ninety-first Psalm, among other places in the Bible.) This spiritual fact was clear to us, but the feeling of unfairness seemed overwhelming.
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July 17, 1995 issue
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Defend yourself!
Barbara Smith Bernheimer
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Violence: "What am I doing about this?"
Mildred D. Johnson
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Something better to celebrate!
Ellen Moore Thompson
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David conquered a lion, a giant, and fear
Sharla Jean Pugh
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The best hiding place
Mary Lee S. O'Neal
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Too good to be true? Never!
E. Ward Thomas, Jr.
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The ring of authenticity
by Kim Shippey
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God didn't say so!
Fanchon H. Stewart
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The angels of my life*
Margery Vause Carlson
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Safety in the skies
Russ Gerber
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The right kind of protest
Barbara M. Vining
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"You can kiss your house goodbye," yelled our neighbor in...
William P. Minor
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I have seen and experienced many healings that have come...
Jane Brough Benson
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"The Lord is good; his mercy is everlasting; and his truth endureth...
Pat Andreasen Tibbetts