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Home furnishings
IT'S tempting to believe that the bricks and mortar that constitute a house are the substance of home. But the material components of a house have little to do with what home truly is. We can be at home anywhere in the world, for it's the heavenly structure of our thinking, not merely an ideal floor plan, the constitutes a perfect home.
We are at home when our consciousness is filled with tenderness, joy, beauty, and forgiveness, which bring comfort, warmth, and security. These don't come from a physical location but are within our thought, and they enable us to reflect our Maker without any encumbrances. The Psalmist describes this pure state of thought as "the secret place of the most High" (Ps. 91:1). This home-consciousness is an awareness of our oneness with God. And since it is not physical place, it cannot be lost, swept away in a storm, shaken apart, or burned to the ground. Home is eternal yet ever new, always developing as our spiritual understanding of it grows.

August 11, 1997 issue
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TO OUR READERS
The Editors
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Unity that won't fracture
Geoffrey J. Barratt
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Friendship restored
Isabella Alice Marshall
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The holy experience of parenting
Molly Mary Virginia Larsen
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All unashamed
Elizabeth Bryant Schartz
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Breaking smoking's chain
Warren T. Moore
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Knowing how to act
Julia Schechtman Pabst
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Moving: the home we can't leave behind
Jan Kassahn Keeler
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Home furnishings
Colleen Feldmann Douglass
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Have you prayed for your country today?
Elliot Oladipo Yemitan
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Health and vitality in churches
by Kim Shippey
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How Love floods in!
Elizabeth S. Lay
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Why are people interested in spirituality?
Barbara M. Vining
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As an architect, sometimes I have to inspect the sites of future...
Carolina Maria Cardoso with contributions from Lúcia Cardoso
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A year ago I fell and broke my right hip
O. Lincoln Cone
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Last summer, while on vacation with my husband in the South American Andes,...
Norma Joan Lofthouse
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When my vision was tested to renew my driver's license, I saw...
Helen Marie Prahl