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Forgiveness and healing
Some years ago, I was on a trip that explored the sea journeys of the Apostle Paul. One afternoon a fellow passenger, named John Templeton, and I were the only ones sitting in the stern of the four-masted barque. Although his name was known worldwide in financial circles, I was just getting to know him. As we talked, he told me about the "Prize for Progress in Religion" that he gives each year through his Templeton Foundation.
In essence, he said that searching for laws of life is searching for spiritual rules. "'Love given, multiplies' is such a law, and happiness is always a byproduct," he said. Then he asked me this question: "What law of life do you know now that would have been a help to you had you known it twenty years ago?"
My answer: "Always forgive."
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September 22, 1997 issue
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TO OUR READERS
The Editors
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"Mars and Venus"—making the most important distinctions
Madelon Maupin Miles
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Bridging the gender divide
Jon Benson
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Thought scanning
Sandra M. Justad
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Spirituality ... in the sports section?
Warren Bolon
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Taking a more serious look at things of the Spirit
Warren Bolon
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Forgiveness and healing
Ruth P. Denison
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Don't wait to be healed
Nancy Louise Loose Ranks
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Upward
Rod Wagner
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Standing up for God—and not drinking
Lois Royle Marquardt
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Q: When God talks to you, is it a noise or a thought that you...
Sunday School students, Katie Jones
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Healing for troubled youths
Joy L. Nack
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Did you give a cup of cold water?
Harriet Barry Schupp
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Consent to health—and spread it
Barbara M. Vining
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I attended a Christian Science Sunday School regularly from...
Catherine Byers
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When I was fifteen years old I was invited to go to the beach...
Marjorie Clarie Duree
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It was some twenty years ago that I began seriously to study...
Mario Dino Torres