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Don't let the moose in your window
Living in Alaska, I've become accustomed to seeing moose around town, in the neighborhood, and in my yard. But one night I had a funny dream in which seven or eight moose were in our front yard. As I stood at the window watching them, one by one they came up to the house and jumped in through the window. At that point I woke up to find that, of course, there were no moose in the house.
Later that day as I was working, I suddenly felt a sharp pain in my leg. When I stood up, I could hardly walk and felt unable to put any weight on that leg. I immediately turned to God in prayer. Because God made each of His children in His own image and likeness, I affirmed my relation to God as His child, good and perfect in every way. The Christian Science textbook, Science and Health by Mary Baker Eddy, states: "There is no life, truth, intelligence, nor substance in matter. ... Spirit is God, and man is His image and likeness" (p. 468).
I then recalled that silly dream, and thought, "Don't let the moose in the window"; that is, don't let a false concept of who I really am—a concept as unreal as a dream—control me. The pain and weakness were as much a dream as the moose jumping through my window. Just as waking from the sleeping dream revealed no moose in the house, awakening from the belief that I could be weak and subject to pain could free me from this trouble. I recalled the statement in Science and Health "When we wake to the truth of being, all disease, pain, weakness, weariness, sorrow, sin, death, will be unknown, and the mortal dream will forever cease" (pp. 218-219).
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June 28, 1999 issue
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To Our Readers
Russ Gerber
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YOUR LETTERS
with contributions from Name withheld, Keitha Walker
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items of interest
with contributions from Jim Braham
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When things at work aren't working
By Mark Swinney
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SEEKING SPIRITUALITY ... AT WORK
Abraham McLaughlin
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Love in place of grief
By Stanley W. Hurst
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Don't let the moose in your window
By Terry Ann Homan
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Listen . . . God is speaking
By Elise L. Moore
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Prayers for harmony
By Francesca Jordan Karpel
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An old-fashioned soul shine
Entrepreneur Sylvia Hill talks with Kim Shippey, News Editor
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WORKING WITH GOD
with contributions from Mark I. Rosen, Jeffrey B. Swartz, Ellen Hayakawa, Vicky Hammel
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I'm perfect?
By Glory Holzworth
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TALKING WITH OTHERS ABOUT GOD
Karen Prager
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Skin condition and impaired vision healed
Suzanne C. McBride
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Hearing restored to normal
William M. Fabian
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Prayer heals leg injury
Elizabeth V. Godfrey
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Healing following chemical explosion
Evan Mehlenbacher
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Field notes: on freedom
William E. Moody