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Sing your way out
When prayer is a song
Sitting in the middle of our chaotic kitchen, I was carefully wrapping crystal goblets, putting them into yet another carton to add to the scores of boxes stacked everywhere. We were preparing for the movers, who would come the next day. As my husband came into the room, I was ready to complain to him about the endless toil of packing, when suddenly the sound of a tiny musical phrase, no louder than a whisper, came to our ears. We both broke out laughing, and the weariness disappeared instantly.
"Remember to take our little friend along with us to our new home," my husband said, and I certainly agreed.
"Our little friend" was a tiny rectangular recording of Christmas hymns that had arrived two years earlier in a canister of cookies. Every time we lifted the lid, this merry little voice had greeted us from inside. When the cookies were gone, we had detached this little item from the container and thrown it into the trash.
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August 7, 2000 issue
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To Our Readers
Mary Metzner Trammell
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YOUR LETTERS
with contributions from Mary Lee Dyer, Alberta Zimmerman
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items of interest
with contributions from Joseph Epstein, Oprah Winfrey, Jim Wallis
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The original medicine—Mind
By Mark Swinney
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"What things?"
By Edwin G. Leever
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Never too late to feel God's love
By Amanda Holmes Duffy
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The God of the tunnel
By Gay Bryant
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Sing your way out
By Loretta King
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Rough going? Remember the ducks
By Sharon S. Jeffrey
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GRACE IN A CRUNCH
By Bev DeWindt
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Dear Sentinel
Abby Hunter
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High-school football player finds healing in God
Kevin Sheldon Pratt with contributions from Kathryn Groener Pratt
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Flu quickly healed
Joy Bennett
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Prayer and gratitude heal sinus condition
Lois Rae Carlson
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"Senior moment"? Think again
By Robert A. Johnson
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Well-loved child
Cheryl Ranson
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Healing old hurts
Margaret Rogers