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No more headaches
1997 was a year I don't like to think of very often. I was living with my family in New England, when I began to have very bad headaches.
I took many pain relievers. However, because of family complications, my family relocated to North Dakota the next year. With the general excitement of our move, my headaches were temporarily forgotten. Unfortunately, during 1999, they returned, only with more pain in my eyes.
At times the pain forced me to lie down with my eyes closed. My mother thought of consulting an eye doctor, but at the time my father was unemployed, and we didn't have enough money. But by God's grace, my older brother visited me. He was a Christian Scientist, and we talked a great deal about his religion. After he left, he sent me Science and Health.
I began reading. Slowly I began to understand that God is all good and that He wants no one to suffer. My father had always said that God punishes us for anything wrong that we do—that our misfortunes we bring on ourselves, and that we can't do anything about it.
But as I thought over what I read in the Bible and in Science and Health, I was struck by a new thought. God made me in His image, which is all good, so how then could there be any legitimacy to pain and suffering?
I began to understand that God is all good and that He wants no one to suffer.
Ever since that moment of realization, I've never had any more pain in or other problems with my eyes, and I've had no more headaches. I have been able to read and study for hours at a time and to stay up late without lack of visual focus due to weariness. From that day till this, I haven't had to take any medicine for anything.
Rather, I put my trust in the allpowerful God and in His goodness.
Elizabeth Harney
Jamestown, North Dakota
January 1, 2001 issue
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To Our Readers
Cyril Rakhmanoff
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YOUR LETTERS
with contributions from Philip Arnold, Maciej Godlewski, Don Shipman, Shane Freund Blatt
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Items of Interest
with contributions from Marilyn Millstone, Anne Jacobson, John Osborne, Dalai Lama
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A day-by-day endeavor to help exploited children
An interview with Pedro Scarano
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Saving the world's children, one at a time
An interview with Patricia Leuschner
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Adoption: Trusting God's family plans
By Doris E. Altana
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Feelings vs. emotion: an important difference
By Elaine Follis
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Don't give up on life
By André Völker
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Adrift or anchored?
By Joan Sieber Ware
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Purity brings physical healing
Ann Brown
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A healing at the beach
Nathan Millington
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No more headaches
Elizabeth Harney
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Varicose vein gone
Laiete Torquato da Silva
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Congestion and fever healed
Virginia Ashley
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Normal bodily functions return
Dora Lohman
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All those frogs—gone
By Donna Grimm
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With the apostle in a war zone
Mary Trammell