December 10, 2001
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From the Editors
If you're like me,
the fear of contamination, contagion, or poisoning may not be something you feel you have to really worry about on a daily basis.
I usually strongly disagree with American trade and foreign policies, but I was delighted to read the interviews with three American veterans published in the Sentinel of November 12.
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"I'M Encouraging Schoolchildren
to write letters of friendship to Muslim children in different countries.
Usually shadows are associated with disturbance and depression. But one night in a time of sickness and loneliness, a young recruit found a guiding light in the shadows that has helped him ever since.
A preventative step that we can take about Flight 587 and the recent terrorist attacks is not to let them accumulate.
It's called psychogenic illness—false information or fear triggering real symptoms in the public at large. Read how you can take control of yourself when this phenomenon, or any other situation, threatens to sweep you along with the crowd.
When severe poisoning threatened the young lives of the author and her little sister, their parents turned to God. And God was there for them.
If I were asked to name the significant impression from this experience with my two daughters, it would have to be the contrast between the terror and helplessness we felt when we discovered that they had drunk rat poison, and the fresh feeling of love and normality that pervaded our thoughts after visiting the Christian Science practitioner.
Two US Army reservists describe how they took prayer with them into nuclear-biological-chemical training.
Two US Army reservists describe how they took prayer with them into nuclear-biological-chemical training.
An example of how you can sometimes sweeten your environment without even opening your mouth.
Even in times of chaos and crisis, there's an appropriate place for the lightness of laughter.
When
I started to pray about the threat of terrorism, I felt almost paralyzed because I was thinking more from the standpoint of "What can I, just one person, do in the face of a whole system devoted to hate and destruction?
Are you looking forward to celebrating what the upcoming holiday stands for—stillness, warmth, and peace? (Nothing can stop you!)
By the next day there was virtually no evidence of the injury.
I saw that what needed to be changed was my point of view about creation.
In a few days our prayers had healed all the remaining stiffness.
I tried to turn completely to God in prayer, thinking about His love for all His children.
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Are you interested in hearing more about how Christian Science heals and changes people's lives for the better?
When our quest for truth and understanding leads us to God, we find what we're looking for.
