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To see righteously, not self-righteously
I well remember the first time that I ever asked someone to pray for me. I wanted help in finding spiritual solutions to the many problems I was facing, so I called a Christian Science practitioner. We prayed together over several weeks.
One day I said to her, "Don't you think I should stop smoking?" I had been addicted to cigarettes for years, but smoking had become more and more obnoxious to me. I didn't like the way my clothes smelled, and, more importantly, I always felt guilty about it. I was brought up to think that women, in particular, should not smoke. So I felt continually on the defensive.
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Bea Roegge is a contributing editor.

February 24, 2003 issue
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Addiction healed, lives redeemed
Mary Trammell
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letters
with contributions from Nancy Martin, Shirley Paulson, Sandy Webb, Christiane Marie Rekittke, Archie C. Kramer
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items of interest
with contributions from George W. Bush, Desmond M. Tutu, Monique Angle, Bob Riley
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Praying for safer liftoffs and landings
By Barbara Vining
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Columbia: What is not gone
By Channing Walker
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Columbia
—Julia Karr
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In my daddy's footsteps?
By Gloria Harrison
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To see righteously, not self-righteously
By Bea Roegge
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Why I know I'm clean and free
By Kenny Simmons
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Venezuelan reconstruction
By Patricia Pombo de Leuschner
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Taking the high road
By Kate Dearborn
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----100 years ago
with contributions from A. C. Thompson, Joseph Parker
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'He's got the whole world in His hands'
By Marilyn Jones Senior Writer
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Beauty—more than skin–deep
LaMeice Harding
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She quit smoking, with prayer
Demarise Gallert
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The word of God brings healing
Harry Ringenberg