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SARS a new name need not scare us
IT SEEMS EVERYONE HAS BEEN TALKING about SARS, especially in India. Neighboring China, after all, has had the greatest number of cases. My response to the increased concerns has been to pray. My prayer is based on the facts that God, who is a loving Creator, is not the cause of disease, and that it is certainly not God's will that any of Her children should suffer. These facts have been proved to me time and again.
At one time, I was feeling very resentful and angry about a situation. At the same time, there was a lot of talk about flu going around. I began to find it difficult to breathe normally and soon developed the symptoms of a very bad cold.
I talked by phone with a friend who earlier had invited me over. When she realized I wasn't feeling well, she asked if we could cancel the meeting—she did not want to catch this terrible cold I had. Yet even though we never got together, she soon caught "my cold." On learning that, I realized I needed to pray about tacitly accepting contagion as unavoidable—as a law. Otherwise, I was contributing to the general fear that one creation of God could pass along something harmful to another.
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May 26, 2003 issue
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Prayer-based immunity
Steve Graham
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letters
with contributions from David Goldsmith, Arthur G. Elliott, Marc W. Abel, Barbara Byler Saum
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items of interest
with contributions from Ann Winterholter, Richard Dymond, Tim Rutten
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SARS a new name need not scare us
By Neera Kapur
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WORLDWIDE IMMUNITY through prayer
By Ryder Stevens
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prayer vs. contagion
By Beverly Goldsmith
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My effort for PEACE in the Middle East
By Larissa Snorek-Yates
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Prayers for peace
with contributions from Barbara Whitewater, Bruce A. Cunningham, Peter J. Jensen, Thomas O. Poyser, Deirdre Kindthistle
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I learned to listen to God
By Sabra Lowe
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Can I like myself?
By Ginny Luedeman
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Making time for what you love
By Susie Rynerson
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Films that inspire
By Marilyn Jones Senior Writer
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Challenging assumptions
By Margaret Rogers
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contagious disease healed quickly
Jill Longanecker-Wiedman
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Smallpox arrested through prayer
Maxine Leymaster
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Recurring convulsions healed
Mónica Esefer Passaglia