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MORE THAN MUSCLE POWER
HERE IN THE UNITED STATES, thousands of baseball and softball players are enjoying the benefits of what is known as "spring training." It's a happy time of renewal, preparation, and strategizing for an upcoming season of competition.
Of course, it includes a lot of very hard work. In my second year at college, I found the baseball pre-season conditioning process could be grueling, but realized it could also be a great place to learn some life lessons. I was, as always, the smallest player on the team. Not even years of weight training would have transformed me into the six-foot-three giant I thought I wanted to be. So I applied some of the lessons in spiritual self-cure I'd learned in a Christian Science Sunday School and looked to God for strength and ability. And the results were, by my standards, phenomenal.
This is how I reasoned. Though a trainer might look at you as a physical being with some possibly serious limitations, God sees you as a completely spiritual being—created to express His nature and power. Jesus confirmed this when He told his followers, "The Father that dwelleth in me, he doeth the works" (John 14:10). And that was good enough for me. If Jesus could admit that the creative power to achieve satisfying results wasn't humanly personal, but found in God, I decided I had nothing to worry about. My true potential wouldn't emerge in the weight room. Power—real power—is a quality that God expresses naturally in everyone.
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March 21, 2005 issue
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LETTERS
with contributions from YEYE AKILIMALI, RUBY HIGGINS, CLAUDIA CHARTRAW, MARGARET WYLIE, MARIANNE U. BUDDINGTON
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'WELL, IF IT WILL HELP ...'
SUZANNE SMEDLEY. STAFF EDITOR
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ITEMS OF INTEREST
with contributions from Alexandra Alter, Mike Billington, John Dorschner
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You're not alone on the road to mental health
By Rosalie E. Dunbar
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God has given us "a sound mind"
Giulia Plum
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God loves us now
Charles Filbert
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A healing of manic depression
Martha Niggeman
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WHEN THE PAIN THAT WOULDN'T GO AWAY, WENT
By Evan Mehlenbacher
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ABUNDANCE THAT ISN'T A GAMBLE
By Shelly Richardson
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A SPIRIT-FILLED DAY
By Patricia Kadick
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THINK YOUR LIFE IS OVER? THINK AGAIN!
ANNETTE BRIDGES
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MORE THAN MUSCLE POWER
MARK SWINNEY
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Resurrection
John Scott
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MAKE POVERTY HISTORY?
TONY LOBL
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'I WAS COMPLETELY AND PERMANENTLY FREE'
SANDRA BALDERSTON
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INJURY TO FINGER HEALED WITHOUT A SCAR
DORA LOHMAN
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SEVERE CRAMPS HEALED IMMEDIATELY
GINGER DOSSEY