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‘Fright Walk’ and a lesson in healing
Christian Science teaches that God is everywhere and is good—yet it’s often difficult to go through our days actually feeling that good is everywhere. Looking at the evening news, it certainly doesn’t seem like that’s the case.
Illusions can put us under the impression that evil is in control. A bad dream is one example of the power of a convincing illusion. In a dream the picture can be not only scary, but hopeless: we may feel engulfed by a momentum that drives us off a cliff, into the arms of a beast, or into the unkindness of another. Whatever the plot, the sense of being enveloped by something bad and near an “end” often causes us to wake up. Deep down, we know that the images and feelings add up to a false experience.
I recently happened upon a vivid illustration of how some illusions fool us into thinking they are real, and will cause us harm. And afterward, I had the opportunity to put this insight into practice.
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October 24, 2011 issue
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Letters
Katie Brotten, Nancy Bachmann, Rick Lipsey, Bridget Broadhurst
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Your career, your calling
Maike Byrd, Staff Editor
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No excuses in our work for God
Douglas D. Webster
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Find a constant in your career
By Dave Hohle
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A career with no shelf life
By Lynde McCormick
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Employed by the two ‘great commandments’
By Clifford McElrea
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Thoughts on being fruitful
Lu Ann Condon
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Prayer for people in the Horn of Africa
By Beverley Beddoes-Mills
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‘Fright Walk’ and a lesson in healing
Name removed by request
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Who, me . . . ‘perfect’?
By Ashley Woodley
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The flower and the sun
Shirin Felfeli
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Healed!
Evangeline, Chloë
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Changes to ChristianScience.com
Susie Jostyn
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Keeping in touch
Marta Greenwood
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I didn’t have to be perfect first
Anne Melville
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An ‘Abigail approach’ for Israel and Palestine
Matt Schmidt
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Loving the Ten Commandments
Ann Edwards
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Quick healing of hip pain
Rita Pauluhn
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Immobility reversed
Teresa Claro
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No more back pain
Don Sweder
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Persistence in prayer heals effects of fall
Jackie Nash
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Divine Mind moves you
The Editors