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Never separated from God
A little over ten years ago I suddenly began to experience intense back pain, as well as difficulty with digestion. As I’d had some quick and beautiful healings of this problem before I thought: “Well, you’ll be able to share your healing at church next Wednesday.” But there was no quick healing.
I began to pray, and as I did, it came to me that I was not relying on my limited spiritual understanding for healing, but that I should commit myself trustingly to God: “Thy will be done, Father.” I remembered how Mary Baker Eddy explained an exclamation of Jesus’ in Gethsemane, before his crucifixion—“Not my will, but Thine, be done!” She saw this as saying, “. . . Let not the flesh, but the Spirit, be represented in me.” And she continued: “This is the new understanding of spiritual Love. It gives all for Christ, or Truth. It blesses its enemies, heals the sick, casts out error, raises the dead from trespasses and sins, and preaches the gospel to the poor, the meek in heart” (Science and Health, p. 33).
That gave me a lot to think about. It was my wish that my spiritual being should become clear mentally, and that this wholeness would be expressed outwardly in healing. Flesh I interpreted as ignorance, fear, mental darkness. The passage also said I had to give up everything for Christ, or Truth, in order that God’s will could be clearly seen. What did I have to give up? Belief in a power apart from God. Doubt. Idleness. Christ is God’s message to man, and this message is Truth. What message does Christ bring us? Wonderful spiritual ideas:
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July 4, 2011 issue
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Letters
Ellie Braman, Sandra C. McNeill, Terry Holliday, Faith Donavin, Richard Arlen
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Fireworks!
Ingrid Peschke, Managing Editor
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Churches seek out innovative solutions
Cathy Lynn Grossman
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Earthquakes—and praying about ‘the big one’
Robert Storm
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A humbling experience
Kathleen Collins
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To witness God's care
Elizabeth Mata
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Spiritual balance restored
By Don Snyder
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Our infinite value
By Michele Newport
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Admission of new members
Nathan Talbot
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Peace in the Middle East: What your prayers can do
By Rosalie E. Dunbar, News Editor
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Healing — our ‘Declaration of Independence’
By Susan Fleming
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Never separated from God
By Marie-Luise Bolay
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Freedom and healing with the Lord’s Prayer
By Suzanne Connolly
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Healing victories and freedom from the past
Name withheld
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At the pool of . . .
Rob Swales
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Prayer about pain
Caryl Farkas
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I love God
Ava
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God is special
James
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Your questions about Church
Tad Blake-Weber, Manya Kaseroff-Smith
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Free from chronic knee trouble
Lisa Sorrentino
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A more spiritualized vision
Mirta Piccoli
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An injury is quickly healed
Ann Bennett
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To defeat dementia
The Editors