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Heart condition healed
At one point more than ten years ago, I started noticing that something wasn’t right with my pulse. I was having spells of a racing heartbeat as if I had just done strenuous physical activity, although I hadn’t. The spells started to last hours and then days. I gradually and quietly scaled back my activities over a period of a few weeks hoping that would help, but it didn’t.
Having had other physical healings through prayer based on the teachings of Christian Science, I knew that this condition could be healed, too. But the fear was pretty overpowering, so much so that one morning I didn’t even get out of bed.
I stayed in bed most of that day praying about my God-given freedom and dominion, waiting for the body to give me the signal that all was well. It then dawned on me that I had it backward. If freedom was really a part of my nature, then I could start acting that way now and expect the body, as they say, to “get with the program”; to “follow suit”; to “get in line” with the spiritual facts. I didn’t need to take unnecessary risks, but I could insist that my freedom wasn’t an abstract concept—it was mine to experience right then.
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October 8, 2012 issue
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Letters
Anna Willis, David Cornell, Tempie Stahlin
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'Life needs you'
Jeff Ward-Bailey, Staff Editor
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You have a better friend than suicide
Michael Pabst
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Beyond remorse to healing
Roger Gordon
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'Love is the answer'
Holly Safronoff
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Breaking the spell of suicide
Dorothy Estes
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Stopping the cycle of fear
Doug Brown
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Student debts: a spiritual solution
Edward Little
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When a friend committed suicide
Sierra Morehardt
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Nothing in the way
Bonnie Larson
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Clear knowledge
Judith Cordray
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'Never really over!'
James Shepherd
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A commitment strengthened
Ken Jurgensen
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A good investment
Lona Ingwerson
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Humble prayers for peace
Ralph W. Emerson
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Drawing close to God
Kathleen Collins
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The 7 ways of God's children
Kaiana Bradley
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Bible game show aims for religious audience
Chris Lisee
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Screening for loneliness?
Don Ingwerson
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Heart condition healed
Lindsay Catlin
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No more back pain
Robert B. Scott
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No need for glasses
Helen Liscomb
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Victory over a food allergy
Christine Parker
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Wherever you're coming from...
The Editors