Upfront October 15, 2012 Issue

I'll take the blessings

Gillian Litchfield, Copy Editor

Luck or blessings? With luck you get good luck and bad luck—not a lot of surety. And blessings—well, have you ever heard of a bad blessing? 

Proverbs 10:22 says, “The blessing of the Lord, it maketh rich, and he addeth no sorrow with it.” And The Message presents this passage as “God’s blessing makes life rich; nothing we do can improve on God.” In the lead piece of this issue, Rosalinda Johnson points out that with luck someone wins and someone loses, but “a blessing is something that everyone can share.” She talks of how blessings are “God in action to which we respond” (p. 4). And in an article that addresses perhaps the most obvious form of how the lure of “luck” tries to trap us, Curtis Ray Brown tells how he was able to gain freedom from a gambling addiction (p. 6).

What else do we have for you? I’ll mention just a few more things. In her article “Feel wealthy in spirit,” Diahana Barnes writes about relying on a spiritual sense of supply and trusting that God will meet our needs (p. 10); Tamie Kanata tells of how she stood up for her innocence, “witnessing the one divine system of God’s law that governs everyone” (p. 12); and Sentinel Editor Kim Shippey interviews author and longtime Christian Scientist John H. Ritter (p. 8). 

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