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'Take a step back' and ask God
Soccer is a big sport at my school. Every year we have enough interest to form three full teams and players still have to be cut.
As a junior this year, I made Varsity squad. Before our season began and during the second week of practice, whenever I ran, my ankles felt weak and useless. With most things I do, I am generally happy if know I did well. For me, it’s not whether I tried my hardest, but whether I could have possibly done better. In thinking about things this way, I put a lot of pressure on myself. So when my ankles started giving me trouble, I was frustrated, knowing that I could be playing better if I wasn’t hindered.
I thought about praying, but my first thoughts were that the problem would pass soon and I didn’t need to bother. Twice after practices I iced my ankles, and after a couple days of trying to wrap my ankles with tape, I realized that prayer in Christian Science was the best way to go and could cure this condition.
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April 9, 2012 issue
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Letters
Yvonne Renoult, Lorelei de la Reza, Barbara Corbett, Bonnie Butler
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Let's see some ID
Jeff Ward-Bailey, Staff Editor
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College fun minus the alcohol
Katie Landeck
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You are God's song
Ruth Geyer
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Your identity: God-defined
Ginny Luedeman
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Who are you, really?
Annette Kreutziger-Herr
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Lost and found
Matthew Udeochu
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You are not a number
Taylor Blakely
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'That's the way I am'
Willy van Koten
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Unable to send
Allison Demarkles
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Spiritual safety on and off the slopes
Pollyann Winslow
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'Take a step back' and ask God
Collin Faunt
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Stop sign
Shirin Felfeli
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Christ in my heart
Hayden
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Church-related healings
Sarah Gall, Susan Sherwood, Charlene Anne Miller
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Meeting God again and again
Kim Shippey, Senior Editor
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'I wanted to learn more'
Penny Witney
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For Syria, prayers that bring peace
Lynne Buckley-Quirk
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Designed to teach the nature of God
Michael Hamilton
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Burned hand quickly healed
Radine Trees Nehring
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'Unfallen'
Rosemary Deary
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Healed of conjunctivitis
Fabiola Calle