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Praying for a school community
When I began looking for a new home five years ago, a neighborhood with a strong sense of community was top on my list of must-haves. As it turned out, I found a condominium in a lovely old home just a stone’s throw from the center of a working-class town with strong community roots. The church I now attend—one of many within walking distance of one another—is just around the corner.
While I don’t have children in the local school district, most of the children in our Sunday School attend the local public schools. A couple of months ago, the mother of four of our students e-mailed the church members one afternoon alerting us to proposed budget cuts that would curtail certain language programs, and also music programs (for which the district is known), at the elementary, middle, and high school levels. The cuts would affect not only her own children but many others. Parents were upset, and there was to be a meeting that evening with school officials to discuss the cuts. The mother asked for our collective prayers.
As a former teacher, I knew this scenario all too well. And as a Christian Scientist, I was sure prayer would bring to light the right solution for everyone involved. We can never outline what that solution is in any instance, but we can be assured there is one that God, divine Mind, will reveal to us when we have the humility to listen.
Enjoy 1 free Sentinel article or audio program each month, including content from 1898 to today.
July 23, 2012 &
July 30, 2012
double issue
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Letters
Steven Price, Blanche Saul, Candace Gibson
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Rejoicing together
Kim Shippey, Senior Staff Editor
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Borderless community
Walter Rodgers
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How big is good?
Nancy Mullen
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A rising tide lifts all boats
Jeff Ward-Bailey
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My first interfaith experience
Bonnie Mitchinson
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Embracing communities worldwide
Kim Shippey, Senior Staff Editor
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Climate change: What I could do
Elizabeth Graser-Lindsey
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Delight in international giving
Peter Dry
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Praying for a school community
Suzanne Smedley
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The grizzly bear delusion
Glenn Williams
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Salvation
Brian Kissock
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Unlimited resources
Heather Howland Kany
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Planted in a new path
Dorothy H. Thomson
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Love's leading
Tad Blake-Weber
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Seeking the way
Linda Gridley Lane
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The answer
Barbara Whitewater
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Solutions
Charlotte Bushnell
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Marjorie and the Dream
Phyllis W. Zeno
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Focused thought
Richard Albins
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God made you perfect
Megan Meehan
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What are you going to be when you grow up?
Leide Lessa
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Sign me up!
Bob Minnocci
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I shared with my professor
Bruce Matouka
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Your questions about church
Answers offered by Tim Myers and Michelle Nanouche
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'A spiritual model of life'
William Otieno
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The 'more excellent way'
Christa Kreutz
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Finding our God-given freedom
Ann Edwards
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A healing standard
Mark Sappenfield
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A summer of 'radical acts'
Jeff Ward-Bailey
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Lots of Laughs
Madora Kibbe
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Protected during a fall
Norma P. Cooper with contributions from Elizabeth Gibbons
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Chest pains overcome
B. James Jokerst
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Spinal meningitis healed
Charles O'Gorman
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Spine fracture healed
Brooks Rakos
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What makes you who you are?
The Editors