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Commissioned as sentinels
I love a passage in Lewis Carroll’s Through the Looking Glass in which Alice is talking with the White Queen and proclaims, “One can’t believe impossible things.” The Queen responds, “I daresay you haven’t had much practice!... Why, sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.”
I shared this passage in a memorial message for a soldier killed in Iraq, explaining that there are many reasons why we have memorial ceremonies, one of which is that we come hoping and wishing to believe “impossible” things. Christian Science explains what Jesus declared—“With God all things are possible” (Matthew 19:26)—and invites us to consider the accomplishment of the “impossible” as a divinely natural occurrence. The Bible abounds with stories of events that could only be met with wonder and skepticism! One such “impossible” thing, proclaimed by the Christian faith, is that one grave is empty—Jesus Christ is raised from the dead!
About the author
Christopher Cieply lives in Holland, Michigan.

June 3, 2013 issue
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Letters
Laurel Marquart, JSH-Online comments, Joni Leigh
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Consensus—or one Mind?
Kelly Michaels
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In the care of angels
Diana Jean Booth with contributions from James Edward Booth
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Commissioned as sentinels
Christopher Cieply
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Be a Noah!
Brian Kissock
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"Trust in the Lord..."
Photograph by Steve Ryf
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Living in, and as, love
Deanna Mummert
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Millions of seekers online
Sentinel staff
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The big picture
John Yemma
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Elijah's cave
Brenda Evers
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Go ahead...pray about it
Courtlyn Reekstin
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A lifetime of healing
Lynne Neville Park
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Swift recovery
Natalia R. Parris
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Proving the truth
Virginia McCoy Britt with contributions from Julie Oline
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Limits and burdens fade
Sally Lind
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Arm pain gone
Joan Greig
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Willing to yield
The Editors