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Lean on ME
The other day, I was leaning against a wall, and I don’t recall having a single doubt or fear about the wall supporting my lean. I had total trust in its ability to uphold me. I didn’t have to prepare myself mentally for resting against it, nor did my leaning require a leap of faith. It was a natural and normal expectation for me to receive the wall’s support.
One definition of lean is: “to rely on or derive support from.” What exactly was I leaning or relying on anyway? Was it a chunk of matter, or something more? Actually, I was trusting in a structure that had been correctly designed according to mathematical, architectural, and construction principles.
A verse from the book of Proverbs reads: “Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding” (3:5). Leaning on divine Principle and divine Love, God, to support us should be just as natural and normal as leaning against a correctly constructed wall. God’s embrace is at one with and therefore ever-supportive of His own radiant image and likeness, man.
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June 17, 2013 issue
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Letters
Kathy Woodbury, Shari Juntunen, Janice Douglas
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You have no expiration date
Pam DeBolt
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Lean on ME
Larry Wolfe
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Relate to teens: share a healing!
Deborah Peck
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Inside help
Walter Rodgers
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Beside still waters
Text and photograph by Maggie Johnson
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Questions (and answers) about origin
Madelon Maupin
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South Africa: prayer for solutions
Kim Shippey
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Breaking barriers in Peru
Timothy Steckler
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Multiple sclerosis healed
Suzann Wittenberg with contributions from Larry Wittenberg
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Pain quickly dissolves
Michael Gamble
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Free from sore throat
Stella Mesquita
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Skin condition gone
Patricia Brugioni
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Painful finger back to normal
Ursula Müller
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Cutting-edge discovery
The Editors