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Painful finger back to normal
One morning several months ago, I woke up with an intensely painful, discolored, swollen finger.
I immediately relied on prayer, protesting in thought: The one living God is reigning! Then came an angel message I knew from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy: “Mind is the source of all movement, and there is no inertia to retard or check its perpetual and harmonious action” (p. 283). This I understood to mean that God, Mind, is the source of all liveliness, activity, and mobility.
I saw the whole situation as a lie that did not touch my real spiritual self in the least. God never made a painful, discolored, swollen finger, and whatever wasn’t made by Him could not be a part of me. I am the image and likeness of God and therefore spiritual and not material.
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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