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A clearer view of friendship
One evening as I was sitting at home scrolling through my Facebook newsfeed, I realized that this was something I’d gotten into the habit of doing far too often. It’s easy to get involved in the emotional hype that people’s online updates seem to offer. Often I’d open Facebook as a relief from work or study, or simply to escape boredom or loneliness.
I was also aware that as I sought a more spiritually based lifestyle, I was growing distant from many of my friends. Facebook can be a great way to connect with others who are on a similar journey, but I often used this as an excuse to waste away hours of the day.
As I closed the Web browser, I remembered the paragraph from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures that begins: “Would existence without personal friends be to you a blank? Then the time will come when you will be solitary, left without sympathy; but this seeming vacuum is already filled with divine Love” (Mary Baker Eddy, p. 266).
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October 20, 2014 issue
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Letters
Anne, Bruce Higley, Cicely Gallagher, Frank C. "Pat" Daniels, Jr.
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Divine Love’s parental guidance
Name Withheld
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Ideas come from Mind
Joan Bernard Bradley
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A clearer view of friendship
Lizzie Witney
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Refuse to be afraid!
Patricia Farrar
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An invitation
The Editors
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For thus saith the Lord God
Photograph by Wil Meacham
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Compassion and spiritual progress
Christa Kreutz
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An invaluable staff and rod for life
Eduardo Torfer
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Seeing ‘the perfect man’
Paige Pearson
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A powerful healing
Margaret Amara
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Intense pain healed
Becky Barrett-Alford
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Hearing restored
Virginia “Jyn” Brooks
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Touching the Christly hem
Lynn Jackson