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The Velveteen Rabbit and a lesson in reality
While leafing through the much-loved children’s book The Velveteen Rabbit, I came across part of the story where the main character, a stuffed rabbit, asks another nursery toy, the Skin Horse, about being real. The horse tells the rabbit that becoming real is something that happens to you after a child loves you for a long, long time.
Standing in the bookstore, I smiled. While becoming “real” is a very tender element in this story, I started thinking about true spiritual reality, and how we can discover it. I then remembered a distinct turning point in my understanding of reality that took place some years ago after a particularly poignant healing.
About the author
Caroline Martin lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

February 17, 2014 issue
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Letters
Joan Greig, Lori Doutrich
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Redemption and freedom from the past
Kate Ness
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An answer to all our needs: within our reach!
Masisa Tadio Nazert
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Prayer and the yearning to be authentic
Melanie Wahlberg
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Invest in what's important
Myriam Betouche
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The Velveteen Rabbit and a lesson in reality
Caroline Martin
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"In returning and rest shall ye be saved..."
Photograph by Don Seymour
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No steering off course
Christa Kreutz
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A clear, loving message
Irene Miller
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Not sick anymore!
Hannah
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Digestion back to normal
David Fowler
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‘I stood up without pain’
Juliet Blake
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Alarming symptoms vanish
Sofía Rodríguez de Cestti
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Protected during, and after, a car crash
Thomas Liston
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Choose God
The Editors