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Love meets the need
Walking through a car park recently, I heard the screams of a child after his brother had accidentally slammed a car door shut on his finger. I immediately ran over to them and found the boy wrapped in his mother’s arms. She was asking him to stop crying and to let her “just have a little look.” The brother stood close by looking shocked.
Offering comfort, I gently touched the sobbing boy’s head and said the first thing that came into my mind: “There’s nothing to fear, ’cause Love is here.” This was an on-the-spot reword of lines from a little poem I had learned in Christian Science Sunday School. At the same time, though, I was repeating silently the first line of Mary Baker Eddy’s “scientific statement of being,” which goes, “There is no life, truth, intelligence, nor substance in matter” (Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p. 468). And I kept holding tenaciously to the fact that God, the divine Mind, was in control and that the identity of the boy—and everyone present—was spiritually intact and could only be “very good” (Genesis 1:31).

July 14, 2014 issue
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Letters
Grace H. Carter, Colin J. Campbell, Marney Mallon
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Communing with God
Ruth Geyer
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Overcoming despair in combat zones
Matt Schmidt
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Goodbye 'can't-write-this' thinking
Michael Slater
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From moon walk to space station
Annette Dutenhoffer
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If we're really spiritual...
Tony Lobl
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Tender words
Grace H. Carter
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Life preserved
Steve Warren
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Staying close to the Monitor
Susan Stark
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Satisfied: not interested in pot
Sam Soetarman
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Lifted out of addiction
Tad Blake-Weber
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Abundance after divorce
Name withheld
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Only good can go around
Candy Sawyer
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Lost wedding ring found
Joy Rae-Hughes
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Love meets the need
Maggie Johnson
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Beyond positive thinking
The Editors