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Severe back problem healed
While running a small residential construction company, I once contracted to frame, roof, and enclose an expansion of a client’s home by turning a simple one-story cottage into a saltbox-style house. In early February, the deepest part of winter, we tore the roof off the house in preparation for framing the second story.
Previously I’d been experiencing discomfort in my back, but when I got home that night, the pain had increased so much that my oldest son had to help me carefully out of the car and slowly, haltingly into the bedroom upstairs. In bed I tried to sit up, but the effort caused such an agony that I could not move at all after that.

February 9, 2015 issue
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Letters
Cher, Victoria Dell, Mary Mona Fisher, Robin Pryor Blake
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Don’t know enough? God does!
Marie Helm
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Seeking spiritual guidance
Scott Thompson
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God’s guarantee
April Brahinsky
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Receptive hearts—and the touch of the Christ
Martin Vesely
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Blest Christmas morn
Photograph by Steve Ryf
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God opens the way
Maria T. Cabrera
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When a psalm helped me …
By Ashley, fourth grade, California
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A wife prays
Mary Ellen Blanton
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Use of legs restored
Juliet Swannell, E. Joyce Voysey
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Severe back problem healed
Dean Coughtry
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Mental health and identity
Arthur P. Wuth
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The disappearance of the claims of matter
Mary Alice Rose