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Allergies healed
When I was a teenager, I began suffering from seasonal allergies at the end of each summer. Often when my family and friends were enjoying activities outdoors, I was either trying to keep up and feeling miserable, or cooped up indoors, not feeling much better.
Once when I was with my family at a lake with some good friends, I spent the day inside sneezing and blowing my nose. One of my friends, out of genuine concern, asked why I didn’t take some medicine to control the problem.
I had been raised in Christian Science, and my family had always relied on God for healing. I myself had witnessed and experienced countless instances of spiritual healing by turning to God. But after I’d been praying halfheartedly about the allergies without any results, the idea that something as simple as taking a pill might bring me relief from this suffering was an attractive one.
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June 22, 2015 issue
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Letters
Don, Mary Lou MacKenzie, Christine, Trisha
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What are we watching?
Name Withheld
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Regeneration in retirement
Margaret Lewis
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Awake to spiritual reality
Peter Ross
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Christ, whose glory fills the skies
Photograph by Steve Ryf
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God showed me what was true
Rosalie E. Dunbar
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The Christ in my life
Moriah Early-Manchester
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Husband and wife healed
Katherine Lazarus, Jonathan Lazarus
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A burden lightened
Pamela Sand
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Allergies healed
Heidi K. Van Patten
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Why tolerance of religion is not enough
The Monitor’s Editorial Board
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Having a heart that embraces all
Jan K. Keeler
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Humility—the demand and the blessings
David C. Kennedy