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Simultaneous challenges healed
A few years ago I faced a number of personal challenges. I was at the end of my international business career, and my financial situation was disheartening; my debt demands were much greater than my income. My dear wife, who had usually helped me solve problems, had passed on a few years before. My house was in need of many expensive repairs. I could see no solution, and on top of it all, back and knee pain slowed me down.
I recognized that fear was clearly the first thing I had to overcome. And although I felt lost, I knew that through prayer I would find an answer to every problem. For guidance and protection throughout all my personal and business life I had depended on omnipresent God, good. So I naturally turned to God’s love in this apparently hopeless situation and acknowledged God’s abundant supply of good to meet my daily needs.
As I prayed, I learned to stop human outlining and instead listen to divine Mind’s direction, letting the healing solution present itself, whatever it might be. “Listen and let” became my motto—listen to God and yield to His guidance and care. And I found reassurance in Hymn 148 in the Christian Science Hymnal:
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November 28, 2016 issue
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Letters
Lori Marquart, Brenda Riontino
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Trust in God’s love
Gail Ellen McBride
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Reflections on divine reflection
Kim Shippey
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My true north
John Biggs
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Simultaneous challenges healed
Frederick R. Andresen
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Spider bite healed
Jan K. Keeler
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Horse healed of colic
Alice Runzi
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Healed in church
Eric D. Pagett
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'Love, redolent with unselfishness ...'
Photograph by Sue Holzberlein
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Pulling kids from war’s rubble
<i>The Monitor’s</i> Editorial Board
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Innocence and the armor of Love
Mary Alice Rose
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Self-knowledge and spiritual growth
Deborah Huebsch