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Pneumonia healed, humility restored
Many years ago when I was new as a Christian Scientist, and a new draftee in the United States Army, I found myself in need of healing.
I had found success in basic training and had been quickly promoted to a leadership position in our platoon. In my next training assignment, I found myself continuing to find success, but I began to look down a bit on some of the training staff. These men did not have the polish I had admired in our initial group of NCOs and officers, and I felt they were doing a poor job with the task they were assigned.
In addition to these negative feelings, I was upset that we were not given clothes fully adequate to the brutal winter conditions. But instead of praying about the situation, I started to become careless in my thinking and behavior; I just wanted to get the training over with. I even missed bed check one night and had my weekend pass revoked and my rank reduced.
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February 20, 2017 issue
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From the readers
Ruth Parkhurst, Janice Ritter
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Immigration issues and God’s government
Joan Bernard Bradley
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Spiritual selfhood
Mark Raffles
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Safe travels for all
Cathy Edge
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Annual Meeting 2017
The Christian Science Board of Directors
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Safe in Love’s armor
Charlene Anne Miller
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‘Never again short of a meal’
Carina James
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Pneumonia healed, humility restored
Jack Train
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Severe leg injury healed
Jacquelin Brown
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Freed from concerns about driving
Emily Sander
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On goats, serpents, and sheep
Lona Ingwerson
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Why the tweet #prayfor has staying power
The <i>Monitor’s</i> Editorial Board
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Prayer that is dependable
Michelle Boccanfuso Nanouche
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The view beyond division
Tony Lobl