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No disability, only ability, in God’s creation
Last year I paid a visit, as a tourist, to the farm near Dumfries, Scotland, where Robert Burns wrote one of his best-known poems, “A Man’s a Man for A’ That.” I was thrilled to be standing on the spot where Burns penned those lines in January 1795.
Once a poor tenant farmer, Burns wrote the poem to stress the humanity and equality of all men, and the fact that rank and title do not make a man, or distinguish him as superior to other men. Rather, what makes a man or woman and constitutes their true substance and worth are virtues such as honesty, an independent mind, and common sense.

April 24, 2017 issue
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From the readers
Margee Lyon, Dawn Bresson
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Seeking and finding true worth
Heidi K. Van Patten
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No disability, only ability, in God’s creation
Andrew Wilson
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The ‘chain-breaking’ Truth
Heather Bauer
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Sunday School saved me
Katherine Ellis
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Gratitude for every bit of good
Wendy Wylie Winegar
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When life seems hard
Jenny Sawyer
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Alarming physical conditions cease
Kathrine Rockne-Truxall
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Growth disappears
Nancy Cobetto
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Happiness restored
Debby Hoge
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If God be for us, who can be against us?
Photograph by Martha Moyle
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For young or old, the 21st-century workplace is a challenge
The <i>Monitor’s</i> Editorial Board
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Balance begins with God
Allison J. Rose-Sonnesyn
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Alertness on the frontline
Tony Lobl