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Deep wound healed
I had a new kitchen knife for chopping vegetables and was using it for the first time. While chopping a carrot, I accidentally sliced into one of my fingers. The bandage I applied was instantly soaked with blood.
As I wrapped a clean towel around the hand, I thought about my true, spiritual nature made in God’s image and likeness. I saw that as God’s child, I was “not made up of brain, blood, bones, and other material elements,” as the Christian Science textbook makes clear (Mary Baker Eddy, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p. 475). I immediately felt assured that blood had nothing to do with determining my life. It did not define my true identity, which I mentally affirmed as the image and likeness of God, divine Spirit (see Genesis 1:26, 27).
March 15, 2021 issue
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Conquering our common enemy
Tony Lobl
Keeping Watch
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Your defense against manipulation
Jan Keeler Vincent
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Self-immolation: Purifying, not condemning, self
William Whittenbury
Poetry
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Wholehearted healing
Peter Ward
Keeping Watch
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Love that can transform a life
Lauren Hippert
Teens
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Can prayer stop a bully?
Heidi Kleinsmith Salter
Healings
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Forgiveness restores mobility
Linda Ross
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No repercussions after painful incident
Patricia LeBlanc
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Deep wound healed
Anne Whidden
Bible Lens
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Matter
March 15-21, 2021
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