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Getting to the root of the problem
Every gardener knows that to remove a weed, you have to get to its root. Just cutting off the top doesn’t eliminate the weed or its damaging effects. So it is with any problem. In order to fully resolve the issue, you have to discern and extract the root—the problem behind the problem.
Case in point: Years ago, a roommate and I had lived in an apartment for a week or so without furniture. We both had entry-level positions with low salaries and were waiting for our first month’s paychecks just to buy beds. One Saturday morning, after another night sleeping on the floor, it dawned on me that turning to God might bring a solution. Was there something I could know about my creator, some spiritual truth I needed to understand, that would change my thinking and therefore my experience? Was this a financial problem or was it a metaphysical—a theological—one?

May 31, 2021 issue
View IssueEditorial
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Getting to the root of the problem
Jan Keeler Vincent
Keeping Watch
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Politics as a forum for friendship
Lyle Young
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No social awkwardness in Love
Laura Lapointe
Poetry
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The perfect view
Robert Witney
Keeping Watch
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A spiritual outlook found us a home
Katherine Milner-Hieronymus
Kids
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Because God is...
Emma Schaefer, Virginia L. Scott
Healings
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Intense anger overcome
Hannah Bruegmann
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Quick recovery from injured ribs
Alexis Deacon
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Burning sensation in hands healed
Jinky Kalra
Bible Lens
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God the Only Cause and Creator
May 31–June 6, 2021
From our readers
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Letters & Conversations
J. Langston, Edna B. Craft