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My expectation of good was explained
On our first date, the woman who later became my wife asked me, out of the blue, “What do you think about God?” My answer was brief: “Not much!”
I had been raised in a traditional Protestant church, and during high school had become disenchanted with what I was learning there. Later, while in college, I decided that after I finished school I would spend some time seriously considering my relationship with God. After doing so, I concluded that while the moral precepts espoused by my religion made sense, a God who created and allowed all the sin, disease, lack, unhappiness, and death that we see in our daily lives did not make sense and wasn’t who or what I needed to spend time with.

July 5, 2021 issue
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Finding true freedom
Larissa Snorek
Keeping Watch
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Live to love!
Barbara Vining
Poetry
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Worthy
Tessa Parmenter
Keeping Watch
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When you think of God as Soul
Caryl Emra Farkas
How I found Christian Science
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My expectation of good was explained
James Bennett
Teens
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Searching for direction?
Fenna Corry
Healings
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Forgiveness brings freedom
Charlene Anne Miller
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Healed in “church without walls”
Cathrine Hogg
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Love’s presence, felt, cures child
Edwina Aubin
Bible Lens
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Sacrament
July 5–11, 2021
From our readers
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Letters & Conversations
Frederik Bartholin, Ann Elizabeth Barnes, Cecilie Newton with contributions from The Editors