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Our freedom to be God-guided
A key freedom that we can always claim for ourselves is a divine rather than a human right. It is our right to listen for God’s direction, hear it, heed it, and be blessed and bless others by doing so. As articles and testimonies published in this magazine so often illustrate, such divine guidance is a crucial steppingstone to solving problems. That’s true on a personal level as well as on a broader level of helping our neighbors locally and across the globe.
Our right to be God-guided cannot be legislated, for or against, nor can street protests prevent or prompt it. It is taking an individual stand for the freedom to be what we already spiritually are—God’s likeness, the expression of divine Mind—in the face of the tendency of the human mind to forget this God-given liberty.
Some might say that the right to listen for God’s direction doesn’t amount to a real right at all because they believe there’s no God to give such guidance. Yet many praying people have experienced the opposite, namely an ever-communicative divine source providing transformative insights and spiritual intuition. Inspired ideas come to light when prayer stirs the dormancy of dull thinking or stills waves of willfulness. Listening for the true, spiritual idea of what we are and being animated by it lead to freeing and healing outcomes, as Jesus so fruitfully proved.
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July 3, 2023 issue
View IssueEditorial
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Our freedom to be God-guided
Tony Lobl
Keeping Watch
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The truth about our situation
John Biggs
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Let go of the pencil
Bob Cochran
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Breaking the mesmerism
Tracy Colerider-Krugh
Kids
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Summer camp and Soul
Jenny Sinatra
Healings
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Freed from back pain
Debra Keller
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Difficulties overcome at son’s birth
Loreley Paradizo Hernández
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Healed after fall from bike
Christine Henderson
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Discovering light
James Walter
Bible Lens
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Sacrament
July 3–9, 2023
Letters & Conversations
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Letters & Conversations
Kwadjo Boaitey, Jennifer Glaser, Karen Neff