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Looking for a cause?
We have daily opportunities to examine our thinking and to better understand that there is only one cause: God.
When faced with a problem of some kind, we might ask, “Why did this happen to me? What have I done? Who or what is to blame? There must be a reason!”
In other words, we’re tempted to look for a cause for suffering, just as Jesus’ disciples sometimes were. In the Gospel of John, we read that on one occasion, when Jesus and his disciples saw a man who had been blind since birth, they asked him, “Master, who did sin, this man, or his parents, that he was born blind?” Jesus answered, “Neither hath this man sinned, nor his parents: but that the works of God should be made manifest in him” (9:1–7).
Jesus didn’t skirt the disciples’ question but reoriented it, turning their attention away from “who” and “why.” He knew of only one cause, the one omnipotent God, the only creator, and he told them that God’s good work—the perfection of His spiritual creation—would be manifested in the man. That’s all they needed to know. And then, demonstrating this, he healed the man of blindness.
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July 7, 2025 issue
View IssueEditorial
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“Where two or three are gathered together in my name”
Thomas Mitchinson
Keeping Watch
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Waiting for your “Aha!” moment?
Mark Swinney
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Depend on the intelligence of divine Mind
Fred Bell
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Looking for a cause?
Fenna Corry
Kids
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Back on the water
Virginia Anders
Testimony
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Prayer heals chronic sinus trouble
Fred Oakes
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Healed of herniated disc symptoms
Mirta Perera de Castro
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Moving freely and praising God
Joan Clark
Poem
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Seek His face
James Walter
Bible Lens
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Sacrament
July 7–13, 2025
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Letters & Conversation
Steep Weiss, Susie Luther, Jack Mathis, Aida Gomez