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Love that can transform a life

Lauren Hippert

That perfect love that Christ Jesus demonstrated is already within each of us, because we are made in the image of God. It is our true nature to love, because we are the image of Love.

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Self-immolation: Purifying, not condemning, self

William Whittenbury

When we find that unspiritual impressions have built up in thought, we can “turn on the self-cleaning oven” of self-immolation and burn away those false conceptions, all stemming from the belief in a selfhood apart from God.

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Your defense against manipulation

Jan Keeler Vincent

There is no need to manipulate. Instead we can enjoy witnessing God’s perfect timing, direction, control, and influence.

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Can prayer stop a bully?

Heidi Kleinsmith Salter

Rather than retaliating with our own bullying behavior, my friends and I, through our prayers, were responding with the healing love Jesus taught.

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A song can be a prayer

Emma Kieran Schaefer

God made each of us so good—actually Godlike—and I really love to bring that out in my songs.

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No dust on your halo

Alison J. Hughes

I’ve found that daily prayer for myself is a really effective way to keep wiping clean my thinking, dislodging and sweeping away unproductive thoughts and misperceptions that otherwise may build up.

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The truth about trials

Judith Hardy Olson

I knew that God, being all good, doesn’t send trials, so I didn’t get how they could possibly be proofs of His care.

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Rethinking preferences

Chris Jones

By rethinking choices I would normally have made instinctively, I’m becoming humbler, more receptive to God’s guidance, more confident in my choices, and clearer about my identity as God’s spiritual child.

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When we couldn’t afford to heat our home

Robyn Sweetnam Smith

At times, I was tempted to imagine how my need was going to be met. Would the oil company suddenly feel benevolent and deliver the oil free of charge? But I needed to keep myself from speculating about the result and instead leave the solution to God.

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Would the pandemic ruin our dance production?

Rachael Ostheim

Midway through preparations for her school’s annual dance production, this college student was crushed when the pandemic disrupted their plans. But she was in for a surprise when the spiritual fact of God’s constant goodness made itself apparent in her life.