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The fullness of joy

RUTH KARP

It is everyone's heart's desire—a desire that is a divine right—to be happy.

Commuting the self-sentence

BEATRICE S. PETERSON

A frazzled homemaker, a burdened business executive, a harried schoolteacher, a depleted college student, might ruminate, "I have a right to feel exhausted!"

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Regardless of the personal or national crises biblical poets encountered, they often expressed steadfast trust in God: "I will sing unto the Lord as long as I live: I will sing praise to my God while I have my being.

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God's help and the first bike ride

Patricia Ann Hirsch

Laura is six.

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A loving righteousness

JANET RAE BEEZLEY

Have you ever found it difficult to feel at once gentle but firm, righteous but uncritical?

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Bringing out the right impression

BARBARA M. VINING

It is natural to want to be well thought of.

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Is purity really necessary?

GRANT C. BUTLER

Spiritual understanding enables us to recognize the attraction of purity and enjoy its rewards—rewards far more lasting than the tinsel and glamour of its opposite.

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The secret of good timing

GERALD STANWELL

One secret of good timing is to ask ourselves: In what way does the activity I am about to spend time on reflect God's qualities?

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God's Mother-love can heal the world

ELVEY WILLIAM ALFRED BARTON

Mother love is the quality of thought that cares for, looks after, tends, and protects the object of its affection.

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Opening the shutters

MERLE WITHAM MILLER

We had leased a cottage in the foothills, and as we drove in we encountered sunbathed loveliness: flowers in bloom, towering evergreens, a glistening brook with its charming footbridge, and beyond, the mountain slopes.