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Love for others helped me quit smoking

June Sullivan

About 15 years ago, I was healed of a thirty-year smoking habit through my study of Christian Science.
Testimony of Healing

I woke up with a cold—did I have to let it run its course?

Dave Hohle

It was a great opportunity.
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Leaders, followers, and the powerful innocence of sheep

Bea Roegge

“Don’t be a d--- sheep,” my father told me so early in my life that I thought the word sheep started with a “d.
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Entertaining goblins and ghosts—or angels?

Judy Wiltshire Benson

Preparing for my daughter’s kindergarten Halloween party was no small endeavor—we would be entertaining at least 30 children and their parents.
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Look behind the mask

Stephanie S. Johnson

Several years ago our teenage son, always living life a little differently, decided to trick-or-treat the day before Halloween.
Testimony of Healing

Luggage "lost"—and harmony found

Elizabeth Mata

My husband and I were flying from the United States back home to Spain, and had missed the connecting flight.
Testimony of Healing

The blessings of listening to God

Hildegard Arnesen

After the Second World War, when Europe was occupied by Allied troops, housing was scarce.
Testimony of Healing

God's guidance while deep-sea diving

Jan Mullen

My husband, Bob, loves scuba diving.
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A prayer of hope for would-be suicide bombers

Colleen Douglass

One night, two 14-year-old Palestinian boys were sent on a suicide mission against an Israeli military site.
Testimony of Healing

Slander fails as true justice prevails

Marilyn Wright

As the November elections approach here in the United States, I find myself thinking about a time back in the 1980s when I was appointed to take the place of a town commissioner stepping down from office.
Poem

To love truly

Gwenn Gurnack

Until I see as Life sees,You can’t come into view.
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How can we keep kids safe?

Lynn Gray Jackson

In the aftermath of school shootings in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, Bailey, Colorado, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, and now most recently in Blacksburg, Virginia, people are asking a lot of questions.