2014
Computer and TV screens, billboards and tabloid covers, direct mail ads and newspaper reports—all deliver a continual stream of images. Some are entertaining, some useful and informative.
As I was looking for a book in my bookcase, I was drawn to open one that was very popular a few years ago featuring pictures called “stereograms.” A stereogram is a 3D picture that has a form, such as a butterfly or a flower, hidden inside a pattern.
Late one night, I got a call from the children’s hospital, saying that my 20-year-old daughter had been run over by a car, and was in very serious condition.
In my life I have often experienced God sending us His angel messages—pure thoughts—when, humanly speaking, we are at our wit’s end. These inspirations appear in different ways.
The writer gives testimony to the harmonious birth of her son.
Seeing everyone we encounter as God’s idea brings blessings and healing.
Applying truths from the weekly Bible Lesson brings protection and healing no matter where we are in the world.
This author shares how expressing gratitude at any time of the year results in healing.
This author discovered that holding to the truth of scientific being for all her students healed a divisive classroom situation.
When one considers history between 1989 and 1991, the fall of the Berlin Wall certainly offers the strongest symbolic significance among other important events connected with freedom, such as the breakup of the USSR and the abolition of apartheid in South Africa. All these events remind me of the way Paul and Silas, who had been unjustly imprisoned, found their freedom: “At midnight Paul and Silas prayed, and sang praises unto God … And suddenly there was a great earthquake, so that the foundations of the prison were shaken: and immediately all the doors were opened, and every one’s bands were loosed” ( Acts 16:25, 26 ).