Editorials

People are anxious to find themselves, to know what it is that makes them special and indispensable. Is individuality really defined by a set of likes and dislikes and mannerisms called a personality? Is it defined by what we wear or with whom we keep company? Who you and I really are, what makes us invaluable and unique, is something we're already equipped with.

As a relatively new gardner, I'm learning about the special summer fun of setting in a few flowers out front—geraniums, zinnias, petunias, begonias, and so on. But I'm also learning to deal with weeds.

My mother had recently been to the dentist, and she was telling me some bad news the dentist had given her. Though she respected my reliance on God alone for healing, she herself usually relied on medical treatment.

I thought how desperate he must have been. Did he have any hope at all left in him that he might somehow be healed? There weren't a lot of details in the man's story, but what he had been struggling with was obviously terribly hard.

Psychiatrist Jack C. Westman, who has spent decades working with neglected and abused children, is preaching an offbeat message.

How can society most effectively combat the evils that threaten the development, safety, and health of children? Could it be that certain strengths lying within children themselves deserve to be more widely recognized—and that drawing out these strengths should be our aim in the education and defense of children? There are encouraging signs that point in this direction. One example of someone who has found a way to help bring out the inherent strengths of children is Valerie Hamilton, a physical education teacher.

It was in the green and beautiful North Island of New Zealand that a friend of mine learned a lot about what you might call "heraldry. " About heralding forth to all the world the good news of God's magnificent, healing love for each one of us—no matter what country we live in, what color skin we have, what religion we believe in.

Do people's faith and their relationship to God have a place in business or on the job site? It might be more to the point to ask if the workplace itself can really do without a spiritual impetus today. Many social commentaries have lamented the decline in ethical and moral values throughout the decade of the 1980s, yet there are indications in recent years of a significant shift in business attitudes.

Show an eager group of students what a bountiful harvest looks like, give them lots of seeds, turn them loose on a plot of land, and what's likely to happen? Planting. And plenty of it! At least that's what one teacher assumed when teaching gardening to a class of elementary school students.

Divine Love heals because it is pure good. Love has no evil element.