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The time of harvest, reaping the rewards of mercy, kindness, the reign and rain of righteousness, is at hand. Let it embrace you, penetrate you, permeate your every thought, need, and circumstance.

The dance was only a few days away, and things weren’t looking good. I was putting on the eighth grade dance for the middle school where I work, and with so many details still not coming together, I was feeling burdened.

God knows our need, and He has shown me this on many occasions.   One evening, I searched everywhere in my home for something I needed in my work.

Recently I received a summons for jury duty. On previous occasions I had fulfilled my civic obligation by calling in and then being relieved of any further responsibility.

To human perception, there are giants—it might be a giant of illness, age, depression, lack, concern about the future, spiritual despair, inharmony in church. We each face giants, but how one thinks about them helps put their looming size into perspective.

“R-E-S-P-E-C-T! Find out what it means to me!” Those words are from a rousing song that was a titan on the pop charts in the 1960s. Aretha Franklin belted it out in a soul-deep delivery that many think remains unmatched.

A number of years ago a friend, someone I considered to be a spiritual light and inspiration, lost his faith. He’s still the wonderful, wry individual he has always been.

In many countries Christian Scientists, with the support of their branch church, are participating in local multifaith or interfaith groups. Thus they’re sharing their faith with other Christians and with those of other than Christian religions, as a way of letting their light shine and as a way of being neighborly.

There’s a reason why every human heart yearns for individual sovereignty and freedom—and why this yearning cannot be repressed successfully by human will or any circumstance. It’s because dominion is everyone’s permanent, God-given birthright.