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NOT TOO LONG AGO I was attending the church where I grew up. What used to be a church of several hundred members is today a small but sturdy group of a few dozen.

WHEN I WAS A SMALL GIRL, I loved to go to a vacation Bible school each summer at the Norwegian Lutheran Church. It wasn't all just fun; sometimes I learned something valuable.

MY FATHER TOLD ME about an experience he had as a freshman in college. He decided to take a course in physiology—a subject in which he had only a casual, non-professional interest.

I HAD TO MAKE an important decision about my career. The decision would have a major impact, not only on me but on my family.

HAVE YOU EVER found yourself in the middle of a conflict between people and wondered what you could do to help resolve their differences? Rather than take sides, get angry, or perhaps leave the scene altogether, there is something helpful we can do. Through the healing effect of prayer, we can prove that there is one Mind guiding and governing everyone involved.

A COUPLE OF SUMMERS AGO my treasured horse was taken ill. I was informed that he was not sweating as he should.

CHRIST JESUS' COMMITMENT to living what he taught was radical. His actions and healing works gave vivid proof of his statement, "It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing.

WHEN I WAS IN HIGH SCHOOL , I used to have fun mixing two chemicals in a test tube and watching them bubble and foam. But in later years, when I was doing some household cleaning and used two different products without reading the labels, the violent reaction and gas weren't so much fun! I not only learned a lesson in wisdom; I saw an example of reaction between antagonistic substances.

In Macedonia , Paul and Silas found themselves in severe trouble after Paul healed a woman who was "possessed with a spirit of divination. "  See Acts, chap.

SEVERAL YEARS AGO my husband and I took a flight in a hot air balloon. The experience was exalting, but as we sailed upward, we saw a thick layer of pollution blanketing the city.