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Just like David defeated Goliath, each of us can defeat any difficult challenge by trusting wholeheartedly in God.
As a child of God, each of us is a peacemaker.
Belief in mortality—birth and death—disappears with the understanding of man’s spiritual origin.
Discovering how we can think of the body in a spiritual light.
It seems all too often we are told that we have limited options—limited income, limited choices, or limited possibilities for our lives. It can seem, too, that the older we get, the greater the limitations we face.
A tour of England this past year in celebration of the 400th anniversary of the King James Bible has been an eye-opener for me. It has me wanting to shout from the rooftops: How blessed we are to have ready access to the whole Bible in our own language! I’m also so grateful that Mary Baker Eddy had access to the Bible, which she refers to as “my only authority” ( Science and Health , p.
Originally appeared on spirituality.com
As I’ve been studying Jesus’ works in the Gospels, I’ve been discovering new, deeper applications to daily living. I love the story of the feeding of the five thousand (see Matthew 14:15–21 and Mark 6:34–44 ), and have read it many times, as you probably have, too.
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It was early December. With about 80 Christmas wreaths and 30 plus table arrangements to decorate within the next week, time pressures weighed heavily on me as I hurried off to pick up floral supplies.
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Each year as the holidays approach I think about the season as one symbolizing hope and peace, and I prayerfully listen for a deeper sense of the meaning of Christmas. Recently, as I pondered the Christmas story in the Bible (see Matthew 1 and 2 , and Luke 1 and 2 ), I was particularly struck by Mary, the young Hebrew virgin, and by the depth of humility and obedience in her receptive prayer.
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A recent film, Contagion , directed by Steven Soderbergh, explores the spread of a lethal virus that becomes a worldwide pandemic, killing thousands of people as it gains momentum—and defeating the best efforts of disease control experts to identify it. According to the reviews, the story is alarmingly believable, dwelling on the science involved in combating such a virus.