Letters October 30, 2006 Issue

LETTERS

with contributions from GLORIA ONYURU, JOHN ROOKER, CHRIS SNOW, DIANNE JARRETTE

The feeling of love, of being loved—this is the effect that reading Channing Walker's "Love without conditions" in the September 4 Sentinel ["Unconditional love"] has had on me. It so touched my deepest yearnings that I went back through the last half of the article, crossing out all referecnces to "we," "us," and "you," and writing above them "I" and "me," turning it into a truth-affirming prayer, a specific treatment for my need to feel loved.

This exercise led me to open my Bible to I John 4:19, and to find there eight simple words: "We love him [God], because he first loved us." As Mr. Walker's article points out, "First of all, God. Begin with divine Love. Love loves you [and me] unconditionally ... and that empowers you [and me] to have the same kind of love for Him. And for your [and my] neighbor. And for yourself [and myself]." Is not this a clear description of the Christ Science?

Thank you, dear Sentinel editors and staff, for dispatching the love of Love to the world each week, faithfully, all-inclusively, unconditionally. It's being felt.

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