Article April 22, 1991 Issue

A HEART FOR COMMUNITY

It's natural to care deeply about community. Real love for family extends to neighbors—and overflows for the whole of society. This occasional column tells of how a spiritual perspective has been helping Sentinel readers help others and make a contribution to healing some of the collective challenges facing communities today.

When I was in college, one Christmas my dorm was invited to give a musical program at a local nursing home. The residents seemed to enjoy the program, but I came away deeply disturbed by the outward pictures of incapacity, frailty, and confinement.

After college, I became interested in Christian Science and began to pray consistently to gain a more spiritual view of life— man defined by his loving Father-Mother God, wholly spiritual in His image and likeness, rather than defined by physicality, the physical senses, or mortality.

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