From the Editors March 30, 1992 Issue

BACK & FORTH

a dialogue with readers

We know from the many letters we receive that readers are finding healing in the Sentinel. And there's healing for writers, too, as the following letter from a contributor illustrates.

"Some time ago, one morning I began to feel extremely anxious. I'd had bouts of sudden, rather inexplicable fear for years—probably a version of what has come to be called 'anxiety attacks.' But through studying Science, daily prayer, and efforts to practice what I was understanding spiritually, these 'attacks' had become altogether infrequent. Now, however, everything seemed to be blowing up in my face and I struggled to feel near to God.

"One of the suggestions that always seemed to come at such times—and hit hardest—was the sense that my life was small and always would be, that I wasn't doing enough in the world or for it. I was still trying to pray, when the mail was delivered. It included a letter from a woman I did not know who lived thousands of miles away and was writing to thank me for a poem I'd written that had appeared in the Sentinel. She said that her son-in-law was an Iraqi (the poem had been published during the Gulf War) and that, though he lives in the United States, most of his family live in Baghdad. She planned to give him a copy of the poem, 'knowing that it will help to heal the hurt he is feeling lately.'

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