Letters January 5, 1998 Issue

Dear Sentinel

Channing Patterson

I sometimes get scared of things. But I like it when my mommy reads me the story about Daniel in the lions' den.^{See Dan. 6:1–23 .} When Daniel was put into the lions' den, he wasn't afraid of the lions. Daniel knew the lions wouldn't hurt him.

Here's a picture I drew. I drew a bowl of food and a bowl of water, because I think that's what the lions really wanted to eat. I think Daniel knew that he was really the spiritual idea of God. And you can't eat an idea! I know I'm the spiritual idea of God, too, so nothing can hurt me. That helps me not feel scared.

Thank you for the "Dear Sentinel" letters.

Aloha,

Channing Patterson
(as told to her mother) Honolulu, Hawaii

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