Letters January 11, 1999 Issue

YOUR LETTERS

"The lives that seem to be ending are still going on in God's love and care."

with contributions from Faye Danenburg, Ronald Gray Walker

I prayed for relief for survivors of hurricane Mitch and sent checks to a couple of the relief agencies listed in The Christian Science Monitor. Recently I read these words by Mary Baker Eddy: "... earth's discords have not the reality of Mind in the Science of being" (No and Yes, p. 10).

I was reminded of an article I had once read in the Sentinel (Betty Parrot, "Where does the rainbow end?" July 2, 1979, p. 1162). A Sunday School teacher wanted to comfort her pupils after the accidental death of some children. She remembered an experience she had had hiking high in the mountains. Down below, from the ground, she had seen a rainbow, but from the higher elevation on top of the mountain, she saw that the rainbow was a perfect circle. She realized that every life is like the rainbow, a perfect circle. We may see only part of it in this earthly experience, but real life is never snuffed out or incomplete. The lives that seem to be shattered are never beyond God's loving repair. The lives that seem to be ending are still going on in God's love and care. As St. Paul says, nothing, not even death, "... shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord" (Rom. 8:39).

Faye Danenburg
New Port Richey, Florida

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