Letters March 29, 1999 Issue

YOUR LETTERS

"'Jamie and the plastic petunia' helped my daughter Sara and me when she was not feeling well one day."

with contributions from Elizabeth Harned, Ron Kelley, Henry Rutledge

"Jamie and the plastic petunia" helped my daughter Sara and me when she was not feeling well one day. By afternoon she was having difficulty participating in family activities. This wonderful little story was a great starting point in our prayers. Sara was upset with her own behavior during the previous week. She realized, as Jamie did, that she "had not been feeling very loving or Godlike lately." We discussed how "there was only one Mind and all of us reflected that Mind." so she could look forward to being more loving and caring with others. We went on to read the "Dear Sentinel" letters from other children and were inspired by these, too. Within a few minutes Sara said that she felt much better and that her tummy didn't hurt anymore. We are so grateful for these articles and letters from other kids.

Elizabeth Harned
White Plains, Maryland

I appreciated "Healing the lonesome heart." But the archaic language of the King James Version is misleading. The meeting place of Ruth and Boaz was not a field of corn as Americans think of the crop, but a field of grain—wheat and barley—which is why we find Ruth gathering among the "sheaves" and not the "stalks." Modern Bible translations make this clear.

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