'FORGIVE US ...'

What healing messages in the Sentinel of June 27, focused on the Lord's Prayer! Some years ago, while praying that prayer during a Sunday church service, I heard a man's voice from the row behind me that sounded liked my own brother's. It was not he. But as we prayed, "Forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors," I realized it was time to forgive my brother for all the teasing and disturbing ways in which he had treated his little sister when we were young, and to forgive myself for reacting to the teasing. How grateful I am for the loving relationship we have shared as adults since that healing service.

MARALEE LUPIEN KNOWLEN
SHERMAN OAKS, CALIFORNIA

PRAYING AS ONE FAMILY

The issue of June 27 is a keeper. Thank you for the subject matter, the Lord's Prayer. In the first paragraph of Jill Gooding's article, she mentioned that "millions of people millions of times daily throughout the world" repeat this remarkable prayer.

I was reminded of an experience at Westminster Abbey, London, when we visited there years ago. Signs were posted within the abbey that at the sound of chimes at 12:00 noon, visitors were invited to share a moment of silence and then say the Lord's Prayer verbally. There were certainly many people in the abbey at that time—many races, languages, religious beliefs, cultures, ages, represented—speaking prayerfully to "Our Father" in unison, as a world family. It was a precious and very moving experience.

The final sentence in the editorial, "Enable us—a prayer within the prayer," sums it all up: "We find it immensely encouraging to know that the One who answers that plea also supplies the power necessary to overcome whatever would harm the human family."

CHAR WACHTEL
LAGUNA BEACH, CALIFORNIA

'STIRRING THE POT'

What a seismic thing is your July 11 issue ["The Science without limits"]! I will buy many copies for friends.

Those physics-folk were well equipped to compare and contrast physics and metaphysics. Thanks for rounding them up, and the other excellent authors, and for stirring the pot every week. Think of the lives you improve and/or save by providing continual consideration of the Bible's inspired meaning.

I've been a reader almost 40 years.

GORDON IMRIE
HINSDALE, ILLINOIS

SOMETHING TO CONSIDER

I wanted to tell you how much good I've gotten out of the Sentinels recently. I've been really impressed with the way you try new things, and let the ones go that aren't working. There were a couple of things I was going to write to you about that were taken care of before I got around to contacting you. I love that you're moving forward so decisively and making some adjustments along the way.

On that note, I'd like to make a recommendation for change. It seems that good grammar is sometimes sacrificed in an effort to be conversational. I generally find the use of sentence fragments jarring and often confusing. I sometimes have to go back and reread, and frankly, that's annoying. I'm not saying you should do without them altogether, but to my taste, less is definitely more.

Thanks for working so hard to publish a magazine that is increasingly easy to share. I pass my copies on to friends and to people I meet on the subway and bus.

AMY RICHMOND
NEW YORK, NEW YORK

EACH ONE A POEM

To each one of you, happy thoughts, and thanks for the inspiration on my breakfast table—the Sentinel.

Its message at this hour—a power—a continuity of joy from Soul, connected and blessed by God's grace, to keep the pace of omniactive Mind.

Then, I see anew each individual idea of God as a poem, settled and yet soaring, in that Mind, not earth enthralled, but called to emanate His love.

My day is on its way.

ALMA CHICO GREEN
VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA CANADA

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