'GREAT STUFF!'

It was such a joy to read in the April 6 issue ["Good doesn't end"] Melanie Wahlberg's article" 'You're a good mom." The Christian Science practitioner who said the words that became the title of the article added: "God told me so." I actually "laughed with delight," as the writer did. And these four words have stuck with me since reading them. Such a wonderful affirmation!

When we realize that God is the answer in our questioning of what to do (or how to handle a challenge), we have nothing to fear or be concerned about. With God on our side, it's a majority.

Great stuff!
DIANE WARD
ST. PETERSBURG, FLORIDA, US

WILLING TO LET GO?

Thank you for all the articles in the Sentinel over the years. What a blessing they have been to my family and me!

I especially enjoyed the article by Kathryn Dunton, "Goodbye, dream home," in the April 13 issue ["The Lord is my shepherd"]. She stated, "When I was really willing to let the house go, it sold."

As a real estate instructor for prelicensees, I tell my students that often sellers' homes will not sell because sellers have not "mentally" let go of them. I remind the students they must be ever so gentle with these sellers when explaining this as a probable reason their home has not sold. The explanation to these sellers must be so loving, kind, gentle, and empathetic.

One day after having said that to a class, one student came up to me at break time and confessed to me how much she appreciated my saying it that way. She told me that her home had been on the market for over a year and she still hadn't gotten one offer. She further told me that her husband of 40 plus years had left her for a younger woman a year ago and had moved out of their home. She said she knew she had to sell and move on with her life, but somehow she felt that if she held on to the house, he would change his mind and come home to her, and she wanted to still have this house for him to come home to.

"Now," she said, "I know he is not coming home, and I have decided to lower the price to a more realistic one and to move forward with my life. Thank you for opening my eyes. I'm not afraid anymore; I can do this."

Thank you, Kathy Dunton, for your beautiful article.

BEBE HALL
DALLAS, TEXAS, US

'A KEEPER'

I love, love, LOVE Carol Carter's poem, "In 3 days," in the April 13 issue of the Sentinel I hope anyone who missed reading its healing message will go back and look it up. It is a keeper!

Thank you for publishing it, and thank you, Carol, for writing it.

MICHELLE NANOUCHE
SAINT GERMAIN EN LAYE, FRANCE

One Power, One Good

Thanks for the editorial "A fixed fact in the face of tragedy," in the April 20 issue ["Rebuilding the world economy"]. It assuages the fear of powers apart from God. Infinite Love knows no violence, and each of us—perpetrator, victim, spectator, bystander—is in reality embraced in the love of God as beloved children—not as these other characters. Principle is indestructible and orderly, a lawgiver that overthrows error or evil as belief without foundation.

Thank you for sticking to the ongoing message that God is right here, right now—right when violence or fear attempts to topple life. Nothing can touch God's good or destroy the peace that blesses, that "still small voice."

LINDA SNOREK
SPOFFORD, NEW HAMPSHIRE, US

'RIGHT ON!'

The appearance of Christian Science-related advertising in the April 20 issue of the Sentinel, which formerly was published in The Christian Science Monitor, is very tasteful. We're all going right on!

ANNA WILLIS
RIVERSIDE, CALIFORNIA, US

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