In the News–A Spiritual Perspective September 5, 2011 Issue

Holding guard and healing post 9/11

By Rosalie E. Dunbar, Senior Editor

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As it did for many other  people, the morning of 9/11 at the Sentinel started out in a routine way. We were working on an issue on the environment when we learned about the attack on the World Trade Center. Although we had only a few days to get all of it done, we dropped the planned issue and worked with all our hearts on a new one designed to provide healing support to a nation and world in distress. It was a powerful, almost holy time, because we were all of one accord in our desire to forward healing, and our conviction as Christian Scientists that evil could not prevail.

It’s probably fair to say that the intention Mary Baker Eddy gave the Sentinel—“to hold guard over Truth, Life, and Love” (The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany, p. 353)—took on more tangible meaning that week and in the weeks and months afterward. And as other events came along—the attacks on four commuter trains in Madrid, Spain (March 11, 2004) and the London Underground (July 7, 2005), to mention just two—the need for spiritual alertness was reinforced. Understanding the presence of Christ, the spiritual idea of God that blesses all individuals—man, woman, and child—was and is a powerful response to such actions. 

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