Letters

Demarest Bowers Morrow, Penny Witney, Vicki Hoff

Refreshment

Reading the Christian Science magazines is like visiting a “green isle of refreshment.” Besides refreshing concepts that already have unfolded from my daily study of Christian Science, the magazines provide new insights regarding the practicality of the Science of being. The editorial, “With your whole heart,” in the May 7, 1012, issue [“Mothering”], powerfully addresses an essential aspect for effective prayer. Thank you!

Demarest Bowers Morrow
Walnut Creek, California, US

Inspiration from JSH-Online

I woke up this morning to another dull and cloudy day here in England! There have been early drought warnings for the summer months so I should have been grateful for the rain. But I wasn’t. Instead, I could feel a dark, miserable cloud looming over my thought. In response to this heaviness, I thought I would see if I could find some inspiration on JSH-Online. I put rain in the search bar, and the first article that attracted me was titled “Singin’ in the rain” [March 26 Sentinel, “Prayer for God’s creatures”]. The opening words of this article were two verses from the song from the musical. I could see Gene Kelly dancing and singing in the rain in the movie, and my spirits started lifting.

Then the article tells of a healing where Hal Shrewsbury (the author) decided to start living the qualities he felt he would be expressing if he were already healed. Well, that was that—dark, gloomy thoughts gone. Today I was going to live as if I were bathed in sunshine, as if it were a beautiful sunny spring day. I want to reassure you that I wasn’t going to be lying out on a sun lounger in the rain, or even eating ice cream, but I was ready to express the joy and gratitude I naturally feel on a warm spring day.

How practical is Christian Science—no problem is too small or too big. I really love using JSH-Online as a research tool. Thank you for providing this inspiring avenue.

Penny Witney
Fleet, Hampshire, England

Cuddling up with the periodicals

What a joy it is to cuddle up with our periodicals and withdraw temporarily from the material picture to focus on the always beautiful, spiritual realities of Mind’s creating! Recently, I read an entire Sentinel from cover to cover in one sitting (a real luxury for me), and I felt like I’d opened a mailbox full of letters from my brothers and sisters around the world. What gifts of thought we all have to share with one another, and what a blessing to have Mary Baker Eddy’s inspired means to enable such universal communication.

Special thanks to the staff for providing the Church Alive section, and to Sarah Hyatt for her article in the April 25, 2011, issue titled “Church is like a box of rocks.” Although it only recently came to my attention, it was very timely and inspirational for me. This one should be gilded and framed in every branch church as a model for improving our collective expression of church as “the structure of Truth and Love; . . .” [Mary Baker Eddy, Science and Health, p. 583]. The timeless messages in these pages are a rich treasure for which I cannot express enough gratitude.

Vicki Hoff
San Diego, California, US

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