Article October 28, 2013 ISSUE

Letters

Abby Hillman, Grace Carter, Robert, Rosalinda Johnson

Christly discipline

I’d like to thank Glory Holzworth for her excellent article on Christly discipline of children in the September 30, 2013, Sentinel [“God’s children—responsive, not rebellious”]. Discipline seems to be such a touchy subject for many parents. Yet I’ve seen consistently over the years that the families in which discipline is most compassionately (but firmly) taught and most lovingly (but consistently) enforced are the families in which children grow up most peaceful and productive and self-disciplined.

Thank you for the clear, biblical guidance this article gives for approaching child-rearing with the Christ, instead of with human will.

Abby Hillman
Clifton, Virginia, US

Gem of an article

Laura Remmerde’s poetically written gem of an article (“On wings of prayer,” Sentinel, September 23, 2013) gave me a homey, backyard fence kind of comfort.

Her healing, with its lesson of humility, lifted me greatly. As did the beautifully woven flying bird imagery. I felt I was right there with her in Oregon. We enjoy the same flyway V formations here in Pennsylvania.

Grace Carter
Newtown, Pennsylvania, and Princeton, New Jersey, US

Great analogy

[“On wings of prayer,” Laura Remmerde, September 23, 2013, Sentinel]

What a great analogy—the geese and the fence! Thank you so much for sharing with us how your heartfelt prayer and devout obedience to God’s direction gently lifted you out of pain into freedom and happy activity.

Robert
JSH-Online Web Post

Similar experience

Please accept my gratitude for the article written by Gayle Weber called “Progress for every student” (Sentinel, September 9, 2013). Ms. Weber expresses so beautifully the metaphysical work she did for her class. I love the way she refused bad reports about their previous academics and how she encouraged them to be kind one to another.

I had a similar experience with 15 first graders in a Los Angeles school. Those students were supposedly hopeless achievers academically; however, in working prayerfully, the children were all brought to grade level by the end of the academic year. In education, looking for the best in children and expecting good performance from them is called the “Pygmalion effect.” But in Christian Science, knowing that “God expresses in man the infinite idea forever developing itself, broadening and rising higher and higher from a boundless basis” (Mary Baker Eddy, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p. 258 ) results in healing.

Rosalinda Johnson
Auckland, New Zealand

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