Article December 2, 2013 ISSUE

Letters

Antonia Zima, LittleChild, Graeme, Virginia Stopfel

Circled and underlined

I’m so grateful for Paul Sedan’s article, “Let’s turn down the heat” (November 4, 2013, Sentinel). In concern about global warming, I had forgotten that the earth itself is a spiritual idea just as we are. But Mary Baker Eddy, in her infinite wisdom, had already covered the topic, which Paul Sedan quoted from page 585 in Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures. His article is a real “keeper” for me, and I have already circled and underlined about three-fourths of the text! Thanks.

Antonia Zima
Taos, New Mexico, US

A loud-and-clear message

[“Losing a ‘closed mind,’ ” Ginger Mack Emden, October 28, 2013, Sentinel]

It wasn’t more than ten minutes ago that I was letting God remind me that daily spiritual treatment for oneself is not a formula with prescribed prayers but a humble willingness to hear whatever God has to tell me. 

So thank you, Ginger, for confirming God’s whisper in my ear with your loud-and-clear message to open my heart and my mind wide, with childlike humility, when I pray for myself tomorrow morning and thereafter. I know I can always count on His inspiring ideas being new and fresh, specific to my needs, and always, always good.

LittleChild
JSH-Online Web Post

Always able

[“Symptoms of tendonitis end,” Carol Wootton, October 28, 2013, Sentinel]

Thanks, Carol. I appreciate how you based man’s action and activity on Genesis 1:26, 27, replacing the error of physical disability with the truth of spiritual ability/reality—which is always able.

Graeme
JSH-Online Web Post

What we can do

The article “When you want to do something about the ills of society” [Merelice, September 30, 2013, Sentinel] presents its subject with integrity. It recognizes the rational question some people ask after a disaster, “How does a good God allow bad things to happen?” Without minimizing the “awfulness” of such events, and acknowledging with gratitude human efforts to comfort and help people recover, Merelice sets out how prayer can effectively do more—even when it may seem there’s nothing we can do beyond material help. About ten prayer points follow, concluding with “In a world that can seem so beleaguered, what is most needed is the prayer that blesses not just some, but all humanity.” Right now, when the press is reminding us that the woes of Hurricane Sandy, a year ago, still need healing, I thank Merelice and the Sentinel for presenting the problems and sharing what we can do about them.

Virginia Stopfel
Beverly, Massachusetts, US

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