Letters December 16, 2013 ISSUE

Letters

Denys G. McFadden, Nancy Martin, Greg Jensen

Just beautiful

Good morning, this spring day. I would like to say how much I loved the photo by Steve Ryf in the November 4 Sentinel. It was just beautiful, catching the light in the mountains with the lovely creek and rocks in the foreground. And it was so apt for the corresponding Bible verse telling us that the light is come, reiterating what is in this week’s Christian Science Bible Lesson. Thank you so much. I love everything in the Sentinel and can’t put it down when it comes in my mailbox.

Denys G. McFadden
Cambridge, New Zealand

All God’s creatures

Grateful thanks to Debby Miller for her testimony “Farm dog quickly healed” (Sentinel, October 7, 2013). I was especially taken with her confidence in the power of her prayer as she continued leading her horses home after one accidentally trampled one of her dogs. Little did I know how useful her inspired sharings would be. The very next day, my little dog stumbled into a hornets’ nest. As I followed Debby’s refusal to focus on alarming symptoms, the quick return to harmony for Ceilidh was most gratifying. Mary Baker Eddy’s passage, “All of God’s creatures, moving in the harmony of Science, are harmless, useful, indestructible” (Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p. 514 ), addresses all the players in our experiences—horses, dogs, and, yes, even hornets!

Nancy Martin
Kent, Washington, US

Gratitude for addressing mental illness

I would like to express my gratitude to The Christian Science Publishing Society for publishing two cover articles in the Sentinel and one in The Christian Science Monitor during the last year about mental illness [“Perfect peace: bipolar no more,” January 7, 2013, and “Healing mental illness,” July 22 & 29, 2013; “Unfinished business: How mental health care, long in the shadows, is stirring with new thinking,” August 5, 2013]. And not only for addressing the subject, but also for compassionately having a spiritual path to healing. For so very long there has been social stigma and shame for the so-called afflicted, an inability to freely discuss their needs.

Your articles about mental illness offer a path from the darkness of the stigma and shame to the light of healing for all those who are reaching out. The articles are helping all concerned to be more loving and open. For as the Bible says: “God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind” (II Timothy 1:7 ).

Greg Jensen
Fort Bragg, California, US

Editor’s note

Another cover story dealing with mental health will be coming soon.

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