Letters July 8, 2013 ISSUE

Letters

Robin Kadz, Nancy Boyer-Rechlin, George King

Aha moments

The May 27 Sentinel is so full of golden inspirations that met needs for me and invigorated my outlook. I can’t thank you enough. I loved everything equally. Like when I’d drive through the Rocky Mountains in Canada from Alberta to British Columbia on the Trans-Canada Highway (I used to live there) and there’d be an aha moment around every bend in the road.

I have to add that after really squeezing everything out of the Sentinel that I could, and praying with those great ideas, I noticed that a relative suddenly added generosity to his nature, a quality that hadn’t emerged previously. It had occurred to me before this Sentinel came out that I needed to consider generosity more as part of my nature as well, and was thrilled to see this Sentinel provide the tools to overcome the belief that I was a limited mortal. To consider this quality in an impersonal and universal way blessed us both. I was so grateful to see this concrete evidence of the healing power of those ideas.

Robin Kadz
Beaverton, Oregon, US

Heart touched

My deep thanks to Richard Johnsrud for his article, “In the wake of tragedy,” published in the May 20 Sentinel. His insight (that the evil crime he experienced was not personal, but “based on an erroneous concept—a belief in the absence of Love, God”) has helped me see more clearly how to respond to any behavior that troubles me.

Richard Johnsrud said he received the answer to his need from these lines in a poem by Mary Baker Eddy: “Wait, and love more for every hate, and fear / No ill,—since God is good, and loss is gain” (Poems, p. 4 ). His loss led him to volunteer in prisons, bringing light and love to many. I have not experienced tragedy, but I have sometimes found my heart hardened toward those who make choices that disturb me. The deep love shared in the Sentinel and its sister publication The Christian Science Journal always touches and softens my heart.

Nancy Boyer-Rechlin
Franklin, West Virginia, US

Favorite Bible translations

I especially liked the “Bible Translations: Old & New” in the May 6, 2013, Sentinel [Janet Hegarty, “A way to love”] because it talked about the Moffatt translation. It is one of my favorites. I thought everyone else had forgotten about it. I like its translation of Psalm 23.

I have one copy of the Moffatt translation with a concordance at the back and another that has rubber stamped in the front: “First Church in Boston, 64 Marlborough Street Boston 16, Mass.”

I like all the “Bible Translations: Old & New” columns that have appeared in the Sentinel this year. I’ve never thought that reading a newer Bible translation was rejecting the King James Version.

George King
Evanston, Illinois, US

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