Letters January 27, 2014 ISSUE

Letters

Chris, Jack from Tennessee, Anne Daly, Dorothy Daugherty

Golden Rule requires doing

[“Valuing the Golden Rule in the workplace,” Sarah Hyatt, December 9, 2013, Sentinel]

I love the idea of the Golden Rule requiring “doing” instead of being passive. If the rule were to “not do to others what you wouldn’t want them to do to you” or some variation, then we would be perfectly content to be passive, but it’s not! Christ is calling us to take action! What a wonderfully Christian concept. I’m grateful for your recognition of this, Sarah. And look at the healing work that results from active harmony! Thanks for sharing!

Chris
JSH-Online Web Post

Unlimited good

[“ ‘A treasure map’ to Truth,” Jeffrey Jones, December 2, 2013, Sentinel]

Thanks, Jeffrey. What a discovery that poverty is not a condition to be accepted, but an illusion to be disproved. This is true for every one of us. As you indicated, we are really all inheritors of God’s abundance, and have unlimited good by reflection.

Jack from Tennessee
JSH-Online Web Post

Gratitude for little details

Just want to say how much I enjoyed the polar bear picture accompanying the title “Frustration foiled” on the cover of the December 2 issue of the Sentinel—it’s perfect! And Channing Walker’s article on that subject was excellent, very useful.

Also, I don’t often connect the illustrations in the full-text edition of the Christian Science Quarterly to the texts, but when I studied the Bible Lesson for November 25–December 1, I really appreciated the connection of the spider web picture with the two citations referring to “looms of crime … weaving webs,” and “the gossamer web of mortal illusion” (Mary Baker Eddy, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, pp. 102, 403). The use of the word gossamer here, I feel gives the sense of there being no substance to this snare of mortal mind.

Thanks so much for all these little details that add to our wonderful periodicals.

Anne Daly
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England

A helpful approach

I was ecstatic and grateful to see the cover article, “Becoming the in-laws,” November 4, 2013, Sentinel, on a topic that touches many of us. My heartfelt thanks to the writer for bringing such a helpful approach to this belief of tension that is really “… a form of undeserved prejudice.” As the writer mentions, the definition of Gethsemane in Science and Health can provide guidance for praying about and moving forward with family relationships, “… love meeting no response, but still remaining love” (p. 586).

Dorothy Daugherty
Sudbury, Massachusetts, US

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