Letters March 10, 2014 Issue

Letters

Elizabeth Beall, Kevin Graunke, Jeanne Shultz

I love the article “Good purpose for all … even mosquitoes?” by Matt Schmidt (Sentinel, February 10, 2014). Thank you, Matt. It reminds me of my dear grandmother in the ’30s. My mother told me about Granny sitting outdoors in the summer evenings fearless and perfectly happy—devoid of any nuisance of mosquitoes. That always inspired me. I am grateful for yet another proof of Christian Science in action. I learned not to fear mosquitoes or to scratch the bites (as children will). And guess what? All evidence of big stings have disappeared within a few moments in my own experience. And this continues to be the case decades and decades later. Christian Science is the greatest treasure I have. It is wonderful to know that it heals from the most miniscule to the largest difficulties we face.

Jeanne Shultz
Jerseyville, Illinois, US

Thank you for the article, “Ending the blame game,” by Jill Gooding in the February 3, 2014, Sentinel that counters the world’s “contagion of blame.” Blame is frequently the first talking point in the media (or in our own homes) when something dire happens. Many even blame God. Yet Gooding quoted Mary Baker Eddy, who wrote, “Each individual is responsible for himself” (Miscellaneous Writings 1883–1896, p. 119), which would include suggestions about any situation coming to our own thought. Since blame isn’t a spiritual quality, it reminded me of a request in the Manual of The Mother Church by Mary Baker Eddy to be alert daily to such “aggressive mental suggestion[s],” which concludes, “By his works he shall be judged,—and justified or condemned” ( p. 42). Spirit, God, as all-good, isn’t judging or blaming our human thoughts and deeds. We, individually, may be justifying or condemning ourselves and our works in our own thought, hindering evidence of spiritual progress. By being alert to defeating the tendency to blame, we can, as Gooding says, “… recognize our own and others’ innate, innocent being.”

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