Letters March 17, 2014 ISSUE

Letters

Tracy Colerider-Krugh, Joy Hinman, Roberta

Blowing away the cobwebs

[“Resistant to change? Prayer brings clarity.” Marilyn Wickstrom, February 10, 2014, Sentinel]

Wow! This really blows away the mental cobwebs that fixate on the past. Your point that such fixation amounts to embracing mortality should wake up any who are tempted to let unfolding human and spiritual progress pass them by. Thanks for your clarity on this crucial point.

Roberta
JSH-Online Web Post

Sparked a lively conversation

Thank you for the article “No dis-appointment” by Andrew Wilson in the January 13 & 20, 2014, Sentinel. We are a group of Christian Scientists that meet for a periodical writing workshop. We share ideas and testimonies and work on the drafts together. We often spend some time reading the periodicals aloud and discussing our inspiration from them. We explored an article idea about defending our purposeful activity, inspired by a participant’s spiritual exploration of “Why does God need me?” Immediately after our idea session, we read Andrew Wilson’s wonderful article that included this: “… the more appointed and authorized we feel to express God and the Christ in our everyday experience, the more worthwhile and purposeful we feel ….” It sparked a lively conversation about the validity of our days and our activities. We saw our appointment to each activity—whether it included interacting with local teenagers who chose our Christian Science nursing facility to do their required community service; preparing literature for redistribution at jails; or participating in an event in honor of Martin Luther King Day. We felt the fulfillment from understanding we were appointed and authorized to express God and the Christ to each other, and we shared specific ways we were inspired by one another. We saw clearly that satisfaction and self-worth don’t require grand appointments and accomplishments but, instead, daily doing with love whatever each day brings. The consensus was that we are appointed to be kind and loving, and there is innate usefulness, purpose, and joy built into that appointment. Thank you for an article that was absolutely perfect for us and blessed us tremendously.

The Broadview Periodical Writing Workshop participants
Tracy Colerider-Krugh, Coordinator
Los Angeles, California, US

Gratitude

I am so grateful for the testimonies of healing in all the Sentinels. Two that stay with me are in the November 11 Sentinel. The one by Rob Bacon, “Daughter’s warts healed” and “Inspired and healed after a fall” by Michelle Nanouche. And in that same Sentinel the article “Hope” by Fenella Bennetts! Gratitude to the writers of articles and testimonies in all the Sentinels.

Joy Hinman
Turner Valley, Alberta, Canada

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