Letters April 14, 2014 ISSUE

Letters

Kerri Callaway, Carole Westman-DaDurka, Lu Ann Condon, Roger Jones

Courageous article

[“Exchanging the past for the good that lasts,” Name withheld, March 10, 2014, Sentinel, JSH-Online]

Thank you for this courageous article. Many of us would like to wash our past clean of things said and done that we regret, but to totally erase them we might lose the lesson we learned. Much preferable to transpose those concepts into recognition of the good going on. I love your concluding quote—“… Christ’s revelation of Truth, of Life, and of Love … remains inviolate for every man to understand and to practise” (Mary Baker Eddy, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p. 98). That idea of the Truth in action always being inviolate does give us peace.

Kerri Callaway
JSH-Online Web Post

‘Nothing behind you matters’

Walter Rodgers’s analogy in “Beyond keeping score” in the March 3, 2014, Sentinel, comparing overturning a losing score in a football game to overcoming a chronic disease was exceptionally helpful (and not just because my husband and I are football fans!). 

How important it is to accept that “nothing behind you matters,” states Mr. Rodgers. He gives examples of how significant setting aside preconditions for healing was in Christ Jesus’ healing ministry, and can be for anyone today. He reminds us to stay fixed on “the certain outcome of the activity of the healing Christ” and not to become “prisoners” of the scoreboard of disheartening and unreliable mortal pictures. 

I’ve gone back to his reminders several times with much gratitude for his insight and clarity.

Carole Westman-DaDurka
San Clemente, California, US 

All Olympians

I loved Mark Sappenfield’s February 3, 2014, Sentinel article, “Spiritual Olympians.” I have been appreciating that we are all Olympians with a responsibility to let our light shine. Recently, I made a list for myself comparing common qualities of Olympic athletes and Christian Scientists. Thanks for reminding us to evaluate and commit ourselves to the goal of spiritual healing. Indeed we are all ambassadors for good, and we are prepared to excel as we proceed about our Father’s business.

Lu Ann Condon
Traverse City, Michigan, US

Did you mean …?

In the analysis on the Christian Science Bible Lesson “Man” in the March 3, 2014, Sentinel [“Our pure, spiritual nature—one with God,” Christa Kreutz], it says: “The author of First John, writing at the end of the first century, about 100 bc .” Wouldn’t First John, if writing about Christ, be writing after Jesus’ appearance? Did you mean ad ?

Roger Jones
Loveland, Colorado, US

From the Editor: Yes, we did mean ad . Thank you for pointing this out. It has been corrected on JSH-Online.com.

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