Letters

So appreciate the comments

[“World changers: Mary Baker Eddy and her book,” Sentinel audio chat with Melanie Daglian, JSH-Online.com]

Thank you for this excellent program about Mary Baker Eddy and her book Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures. What a blessing to have this format for people to ask such heartfelt questions. The answers to the questions were so clear and refreshing. I so appreciated the comments about reading Science and Health and making it our own study in a way that speaks to us. I loved the thought to “follow your own heart.” Knowing Science and Health is a textbook and our course of study is individual and unique is so supportive. There isn’t just one correct way of reading and sharing our textbook.

These chats are of great value, and being able to hear them at any time—even weeks, months, or years after they are first aired—has been a tremendous blessing.

Thank you to all who are involved in producing and airing these programs, and for the guests who are answering the questions submitted.

Karen Janitz
JSH-Online Web post

All God’s creatures

I enjoy reading all the Sentinels, but I particularly enjoyed the March 3 issue, in which I found so much in the articles that resonated with my current thinking and prayers. Plus, there was also a special treat in a testimony headed “Dog recovers health and bark.” In this, the testifier, Tori Dell, concluded that as John the Baptist saw Jesus as “the Lamb of God,” it occurred to her “to think of [her dog] as ‘the dog of God,’ and affirm that she exists only as an expression of God’s perfect idea of ‘dog.’ ” That idea not only healed the dog, but also made me laugh. In fact, I still chuckle whenever I share this idea with others.

Although I do not have a pet, this idea opened up a fresh way of thinking about pets, and indeed any animals, such as “cat of God,” “budgie of God,” “horse of God,” etc. I also thought that if we are able to think of animals in these Godlike terms, how much more should we include our fellow man, knowing that he or she is the “man/woman of God.” For God has made all His creatures in His image and likeness, including us, and Mary Baker Eddy points out that “all of God’s creatures, moving in the harmony of Science, are harmless, useful, indestructible” (Science and Health, p. 514 ); while one of our best-loved hymns reminds us, “God made all His creatures free” (James Montgomery, Christian Science Hymnal, No. 83 ). 

So my thanks to Tori for her testimony, and to all the other testifiers and contributors for their unselfishness in sharing these healings, demonstrations, and insights with us. Each Sentinel is a rich resource of spiritual food indeed. 

Andrew Wilson
Windermere, Cumbria, England