Letters

Robin Brett Kadz, Anna Willis

‘Christian Science Nurse Notes’ blogs

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Love it

I love the article “Practicing what I learned in class” by Mollie Osborn in the April 20, 2015, Sentinel. Thank you so much for publishing it.

For me, a lifelong Christian Scientist, it was a great misunderstanding for quite a while to think that I couldn’t even correct my own thought about others if not asked to pray for them. We must be working actively to do this—to correct our own thought—whenever possible, to heal our world.

This idea is essential to our progress Spiritward. It strengthens our faith that Christian Science is effective and that we are being obedient to the First Commandment when we do this.

I also find that prayer is more effective for us or our patient when we consciously spend time acknowledging that the truth we are knowing is true for everyone. This is another facet of this simple but incredibly important idea that we must correct our thought about every false picture we encounter.

Thank you again for publishing this lovely article about healing and how to be a practicing Christian Scientist.

Robin Brett Kadz
Beaverton, Oregon, US

Note of appreciation

Just a note of appreciation for Karen Hertlein’s article, “Coast to coast with divine Love” [April 6, 2015, Sentinel], about her cross-country tandem bicycle trip with her husband. While I learned a great deal from her well-thought-out and well-written article, I gained even more from her husband’s brief comments.

Just a couple of days before reading this article, I had told a fellow church member that I did not want to get “bent out of shape” with regard to an issue in my own life. Jim Hertlein wrote that he “was not and could not be bent … with any sense of burden, false responsibility, or confusion as to [his] true identity as a child of God.”

Thanks to the Hertleins for their sense of adventure and willingness to share what they learned with others.

Anna Willis
Riverside, California, US

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