Like good friends
I could and should be writing each week with great gratitude for all the wonderful articles in our periodicals. They are like good friends popping in to visit and sharing how others are putting into practice what they are learning daily about God’s care for us all. There is always a special gem which meets our need.
I am especially grateful for George Moffett’s article in the October Journal titled “Animal magnetism—always a deception.” Many times we fall into the trap of thinking we have not found the right truth to solve a problem, and we seem to spend our time “gathering” truths in the hope that we will hit upon the right one. How comforting to read that “the largest balloon is vulnerable to the smallest pinprick.” We need to have confidence that one of God’s angel messages can be enough to burst “the most inflated mortal claim.” I am so grateful for this little gem and for the whole article.
Alison Weaver
Basingstoke, Hampshire, England
Crucial points clarified
Words cannot express my gratitude for Kari Mashos’s warning “Stop marginalizing Christian Science!” in the October Journal. Her explanations are clarifying crucial points in my Christian Science practice, especially as they relate to my church work. I am studying this interview again and again.
Jutta Meyer
Hamburg, Germany
Living ‘the religion of Love’
Although I watched and listened (at least twice) to Annual Meeting in early June, now that I am reading the written account of the meeting in the September Journal, I am again taken by all the times that it is mentioned that we are to be “loving and healing each other, our communities, and the world”; that “we need each other”; and that we should “care for one another.” To hear these words and feel this compassionate spirit of the Christ shows that we are endeavoring to live “the religion of Love” (Mary Baker Eddy, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p. 138), as Jesus did, and that we, as well as the world, can feel it. I so appreciate the tender nurturing of spiritual love and caring that was encouraged at Annual Meeting.
In consonance with this, the article by Jennifer Hebert, “Nurturing our church’s membership,” also in the September Journal, encourages the loving qualities among church members of humility, caring, appreciating, and nurturing one another.
Robin Pryor Blake
Davis, California, US
Correction
In the January 2016 Journal, there was a testimony titled “Illness and fear of death melt away.” The text said, “Shortly after Christmas this past year, I started experiencing symptoms ….” The text should have said, “Shortly after Christmas of 2014 ….” We regret the oversight.
