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sage was and still is love—love of God, love of neighbors. We just can’t love God and neighbor too much. Barry Saunders Salt Lake City, Utah
Power of prayer The opening of “Lutheran perspec- tives on healing” (March, page 14) left me disillusioned about the effi- cacy of intercessory prayer. It makes me wonder if there is anything at all worth praying for God’s intervention. I preside at a quarterly service of heal- ing, following the Lutheran liturgy for that rite. Those who attend find com- fort and hope through it, even though they know they might not receive the physical healing they seek. What they do feel is God’s reassuring pres- ence with them in their time of fear. To be sure, they are also under medi- cal care. By this logic, I guess we need not pray for world peace any longer either. It sure isn’t happening. The Rev. Emil Klatt Lancaster, Ohio
God’s law rules It saddens me when someone places a human law as reason or justifica- tion to not care for the needs of those whom Jesus called “the least of these my brothers” (“Obey the law” and “Ditto”; March, page 48). When we use human law as a way to block or separate ourselves from another, it makes it impossible for those behind that law to see in the faces of those in need the very face of our Savior. At no time in all of Scripture does God allow human law to stand above God’s law. The Gospel clearly teaches that our compassion toward others is a reflection and response to the com- passion we have freely received from God. God’s law and the call to love our neighbor as our selves always trumps human law. The Rev. Jonathan Stansfield Ripon, Wis.
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A gift for the generations In a gesture of gratitude, Jim Gonia (center), bishop of the Rocky Mountain Synod, receives a traditional blanket from Glenn Morris, representing the Four Winds American Indian Council. The sacred ground that was Bethany Danish Lutheran Church from 1913 to 1973 in Denver, was given March 28 to Four Winds as a gift from the synod. Four Winds has served the American Indian community at this site for the last 25 years.
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