Letters to the Editor

Please send your letters to editor@plaintruth.co.uk
Our comments are highlighted in italics.

Blessed and guided

I fully understand how important The Plain Truth magazine is in the lives of your readers and can identify with many of them – especially the elderly. I have just had my 78th birthday and live alone after losing all my family. I also have a ‘phobic’ condition as well as being minus my colon.

Even so, God has blessed me in many ways and has guided me through life and corrected me when it has been necessary – but always in love.

The Plain Truth provides spiritual guidance and comfort – something of extreme importance in a largely uncaring, corrupt and violent world. I pray that God will see you through this difficult financial time and continue to bless your work.

Mr MH Truro

Thank you for sending me The Plain Truth which I have been receiving now for many years. The magazine is always giving me hope and inspiration for the future. And since the recent loss of my wife of 50 years, I have been greatly comforted through this very stressful period of my life to be able to receive The Plain Truth. I just hope and pray that you are able to continue publishing the magazine.

Mr RS Southampton

The letters from both Mr MH and Mr RS are representative of the many we receive each week in our mailbag. For this reason, we made a special focus on the lone elderly in the last issue (All the lonely people) which has resulted in quite an amount of feedback.

Peace

Thank you very much Fiona for writing the Peace, Perfect Peace article (p14, Autumn 2009). You were indeed directed by the Holy Spirit to write that article. As I read it, I could feel the sweet anointing of peace wash all over me. Though I wasn’t in a troubled state, I’m sure there’s someone out there who this article will minister to at the right moment. Please keep listening to the promptings of the Holy Spirit, as only the Lord knows the needs of the reading audience.

Pauline, London

Thanks for your encouraging comments which were passed onto Fiona.

No longer interested

Would you kindly not send me any further copies of The Plain Truth. I am no longer interested in Christianity, God having emerged as a product of man’s imagination and belief – not knowledge. However, I enclose a cheque to help towards your continued work among your readership.

Mr JL Herts

Hmm, interesting letter Mr JL. If by any chance you do get to read this, maybe you would share with us the reason for coming to your newly-held understanding.

Bringing light

I love the way The Plain Truth explains today’s events with the word of God contained in the scriptures. It really brings to light to me how I have lived in the past and what I need to do to change myself as an individual. And I really love the personal at the beginning of each magazine. I thank you from the bottom of my heart for receiving The Plain Truth. 

Mr ZM Kashmir

To me The Plain Truth is as a ‘voice in the wilderness’ – and a very necessary voice!
When the current issue arrived it was borrowed by a friend before I had a chance to read it – so please may I have another copy?

Mrs MB Hertfordshire

Of course, another copy is on its way Mrs MB. And if any other readers would like us to send a copy to a friend, relative or work colleague, please let us know.

Apparent waste

I would like to make a contribution to the discussion (Mr JLT, Autumn 2009) regarding the creation and subsequent destruction of the dinosaurs and the apparent waste in the universe. 

We read in the scriptures that God’s works are perfect and the creation, including the dinosaurs, are pronounced by God to be ‘very good’ in the book of Genesis.  Perhaps God made the dinosaurs, as well as ‘for his pleasure’, to help to keep rampant foliage in check. Genesis also tells us that all creatures were originally vegetarian. We also know from Scripture that a massive change took place when sin and death entered the world for the first time. 

It is possible that many creatures died out after the flood as they were unable to adapt to the harsh conditions caused by the subsequent temperature changes?  Incidentally, an old encyclopaedia called the Historia Animalia written in the 16th century, says that there were still dragons (dinosaurs) alive at that time – although most by then were very small.  The extinction of animals and birds over time has nothing to do with ‘experimentation’, but rather is due to the course of history.

As far as ‘waste’ is concerned, the abundance of creation speaks of generosity, not of profligacy.  And everything that dies either provides food or rots down and replenishes the earth. This is recycling, not waste!

Mrs SR via email

And on the subject of ‘waste’, we have an excellent article about the topic (What a waste) of this issue by Gethin Russell-Jones.

Support for elderly

I read your moving article All the lonely people (Autumn 09) about the increasing number of lonely elderly people.

It is important that we share the good news of Jesus with them, as many have to face bereavement, ill-health, frailty and losing their home. I though your readers may like to know that the charity Outlook Trust (www.outlook-trust.org.uk) based in High Wycombe, outreaches to older people. (Telephone: 01494 485222.)

It would be so beneficial if a network could be set up by churches so that when an elderly person has to leave their home and church and go into residential care – perhaps in a different part of the UK – someone from a nearby church could visit them. Most areas have more churches than care homes, so it could be possible to arrange this.

There is some encouraging news. The charity PARCHE (Pastoral Action in Residential Care Homes for the Elderly) hold Christian services in almost all Eastbourne’s elderly care homes and this idea could perhaps be extended throughout Britain. (Details on www.parche.org.uk  Tel: 01323 438527.) 

Many older people appreciate having Christian fellowship –  and doesn’t the Bible tells us that older people are precious to God?

Mrs AW Middlesex

Mrs AW raises an interesting point. For many frail elderly living alone or in residential care homes, their physical needs are a priority. But I wonder how many of their spiritual needs are being fulfilled.

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