Precious

"Give ear, O my people, to my law: incline your ears to the words of my mouth.”¹
“My people shall dwell in a peaceable habitation, and in sure dwellings, and in quiet resting places;”²
“My people shall know my name: therefore they shall know in that day that I am he that doth speak: behold, it is I. How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him who bringeth good tidings, that publisheth salvation; that saith unto Zion, Thy God reigneth!”³
“Since thou was precious in my sight, thou hast been honourable, and I have loved thee: therefore will I give men for thee, and people for thy life. Fear not: for I am with thee: I will bring thy seed from the east, and gather thee from the west; I will say to the north, Give up; and to the south, Keep not back: bring my sons from far, and my daughters from the ends of the earth; Even everyone that is called by name: for I have created him for my glory, I have formed him; yea, I have made him.”⁴

God has created Man, is speaking to Man, and views Man as very precious. We must publish this wonderful Love, by listening, seeing, and treating each other as the precious Creation of God. It is our duty to our Father-Mother, God. We are Father-Mother, God’s children. We not only must do this, we get to do this.

HOW? Start by treating our family, friends and those we come into contact as Precious Children of Love. Then think of anyone that comes to our view, our thoughts, our experience as the Precious People of God’s Creation. Then pray, love, and have sincere hearts to those around the world in the same way. One by one, if each of us view the other as God sees us, and as God has created us, we will see what Christ Jesus spoke of when he stated, ‘Honour thy father and thy mother: and, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself’⁵ truly means.

Having that consciousness that rejoices in Her babes. Having that view of Love for all His creation by cherishing and loving one another, we will begin to see true Peace. It begins in our thoughts and hearts and then spreads to all mankind through love without condemnation and without judgment.

We are the precious creation of the One Altogether Lovely. Let us love one another in honor to this Precious Parent and Creator of Her Precious People. We are His, ‘my people’. Let us rejoice in this and love one another!

Gentle hugs

1 The King James Version of The Holy Bible Psalms 78 vs. 1
2 ibid Isaiah 32 vs. 18 (my)
3 ibid Isaiah 52 vss. 6 (my), 7
4 ibid Isaiah 43 vss. 4-7
5 ibid Matthew 19 vs. 19

Letter: Abide in Love

Dear Hearts,

Mrs. Eddy, the founder and discoverer of Christian Science, states, “One must abide in the morale of truth or he cannot demonstrate the divine Principle.” S&H 456:19

When we look up ‘abide’ one of the definitions is to ‘be fixed or permanent on a particular condition.” We MUST abide in Love. We Must abide in the demonstration of THE divine Principle (God’s Laws). We must have the ‘morale’, the mental confidence, loyalty, enthusiasm, in Principle more than in personal principles, opinions, beliefs, based upon fears, hopes, agenda, the confusion and lies and fears of mortal mind, the 'carnal mind' as Paul calls it. We must be fixed permanently upon trusting God’s ever present perfect Being and Law, trusting Truth, His constant Truth.

The Truth is you, me, all are under the control of the Perfect Creator, Spirit, Love. We must abide in this Truth and Love. The Creator is Love and does all out of Love. He has created all through Love, and it is Perfect, needing nothing. Everything is done through Love. So because it is Love being manifested what God has for you is perfect, useful, helpful, timely, Love being loving.

We must trust this Love firmly. The only way we can do this is to understand Love. It is not based upon the mortal view of love, but on a higher elevation of perfect constant Love, the Christ, the Power, the Creator, Love.  The work here is to learn, understand, turn to and live Love.

We must abide in it consistently. We must love it more than beliefs. We must turn to it, listen for its directios, and obediently follow it. We must look to it and away from the mortal dream stating that Love isn’t here Doing, Being, expressing Itself perfectly. We must so abide in Love that lies do not fool us, sway us, or make us believe that Love is less than Love.

This is ‘demonstrating’ Principle. This is having faith, trust and understanding in and abiding in Principle, Love. The healing follows the understanding!

Understand God’s Love for you, and all, and abide in that Love. Then you will see the harmonizing activity of Love. Look to Love for everything and you will see Love’s activity everywhere.

It is wonderful worthwhile work.

Gentle hugs

What is a shadow?

What is a shadow? Isn’t it just a blockage of light?

Does a shadow have life, a creator, a purpose, thinking? No. It is just the obstruction of light. It is just a dark spot, a blockage of light.

How do we get rid of shadows? Light!

In The Epistle of James we read, “Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning. Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.”¹

Would the ‘Father of lights’, who begat us, give us darkness? Wouldn’t that be impossible as the Light that has no ‘shadow of turning’?

Then where do these shadows of thought, darkness come from? And are they a part of us? NO!  They are only misconceptions, errors in thought. These shadows of thought are doubt, fear, depression, even sickness. They are dark spots in our thought, the shadows of misconception.

How can we get rid of these shadows of thought, these errors, misconceptions? They are removed ‘with the word of truth’. This Truth is God and His Creation, Man. The perfect Man of God’s creation, His image and likeness, as spoken of in the very first book of the Holy Bible, Genesis, in the very first Chapter.  It states, “God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness:…So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. And God blessed them…”²

We are the image and likeness of this ‘Father of lights’. As the image and likeness of God, we are that ‘firstfruits of His creatures’, spoken of in James.

Therefore we, as the blessed of God cannot be in a shadow, create a shadow, or believe in shadow thinking. We can only be the image and likeness of the Light that has no shadow of turning. We cannot be fooled by fear, doubt, even sickness! Why? Because God cannot be sick and we are His image and likeness, therefore we cannot be sick. Sickness is another shadow of belief, a belief of life in matter instead of an immortal image and likeness of Life, God.

How do we get a better understanding of this and remove these shadows of thought?

By turning to our Holy Bible we further gain knowledge of the Who and What that we are as His image and likeness. We gain a better understanding through prayer, watching, working, gratitude, rejoicing, and loving that we are the children of this ‘Father of lights’. This removes all the shadow thinking and dark illusions.

By learning more about this ‘Father of lights’; by learning more about What God is and then thereby Who and What we are as His image and likeness. This work breaks forward in a higher Light of understanding. This work brings with it a brighter view of God and Who we are. This work heals us from all the darkness and reveals Life as God, as the Light, Life, Truth, and Love, the Creator of all Being, and that Divine.

If our lives seem to be filled with dark shadows, depression, sickness, lack, what we need more of is Light. The light of better understanding, clearer views, deeper consecrated lives.

Mary Baker Eddy, the discoverer and founder of Christian Science, states in her main works, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, “As light destroys darkness and in the place of darkness all is light, so [in absolute Science] Soul , or God is the only truth-giver to man.”³ 

Remember the ‘perfect gifts’? Those perfect gifts told to us in James? They are God’s Love for us and the Truth that He gives to us. These truths are what reveal to us a better understanding of our relationship to God, with God, and the What and Who that we are as God’s image and likeness. This line of light, Truth, destroys the darkness of the fear shadows, sick shadow thoughts, doubting and depressed shadows. With this Light of Truth the darkness gives place to the Light. We become free from these dark shadows and feel God’s healing presence, His Light of Love.

This work reveals to us that the Light is the permanent FIXTURE and the shadows are the dim, fleeting phantoms of misconception.

Let us turn to our Light and see all of the shadows disappear. We will be able to see the Who and What that we are as the children of the ‘Father of lights’ better if we look to the Light and turn from all the darkness of doubt, fear, and even sin.

This is a gift to us. ‘…the perfect gift’ to us, His ‘firstfruits.

Gentle hugs


1 The King James Version of the Holy Bible James 1vss. 17, 18
2 ibid Genesis 1 vss. 26-28
3 Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy page 72 line 10

"Progress is the Law"

Good morning,

This morning’s prayers for myself (‘me first’ is mandatory) started with the Lord’s Prayer. I finished the prayer. But then went back to the “forgive us our debts as we forgive our debtors” portion of the prayer…I started thinking of one family member, then 6 others, that had made my childhood the unfun that it had been. I then began to forgive each one of them.

I started by giving each one of them back their familial loving titles, instead of just the names I had thought and spoken of them for so many years. I took a strong mental stand, knowing that “Progress is the Law”.

I allowed myself to realize that this law does bring us all up and forward from our past mistakes, of actions and thoughts. I let them ‘off the hook’ through forgiveness and this progressive law. This freed me and them from the past. It gave me a way to forgive them and to allow Love to enter in and heal us all.

How? By seeing them as blessed and by seeing them through a sense of change for the good (Progress), I could see them as their better selves, as the Children of God. Through this thought process, I got to love and forgive them, see them as God sees them.

Progress IS the Law. I could see how they HAD TO have progressed since those many years back and still now after their passing. They had to progress from the way they seemed to be in my childhood, and into my adulthood for some, because Progress is spiritually the Law. I’ve progressed, so they can and have had to as well.

I get to see them in this better view point. It frees me from the past and lets me love them, forgive them, and let go!

What a joy to see that everyone gets to Progress and be freed from past mistakes, past misbehaviors, and be as we are, our better selves through His Love.

Gentle hugs

O Dreamer Testimonial of Hymn 412

NOTE: This blog today isn't my writing but something a friend gave to me. It is a healing message of God's constant loving presence that is here for all.

“O Dreamer”

The following is a story of healing experiences related to the poem or hymn “O Dreamer” by Rosa M. Turner (hymns 202 & 412).

An Englishwoman from Los Angeles visited First Church of Christ Scientist in Seattle. She is a writer and helps authors prepare manuscripts for publication, among which were “Letters to Strongheart” and “The Robe.” At the time she was working on “The Big Fisherman.” The following is her story.

This lady has an American friend who is a professional entertainer—she might be called a lecturer, elocutionist, or a monologist. Her friend was so accomplished that the military used her to entertain troops and sent her to the European Theater during WWII.

While in England she attended a small Christian Science church in an industrial area. A man in a wheelchair was brought in for a Wednesday evening meeting, and during the testimonial part of the meeting he gave a testimony. He expressed gratitude for Christian Science and said to the congregation substantially that they knew that his condition was the result of enemy bombs hitting the local factory. But, he added, “We know in Truth there is no material warfare, and I would like to have each one of you, when you think of me or when you see me, declare to yourselves that we can all awaken from this dream. I need to be working for our cause, and I want to be doing so.” He spoke at some length about the necessity of the congregation as a whole to rise above the belief of physical warfare, thus putting it in the mental realm. He used the word “dream” several times. Following the testimony, the Reader did an usual thing, He opened the hymnal to hymn 412 and read each verse. Then he announced that the meeting was still open for testimonies and remarks on Christian Science. This brought forth a number of inspired testimonies from members of the congregation. The meeting closed with singing hymn 412, sung with great enthusiasm and inspiration. Whereupon this man arose from his wheelchair healed, and he pushed it home.

Some months later when this woman was permitted a few days leave from her work; she visited a Christian Science friend in a rural area near London for a week. One Sunday afternoon her hostess took her to a neighbor’s home a short distance away through the woods. This neighbor was a Christian Science Practitioner. When they arrived the found a group of ladies from the Christian Science church busy making bandages for the Red Cross. The lady whom they were visiting, after serving tea to the group, said, “During the time we have been together we have all had some interesting experiences, I am sure, and wouldn’t it be nice to share some of the demonstrations which we have experienced or witnessed.” The others all responded readily because they were right in the path of the German bombers that were bombing London and various industrial areas. After they had all shared their experiences, the hostess asked our American friend if she hadn’t had some outstanding experience, which she would like to relate.

Whereupon she told them of the experience of witnessing the man healed at the Wednesday evening meeting where the congregation had sung hymn 412 after the Reader had interrupted the meeting to read this hymn. After our American friend completed her remarks, the group was speechless and broke up immediately without much conversation. Returning home through the woods, this woman spoke to her hostess and expressed regret that she had seemed to throw a wet blanket on that wonderful group by telling them of her experience. Her friend turned to her and said, “My dear, don’t you know whose home we were in?” She replied, “Yes, a Miss Turner.” Her friend responded, “Yes, Miss Rosa M. Turner, who wrote the words of that hymn.” Our American friend had not associated the author’s name with the poem, but all the guests had, which explained the strange reaction to the story. Our friend then inquired at some length about Miss Turner and was told that during the First World War her father had been killed in action. Then following the war her mother’s grief and other circumstances seemed to put them in dire need with limited income, high inflation, and other economic adjustments. Their finances were depleted, and the mother developed tuberculosis and was literally on her deathbed. Accordingly, Miss Turner was in the bedroom sitting with her mother. After having read to her, she gazed across the fields in a very depressed state of mind, expecting the end to come any moment. It was a foggy, damp day. She walked to the window simply to get a better view of the fields she loved so much, for following her mother’s death she was to turn the property over to the mortgage company and vacate. While standing at the window brooding, the sun came out and with it an angel voice saying, “O dreamer, leave thy dreams for joyful waking.” Pondering this angel message she rushed to a table and started writing the words of this hymn, which flowed with great rapidity. She was so inspired she hurried back to the bedroom to read it to her mother. Her mother aroused, immediately healed. The mortgage company gave them an extension, and people began to come to them for treatment in Christian Science, resulting in enough income from their practice to establish themselves in the very home our American friend had visited.

This briefly is the story thus far, but it doesn’t end here. When our friend returned to the United States, she was asked to do some entertaining in various military camps around the East Coast. While attending a Wednesday evening meeting in a small Christian Science church in New York State, she briefly related the two experiences that she had in connection with hymn 412. As I recall, she gave the last testimony, and the Reader spontaneously called for hymn 412 as the closing hymn. It was sung with great inspiration. After the singing a strange incident occurred. A young man walked down from the congregation and took over the organ before the regular organist could start the postlude. It was intently noticed by the congregation, who stood in silence and watched the proceedings. This young man had been this church’s organist until he was drafted into the military service. In combat, a shell had exploded near him and to human sense it injured his ears and caused him to be deaf. Returning home from service he had been faithful to his teaching in Christian Science and attended church regularly. He had either heard our friend’s testimony sufficiently to get the import of it or was inspired by the singing of the hymn. In any event he was healed, and to show the congregation, he went to the organ, which had been his regular post, and played the music of this hymn, as our American friend had never heard it played before!

 Hymn 202/412

Rosa M. Turner
O dreamer, leave thy dreams for joyful waking,
             O captive, rise and sing, for thou art free;
The Christ is here, all dreams of error breaking,
             Unloosing bonds of all captivity.

He comes to bless thee on his wings of healing;
             To banish pain, and wipe all tears away,
He comes anew, to humble hearts revealing
             The mounting footsteps of the upward way.

He comes to give thee joy for desolation,
             Beauty for ashes of the vanished years;
For every tear to bring full compensation,
             To give thee confidence for all thy fears.

He comes to call the dumb to joyful singing;
             The deaf to hear; the blinded eyes to see;
The glorious tidings of salvation bringing
             O captive, rise, thy Saviour comes to thee.1


Hope that you print this off and share it with others, pray with it, and feel Love's healing presence today and always through it.

Gentle hugs

 

1 Christian Science Hymnal Hymn 202/412

Obstacles to God's Work? NEVER

[This blog disappeared. To no avail was I able to find it for me to post on it. I could find the old posts on Journey to the Spiritual: the Law of Love. But it would not bring up the ability for me to post on it any longer. So here we go again...

Prayerfully and determined I began again. Once done and trying to post I was lead back through the mazes of cyberspace where that too must be filled with God...for if this cyberspace is real then it must be filled with God.
...This is what I wrote that brought me back to my rightful blog.]

There can never be obstacles to God's unfoldment of His Perfect Being. God, Good, fills all space, at all times. He has created all that there is and all those that are created. There is no other power, through people, persons, or entities that can stop God’s Work.

His work is spiritual reflection of What and Who God is. There can be nothing in His creation that can have the power or ability to thwart God. That would be like saying that God created an idea to thwart Himself. This is not only ridiculous, comical, but it is also completely impossible. God would never, could never create something to oppose Himself. That is incongruent.

This work, this blog, this prayerful consideration of God’s complete Perfect Being is part of that work. Nothing can stop this work, hide it, or make it unable to complete its purpose.

Christ Jesus states, “I and my Father are One.”¹ The Work that Christ Jesus came to fulfill could no more be stopped than the wave coming to shore. God’s work is divine and it has the power of eternal, infinite, expression. There is nothing that can stop God’s work. It is fruitful and  manifested for all to see.

Mary Baker Eddy, the founder and discoverer of Christian Science, and the author of the Science and Health with key to the Scriptures states in her prime work, “The Christ was the Spirit which Jesus implied in his own statements: ‘I am the way, the truth, and the life;’ ‘I and my Father are one.’ This Christ or divinity of the man Jesus, was his divine nature, the godliness which animated him. Divine Truth, Life, and Love gave Jesus authority over sin, sickness, and death. His mission was to reveal the Science of celestial being, to prove what God is and what He does for man.”²

That is what this blog is animated to do and its purpose cannot be hidden. It is a statement verifying God’s healing presence. Its usefulness, purpose, and thought cannot be scrambled, lost, confused, or faulty…though the words maybe, the blog might be taken down, and the content maybe removed. But the intent, healing presence of God, can never be stopped. It is universal, powerful, and healing. It is the Omnipotence, Omnipresence, and Omniscience of the one and only Mind, God.

My typing, sentence structure, grammar, and person may not measure up. But the healing power and intent is from God and He cannot be silenced. For He is Love and Love cannot be stopped, hidden, or lost, it is the Light, the Law, the Power.  

Gentle hugs

1 The King James Version of the Holy Bible John 10 vs. 30
2 Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy pg. 26 lines 10-18

Advance

In looking up the word ‘Blessed’, as in the Beatitudes when we read, “Blessed are the, or are they…” I found the words, ‘happy and prosperous’. Most of the time translations drop in the word ‘Happy’ for ‘Blessed’ in the Beatitudes. These Beatitudes are found in the Holy Bible in the book of Matthew chapter 5. They are a part of Christ Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount.

Instead this time I followed through by looking up the word ‘prosperous’. One of the definitions for prosperous is ‘Advance(ed/ing)’. This was an interesting take on the word ‘Blessed’ so it lead me to take this word to the Beatitudes to study them with the idea that when followed there is advancement of thought, activity, growth and expression in our lives. It was a real eye opener.

Here, let me show you a few examples: (Please take NOTE that the bracketed areas are words looked up and thoughts revealed about these words to better understand the Beatitudes themselves and how they apply to life lessons.)

·   Advancing are the poor in spirit [poor=lacking; in spirit= a personal sense, ego, self-centered based thoughts]: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven [“The reign of harmony in divine Science (~Reality~); the realm of unerring, eternal, and omnipotent Mind; the atmosphere of Spirit, where Soul is supreme”¹].

AND ONE MORE:

·   Advancing are they that mourn [grieve—pained in the mind=those thoughts which creates doubt, fear, sorrow, depression…thought pangs that nag or worry…Mourn cont. afflicted=troubled or distressed]: for they shall be comforted [strengthened, consoled, encouraged; God is doing this! Consoling by removing the sorrow and personal sense of fear, doubt, and confusion, by revealing life as in and of the Consciousness of Divine Mind, not personal sense, ego, self-centeredness, selfish points of view].

Going through each of the Beatitudes in this way was eye opening. It allows us to see how far we have to go or how close we have come in the seeing of our relationship with God and His Divine Laws.

“Progress takes off human shackles. The finite must yield to the infinite. Advancing to a higher plane of action, thought rises from the material sense to the spiritual, from the scholastic to the inspirational, and from the mortal to the immortal.”²

When we work on these Divine Laws as expressions, guidance, rules for our every decision, thought, and action, we are lead by these advancing actions. They raise thought ‘from the material sense to the spiritual’.  They help us to prove, “Emmanuel…God with us.”³

By looking up words we are advancing our studies to a higher view of The Word, God’s directives of Love. By looking deeper into the Word, The Gospel, The Truth, we become better workers, better ‘seers’, better healers, provers of the Word of God. The time we take in this study is the time that we are truly being lead by Mind, God, to His higher views and understanding. This kind of study, lifts us from the ‘shallows of mortal belief’⁴ into the vision and clarity of the Divine Principle, God. This brings our lives into harmony, health, well-being, healing, into the atmosphere of Love. This advanced thinking brings to us a better understanding, wisdom, clarity of the spiritual, Spirit’s realm of thought and activity. It shines the Light of Truth and reveals what God is and what Man is as God’s reflection.

Advanced thought through advanced activity is wisdom, true understanding, humility, and focus. It gives to man that sense of peace that comes with understanding. It blesses us…

Gentle hugs  


1 Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy page 590 lines 1-3
2 ibid page 256 lines 1-5
3 The King James Version of the Holy Bible Matthew 1 vs. 23
4 Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy page 262 line 10

"Joy cometh in the Morning"

As the old time hymn proclaims:

O weary pilgrim, lift your head,
For joy cometh in the morning;
For God in His own Word hath said
That joy cometh in the morning.

Refrain

Joy cometh in the morning,
Joy cometh in the morning;
Weeping may endure for a night,
But joy cometh in the morning.

Our God shall wipe all tears away,
For joy cometh in the morning;
Sorrow and sighing flee away,
For joy cometh in the morning.
Refrain¹

…let us look to God for the joy that comes to us at the dawn of a new thought.

What is this ‘new thought’? It is the higher views of Truth, God, awakening us, showing us His view of Creation, which includes all the Universe and Mankind. They are the realization, the thoughts and ideas, of our divine relationship with God, our Creator and sustaining Maker.

How does this occur? When we turn our thoughts to Him, stand firm upon His Truth and Love, which He constantly reveals to us, we gain a sense of freedom. His Truth breaks us free from all the dismal thoughts of threat, gloom, doom, lack, loneliness, sin, sickness and death. God’s eternal, infinite Goodness is an annihilating Divine Law for all that is unlike Good.

By looking to God who is Love, we see His Christ, Truth, revealing itself as an ever-present help in times of both trouble and joy. By rejoicing in His Love, realizing His Power, this activity brings us through the nights of sickness, sorrow, and fear.  By turning our thoughts to Him, we can see that He is always with us, that Love and its Power is ever-near.

By looking to God as the one and only perfect Mind, for every thought and answer, we find answers. By placing our lives squarely into His Life instead of our personal beliefs, opinions and desires, we begin to see our lives harmonize, balance, become more healthy, abundant, useful, and consistent. A state of well-being begins to be a constant in our lives as His, Life’s, expression. By seeing that harmonious creation is His divine design and that all Mankind is included in this grand design, we let go of the false life and turn to Life as our directing Omnipotent Guide.

We can do this because He created us to be included eternally in His perfect design. We have a divine purpose. He lifts us from our lowly views of ourselves and our lives to His highest sight, His perfect vision of the Who and What that we are of His creating. God and His perfect idea, Man.

No one is left out. No one is without His constant Good. No one is outside of His guiding,
directing, powerful Hand. All we must do is turn our lives from our mortal lacking views, to Him, who is All-in-all. God is Love. To turn to Love is easy, to trust Love is imperative, to feel Love’s ever-presence is eternally possible.

Hitting ‘brick walls’, fearful, in trouble, needing? Turn your whole thought, life, experience over to Him. This brings joy with each dawning thought and happy realization that He has never left us. He is always the answer to every challenge. He is guiding us through the darkness by His Light and joy does come in this rising activity.

Gentle hugs


1 Christian Science Hymnal 425

Invisible Spirit ever available

For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even the eternal power and Godhead;¹

God, Spirit, is invisible to the material mortal view point. But this invisibility doesn’t stop His constant ever-presence in all of man’s lives. He is more clearly seen as we love Him and His offspring. The more we truly love the Spirit, the more we see His Hand, Power, in every part of our lives.

How did Christ Jesus feed the multitudes with just a few loaves of bread and a small amount of fish²? And when he stated, “And I knew that thou hearest me always: but because of the people which stand by I said it, that they may believe that thou hast sent me,”³ was he talking to himself or to the invisible God? Invisible to those who were around him. But clearly visible to Jesus’ Christ thought, he knew the ever availability of God's care and presence.

How may we more clearly see this invisible Spirit? By seeking the Truth and Love of Christ Jesus’ teachings and through the study of our Holy Bible and the works of Mary Baker Eddy, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, we can more clearly feel and ‘see’  the invisible God and His Christ activity in our lives.   As we consistently and persistently turn to God for all answers, we do see His healing power and loving direction in every portion of our lives. This Love reveals itself constantly to those who purify their lives and look to Him for all.

Though invisible to the naked eye, He is viable and ever-present in our lives. We see Him as He is, Perfect, All-knowing, all-seeing, all-powerful Love when we turn our thoughts to Him. He, through the ‘still small voice’, guides us, protects us, embraces us in His Love. We need only to turn to Him for all things and see our completeness in Him.

He has made us able to conceive of His presence, turn to His power, and to love His ways. This is the only path to freedom from fear, doubt, and mistaken beliefs that comes from not knowing His ever-present Love and constant healing ability.

In Revelation we are told of the salvation and strength of this invisible God. It states, And I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, Now is come salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of God, and the power of his Christ, for the accuser of our brethren is cast down, which accused them before our God day and night.⁴

Love fills all space. Mind, God, and His wisdom and intelligence, created the universe including Man. He is able to take care of whatever seems to concern us. Principle, God, is the Divine Law that supersedes all falsely mistaken laws of this mortal existence and He heals us of these misconceptions. His Laws removes every false claim, false belief, false accusation the ‘accuser’ tries to set up against God’s Man. God forever frees us from the accuser’s accusations and lifts us to higher vision of thought and activity.

In the Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, the discoverer and founder of Christian Science explains, In all mortal forms of thought, dust is dignified as the natural status of men and things, and modes of material motion are honored with the name of laws. This continues until the leaven of Spirit changes the whole of mortal thought, as yeast changes the chemical properties of meal.⁵ AND  Spirit is the only substance, the invisible and indivisible infinite God. Things spiritual and eternal are substantial. Things material and temporal are insubstantial.⁶

This is a big subject, the invisibility but ever-present availability of Spirit. But let us begin with the baby steps of turning our thoughts to the invisible Spirit through prayer and listening. Let us then follow the steps He is giving, by obediently following this ‘still small voice’. By doing His loving bidding, we will begin to see Him more and more in our lives. Then let us let these steps grow into a relationship that is already there, Love loving His children.

Gentle hugs


1 The King James Version of The Holy Bible Romans 1 vs. 20 to the ;
2 ibid Matthew 14; Mathew 15 and Mark 6 and Mark 8
3 ibid John 11 vs. 42
4 ibid Revelation 12 vs. 10
5 Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy page 118 beginning on line 20
6 ibid page 335 beginning on line 12

Divine Reality is the only Reality

God creates all forms of reality. His thoughts are spiritual realities.¹

 

How can we heal our lives and all of the ends and outs of the complications that so upset us and make us feel that our future is dismal?

God, Good, the Divine Creator of All. What God knows reverses our futile feelings, our fears, our doubts, our beliefs of the gloomy now and the dismal forecast of our tomorrows.

What God knows is the Real. What we believe or think outside of God’s All-knowing is the unreal. What God knows is realized by turning to only Him and turning off our beliefs and fears.

How? By consecrating our lives to Him, looking to Him for all answers, this gives to us the vision of His harmonious Reality. This harmonious Reality is being expressed through us. This revelation of His healing presence and the removal of the chaos and doubt, frees us to live our lives as He created, lives full, harmonious, joyful and FREE.

By consecrating our lives to His Will, His Ways, His unfoldment of His Good, we can gladly see that a life with God, who is our Life, is a life that is lifted above the false pictures of gloom and doom to the vision of His Creation.

God doesn’t see what we see. God only sees what He created and that as ‘very good’². God only sees His Divine Reality. God only sees His perfection and His creation as perfect. This creation includes Man, the Universe, and all things therein.

By looking to see what God sees, what God has created, what God is giving, we become freer and freer from the burdens of our own mistaken beliefs. By looking to Love, God, for love, Love is revealed in infinite ways. By looking to Life, God, for our life, we experience more fully a healthy freer life. By looking to Principle, God, for all guidance, direction through His Divine Laws, we are guided through and out of hardships to see that His Laws supersede the mortal beliefs. By looking to Spirit, God, we begin to see, feel, and know that substance is not in matter and the mortal experience. But that Substance, true substance, is divine, strong, purely spiritual, perfect and substantial, outside of matter and in Spirit. By looking for Soul, God, we see all creativity as divine, beautiful, as spectacular as the sunrise or sunset. This creative Soul, God, created Man in His own image and likeness. Man as the offspring of Soul expresses all Art, Science, Creativity, in all His, God’s, spiritual ways. By looking for Truth, God, we begin to see through the eyes of Truth, which dispels the lies, removes the fears, and brings our vision to the higher standard of Divine Truth. By looking to Mind, God, we see true wisdom and intelligence being our guides throughout our day. This All-knowing Mind expresses its ideas throughout all of His creation, revealing His Perfect Selfhood and Perfection. His unfoldment of His Perfect Thought fills all space. His Perfect Thoughts includes each one of us. We are His Thought being expressed. We must let Him remove all of our false concepts about ourselves and reveal to us our true identity as His Ideas. Mind, God, does this.    

Let us see a higher sense of Reality by turning to the Real and only Creator, God. Let us let our lives be lifted above the false senses to see our lives having higher purposes and better experiences. Let us let go of the false fears and doubts, by turning to the ‘All-knowing, All-seeing, All-wise’, God who is our Life. Let us love His ways more than our ways. Let us trust His views more than our beliefs. Let us be the Who and What of His Creation. This ‘LETTING’ will we bring us into His Truth and reveal His purpose for us, bringing it out into the open. This will free us from the chaos, gloom, fear and doubt and bring forward His Glory into our lives.

Gentle hugs

1 Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy page 513 lines 26-27

2 The King James Version of the Holy Bible Genesis chapter 1  

God gives Love and we serve Love

Wholly apart from this mortal dream, this illusion and delusion of sense, Christian Science comes to reveal man as God’s image, His idea, coexistent with Him—God giving all and man having all that God gives…The spiritual understanding which demonstrates Christian Science, enables the devout Scientist to worship, not an unknown God, but Him whom, understanding even in part, he continues to love more and serve better.¹ Mary Baker Eddy

God gives to man the opportunities to see, prove, and serve the ever-present God called Love. We have the rejoicing, gratitude, and joy of serving this God of Love at all times and in infinite ways. By ‘loving our neighbor as ourselves’, ‘forgiving our debtors’, by ‘doing unto others as we would have them do unto us’, we are serving God, Love. By manifesting, proving His Love, we are in essence bowing down with gratitude to His constant Love. Love manifested is the substance of our lives. Love expressed is the proof of our divine service.

God gives you His spiritual ideas, and in turn, they give you daily supplies. Never ask for tomorrow: it is enough that divine Love is an ever-present help; and if you wait, never doubting, you will have all you need every moment. What a glorious inheritance is given to us through the understanding of omnipresent Love! More we cannot ask: more we do not want: more we cannot have. This sweet assurance is “Peace, be still” to all human fears, to suffering of every sort.”²

By turning to God, Love, every moment we do not miss even one opportunity to serve Love. Through trust, obedience, understanding, joy, and service we are the witnesses and proof of His constant Love. By doing this, we are not only serving, but we are also the examples of God’s purpose for mankind. By loving, we express to all the joy of Love. By sharing, we manifest the inheritance of the abundance of Love. By witnessing to Love, we are the proof of His ever-present Good. By this service to Love, we help others in their service to Love.

Christ Jesus presented Love in such a way that there was no doubt the relationship between himself and God, Love. He called Love many times, ‘my Father’ and ‘Abba, Father’³. But he didn’t hold God, Love, as just his Father. And his service to God wasn’t just his service. He shared the powerful truth that God is the all giving Father that we all are to serve. Christ Jesus’ prayer began with “Our Father which art in heaven, hallowed by Thy name.”⁴ This Father is “OUR FATHER” that we are to hallow.

To be able to see that God is giving to us all, we must see our relationship to God, His Parental relationship with us as our Creator, our Father. To know Him as our Father is to love Him. To know Him as our Father is to see all the strength, tenderness, guidance and love that He gives to each and every one of His children, His offspring, His beloved of Love. The more we know Him the better we can serve and love Him.

To emulate Christ Jesus’ example of serving, knowing, loving, and obeying Our Father is the best example we can and do have. This example witnessed and expressed not only saves us but helps others to see true Love, Our Father’s Love.

Let us too love our divine Parent, serve Him, and see all that He gives to us each and every moment. It is said, “Love is reflected in love.”⁵ Let us see our relationship to Him as constant, eternal reflection of Love expressed by love. Let us serve Love by being the examples of His Love. Let us share this with all mankind through His Goodness, His Grace and His Love.

Finally dear hearts, Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter. Fear {extremely love} God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man.⁶

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1 The First Church of Christ Scientist and Miscellany page 5 lines 7-10, 18-22
2 Miscellaneous Writings by Mary Baker Eddy page 307 lines 2-10
3 The King James Version of The Holy Bible Mark 14 vs. 36
4 ibid. Matthew 6 vs. 9
5 Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy page 17 line 7
6 The King James Version of The Holy Bible Ecclesiastes 12 vs. 13

Poisons removed

This morning before my eyes opened a part of the Lord’s Prayer was coming to my thought. It was, Give us this day our daily bread; and forgive us our debts as we forgive our debtors; and lead us not into temptation but deliver us from all evil. For Thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory forever.¹

These words are not just words but heartfelt prayer to God, a statement of affirmation. God does give us the supplies of perfect ideas and thoughts that bring us through our day with grace, love and forgiveness. By turning to God alone for our needs both for direction, ideas, thoughts that come from the All-knowing Mind, God, we gain the true sense of what we’re to do today.

This daily, moment by moment activity of turning to God for all frees us from the burden of belief that we’re out in a world of chaos, fear, anger, and doubt and that we’re ‘to fend for ourselves’. What a lonely fear driven thought that is! But because God is All-in-all we must and can turn to this Love for all things. This turning of thought to God brings to our day peace, reassurance, perfect guidance, protection, and the ‘How to do’ anything in all circumstances. For only God is and can give us peace and direction, love and understanding.

To forgive all wrongs, ill-will, disappointments, angry encounters, hurt feelings, is to free not only our ‘debtors’, those who we feel have done something to us, but it also frees us from the harboring of the poisons of anger, resentment, and hard feelings. These resentments and hurts clog our thoughts, harden our hearts, and make us ‘stiff necked’ people. The attributes of resentment poison our other relationships with doubt and mistrust. They make us come into other relationships not fully engaged. They smolder in our thoughts, making us unpleasant without explanation.

To forgive frees us from the past. To forgive allows us to express grace, joy and love with all without constraint. Forgiveness frees us to be our true childlike self, God’s child, the child of Love. It brings ease and joy back into our relationships and thoughts.

Many times our Master, Christ Jesus, included the words, “Thy sins be forgiven thee” when he was healing people. He knew that the only way the sins that create disease and death may be forgiven is by the complete removal of them. He stated to many, ‘go and sin no more’. That is the fullness of forgiveness, that the sins be completely stopped. Those harboring ill-will, a sin against our fellow man, God’s child, must stop completely the holding of grudges. How? By forgiving others and letting go of the thoughts that harbor the anger and resentment. This frees us all and stops the egotism, the sin, the self-superiorities of ill-will.

In the healing in Mark we find his explanation of these words when we read, “Why doth this man thus speak blasphemies? who can forgive sins but God only? And immediately when Jesus perceived in his spirit that they so reasoned within themselves, he said unto them, Why reason ye these things in your hearts? Whether is it easier to say to the sick of the palsy, Thy sins be forgiven thee; or to say, Arise, and take up thy bed, and walk? But that ye may know that the Son of man hath power on earth to forgive sins, (he saith to the sick of the palsy,) I say unto thee, Arise, and take up thy bed, and go thy way into thine house.”²

All that Christ Jesus did wasn’t just for his own good but for all to learn and do as well. When we forgive we are freeing not only ourselves but also those who we are harboring ill-will against. This grace of forgiveness heals.

It is the Christ within us, the Good of God’s creating, the perfect Ideal that we all manifest of God’s likeness that gives us the ability and freedom to forgive. This is what Jesus revealed throughout his earthly career. This Christ raised the dead, healed and fed the multitude, and broke all mortal beliefs concerning life and death. This Christ is ours by reflection. We too may heal relationships through this Christ activity of Love.

Mary Baker Eddy states in her main work, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, “Sin is forgiven only as it is destroyed by Christ,—Truth and Life.”³ Truth and Life are the synonyms of God, so sin is forgiven only as it destroyed by the Christ power of God.

How? The statement, “Love thy neighbor as thyself”⁴ brings a new view of how to see and express love to our fellow man. This activity of Love frees us. It breaks the chains and fetters of hate. Through the reflection of Love, God, our true nature and expression, we are freed from all ill-will. Love brings to our thoughts love. This love, this grace, this joyful acceptance of others as God sees them, precious, whole, complete, good, brings the wonderful ability to forgive our ‘enemies’.  Love, then, is the key to forgiveness. Love frees us to love!

Today let us stop the poisons of ill-will. Let us forgive as we would like to be forgiven. Let us free ourselves and others from the holding of grudges even for one more hour. Let us be free through the activity of love and forgiveness.

Gentle hugs


1 The King James Version of the Holy Bible Matthew 6 vss. 12, 13
2 ibid Mark 2 vss. 7-11
3Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy page 5 line 23
4 The King James Version of the Holy Bible Matthew 19 vs. 19

“On the side of Good”

I will gain a balance on the side of  good, my true being.

This alone gives me the forces of God wherewith to

overcome all error. On this rests the implicit faith

engendered by Christian Science, which appeals

intelligently to the facts of man's spirituality, individuality,

 to disdain the fears and destroy the discords of this

 material personality.¹                                                                    Mary Baker Eddy

We are taught through Genesis chapter 1 in our Holy Bible that God created all that was made and that He saw His creation as very good. Man and the universe created by God, Good, must then express and manifest this divine constant Good.

We are taught in Christian Science the ultimate importance of Genesis chapter 1 as a measuring stick for all things that comes to our thought, a distinguishing factor against the lies of the devil compared to God’s allness and Goodness.  We are told, “Since God is All, there is no room for His unlikeness. God, Spirit, alone created all, and called it good. Therefore evil, being contrary to good, is unreal, and cannot be the product of God.”²

God is All, therefore the claims of evil can be and must be removed from our thoughts so that we may see and follow God’s Goodness. The more we cultivate this activity, the more we see our divine right as the children of Good the more we are freed from the false claims of evil, lack, sickness, disease and death. The more time we waste in believing in and perpetuating the lies of error, evil, the constant false claims of an evil bad, the more our lives are drug in the mire of these lies. Our freedom comes from the stand on the side of Good.

As the children and heirs to the Christ we must spend our every moment magnifying the grace of God, the Truth of Life and its abundant Good. If we do not do this we are as the Prodigal Son eating the husks the swine eat and groveling in the dirt of life. What a waste of time!

It is like when Jesus asked the toiling fishermen (his disciples who had returned to their old ways after his crucifixion) if they had caught anything in their nets. “Jesus saith unto them, Children, have ye any meat?  They answered him, No. And he said unto them, Cast the net on the right side of the ship, and ye shall find.  They cast therefore, and now they were not able to draw it for the multitude of fishes.”³

Jesus’ healing works constantly shined the light of Truth upon all discord, sickness, disease and death and revealed the power of Good, God. He didn’t have anything good to say about or to evil. He abolished it and taught his followers to do the same.

When we take the side of Good we too heal the discords, pains, fears, sicknesses, and sins that the devil throws at mankind. It is powerless in the presence of Good. But the importance of magnifying Good, realizing Good, sustaining and maintaining the divine Goodness of God in our thoughts cannot be stressed enough. The praise of Good and the life lived expressing Good is man’s purpose, work, and joy. The reward through the strife is the joy of seeing man’s constancy in the Allness of God’s precious Love for all mankind and His salvation from all evil.

When we’re tempted by the long nights of strife and the confusions of the day, let us take our firm stand on the side of Good. Let us see that we are the heirs with the Christ, that our Creator is the God of All Good. Let us beat down the temptations of evil, sin, bad feelings, anger, resentments, and fear, with the trust that Good, God, is the victor over every evil claim. Let us rejoice that we are the children of Good and honor Him by constantly fighting for the side of Good.

Gentle hugs

1 Miscellaneous Writings by Mary Baker Eddy page 104 starting on line 30 to n.p.

2 Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy page 339 lines 7-10
3 The King James Version of The Holy Bible John 21 vss. 5, 6

Fear is a bully

 If you turned fear into a person it would always be a fearful, trembling, afraid, worried, concerned, dark, doubtful person of gloom and doom. Simply stated, the identity of fear is fear. Fear is simply and totally the activity of fear. Fear is afraid. When one falls for fear they find they are in the midst of a bully that grows every step of the way. A bully that has no facts or divine Truth, but is always making statements of fearful what ifs and maybes. Fear is always just fear. To be afraid, fearful, deeply concerned and worried, one must agree with the bully, fall for the bully’s threats, and fear fear.

But if one turns on fear with the light of Truth, God’s goodness and allness, then fear disappears, runs away, leaves. You see, God, Truth, is All Good, all Power. There is nothing that fear can attach itself to or make afraid in God. Truth, God, is never afraid.  With no inkling of fear or darkness in God’s Truth, there is no place for fear to attach itself to, bully, or companion with. Why? Because fear is the barer of bad, the scream of doom and gloom, the terror of future non-events, but God, on the other hand, is the all-knowing, all-wise, all-expressing Good. God has no darkness, no doubt, no fear. Therefore there is no place for fear to have a foothold or claim in the reality of God, Good. God, Good, is the eternal, infinite, forever Good. Fear then has to be the infinite nothingness of nothing. A bully of nothing is no power, no bully, nothing to fear.

Man, God’s reflection, the ray of His Truth and Love, cannot actually be afraid if he knows who and what he is as God’s perfect offspring. It is a lack of trust and understanding of the who and what he eternally is that attracts fear. A lack of understanding attracts doubt, concern and then a full blown case of fear. But when one learns about their true identity as a child of God, this light of Truth removes all fear.

God is Love. He is all Love. Everything God does, gives, expresses is through Love. If man understood Love and not just love, he would understand the constancy, power, and ever-presence of Love. When he thinks of Love as love, it is ‘ify’ at best and downright disappointing at the worst. But when he learns that Love is God, ever-present, powerful, good, divine, eternal, then he can let go of his dependence upon and dissatisfaction in the false mortal views of love.

Love heals, Love reveals, Love guides, Love protects, Love embraces eternally and continually. Love never lets man down, never fails, never leaves. Love is as constant as the light of the sun day and night. Love is Love. It grows, gives, rejoices and makes happy.

In the Bible we are told, “Be not afraid of sudden fear, neither of the desolation of the wicked, when it cometh. For the Lord shall be thy confidence, and shall keep thy foot from being taken.”¹

The sudden fears that make our system jump, the sweat of the unknown, the trouble and concern can be cured by and through understanding, confidence in the all-knowing, all-wise God. Then when understanding of how to do something is revealed fear of any given situation no longer terrorizes. With understanding also comes trust, trust in and the leaning upon that understanding. God is Mind. When we understand Mind, turn to Mind, and lean upon Mind, we receive all the answers that we need.  These answers are perfect and useful. This removes fear.

Paul stated to his disciples, “…my beloved, as ye have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling. For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure. Do all things without murmurings and disputings:”²

 Paul was turning his disciples and followers to God instead of to himself. We too must learn to go to God for all things and not to people, groups, family, parents, or friends. They can be so sweet and useful but they are not the All-knowing God.

Mary Baker Eddy, the discoverer and founder of Christian Science puts it this way, “‘Work out your own salvation with fear and trembling’ says the apostle, and he straightway adds: ‘for it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of His good pleasure’ (Philippians ii. 12, 13). Truth has furnished the key to the kingdom, and with this key Christian Science has opened the door of the human understanding. None may pick the lock nor enter by some other door. The ordinary teachings are material and not spiritual. Christian Science teaches only that which is spiritual and divine, and not human. Christian Science is unerring and Divine; the human sense of things errs because it is human.”³

Those loved ones or groups that offer help are ‘the human sense of things’ which sometimes is so off base that it leads us further away from God and further away from the Truth, the answer to our problems.

What we need is more faith in the divine. A false sense of faith in persons or the bullying fearful tactics of the tempter leads us further from Divine Mind. But this higher sense of faith in God isn’t blind but through a better understanding of God. A clearer view of what God is and what God is doing frees us from the uselessness of fear, based upon doubt and a lack of knowledge.

When we turn to God, Truth, we see with clarity and understanding how to do every duty that comes to us. The light of Truth dispels fear. It brings to light the reality of any given situation. This light removes the dark ominous threat of fear and reveals ability, God’s ability. So when are afraid, all we need is this Light of Truth to reveal to us the reality of any given situation. This Truth is God’s omnipotent, omniscient, omnipresent control.

To turn to, love, embrace, and trust Truth, God, gives us strength each task along the way. It gives us the power to handle the fears and doubts that try to stymie us. By loving Love, understanding Love and its availability and ability we become free from the fears that try to paralyze us.  By turning to Mind, knowing that it is the all-knowing and wise, we are freely given the answer that we need. Practice in this line of trust makes us forever less fearful. Understanding, trust and love frees us from all fear.

We are told, “Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world…Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment: because as he is, so are we in this world. There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love. We love him, because he first loved us.”⁴

Friends, fear not, only love Love. God loves us, is revealing to us, is embracing us in His wisdom and goodness. He has all the answers for us. Fear has nothing to give to us. But loving Love brings all to us. Let us trust the all-knowing Mind and be free.

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1 The King James Version of The Holy Bible Proverbs 3 vss. 25, 26
2 ibid Philippians 2 vss. 12-14
3 Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures page 99 line 6
4 The King James Version of The Holy Bible I John 4 vss. 1, 17-19