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