Let’s think of God as the ocean in which tankers, sailing boats, kayaks, etc. are held up: And we too can float on the water when we relax and feel supported. Then we can swim and move about safely.
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This recording begins with organ music.
At 9:50 minutes the testimony meeting begins.
It consists of hymns, readings from the Bible, and Science and Health with key to the Scriptures, and is followed by testimonies.
Inclusiveness. Forgetting herself and thinking of her brother focuses thought for this little one entering the classroom on her first day of school fills her thought with joy. No thought of self here. Ruth Smith
Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 248:29
In different ages the divine idea assumes different forms, according to humanity’s needs. In this age it assumes, more intelligently than ever before, the form of Christian healing. This is the babe we are to cherish. This is the babe that twines its loving arms about the neck of omnipotence, and calls forth infinite care from His loving heart.
(Miscellaneous Writings 1883–1896, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 370:12)
THY BIRTHRIGHT by MILDRED SPRING CASE
From the September 1926 issue of The Christian Science Journal
Trust in the LORD, and do good; so shalt thou dwell in the land, and verily thou shalt be fed.
(Psalms 37:3)
Question. — Is there more than one God or Principle?
Answer. — There is not. Principle and its idea is one, and this one is God, omnipotent, omniscient, and omnipresent Being, and His reflection is man and the universe.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, pp. 465:16–1)
To fear sin is to misunderstand the power of Love and the divine Science of being in man’s relation to God, — to doubt His government and distrust His omnipotent care.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 231:21–25)
All things work together for good.
as when you put Good, another word for God, who controls all things you see it altogether through another lens. Possibilities come and sort your thoughts out away from panic to feeling rest…. assured that something good is really going on and will the the ultimate outcome.
This is why the Bible passage reads in full:
“…we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.”
(Romans 8:28)
Every good thought and deed helps us to understand how Jesus got close to God and what it did for those around him. [It healed them]
Goodness attains the demonstration of Truth.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 2:16–17)
Ephesians 6:11
(The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 210:7)
How often do we get up in the morning and feel we have to “do” something, initiate or instigate a project? *
How different would our day be if we started off by turning to God? Here is a poem to help.
“I am the place where God shines through,
For He and I are one, not two.
He wants me where, and as I am,
I need not fret, nor fear, nor plan.
If I will be relaxed and free
He'll carry out his work through me.”
With this view, we respond to God’s will and not our own.
Many of us feel very much like Jonah having been given an assignment just cannot face up to it ever or even just on a specific day and decide we’ll do something else as we cannot possibly do it!
But we find instead it’s impossible to run away from ourselves!! We are who we are…and have to move forward.
We feel swallowed up by “a whale” of issues. Jonah felt the same and literally was thrown overboard by his fellow travellers who were being tossed about on a tumultuous sea…perhaps no co-incidence; an outward occurrence of what was happening in the life of many back on land where Jonah was told that he needed to settle the worshipping of false idols which was upsetting the lives of the inhabitants of Nineveh.
So often when we start fawning*, feeling cowardly about what is right to do, we avoid listening to the positive word of God, going about our affairs in a mixed-up way. We just mess up and jog along hoping things will sort themselves out.
But God is there like he was with Jonah with the Whale ready to swallow us up and spit us out sorted out and in one piece…. incredible really!
I was walking out of a well-attended concert in London recently with hundreds of people walking down the road to the underground station and noticed that they were all walking singly, each to his own to get home.
So, each one had made the effort to meet up to hear the beautiful and sweet Oratorio taking home the tunes they had just heard, and it reminded me of this poem, which has helped me many times, perhaps when feeling very lonely.
Love your God given qualities in order to fulfill your unique potential.
When we play the harp strings of our heart we feel harmony in our life.
This enables us to be aware of the next move without willing it.
Like David.
David, the shepherd boy who became King lived his Love of God, played the harp strings of his Soul and this resonated with all who loved goodness and defeated everything antagonistic to it.
Mesmerized by emotion.
Insecurity
Obedience to the Christ-like way of thinking.
Security
ALL we really want is an e a s y life Yes? . . . a smooth way to proceed and here's Isaiah saying . . . No problems . . . leave it to God . . . crazy . . . yes?
But think about it . . . as he made us . . . he knows us . . . knows what's best for us as he is governing, caring for us and guiding us! He knows us inside out!
Perhaps we'd better listen . . . [to our 'gut' feeling]
It's preparing a highway [a fast route] to Home [heaven].
So isn’t it by accentuating our good thoughts that we ‘see’ the right path?
Read what the prophet Isaiah says God wants us to do as it was He who made us!
Christ Jesus
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“. . . C.B. Morlock, a war correspondent during World War II, chronicled this amazing incident: “Sixty German aircraft strafed more than four hundred men who were pinned down on the sandy Dunkirk beaches without the benefit of any place to take cover. Although the men were repeatedly attacked by machine guns and bombed by enemy aircraft, not one single man was hit. Every man in that group left the beach without a scratch.”
What brought about such amazing protection? Morlock said he’d been personally told by Navy men who picked up those particular survivors from Dunkirk, that the men had shouted Psalm 91 [He that dwelleth in the secret place of the most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty] at the top of their lungs!"
It's easy to think lovingly of ourselves when our spiritual side comes into focus.
Thinking of our spiritual qualities of goodness, being bountiful and bounteous, kind, bighearted; fulsome, soft-hearted, lenient, considerate, tolerant, humane, understanding, sympathetic, liberal, helpful, obliging, openhanded, unselfish, unsparing, mild, humane, unstinting, compassionate, warm-hearted, tender, merciful, accommodating, aimiable, helpful, agreeable, easy-to-please, good-natured, well-disposed, friendly, well meaning, well-intentioned, good.
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[John 8]
Old and new.... there's room for every shape and size in God's kingdom! The one Mind creates all things we just catch the vision.... and just have to fit it all in.
Wherever we are we can bring to events something worthwhile just by being there [reflecting/shining, God's goodness].... offering our talents or even perhaps just by being calm and happy; not demanding in any way. Like a ripple when a stone is thrown in a lake a good thought for someone can reach a far shore!
Renewal is about God's creative and regenerating power, The Christ, the light, which brought the world into being and continually keeps unfolding and refreshing all life. And when we need to accomplish something good, we need to apprehend a bigger picture more than apply our our own personal merits to accomplish wonderful, worthwhile things. So listening to God brings the new Christ view of Love and uplift, to do it!
Your happiness is as inevitable as the aroma of this Lily!
Here's a quote from Science and Health: "Mind, God, sends forth the aroma of Spirit, the atmosphere of intelligence." And it goes on to say, the result of this can rule out what the physical senses tell us.
“Moral and spiritual might belong to Spirit, who holds the “wind in His fists;…” SH 192
To drive a sailing boat forward the wind has to be held in the sail by the helmsman with one hand and gradually he lowers the keel with the other hand to provide the resistance; this connection drives it forward; stops the boat from just skidding round.
No use idly sitting on the bank resting if you have a boat, or a problem for that matter! We use the tools that are given to us to provide momentum. And like flying a kite it is effortless. The skin of the kite provides a catchment area but this has to be anchored in order to harness the power… You have to feel the connection; if the connection becomes lax, its free-will just takes over, and it goes willy nilly, falls and crashes.
We need to take up our connection, to the Principle of all things, for our lives to make progress. This is the best freedom we can have. Freedom from self destructive selfishness and will power [see this week’s Quarterly Bible Lesson] and it can be found by taking up our search for the Kingdom of Heaven and putting
it first.
"I have often had a desire to make public what Christian Science has done for me, but I never could tell of all my blessings, they are so many. From childhood I was always sick, never knew one hour of rest, and was under the doctor’s care most of the time. I was living in the East at that time, and was advised to try change of climate, which I did. I came West with my family in the spring of the year, but instead of growing better I grew steadily worse, until at last I was obliged to keep my bed for nearly three years, — a great sufferer. My ailments were, it seemed, all that flesh is heir to, and were called incurable by the doctors; viz., Bright’s disease, and many others, — in the last stages. My case was known among physicians, many of whom were prominent specialists, as a most extreme one. Many, upon looking at me, would turn away with a wise shake of the head and say, “What keeps her alive?” My physicians, who were exceedingly kind and did all that lay within their power for me, gave me up and the death sentence was pronounced on me by all who attended me.
It was then I realized that “man’s extremity is God’s opportunity.” The “little book” was handed me at this hour of great need. I read it, not thinking it would heal me, but, like a drowning man, I grasped at it. I read it, read it again, and soon found myself growing stronger; then I kept on reading and was perfectly healed of all the supposedly incurable diseases. — L. B., Austin, Minn."
Science and Health by Mary Baker Eddy page 633.
ISBN 978-0-87952-436-4
Angels. God’s thoughts passing to man; spiritual intuitions, pure and perfect; the inspiration of goodness, purity, and immortality, counteracting all evil, sensuality, and mortality.
Science and Health by Mary Baker Eddy, page 581:4
