Month: October 2016

It’s never too late to get it right, to love as God loves. When we care deeply for others, there are so many views of what love should look like.

If you are a parent, or one involved in a role of parenting, almost automatically comes the thought that you are completely responsible for the child, now and forever! When a child appears on the scene, most often it is quickly seen as “my child.” The parent will naturally feel great love for the child, but that might also include heavy responsibility or fear. Perhaps as a parent, we might even be tempted to feel helpless in how our human relationships develop.

Bringing a spiritual vantage point will free us to see relationships through fresh views.  Our deep love for one another identifies each individual with God, who is man’s life. God is, and always has been, the only Creator of the universe, inclusive of man. Individual man, not being mortal or material, but wholly spiritual, has always, only, had that real, true, right relationship which governs all other relationships. Christian Science establishes our understanding of man forever one with his Father-Mother God.

Our guidance comes with Christ Jesus, who gave us the model for his own prayer, “Our Father which art in heaven.” And the spiritual interpretation of the prayer, in Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mrs. Eddy, further defines the one Parent, “Our Father-Mother God, all-harmonious.” P . 16.

This establishes each one as one with his true Parent, forever, always, now. It’s never too late to see each relationship already in its proper place, each individual already one with his true Father-Mother. Being one with God, Spirit, eliminates all other options. Fear and false responsibility yield to trust in God’s omnipotent, ever-present care, provision and protection.

Our understanding of God’s love for His children, His precious ideas, never fails to be effective in our healing work, for others as well as for ourselves. Our understanding that each one whom we love, or for whom we seem responsible, is already, right now, and permanently unvaryingly inseparable from his Creator, his true Parent.

This oneness is permanent, actually eternal. Therefore, each one that you and I love so dearly, but for whom we may feel concern, in our prayer and thought with confidence give him or her, or them! to God. The oneness of God, Spirit, and man, spiritual, is the best news for everyone! This being already true, it is a simple, prayerful acknowledgment of spiritual fact.

Can we see how working from this wonderful vantage point trusts these dear children, and ourselves, and all children, to Love’s care! No one left out. This trusts their care to God, our care to God. Each and every one beautifully complete.

And as the present is God-governed, then that which we call the future, for each and every one, is God-governed as well.  Let’s know that for those we know and love, and those we may not know, yet still love, as God’s beloved children.

Start and stay here with God!  The safe place now and then.

Yesterday, talking with a friend about her many travels in the US and in Europe, I commented that she mist see so much beauty. Her answer was lovely.

She said, “Before I look for beauty around me, I must say, first I see God.” And she smiled with an understanding of what that means. It has made me ask, what does it mean to see God. How do I see God? Because when that is the first thing we see in our day,- what a glorious day it will then be.

And the first thought is that one who sees God sees through completely pure sight. “Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.” The pure in heart see Spirit through spiritual understanding. His thoughts are pure. His views unobstructed by material sense, limitation, worry, opinion, or fear. His love for God and his desire to “see God” is the most important focus, not just of his day, but of his life.

We will never see God by viewing matter or material sense, or by being more interested in material analysis of world conditions than we are in the truth of Life and Love.

We will never see God by focusing on matter and being afraid of its so-called intelligence. For good or bad, matter is always, and forever will be, lifeless, mindless. No matter how tempting it is to check our technology, this will never allow us to love God more, or more deeply understand the profoundly beautiful nature of the universe, created as it is by the all-loving omnipotent Principle, Love, which holds all perfectly, divinely, within its own creation. And knows each detail as one with order and beauty, with Life in and of Spirit.

Mrs. Eddy, like St John, saw the universe in its perfect depict because she saw only God. The revelation of divine Science came to her because of her deep love for, and dedication to, seeing God, and knowing God to be All, here and now, seen purely through true spiritual vision.

She writes of this in Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, “This kingdom of God “is within you,” — is within reach of man’s consciousness here, and the spiritual idea reveals it. In divine Science, man possesses this recognition of harmony consciously in proportion to his understanding of God.” P. 575.

As we see God, we see all beauty and life and love as sourced in, and forever one with, God, divine Love, divine Principle. Through the deep study of God as we learn in Christian Science, we are given the means to life lived with God’s all-good government present and available to men, to man, to you and I, today right here, each day, right now. The choice is ours as to what and how we choose to see, Spirit or matter, the real or the unreal. The Bible is clear: “Choose ye this day whom ye will serve” (Joshua 24:15). One view is real and heals, the other isn’t and doesn’t.

Do you see God? Of course you do. “The purification of sense and self is a proof of progress. “Blessed are the pure in heart for they shall see God!” P.323.

Remember, too, that God, so pure, sees only His perfect pure, beautiful creation, you!