Category: From Pam

Have you ever felt that a solution to a problem is just out of reach, somewhere just outside of your grasp?

Answers to our needs come when we begin to quiet our worries, stop the frantic, and simply expect good. Present good present now! Never withheld. Never unavailable to us. But right here, right now. Our all-good God is simply all there is, loving Her all-good creation. Each and every one. And that includes you!

Quieting thought, we expect answers. We listen with a calm that releases judgment, doubt, worry, concern. A divine sense overtakes those fears. Instead, this sense of the presence of God, all-good, divine Love, really does flood thought. Uplifts, guides, directs, supports, sustains.

We shift away from the daily digest on the plate of materiality.

Every answer that our heart needs, every relationship or financial discovery we require for harmony, will be found as we suspend the endless search for some solution outside our own ability of discovery.

Our spiritual inspiration impels us to give all our desire to understanding God and Her universe, to know and understand that it is good, purely spiritual, and that all good is ever available to each and everyone. Each one can feel God’s presence, loved, cherished, and cared for.

The less I look for that often unreliable outside fix, the more certain I am that right here in my thought I will find an intuition, insight, direction, or step I need to take. A healing truth brings me confidence I have what I need for healing. My answer often tiptoes in. Sometimes almost unseen. Then there’s light! And what fun that is.

Christ Jesus lived every detail of his life based on the understanding that the divine source is ever available, always present. It is the divine law of Life which is immediately good, immediately harmonious.

His view wasn’t about an outside “fix” Rather, deep within, he had the understanding and spiritual conviction of the absolute presence of the divine source of each and everyone. Healing is as available to us today as it was in the time of Christ Jesus. He recognized that there is no “out there out there.”

Even a glimpse that the eternal governing Principle of our lives is Love gives us a view that we can expect harmony and will see it in our experiences, in our lives, in our homes, in our world.

As we gain the understanding of what is available to us through our deep tender love for God, and the recognition of God’s love for His beautiful whole complete creation, we can and should always expect good.

Do you?

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Choose Life over loss.
Choose Truth over any lie.
Choose right over wrong.

Find health instead of sickness.
Find joy instead of sadness.
(It’s here, right here.)

Choose trust instead of fear.
Choose Love instead of judgment.
Choose strength instead pf weariness.

Choose the real of Spirit instead of unintelligent matter.

Your true spiritual sense
knows the real. And so knows what is unreal.

Know thar you know!

With each thought, you choose.

You find and choose the real.

Thought yields. You’re healed.

How funny would it be if, every morning, instead of  getting up and looking out through your own windows to see the views, instead you ran over to your neighbors’ house, and looked out through their windows?

Sounds funny, but often we are doing just that when we choose to let other’s views  color our own, without careful consideration. Perhaps we find ourselves thinking or acting in ways that really are not in line with our own natural spiritual inclination, or inspiration, or with what we know is truly right or best for us. This can simply darken our own joy for living, misdirect our decisions, make us afraid, insecure,  or even affect our ethical choices. Mary Baker Eddy alerts us to “being influenced erroneously” in the Rule for Motives and Acts” *

This can be a temptation in small ways and very significant ways. Have you ever bought something just because the ad told you to?! (Never!) The first time I ever went to Costco (then Price Club) with a friend, I put everything in my basket that she put in her basket until I realized I didn’t need a new sewing machine! Caught myself!

Have you ever held an opinion that you really didn’t consider completely? Have you ever felt you lacked something or were limited because “the world” told you that you didn’t have enough or weren’t good enough? Or educated enough? Or loved enough?

Here is wonderful guidance for being sure we are looking through the windows that Love is giving each of us. J.B. Phillips, an English minister, gave this, from Paul in Romans, to his young congregation who felt they didn’t understand the traditional Bible.**

“Don’t let the world around you squeeze you into its own mould, but let God re-mould your minds from within, so that you may prove in practice that the plan of God for you is good, meets all his demands and moves towards the goal of true maturity.” J.B. Phillips’ famous translation of Roman 12:2.

We each have our own unique place and relationship with our source, our Father-Mother God.  Divine Mind, divine Love is our guide, our protector, our provider.

We should really check to see whose house we are in when we look out someone else’s windows!

Resolved: I am valuable and can trust the views from my own windows!

Any thoughts???

* Church Manual p. 10

** Phillips wrote it in bomb shelters durng the London Blitz, WW [[.

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