Don’t focus on matter!

I know that’s tricky! But consider the facts: honestly, how much intelligence does your car have? Do you ask it how it is or how it feels? Hope not.

Yet it looks like there is literally tons of intelligence that make up the computers in there. But the intelligence isn’t in the matter, or material components,- it’s the expression of the intelligent design that originates and forever remains as an idea. Your car is the expression of an intelligent idea. No intelligence in the matter. A good idea expressed. We think we see it as matter, but it is always, forever, an idea in consciousness.

Think of Mary Baker Eddy’s seminal statement in Science and Health that sets the instruction for understanding our way out of focusing on matter. “There is no life, truth, intelligence, nor substance in matter.” What a courageous statement of reality. Not leaving us to think long about what we should focus on, she next absolutely clearly explains, “All is infinite Mind and its infinite manifestation for God is All-in-all.”* Further, she defines God, divine Mind, as Spirit. Then Spirit, not matter, must be our right focus.

Every real true spiritual healing that has ever taken place through the study of Christian Science has, in some measure, turned from interest in, fascination with, or fear of, matter.

I guarantee that so long as we are drawn into checking matter bodies, or matter finances, or material conditions, our necessary focus, our great love and dedication will never be God who is Spirit. And because we are drawn down into material gullies (well worn trenches deep in earth), we’ll never love Spirit or understand spiritual reality, or see the effects of loving and trusting God, who is Love.

Small, to me significant healing to this point. When our very cute son was about four years old, he had a severe painful earache. I was very afraid of earaches for my children. As he cried in pain, I did everything i knew to comfort him, but nothing was helping. After a few minutes of trying to fix the matter, I took my Bible, sat on the floor in the bathroom across the hall from his room, and read the Psalms. (I had never done just that simple thing before.) But I became so close to God while I read, and felt such love for God, and care from God, that I lost all sense of fear for our son. About twenty minutes later, I became conscious that there was no more crying. I went to his room to find him sound asleep, and there was never another earache in our home.

No fixing or focusing on impotent matter. Focusing on Spirit, God,- and feeling all there is is God, good, – gets our focus right. And healing is the effect.

Try it, you’ll like it!

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