Connections | Sharing Spiritual Ideas that heal

By Kit 🌹

These two poems are a couple of my morning moments. This morning was the lovely thought that God will keep telling me the lovely truths of her nature, and it is not as if She tells me until “I get it”. She tells me a truth and I get it, but then She tells me again and I get it even better.  😘

God’s Dictionary 

Open the book
​     and read
​​          God’s dictionary.

Look!
​     There you are!
​     Just as Love
​​          wrote you down.

Read out loud what She says.

“Perfect child,​
​     acting only as My reflection.
Amazing, Exceptional, Wonderful
​     expression of Me, Truth.
Crystalized by Principle,​
​     My law,
​​          into unique dynamic form,
​​Soul inspired.
Always intelligent as I, infinite Mind, am,
​     the source of all
​and knowing all.
That whom I cherish.
That whom I bless.
Hidden under My, Love’s, wings,
​     and shining bright
​​          in My infinity.”

God’s Voice

God gently tells me,

“I love you.
I have always loved you for I created you
my beautiful child.
You are made of the stuff of Love and Life.
You are wonderful
because I am wonderful.
And I sent and am sending
my tender loving healing Christ to you
and all.
Jesus told you.
It is all explained.
You have heard me.

I will tell you again
and you will hear me again but it will seem new.
And I will tell you again
and it will seem fresh.
And I will tell you again
and the light of Truth will shine in your thought.
And I will tell you again
and It will be glorious.
And
I will tell you again.

I am Love.”

From Jennifer 🌹

I have been working with some of the wise and remarkable concepts found in Living Love, Learning of Universal Harmony! by Pam DeBolt.

Here are two short paragraphs I have been using to keep me on track:  (shared with Pam’s permission).

What does Love, lived, do?

Living Love as purely as we are able, our views of life will change. Seeing as God sees, knowing what God knows, we focus more clearly on the right. We discern appropriate prayerful responses and  solutions to apparent wrongs. 

 Loving as God loves, we live kindness, grace, and compassion. Beholding the real where the unreal might appear, we will expect to find harmony. 

p. 8

By Dyan Wingard, CS ♥️

This year’s Association assignment has enabled me to look at the foundation of my life as a Christian Scientist. The weekly study of the platform, in Science & Health, pages 330-340 has enabled a deeper exploration and dedication to the Principle and practice of Christian Science. Like our great Master, we have a spiritual agreement with God. “He expressed the highest type of divinity,…Thus it is that Christ illustrates the coincidence, or spiritual agreement, between God and man in His image.” S&H 332:29-2

Why Christian Science? This a question that I posed to my mother when I was a very small child. I love the answer she shared with me: “because it provides an open connection to God for you to know everything you ever wanted to know about Life.”

That moment became the starting point for my own personal journey in establishing my “open connection” with God. I have always loved getting quiet and listening to messages from God. As a young child, I would talk with God just like I was talking to another person. I easily recognized God’s voice and His Love for me. I knew and continue to know that my connection to God is always present (anytime and anywhere). Truth is always louder, clearer, and more mighty than any false material suggestion. There is nothing more important to me than what God knows and reveals to me as His eternal divine nature.

Christian Science has provided the path for me to grow spiritually through a deepened and pure understanding of the Christ. Growing up in the Christian Science Sunday School, I remember being drawn to a large portrait of Daniel in the Lion’s Den in the youngest Sunday School class, where Daniel stood looking out the window with the light illumining all around him and the lions are laying calmly behind him in the den. What did it take for Daniel to get to the point where he could trust God completely in the face of such great danger? Could I ever reach this level of spiritual demonstration in my own life? Prayer and fasting. That was the command that we were given by Jesus. Prayer in acknowledgment of our perfection as the natural and pure expression of the Christ Science and fasting by watching what we are taking in and holding in consciousness as the reality of true spiritual being.

God, our divine Comforter, became my personal Comforter when I was about 10 years old. At the time, my knee would give out sporadically and without warning. My mom took me to the doctor to have my knee examined and the X-ray came back showing that I had water on the knee. The doctor said that they could remove the excess fluid by draining it with a needle—but the fluid would eventually build back up. He said that it would be an ongoing process—and could only be managed through taking pills. This did not sit well with me at all. I was not going to let a material matter-based knee be in control of my movement or lack thereof. So, I did what I had always been taught to do by my mom and in Sunday School—I prayed. I prayed to God every day asking him to give me the same courage that he gave Daniel to face down the lions in the lion den. I prayed knowing that I was upheld by God’s love and that he was holding me firmly in His arms as his beloved daughter.

One day, after experiencing a lot of discomfort in my knee, I sat in my room and poured my heart out to God. I reminded God that he promised to protect and guide me and to keep me safe in every situation. Wasn’t I worthy of the same love and compassion that he showed Daniel? What happened next…I felt divinely inspired to walk across the room. I was afraid of falling down again—so I hesitated. But, the thought came again—“get up, and walk across the room.” I knew this was God speaking to me through my prayer—so I was obedient and started to walk across the room. It felt like someone was carrying me across the room. There was no pain or discomfort. That false picture had no choice but to give way to the clearer understanding that I now had of myself. My connection to God was intact and so was everything else about me. I was completely healed! I ran to tell my mom and she was so happy to celebrate this healing with me.

This is why Christian Science.

From Mali 🌸

I am just loving Pam’s assignment for this year and would like to thank her for the time, prayer, and thoughtful consideration I know she put into the selections.

One morning last week I reread Cause and Effect and got such a fresh, clear understanding of what Christian Science is. Later that evening I was at a community meeting and ran into a friend who had expressed an interest is CS. When she asked me what I had been doing that day I told her I had been doing some prayerful work for my dog who had a little mishap the day before. She wanted to know what “prayerful work” meant. I was able to give her a simple and concise explanation of what Christian Science is and does and how I was putting it to work in my life for my dog.

In the past I have been rather hesitant about explaining CS, but on this day I felt confident and grateful to be able to speak with some authority.

From Mali

So happy Spring has come to replace this picture of my house just a few weeks ago!

From Duffy 🌸

In thinking about what UNIVERSAL HARMONY means these two words are becoming more powerful!

UNIVERSAL: Worldwide, entire, broad, common, comprehensive, extensive, global, prevalent, ubiquitous, unlimited, whole, all-embracing, all-inclusive, ecumenical, widespread, unrestricted

HARMONY: conformity, cooperation, friendship, good will, kinship, peace, tranquility, understanding, unity, affinity, amicability, compatibility, empathy, accord

Worldwide cooperation
Comprehensive good will
Extensive kinship
Unlimited tranquility
Ubiquitous affinity
All-embracing understanding
All-inclusive peace
Widespread friendship
Unrestricted compatibility
Global unity
Prevalent amicability
Ecumenical empathy
Broad accord

Imagine! If all people lived these, every day, what the world would look like. Am I willing to express these powerful qualities on a daily basis? Express them in all that I do and how I move through the world – moment by moment. In doing so I express God to the nth degree, constantly devoting myself to Love.

From Cindy 🌷

Thank you, Pam, for such an inspiring letter.

Expectation of good, of seeing God’s harmony everywhere in action is steady prayer. And, I propose we use this forum to tackle the questions Pam has proposed. Maybe we talk about one question per week?

I’ll start with the first question: “Are you prepared and willing to recognize universal harmony?” At first glance, I thought, “Sure, of course, why not?” God is all, and all good. Theoretically, I was totally onboard with being prepared and willing. Then, my horse stopped eating and wasn’t feeling well. For a while I was caught up in trying to get her to eat, walking her, and other things. Then, the thought came, “Am I willing to expect good?” And, “Am I listening to our Leader, caring more for what God knows and provides than to continually fear what we have been told to fear?”

Those thoughts stopped me in my tracks, and I recognized the need to trust God as the source of my horse’s being. I stopped watching for material signs of normalcy, and left for home, trusting and expecting good. The expectancy of good took away the hypnotic watching of matter and freed my horse to eat and feel better. The next morning I received the cheery report that she was doing well.

That expectancy of good opened my thought to listen for God’s voice and prepared me for what was next.

Several times the thought came that I should go to the Toyota dealership. I kept shoving the thought aside until I recognized it as God’s voice. I went to have my snow tires removed, or so I thought. When the mechanics started looking at the car for the point inspection, they found that my rather low mileage car had a serious head gasket leak, which could have resulted in a dangerous problem on the road.

While grateful for the protection, I wasn’t too happy with the cost and inconvenience, but then…what was I expecting? The expectation thought drifted through my thinking, and just as it had, the general manager of the dealership introduced himself and stated he was sorry for the seldom heard of head gasket issue, and wanted to help me in any way he could. He said he would work with me to get it repaired if that was my wish, or offered me a new car at cost from his fleet with a very low interest rate.

Was I willing and prepared to recognize this harmony? I went to a quiet place to listen, and it seemed right to accept the offer for the new car. The whole transaction was gently shepherded and I felt such sense of the blessing of God in every facet of our lives.

I also found out just as this transaction was beginning that my daughter, who was driving from Sacramento over Echo Summit to South Lake Tahoe, had been a few cars behind several that had been caught in an avalanche. She was protected and those in the avalanche came out unscathed.

So grateful for this letter and all the lessons it is bringing!!