Do you want to see improvement in some aspect of your life?
Perhaps business activity is down, family relations are rough, loneliness looms, health issues agitate?
Whatever the trouble is, for change to occur thought must change. Wherever thought leads, experience follows. But for there to be a genuine and real change in experience, there has to be a change in thought.
It’s an interesting phenomenon to observe in the human mind. Oftentimes people want change in their lives, but wait on time for the changes to occur rather than metaphysically digging into the truth of being and making those changes occur by getting their thought into a better position.
It’s like a business facing a declining customer base waiting for time to pass for more customers to come. Time doesn’t bring customers. Demonstrated value, worth, merit, and usefulness draw attention to a business and bring more customers.
Everything we need to live a life full of joy, happiness, substance, and love comes directly from God. It does not come from time, place, person or money.
So, when our condition looks bleak or disappointing, the cure is not going to come from waiting around for something to change. Nothing may change at all, or conditions could worsen. The opportunity is to turn to God, get a better perspective, implement and act on that higher perspective, and make the changes occur. A higher view of Truth lifts the human experience to a better place.
Progress requires change, change in thought, perspective, outlook and expectation.
Mary Baker Eddy wrote, “Every step of progress is a step more spiritual” (Peo 1:2).
Take the necessary spiritual steps. Move! Advance! Progress! Change for the better will be yours.
I reached the exact same conclusion this morning about something in my life — no, in my thought — that’s time to say goodbye to. Thanks for the divinely timed missive!
I agree with Evan 100% Progress requires change. And in my case, I was able to change from feeling miserable to a happy go lucky guy. I am bedridden and I could easily feel sorry for myself, so instead I have been writing comments to many C/S Websites which lifts me out of despair. I feel no matter what the negative seems to be, not letting it get you down is progress 100 fold.
Tobias: Thank you for reaching out to us to cherish every step forward in our thinking which then supports outward progress. I too was bedridden for over a year. I had to learn to walk again, to tie shoes, hang clothes on hangers, I had to relearn everything. My healing came as my thought chose life over death, action over stagnation, gratitude for self pity, forgiveness and love over hate. Thank you Evan for a very helpful reminder that the ball is in our court…it’s up to us and not to outward circumstances. Mrs. Eddy wrote that ‘Jesus required neither cycles of time nor of thought in order to mature fitness for perfection and its possibilities.’ We simply surrender and humble the human sense of things in deference to the divine understanding. Your writings Evan, always further clarify and encourage us. Thanks for all you do, keep writing…….gratefully, Leah