Many different insights and inspirations have come to me over past months on how to pray constructively about the pandemic and to not let it adversely impact me, my family, or patients that call for help. Here’s another I found helpful.
God’s landscape has not changed.
I was wrestling with sensations of heaviness and fear pervasive in public consciousness, dire reports coming from the media, and many neighbors petrified about catching a virus. As I sought a metaphysical handle to eliminate the feeling of heaviness, I thought about dense fog in a familiar area. It occurred to me that fear and anxiety over the pandemic is like fog. It hasn’t changed anything of substance.
To explain, if dense fog settles into your neighborhood and you look out the window and can’t see beyond the fence of your yard, you don’t worry that your neighbors house has disappeared. You don’t fret over having no street to drive on if you back out of your driveway. You don’t get anxious about everything familiar and necessary to your existence suddenly disappearing. You know it’s all in the same place it has always been.
The same rule applies to living in God’s kingdom.
We are living in God’s kingdom now, and every good thing God has put in place to prosper and sustain us is still present. Nothing has changed between us and God.
The pandemic has not altered God’s landscape. A virus is no threat to our health coming from God. A dire economic report has not lessened the abundance of supply coming from God that prospers us.
Fears circulating around the pandemic is mental fog, not substance, and the truth of being dispels it.
So, let’s stay out of any mental fog! Let’s remember and rejoice in spiritual reality where God is in control causing everything to work together for good and taking care of us as always.
God’s landscape has not changed. The fog will lift, as it always does, and God’s good will be in the same place it’s always been—right here with us now.
Thank you Evan for this lovely uplifting message to start our week! It’s wonderful to read something so positive instead of all the negative messages being put out by the media etc. and with such a glorious picture to accompany it.
What a profound way to start the day Evan. Thank you and the picture is full of encouragement to expect good too!
‘God and his ideas..that is God and the universe, constitute all that exists’ MBE Unity of Good. And of course we can see the perfection of our experience shine through any ‘fog’ trying to invade our thought. You’ve given me a nudge in the right direction today.❣️
Just listened to today’s Daily Lift too. Wonderfully positive. Progress is the law of God!!
Wonderful Evan, just what I needed to hear today.”Entirely separate from the belief and dream of material living is the Life divine revealing spiritual understanding and the consciousness of man’s dominion over the whole earth.” (S&H p 25) comes to thought. Thank you, once again.
Thank you so much for this morning food for thought!. I’m reminded of hymn 148…
“.In heavenly Love abiding, no change my heart shall fear; and safe is such confiding,
for nothing changes here”. So grateful for SpiritView!
Wonderful reminder, thank you!!
Thank you, Evan, for feeding my heart and reminding me of my spiritual mission and abundance every time I read your Spirit Views.
Most encouraging – thank you Evan!
Evan your statement: “ Nothing has changed between us and God” really hit the nail on the head for me..
The mortal picture always has us as vulnerable to the actions or inactions of others..
Mrs. Eddy in describing Abraham says: “ This patriarch illustrated the purpose of Love to create trust in good, and showed the life-preserving power of spiritual understanding.” S&H 579:12f
Such a good insight, thanks. And Evan thanks for this and today’s so-encouraging Daily Lift.
Very helpful reminder that nothing has changed in God’s kingdom. Also, appreciated your Daily Lift today too.
Thank you so much Evan for reminding us of our “forever home” … I loved this very revealing quote from this week’s Lesson on Soul: Genesis 28:15-17 “And, behold, I am with thee, and will keep thee in all places whither though goest, and will bring thee again into this land; for I will not leave thee, until I have done that which I have spoken to thee of. And Jacob awaked out of his sleep, and he said, Surely the lord is in this place; and I knew it not.
this is none other but the house of God, and this is the gate of heaven.”
His awakened sense and recognition was the ‘gate of heaven’ …
Hymn 412:1
O dreamer, leave thy dreams for joyful waking, O captive, rise and sing, for thou art free; The Christ is here, all dreams of error breaking, Unloosing bonds of all captivity.
The title was perfect!
I love to garden. Removing weeds allows
free time outside.
I’m adding the landscape of Soul. My teacher said Soul is the art side of God expressing beauty.
Guess my mental landscape could use some
weeding.
Thanks!
And the Daily Lift perfect also.
The fog lifting is such a terrific analogy.
Thank you for putting things into prospective. If we seem to be hindered from living life to the fullest by the belief that some-thing “out there” can harm us, this thought can be lifted, just like the fog.
Each day your gift of Spiritview is a blessing.
Double blessing with The Daily Lift’s message that you provided for today. Thank you, thank you…
Thank you for the Double blessing this morning with Spiritview and your Daily Lift !
Oh, how mortal mind, the mind of mortals, tries to shield and disguise us from seeing the perfect landscape of God’s creating sometimes.
If we were in the days before technology blaring fear into thought, we would know nothing of this contagious fear and not be affected by it. But technology, like the internet and Spirit View’s… Spiritual view can positively help bring our thought into alignment with perfect harmony where mortal sense and fear are diminished into native nothingness, like fog being replaced with rays of light, Truth, and Love’s healing comfort shines through.
Wonderful Spiritview and Daily Lift today. Thank you! 🙂
“Whither shall I go from thy spirit? or whither shall I flee from thy presence?
If I ascend up into heaven, thou art there: if I make my bed in hell, behold, thou art there.
If I take the wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea;
Even there shall thy hand lead me, and thy right hand shall hold me.
If I say, Surely the darkness shall cover me; even the night shall be light about me.
Yea, the darkness hideth not from thee; but the night shineth as the day: the darkness and the light are both alike to thee.
Psalms 139:7-12
“How precious also are thy thoughts unto me, O God! how great is the sum of them!
If I should count them, they are more in number than the sand: when I awake, I am still with thee.”
Psalms 139:17-18
This reminder is very much on point as my area experienced fog this morning! I never worried that the horizon had somehow disappeared and that I’d need to pray to get it back!. What a refreshing thought about how to have confidence in God’s all present reality.
I dropped the blow dryer on my little toe
yesterday. Walking was difficult.
Last night I had a leg cramp and got up to walk
around and rammed my other foot into a piece of furniture.
Was concerned about walking my daughters dog
and mine.today.
But after posting about cleaning my mental
garden, within a short time all was well.
Thanks Evan for the landscape tip on true
gardening.
It’s a foggy morning here on the coast in Santa Barbara, Calif. To me the fog symbolizes the mortal material sense that sees not God,- a false sense,-and it must dissolve for us to apprehend true substance, immortality and Life. Christian Science reveals the light of spiritual understanding that penetrates the obscurity of earthly beliefs, revealing the kingdom of heaven here and now. What an unspeakable blessing to have this Science! Thank you Evan for today’s message and for your inspiring daily lift.
Either cower to suppositions/fears, or radiate Love !
Wake-up calls in this week’s Bible Lesson:
“Let us rejoice that we are subject to the divine ‘powers that be.’” (SH249:8)
“God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.” (IITim1:7)
“Rise in the strength of Spirit to resist all that is unlike good. God has made man capable of this, and nothing can vitiate the ability and power divinely bestowed on man.” (SH393:12)
Thank you, Angie, for the contributions from this week’s lesson, They were each very helpful. After an untimely wake up pre dawn, those thoughts which you included were expressed in allowing me to remain in repose until it was the time to wake up and demonstrate, the divine power, after knowing that God is all In All, and I had nothing to fear with the wake up. Calm, peace, pure rest was easy not difficult to regain. Such ability to let go and let God kept me awake and rested, well at the right time. Amidst a very busy agenda, I was able to spend a bit of an hour in the indoor pool as well. Totally unscheduled, but oh so refreshing. Lovely without the fog.
Thank you Evan. This is spot on!
This is so timely! We had dense fog last night and this morning and it seemed like it wouldn’t lift. When you are in the midst of it and can only see about 10-20 feet it feels like that is all there is and it feels very closed in. Then later in the morning the sun started to burn it off and all the colours in the distance started to appear revealing open space and beauty and as you say everything was of course where it had always been. Fog and lifting fog is a strong lesson for remembering God, good, Love is always present in our lives no matter what seems or claims to be. Thank you for your uplifting insight!
Kirsten,
My favorite Ps. Thank you.
This is a precious uplifting message. The sunshine of Truth displaces, dissolves the fog. God’s landscape hasn’t changed. Awesome!
Your message today on SpiritView is excellent and the comments that have followed cement your precious thoughts shared. I was so uplifted with your Daily Lift for today….presented with your wonderful enthusiastic voice and energy! “Keep Progressing” is a perfect thought and your ideas were terrific describing the “how” to do it! Thanks so much for your spiritual inspiration!
Thank you Evan for this wonderful insight as well as the Daily Lift this morning. I am so very grateful. Blessings to all today.
I live in Southern California. Years ago I lived close to a mountain range. One morning while driving on the highway I couldn’t even see a trace of the mountains and couldn’t believe it. I pulled over and continued to look very closely and nothing. Of course. I had no fear that something had happened to the mountains. Evan, youe message here and on the Daily Lift are so relative to me needs today!.
Much gratitude to you and everyone.
Thank you Evan and other contributors. What a joy and blessing to have so many truths so close in hand to fill that foggy space. Much gratitude.
Thank you Evan for teaching and reminding us and bringing our thinking back to the clear and healing truth of our being which is totally in God. Oh yes I am eager to stay out of any mental fog in order to see clearly my spiritual identity as God’s loved and cared for child. God gives us, yes better, He is our understanding of our real healthy being.
So wonderful your uplifting and healing SpiritView blog for which we are all very very grateful.
And, oh yes, dear Evan, thank you very.much for your today’s truely uplifting Daily Lift which The Motherchurch is sending also every Morning.
Am also grateful for all the inspired comments here.
Such a perfect illustration, Evan, Thank you
Because there is no fog i;n the first place.
Many thanks for your daily inspirations.
I love, love, LOVE this analogy! Thank you, Evan!!