Christmas is around the corner. It may be tempting to get caught up in the hustle and bustle of holiday preparations, but it’s even more important to remember what Christmas is all about in the first place.
As Mary Baker Eddy wrote, “In Christian Science, Christmas stands for the real, the absolute and eternal, — for the things of Spirit, not of matter” (Miscellany, p. 260).
May you seek the things of Spirit above all else this Christmas season and reap eternal benefits.
Thank you dear Evan ! Yes, let’s celebrate The Christ !
Giving a real blessing comes from your heart. It’s a giving season. Plan on giving gratitude…
Plan on giving the work of our hands too. Kindness, loving, God like attributes in sharing bountiful and fruitful substance. “Lo He sent His word and healed them” What better a gift then that?
It’s Christmas here every day of the year…..
Gratitude Evan, focus for this time of year and every day.
Making Blue Bird Houses for everyone. Cedar is mentioned so many times in the Bible. Working with it and it’s fragrance is delightful. No wonder it’s mentioned so many times in scripture. Blue Birds are also very precious. Little colorful and cheerful carriers of promised springtime. They bring only gladness and promise. Life is innocent and comforting with springtime song. Every day… Every hour… Every moment…Filled with gladness…And Gratitude…
Thank you for a new template and checklist to remind me throughout each day of the year. for refocusing with priorities – – celebrating Christmas and Easter. Thanks for prompting me to commit to ask and redirect my thought and acts, “Here and now what is the real, the absolute, and eternal? What is God’s gift, the gifts Spirit gave me uniquely and gives us all universally and my duty to use them to bless, and my grateful gift to give in this situation? How can I celebrate the coming of the Christ to human consciousness, body of thought, body politic, church body, family members, community members, the body of nature and earth? How can I celebrate love and gratitude for the healing and risen Christ relevant to this current specific situation and relationship? How am I to be a messenger now of Christ and Christmas and Easter? How is nature teaching me about God’s love for man/me to experience and express of what is the real, the absolute, and the eternal?
Edie, I very much like your deep and heartfelt questions. For me, the ending would include: “and the grace, quietness, attentiveness, and christlikeness to humbly listen for the answers to the questions so thoughtfully stated.”
Thank you! Merry Christmas season and the picture reminds me of the fun of the snowsuit as a youngster. I cslled it my “snowsnoot”………
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CHRISTMAS EVERY DAY
Today I’m giving Christmas Love
to everyone I see
Today in giving Christmas Love
I’m giving it to me
Today I’m giving Christmas Love
to everyone in thought
Giving the Love of Christmas
Is better than anything I might
have bought
Today, means Christmas every day
when keeping God in thought
Then we will be giving Christmas daily
as we really ought
Melissa Baker
Wrote this this morning. Just a little thought.
Love your poem Melissa. Thank you. May I have your permission to copy and send it to my daughter?
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Thank you Melissa for your poem, and to everyone for their comments. I so enjoy this vlog
“Just a little thought”? Not so for me. Thank you Melissa for giving this most substantial and loving Christmas message to us. I will be carrying it with me and sharing it with others.
Sweet and thoughtful poem Melissa! Thank you!
Beautiful sentiments Melissa. Thank you x
I so appreciate this poem. The Christmas season is a wonderful reminder, as is Thanksgiving, of how we want to live our days and hours. God loves the earth. He didn’t put us in a bad place.
Thank you for this beautiful poem, M. I especially love the reminder “Today in giving Christmas Love
I’m giving it to me”, It is so important to include “me” in the Christmas thoughts we are giving to all. Thank you.
Thank you heaps, Melissa, for your beautiful poem. It is one to read often through the year!
Melissa….just love this poem….thanks for sharing!
Enjoyed everyone’s comments, too….
Christmas is so much the giving and sharing aspect for me….I always enjoy that. Much Christmas love to A-L-L!
Yes, Noble. Hope she enjoys it.
Happy every day Christmas to Evan and all
SpiritViewers.
Thank you all for lifting my thoughts from the human (material) to the divine (Spirit).
Thanks to all. Loved the Christmas poem.
Yes, thank you Melissa for that sweet Christmas poem! And thanks to Evan and all who share Christmas love every day!
Thank you for the reminder. If I’m being honest, I have to admit that I am still in need of the reminder! That is such a beautiful, powerful, and thought provoking quote “…Christmas stands for the real, the absolute and eternal, — for the things of Spirit, not of matter.” “…the real, the absolute, and eternal…” Reading those words this morning felt like peering into infinite Love. My heart is full.
“What is Christmas?”
https://sentinel.christianscience.com/shared/view/kryy8dvo0o
P.S. Christmas Eve Talk 2022 by Brian Webster is at Third Church, Christ Scientist NYC. It’s in person, and you can also watch online or listen by conference call.
https://thirdchurchnyc.com/christmas-eve-talk-2022/
Thanks to all of you who have posted today, Evan and especially to Melissa for your touching poem. They have shaken me out of some selfish thinking and steered me away from a petulant mood and likely impetuous actions. Y
Something Chrisymassy …
https://youtu.be/ZHavUDnZrf4
wow, do I love this wonderfully joyful Gosple singing, specially this song “Joy to the World”
Thank you very much indeed Narrell for the link to that Gospel song!
Yes Evan, thank you. And yes Christmas is just around the corner, exactly so that I am surprised that suddenly the Christmastime is there.
You are right, Christmas is all about what Mrs. Eddy says in the passage in Miscellany you mention up here. We celebrate Christ’s birth, and in SH we read that Christ is the true (real) idea of God. I dare to conclude that in CS , the Christ is the real. the absolute and eternal, and he is Spirit and not matter. And in this time we can pray to let this Christ come into our hearts with Love for our neighbors and friends!
This year I want to express my Gratitude and Love to all friends and family members who mean a lot to me and who are there for me through posting a special beautiful Xmas card with lovely Christmas wishes and special kind words. The last year I didn’t write any nice card for Christmas, just phoned or emailed.
Thank you very much all dearest SpiritView friends for your inspirations you are sharing here.
And I am deeply grateful for your uplifting and healing thoughts you send us daily with your loving SpiritView Blog, dear Evan!!
– Joy to the world and peace on earth –
Thank you Evan. We just need to be more loving during this Christmas season. Love for God and man is all we need.
In the picture, what looks like people in the snow must actually be angels who flew in. They did not walk in, seeing as how there are no footprints in the snow.
Thanks Evan! Love, Tamara Chalk