If you’re waiting around hoping events will improve as time passes, you might be waiting a long time. Time, in and of itself, does not bring healing into our life. Time is simply, well, the passing of time.
For an improvement in experience, thought needs to improve, and time doesn’t improve one’s thinking. A desire to transform and be transformed is what leads to improvement in thought. As thought improves, experience improves.
And the best improvement comes when thought grows spiritually, understanding God to be the source of every good thing you could ever possibly want or need.
God has what you’re looking for, and God’s good is present now to be discerned and benefited from.
The sooner you turn to divine Mind in prayer, and listen for Mind’s heavenly inspiration, the sooner you’ll find the perspective that improves your outlook and takes your experience to a higher level.
Don’t wait on time. Wait on God! The results are far better. And quicker.
“They that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint” (Isaiah 40:31).
This is very healing Evan and a beautiful verse from Isaiah. Thank you so much.
I’ve just finished reading the chapter Prayer in S & H . I thought it was about time I read Mrs Eddys book from cover to cover again. You tell us to turn to Divine Mind in prayer and this goes hand in hand with my thought that it’s not the material eyes that read or the brain that we pray/ think with …but the constant awareness of spiritual understanding we must seek , which in turn brings progress and healing into our life as the expression of constant Truth.
Much Love and blessings to everyone❣️
Dear all, when you have an hour to set aside you may want to watch this lecture by Dave Hohle, CSB entitled: ” Time Is Not a Factor in Your Life”. Here is the YouTube link. Blessings!
https://youtu.be/zMtCKH1MCoc?si=w4r83Zin476Xh0jx
Thank you for sending this, Maddie!
Thanks Maddie, I’ve heard this lecture before but it is surely one that bears repeating. Another great one from Dave was shared here on SV recently by DKM on 5/28/25 on topic of our Divine Supply:
https://sentinel.christianscience.com/shared/view/17acfcmb0jg?s=copylink
Time is an interesting phenomenon, there are popular beliefs out there such as, “Time heals all wounds” but Evan explains that this is not how things work spiritually. Our perpetual reality of goodness in God is unaffected by passing time. Spiritual Good is continuous, just waiting for us to wake up and recognize this. That’s why instantaeous healings are not uncommon. Even physicists can’t agree on what time is, some calling it illusion. You may have read this quote that Albert Einstein allegedly wrote in a letter to the family of a friend who had passed on,…”Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That signifies nothing. For those of us who believe in physics, the distinction between past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.”
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Dear Rose, cannot open it completly. Can you or anybody please help?
Hi Uta, maybe you can try going back to the SV of May 28 and clicking on the link provided in the comment by DKM.
Hi Rose, thanks so much. I found it on 28th May. Will listen to it later today. We have 6am on Tuesday now. ❤️
Thank you Evan – very supportive ideas to keep
our thoughts moving in accord with God’s thoughts.
Thank you also Barbara for your contribution – this
is what particularly stood out for me in what you said –
that it is “the constant awareness of spiritual understanding we must seek”. We are learning
more and more each day, and we must keep on
track.
Thinking that time will help us to improve is rather like
thinking that going to sleep will help us and cure us.
It is our working out of our challenges by “waiting on
the Lord” for everything we need yo know and do, and knowing that He is providing this ability..
“You don’t need to wait for a healing to occur – it has already happened”. . . . I think Evan pointed this out in past posts. Because like everything else you are trying to achieve, learn, or demonstrate the solution is already there – you just have work at bringing it out. As Evan points points out in this post, “improvement comes when your thought grows spiritually”. That is why In CS we dont pray FOR something to be given to us, we pray ABOUT something, working to improve our thought to “let it happen”. My Sunday School teacher used to always say: “Many times healings happen very slowly – then all at once . . thats why they call this a Practice, so practice your perfection”.
“Waiting on the Lord” is not waiting for healing, but knowing God has made us whole, and prayerfully turning humbly to Him to give us our right thoughts about a problem we may be facing,. And waiting on the Lord for strength or whatever, is not to use self-will, but to find our God-given strength and well-being already within us, acknowledging that God has already provided it for us and accepting and utilising it with gratitude.
Waiting on the Lord also means serving the Lord, of course, and making sure we are in accord His will.
lovely and useful thoughts. thank you Roger
Thank you Evan. The lecture from Dave Hohle is a good one concerning time. Thank you Maddie . Great thoughts for today. The lesson this week really supports this.
I love the poem “Time” by Bobby Lewis in the Dec 30 2024 Sentinel.
I love it too, Sheryl. Here is a link.
https://sentinel.christianscience.com/shared/view/144wz85xy6i?s=copylink
Thank you Cheryl. I tried to include the link myself but don’t know how. I clicked on the option to share the link and get a message that the link is then on the clipboard. And I can’t find the clipboard. I hoped someone would post it for me, so thank you!
Dear Sheryl & Cheryl, thank you so much for posting this powerful poem, I loved it.
Sheryl, you were almost there for attaching the link. 🙂 To add a shareable poem or article, if you use a mouse:
– Left click on Share (left-side of article).
– Left click again on Copy Link.
– Then go to SpiritView and the space to add a Comment.
– Right click, which brings a pull down that says Share.
– Hit Paste, and you’ve attached the link!
Hi J,
Thank you for replying. I know how to copy and paste but I never saw the link to do so. There’s a place to click that says “share the link” and when I click on that it says the link is on the clip board. That’s where I got lost, I don’t see the clip board, I couldn’t find where the link went to copy and paste it. I never saw the link. But thankfully it got shared anyway! And I’m glad you love it too.
Sheryl, you won’t see a clipboard. When you click on “share” and then you copy the link, yes, it tells you it goes to the clipboard, but it is invisible and will reappear once you return to your comment section on SpiritView where you will click and hit paste. (Hope that helps.)
Thank you!
Thank you Evan.
I turn off TIME by waiting for
Temperance | Inspiration | Motivation | Enlightenment
Thank Mark .. I love it!
Thank you Evan
“If you’re waiting around hoping events will improve as time passes, you might be waiting a long time. “
It is always time to realize the TRUTH of our being.
Let us leave time alone , and be aware of our daily blessings!
Thank you all for your precious inputs.
I felt more about the word Concord,
… realizing there was no Truth in Discord..
Accord..,,like a cord, a rope tying us to God..
held in Divine Science, we can’t drift away from Truth.
How will power can be so tiring
and Spirit.so spring loaded….
thanx every One
Wonderful thoughts ~ Thank you all!!
Here are some thoughts I’ve come across on time:
“The most important time is NOW” – Leo Tolstoy
“Time is the most valuable coin in your life. You and you alone will
determine how that coin will be spent” – Carl Sandburg
“Time has a wonderful way of showing us what really matters” – Author Unknown
“The only reason for time is so that everything doesn’t happen at once” – Albert Einstein
Evan’s thought, “God’s good is present Now to be discerned and benefitted from” …
Lovely
“Do we have to feel offended?” by Jay Frost. From the October 14, 2024 issue of The Christian Science Sentinel:
https://sentinel.christianscience.com/shared/view/ld9vbz0a6o?s=copylink
Thank you Evan for Friday and today’s topic on thought. This article states: “The effects we may feel from another’s wrong behavior (inadvertent or intentional) have more to do with our reaction than with the incident itself. When we remove the mental or emotional reaction, we remove the foothold that wrong thinking might gain in our consciousness.” And, from Mary Baker Eddy, from an article titled “Taking Offense,” and it says, “The mental arrow shot from another’s bow is practically harmless, unless our own thought barbs it” (Misc. pp. 223–224). Wow…this made me think of how often I feel offended or “barbed” and my reaction to another’s comment, the news, social media, driving, people at work, family, friends, etc. It also states in the article: “Harm inflicted upon us can affect us only if we accept the belief that we can experience something outside of God’s loving control. It boils down to our own choice of whether to be offended (i.e., to barb the arrow) or to acknowledge Mind’s harmonious government of its creation.” I love these thoughts and it’s very freeing and comforting to realize that we do have a choice. And in Jay’s healing he also demonstrated that it doesn’t take time – but understanding. As we remove something from our thought, it removes it from our experience.
I was interested if Jay had more articles, and found info at the website christianscience.com. Jay and his wife Tessa are musicians. He wrote the song in the link below.
https://www.christianscience.com/youth/music/living-truth-jay-and-tessa-frost
Thank you, J. The music is beautiful! I will check out their website, mentioned in the interview. And the article is excellent. Both are greatly inspiring. ♥️
The article and the music and website are all very beautiful and
lovely! So inspirational. Thank you for sharing it with us, J .
Thanks J for the article and the beautiful song. I looked up the word ‘barb’ that you mentioned from Mrs. Eddy’s article on taking offense. It’s interesting because a barb is the part of an arrow or fishhook that points backward and makes it hard to remove, thus increasing the suffering. We do the same when we let thought latch on to whatever it is that we are seeming to be offended by, thus increasing and lengthening our mental suffering – instead of letting the arrow slide right out and “acknowledge Mind’s harmonious government.” As you wisely said, we do have a choice.
J –The song by Jay and his wife Tessa is beautiful. Thank you for sharing. Thank you also on your article about being offended.
Thank you Evan for the statement of “the sooner you turn to divine Mind in prayer, and listen for Mind’s heavenly inspiration, the sooner you’ll find the perspective that improves your outlook and takes your experience to a higher level.
What a fundamental lie to conquer, that of “time”! Time is wholly dependent on the notion of matter as substance. Not to be confused with the concept of “timing” (as in “good timing” referring to opportunity… what fits just right in an orderly fashion.) “TIME MASTERS” – By Jeffrey Hildner with contributions from Laurance Doyle, David Carico – article published by the Sentinel on Aug 3, 2009 is very helpful!
Not sure this link will work:
https://sentinel.christianscience.com/issues/2009/8/111-31/time-
masters?_gl=1*1d55eij*_ga*MjA4NTY4NjIzLjE3Mzk1MjE2MDU.*_ga_82T1KK2N0J*czE3NTA3MTc0MjUkbzQwJGcxJHQxNzUwNzE4MjgyJGo1OCRsMCRoMA..
This link might work better:
https://sentinel.christianscience.com/shared/view/2q87yukesce?s=copylink
Oh thank you very much , dear Evan for today’s healing treats! Some of the advises I already do and some I want to learn and do better. Wonderful: “don’t. wait on time, rather wait on God!” whereby God is everpresent, we don’t have to wait on Him! Yes, let’s pray and listen to God’s timeless truth thoughts.
I’m very grateful for your so helpful and healing SpiritView – it’s all so very loving and comforting! And I love the verse from Isaiah 40:31, it’s such a wonderful promise, Isaiah gives us all!♡
Thanks a lot also for all comments, articles and the poem today – lots of love to Evan and you all dear SpiritView friends!♡