Do you have issues with getting up in the morning? Maybe a lack of enthusiasm for the day, or wondering why you’re even getting up at all? If so, it’s time to fix that.
Ideal waking up in the morning is about more than opening one’s eyes and getting out of bed. It’s about waking up to reality, waking up to the spiritual truth that keeps us healthy and strong.
I share ideas on how to have a better experience getting up in the morning in this vlog that I filmed in the Saguaro National Park, in Arizona, April 2025.
So true! MBE says, “… if you fall asleep, actually conscious of the truth of Christian Science, — namely, that man’s harmony is no more to be invaded than the rhythm of the universe, — you cannot awake in fear or suffering of any sort.”
(Retrospection and Introspection, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 61:5)
In another slant, but very, very helpful is this article by Richard Bergenheim: https://sentinel.christianscience.com/shared/view/16zzvcp7esg?s=copylink
Thank you for reminding me of MBE’s statement from Retrospection! And thank you, Evan, for today’s offerings❣️
Thank you Evan and thank you Diane for that article. All are very helpful.
A truly powerful article and so perfect for our times as well as for my own experience! Mega thanks for posting the link. This is a keeper!! Love Spirit View and its community.
When I WAKE up, I express …
Watchfulness | Accomplishment | Kindness | Endeavor
Thank you Evan for this wonderfully refreshing and awakening vlog!
I love where you told the gentleman, he hadn’t woken up yet. Being
retired now, I don’t need an alarm clock, but I used to have one, when
working … that had a jarring blast. For the times I need one now, I have
one that starts out gently and gets louder. Isn’t that like how we overcome
mortal thinking? – Sometimes it clamors for our attention with a loud
screaming .. other times it covertly tries to sneak up on us, trying to persuade
us to believe in it. But waking up to the truth of Love’s existence and power
is a beautiful way of welcoming the day.
Thank you Angel , your last
Statement “ WELCOMING THE DAY”
Thank you Evan to talk about challenging
Topic. Like today.
Thank you all to give us continual inspiration at
Spirit View !
Thank you for this timely reminder. I have noticed recently when being with dear friends, how much discussion there is about health or lack there of. A key phrase was “just don’t fall”. In praying this morning, I was “awakened” to the messages here, that we cannot ever fall out of Gods care, His love or His protection. I am so grateful for all of the daily Spiritual “awakening “.
This is a great video, Evan. Thank you. I found it interesting to see birds
behind you landing on the cactus and not being bothered by the thorns.
I have had a bird’s nest in a rose bush, which was also a protective place,
but unusual. Deer can eat nettles, (sometimes called “smart weed” ,
which to humans can be very hurtful and irritating, if touched, all just going
to prove, that what we are thinking does try to control how awake we are to
what we believe can harm us. We do need to awake to reality and leave
behind the dream of mortal thinking.
Living in Tucson I had the privilege of watching “carpenter birds” peck a hole in the saguaros to build a little carved out home. But the hole was too small for them to use, it was for the much smaller sparrows to live in. The sparrows’ beaks were too short though, to drill through to the soft inside of the cactus, so the bigger birds came to do the job for them as the sparrows watched. The law of love at work.
My mom, in later years said she had trouble getting going in the morning, but she loved the birds, and she knew that 70-80 birds were lined up along her wall waiting to be fed. Once she got going doing what she loved, the day went smoothly. Later in the heat of the day she would turn on a fine mist and talk to the hummingbirds who zoomed through the mist. We do live to love.
A child’s morning prayer I wrote to music. (Wish I could post the audio! The last line is spoken)
This is God’s beautiful day,
Listen to what he has to say,
He’s here, and near,
His words are very clear.
He has love and goodness too,
Joy and power for me and you,
This is God’s beautiful day,
Listen to what he has to say.
We thank you God and we obey!
Lovely poem – thanks Kay
Thank you very much, Evan for the lovely video and spiritual message. Thank you Blessed for your
contribution – I love what you said. And thank you everyone for your contributions also, and the article, which is excellent.
For me, waking up to truth at present is not about waking up from a night’s sleep in the ordinary sense,
but waking up from the dream, or nightmare, of material false claims to health and harmony which
would keep us in the darkness of materiality, and would seem to be putting out our true light which is the
Christ. This I know is an impossibility, as darkness cannot put out the light – the light puts out the darkness. Christ is the light of our true life and is ever-present. We do have that light within us, because Christ instructs us to let our light shine. I think the key word here is “let”, because we are able to do this.
“Arise, shine, for the light is come, and the glory of the
Lord is risen upon thee” I am not sure where this comes in the Bible, but it is an instruction that can apply to getting out of bed in the morning, as well
as waking from a material discordant claim.
We are Christ’s shining when we are awake.
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Lovely, bright and sun-shiny thoughts you have shared, Maggie. Goes
along perfectly with Evan’s blog. Thank you for your kind words.
Thank you vety much, dear Maggie! It’s very true and loving what you say, namely:
“We are Christ’s shining when we are awake” it’s such a comforting and healing Truth! ❤️
“Still with thee” By Elise L. Moore, C.S.B. Reprinted from Daily Lift, November 26, 2012
From the Christian Science Publishing Society:
https://elisemoore.com/wp-content/uploads/pdf/20121207202430.pdf
Thank you Evan for your wonderful and inspiring vlog!
I loved this article from Elise Moore, when she was a chaplain in a homeless center and awakening to the Christ. Excerpt: “The saving power of the Christ is operating ceaselessly in every human consciousness until it is felt, understood, and obeyed.”
To break the hold of addiction” By Elise L. Moore, CSB. Reprinted from the Christian Science Sentinel, September 14, 2009:
https://elisemoore.com/wp-content/uploads/pdf/20100429120052.pdf
That is very good, J. I didn’t know you could get print-outs of the Daily Lift. I have difficulty in hearing them clearly enough, and most times miss out. Can one get a print-out for every one do you know?
Hi Maggie, I don’t know if anyone else has print-outs of the Daily Lift. But you’ll find more print-outs of Daily Lifts by Elise Moore on her website:
https://elisemoore.com/
Then go to Articles by Elise, and then scroll to Daily Lift
Thank you, J – I will try it.
Thank you, Evan. And thank you, J. The article by Elise Moore is very helpful. ♥️
Thankyou Evan, your daily lift and vlogs are so inspiring and uplifting, It’s food for thought! also thankyou SV family for your inspiring thoughts.love to all.
Hymnal Supplement p 500.
Susan Booth Mack Snipes
I wake each morning to a brand new day,
Singing hallelujah as I go on my way.
I tried to find the video of her singing
A favorite hymn.
Thanks Evan
So many wonderful contributions here. Thank everyone! This theme on waking up is broad and applicable throughout our day, and our lives, and mankind’s progress. I am thinking this would be a great topic for a Wednesday testimony meeting!
Thank you very much Diana w.a. for that wonderful article by Richard Bergenheim about metaphysical awakening to God’s everpresent Love. It’s very needed, also Evan’s healing Vlog for which I’m utmost grateful and happy, as it is so very helpful, as from time to time I have to deal with it. However when I awake I visualize God’s presence, and today I clang steadfastly to God and His idea, as Mrs. Eddy advises us.
Thank you dear Evan for your really wonderful SpiritView Blog!!!♡