Do you see God’s man in your neighbor? Relations are much better when we do.
If we’re having a hard time seeing the good in others, there’s a way we can do better.
I share how in this vlog that was filmed in Yellowstone National Park when Kathy and I visited the area in September 2025.
Thank you, Evan for that strong analogy. So helpful . And as you told us to do, I realized how much I need to stick to ” the perfect man”.
Wonderful analogy – that is true vision . Thank you so much , Evan . Now , to really hold thought to that image – the WHOLE circle . Nothing missing . Focus is what is needed – I pray to keep thought FOCUSED on that whole perfection
Thank you Evan. I love this analogy. I will keep this in thought as I look upon my fellow men/women whom I encounter
I love to do this when I am shopping or walking along. Everyone smiles back and I feel lifted up and united with my brothers and sisters. Thank you, Evan and all good sharing to come to this SV spot.
Thank you Evan, I love this circle analogy; for me it chimes with the Circle of Love from Sunday School. As a teenager I learned another short poem in Sunday School, by Edwin Markham :
“He drew a circle that shut me out –
Heretic, rebel, a thing to flout.
But love and I had the wit to win:
We drew a circle and took him In!”
Also Elizabeth Glass Barlow’s lovely poem Boundless CSS 10/4/1952 which begins:
“Let the circle of my love be so pure so deep so wide,
That in its joyous, radiant, reach nothing shall be left outside…”
Love draws the circle you might say
Thank you, Idea – this is all like the saying I heard many years ago
that we can’t enter heaven unless we take the whole world with us.
So we must hold that perfect idea of God for everyone as Christ Jesus did, and love one another, as God loves us – a universal Love.
Beautiful!
Thank you, Evan!
It is God that worketh in us both to will and to do of his good pleasure i can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me. God is doing the seeing all of God sees God is all to see.
Thank you all.
I wish I’d read this yesterday, before running towards a man in a public parking lot. I saw him “spanking” his small child in the “privacy” of the cab of his pickup. He was talking to the little one about 3″ away from the boys face before the first “spanking”, then he repeated both behaviors. I was standing beside that big, heavily bearded man before I knew it. Naturally he became defensive, threatening to “sue” me for “butting in”. In his own defense, he said he truly believed that spanking “until it stings” was the only way to make the child behave. He further described the beatings he’d endured at his own father’s hand as a child. I tried to listen for God’s prompting (which I find extremely difficult when in that state of “mind”) the sense of fear for the child, blaming, and judging the father left me and was replaced by compassion and understanding…for the perp!!! He ended up admitting that I was not the only one to mention his style of parenting to him. He went on to say that the boy’s behavior was new, in the past few months. I suggested he try to understand the child with patience and not “spank” him out of his own frustration, that to praise the child when he was doing right would net far more better behavior than constantly punishing his “bad” behavior. I told the child that he was a good boy. Then, feeling I was still not welcome in his circle, I attempted to draw him into mine by offering to stay by the child while he finished putting things away in the bed of the truck. I kept thinking “Why doesn’t he see that we are all one and that my presence was not random. I’d actually already been to the store earlier and went by again on my way home. In the end, we both had a civil conversation and I left with a sense of peace and the hope that the experience brought that father as much healing as it did me. I do trust that God is guiding that Father’s Love for his son. He said he was taking the little one fishing. Seeing every one as God’s perfect reflection is not easy for me. I am amazed when the crust of fear or the ooze of judgment roll away and Love and compassion are revealed. My dear friend always says “Just Love”. I used to think she meant to just love everyone. ( As if it were that easy!) But I’ve come to understand that she meant that all there is, is Love. Just Love. Everything else is a lie and I don’t have to accept it. https://journal.christianscience.com/issues/2018/11/136-11/the-action-of-divine-love