Yesterday, I wrote about the value of accepting your perfection, and the blessings that come from identifying with spiritual reality.
If feeling uncomfortable about accepting your perfection, it might help to realize that you already do this in other ways.
Math is one example.
It is commonly accepted that there is a perfect principle operating behind mathematical calculations. The better you understand the principle, the more successful you are in solving math problems.
One may err in his calculations and cause temporary chaos or trouble as a result. But the error does not change the principle or its perfection. The error causes the conscientious mathematician to persist in his calculations until he derives the correct answer. He persists until he demonstrates perfection—the correct answer.
The same rule applies to demonstrating spiritual truth. Perfection is the ideal. It is our reality with God.
It is not anymore unreasonable to hold perfection as our ideal in solving life problems, then it is in pursuing perfection when solving math problems.
Why accept anything less than the best?
Hold to the spiritual ideal and rise to it. It’s the shortest route to success.
Thank you!!! I like math even tho’ my family is more literary…..Hmmm….it is late in my neighborhood but the bank opens in a few hours. Again….thanks for “leaving the light on”…….God is Good and a CONSTANT in my life whereas math problems come and go. Again, Thank You.
Thank you very much indeed, Evan for the comparison of our perfection with Math!
This example is very tangible and convincing to me. And in both these cases we cannot accept anything less than the best! Yes, will now go and study our weekly Bible Lesson rising to the spiritual ideal and make progress in the divine understanding!
Thanks for your loving and healing support for us all!
Thank youfor this Evan. Thank you for making us see our problems as mathematical errors which need only to be corrected with the use of a given Principle and life goes on smoothly.
Well said and so true. Thank you Evan!
I use to have a saying that we are “perfectly imperfect.” This expression was meant to indicate that we are given the opportunity to learn and to choose our path through this human life to the spiritual understanding of our true nature which is as Evan describes perfect in every way and detail. As a coach helping you adults find their true selves in the sport, each individual had a potential given certain characteristics they choose to emphasize. They all could reach their perfect models given their willingness to accept it as the true path to their potential. It is not the human characteristics that matter so much as the divine, each of us can be the perfect model of ourselves as individuals in this experience and that to me is at-one with God.
Instead of thinking it’s what I (so called mortal mind) says about me, it’s instead KNOWING what God knows about me. Not as matter – since there is none, but as Mind’s perfect, indestructible, eternal idea. It’s hard (for me) not to get hung up in the physical body which is not Mind’s idea (there is no matter). We must stick with the truth of the Scientific Statement of Being and it’s correlative Scripture.
As one comment suggested thanks for shepherding us Evan. I always appreciate SpiritView.
When in school, I could never quite understand how math like
geometry, trigonometry could be relevant to everyday life and
why they were required learning. I now realize that just because
we do not always use principles, such as these, they still do exist,
like our perfection to God. Even though we may not apply this
perfection to everything we do, it still is ever present and can
never be changed, as this Principle is Truth.
Yes! My students used to ask me why they needed to learn algebra. I would tell them because it is a process they are learning to problem solve and persistence in doing it that can be applied to many areas of their lives. And look here! I am being asked to do the same!
Evan points out that we may feel uncomfortable accepting our perfection. That comes from growing up on material slogans that are almost universally embraced such as, “Nobody’s Perfect.” But that thinking comes from looking only through a human, mortal lens, Error can’t see perfection, only it’s own distortions. Mrs Eddy says in S&H (p.248), “Do you not hear from all mankind of the imperfect model? The world is holding it before your gaze continually.” She says the remedy is to turn our gaze in the right direction and continually focus in thought on perfect models of spiritual qualities. Then as Evan says we persist until we demonstrate perfection — the correct answer = healing.
Thank you for this very helpful concept to think more about, (and . . . “than it is” . . .)
I remember on math tests we would sometimes get partial credit for showing the steps we took in trying to solve the problem. Our thinking had merit and was going in the right direction, but more light was needed to see the complete correct solution. It was encouraging and maybe those few extra points helped us pass the test.
Let’s never beat ourselves up when healings seem slow or incomplete, but give ourselves partial credit and keep going. Evan says, “the error causes the conscientious mathematician [or Metaphysician] to persist in his calculations.” Evan thanks for part ll.
As we progress through our lifetime journey towards reaching our divine perfection it can be helpful to recall Winston Churchill’s words of inspiration to the British citizenry during the darkest moments of World War II: ” …..we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the streets, we shall etc, etc,………..and we will never, ever surrender!”
Math was one of my favorite subjects when I was in school because it was absolute not my opinion, nor the opinion of the instructor. If I answered all of the questions correctly, I got an A, 100%. Christian Science is also absolute.
fortunately, God’s got our back.
We don’t have a choice. If our creator is perfect, there is no other creation than perfection.
There’s no other me, you, him, her, them or us, here or there, then or now, but the perfect one.
It’s all there ever was or ever will be.
Starting with any other premise is mortal mind arrogantly yakking and elbowing into God;s creation; but mortal mind is a voiceless nothingness trying to out-shout the music of the spheres.
God’s never allowed its existence, so we can slam its mouth shut, and listen for our Father-Mother’s direction.
Every day will be a healing/revealing day, a new dawning.
Thank you diane w.a., that`s wonderfully true what you say!
Dear Diane.w.a., I love the way you put it, especially when your said that mortal mind is a
voiceless nothingness trying to shut out the music of the spheres, and as God never allpwed its
existence we can ‘slam its mouth shut’. I just love that – it made me laugh, and it felt so right.
Thank you, dear Diane.
“DO THE spiritual MATH” by Laurance R. Doyle:
https://sentinel.christianscience.com/shared/view/1bd07mnwguk
Excellent article …thanks J. And thank you Evan for this perfect blog❣️
Thank you for this article, J.
Thank you, Evan and all contributors for helping us focus on what is true about all mankind. So appreciate SpiritView blog for the many ideas shared.
Very helpful! Thank you, J.
Beautifully written!
Thank you
Evan, Thank you!