“Home is the dearest spot on earth, and it should be the centre, though not the boundary, of the affections.”
~ Mary Baker Eddy, Science and Health, p. 58
A home filled with harmony, peace, and love is one of the dearest experiences one can have on earth. It doesn’t happen through accident, chance or luck though. It’s a demonstration made by family members who care.
When family life is not going smoothly, it can be tempting to blame other family members for the turmoil. But this is not a constructive stance to take, for it typically makes things worse. The first place to begin is with one’s own thoughts and outlook.
A home filled with love is a home governed by divine Love. You can be the first one to bring the power and presence of Love into your home for the benefit of everyone.
Love is a power greater than you, greater than any family member, greater than any strife that rears its heads in your house.
Love conquers hate, dissolves resentments, softens attitudes, melts away anger and finds room for forgiveness. Love can do anything.
If your home could use some more harmony, bring that harmony home for every family member to feel and benefit from. Know Love’s presence in your home, enabling everyone to get along with each other, to build bridges of understanding and to work their issues out as a team.
Give your home the attention it deserves. Love it with the power of divine Love and bring it peace.
Home is the consciousness of God, good and so it’s our dwelling place throughout all generations.
When I was looking out for a home many years back, I was guided to understand the true meaning of home, our dwelling place, which is always in God. For we live, move and have our being in God. So our home is heaven and is the dearest spot on earth.
If a home is decorated with the best of furnitures and fixtures but lacks love, gratitude and harmony, it doesn’t bring peace nor prosperity, nor any good to the people residing in it.
Loving and forgiving hearts, make happy homes, where the power of God’s love resides, bringing health, happiness, peace and success to all who dwell in it.
Thanks Evan for the lovely spiritual feast you serve us daily.
Home is in God – and God must be in the home.
During the war in England a little boy was seen playing every day in a hotel lobby. One day a
person said to him, “It’s too bad you don’t have a home. The little boy said, “We have a home but
not a house to put it in”
We each have our true home housed in God.
The picture of true home made me SMILE. All tucked under the roof.:-) Home is the dearest place on earth when God is the head of the household. I truly love this, Evan. Reminds me how much I love home and what true home is. Thank you for your continual stream of good to ponder.
Home is where the heart is. When as a child we had the very humblest of houses. Truly it was only a roof. Dad moved us into it without even buying it. It was a new home start. Small with out any finishing. Just stud walls. I was one of 10 children. 8 of which moved in at that time in ’49.
Winter was sever. Ice sickles formed on the nails holding the shingles on the sides of the house protruding into the living space. Thick ice formed on the windows. Front and back doors were made from shelf boards. Barn hinges held them on. A pot bellied stove was found and used for heat, being fed from my older brother’s bringing fallen trees from the surrounding area. Chopping it up with an ax.. We had no bathrooms, electricity, plumbing, partitions were sheets hung on the ceiling. To keep some of the heat down, cardboard was stapled to the ceiling joist.
My mother was pregnant with my little sister, and my brother returning from Korea brought home a wife! We had LOVE! Often there wasn’t anything to eat. I insisted that we sit down at the table and drink water together. For we had LOVE.
Things changed over the following 10 years. The home was purchased and finished. We all went our separate ways, the last 4 of us even graduated from high school! Of my siblings they became presidents of corporations, tradesmen, college maintenance directors, executives for the phone company, contractors, etc. There are over 100 nephews and nieces, now. Family reunions flourish.
The true sense of home. Indeed. Grateful for the Jewish man who tolerated a family moving into the unfinished home. Mr. Newman. Never met him. He told his men, “See that family in the home over there? Leave them alone.”
God looked after us.
The lesson for today on Man directs us to look away from matter. That the life of man is not in it nor of it. God does supply all good. God is Home. In him we live, move and have our be-ing.
Peace today all of the SpiritView family. We are one. Supporting each other like the children in that most humble place. Each one doing their part to support the family. Bringing to the table gifts of their commitment and lovingkindness. Humble gifts brought about through great effort and caring for each other. “Fill us today with all thou art, be thou our Saint, our stay, alway.”
Thank you!
Oh, David, what a wonderful story. You could have gone to feelings of lack, limitation and resentment, but you chose Love and I am quite sure Love has been reflected in your life experience ever since. Thank you for sharing your experience and results of it.
Thanks Brandon for such a personal story you’ve shared with us. “With God, all things are possible!”
Thanks so much, David, for sharing your lovely story. As an only child, it’s a joy to see a large family expressing so much love and joy.
Thank you Evan for this blog, and the picture of a cardboard roof over the family — which was the spark for David Brandon to share this account of the humblest home. But LOVE filled that home and all the family. And Gratitude to God — even when icicles and heavy frost were inside the house, ,and your brother found wood to chop up, and feed the pot-bellied stove which gave some needed heat! And with nothing to eat, what courage and trust in God, so you all sat down and drank water together!
Thank you David for sharing this most moving story . The house — starting as a bare-bones shell, gradually was built around your family as you all grew up– until it was finished! Meanwhile it was HOME filled with LOVE. What faith and persistence you, and your dad had, and your mother too! Mrs. Eddy says that Home is not a place but a power..
It reminds of Nehemiah rebuilding the wall of Jerusalem, and not getting discouraged or pulled down by enemies that tried to stop this God-supported work!.
And the Bible says “In HIM (GOD) we live, and move and have our being!” YES!.Proven fact.
You indicate that the power of prayer was ongoing through the whole experience. How wonderful that the house got finished! and fully owned by your family! Having “poor housing” did not prevent you and your siblings from finishing school, and going on to positions of importance, serving humanity.
And gratitude for the spiritual insights of the Jewish man, Mr. Newman; he also stood guard to ensure your family was allowed to be protected and sheltered, through the years of harsh conditions. He must have recognized and honored the dedication and inspired ideas your dad was given from God,…from Divine Mind, to use whatever supplies came to his hand, and put them to work!
In my own background, my parents also started out in a cold shack with no running water or sewer or bathroom. But my dad — a student of Christian Science since he was 18 — realized that Jesus thanked God first, before any “results” showed up. In daily prayer he thanked God for already providing them a good home; and it was so. He found a little house which he was able to build onto, and it was our family home for decades– with a brick furnace he built, and running water, and a vegetable garden, and raspberries! .Abundance of Good!
Your experience shows hope for all humanity. God is GOOD. God is LOVE. Thanks be to God .
Thank you!
Thank you so much, Brandon, for sharing your experience. I was born in 1933 and my family lost their home during the depession. We lived one summer in a tent, camped with permission for free, next to a lake. The people had a Japanese gardener who took an interest in me and taught me a few words in Japanese. I’ll never forget that summer, it was and adventure for me and I loved having a home for a family of four in a tent.
Thank you M and David Brandon for your lovely sharing – and all the thoughts shared – and thank you most of all Evan as ever for your daily nuggets.
What comes to me is that we take our concept of home with us – it is within us, and we are assured “Divine Love always has met and always will meet every human need” as Mrs. Eddy tells us in Science & Health. The tortoise takes its home around with it, and so can we. Jesus said “The Son of man hath nowhere to lay his head” – so he obviously knew that he was at home with his heavenly Father wherever He was as he was about his Father’s business – he didn’t need a house made of bricks and mortar to feel at home everywhere. And so it is with us.
God is with us always and we are forever at home with Him at our side.
I feel very deeply for those in detention at the southern border of our nation.
“Give me your tired your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breath free. The wretched refuge of your teaming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest tossed to me. I life my lamp beside the golden door!” Inscribed upon the Statue of Liberty,
The words on the statue were written by a Frenchwoman. Emma Lazarus 1849 – 1887. “The New Colossus” Written in 1883. She wrote the poem to to raise money for the construction of a pedestal for the Statue. Originally “Liberty Enlightening the World”. In Mary Baker Eddy’s time of discovery. She must have owned the book that inspired the poem.
In the year 1903 the poem was cast in bronze and affixed to the statue that now sits in
New York Harbor, on Ellis Island. Where millions of immigrants arrived mostly from Europe.
Looking for a new life. A life of liberty.
A gift from France. Now the Parisians are welcoming the refugees from war torn eastern conflicting counties, So is Germany. Their example is not without much gratitude and admiration.
Now the overcrowding of detention centers are so, that recently 33,000 have been released near El Paso, Texas. They are being administered to by such organizations as churches, the United way, local governments, etc. The need is very great.
Mortals can live without many of the things that others have, Food, water, shelter, but they must have Hope. Journeying to the land of plenty searching for a good, stable environment, they still have hope.
Those who would have them not to enter, have been told to blush when they enter a Christian Church to worship. As Jesus, our wayshower demonstrated supply, healing, teaching to the multitudes. (They have been asked if they are indeed Christians).
God is Love. There is a great need for the services of the Central American refugees. Many positions, humble or advanced may be filled by honest people. There are very many empty buildings. Places to accept those and open the way for productive living.
My prayer is for them today, as they are indeed looking for a Home. Prayer is also action. Proving our words through deeds of kindness. “The Good you do and embody gives your the only power obtainable”.
Really wonderful David. Thank you❣️
David, your words and story are so touching! I am heartbroken over the children who have been separated from their parents in detention centers. It is unchristian. I pray that Our divine Father/mother is meeting their every need and that they be reunited with their families.
Dear Evan, thank you so very much, to make such comments as from David Brandon, N. and Nergish, anyhow from all commenters possible through your big priceless nuggets of SpiritView. I love it so much, and am so grateful for today`s SpiritView and all the comments.
The most important thoughts on today`s topic are said. Yes the spiritual expression of “Home” is in our hearts and minds. Yes, our home is, where God is, and where LOVE is, what Evan said above. (we know God is Love).
As I am living alone in a semi detached home, my family there is, God and I, and to love my neighbors. But I also have a sister with 3 sons which I do love all!
However I really feel at home in my CS branch church, working together in brotherly Love with all our members to serve God and our community! I am very grateful for my branch church in Hamburg/Germany..
But in a widest sense HOME as the spiritual idea, is the whole world which God created. God is our Father and our Mother, and we all are brethren, expressing the Love which is GOD. I think that David Brandon expressed that in his second great comment above here so lovingly. Thank you David for sharing your utmost lovely experiences!
Yes, let`s our prayer be, that God supplies a l l His children sufficiently with whatever they need!
Evan. what a joyful foto, makes me be joyful, too! Thank you for it.
A friend taught me that the problem is always an “Inside” job. Down through the years I have always found this to be true. Sometimes I get tired of always finding it is an inside job, but I have learned that, that’s what is empowering. I cannot fix the “other guy”, but I can fix me and change my thinking. Then the healing comes.
What a blessing to have Paul’s instruction to be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God.
Thank you Evan for this needed reminder today and for all the comments from my Spirit View family.
Some people are “sponsoring” homeless families in their homes.
https://www.marybakereddylibrary.org/research/treatment
I love this article, “This is God’s Spiritual Household”.
Thank all for your comments. Thank you Evan for the medium to share this subject on home. Relatively new to SpiritView, the subject exhibited stirs thought and the coming together of thinkers relating to the subject presented is enlightening. Great thanks for this opportunity to interact with others of the same Mind
“Let the human pattern the Divine!” In thought and deed. Someday all will find “Her home and Heavenly bless.”
So very grateful to have studied Mrs. Eddy’s life, works, and commitment that is now always with us.
Thank you all.
A wonderful, much cherished post! Thank you all too for your LOVE
Responses.
Thanks all. I will share these stories with my son’s family. His wife’s family just lost their home in the Bahamas. His 2 girls went 3 years to school there and made many friends. Not sure anything is left standing.