“Love, redolent with unselfishness, bathes all in beauty and light.”
~ Mary Baker Eddy, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures
Are you out to get or to give?
If you are a giver, people around you feel your light. They see your generosity, your care, your desire to help, and it inclines them to respond in a positive way.
If you are a getter, always looking for what you can get, instead of what you can give, the effect can be the opposite. People may pull back; remain cautious, hesitant, and even fearful of approaching you.
As a child of God, you are designed to love without bounds. You are impelled by divine Love to give without fear, share without worry, and love without hesitation.
Live true to your spiritual self! Let the unselfishness of Love shine through you without limit. Let others around you see your light and feel its warmth. They will be benefited, and so will you.
Bathing your neighbor in beauty and light….what a lovely Christmas gift!
thank you
Always treasure your special messages of love and practical Christian Science at work Evan! Thank you. I volunteer at a local elementary school in the ESL lab with first and second graders. Talking about Christmas recently, the kids were saying they love Christmas because they get presents. One little girl said, “I love Christmas because I get to GIVE presents.” How special is that! I treasured that reminder from the thought and mouth of a child.
Works for me.
Reminds me of a song we sing in choir especially at nursing homes “This Little Light of Mine I’m Going To Let It Shine” we send blessings to all the patients and you feel the joy going out and coming back. I personally try to find something I see in others and share it with them in a complimentary
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Thanks, Evan, for this important reminder to love. I also greatly appreciated the interview with Phil Davis in the January Journal titled “Learning to love spiritually.” He states in the last paragraph the need to have “a sincere striving to understand the way God loves, to love someone else the way God loves all His children. This perfect love will cast out every fear, every belief that tries to keep us from expressing God’s love.” God’s love is always unconditional! I also relate this to the need to see only the man of God’s creating – not what the material senses are presenting, which is always false. How deeply grateful I am for Christian Science!
The best example of a giver and not a getter is my caregiver Gaitree, who came from a foreign country and gave her all to take care of me and see that my life is happier and stays happy. Of all who should have a paraid of honor down Broadway, NYC, it is she. What a fine example of bathing one’s neighbor in spiritual light.
What a lovely inspiration. Thank you so much Evan. It’s truly blessed to be a giver. Giving from the heart and unselfishly works wonders. Giving need not be only material things. It can be a patient listening to a friend’s woes, giving moral support, praying for a friend in need or giving free education to a poor child. So give from your heart and be blessed.
Love this “Let others around you see your light and feel its warmth”. Thank you for reminding us how important it is to let our light shine. (=
I came across this Daily Lift that fits in nicely with this topic.
http://christianscience.com/prayer-and-health/inspirational-media/your-daily-lift/light-bulb-parable