If you walk into a movie theater to watch a movie you think is going to be enjoyable to watch, but it turns out to be a bad movie that is miserable to watch, you can leave that theater. You don’t have to stay and watch in misery. You can get up, walk out and do something else that is more enjoyable and worthwhile.
We can do the same with material sense. There are times when the material senses seem to grab our attention and hold our mental view on subjects that make us feel miserable and uncomfortable. But we have dominion over material sense. We can “walk out” of its theater and enter the theater of spiritual sense where the views are uplifting and inspiring.
Mary Baker Eddy writes about the example Jesus Christ left us, “Like our Master, we must depart from material sense into the spiritual sense of being” (Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p. 41). In spiritual sense, we find health, happiness, inspiration, truth and love that bless life and bring us great good.
For the best results, be quick to depart from material sense. Don’t let it captivate your attention and hold thought in undesirable places. Let thought ascend to Life in Spirit, where spiritual sense holds your attention and inspires your points of view with healing truths.
Spiritual sense is a much happier place to be.
Here’s an article in the current Sentinel that I thought does a great job of explaining how we “depart from material sense into the spiritual sense of being”. I recommend listening to this if you can do that to hear the joy in the author’s voice.
The healing joy of prayer by John Biggs
https://sentinel.christianscience.com/shared/view/1vuee1v4ha2?s=copylink
Thank you , Robert for giving the link to that article . I listened to it a few days ago and have shared it with others . It is truly inspirational!
And thank you , Evan for clarifying how we just need one simple step to walk out of the “dream “ of material sense . Very helpful .
Many thanks Evan and Robert.
Thank you Evan, and all! This is so helpful!