Rockets are falling in Israel. Armored divisions are patrolling in Lebanon. Chaos reigns in Baghdad. Headlines boast death, killing, threats and conflict running rife these days. To keep our spiritual equanimity intact, we must not be impressed!
If you’ve ever watched a movie that was depressing, filled with despair, despondency, and heaviness, you might have left the movie theater feeling heavy and despondent yourself. The same effect can happen if we soak in negative world news everyday without keeping our thought spiritually enlightened.
Each of us has to take responsibility for our state of thought and not let it fall to a low level. And we can keep it inspired when we stay convinced of spiritual reality.
The material world is a temporal place that passes away in time. The events of planet earth are not the definitive statement for all time to come. There is a greater spiritual reality that supersedes and endures beyond any worldly experience. It’s called life in Spirit, and this life is eternal, wholly good, and forever intact.
In the face of evil, we can proclaim the omnipresence of good. We can know God’s allness and goodness, and the powerlessness of evil to destroy anything truly good.
As we consciously know the spiritual truth more than we entertain error, we will not be overwhelmed by evil. We will keep our spiritual perspective intact, and not let our thinking fall into the metaphysical doldrums.
God is all. God is good. God is power, and evil is not power. With this truth overwhelming our sense of things, we will see hope and promise of healing rather than darkness and bleakness.
AMEN!
Evan,
I have been glued to the news and this blog was so helpful to remind me not to be impressed by the massive amounts of murderous hatred.
Facing down a seeming enemy who is willing to use women and children as human shields, suicide bombers, and wants to destroy a sovereign nation all to detract from the evils of oppression in their own countries, for greed and power require more than watching the news.
Humanly drastic action seems needed and is being used and urgent prayer is needed by us all.
Hand wringing by the UN is indicative of other errors.
The constant thought control and poisonous hatred that is poured into the minds of little children in the Middle East I have witnessed personally for many years of living there, and that error, too, needs to be handled. Disinformation is rampant. I thought of the Manual provisions for this and how wise Mrs. Eddy was and how easily we can be influenced.
TV in the Middle East is filled with daily hours of propaganda on how Jihad should take up the banner of destroying people. While several Middle Eastern countries seem to be our allies, their media encourages the populace in print and broadcast news to hate.
In the end I have to say your article reminded me to pray about all of the above and to remember One Mind, One God and that God is Love.
All the synonyms of God come into play here and need to be affirmed with constancy and these synonyms cover all along with the prayer that heals all, The Lord’s Prayer.
Now I will go and do just that.
Thank you Nell for the further insights. You are very literate with your thoughts! It’s nice to know you are out there on the prayer team to help turn the tide on the aggressiveness of evil! Thanks for sharing.
“There will be wars and rumors of wars.” But God was not in the earthquake or wind, but a still small voice.