It’s important to keep the Big Sky perspective when dealing with life’s challenges.
Everybody has their challenges. Every day brings opportunity to overcome evil with good. So, when an evil rears its head, it’s vital to remember that it’s not going to ruin your whole day! You have the means you need coming from God to master that evil and rout it out of your experience.
But if we are not alert, it can seem like a single evil is ruining everything else for us and then we allow fear to run our mind down a course we don’t want to go.
For instance, a simple example would be if you dropped some iron on your toe and your toe screamed out in pain. For that moment, all you can seem to think about is how much that toe hurts. You forget that everything else in your body, the other 99%, is just fine.
The same thing can happen with relationships. If our spouse fails to follow through with a commitment, and we get really upset, it can seem like everything is wrong with the relationship. While mired in the immediate controversy, we forget about the 99% good stuff to be grateful for.
If we have a financial catastrophe to deal with, it might seem like our whole world is falling apart and we will suffer forever. But be sure to keep your Big Sky perspective. God has infinite resources of wisdom, creativity and inspiration to help you get back on top of that trouble and restore solvency. The loss is a temporary aberration. Don’t forget about the 99% good stuff in your life to be grateful for!
In Truth, God is our 100%! God has everything we need to prosper and grow, advance and progress. We are spiritual beings living a spiritual life with an infinite spiritual power sustaining and maintaining us throughout all time and eternity. There is no problem in this world bigger than the God that loves and cares for us. In fact, God as Love is so big that any trouble we face doesn’t even merit a 1% place in our life. In the light of infinite Love, it amounts to a 0%.
Enjoy your 100% God today!
Thank you, Evan for another inspiring blog worthy to ponder over. The last two paragraphs are encouraging.
When I woke up this morning, my prayer was to love God more, serve Him more, know Him better and experience Him more than ever before. 100%!
God is good!
We do live in challenging times but we live in the life of love. Thanks, Evan
Thanks Evan for the everyday guidance towards gratitude.
Very good reminder!
Thank you, Evan, for this very helpful reminder. Sometimes our world can seem so polluted in so many different ways. Recently I had pinched my finger in a garage door type section as I was pulling it down to close it. The pain seemed unbearable in the first few seconds, but I immediately declared that there are no accidents in God’s realm. I trusted that all would be well, the pain stopped right away and the only evidence was a black and blue fingernail, which is now almost totally clear. I am so grateful for experiences that teach us God’s ever present Love and caring… the clarity of a blue sky kind of a day!
Thanks to everyone.
And isn’t it wonderful as Christian Scientists we can bring this kind of harmony into our individuals lives and our communities and therefore our world? We must do this because it is the natural result of our seeing man’s oneness with God. Mary Baker Eddy uses the word ‘must,’ many times. I love it.
Joy
Isn’t C/S wonderful that no matter how small or large the problem, we are able to overcome. If we didn’t have or know about this system how could we minimize the problem to its sic nothingness.
These ideas cleared up a cloudy moment, when yesterday, after a long wait, to register my daughter for her first semester in college, the adviser took someone out of line, a person who came in during our wait; then announced there was no more time to meet with us, but we could make an appoint for another day. Also in the mix, unbeknownst to us, the scheduled appointment would be at a location where parking is sparse, but we made an appointment. Clearing out the cloudy thoughts allows me to see the Big Sky perspective, today, and opens my thought to good and all harmony. I look forward to God’s plan for my daughter and me today. Thank you for offering the 100% view.
Thanks Evan, I needed this reminder, especially, as Craig said, The last two paragraphs are encouraging.
Thank you for the message of Big Sky and 100percent God. I find that even when I do see the Truth after a particular provocative event that when another follows shortly thereafter that I find it difficult to regain the composure of stating a true thought to myself and just fall into the pit of despair and distress and think to myself that God is either not listening, is to busy or has more important issues to resolve ie. war, world hunger, greed, etc. so what is the lesson here? and it is without a doubt usually: PATIENCE, PATIENCE, PATIENCE as so stated in Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy: “Wait patiently for divine Love to move upon the waters of mortal mind and form the perfect concept. Patience must have her perfect work.” Well I can’t always do that as I am NOT a perfect human. Thanks
This was a much needed reminder of God being 100% good. The hurt toe really resonated with me since I had one recently and I should have focused on the 99%. I need to concentrate on relying on the much greater good that is Omnipotent 100%