With so much news coverage of the pandemic and its accompanying business shutdowns, unemployment, stay-at-home orders, and other economic and social upheaval, it can be tempting to think that the pandemic is ruling, or even ruining, one’s life. But this must not be!
God is mightier than the pandemic. The one all-knowing, all-wise Mind has solutions, answers, and workable outcomes that empower us to keep on prospering no matter what conditions surrounding the pandemic suggest. To succeed, one must keep thought in a good place that is open to progressive insights that master the pandemic and leave it behind.
The pandemic does not rule your mind. You are always free to listen for Mind’s direction, follow progressive insight and stay prosperous.
God’s love and care for you has not been shut down. It may take different forms in your experience, but that’s okay. As one stays open and flexible to new possibilities, doable options appear, progress is made.
The Psalmist wrote, “You O Lord, are supreme over all the earth; you are exalted far above all gods” (Psalms 97:9, NLT). To succeed, it’s important to not let the pandemic become as a god in your mind. It is not a god. It is not a ruler. There is only one God, the one Mind of Love that exists to bless you without end.
Stay in touch with your Source. Stay spiritually minded. Don’t fear the pandemic. Honor God instead and let the one Mind of Love rule over your life.
Indeed, Evan. Thank you.
“Nothing is real and eternal, — nothing is Spirit, but God and His idea. Evil has no reality. It is neither person, place, no thing, but is simply a belief, an illusion of material sense.” (Science and Health, p. 71: 1-4, MB Eddy, chapter Christian Science versus Spiritualism)
Globally, the thought that there are currently two pandemics the world is mesmerized by.
My efforts to track down someone on the internet who spoke about representing Africans in Britain and Australia, and without getting his name, intrigued me of his research. His research found that racism is not biological but is an illusion. Although, I did track down Professor Alan Goodman who wrote an article on Race – The Power of an Illusion.
pbs.org/race/000_002_04-background-01-07.html
This directed me to my Concordance to study deeply the word illusion. A worthwhile study, and a direct and effective prayer to counter whatever pandemic tries to mesmerize thought.
As Evan says, “Stay in touch with your Source. Stay spiritually minded.”
The word “progressive” sends out unhappy flares to my thought. But “progressive insights” is a coat of another color .
Thank you, Evan for expanding my thought. Much to learn & listen about God, Mind and his child, man/woman. “Mind’s direction” is our only need. As my practitioner assured me: Don’t worry about tomorrow. God is already there!
I had heard also that there were no races. It was the Science Guy Bill Nye.
He said that we know man began in Africa and that our different physical characteristics came about as we adapted to our different climates, and that we are all the same. But I love the. word for this as an illusion. thank you.
https://www.pbs.org/race/000_About/002_04-background-01-07.htm
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another correction on P. 71:3, nor thing
Interesting article Jo, thank you for sharing it.
Thank you Jo. Interesting article.
Thank you for sharing this informative article!
Thank you very much dear Evan, that you with each SpiritView awake me from the dream of error and the dream, we are material beings to the truth that we are unharmed spiritual beings only depedent on our almighty, all-good, all-acting and all-loving God! And yes, let’s stay spiritual minded and stay in touch with our only Source! – wonderful! ♡
Yes! your post today reinforces the thought I had when this whole thing started, that the pandemic became a sort of god that everyone was obsessed with and had to succumb to. Thank you for reminding us where to keep our focus!
Thank you, Evan!
I so need this today. I live in a retirement center that is still under quarantine and the clouds seem dark to most folks. This rallying point encourages me to spread some cheeriness—
“Stay in touch with your Source. Stay spiritually minded. Don’t fear the pandemic. Honor God instead and let the one Mind of Love rule over your life.“
I just wanted to post the link to another one of your excellent articles Evan. This one is currently featured in the Deep Dive section of the Journal on JSH and is called “Fear no ill.” It certainly pertains to your message this morning. Thank you for all the wonderful spiritual insights you share with us!
https://journal.christianscience.com/shared/view/cijc8msp38?s=e
Thanks for posting this Karen! As usual, a great article!
Wow! Loved Evan’s article. Appreciate the link, Karen. Maintaining our childlike pure, childlike innocence ensures freedom from any social upheaval.
Thank you Evan for the reminder that “there is only one God, the one Mind of Love that exists to bless you without end.” So true! 🙂
Excellent message Evan. Thank you for the comments by everyone and for the link to Evan’s article. I just read it and it so perfectly supports what the world is facing today.
Animal Magnetism Unmasked
Indeed.
Thank you for the link to Evans article Karen. It really says it all. We must never forget that we are the Loved children of God, his spiritual manifestation, knowing no fear, living in the Kingdom of God…Eternally! And even more significantly that ‘we’ is every one, every where, always❣️
Indeed.
Thank you Evan so comforting and a reminder thou shalt have no others Gods before me!!!
grateful,
Sheree
Evan , thank you, so comforting and a reminder thou shalt have no others Gods before me!!!
grateful,
Sheree
Thank you Evan. I always appreciate having my thoughts brought into the correct focus again. It is so easy to be led into the opposite way of thinking.
It is interesting with the article you shared, Karen, from 2006, how it applies to today in so many ways. One point stood out to me, “A whole lot of nothing trying to be something”. Fear is False Evidence Appearing Real…trying to be something.
When we make “problems” into our focus, we are “having other Gods” , believing in beliefs other than what God has created in perfection. When we try to think more spiritually, pandemic, fear, divisiveness and all forms of error are healed through Truth . The Truth shall set (us) ~ everyone free. Then we are not victims of false beliefs, but our thoughts turn more to peace and harmony and we will see them expressed more clearly in our world more and more.
Reminds me of a friend of another Christian denomination who shared that they often say
Stay Safe, Stay Strong, Stay Spiritual! I really
liked that, as it reminds all of us that our real lives are spiritual, no matter how loudly the world screams that it’s not. Also, a coworker wrote something in a staff newsletter to encourage us
all with an uplifting song, and then added that if we were a “person of prayer”, she encouraged us to embrace the world!
I just loved that idea of being a person of prayer, because we all are persons of prayer, in one way
or another, desiring good and healing for all mankind and our planet! Thanks to all for sharing
So grateful Nathan that you were guided to wake us up to not let the pandemic become as a god in my mind. There is only one God, good, the All-in-all. Life Truth Love
What an amazingly thoughtful, inspiring and helpful blog and each and every comment. My deep and sincere thanks to all!
Evan, your 2006 article “Fear no ill” is a powerful antidote to the fear now prevalent in human consciousness. It gives impetus to prayer that is needed to counteract and nullify this pandemic. Thank you Karen for listening to Mind’s direction to share this with the SV family. So grateful to be reminded of the “invincible peace of mind” that is ours as the perfect reflections of God.
Ethan, thank you sooooo much for pointing out that I should not let the pandemic become as a god in my thinking. I hadn’t intended to let it happen. But now can see that some of my thinking had slipped in the direction of giving the pandemic news reports godlike power. Of course as a student of Mrs Eddy’s in the truth of Christian Science, it is indeed a universal fact there is only the “Adorable One” God, Amen!
Thank you Evan and thanks to everyone for your comments and shared links!
Lately this citation from S & H keeps coming to mind:
[Jesus] mission was both individual and collective. He did life’s work aright not only in justice to himself, but in mercy to mortals, — to show them how to do theirs, but not to do it for them nor to relieve them of a single responsibility.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 18:5–9)
It can be easy to think it’s wrong to be joyous or express God’s other characteristics like peace, harmony, abundance, etc. when so many other people seem to be experiencing sadness, fear, lack, etc. But the thought that keeps coming to me that everyone’s experience is “individual”. And what others say they are experiencing doesn’t have to dictate what I experience. I don’t mean to sound like we should ignore negative situations that other people are going through. I just think it’s important to remember that my (and everyone’s) experience is the expression of God. Therefore I can realize God’s harmony in my experience even though other people may not yet have realized that harmony in their individual experience. Or as stated by Evan in this blog today, I don’t have to allow the pandemic rule my life, even though other people are allowing the pandemic to rule their life.
When I read the Bible stories about Jesus’ life, he never allowed other people’s experience to dictate what he was experiencing. And while he did have a healing effect on other people, there still remained a large group of people that didn’t respond to Jesus’ example. I sometimes get tricked into thinking I need to “heal” everyone else of their issues via my prayers for the world. But as stated in the quote from S&H at the top of this comment, everyone is ultimately responsible for themselves, If I’m doing a good job of expressing God that example will bless the world. But I don’t need to feel responsible for others or get depressed if there seem to be a lot of people that aren’t responding to my prayers for the world. Instead I can be like the Psalmist and remember as stated in Psalm 23:
“Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.
Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies: thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over.
Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life: and I will dwell in the house of the Lord for ever.
Thank you Brian for your insight. I like your reasoning. I shall ponder it.
Thank you Evan for getting us all thinking and all the good comments that stirred up.
Thank you, Evan and all! I woke this morning with this message..”God made ALL THAT WAS MADE..and it is perfect…NOW AND FOREVER.” I am so grateful for the truths that come to us all when we are ‘still and listening.’.
Very inspiring!
Thanks Evan. Love the Ogre story, so true. Thanks everyone for sharing.
Thank you, as always. Yesterday’s Daily Lift, told us to be a thermostat, not a thermometer ! I found that extremely helpful…blessings to us all.