When life events turn against you, and prospects for success look dim, don’t lose hope. There is a greater power than yourself at work on the scene that can turn the situation around and bring about a good outcome.
I explain how something good can come out of something bad in this vlog that was filmed at the Cedar Breaks National Monument, in Utah, when my wife and I visited the area in September 2024.
This is a wonderful vlog, Evan! Woohoo! Our God is good! Thank you for telling us this amazing story. Yay! Just when you think you’re “done,” God says, “There’s more to the story.” Beautiful. Thank you!
Excellent video and proof that we learn when young and older: “ there’s no spot where God is not”!
Thank you, Evan!
Evan, thank you for sharing this testimonial of God’s omnipresent Love. When we know how much God loves each one of us we are healed of our fear of any belief of separation of His ever presence of Good. Each year I read I read/study our textbook in addition to our Bible Lessons and periodicals. I am so grateful for knowing how much and how ever present God’s Love is in our lives.
Thank you for sharing this. An amazing experience of all working together for good
Thank you
God IS a very present help in trouble.
A CSP friend and I were traveling to Seneca Falls, NY to see the MBE display there. My van engine light came on, I started to worry, the CSP started praying, the engine light went off and never came back on the years I had it.
Now that’s sure evidence that all things are possible to God when we turn to Father, Mother for solutions to any difficulties.
Thanks Evan!!!!
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This healing/realization of what is true and normal to God only took minutes for the van to normalize, and never had to slow down our trip.
Love to you all.
Can you please explain what a CSP friend is for newcomers to this site. What does that mean?
Grace, CSP is likely Christian Science Practitioner. ❤️
Thanks Grace for asking this question for newcomers to this site. I’m also guessing it means Christian Science Practitioner. And for those unfamiliar with what a Christian Science Practitioner is, here is the explanation from the church’s Christian Science website, christianscience.com:
https://www.christianscience.com/christian-healing-today/christian-science-practitioners
God is always with us.
A number of years ago, I came back from a CS camp with my young daughter. When all of a sudden it seemed as if my car was coughing, it would catch and go. I started praying about what to do. All of a sudden, I heard “Get off this exit, turn left, then right.” Definitely a God inspired message. I did as I was told and wound up at a gas station. They just opened up, the manager came to see me and said his mechanic was off that day. He went back to his office, I sat with my young daughter in the car praying.. Twenty minutes later the manger comes back to me and says, my mechanic who wasn’t supposed to be here is in. Pull your car in. The mechanic told me it was my spark plugs and one had gone bad. He searched the whole garage for that spark plug as he knew it was in there somewhere. My car was older, parts hard to find. That mechanic he found that spark plug, put it in and I was so, so grateful! I gave thanks all the way home!
Thank you, Evan, for sharing this lovely testimony
.This is a very useful law to acknowledge and use in so many different
circumstances when things seem to be conflicting even in smaller ways.
For instance, sometimes when I go out to brush up the fallen leaves from our
big Foxglove tree in the front during Autumn, a wind sometimes whips up, which makes it veery difficult, and blowing the leave in different directions.
I have been acknowledging this spiritual law to ascertain that God holds
the wind in his fists, and everything works together for good to those who love God. I do find
that the wind then helps me with the work, and it a much easier job.
Beautiful vlog Evan with your testimony about Gods care for his children a constant , demonstrable comfort.
I’m learning so much since my limited Sunday school years. ..ie of old I would think when this physical life is going well ..that’s good fortune and prayer was only an intervention when facing challenges. How wonderful it is that Christian Science teaches us to seek the spiritual instead of material sense at all times ..then it becomes so obvious that everything good is coming from God . No waiting for a spiritual outcome , just waking up to what IS.
Lovely testimonies shared today. Thank you to all❣️
Thank you, Evan!
Thank you for sharing your wonderful example and experience that reminds us all to “keep the faith”, even when it seems like faith won’t be good enough to help in “this’ or “that” situation. Keep on trusting ALL the way through to experience the fullness of good that God is laying out for each one of us in our individual experiences. Thank you, Evan!
Oh, Evan – What a great demonstration and thank you for taking us along on
your wonderfully scenic trip! So Beautiful! Your testimony, along with the
others are certainly proof of God’s carin and Love for us.
I had a similar experience (I’ve shared here before, but am so grateful for, will
share again). I was on my way to a Wed. evening testimony meeting, far from
home and was thinking about what I was going to share, so was in a good
“Mind set”, when my car was hit very near the front of the driver side and then
sideswiped again. My little car was totaled by a girl who was on her phone and
ran a light and also totaled her large suv. It was surreal and like a “dream” (really
was a mortal dream) and I just wanted to get back in the car and drive off. Behind
me, there “just happened” (thank you, God!) to be a tow truck driver on his way
home from work. His shop was a few buildings down and he offered such comfort
and reason to be grateful that I made it through, as he said where I was hit, if it were
just a little bit more, I would not be standing there talking to him. Neither I or the young
girl were injured. So what Seemed to be an unsettling situation, actually was a blessing
in disguise. It turned out that with the girl’s insurance (and two witnesses that came
forward, or it would have been her word against mine), and a little more added, I was
able to purchase a better and safer car … a four door with a metal roof, rather than a two
door with a canvas roof. Ironically a short while before I had grumbled to “myself” that I
wished I had a larger car to more easily help with my work tools. Little did I know that
God was “listening”. : ) I didn’t know This was His way of turning what seemed to be a
bad experience into a blessing.
An answer to prayer this morning…thank you Evan! So grateful!❤️❤️
What a beautiful acknowledgement of God’s care. It reminds me of Elisha praying to see that, even though he was surrounded by the enemy, their eyes were opened to see they were actually surrounded by help – horses and chariots of fire. ( II Kings 6.) I am grateful that your help was where you needed it to be. Blessings to all today!
Love the vlog and all the comments. Thank you everyone. So helpful ❣️
Thanks Evan. Great vlog, message, and gorgeous scenery.
Lovely demonstration Evan!
I love it when we receive proof that all things work together for good. I think I shared a testimony a while back as well of needing to take down a very large juniper bush that was the size of a tree. The thought came to do it the next morning. I looked out the window as I drew the shade the next morning and there was a large truck on the other side of the street. It turns out it was a cleanup day in our neighborhood and as I got out the chainsaw a man who was a volunteer for the cleanup day came over and practically did all the cutting. Other volunteers dragged the branches over to the truck until the job was completed. I was so grateful to see such an outpouring of love from God and neighbors. It all came together (differently than I would have planned it) perfectly.
Thank you very much, dear Evan for your really wonderful demonstration of God`s everpresence and that all things works together for Good, for God’s Goodness!
What you said, that in trying times and also in general, we shall open our eyes, spiritual eyes, to see how everything works togehter for God’s Goodness, I did today, and I can see how blessed the day was for me and also for my neighbor. Your Vlog is very very helpful, and I am very glad and thankful you taught us how to think and pray in such situations.
The place you were in your holidays is utmost beautiful! Thanks for your wonderful, blessing Vlog!
WOW!!! Just WOW!!! God’s power and ever presence is awesome! The one ever-present, all-knowing infinite Mind … the ONE Mind!!
Thanks very much Evan. So wonderful to hear how you and Kathy stayed calm and trusting and kept your thoughts high in an elevated spiritual state and continued to know the truth that — with God all things work together for Good. We can apply this lesson to so many situations.
Thank you for gentle reminder, my mom sent me this tonight because my life is falling apart, and right when everything started going good for the first time in years.
I do need to get out of my own may and know everything happens for my highest good. I’m being tested and challenged in ways I thought I would never have to go through again . Thank you for the message
I’m from Utah and very familiar with the wilderness where Evan was heading. Once my husband and I were traveling to Canada and having trouble with the starter in a VW camper. The next morning it wouldn’t start at all, but we had parked on a hill on purpose, so with help from some nice fellow campers, we push started it. We knew that when we stopped it would probably not start again. We had one more town before going into Canada, but it was Sunday. We weren’t worried. Some might say that was because we were young! At any rate, we were listening to that spiritual sense that is present in all of us. We pulled up to an auto repair place, which was closed but the owner was there. He said he would take a look at the van and to walk around town for a couple of hours. When we came back he said he cleaned the starter because he didn’t have the part and couldn’t get one on Sunday. Told us we should be ok on our trip but to get a new starter when we got back. We drove on that starter for two more years. A line from a song I wrote around that time went “I always get what I need somehow, but what I want goes on shifting like the sand.” From later studying Christian Science I have learned that it was God that was meeting my needs, and what I want will always be elusive to me until I learn to recognize, cherish and practice living in that spiritual sense of God we all have.. Gradually, we learn how to do this as Evan did. Refuse to accept evil suggestions through an understanding of the law of the allness of God.
Thanks Evan for sharing your beautiful healing experience of God’s live & care & with all things working together for good.
Thank you Evan for sharing this experience with us
It reminded my husband and I of experiences we have had and how Christian Science was such a great help
We are forever students of of this great Science and the enlightenment we experience from all the tools we have at our fingertips
Thank you Evan.