One way to feel God’s presence is to look for it around you. God is everywhere to be seen!
God is Love. Go to the grocery store and look for an individual walking around with a smile. That smile is God’s presence. It’s God’s smile smiling at you. It’s the Love of God saying, “Hey, I’m right here!”
God is Spirit. If you have trees nearby, walk through them and listen for the birds chirping and singing. The beautiful music is God’s presence. It’s God singing a song of Life, and saying, “Hey, I’m right here.”
God is Mind. If you’re feeling uninspired, depressed or lonely, then read the Bible or Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, and search for one fresh insight. As soon as it comes, no matter how small, sound the trumpets and clang the bells for rejoicing that you just heard an idea coming to you from divine Mind. It’s God’s presence. It’s God saying, “Hey, I’m right here in spiritual truth.”
It’s much easier to feel God’s presence when one is willing to give God credit for all the good God has bestowed, including the lessons of Truth shared with the world through the Bible, Jesus Christ and Christian Science.
Lack of gratitude and self-absorption feel numb to God’s presence. They are enemies to peace and harmony and often complain that God’s presence can’t be found. Their cure is gratitude and looking outward to something bigger than oneself.
Look out and up!
“God is Love. Can we ask Him to be more?” Science and Health, p. 2.
Dear Evan, I can`t say how grateful I am for this utmost lovely and loving SpiritView, yet so simple, to see God and to be aware of our loving Father-Mother God in everything and everyone. Actually it is clear, because God made everything and everyone.
The sentence from Science and Helath, p. 2. i.e. “God is Love Can we ask Him to be more?” I always ad to it … and we don`t need more”. Because God`s Love is the most precious we can have and do need.
Thank you Evan, oncemore for this wonderful SV 🙂
I love this message, Evan.Thank you.
It’s so simple. I can remember how to work with similar ideas as I relish walking out in the warm sunshine around my garden.
What a lovely Post Evan…Extremely good…”God is Love. Can we ask Him to be more?” No… If God is Love … what more can we want? He is with us every step of the way…closer to us than our own skin.. As one of our Hymns says…”In atmosphere of Love Divine, we live and move and breathe..” Gods being is Infinity, freedom, harmony and boundless bliss… We live, move and have our being in the infinite God.” The only thing we can do is, giving thanks to God every moment…
What a delightful angelic message of beauty in today’s thoughts of comfort, Evan. Thank you! It reminds me of the quote from S & H, “It is Love which paints the petal with myriad hues, glances in the warm sunbeam, arches the cloud with the bow of beauty, blazons the night with starry gems, and covers the earth with loveliness.” All of these gems of Truth shared today and always, paint such a glorious picture. I, too, Bid, enjoy such loveliness when I am in my garden and when I am under a cathedral of trees. Love, truly is all around.
Yes. Very important. Love’s ever-presence must be acknowledged. Once I was extremely distressed by a situation with people.
I turned to God and heard a request to look at my thoughts. I saw myself as a “good” mortal mind trying desperately to fix “mistaken” mortal minds. Was that Christian Science? NO! There’s only one, divine Mind, and Mind doesn’t need fixing! Neither do His images. I had to fire this mortal mind as an image maker or believer. “in reality there’s NO mortal mind. . .” (SH 103)
I was told to look out the window, It was a glorious sunny spring morning. I was asked, “How do you know the sun is out? Do you have to go searching for it in the sky?” No. I knew the sun was out because of all the rays of light shining on everything. I recalled “As . . . a ray of light one with the sun, even so God and man, Father and son, are one in being.” SH 361:16-18
I suddenly realized that the people who distressed me were actually the very presence and proof of God in my life, the rays of light of God’s living Love. I saw all their courage, faith and sweetness. I wanted to hug them!
There was no more “situation.’ Only Love. Only progress.
Thanks Diane for this inspiring testimony<3
Your words, Evan:
“Lack of gratitude and self-absorption feel numb to God’s presence. They are enemies to peace and harmony and often complain that God’s presence can’t be found. Their cure is gratitude and looking outward to something bigger than oneself”.
Often the unhappiest people are those that are the most self absorbed. Giving people. of heart and time, are usually the happiest because they are about God’s work and it makes them happy to do what is natural as God’s children to do! Love this post! Thank you!
Thank you Evan for this beautiful blog this morning. The comments here are wonderful proof of God’s care and infinite love. Blessings to all as we rejoice in God’s day.
Thank You Evan, the sun is out is it’s God’s Beautiful day!!
God-inspired! Thank you for listening, following, and sharing!
Thanks Evan! I love this post. Thank you for all the goodness you share.
Thank you Evan and everyone that commented…especially Diane!
I also especially liked Grace’s comment which pointed out the specific paragraph where Evan explained thought patterns that cause us to feel “numb” to God’s presence and then elaborated on that.
I’ve read comments on this blog where people have said they don’t feel close to God and wonder why. This blog gives us a lot of ideas to consider to break down the beliefs that keep us from feeling close to God. But I’d like to add one more. I think many people hold a grudge against God…perhaps feeling God didn’t provide something they felt they needed at some point in their lives. So that’s another belief to watch out for that if entertained can prevent us from feeling close to God. Hmmm…now that I think of it, perhaps Evan covered that belief too when he pointed out “lack of gratitude” as something that can make us feel numb to God’s love.
I love the Prodigal Son story in the Bible (Luke 15:11-32). In just a few words it illustrates many of the false beliefs that can prevent us from feeling close to God, including all of the examples cited in this blog today. It also so clearly points out that even while we may be holding these false beliefs that blind us to realizing God’s ever-present love, God is continuously loving us at all times and all we have to do to experience that love is to replace those false beliefs with the truth and realize that all encompassing Love which makes those truths true. Then we see what has been there all along!
Beautiful, thx you!!!!
Inspiring post and comments. I am grateful to all of you for your beautiful messages.
I second all the replies, so beautifully expressed and uplifting Evan.
Thank you, Evan and all xoxo!!
Look what you’ve done Evan… what a wonderful celebration of God’s Love!
This is so important. Natural and easy. God is with us everywhere, here, now, always and in all ways. In line with what you say about reading the Bible and Science and Health, I have discovered I can read many pages or verses. or only a few, for an hour or for only a few minutes, and I will always find the inspiration I need and STOP right there…and take it with me. Love provides!
Sounding the trumpets and clanging the bells!!! Thank you for that reminder!
We cannot ask for anything more because of God’s ever presence and love. Thanks Evan, I continue to need this closeness.
Thank you Evan for this, and all your wonderful God-given ideas
Thank you too, Diane, for such inspiring comments – just what was needed
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Loved this post. I love the expectancy of
God’s goodness in all our daily pursuits.
I’m always saying ” Thank you God throughout my day.”
Thank you, as always, for the beautiful words that we can put into practice!