If you ever feel like your life is running out of control, or there is too much commotion going on around you to maintain peace of mind, you might look for a quiet place to pray and get your thought back into harmony with God’s thought.
In my early years, when I was a busy worker on our family farm, days were long and filled with unending jobs. If I started losing my peace of mind, I’d look for an opportunity to step aside from the hectic routine a few minutes and quietly pray. Often, I’d park my truck behind some apple trees somewhere on the farm, pull out my crinkled, dirty and battered copy of Science and Health, and read a few passages to remind me of who was really in control of my life. It usually took just a few minutes to get my thought centered back with Truth, and off I’d go to my next job, but feeling much more peace.
Jesus said, “When you pray, go into your room, and when you have shut your door, pray to your Father who is in the secret place; and your Father who sees in secret will reward you openly” (Matthew 6:6, NKJV).
Our “room,” is divine Mind. Whatever it takes, there is a huge reward for us when we shut our mental door to commotion, distraction, and noise from the world at large, and quietly commune with Truth in the Mind of God. Tension goes away, stress leaves, health problems alleviate, and peace is found.
Find your quiet place to pray today and reap the reward!
Thank you, Evan, for your peace giving thoughts!
“Be still and know that I am God” comes to mind.
Thank you , David…that is one of my favorites! “ Be still, and know that I AM GOD.”
For me too, Kathy.
Shortly it helped me finding a parking space in an area where it seems to be nearly impossible. I drove three times around the house blogs praying these 5 words with success, finally finding the best place.
Sometimes when I go for a longer drive I have with me the full text edition of the weekly lesson sermon in order to read in the car a helpful passage before I go somewhere shopping or for a family visit.
Thank you Evan for today’s wonderful SpiritView!
Thank you Evan, I think this is vital. If we feel like we’re drowning we must come up for air (Christian Science – Truth) and take deep breaths of Spiritual inspiration. We are all so blessed!
Love this Evan. A verse from hymn 118, which I have often found helpful, comes to mind,
“Holy Spirit, Peace divine,
Still this restless heart of mine;
Speak to calm the tossing sea,
Stayed in Thy tranquillity.”
Sometimes I feel that the Father is saying, “A Word please, my dear.” And like a guiding parent compels me to quiet my thought and reach out to him as Mrs. Eddy says, “…like tired children.” Such a nurturing love.
Thanks for that image of a work weary young man reading a well-worn Science and Health under apple trees.
Thank you Evan and all. This reminds me of a time when I yearned to move into a bigger home because my condo was beginning to feel too small. During a physical challenge when much spiritual searching and prayer was happening, I began to feel deep gratitude for the peaceful, manageable home I was in. It was my quiet, holy place and my perspective about it changed completely. That quiet closet can truly be wherever we are.
Thank you for sharing. Like someone mentioned above, I believe It was Dawn, I do love the image of a young man searching to know God better under an apple tree. I came to CS in my adult years. I often wonder, if someone’s prayers- were answered by drawing me to Science- maybe one of my parents prayers-or perhaps a stranger on another continent- or perhaps my own- or whether it was simply God’s plan, and the Christ entering in, and the natural leavening of thought- knowing I was receptive and ready. I like to ponder this idea- of whose prayers were answered by drawing me to learn the Truth- (a young man praying under an Apple tree )I am so grateful, by far the best thing in my life. I now remind myself to pray for others- the struggling hearts- to receive the same comfort I have found, or actually-been gifted with..
Thank you all! Evan, I often think of you and the orchard as I’m working on something. Your lectures are so moving. The healing you had with the chemical exploding in your eyes and how you wet able to calmly handle the thought that you could ever be out of God’s care has been so helpful to me for several years. How absurd! God IS ever-present! That is the most comforting thought! Whether one is wrestling with thought of dis-ease, lack of employment or direction, loss, anxiety… God IS! Negative or fearful thoughts have no power and as many have said and experienced, you can find a quiet place no matter where you are!
Bless you all for your sharing! Xo ali
typo: [were] not WET! ha!
Good Morning!
Thank you for sharing your thoughts on a quiet place to pray Finding peace and reassurance, calming mortal mind with comforting prayer.
And thank you Christi, for reminding us to love our neighbor as ourselves, giving them the
benefit of this healing prayer. Thinking not only for ourselves, but for other’s in our experience. Our neighbors.
We now live in a manufactured home, (house trailer). It has a quiet room where first and last thing I do is study and pray. We are grateful for this affordable sanctuary, affordable and peaceful.
There, I asked God just how to pray concerning the pandemic I had material remedies in mind. And was ready to extend that thought to the public. I opened the Bible to Romans and began to read Paul’s address to the Romans, when the verse, II Corinthians, 10:4, came to me. “For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strongholds:” God is on the job. I”ll trust that.
Why go about trying to defeat an enemy without the best weapon available?
“Work Work Watch and Pray” Last night read the rest of the S & H for the second time through. And finished Romans, Needed to get rid of pain, and this morning it subsided considerably.
Thank you for this opportunity to share Christian Science experience.
David.. fyi .. what has worked for me over the years is to know there are no accidents in God’s kingdom…. There is no pain in Truth and vice versa. This has taken out any pain Ive ever had..often in minutes. Peace and LOVE.
Science and Health comes in so many sizes, it’s a blessing to set yourselves up with a copy always at hand to turn to in carved out moments to anchor and feed and guide. Those unexpected waiting times also become looked for and gratefully greeted!
It’s a comfort knowing that this closet is a mental space that we can enter as often as needed, to become “undisturbed amid the jarring testimony of the material senses..” Even in “lockdown” the suggestions of mortal mind can clamor for our attention. Mary Baker Eddy has given us beautiful and explicit descriptions of Reality that pave our way to the door of spiritual sense, where consciousness awakens to the naturalness of divine perfection! What a privilege to be a student of this Science, and to feel the sustaining strength from this community of it’s followers. Evan, thank you for your inspired posts that give such impetus to our spiritual growth.
Evan thanks for these inspiring ideas and thanks to all who contribute.
During High School I worked on a farm before school and at a restaurant after school.. like you I would look for that quiet space for a prayer break..
Looking back on my life I can see there was a direct correlation between finding quiet time and feeling closer to God..
Thanks to each and every entry here! What a wealth of inspiration and assurance of God’s absolute goodness and provision. Particularly the expressions of gratitude for small, modest, dwellings, which shelter us and our efforts God-ward speak to me during my transition from large to small. Spirit View community, you bless me each day. I thank you for that…from the heart.