Hold to healthy ideals

October 22, 2026 | 9 comments

How do you see yourself today?  Do you see yourself as healthy, strong, vital and well?

As a spiritual child of God, health and strength are native to your being.  It’s the way God made you and keeps you, forever.  

Spiritual sense is keenly aware of your God-created self and experiencing it on a regular basis.  To feel likewise, it’s important that spiritual sense informs our perspective and keeps it aligned with spiritual reality.  Then we feel our native health with God and express it in our daily routine.

Mary Baker Eddy reminds us, “Whatever benefit is produced on the body, must be expressed mentally, and thought should be held fast to this ideal” (Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p. 392).  

Thought that knows health feels health.  Thought that knows joy, feels joy.  Thought that knows strength feels strength.  

Benefits produced on the body are first located in the thought governing that body.

Stick with high ideals, spiritual ideals, to stay healthy.  Be quick to dismiss any suggestions of disease or temptation to suffer.  Stay aware of what God created you to be.  Hold to healthy ideals.

9 thoughts on “Hold to healthy ideals”

  1. Wonderful post,Evan. Especially love ‘Thought that knows health feels health. Thought that knows joy, feels joy. Thought that knows strength feels strength.’ Thank you!

  2. Thank you, Evan – for this reminder of our choice as to where we
    wish to place our thought. Mrs. Eddy writes on pg.96 of S&H,
    “This material world is even now becoming the arena for conflicting
    forces. On one side there will be discord and dismay; on the other
    side there will be Science and peace. The breaking up of material
    beliefs may seem to be famine and pestilence, want and woe, sin,
    sickness, and death, which assume new phases until their nothingness
    appears. These disturbances will continue until the end of error, when
    all discord will be swallowed up in spiritual Truth”.
    Even more so in our “age” of even more materiality, always blasting us
    with images of mortal ills – it is so important to hold on to healthy ideals,
    rather than listen to what the material senses seem to be bombarding us
    with. In the Sentinal Watch with Nate Talbot, he admits it is not easy to
    be a Christian, but even more difficult to be a Christian Scientist, but the
    reward of thinking and acting like one in guarding our thought to the
    temptations of this world, are well worth the effort.

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