If mortals would keep proper ward over mortal mind, the brood of evils which infest it would be cleared out.
~ Mary Baker Eddy, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p. 234
Like tending your garden and keeping all weeds out so that the desirable plants can flourish and bear fruit, we must tend the garden of our thought and keep out all unwanted intruders.
Mortal mind is a summary term for all the evil attitudes, perspectives, beliefs, and fears which deny God’s allness and build a case for evil, rather than for good.
As a child of God, you have divine power to master mortal mind. You possess the ability to side with good, and defeat evil. You can retain a clear thought—a spiritually inspired thought—that knows and feels God’s goodness on a regular basis.
Keep a clear thought.
Love reading SpiritView! I have known about CS most of my life but have never fully relied on the teachings when challenges have presented themselves. I often feel keeping my thoughts clear and spiritually inspired difficult. Nice to read this analogy about gardening since I love to garden. I will remember to clear my mortal thoughts as I weed!
Thank you, Evan-
We certainly do not want to build a case for evil. With all that is going on in the US and around the world, it feels like evil has mounted a pretty convincing case and is gaining the upper hand. But I have been praying diligently for peace, stability and harmony to be seen and felt. God is Love- the only lawgiver and gives us our divine rights. She doesn’t give man the right or mind to hate or the right or ability to be sick or sinful. We are not free to do any of that. God made us free. Free to love God, ourselves and each other. Free to express and demonstrate order, Principle, honesty, home, wisdom, compassion, integrity, health, mercy and grace. Free to express the allness of God, good. There is no power that can block God. God destroys all that is unlike Him. Thanks again- this has helped refocus my prayers and has given me my “daily bread” aka “food for thought.”
God’s law is in three words, “I am All;” and this perfect law is ever present to rebuke any claim of another law. …
Page 30, No and Yes, by Mary Baker Eddy
A garden well tended is like a place you.would love to visit.
Amen to that thought Robert. A consciousness plucked of weeds and with well tended thoughts is a pleasure to be around.
Rod, not Robert, apology
Thank you for today’s message Evan and thank you all for your comments!
Evan ,Thank you for today’s message and thank you all for your comments!
I am grateful for this reminder, Evan. Thank you.❤️
Thou will keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on thee because he trusteth in thee. Isaiah 26:3
Belinda the verse you posted from Isaiah reminded me of yesterday’s SV, where Evan advises us to think about God in order to feel close to Him. This verse says that if we have our thought stayed on God, we will remain in perfect peace, our natural state. No weeds, or as Evan calls them “unwanted intruding thoughts,” can grow there.
The Weed’s Root Must Be Cut
by Paul Stark Seeley
https://sentinel.christianscience.com/shared/view/1vltcwaxfb0?s=e
Thank you RobertH for this article. I looked up the page mentioned from S&H
in the article, and Mrs. Eddy writes, (page 405), “Christian Science commands
man to master the propensities, – to hold hatred in abeyance with kindness,
to conquer lust with chastity, revenge with charity, and to overcome deceit
with honesty. Choke these errors in their early stages, if you would not
cherish an army of conspirators against health, happiness and success.”
To me, I believe this to mean – to have One God (First Commandment) and
not to worship other gods or mortal mind bodies or anything that would
detract from the One and Only God, Good. To make gods of anything material
and to keep putting these erroneous weeds above the flowers of Truth and Love,
is to imho, not honor God, but to let the weeds of mortal sense take over our
otherwise beautiful garden of spiritual understanding and happiness.
Thank you Carol. Here’s a link to page 405 in case others want to read this page too.
https://www.christianscience.com/the-christian-science-pastor/science-and-health/chapter-xii-christian-science-practice?citation=SH%20405:5-405:21
Excellent article. Thank you.
Here’s an oldie but goodie from 1903….”Weed your own Garden” by THEODORE R. HINSDALE.
https://sentinel.christianscience.com/shared/view/v69z4ab9f0?s=e
Thanks RobertH, for this oldie but goodie, as you called it. Short and sweet and right to the point. We are so quick to see the faults in others thinking and actions, while being in denial about our own issues that need addressing. We won’t have time to mind other people’s business if we keep our eyes on own spiritual work. The old saying goes, when we point a finger at someone else there are three fingers pointing back at us.
Thank you Rose. The other thing I thought this article brought out was how a pure (weed free) heart will cause people to want to be like that too and ask us how we’re able to be loving and kind and weed free. I’ve come across a number of articles in the periodicals lately by people who started studying CS because they were impressed by the life of some other Christian Scientist. If we really love others we will want to set a good example in hopes of helping them free themselves from the weeds. So I thought that was another great take away from this article in addition to the point you brought out so well and is so important.
I love what you wrote, RobertH about a pure (weed free) heart
will cause people to want to be like that too. I had a dear friend
who was so pure in heart, that she had a beatific glow about
her. She was not CS, but she and her husband had such an
aura of loveliness about them. They were both so child-like in
spirit and they did set a wonderful example of actually living
Love – real Love and were the least materialistic in their thinking.
They held each other up on a pedestal, not of matter-based thinking,
but of the divine. Their garden of Love’s beauty surrounded them
with weed-free purity. They are both in more heavenly places now
but their spiritual truth and being lives on and they both set an example
of wanting to be like them – so clear in spiritually inspired thought.
I love this clarifying definition of mortal mind and the image of the father tenderly supporting the child’s efforts to tend to his garden. This post was an also cool drink of clear water, thank you Evan!
Kay posted a sweet and moving story late yesterday on SV. Maggie read it and she made the wise comment that she wished we all could have seen it before moving on to the next day’s SV. I try to remember to always go back and check the previous day, inspiration can come at any time and also we are a worldwide community from many time zones. You may read the very thing you need to hear.
Yes, dear Rose, I read it also yesterday, the very beautiful Story Kay wrote yesterday. I would say, that is a true story which can happen to us all , if we confide in God and His Christ – and listen! Thank you Kay and Rose and Maggie.
I do every Morning the same you do, Rose, namely going back to the day before and enjoying those comments, which possibly came in later because of the time zone. At this moment it’s midnight here.
Thank you very much, dear Evan for today’s SV. Oh, I’m working and praying on weeding out error thoughts on the root. Studying the lesson sermon thoroughly, helps very much clearing and healing my thinking. I’m very grateful for your healing SpiritView♡
Thank you, Evan.