If you ever worry about not having enough information, wonder about hidden motives in other people’s actions, or are concerned about what might happen in the future, take heart. There is a solution.
Rather than try to figure it out humanly, let the answer you need come to you spiritually. Find peace in knowing that divine Mind knows everything.
Anything and everything you could ever possibly need to know, is already known by divine Mind.
As a child of God, you have an intimate relationship with divine Mind. In fact, divine Mind is your Mind. Which means, that the answers you need to know are present in your Mind this moment.
Stay calm. Remain humble. Listen, and you will hear what you need to hear when you need to know it.
As Jesus Christ tells us, “Nothing is covered up that will not be revealed, or hidden that will not be known” (Luke 12:2, RSV).
Divine Mind reveals to you what you need to know. You can live by this rule.
Just what I needed this morning..wonderful, thank you!
Wonderful…thank you Evan.
Gods care is constant ….❣️
I often pray with this, I don’t remember where I read it; but it’s always been helpful to settle my thought and trust a needed answer or idea will come: “Mind Knows and Mind will reveal, all I should know, or do, or say!” Thanks dear Evan for the reminder that this is a rule!
Perfect for today – a keeper. Thank you, Evan, for every Spirit View!!!
Thank you for the reminder Evan.
Fantastic! Thank you!❣️
Perfect, t hank you Evan. The Key is “Listening”!
Thank you Evan. I was working with this very idea yesterday to remain calm and let Divine Mind show me what action to take on a situation. Love your thoughts
Every morning. Dana
Psalm 46/10. Be still and know that I am God.
I look forward to SpiritView every morning and this morning’s message is especially brought the words I need today Thank you, Evan and thank you all for your comments. “I will listen for thy voice lest my footsteps stray.”
“God knows” By Nathan A. Talbot. From the March 1978 issue of The Christian Science Journal:
https://journal.christianscience.com/shared/view/28vz4avd5bk?s=copylink
.A question was asked yesterday after Maggie’s comment by Amy. “How should I respond when expectation does not result in good, peace, harmony, joy, love, etc?”
If Maggie isn’t available to answer, maybe Evan or someone else has thoughts…. It’s a great question and an opportunity to learn.
Thank you, J. I didn’t see the question before the day was over for me in U.K. – so I will reply now with the way I may tackle this.
Dear Amy,
Sorry I didn’t respond yesterday as it was too late for me to notice. So here are a few thoughts that
may be helpful.
I would thank God, first of all, that all these qualities that I long for, God has already included in me as His reflection, even though I may not be conscious of them at present. This is the spiritual fact that I would begin with and claim for myself.
Then having ascertained that this is the reality,
I would turn right away from whatever seems to be troubling me, that would attempt to hide from me my true spiritual nature in God’s likeness – the
image of Love. I would know that these are not my thoughts because they do not come from God who gives us our true thoughts, which are all
good, harmonious, joyful and perpetual.
Then I may thank God, and look for all the beautiful
and harmonious things that are always present – perhaps make a list of them. But acknowledge God as the source of all good all around every moment. Magnify the good, do good wherever I can find the opportunity. etc. Above all,
love God and all His children, whatever seems to be suggesting itself to me that is not good and loving.
This is what is coming to me at the moment, but
it may be different for any time the suggestions of
a power opposed to God suggests itself. So
these thoughts may be helpful, but it will come
to. you from God once you begin to acknowledge
the spiritual facts first of all. God is Love, and
communicates only that which is all-loving and
harmonious and good to all His children – and
leaves no-one out.
I hope this is helpful and will point you in the right direction. I find that once I begin to make that effort,, the spiritual thoughts begin to flow – and
you can experience the same, for the Christ is
with you, and will help you.
Singing, or studying joyful hymns I also find very
helpful in lifting my thoughts out of the mental darkness into the spiritual light.
into the light.
Love and blessings.
Maggie
So instructive and really lovely Maggie. Thanks so much for sharing your thoughts with Amy & all of us!
After I circled back to the message from Maggie, the peace and joy of knowing how to respond to a family member embroiled in an active shooting event, I kept sensing I didn’t have an answer, to how to pray, for the person. MAGGIE,you’ve lifted my view from “I don’t know, to NOW I HAVE a LIST OF ANSWERS, listed above, to include LIFT thoughts…SING….STUDY JOYFUL HYMNS. There can be no spot “where GOD is NOT”. . . love that from Nursery all the way to Sunday School and beyond.
THERE CAN BE NO SPOT WHERE GOD IS NOT! For praying with that answer, it’s pure LOVE, spreading in my thought, and goes out all those involved in a disobedient action. EACH person is SAFE IN GOD’S CARE. Such a beautiful lift for my scrappy prayers, along with DO NOT BE AFRAID, see GOD’s LOVE everywhere!
THANK YOU MAGGIE.
I was just about to submit a comment when I saw J’s comment about Amy’s question yesterday. I think the comment I was about to submit may be applicable…so here it goes…
I was talking with a neighbor recently that went to a CS Sunday School for a few years when she was growing up but then she moved and didn’t continue attending. She liked what she learned at Sunday School but she has since for many years relied on medical care for her health needs. She asked me “How do you gain a confidence to trust Christian Science for your needs?” I responded that you see CS work in your life over the years and over time you trust it more and more. But then later I thought of times CS didn’t seem to “work” for me, like Amy asked. Or didn’t work for my family members or friends. I’ve recently been praying to heal a situation that isn’t yielding and I’ve often thought “What should I think when I pray and don’t see any change? Do I just try to ignore the situation?” Recently I’ve heard divine Mind tell me that what I need to think in these situations is what God is knowing…even though from a material sense (perspective) I don’t seem to be seeing what God is knowing. In my own case I’ve also been praying to know clearly that “Divine Love meets every human need.” I’ve noticed some doubt about that in my thinking and I’ve realized that’s an error that I need to correct and doing that has been helpful in dealing with frustration and worry. And in rethinking about times I thought CS didn’t work for me, I’ve gained a new perspective to see that it actually did work in ways that were different than what I had outlined and I’ve been grateful to gain that new perspective on past events.
What came to me today, and what I was going to put in my comment, is how important humility is in our ability to practice. Specifically becoming humble enough to know God’s in control and keeping everything in perfect harmony and I just need to humble my own view of things to see God’s harmony. Section 5 of the Bible Lesson this week is a great reference on the importance of humility to realizing what Mind is knowing as Evan described. So today I’ve resolved to be more humble and just release all worry or frustration and just trust more in God’s control. Or as Evan wrote “Stay calm. Remain humble. Listen, and you will hear what you need to hear when you need to know it.” Note: In the situation I’ve been working to see resolved, I’ve been trying my best to do what Evan describes and as I do that I continue to find “temporary means” to enable me to continue my normal daily activities while I keep praying to demonstrate a full healing.
Below are two citations from section 5 of the Bible Lesson that are pertinent to the humility to which I’m referring…
Matthew 18:2-4:
And Jesus called a little child unto him, and set him in the midst of them. And said, Verily I say unto you, Except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven. Whosoever therefore shall humble himself as this little child, the same is greatest in the kingdom of heaven.
Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy pg 323:32:
Willingness to become as a little child and to leave the old for the new, renders thought receptive of the advanced idea. Gladness to leave the false landmarks and joy to see them disappear, — this disposition helps to precipitate the ultimate harmony. The purification of sense and self is a proof of progress. “Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God.”
A few years ago I walked out to get the mail and saw a raccoon with a peanut butter jar stuck on his face. My house is in a rural area and on over an acre of land and when my wife and I finish a peanut butter jar, we had been throwing the jar into the front yard to let the squirrels get the rest and the next day we pick it up licked clean and put it in the recycle bin. We never thought the jar could get stuck on a raccoon’s face, so it was devastating to see that. I chased the raccoon to try and remove the jar but it went into a tree. So I sat under the tree for an hour and just prayed to know divine Mind would never let it’s idea of a raccoon get an object stuck on its face because Mind is also Love. To make a long story short, I continued to pray and went back into the house and saw the raccoon move from the tree it was in into our front yard. I ran out again to try and remove the jar. But again when I got close to the raccoon it went up in a tree. This time I could see the raccoon from the house, so I went back in the house and continued praying. Lines from the article “God’s Law of Adjustment” kept coming to me about not outlining a solution. So in my prayers I tried to humbly know God was in control and I just kept knowing that and knowing that while listening to know what to do next. An idea of getting a blanket to try and throw over the raccoon came to me so I got a blanket and had it ready. But then it started getting dark and the thought came “You can’t catch the raccoon in the daylight, you’ll never be able to get it in the dark!” But I think because by this point I’d been praying for about 3 hours, all worry just left me and I KNEW God was in control of this situation. I just got up and said to my wife, “I guess I’ll start cooking dinner!” Somehow it just was so clear to me that God was in control and it wasn’t MY responsibility to resolve this situation…if I didn’t do it the situation would get resolved some other way. About that time the raccoon came down from the tree again and my wife and I ran out. It was dusk but we could see enough and when I got close to the raccoon it started back up the tree and for some reason I reached up and put my hand on its belly and pushed it out of the tree. It was only about 5 feet off the ground so it flew off the tree onto the ground unhurt. Then I ran after him and threw the blanket expecting it to unfurl and cover the raccoon so I could pounce on it and grab it. But the blanket just fell in a clump in front of the raccoon. However, that caused the raccoon to stop and I continued running to get ahead of it. My wife probably hasn’t run in years and we were in a wooded area where footing was difficult, but all of a sudden I saw her beside me and she grabbed the raccoon and picked it up in the air. She’s fearless when it comes to animals. That allowed me to grab the peanut butter jar and remove it. I think she wanted to cuddle the raccoon so I yelled “Put it down” and she did and the raccoon scampered off without scratching or biting her. This was a great lesson to me in the role humility plays in CS…the willingness to put aside our own outlining of how a situation will get resolved and just trust wholeheartedly in God’s control…and God is in control of every intermediate step in the process for reaching the final resolution of each situation too! There is always some error that needs correcting and sometimes we are unwilling to recognize it, but if we keep humbly trusting God, the error will be revealed so we can correct it.
Thank you for sharing, RobertH – lots of lovely experiences, and I just love the story of the racoon.
Thank you Maggie and thank you also for your response to Amy. The love, wisdom, and kindness you expressed in your comment will benefit all of us too!
I’ve thought about this raccoon experience often since it happened a couple of years ago but today it occurred to me the “error” that needed to be corrected in my thought was that “I” had to fix it. I fix a lot of things around the house (leaky faucets, rotten siding, etc.) and I guess I’ve come to think of myself as a “fix it man.” But I just realized it wasn’t until I corrected the error that I had to get the jar off the raccoon’s face or it would never get off (i.e., the error that God was unable to do it without me) that the situation was resolved. Literally, I’m not kidding, literally a second after I came to the realization that God could get the jar off without my help, did the raccoon start down the tree he was sleeping in and my wife and I were able to get the jar removed. Isn’t that cool? As soon as we correct an error that is resulting in us experiencing a discordant situation, we see the harmony that has been there all along!
I’m glad to know that my reply was helpful. I hope Amy manages to tune in and see the responses to help her.
And yes, Robert, I agree, it is really important to understand that we have to let God do the work, and get rid of any personal sense or ability.
It makes me chuckle about an incident many years ago when I was working in an office with a few others, and we had a man who always went around fixing tings. We began to call him among ourselves “Charlie Fix-it”. One day he came into the office where I was working,
climbed up onto a desk, and said he was going to fix the window – a great big heavy
window. The outcome was that the whole window fell out and crashed down to the ground outside. No-one was hurt, because it was into a gap between buildings where no-one ever went.
If we claim personal ability to do things, we can never be sure of the outcome, but if we stand back and let God take charge, and let Him show us what to do, the outcome is sure to be right and good and safe. As Evan has stated in this Spiritview,
God has all the answers – whatever we need to know or do. We can trust Him to
impart it to us.
TO ROBERT H, your writing about your situation with the racoon which you shared on JUNE 12, 2025 HIT THE NAIL ON THE HEAD, as you explained how the jar was extracted from off the raccoon. You brought me much pure JOY to capture your resolution. We’re also facing an unresolved situation, which involves confronting someone with the intent to shoot a gun. The results are devastating, except what you shared about the racoon encounter you and your wife experienced allows me to humbly turn to GOD, giving HIM thanks about how the incident will bring all to peace and justice. I know for sure LOVE is the ROYAL way, LOVE from GOD, for all involved. IT LIFTS me up to know we are governed by and given correction by GOD, so the way ahead will benefit everyone involved. Gratitude for you sharing the experience of freeing the raccoon. Raccoons can be fearless; a GREAT example to show me how to confront the devastation which could be approaching. I PRAY direct to GOD, our FATHER, MOTHER, for his LOVE to shine, caring for all involved.
Dear chilesands… Knowing you and all are the effect, manifestation, of Love! There indeed is no spot where Love is not, therefore there can be no spot where love is not. All is infinite Love and it’s infinite manifestation!
The article by Nathan shared today answers Amy’s question. One idea shared is to be humble enought to drop the belief we have a separate mind from God. Whatever questions our ability to fully expect good is NEVER our TRUE thinking. This reminds me of how quickly my elementary school math students dropped a mistake in their math calculations when it was pointed out an incorrect math fact needed to be exchanged for the true fact. And when they really learned the facts, they didn’t make those kind of mistakes again! There are lots of other ideas as well in this article that makes it understandable how healing it is to refuse and refute negative expectations. It takes consistent practice to accept there REALLY IS ONLY ONE MIND, but the more we do this, the more we are following Jesus’s example, and the more we truly do EXPECT ONLY GOOD!
Thank you Soaring Dove…Ioved your comments and the example of your students making the exchange of an incorrect fact for the true fact…it’s a wonderful visual and is very encouraging!
Evan, Thanks for bringing up this subject today. A wonderful episode from Sentinel Watch has come to mind: “If I know, you know” with Beth Packer
Listen to “If I know, you know” from the Christian Science Sentinel: https://sentinel.christianscience.com/sentinel-audio/sentinel-watch/if-i-know-you-know?s=w
Absolutely awesome, this Sentinel Watch with Beth Packer! Thank you very much, dear Harmony. That Sentinel Watch does give me such a lot!!
She explaines our total oneness with God so lovingly and clearly and confidentally!
It’s a wonderful idea “if I know, you know” meaning “God knows”. So comforting: if we have good thoughts, that they are right coming from God – right from the divine consciousness to ours. That means God’s consciousness or knowing is our consciousness or knowing as His lovely reflections!
I can’t be more grateful for Christian Science, for God and his Christ and for Mrs. Eddy who explaines us the truth of real being so clearly and logically! ♡
Dear Evan, thank you most deeply for your very inspiring SpiritView Blog. It produces such a livelyness and healing inspirations by all the dear commenting SpiritView Friends.
Interesting: today I had a question to my bank . And after two different conversations I got the answer, which I actually knew already before.
Exactly what Beth Packer said: If I know – you know. For me it is just what Evan says, namely that God lets us know what we need to know, specially when we listen to God, what I did this morning, after I studied the lesson sermon of this week.
Am thankful for and to our loving, everpresent God.♡
That was a great question, Amy and I have often wondered it myself. In pondering
it more deeply, it seems that sometimes what “we” think should be an expectation of
“good, peace, harmony, joy, love, etc.” may not be perceived by others in the same
way. But if seen through a spiritual lens, and not a mortal lens of limitation … that is,
what expresses a beginning, (birth), middle, ending (death) or a matter based outcome,
we experience the true version of what God has created in all it’s wonderful being.
Maggie’s answer is very inspiring and true and a great way of responding. I might add,
that on page 452 of S&H, with the marginal sideline ” unwarranted expectation”,
Mrs. Eddy writes, “Right is radical … the [teacher] must know the truth himself. He
must live it and love it, or he cannot impart it to others”, ….. and in defining Gethsemane,
she writes, “patient woe; the human yielding to the divine; love meeting no response,
but still remaining love”. In my humble opinion, I think if we continue to expect what
we believe God would expect, and if the main goal is to be as Christlike as we can be
in our understanding and actions and to put God/Mind/Soul/Principle/Mind/Spirit/
Truth and Love First, the expectations that you mention will follow in ways that may
not be the same as others might expect, but in our hearts Are responding to what is
expressed in us as an endearing, lovable child of God.
Thank you, Amy, for the question and J , for bringing it to the forefront of thought,
again.
PS. I was pondering and typing when the other wonderful comments
had come in and what very helpful thoughts! I loved the experience
you had with the raccoon, RobertH. What a delightful outcome and
I’m sure the raccoon appreciated, although not at the time, your and
your wife’s patience in rescuing it’s dilemma. Loved how you wrote
your wife would have probably wanted to cuddle it. LOL It Knew
that the two of you were helping it, so therefore no harm to either of
you occurred. God was in control. Lovely!
Thank you Angel. Yes, my wife would cuddle a mountain lion if she could get her hands on one! LOL
Animals know when they have been helped and are often
so kind to each other. I recently saw a video of an elephant
that rescued a gazelle and so many times, kind persons have
untangled whales from nets or unfortunate situations and
they were so patient and gentle and actually did a breach
in thank you to the rescuers. God’s creations are so
lovely and the One Mind of thoughtfulness guides them
also.
Thanks so much RobertH and Angel for sharing your thoughts! I always learn a lot from your comments. And RobertH…the mountain lion comment about your wife made me smile! Too funny! 🙂
Thank you, Angel for your input, and everyone else as well. As I said t Robert above, I do hope Amy will
find all the helpful messages for her.
So much love expressed in Evan’s posts and all the responses. I live in an area where CS is mostly unknown, so I truly appreciate the articles shared, the comments and sharing of ideas about practicing CS, being willing to leave the old man for the new, and learning to apply it in our daily life.