Have you ever entertained an expiration date for life? If so, it’s a signal to improve your concept of life.
True Life is God. God is Life. Eternal Life!
The Life God has given us to live does not have an expiration date. It goes on and on and on and on and on…without end.
Life doesn’t expire. It goes on forever.
I Was dreaming that my dad ( who had passed) was coming to get me. I woke up at that point and thought, ” how comforting” but quickly realized I was really opting out of the pain I was in.
I arose and began reading the hymnal. Every page including the note from my brother who had given it to me in Dec of 1967. I will let those who read this to draw from their own experience the healing effect this had.
God has no expiration date nor do I. Understanding God is the. Work of eternity. I need to get back to work!
Thanks Evan:
There can be no death when God is Eternal.
Man was never born, neither does he die.
Death is an illusion. Life, life which is God.
My life is in God
Sharon
Sorry my comment some how deleted! I said: As soon as I read this wonderfully inspiring message this morning, this verse from hymn 135 came to thought: “I know no death, O Father, because I live in Thee; Thy life it is that frees us from death eternally.” How comforting and reassuring, as are Evan’s blogs!! Thank you!
Thank you for reminding me of the hymn that begins with, “I know no life divided…”.
https://hymnary.org/text/i_know_no_life_divided
I was awake most of the night Angsting about a loved one that seem to be conflicted and divided, and then estranged from me, and how I wanted to help. I was feeling heartbroken that we weren’t closer. So I needed this hymn to redirect my thinking. During primary class instruction on Christian Science (study Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy, chapter “ Recapitulation.”) so many decades ago our teacher said that our only relationship is with God and ourselves for God is All in all. In one of our early annual class association meetings she had emphasized that as we all draw closer to God like ants walking in a paper on the ground, each along a crayoned line representing a sunray in a children’s drawing of the sun, as each ant drives closer to the center of the sun that aunt gets closer to the other ant. As I get closer in thought and action to God, I draw closer to my true self and to others. .
If I want that relationship to be closer and undivided, more whole and healing, happier and healthier, then I need to get my relationship with God better on my end and I can trust that the closer I keep my thought attuned to and responsive to God— the only Mind, the only Love— I will experience that better relationship with that other person and more loving, joyous peace, And they will feel more blessed and receptive.
What a lovely comment, dear Edie and so loving of you for your friend. What you
shared is really so sweet. The analogy of the child’s crayon drawing of the sun and
the ants getting closer to God and each other is great. I love it and can visualize it –
very simply. Thank you so much for sharing it. The light and warmth of the sun draws
us like the appreciation of flowers who bow their heads with reverence and uplift
towards the sun, as do we, with our inspiration to God’s caring for us. “Friends are
the flowers in the garden of Life” (in keeping with today’s theme). We are all like in
a grand bouquet.
The site you shared the link to is very interesting. It is awesome how hymns have
been written for us to turn to and are so helpful in times of need. Their simplicity
of the Truth is also very direct and healing in their messages.
How comforting and, as Sharon says, totally reassuring is today’s uplifting and freeing SpiritView!
I love it very much and am truly grateful to you, dear Evan for your loving treatments!
Sharon, thanks for hymn 135; it’s a wonderful and healing hymn! 🙂
thank you for this post.
if there is no end date, no death, and there isn’t. its important to understand that there is no beginning, no birth
No birth or death for man, never young or old.
eternal noon x
I like that Anne, Eternal Noon. We are not of time, we are timeless beings in God.
Death is part of the dream deception that we live in matter, instead of “in him we live and move and have our being.” (Acts 17:28). Quote by another: “A dream cannot think, cannot create, cannot destroy. It is not causative, not contagious. It has no course to run, no pattern to follow, no state or stage to go through before its nothingness is seen and demonstrated. The Christ, the healing, purifying influence of God is present now, unfolding to us the spiritual ideas that constitute true consciousness. What a grand awakening awaits us.”
When someone passes, sometimes there is a homegoing that celebrates the loved-one, going home to heaven, and being with God forever. I find it very comforting to realize that we are already home. Quote by another: “Home is the consciousness of God’s love – the understanding that we’re all enveloped in and protected by the Divine. Just as we sift through material possessions in preparing to move, we refine and sort through thought – getting rid of a false sense.” Life is about refining, sorting, awakening, spiritualizing thought.
Very useful quotes and thoughts to ponder thank you J.
Thanks to Evan and allncontributors also, of course !
I like that, Eternal Noon… thank you all and, The Allness!
First thought I had as I read your Post today, Evan:
“Improve your concept of Life, Sue!”
The idea of life as human-mind(s) experience it, for the most part, as it includes a lot of stuff clearly not good…to imagine this life “going on eternally” is not altogether desirable! But of course we students of the Science of Life know what LIFE as defined by Christian Science is. So, to improve our concept of Life, God, is the order of the day! Life as Love, divine Mind, Spirit, Truth…all the ways
Mary Baker Eddy has described true LIFE for us, includes nothing whatsoever of evil in any form, as you all know. (I’m just reminding myself!!) Life = Light ~ Harmony ~ Pure Goodness and Joy and Love and Fearlessness and Bliss! This is the way God is experiencing Life!! And we, in truth and fact, experience this Life with Him/Her!! How great is this!!
Thanks, Evan, and all, for this sharing of inspiration!
Thank you Evan. We are not a carton of milk that starts to smell at bit off, then we look at the expiration date and toss it out. If God doesn’t decay and expire, neither can we. I heard a CS lecturer once say that we are the same age as God, so we should not associate ourselves with a number and think it has a meaning.
My husband recently reached a so-called milestone age, according to mortal belief. I’ve been having some very material thoughts about that “age” what it means and having some fears about his “life” expectancy. So I’m very grateful for today’s message that reminds me of our oneness with and likeness to our God, no beginning, no end. Need to reject those false beliefs.
Love this! Thank you Evan!
An important reminder that Life is ever present and eternal and nothing can interrupt that! Thank you much Evan!!
This is such a helpful topic and I thank you all. Have been thinking about life in
general and my dear friend whom this will be the first “year” we won’t be exchanging
“birth”day cards and thoughtful, practical gifts which made our love so special. She
had been a soul sister ever since we “came into” this world, although through
Eternity, herr life is still here in all it’s sweetness, and Love has no beginning or ending.
It seems a bit ironic, but not really, but as I was typing this, I happened to look down
and on the palm of my hand is a healed blister (I guess from the lawn mower) and
it is in the shape of a heart. When I first saw it, I smiled. Divine Love lives on and
is always with us despite what we mere mortals seem to see as lacking or as being
true. The mortal senses do deceive and create all sorts of disharmony in thought,
but I treasure the spiritual thoughts shared that help bring God’s Reality into focus.
Thank you Evan. I love on and on and on and on and on. 🙂
Wow! Evan and all, such beautiful sharing. Yes, Life (God) is forever and ever, and we are all wrapt in God’s dear love now and always.
With love to all,
Karen