Are you worried, afraid, in angst or in turmoil? Perhaps it’s time to get back in touch with your spiritual self.
As a child of God, it’s normal to feel peace, health, and freedom, but to demonstrate these qualities consistently, it may take some effort and prayer time to remember who you are and how life ought to be.
In this video, I explain how to stay in touch with your spiritual self and the great rewards that follow.
This vlog was filmed in the Lick Wash Slot Canyon of the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, in Utah, while hiking there in October of 2020.
FINDING OUR TRUE SELF
https://journal.christianscience.com/shared/view/15ui5z2oocy?s=e
I am so grateful for this post and all the comments to come today on the subject, thank you !
Adell Longeran’s article, May 1938 Sentinel helped me this morning along with Evan’s thoughts on Spiritual Selfhood.
Adell’s article was written at the time of the “Great Depression” here in the U. S. A. There were answers for “Divine Love always has met and will always meet every human need.” Her insight and advice in the last paragraph was also most helpful.
Thank you for sharing your research on the subject.
Thank you for this very important reminder of how to find lasting peace Evan!
This morning I found it imperative to remember Mrs. Eddy’s counsel in her essay “Deification of Personality.” (Miscellaneous Writings 1883–1896, Mary Baker Eddy, pp. 308:32–6; 309:11–24)
“I earnestly advise all Christian Scientists to remove from their observation or study the personal sense of any one, and not to dwell in thought upon their own or others’ corporeality, either as good or evil.”
[Or dwelling in thought on how we or others are FEELING corporeally– good or not — stressed or harmed. All feeling is spiritual, There is no corporeality in God or man to feel!]]
“According to Christian Science, material personality is an error in premise, and must result in erroneous conclusions. …”
Ooops! Don’t want that!
“… He advances most in divine Science who meditates most on infinite spiritual substance and intelligence…. ”
Isn’t this amazing? Isn’t this just what you’re saying, Evan? What a beautiful, beautiful task, to meditate on my own and everyone’s infinite spiritual substance and intelligence, tossing any other concept of myself or anyone.
“Corporeal falsities include all obstacles to health, holiness, and heaven. Man’s individual life is infinitely above a bodily form of existence, and the human concept antagonizes the divine.”
Don’t want that!! No obstacles? That’s what I want. That’s what I want for everyone: a life of infinite health, holiness and heaven. Amen!
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True Selfhood
BY JESSAMINE GLESSNER CHILDS
“We grow in God as self is left behind;
And rise to know true selfhood Mind.
True self unfolds as more in Love we live,
Becomes our own the more of Love we give.“
Thank you Evan and all readers!
Evan thanks for the reminder to stay in touch with our “spiritual roots.” I like that expression because it reminds me that like a tree or a plant, the roots are our unshakable foundation, the principle of our being. Also wonderful to hear that it’s natural and normal to feel ease, joy, freedom and vitality; and when we seem to be out of that state it might not take more than a “time out” with God to remember who we are and how things really are and Who is in charge of our day. Love to all!
Thank you Evan, this has been really helpful to me today, and thank you for all the
contrbutions which are also very helpful. Wonderful rocks in the picture – so strong,
majestic and sturdy – also inspirational thinking about the rock of Truth, the Christ, which we can
always rely on to hold us safe and spiritually-minded.
Hymn 154 come to mind:-
In Thee, O Spirit, true and tender,
I find my life as God’s own child.
Within Thy light of glorious splendour,
Iose the earth-clouds drear and wild.
Within Thy love is safe abiding
From every thought that givether fear;
Within Thy truth a perfect chiding
Should I forget that Thou art near.
In Thee I have no pain or sorrow,
No anxious thought, no load of care.
Thou art the same today, tomorrow;
Thy love and truth are everywhere.
The first verse of the hymn has the word “I” missing from the beginning of the first line. – I
don’t know how that got away!
Maggie thank you for posting this hymn. I really felt the joy in it and I love the part about ‘a perfect chiding should I forget that thou art near.’ When things seem to go awry or we feel our joy has departed, that’s our sure signal that we are forgetting God is near, and can immediately turn back to Him — to the natural state of harmony.
Thank you so much, Evan. As our Reading Room reopens to in-person hours today, I will go forward in spiritual peace. This video was just what I needed to hear.
Thank you,Evan.This was just what I needed to hear today!
And thanks to all of those contributing with comments and articles-so helpful.
Thanks very much Evan, for a further so helpful SpiritView which I needed very much!
It reminds me where to go when I need comfort, strength and healing, namely into the loving arms of God, giving us the right idea of ourselves, and that is our loved Textzbook by Mary Baker Eddy, which Evan mentioned, he turned to for spiritual refreshment. It is also such a wonderful advice of Evan in one of the former SpritViews to take more time for communion with God, that is also freeing and lets us be aware of our real and wonderful spiritual self. Thank you again dear Evan, to let us think and pray about this important toppic!! And I love your Vlogs very much, they are always so lively and refreshing and healing, thanks a lot!
Dear Martine, first of all this Morning I read the article you gave us the link to. Thank you very much; it is utmost helpful anyway but special in relation to Evan`s Vlog and toppic today.
And dear Maggie, it is such a lovely and comforting Hymn, I love it too, thanks for it!
And thank you all dear commenter friends for your inspiring ideas. It is all so blessing!
Wasn’t this a wonderful, reassuring few minutes hearing how you revived yourself in the canyon. I felt deflated Wednesday evening after a busy day and wondered if I’d fall asleep in church. The mental fog was thick. But I appreciated the hour and the singing was stimulating in between the quieter listening. When I got home, I traded the usual fiction before bed for The Bible Lesson. Sometimes I follow along in the Quarterly as I listen to the reading of The Lesson on the phone line. But last night I quietly read to myself, challenging that mental fog , defying it to keep me from understanding. Now, this morning to see this vlog is bringing me right up to speed. Thank you so much!
GOD’S OWN CONSCIOUS “I AM ALL”
S&H states: “Man’s individual being reflects the One Supreme individual Being and is His own conscious image; and this individuality never originated in molecule, corpuscle, materiality, or mortality. God holds man in the eternal bonds of Science—in the immutable harmony of divine law. It is Truth’s knowledge of its own infinitude which forbids the genuine existence of even a claim to error. This knowledge is light wherein there is no darkness—not light holding darkness within itself. The consciousness of light is the eternal law of God, revealing Him and nothing else.
S&H states: “Man’s individual being reflects the One Supreme individual Being and is His own conscious image; and this individuality never originated in molecule, corpuscle, materiality, or mortality. God holds man in the eternal bonds of Science—in the immutable harmony of divine law. It is Truth’s knowledge of its own infinitude which forbids the genuine existence of even a claim to error. This knowledge is light wherein there is no darkness,— not light holding darkness within itself. The consciousness of light is the eternal law of God, revealing Him and nothing else.”
Thank you, thank you all.