“If things go wrong, don’t go with them.”
~ Roger Babson
You have God-given dominion to stick with what is right and to demonstrate over what is wrong.
Stick with what is right
February 19, 2019 | 13 comments
Spiritual ideas that inspire healing
This is so right on! One might even say joyously profound! I love it!! Thank you thank you thank you
Great thought – cute fish!
I love this. Thank you!
Great image. I brought a smile to my well being this morning. Thank you, Evan.
Excellent advice! If things go wrong, we can straight away know what is right and follow God’s directing.
Great reminder, Evan. Thank you! In a world where so many follow what everyone else is doing or thinking, it is refreshing to search for the Truth, find it and stick with it. I recently saw a car commercial showing a ballet of birds flying as one group, but one bird taking off on it’s own and taking the ‘road less traveled’. I see so many alternative messages in so many positive ways converging on the Truth of what is really real and then together making a difference in the right direction.
It made me feel the joy of a full moon shining through the window this morning.. It sets a tone for the day.
My eye and thoughts are drawn to the fish in the middle, the one who seemingly is taking notice of the fellow swimming away from the group. When we take principled stands in our daily lives, others notice. We may never know the profound effects our prayerful, loving, and righteous actions might have on those observers.
Nice observation Bev! I agree that we may only ever find out a very small fraction of the people that are helped each time we provide a good example of following God in our lives. All the more reason it’s so important to do what’s right just because it is right rather than because we get some positive feedback.
That’s great Brian! Doing what’s right just because it’s right and not expecting human gratification from doing it.
This reminded me of the following from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, pg 22-23:
If my friends are going to Europe, while I am en route for California, we are not journeying together. We have separate time-tables to consult, different routes to pursue. Our paths have diverged at the very outset, and we have little opportunity to help each other. On the contrary, if my friends pursue my course, we have the same railroad guides, and our mutual interests are identical; or, if I take up their line of travel, they help me on, and our companionship may continue.
Being in sympathy with matter, the worldly man is at the beck and call of error, and will be attracted thitherward. He is like a traveller going westward for a pleasure-trip. The company is alluring and the pleasures exciting. After following the sun for six days, he turns east on the seventh, satisfied if he can so only imagine himself drifting in the right direction. By-and-by, ashamed of his zigzag course, he would borrow the passport of some wiser pilgrim, thinking with the aid of this to find and follow the right road.
Vibrating like a pendulum between sin and the hope of forgiveness, — selfishness and sensuality causing constant retrogression, — our moral progress will be slow. Waking to Christ’s demand, mortals experience suffering. This causes them, even as drowning men, to make vigorous efforts to save themselves; and through Christ’s precious love these efforts are crowned with success.
Thank you Evan to let me ponder the picture combined with the text.
If I look at the idea (fish) turning to the idea leaving to the opposite direction, could imagine this idea might ask why it’s companian chooses the opposite direction. Through listening and praying it might be aware that it’s creater will guide this fish the right direction and probably will follow.
That is such a sweet foto with the cute fish!
Thanks for all your interesting comments.
While reading a Christian Science periodical this
Jumped into thought- partially- on piece of verse-
……”Genesis one, or Genesis two..”?Byrna,
I Must find out to copy- ‘& my friends should recall it.