If you’re ever concerned about something that happened in your past affecting what is happening to you today, take heart. You can let that fear go and claim freedom from the past.
You have everything you need coming from God today to experience the best life has to offer.
What appeared to happen in matter yesterday, does not affect what is happening in Spirit today. What is happening in Spirit today is all you need to know and think on.
The material past does not affect your spiritual present.
Thank you Evan. What a beautiful take for the day. Chapter XVII titled “Glossary” page 579:4 It contains the metaphysical interpretation of Bible terms giving their spiritual sense, which is also their original meaning. The word year on 598:23-24 One moment of divine conciousness, or the spiritual understanding of Life and Love is a foretaste of eternity. All about Life lies in man’s spiritual being.
Man’s spiritual consciousness is all that matters. No yesterday, but only a spiritual moment is recognized..
The past? You mean the Perverse Argument Slandering Truth? Recently I learned about a technique used to change the thoughts/ beliefs about what one perceives had happened in one’s past. We know that even the best memory is not altogether trustworthy and that it is always safest to keep our awareness focused on the present. Thats not always possible for some of us who continue to feel haunted by memories of our so-called past. The technique I’m talking about is called Narrative Therapy Theory of Change. It is also called Re-authoring. It has to do with changing the way one remembers incidents of their life so that the focus is positive and uplifting. Regardless of what we choose to remember, or hang on to, or allow to cling to us, nothing can actually touch us when we know the Truth. Attaching a label to someone ( or to ourselves, such as unlovable or worthless ) according to a false or unworthy perception, and then constantly looking for the traits of the label, we ultimately see ( or live up to ) nothing more than that label. The bible teaches that we are all made in the image and likeness of God. When we label everyone (including ourselves) “God’s child” and constantly gaze upon that, wow, what a difference. Jesus beheld in Science the perfect man, who appeared to him where sinning mortal man appears to mortals. In this perfect man the Saviour saw God’s own likeness, and this correct view of man healed the sick,” writes Mrs. Eddy in Science and Health (pp. 476,477). The correct view of the past also heals the sick and sinning. Loving our neighbor and ourselves and seeing beyond the fraudulent human narrative to what God sees frees us to live our lives peacefully and joyfully as our authentic, spiritual selves.
Lovely! Thank you!❤️
Thank you Evan. Thank you Love. I have gotten much better about deleting past
history as it has no bearing upon the present, the Truth.
Thank you Evan.
How comforting that we can be freed from dark past experiences immediately we govern our consciousness with the Truth of eternal, harmonious being.
“Nothing we can say or believe regarding matter is immortal, for matter is temporal and is therefore a mortal phenomenon, a human concept, sometimes beautiful, always erroneous” (“Science and Health,” p. 277 .)
Thank you Evan , as always . ❣️
Thank you everyone. An analogy comes to mind here. When I was taking a yoga stretching class the other day, the instructor pointed out that the body follows where your head is looking. For example, if u r doing a standing back bend and your head is only looking forward instead of up or even back, your body will only bend so far. If u look up or backwards, your body will naturally bend backwards more by following your gaze. The point is that the rest of the body follows where you are gazing. In metaphysical terms, ask yourself, “Where am I mentally holding my gaze?” To gaze in the 1828 dictionary means to view with fixed attention. Behold has a similar meaning. Where am I fixing my mental attention? What am I mentally beholding? The rest of our experience follows. So, let’s gaze in the right direction of spiritual reality and stay there.
Thanks Evan and everyone for sharing!
Christine your comments and also Love’s comment above mention the the importance of paying attention to where we are gazing. It reminded me of this from Mrs Eddy, S&H (p.248):
“Do you not hear from all mankind of the imperfect model? The world is holding it before your gaze continually. The result is that you are liable to follow those lower patterns, limit your life-work, and adopt into your experience the angular outline and deformity of matter models. To remedy this, we must first turn our gaze in the right direction, and then walk that way. We must form perfect models in thought and look at them continually, or we shall never carve them out in grand and noble lives.”
Those “perfect models in thought” can’t be found in an unhealthy identification with past ”mistakes.” She also said in Retrospection and Introspection, “The human history needs to be revised, and the material record expunged.”
Thank you Evan for spotlighting this subject and thanks to the other contributors. I’m well into the 9th decade of my human history and have had quite a few past experiences I have striven to forget. In doing so I have found that the more I can focus on the spiritual present – in ALLl of my daily encounters – there’s just no more room in my thinking for the material past.
Starting fresh with a clean slate is a reinvigorating way
to start each day and a lovely way to keep us in the
present, rather than reiterating the past. I have found
that certain events that seem to have happened in my
life that I would rather forget, often become just a blur
and I can totally not remember them at all, even if I try,
but why would we want to? This includes years, which
is really only a mortal way of recording time. It is like
trying to remember a bad dream. Why would we?
I love the freedom of living in the present. Each day
presents itself with wonderment and loveliness that
would have seemed unimaginable in the past.. so
concentrating on all of the spiritual blessings that are in
the N O W is a marvelous way of enjoying the present.
Happy Right Now … Everyone!
The Spiritual
present,
Is our gift,
from Love.
The material
past…
resentment, guilt.
envy
Are swallowed up,
dissolved,
in spiritual
understanding.
Proving that
there is,
only
Love.
Poem inspired by Love this morning. Thanks everyone. Have a wonderful Now day.
Thank you, Jane b for sharing your morning inspiration in the form of a poem –
lovely!
Dear Jane b,
Having read your beautiful poem several times, it really
captures my heart and Soul, so wonderfully. ..
Thank you so much for sharing it. I love it!
As I was awakening this morning, before seeing this post, the thought came to me in regard to some situations, “error has no history.” Then I saw your post, so inspiring.
Such a timely message, thank you for Spiritview! I really appreciate your messages and how you present them. Thank you
“No dark past, just God’s now” by Patti C. Christopher:
https://sentinel.christianscience.com/shared/view/cwctowt3r0
“No unhappy past” by Abraham Kreutzer:
https://sentinel.christianscience.com/shared/view/2fni4hjjf7q?s=e
Dear Evan,
Thank you very much for the greate comfort you give me with this healing SpiritView!♡
Dear “J” thank you for your love looking for suitable.articles for us. It’s very helpful and inspiring!♡
A comforting hymn I love and find suitable to today`s SpiritView comes to my mind:
Hamn 51 :
Eternal Mind the Potter is,
And thought th`eternal clay:
The hand that fashions is divine,
His works pass not away,
Man is the noblest work of God,
His beauty, power and grace,
Immortal; perfect as his Mind
Reflected face to face.
God could not make imperfect man
His model infinite;
Unhallowed thought He could not plan,
Love`s work and Love must fit,
Life, Truth and Love the pattern make,
Christ is the perfect heir;
The clouds of sense roll back, and show
The form divinely fair.
God`s will is done; His kingdom come;
The Potter`s work is plain,
The longing to be good and true
Has brought the light again.
And man does stand as God`s own child,
The image of His love,
Let gladness ring from every tongue,
And heaven and earth approve.
The foto is such a refreshing and joyful image of LOVE! Thank you very much dear Evan! 🙂
There are lots of happy times in my past that I choose to remember with fondness! That doesn’t mean we also have to save unhappy or harsh ones. Letting those memories fade, claiming freedom from the past; knowing we have all we need each moment, joy, love, sweetness; brings more happy memories to save if we wish. How fortunate we are to know we are all spiritual children of God. Knowing “the Truth that sets us free” is such a gift. Thank you Evan, your posts always bring uplifting ideas and great comments.
Thank you very much dear Paula for your lovely comment!♡
Thanks, yet again, Evan!! Such a wonderful post!
And, meant to type: “The material past does not affect the spiritual present”… so, so, so true!
Thanks again everyone for sharing.
I had something else to add as it relates to the past. A Christian Scientist shared with me that the past is just a present belief. So, what are we thinking and knowing in the spiritual, eternal now, which has no past, present or future?
Also, the guest speaker at my Association years ago used an analogy of driving when he was thinking of his parents who had passed. He had to handle grief. Then one day he was driving in one car and his friends were driving in another car following behind him. When he looked for them again to see if they were following, he realized they were no longer behind but in front of him. This was the message he needed to handle grief regarding his parents. He knew he couldn’t continue to know his parents by looking for them in the past, or rear view mirror. He had to look forward because they were learning and growing just like him.
So it is with any sense of history. Are we mentally beholding and gazing at the spiritual eternal now, or are we looking back at a seeming material history to define us or any part of God’s creation? This includes the spiritual sense of earth and environment, which could never go through an irreversible damaging history.
I am so filled with such contentment from all of these wonderful thoughts
and articles! I am glad you added the above, dear Christine and the example
you gave about the gentleman in the car was very profound. I had heard
a saying that is similar, looked it up and it goes,
“The past is behind. Learn from it. The future is ahead. Prepare for it.
The present is here. Live it”. As the gentleman thought his friends were
still behind him, it turned out they had passed him and his beloved
parents had preceded him into another realm we can not quite understand
from a mortal perspective but is still a learning process that we all progress
towards.
We can learn from the past experiences and not fear the future, as scary
as it seems to be these days, (mortally/humanly speaking), but the present
is ours to enjoy at the moment and know that all is and will be well.
Yup, matter has no history because there is no matter – it isn’t real! Even though my Practitioner had reminded me of that more than once over the years, I found myself still pondering “stuff” I had done in the past. Then an article in either the Sentinel or Journal woke me up to the need to pray to see those “material” experiences as a dream, an illusion, only worthy of being cast out of thought. And my prayers needed to include the folks involved with those “so-called” experiences, to see them as free from those illusions too. Thanks for the reminder Evan.
Bless you all who commented. Each of you clarified what is best about the Truth. We live in the present, expressing the one Father Mother God, and each moment is complete. Dwelling in Love, there’s no dragging a past along, but Love freely gives us all that we need in the “NOW”. The cure for forgetting this is to LOVE more, in the moment we are experiencing NOW, knowing that nothing is lost nor needs changing.