True courage is like a kite. A contrary wind raises it higher.
~ Unknown
Put your faith in God, and your courage will have no bounds.
True courage
January 7, 2022 | 22 comments
Spiritual ideas that inspire healing
January 7, 2022 | 22 comments
Put your faith in God, and your courage will have no bounds.
“Practicing Christian Science with Confidence’:
https://journal.christianscience.com/shared/view/24eddtth96y?s=e
Such a helpful article! Thank you!
Oh my a wonderful article and guiding thoughts thsnk you thank you.
Thank you so much, Angie, for this excellent and practical article!
Thank you Angie, fear for a loved one is large in my thought at the moment, this article was so helpful.
Beannachd
The article you posted was so very clear in it’s message and went right to the heart of a claim that I have been dealing with for me. Thank you so much for posting it.
This awesome analogy will help us fly higher!
Thank you!
Thank you Evan and Angie for the great article that I just listened to now. Man’s extremity is certainly God’s opportunity,as I’m finding out today having to report Covid symptoms to work out of an abundance of caution and care and kindness to all there! I’m expecting Nothing but good today, and though I will be staying home, I plan to fly my spiritual kite today!!
Blessings to all here and our world!
I like the kite analogy because it is a good reminder that there isn’t only one way to do anything… like the birds that scoop and float on the windy updrafts near cliffs… they don’t fall to the ground because there is always a different direction to shift to. The kite catches the wind as we catch Gods ideas … infinite options and no limits.
Thank you for today’s post and that wonderfully clear article by Deborah Huebsch. All it takes is acknowledging the Truth that is already true We have dealt with suicidal tendencies in raising a young family member. It is still a work in progress but she has found courage to help her friends who have struggled similarly. I am so grateful for SV and the contributors who share their spiritual insights.
Thank you, Angie, for the perfect article at the perfect time for me.
And thank you, Evan, for the concise message that reminded me of so many examples throughout history around the world of kite flying to inspire and heal, to assert the dream and right of freedom, to communicate and console, to affirm one’s right to exist. Kite flying is defying the occupying oppressors’ siege and prevention of survival necessities or (not just preventing food and screws, access to groundwater and bomb shelters, but even paper and glue and string supplies for making kites). In spite of the military bombardment and prevention of people and products or services moving in or out of Occupied Palestine, intended to prevent the survival many of 2 million imprisoned people, still children found ways to create and fly kites as messages of freedom, defying despair. Children winning the world record for mass kite flying as a call to conscience for people around the world to end the terrorism against the children, might not have ended the crimes against humanity, but they still found hope and creativity and playfulness in their non-violence. In the modern day example of David and Goliath, simple homemade kites crafted from garbage by impoverished prisoners denied homeland, home, trees and farm, work and school, have proven the ineffectiveness of the richest nations and world’s most powerful military surveillance and weapons and oppressive laws and crimes against humanity.
Elsewhere, people outside of prisons or ghettoes have flown kites as messages of hope and solidarity for people imprisoned in tall impenetrable walls or slave-labor factories or sex trafficking cages or dog cages for children on USA/Mexico border trying to escape violence and starvation… and these kites of kindness are flown in hopes the prisoners might get a quick glimpse of another experience and hope.
“The tradition of kite flying in India is ancient and believed to have been brought into the country by Chinese travellers Huin Tsang and F Hien.” When the British outlawed the flying of the Indian flag kites were flown with the same colors in defiance and kites said, “Go home Simon” in rebellion against the Simon commission, so kite flying is a sign of a choice to live in freedom and justice and solidarity. The same ideas independently and spontaneously arose in other countries and times.
And other places around the world at different times, kites have been used to communicate messages to save lives or to deliver important items.
Kites defy gravity and the gravity of injustice. Kites give messages of hope and happiness, humility and home.
Closer to my home of privilege and protection, I could watch online a TED talk about kites and how they can help with personal growth, nurturing spiritual qualities. Even flown inside buildings.
I remember years ago on the windy Oregon coast feeling amazement and speechless awe and delight with the aeronautic acrobatics of a kite flyer named Stormy. He said that he had a stormy violent temper since he had been an abused child and then a violent drug addict and alcoholic who could never escape the painful haunting and hating, how he got into trouble with the law until he discovered kite flying and kite making. And now he experiences trust and self-control, grace and gratitude, he connects with strangers in a friendly way, and he shares his testimony as proof that nothing is ever too overbearing or hopeless and no one is irredeemable. The same experiences from his childhood and youth that he first resented as a curse, he learned to celebrate as a gift to grow his character so that every day he feels at one with God through the freedom of focused awareness and responsiveness. He tunes in to the subtle senses and he exercises strength with gentleness. He delights in bringing joy to so many others and he feels complete and yet every hour is fresh and new with endless opportunities to get a flight to inspiration.
Thank you, Evan, in adding reminders and imagery as I pray for people afraid of Covid and cruel capitalism, cold weather and cold shoulders from the housed towards our neighbors calling us to compassion. Thank you for each sentence in the article mentioned by Angie and each example coming from memory and media about the lessons and blessings of kites calling us to be our better selves. What is the context and rest of the phrase about soaring over time and space until want is naught? We can never fly higher without pressure hitting against us? And the sheer joy of watching giggling children and tough old ex-cons playing with kites and birds playfully flying among them.
Oh, I am now eager to fly a kite!!!
Thank you so much, Edith, and all for all these benefits of flying a kite.
I embrace freedom in my life – free of meds, free of pain – only ONENESS with the Sacred !!! exists and is real. I love freedom!!!
May you be blessed.
Thank you Evan for sharing the meaningful quote! It certainly is practical for us as Christian Scientists as we are constantly exposing the claims of suggestion and error around us!
Thank you Edith for your beautiful contribution! I love how kites are used for expression for freedom around the world! When I took my daughter to Brazil on a trip with her traveling soccer team- the children their too- were selling beautiful paper thin kites to help their families to stay out of poverty. There were also “kite fights” which were a game/competition to see who could wrap the string around the other and keep theirs flying. To me-the kite games represented how they used such a simple object and inexpensive for the children to play, get exercise, make money for their families, etc…
Thank you, Angie to for sharing the articles.
I am grateful for this forum. Thank you Evan for your daily entries to help keep our thought afloat- higher than the images we see and hear daily.
Thank you Evan for the wonderful inspiration, also special thanks to Angie for the article always so helpful.
Thank you so much Edith.
As my prayer flies past self into the height of Love, I am so grateful for the joy and inspiration from Spirit View.
Thank you Evan, you have given flight to many thoughts here.
Diane W, I love to watch the pigeons, on a clear day, have fun with the high pressure. Flapping their wings powerfully to gain altitude, then, with both wings up and nearly touching at the tips, they allow themselves to enjoy freefall, taking up the wing to do it all again, long before ground zero!
I find this pigeon pastime thrilling and can remember the time as a 3yr old, I went as high as possible on a garden swing before shouting, “look mummy I can fly” . . .
Thankfully “mummy”, grandma and grandpa, whose house we were at, were committed Christian Scientists and able to know the truth. . . . that was nearly 60 years ago now and all I can recall of the situation is announcing with great joy that I could fly.
Beannachd
Dear Sheglagh,
I would like to take you back to when my special needs child won a gold medal for throwing a Frisbee at an event held at “Special Olympics” here in the USA. The medal was of course was plastic.
These events are to improve the self esteem of the participants.
Chris, my son believes in super powers. Super Man and the like as superior to mortals and able to fly are his hero’s.
When the honors were given out and the bronze. silver, and gold, winners were presented their medals. They were stood upon a stairway. Bronze winner was on the first step, silver on the next and gold was of course first prize, highest step in the middle for my son. The contestants were all standing facing the gallery.
When my Son finally was awarded they played our national anthem as they do for all winners. A very big strong athlete was hanging a lanyard with the medals around each winner’s neck.
After my son received his gold metal, he raised his arms up and pointed them skyward. He felt that he had super power! He bent his knees and gave a huge jump up off the highest step. “Up, up and away he should have flown!”
Many were very alarmed never expecting this reaction. Many were drawn to his rescue and attended him there on the ground. A disappointed young man. But elated and well, just having learned a lesson in gravity.
He really should have flown. He really should have flown….
Another day in learning life. Those who haven’t learned from the least of these are certainly missing out on life’s greater lessons. Thank you for your messages today!
I think true courage is not our own personal human kind of courage but the knowing that we can lean on and rely on God’s courage, which He gives abundantly. Life can appear scary and overwhelming when thoughts start drifting into human will/self will, human doing, having to make things happen, figure things out etc.
When a kite takes off it is like God lifting our view to soar to the higher heights where we can see clearly the joy and bliss of being in the Mind of God , the kingdom of God in our consciousness. I remember as a young child many times my mother and I would go to the neighborhood store to buy a paper kite, she would tear up rags and attach to the back for a tail. I would run into the wind and it was so cool and exciting when it would take flight.
Oh thank you, Evan, Angie, Edith, Brandon, Rose and everyone for your posts. I am inspired and uplifted reading this morning. It’s been a tough week and your sharing has brought tears of gratitude and healing. I love the analogy of kite flying–(I too, flew kites as a child, what a thrill). Spiritview brightens my way everyday. Many thanks and blessings to you all!!
Oneness
“The anointing which ye have received of Him abideth in you, and ye need not that any man teach you; but as the same anointing teacheth you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it hath taught you, ye abide in Him.” (I John 2:27)
Barn House 13th April
“How restful to know that we never have to know the truth ABOUT something, nor is there ever anything to be PUT right. When MBE speaks of ‘practical’ Christian Science she surely means that its practicality lies in the Oneness and Allness of good, with nothing outside on which there has to be any effect. It is never practical to perpetuate the belief of a situation other than God by thinking it is something to be changed!
“The spiritual fact is the undivided garment of your present consciousness. There are no bits to be reconciled; no bits to be balanced; no bits to demand or supply, Divine activity, the Father’s business, is just One infinite, indivisible whole of good: Love, the underived, and so the undeprived, is Life. There is no lesser finite life.
“Every picture of material existence is simply the mirage. It is never a conscious living presence. It cannot touch the fullness of Soul’s divine awareness that you are. It doesn’t have to be eradicated because it never was. I, Soul, constituting and dwelling in the realm of MInd, AM ALL. There is no other. I have no sense whereby to cognize evil of any kind—not even healed evil. .
“So we rejoice as the abundance, wholeness, intelligence, integrity and Oneness of our Being, knowing that this precludes even a claim to an opposite. This is your total freedom now, moment by moment, by moment, by moment.”
J.Hargreaves ’99
Love this. Thank you Barbara. 🙂
Barbara, the J. Hargreaves quote is wonderful, so absolute, not giving error an inch or a fraction of a fraction of an inch, nothing. Thank you for sharing it with us. I printed out a copy of this quote to refer back to. Do you know if it is part of a larger article or any link to the full reference?
Rose, this is a letter responding to someone who wanted to “Know Truth”, not
just “something about Truth.” It’s in one of the two volume “Letters from John Hargreaves.” We don’t see the incoming letters, only his responses.
He may have known this inquirer well since he’d put a closing line at the very end… “We are not engaging in mental gymnastics.”: