22 thoughts on “Trust the right opportunity to appear”
I often get ideas for creative projects, household projects, small side businesses, community projects etc., most of which don’t actually happen or have not manifested yet. Then I feel like a procrastinator or someone who is not good at following through.
But I’ve also recognized that the right time for each Right idea to manifest (and they are not all right ideas) is God’s time, in God’s way, not “my” time which is based on human outlining. In some instances I’ve later seen the perfection of God’s timing and arranging and why things had to wait.
So thank you Evan for a great reminder to trust that each right idea and opportunity has its perfect moment in divine Mind. And we are each a perfect idea ourselves, ever-manifesting in that same divine Mind.
This is good Rose, thank you.
I have many good ideas and like to see them as that and to not think of myself as a procrastinator. I have learned to cherish the good thoughts, the creative thoughts, the divine Mind in action.
I just love what you and Evan share this morning.
The more I think about it the more it benefits me as I continue my day❣️
dear Rose, thanks and you are quite right, God manifests His ideas in His time and in His way as I experienced also; see my reply to your kind answer to my comment below here. ♡
One of my mother’s favorite thoughts was: “God’s perfect plan includes God’s perfect timing.”
This idea has blessed my life in lessons of both patience and a healthy expectation of good experiences..
Let it happen, but let it be in God’s perfect plan..
Thank you Evan, and thank you Rose, Susan and John for sharing ideas and comments.
In her sermon “Christian Healing” Mrs. Eddy says (p. 19), “Tireless Being, patient of man’s procrastination, affords him fresh opportunities every hour.”
Thank you Evan. Jeremiah 29:11 I know the thoughts that I think toward you saith the Lord, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you an expected end.
We all need to live in this beautiful expectation.
Again in Psalm 27:14 we read, wait on the LORD: patience and trust is all we need.
I love how one simple sentence and photo can send us off into so many of Mind’s
wonderful ideas.
From hymn 240:
“O Spirit, source of light, Thy grace is unconfined:
Dispel the gloomy shades of night, Reveal the light of Mind.
Now to our eyes display The truth Thy words reveal:
Cause us to run the heavenly way, Delighting in. Thy will.
Thy teachings make us know The mysteries of Thy love:
The vanity of things below, The joy of things above.”
I agree Carol, just one true thought lovingly fed to us and off we go, filled with all kinds of inspiration. Because we’re hearing about our true nature we don’t really need much, just small reminders. The still, small, but powerful voice of God. And Thank you for that beautiful, uplifting hymn.
Wow dear Evan; I just notice that this one quote in your today`s SpiritView is a firm promise of the good ideas God is providing to us when we pray and listen patiently to His guiding thoughts, and trust Him!
Since living alone in a semidetached house after my mother passed on, I had the desire to get the opportunity to share my blessing to have such a nice house and place to live with trustworthy people who needed it. Years ago I had several opportunities to have people with diverse needs as guests for a certain time. Amongst them there were friends from other cities, even from Japan. Yes and also once a man actually living on the street. He was grateful to have a nice soft warm bed for one or two weeks. But suddenly he decided to go living as before. It was his decision and I thought, God will care fore him. If we really desire to get the opportunity to help, God opens a window for the good ideas!
I am grateful I had the opportunity to express God`s precious qualities like compassion and Love for our neighbors – this “neighbor” can be somebody in need on the street or whereever we meet him.
In this week`s lesson we read in Romans 8: 16 “The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God”. A l l people of the world are the children of God!
Am very grateful fo Evan`s uplifting and inspiring SpiritView and for all the lively and inspired commentations!
Uta, I so appreciate hearing about your impulse to share your home, your good, with others and how God provided those opportunities, which blessed both you and them. You expressed a lot of trust, compassion, kindness, courage and of course Love.
Hi Rose, this trust came from God, as all the people whom I lodged in my house , came somehow through our church. The man from the street first came into our Readingroom and asked the librerian if he could sleep there. She aloud it, and when I came in I said, if he wants, I will take him with me to my home. And some of the others where not either CS but came to me through a CS friend. I knew I could trust them, ♡
Thanks dear J , specially for the article you sent the link to.. They are all very helpful and inspiring and uplifting and also healing and enriching Evan’s SpiritView! ♡
the sponge, carrying it off, while adding some more meal, to
replace the lump taken.
Oh, No! Woe is Us’ say the deported SpongeBlobs, as they are
unceremoniously removed from their friends, and plopped into a
bowl with all this dead, unleavened meal. We don’t want to be
mixed up with them! they wail. They’re not alive to Yeast!
Nevertheless, godly hands work them into a new lump,
which is energized by all the mixing and pummeling . And the
life that the little Blobs brought to the lump is distributed
throughout the entire mix, which is set aside to rise, and is then
baked, and broken, and served to all, with blessings for all.
I AM, [is] the Bread of Life. AMEN.
~MeridaGOroundA PARABLE OF THE LEAVEN
Jan 12, 2005
[edited & revised Feb 25, 2018; again 23 Jan2021]
Mary set to work to make some sourdough bread from scratch. To
get the dough to rise, she made her own starter from grape must
— using a well-known method of combining some crushed grapes
and a little sugar, which is then allowed to ferment for a few days
until it becomes biologically active, moist, gooey, alive.
Next, Mary added some ground grain (or meal) to the must and let
it begin to form a sponge, adding this starter-sponge into the
batch of dry ingredients and kneading it all together, setting it
aside in a warm and sheltered place, to rise.
But she kept out a small portion from that lump of dough headed
for the oven, which now contained the living leavening starter to
use for her next batch of bread. She put this dedicated sponge
into the icebox, instead of the oven. (Our Mary didn’t have an
electric ‘fridge – but being from New England, she had access to
pond ice which had been cut and stored in sawdust to keep things
cool during summer months.) Storing her leaven thusly enabled
her to keep bread on the menu without having to start over from
the very beginning.
¶ Now the meaning of the parable is this:
This leaven/starter/sponge is Mary’s community, her
“church” (ekklesia) if you will. And all the little SpongeBlobs
clumped together are getting really clubby in their cool little
crock in the icebox, by now an electric fridge. Periodically a
gentle hand still reaches into the crock and rips away a portion of
the sponge, carrying it off, while adding some more meal, to
replace the lump taken.
Oh, No! Woe is Us’ say the deported SpongeBlobs, as they are
unceremoniously removed from their friends, and plopped into a
bowl with all this dead, unleavened meal. We don’t want to be
mixed up with them! they wail. They’re not alive to Yeast!
Nevertheless, godly hands work them into a new lump,
which is energized by all the mixing and pummeling . And the
life that the little Blobs brought to the lump is distributed
throughout the entire mix, which is set aside to rise, and is then
baked, and broken, and served to all, with blessings for all.
I AM, [is] the Bread of Life. AMEN.
~MeridaGOround
Sharing this with Spirit View friends, to add to the mix of humor found today while reading how we’re led to implement a new idea, just because God supplies it, when it’s all a Me Ride GO round. Sweet love to you ALL
But what if the right opportunity was taken away from you, and then you have to live with the consequences? That was the case for us and for the past 5 years we have hoped for God to right the wrong, striving to see how this was not a lost opportunity. To no avail so far.
Stay clear that the right opportunity is never taken away from you. It can’t, because it wouldn’t be right then. The right one sticks and stays!
The “picture” of a lost opportunity is a limited material view. See further, into the infinite spiritual view, and you’ll find a path of progress to go down that is better than you expected! It will lead to the best opportunity, which is always in front of you, not behind you.
I have recently joined Spiritview but the articles don’t always come through..
There is not the ‘Play’ image.. the triangle over the picture.. so it just goes directly to the comments.. which are also very enlightening.
thank you Evan, for creating this Phoenix Rising site..
I often get ideas for creative projects, household projects, small side businesses, community projects etc., most of which don’t actually happen or have not manifested yet. Then I feel like a procrastinator or someone who is not good at following through.
But I’ve also recognized that the right time for each Right idea to manifest (and they are not all right ideas) is God’s time, in God’s way, not “my” time which is based on human outlining. In some instances I’ve later seen the perfection of God’s timing and arranging and why things had to wait.
So thank you Evan for a great reminder to trust that each right idea and opportunity has its perfect moment in divine Mind. And we are each a perfect idea ourselves, ever-manifesting in that same divine Mind.
This is good Rose, thank you.
I have many good ideas and like to see them as that and to not think of myself as a procrastinator. I have learned to cherish the good thoughts, the creative thoughts, the divine Mind in action.
I just love what you and Evan share this morning.
The more I think about it the more it benefits me as I continue my day❣️
dear Rose, thanks and you are quite right, God manifests His ideas in His time and in His way as I experienced also; see my reply to your kind answer to my comment below here. ♡
One of my mother’s favorite thoughts was: “God’s perfect plan includes God’s perfect timing.”
This idea has blessed my life in lessons of both patience and a healthy expectation of good experiences..
Let it happen, but let it be in God’s perfect plan..
Thank you Evan, and thank you Rose, Susan and John for sharing ideas and comments.
In her sermon “Christian Healing” Mrs. Eddy says (p. 19), “Tireless Being, patient of man’s procrastination, affords him fresh opportunities every hour.”
Thank you all for the blessings this morning! Something I really needed to hear and heed.
Seen on a bumper sticker ‘Where God guides, God provides. ‘
Thank you Evan. Jeremiah 29:11 I know the thoughts that I think toward you saith the Lord, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you an expected end.
We all need to live in this beautiful expectation.
Again in Psalm 27:14 we read, wait on the LORD: patience and trust is all we need.
I love how one simple sentence and photo can send us off into so many of Mind’s
wonderful ideas.
From hymn 240:
“O Spirit, source of light, Thy grace is unconfined:
Dispel the gloomy shades of night, Reveal the light of Mind.
Now to our eyes display The truth Thy words reveal:
Cause us to run the heavenly way, Delighting in. Thy will.
Thy teachings make us know The mysteries of Thy love:
The vanity of things below, The joy of things above.”
I agree Carol, just one true thought lovingly fed to us and off we go, filled with all kinds of inspiration. Because we’re hearing about our true nature we don’t really need much, just small reminders. The still, small, but powerful voice of God. And Thank you for that beautiful, uplifting hymn.
Following on from the opportunity, these words of Mrs. Eddy seem appropriate:
“Working and praying with true motives, your Father will open the way. “Who did hinder you, that ye should not obey the truth?” )SH 326:20)
“Trust God, put self aside” by Ruth Geyer:
An eye opening line…”When we clear out human will, it frees a lot of space!”
https://sentinel.christianscience.com/shared/view/4mln0p8msw
Wow dear Evan; I just notice that this one quote in your today`s SpiritView is a firm promise of the good ideas God is providing to us when we pray and listen patiently to His guiding thoughts, and trust Him!
Since living alone in a semidetached house after my mother passed on, I had the desire to get the opportunity to share my blessing to have such a nice house and place to live with trustworthy people who needed it. Years ago I had several opportunities to have people with diverse needs as guests for a certain time. Amongst them there were friends from other cities, even from Japan. Yes and also once a man actually living on the street. He was grateful to have a nice soft warm bed for one or two weeks. But suddenly he decided to go living as before. It was his decision and I thought, God will care fore him. If we really desire to get the opportunity to help, God opens a window for the good ideas!
I am grateful I had the opportunity to express God`s precious qualities like compassion and Love for our neighbors – this “neighbor” can be somebody in need on the street or whereever we meet him.
In this week`s lesson we read in Romans 8: 16 “The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God”. A l l people of the world are the children of God!
Am very grateful fo Evan`s uplifting and inspiring SpiritView and for all the lively and inspired commentations!
Uta, I so appreciate hearing about your impulse to share your home, your good, with others and how God provided those opportunities, which blessed both you and them. You expressed a lot of trust, compassion, kindness, courage and of course Love.
Hi Rose, this trust came from God, as all the people whom I lodged in my house , came somehow through our church. The man from the street first came into our Readingroom and asked the librerian if he could sleep there. She aloud it, and when I came in I said, if he wants, I will take him with me to my home. And some of the others where not either CS but came to me through a CS friend. I knew I could trust them, ♡
Dear Uta, what a wonderful example of “loving your neighbor as yourself”- very inspiring! 🙂
Thanks dear J , specially for the article you sent the link to.. They are all very helpful and inspiring and uplifting and also healing and enriching Evan’s SpiritView! ♡
the sponge, carrying it off, while adding some more meal, to
replace the lump taken.
Oh, No! Woe is Us’ say the deported SpongeBlobs, as they are
unceremoniously removed from their friends, and plopped into a
bowl with all this dead, unleavened meal. We don’t want to be
mixed up with them! they wail. They’re not alive to Yeast!
Nevertheless, godly hands work them into a new lump,
which is energized by all the mixing and pummeling . And the
life that the little Blobs brought to the lump is distributed
throughout the entire mix, which is set aside to rise, and is then
baked, and broken, and served to all, with blessings for all.
I AM, [is] the Bread of Life. AMEN.
~MeridaGOroundA PARABLE OF THE LEAVEN
Jan 12, 2005
[edited & revised Feb 25, 2018; again 23 Jan2021]
Mary set to work to make some sourdough bread from scratch. To
get the dough to rise, she made her own starter from grape must
— using a well-known method of combining some crushed grapes
and a little sugar, which is then allowed to ferment for a few days
until it becomes biologically active, moist, gooey, alive.
Next, Mary added some ground grain (or meal) to the must and let
it begin to form a sponge, adding this starter-sponge into the
batch of dry ingredients and kneading it all together, setting it
aside in a warm and sheltered place, to rise.
But she kept out a small portion from that lump of dough headed
for the oven, which now contained the living leavening starter to
use for her next batch of bread. She put this dedicated sponge
into the icebox, instead of the oven. (Our Mary didn’t have an
electric ‘fridge – but being from New England, she had access to
pond ice which had been cut and stored in sawdust to keep things
cool during summer months.) Storing her leaven thusly enabled
her to keep bread on the menu without having to start over from
the very beginning.
¶ Now the meaning of the parable is this:
This leaven/starter/sponge is Mary’s community, her
“church” (ekklesia) if you will. And all the little SpongeBlobs
clumped together are getting really clubby in their cool little
crock in the icebox, by now an electric fridge. Periodically a
gentle hand still reaches into the crock and rips away a portion of
the sponge, carrying it off, while adding some more meal, to
replace the lump taken.
Oh, No! Woe is Us’ say the deported SpongeBlobs, as they are
unceremoniously removed from their friends, and plopped into a
bowl with all this dead, unleavened meal. We don’t want to be
mixed up with them! they wail. They’re not alive to Yeast!
Nevertheless, godly hands work them into a new lump,
which is energized by all the mixing and pummeling . And the
life that the little Blobs brought to the lump is distributed
throughout the entire mix, which is set aside to rise, and is then
baked, and broken, and served to all, with blessings for all.
I AM, [is] the Bread of Life. AMEN.
~MeridaGOround
Sharing this with Spirit View friends, to add to the mix of humor found today while reading how we’re led to implement a new idea, just because God supplies it, when it’s all a Me Ride GO round. Sweet love to you ALL
But what if the right opportunity was taken away from you, and then you have to live with the consequences? That was the case for us and for the past 5 years we have hoped for God to right the wrong, striving to see how this was not a lost opportunity. To no avail so far.
Stay clear that the right opportunity is never taken away from you. It can’t, because it wouldn’t be right then. The right one sticks and stays!
The “picture” of a lost opportunity is a limited material view. See further, into the infinite spiritual view, and you’ll find a path of progress to go down that is better than you expected! It will lead to the best opportunity, which is always in front of you, not behind you.
Thank you, Evan.
I have recently joined Spiritview but the articles don’t always come through..
There is not the ‘Play’ image.. the triangle over the picture.. so it just goes directly to the comments.. which are also very enlightening.
thank you Evan, for creating this Phoenix Rising site..
hope to read more
Tina