Have you ever tried to help another person go to a better place, but they didn’t want to hear anything you had to say?
Perhaps you are a parent trying to help a struggling child, but the child is not open to your ideas? Or you have a vision to share in the office, but no one is interested in what you have to say?
If opening your mouth and using words to express your ideas is not working, try the silent approach. Rely upon the divine Mind to communicate the inspired idea and have an impact.
Mary Baker Eddy wrote, “The inaudible voice of Truth is, to the human mind, “as when a lion roareth”
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p. 559).
Communication does not need to happen orally. It can happen quietly, humbly, through consciousness.
There is one Mind. You express the one Mind. Your family members and co-workers express the same Mind of God that you do. An inspired idea that pops into your awareness, can pop into their awareness too. It comes from the same Mind of God that you share.
It’s not human will, arguing, angling for position, coercing, or throwing a pity-party, that motivates people to genuinely embrace progressive ideas. It’s love, understanding, patience, goodwill, and truth. Truth is spiritual. It comes to each of us in a spiritual form, and through Mind’s ways and means. In the same way that a truth comes to your attention, from Mind, it can come to the attention of others around you.
If you’re not getting anywhere verbally, try the silent approach. Let Mind do the talking. Let divine Mind do the inspiring. What you cannot do humanly, divine Mind can accomplish spiritually.
Perfect just what I needed today for harmony today Thanks Evan as al ways you are right on
https://journal.christianscience.com/shared/view/131v5orkr06?s=e
Thank you for this enlightening article relevant to treatment.
This article was just what I needed. Thank you. Again.
Thanks Angie, wonderful insight into how practitioners approach a case, rooting out the idea of multiple minds or multiple consciousnesses, recognizing the One Mind of All and how that reveals healing truth.
Beautifully stated Evan! “Let divine Mind do the inspiring. What you cannot do humanly, divine Mind can accomplish spiritually.” Sometimes we are just not aware of the progress too because we are trying to measure it from our own understanding.
Good point !
Thank you so much Evan! So concise and helpful, and very much appreciated! The thought of “Oneness” has been coming to me lately, as an ongoing extended family drama tries very hard to distract me. But you can’t have something oppose “Oneness” because it’s ALL there is. No conflicting minds.
On the subject of silence, Mary Baker Eddy writes in her Prose Works, “We should endeavor to be long-suffering, faithful, and charitable with all. To this small effort let us add one more privilege,- namely, silence whenever it can substitute censure.”
“I admonish Christian Scientists either to speak charitably of all mankind or to keep silent, for love fulfills divine law and without this proof of love mental practice were profitless.”
Thank you Evan as always for emboldening our reliance on divine Mind to direct our thoughts,- bringing meaning, purpose and fruition to our daily lives.
Thanks Linda for this quote from Mrs. Eddy which adds to our understanding of silence as Evan presented so beautifully today. We can silently put everyone, including ourselves, into God’s care and trust we’ll hear and know whatever it is we need to know in each moment, in His time.
I’ve heard it said that we should be on a “need to know” basis with God. Which means we don’t have to fret about the future, we just need to know the next right action, and He will show us as we are quiet and listen.
Also I saw this acronym for the word WAIT. Before you say a word W.A.I.T. and ask yourself:
Why – Am – I – Talking
Blessings to all.
Love these thoughts Rose!
Thanks so much J, love to you!
Love the acronym, Rose!! Thank you!!
I like that very much. such good advice to follow.
First of all a special thank you to Evan for this post today! Needed to hear this! Rose, my thoughts are in sync with what you said about it being sufficient to know what the next action is! No fretting about the future. God speaks NOW & we must tune in to His voice by becoming still..
This is my all time favorite.
Let the angels tell them
By JANE MURDOCK
From the September 1981 issue of The Christian Science Journal
ANGELS. God’s thoughts passing to man; spiritual intuitions, pure and perfect; the inspiration of goodness, purity, and immortality, counteracting all evil, sensuality, and mortality.*
Isaiah of old said, “Hear now, behold,
a virgin, conceiving, shall bear a son.”
Indeed it would be as God’s prophet foretold.
But who would tell Mary, the favored one?
Let Gabriel; let the angel tell
Mary, the virgin, of the Highest’s will.
Who would tell Joseph and make him believe
that here was a virgin who could so conceive?
The wise virgin Mary let an angel tell him.
(Let an angel tarry, for more surely, we find,
does one believe angels than words from mankind.)
Who was there to go out at nighttime and tell
the shepherds who wandered high up on a hill
that the Saviour was born? It was a bright angel
who brought them good tidings of joy for all people.
Practicing Christians, prepared to convey
the Christ understanding that’s with us today,
proclaim the glad tidings.
And should one refuse
to hear healing truths from lips of men,
let the angels,
let the angels,
let the angels tell them.
Wonderful. Thanks for sharing!
Thank you Evan gift this excellent reminder, so helpfully put.
Thank you Evan!
Thank you, Evan, This was what I need to hear.
Thank you Evan – I needed this, too! And Karen – thank you for sharing that lovely poem. I think I recall Myrtle Smyth sharing it – “Let the Angels Tell Them” – on one of her tapes. It’s obviously stayed in my thought – thanks for the reminder – a beautiful sentiment, I feel!
I greatly appreciate the idea of silent prayer where conversation is not available or useful. However, this can at times be carried too far, as in my branch church, where ordinary conversation about church business is greatly frowned upon. Consequently there are many misunderstandings and obstacles that could easily have been avoided through respectful normal human conversation.
Thank you so much for this timely blog, Evan. There is entirely too much talking about the wrong things in the media and other places and too little listening to the thoughts that make sense and come from God.
Thank you Karen for the beautiful poem and Rose for your comment regarding the “need to know” idea. As part of my daily prayers I like to pray for better understanding of my identity as God’s likeness, and to use the definition of God as the “all-knowing” (I will know what I “need to know” when I need to know it), “all-seeing” (I see what we need to see when I need to see it with clarity, discernment, etc.), “all-acting” (I can do what I need to do when I need to do it). With God also being all-wise and all-loving, all things will be known, seen and done with wisdom and love. We are so blessed to be made to live, move and breathe in His being.
I love the Sentinel Watch program “If I know, you know” from August 8, 2022 With Beth Packer. Hopefully this link will work: https://sentinel.christianscience.com/sentinel-audio/sentinel-watch/if-i-know-you-know.
Love, quiet and effective, to all.
Thanks Pat, I will listen to this. There was a condensed version on the Daily Lift that week, which was great. Will be nice to hear the full interview.
Also Pat, loved the way you pray using the all-knowing, all-seeing, all-acting attributes of God, so good!
Just what I needed to hear.
Silence can be very effective. Not saying anything can be a very good thing. However, I would like to share a couple of things that can happened when trying to talk less and be silent more. Being silent can be taken as shunning someone. It can be a form of revenge. It can be a way to get back at someone who has hurt you. The results of revenge are found in Mis 118 ” Self – ignorance, self will…. revenge, are foes to grace, peace and progress; they must be met manfully and overcome, or they will uproot all happiness.”
Revenge blocks out grace and happiness. Not somewhere we want to go. Make sure your silence is not the silent treatment. Or even perceived as such. Revenge is deadly.
Oh BRILLIANT!! Thank you for this reminder Evan ! And hasn’t this hit home with people . And so often the idea of ONE MIND ONLY is the answer . I love the way you have described the exact situation we experience quite often .
“Rely upon the divine Mind to communicate the inspired idea and have an impact.” I was a union business agent. This entailed countless meetings over disagreement interpreting a labor contract, grievances, negotiating contracts, etc. Typically, I would put at the top of my notes OM, as a reminder there is One Mind. I would strive to get me out of the way, and know that One Mind would communicate the right idea to anyone in that meeting. By holding my own human ego in check, wonderful things truly happened!
Wow Evan, how absolutely right you are! Thank you very much. Sometimes after a talk I did not remind me that God is actually the communicator between us and it would have been better to listen more and be silent and not react, what i still sometimes do, but more seldom then years before. My love to CS lets me do better today.
In SH Mrs. Eddy says that we can only communicate through divine Mind – in that sense. I always loved this thought!
Dear Angie and Pat W, thank you both very much indeed for the wonderful and healing articles. They are a must to read. I must read them at least a second time.
A lovely and blessed weekend to all!♡♡♡
Wow! This is great! I know it will be beneficial , replacing effort upon effort. Thank you. .