We experience what we are aware of.
To be aware of good, is to lose a sense of evil.
To be aware of Love, is to lose a sense of hatred and anger.
To be aware of peace, is to lose a sense of disturbance.
To be aware of health, is to lose a sense of disease.
To be aware of Life, is to lose a sense of death.
To be aware of God, is to be aware of reality.
To be aware of reality, is to lose a sense of unreality.
To be aware of Truth, is to lose a sense of error.
Be aware of God, aware of Truth, aware of Spirit.
It’s the happiest, healthiest place for thought to be.
Thank you very much, Evan, for this utmost helpful reminder.
What a wonderful treatment to start the day with !! thank you. Evan
Thanks dearly, Evan, such a heavenly, divine start into God`s day! I am very moved by these Truths and it feels very good!
I took a photo with my photo…. so I can reread again and again. Wonderful reminders!! Thank you!!!
With my Phone !! 😉
Great idea!
Thank you for these Truths, I’m so grateful to you Evan.
beautifully expressed. Thank you, Evan.
visiting eastcoast, so grateful for so many construction signs reminding drivers to BE ALERT!
Evan, you remind us so well to keep our thoughts upward. We can remain balanced with only God, good in our minds. Thank you for your reminders and guiding thoughts.
Thanks for today’s Spiritview which reminded me of MBE’s powerful statement on “awareness” – “Truth has no consciousness of error. Love has no sense of hatred. Life has no partnership with death. Truth, Life, and Love are a law of annihilation to everything unlike themselves, because they declare nothing but God.” S&H 243:25
Thank you Evan.
Hymns certainly help keep our awareness more spiritual than material.
O gentle presence, peace and joy and power;
O Life divine, that owns each waiting hour,
Thou Love that guards the nestling’s faltering flight!
Keep Thou my child on upward wing to-night.
Love is our refuge; only with mine eye
Can I behold the snare, the pit, the fall:
His habitation high is here, and nigh,
His arm encircles me, and mine, and all.
O make me glad for every scalding tear,
For hope deferred, ingratitude, disdain!
Wait, and love more for every hate, and fear
No ill, — since God is good, and loss is gain.
Beneath the shadow of His mighty wing;
In that sweet secret of the narrow way,
Seeking and finding, with the angels sing:
“Lo, I am with you always,” — watch and pray.
No snare, no fowler, pestilence or pain;
No night drops down upon the troubled breast,
When heaven’s aftersmile earth’s tear-drops gain,
And mother finds her home and heavenly rest.
the mother’s evening prayer – mary baker eddy
Love to all.❣️
Today’s blog reminds me of one of my very favorite passages in Science and Health. It starts at the bottom of page 324: “Jesus said substantially, ‘He that believeth in me shall not see death.’ That is, he who perceives the true idea of Life loses his belief in death. He who has the true idea of good loses all sense of evil, and by reason of this is being ushered into the undying realities of Spirit.” What stands out to me is the True Idea of Good – TIG. You find this throughout Science and Health and in some form in almost every Bible Lesson – True Idea of Life, True Idea of Being, True Idea of Love. It’s also a definition of Christ!!! For example on page 473 “Jesus is the name of the man who, more than all other men, has presented Christ, the true idea of God, healing the sick and the sinning and destroying the power of death.” This concept of the True Idea of God/Good is so deep, rich, inspiring, healing… I’m so grateful for this glimpse into reality! How blessed we are for the awareness of God Christian Science gives us!! Thank you Evan for always sharing so many inspiring and helpful truths!!
Excellent Evan❣️
Thank you, dear Evan and all for a wonderful reminder to be aware of the many
expressions of God surrounding us. To me, it is the little things that are the most
precious and powerful. The little rainbows that appear when the sun shines through
a prism, decorating space with beauty, sparkles from snow flakes that brighten
and glitter, birds that lift our spirits on the updraft of Love, hymns like the one so
lovingly shared by BarbaraUK above, all of the thoughts so refreshingly shared
here that help keep our gaze spirit ward.. all such beautiful awareness of God’s
delightful world of Harmony and Peace. Gratitude for all of these lovely
expressions of God, smiles upon thought and that is wonderful.
As always Evan, thank you !! …On earth as it is in heaven!
Today’s SV post beautifully lays out the contrast between Reality and Unreality line-by-line, and goes well with this week’s Bible Lesson on Unreality.
Evan says,
“To be aware of Reality, is to lose a sense of Unreality.”
“To be aware of Truth, is to lose a sense of error.”
In the lesson it says, Truth destroys only what is untrue.
Each item Evan lists on the left side is the diametric opposite of what is on the right side. Only one can be true, we can only be fully aware of one or the other, not both. The truths on the left destroys the errors on the right. A powerful treatment.
I”ll add one more:
To be aware of Harmony, is to lose a sense of inharmony.
Evan,
Thank you so much for need to be aware of goodness to fight the error that tries to invade our thought. It fits in perfectly with this week’s lesson. The first 3 section of the lesson follows Moses with leading the children of Israel away from Egypt (knowledge gained from material senses to awareness of Spiritual sense and one God), as taught in “The Footsteps of Truth” in Science and Health by Mary Backer Eddy. The last 3 sections I find follows Jesus and His teachings in of the chapter of “The Science of Being” in S&H by MBE. There is very much inspiration in these two chapters in S&H and the awareness of the Truth.
There was a very unusual, for this area, earthquake, this morning, being the talk
of the town. It gave a feeling of really being connected to others .. especially those
I know who were closer to the epicenter, but also of neighbors who also felt it
very much.
Sharing feelings and humor, amidst a bit of angst, makes one so aware of God
being ever – present. Mrs. Eddy, in the Glossary, defines Earth as being, “a type
of eternity and immortality, which are likewise without beginning or end. To
material sense, earth is matter; to spiritual sense, it is a compound idea”.
Being aware of the universal Love that surrounds us, is such a comfort and I
am so grateful for all of these blessings.
Angel I saw and felt the earthquake rumbling this morning, though at the time I didn’t know what it was, until hours later when my husband and I heard a news broadcast. It was such an odd feeling, I thought maybe it was some work being done in the upstairs apartment or outside, because there was a humming or machine-like sound accompanying the tremor. Thank you for sharing the definition of Earth in S&H, it gives a reminder of our safety and of being always filled with and surrounded by God’s Love.
What a blessing you have given us today, Evan. As has been stated in the wonderful comments, showing the opposites of truth and error is how Christian Science eliminates error.
I had noticed in the past few Bible Lessons, as noted above, that there have been many mentions of what Mrs. Eddy calls two “cardinal Points” for us to understand—the nothing-ness of error and the all-ness of God, good. I have been trying to be aware of these cardinal points during my days.
She states: The “man of sorrows” best understood the nothingness of material life and intelligence and the mighty actuality of all-inclusive God, good. These were the two cardinal points of Mind-healing, or Christian Science, which armed him with Love.
(SH 52:19–23)
Your listing of these opposites give us food for thought and help separate the “chaff from the wheat”. Thank you all.
Thank you Evan, thank you all. All We have to do is to stay in this. A W A R E N E S S and let the Spirit flows and lead us gently for each step of our precious day .
Thank you, Evan.
Years ago I had a fellow church member share
this with me. She said she always told herself on
a daily basis,” I am spiritually active,
spiritually alert, spiritually aware, and spiritually
alive.” I have used this myself and it is wonderful
to ponder.
Shelley – Yes, that is a very useful thing to remind ourselves of continually. I made up a little
rhyme which is similar which goes: “I am alive, awake, alert, and aware, that God is present everywhere.” I could start with the word: ” – “Spiritually, ” the add the verse, that would be
better, I think, and more in line with your friend’s declaration.
Perhaps my favorite hymn as a child and all through life has been ‘Feed My Sheep’ by Mrs. Eddy. The stanza, ‘I will listen for thy voice’, has been my prayer through many challenges, and when I’ve listened, I’ve always heard answers. This past week, a poem by Louise Knight Wheatley published in the 12/1909 issue of The Christian Science Journal and posted on the Facebook Christian Science site gave me answers and reminders. And so did each of your postings this week, Evan. After re-reading them all this morning, the refrain from the hymn, Tender Mercies by Susan Booth Mack, keeps coming to me:
I awake each morn to a brand-new day,
Singing Halleujah! as I go on my way,
For my heart is fixed on this one guarantee:
The Love that is All holds me tenderly.
And this hymn, too, page 374 from the CS Hymnal:
We thank thee and we bless Thee,
O Father of us all
That even before we ask Thee
Thou hear’st Thy children’s call.