Do you realize how able you are?
“Man is God’s image and likeness; whatever is possible to God, is possible to man as God’s reflection” Miscellaneous Writings, p. 183.
As God’s reflection, you are incredibly able!
God is able to figure out the answer to any problem. So are you, as God’s reflection.
God is able to stay healthy under all circumstances. So are you, as God’s reflection.
God is able to stay inspired at all times. So are you, as God’s reflection.
God is always at peace. So are you, as God’s reflection.
God is always abundantly supplied and never wants for anything. So are you, as God’s reflection.
God is able to keep on loving no matter how unloving others are. So are you, as God’s reflection.
God always sees good everywhere, all the time, and in every circumstance. So do you, as God’s reflection.
God is always strong and well. So are you, as God’s reflection.
God can do anything that needs to be done with ease, delight and joy. So can you, as God’s reflection.
God is able. And since you are God’s reflection, you are able too.
I love this Evan. It’s so clear, so simple and so strong. I will declare as I go about my day – yes I am God’s reflection and I am able! Amen!
Thank you Evan! I love all of the aspects of “reflection” that you bring out in this blog today. I recently read a sentinel article that points out 4 aspects of reflection as that term is used in Christian Science. Below is a link to the article. These are great ideas to use as a basis for a prayerful treatment for any issue we may be facing that claims we are separate from God or not like Him.
https://sentinel.christianscience.com/shared/view/2eyotz44zmc?s=e
A wonderfu larticle Brian, thank you!
Thank you for these reminders on how we reflect our Father Mother God. Thanks also to Brian for the link to the article on reflection. Beautiful reminders of our role as a reflection.
Than you so much! Living and moving with ease is something I hold onto as being moved by God with ease. He made us and knows the next step and is unfolding it with ease.
I really appreciate this today!
How inspiring the picture, noticing the Christ in the eye.
Thank you Evan for the assurance that we are absolutely able as God`s loved one to everything we need to accomplish under every circumstance. This is very comforting and perfect to start the day.
At last now after having read this SV I realize how able I am , and am grateful for it, is so uplifting!
Yes, Debbie thats true, and we listen and follow Love`s guidance – thank you.
And thank you Brian, that the link showed the complete article. printed it out and study it; very helpful in addition to today`s SV.
With reference to the picture: MBEddy`s Hymn 253 vers 4: ” … I see Christ walk, and come to me, and tenderly, Divinely talk.”
Thank you Evan and everyone. I am so grateful for the uplifting thoughts and inspiration. Thank you Brian for the link to that wonderful article. Blessings to all today and much love.
What powerful statements of all of our being today, Evan! Thank you. Thank you, too, Brian for sharing that wonderful article. Both (and all thoughts shared here) are very helpful as a very dear friend has just passed on and this helps in seeing her reflection as continuing through Soul and Spirit, God. We had never met but have been email friends for years. Without ever knowing what she looked like, or even how old she was, proves that it is not mortal, physical characteristics, but the true reflection of all of God’s qualities that are now and forever with us and encompass our true being.
Have my heartfelt compassion, dear Carol!
What a very loving comment, thank you. Your dear friend is still able and is about to reflect her Father-Mother God. You can be sure about that!
with Love from Uta.
Dear Uta…I so appreciate the expressions of kindness, compassion, and love you share with us all via this blog!
I agree, Brian. I appreciate so much, also, the feeling of support in so many ways from you Uta and all who share through comments and those who share in thought. This blog has always brought me such a warm compassion of belonging ~ one can feel it! The dear friend mentioned above I actually met through CS spirituality.com live chat that they had many years ago. That was a great forum which brought so many wonderful folks together like here.
Thank you Carol! I feel that we are a grand family of SpiritView fans and friends. And for me sometimes it is a nice and inspired talk together, comforting and helping each other.
I am grateful for this healing blog of Evan.
thank you Brian, thats what Evan will say with today`s SV, that we a l l fully reflect our Father-Mother God perfectly and in everyway, who is all encompassing Love. So we really can be grateful for Christian Science.
Beautiful comments today from everyone, thank you! Brian, much thanks for the amazing article by Helen Wood Bauman on reflection. It is a classic to be read and reread. And of course, thank you, Evan. 🙂
Thank you Evan and everyone for the interesting comments and Brian thank you very much for the link to the great article on reflection excellent read and a save to be reread
Thank you.
Thank you very much to Evan and Brian, and to all contributors today. Very grateful. 🙂
Whenever thinking of being God’s reflection, I always declare that I am the EXACT reflection – nothing added and nothing missing. All of your ideas are great, Evan, but this one stood out to me: “God is able to stay inspired at all times. So are you, as God’s reflection.” Sometimes, when inspiration seems to be lacking, the Truth is just words – beautiful words – but not applicable to my problem whatever it may be. The need then is to wake up from this falsity to the absolute Truth – know it and apply it.
Thanks, Brian, for the link to the beautiful article; to Carol for sharing the lovely experience with your online friend, and to all who have shared their inspirations.
How deeply grateful I am for these blogs which provide an avenue for sharing experiences and spiritual ideas!
Brian thank you for the many times you have shared a special link . It has always meant so much to me. This topic sometimes has confused me and still does. Jesus said the kingdom God is within you. That makes me feel more spiritually connected with spiritual consciousness. Instead of the sun which is out there often invisible, spiritual consciousness is always right there allowing us to manifest all good from within.
Hi Patty…You’re welcome. I too appreciate when others share their ideas with me on this blog, so I’m happy when I can reciprocate.
I too have been sometimes confused by the analogies given to describe “reflection”, but this article cleared all that up for me.
For example, the mirror analogy has sometimes made me think of myself “over here” and God “over there”. But that’s not the point of the mirror analogy. The point of the mirror analogy is to teach us that we’re “exactly like” God, as Lori brought out in her comment so beautifully today. In the We Knew Mark Baker Eddy book there is a reminiscence of Mrs. Eddy telling Edward Norwood that when one stands before a mirror their reflection doesn’t have to grow to become full size. It is so at once. But how often do we think of ourselves as having to grow into being the reflection of God instead of understanding we ARE the full reflection right now! So the mirror analogy counteracts that false belief that either we are not like God or that we have to grow into becoming like God.
Similarly, the sun analogy is intended to point out how man has his source in God. If you could remove a ray of light from its source, it would immediately disappear. Similarly, man can never express any quality that does not have its source in God as Mrs. Eddy states in Science and Health in the definition of man on page 475:
“that which has not a single quality underived from Deity;”
This article made me aware that each analogy is intended to teach a spiritual lesson and not intended to be taken literally. Now when I think of these analogies I can just focus on the spiritual lesson and ignore the literal, material part of the analogy that used to be sometimes confusing to me.
Brian thank you so much for your explanation . It did give me more food for thought. I will reread this several more times until it really sinks in. Thank you again .
Hi all, thanks for the great post, and great comments!
On the “reflection” issue, I saw an online lecture once that really hit home for me. I forget who it was, but she said it very clearly. Her message was, looking in the mirror, that’s God! That’s God, right there, looking back. You contain only God. Nothing but God. There is nothing there except God, never was, never can be. All that’s there is God and God alone. No mortal body, no individual ego – just God’s qualities.
I love the line from Science &Health comparing man and God as a drop of water being one with the ocean. That speaks to me more than being a ray of sunshine, which to me seems somehow separate from the sun, even though being an expression of it.
I also like to think in math terms, that we each are a subset of God: we contain only what’s in God, put together in our own unique way.
Thanks, Evan, and all contributors. I love to think about the word reflection and how to apply it.
I’ve thought of how to reflect on something means to ponder or think about it; so God reflects on us as his wonderful, complete, pure creation—all good.
How Perfect and wonderful!!!!
I Love this…
and I thank you…..