Do you feel like you have too many obligations today? Perhaps your to-do list is a mile long with no end in sight, and you have no idea how you’re going to get from point A to point Z.
When mortal mind wants to swamp thinking with too many commitments, it’s time to remember the one most important obligation of all—to stay spiritually minded. That’s it. Make staying spiritually minded your #1 goal of the day and the rest will fall into place, fall away or be seen as unnecessary.
Running to the grocery store, returning calls, filling out forms, answering emails and paying bills have their place, but they should not have the dominant position. We don’t walk into heaven with human burdens on our shoulders. We walk into heaven knowing our completeness and wholeness as God’s child. Realizing the presence of heaven is about shedding burden and realizing spiritual reality. And this comes through prayer, communing with God and spiritualization of thought. In the long run, these are most important to your health and happiness. They will bring the largest dividend and get you to the best place.
Your #1 obligation today is not financial, social, political, business or domestic. It’s spiritual, to stay spiritually minded. Nothing else is as important. Nothing else even compares in terms of reward and benefit.
Stick to your #1 priority and prosper! It’s the happier path to walk.
Thank you Evan, just what I needed!
This so reminds me of the story of Mary and Martha. It is all to easy to get caught up in the day to day minutiae of things and forget our true purpose of knowing God.
It helps to remind us to meet our spirituality minded, as we do this, we find that our efforts to meet challenges becomes acceptable
Thank you!
Man, did I need that message today! Thank you, Evan!
Thank you, Evan! I’m thinking this is what Jesus meant when he said, “Seek ye first the Kingdom of God…..and all these things will be added unto you.” Oh, if we could only remember to put God and Spiritual Understanding FIRST in our lives!
Thank you Evan! I really needed this reminder this morning. That happens so often with your blogs.
Thank you Evan! This is so fresh!
Helpful as I’ve been on hold with AT&T for 20 minutes as I try to find out what they’ve been charging me for a phone number that I don’t have.
Perfect…… Idea and God and Day all reflected ! Thank you!!!
This is right on with my prayers for today. Family squabbles, bills due, job search… “yadayadayada”–
Looking up and out from a spiritual vantage point, we see that infinite Mind has it under control. Is, in fact, governing all. Harmony reigns, brotherhood is already established, there is no lack nor unexpected because God’s is the hand that orchestrates all, providing all; time is eternity so there is space for every “appointment” i.e. opportunity for getting closer to God, always room for each of us — or paraphrasing Evan’s words “getting us to the best place.” Our job is searching for God first, acknowledging God first, fulfilling our obligation to God first. Then, as the saying goes, “it’s all good.” Everything falls into place.
Thank you Evan for this reinforcement of my prayers, keeping my focus on the higher path.
A beautiful (Canadian) Thanksgiving message!
What a lovely message to reassure me that my decision to read inspiring articles I’ve collected over the years while sitting on my deck enjoying the view of the trees and mountains this afternoon, was better than doing chores waiting to be accomplished inside. I figure the chores can wait for a rainy day.
Thanks for this shift in thought – sometimes you just hit the ground running don’t you? And your article today just makes me stop and change my thought – thanks!!
Yes, thanks so much. I find when I really know what is important and who is in charge, all the other things work out efficiently and harmoniously.
thank you for this reminder as to what our real work is. A few blogs ago you mentioned about waking up to distractions from mortal mind. I used to think of myself as a ‘morning person’ and indeed the early morning is some of my favorite time. But I also saw this to-do list as something to get done as quickly as possible before my ‘thinking got clouded with mortal mind’. It served me well when I was a young mother with a lot to do in running my house and taking care of my family. But now I see it the opposite way. My morning routine often left no time to mediate or pray and a resistance to sitting because something had to be done. I see it as mortal mind in action distracting me and making me breathless as I tried to get ‘things done’. So I meditate as I fall asleep so my thoughts are on God,as I often have, and when I begin to awake I reflect on what needs to be done to get to work but I try to remember what are my priorities which is spirit and seeing spiritually as I go about my day.
My #1 obligation is to put God first, then every thing runs protectively in my experience, mortal minds desire to confuse or not.