If you’re ever feeling stuck, be quick to remember that your thought is always free to go new places.
We might feel stuck in a job we don’t like, in a relationship that is unhealthy, in a financial bind we dread, or with a health problem we wish would go away. To the material senses, our situation may appear hopeless and unchangeable. But this is illusion.
We live in a universe of Mind where conditions and circumstances are mental, not physical. What appears to be a fixed physical condition, is but a mortal belief, and it can be changed and improved with an understanding of spiritual truth.
With God, all good things are possible. With God, there is no such thing as “stuck.” There is boundless mental and spiritual freedom to be inspired with fresh views that yield progressive solutions that take you to new happy experiences.
Never consent to being stuck. You reflect divine Mind’s ability to think, to find new inspiration, and to gain fresh insight that leads you out of feeling stuck to new opportunities for advancement.
A change in thought can change everything. Thought is never stuck. You are never stuck! Mind is always free to think and progress.
Freedom! Thank you for reminding us! This is our divine right, & has full power to be proved by me in my life today!
Thank you Evan for this profound idea: my thought is free!!
“With God there is no such thing as stuck.” Thanks for that Evan.
The picture above made me think of a lyric from an Elton John song (Someone Saved My Life Tonight) which says, “…you’re a butterfly, and butterflies are free to fly, fly away, high away, bye bye.” Thought is flying away from error to new views and new heights with God.
Love to all dear SpiritViewers.
Thank you for the reminder of the butterfly. Decades ago I was on a mountaintop in southern Oregon around the time that we should head down to avoid afternoon storms when we saw to the north the sky was gray and moving towards us was looking like small flashes of lightning. But instead of racing down the mountain we stood watching because it didn’t really seem and feel like a storm. The whole sky was black, orange, and teeny flashes of sparks of white. It was monarch butterflies. Their teeny beating hearts and beating wings actually warmed up the air. It did in not matter how cold or how high or how windy the conditions had been, they continued forward up and over the mountain . They traveled from Canada to Mexico. They didn’t carry heavy backpacks of fear and ego. They were not sluggish or stuck with mortal beliefs. They did not allow anything to interfere with their progress. They continue to inspire me with awe and courage. And a light heart that carries its own beauty, protection, direction, provision, and destiny.
How wonderful Edith. Thank you for sharing that, it is very inspirational, so beautiful it
must have been to witness. Taking a second look at something that seems to be
like a storm brewing, and looking for its opposite, the beautiful things of God, can
also bring us freedom from the false threats of a seeming material existence brewing, so that
we can be a witness to the beauty of God’s creation.
Thank you Evan for the message and the picture — God-given freedom. God created us free!
not stuck!!!
And Thank you Edith for sharing that marvellous experience— witnessing the migration of the Monarch butterflies. That’s a spiritual lesson too.
thank you
VERY INSPIRING, Evan! Thanks so much for all the posts you do!
‘Perfection Now!’:
https://journal.christianscience.com/shared/view/1cttjhfflp2?s=e
Thank you, Evan! And thank you, Edith for the allegory of the butterfly!
So uplifting this morning! Thanks to everyone for your comments!
I needed this. Just to know that seemingly intractable situations is mortal mind and the belief of limitations
This SpiritView reminds me of one of the things I love so much about Christian Science — spiritual dominion over all of life’s seeming problems, which results in healing — even and especially when mortal mind would claim that healing is impossible.
Sometimes we may feel like a caterpillar, crawling along in ways that do not seem to bring us
progress, surrounded by a material world and stuck in matter. But, like one of my favorite
reminders ~ Just when the caterpillar thought it was the end of the world, it became a butterfly.
We, too, can take flight in thought, in Mind’s perfection and soar to new heights and with these
freeing thoughts, change from what appears to be lack into the true perfection that is innate in
our God given being.
This comment isn’t a lot to do with CS however it is relevant. A good friend of mine was imprisoned and tortured in Romania a few decades ago for leading demonstrations against an unjust government. She was only in her 20’s at the time and was locked up for a year and knew they would break her if she couldn’t keep her thoughts in control as they had no control over that, but she decided they could do whatever they wanted to her body…but her mind they could not have. So sometimes she would lie on the floor under her bunk and take her thoughts back to her village where she grew up and focus so much on every detail of that place that she could smell the bakery and hear the sounds of everything in that place so clearly that she often felt that she had actually left the prison! Mary Baker Eddy wrote about healing saying, “Hold thought steadfastly to the enduring, the good, and the true, and you will bring these into your experience proportionably to their occupancy of your thoughts.” S&Hp. 261:4) This friend of mine has always been very religious and totally believes in God’s power and presence and this too sustained her. Also, I must add that she realised that to continue to hate anyone as revenge is useless and the opportunity to stop the circle of hate COULD stop with HER. After the war she was given the opportunity to point out the men who had tortured her and they would have been shot on the spot but she simply said she didn’t remember (though of course, she could. ) She has always been a remarkably sane and positive person, seemingly untouched mentally by the terrible experience, NOT traumatised by it and got on with her life, knowing that SHE stopped the chain of revenge from ruining future lives. How often do we ruin our own future or that of others by refusing to change our thoughts?
When I was a child I listened to record in which folk singer Theodore Bikel sung a German song that says, “Thoughts are free, you can’t put them in jail”, “Die Gedanken sind frei” maybe written in 1229. He sung it in English and German. It’s lyrics were found in the 1200s, the 1300s and in music composed and literature written using it in the 1700s and 1800s, A timeless truth,
“…Thoughts are free, who can guess them?
They fly by like nocturnal shadows.
No person can know them, no hunter can shoot them. and so it’ll always be: Thoughts are free!…. And if I am thrown into the darkest dungeon, all these are futile works,
because my thoughts tear all gatesand walls apart: Thoughts are free!,”
Theodore Meir Bikel was an Austrian-American Jewish actor, folk singer, musician, composer, unionist, and political activist. He lived that truth which inspired me through years of abuse intended to destroy my mind and spirit,
No one can force their thoughts upon us and we’re not forced to stay stuck with the wrong thought. We are always free to change your thoughts.
Sung by Pete Seeger. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dbwQXVcbkU0
Lyrics: https://www.lyrics.com/lyric/1035647/Pete+Seeger/Die+Gedanken+Sind+Frei
Thank you Diane!!!!
I will copy what you shared word for word in my journal ~
Never to forget it.
Your friend is beautiful and I feel love for her.
Thanks you for sharing this story Diane. It made me think of Nelson Mandela, who was imprisoned for 27 years South Africa because he fought to free his people from apartheid. He learned to forgive his captors. Here are a few quote from him:
“You will achieve more in this world through acts of mercy than you will through acts of retribution.”
“It never hurts to think too highly of a person; often they become ennobled and act better because of it.”
“Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies.”
“Forgiveness liberates the soul, it removes fear. That’s why it’s such a powerful weapon.”
“I never lose. I either win or learn.”
“Man’s goodness is a flame that can be hidden but never extinguished.”
More here: https://parade.com/1074913/kelseypelzer/nelson-mandela-quotes/
Thank you for sharing that story, Diane W. Your friend followed the teachings of her religion
and trusted in God, and that is what we do in C.S. – She proved the efficacy of following
the religious teachings she had learned. A lovely testimony, I would say. She was very
courageous, and it brought her through the experience.
A post script comment — when I saw the title I was thinking of free as in having no cost. Our thoughts are free! You don’t have to deplete any bank account to have the most miraculously beautiful, effective, and uplifting thoughts possible, such as a cloud of butterflies, or a sunlit home in a prison. But it must be true of our finances, too. They, too are thoughts, and they, too are free.
“Son, thou art ever with me, and all that I have is thine.”
Really appreciate this today Evan and all the comments.
The article Angie is so on point. I especially like the following …
In Science and Health Mrs. Eddy writes (p. 461): “Christian Science must be accepted at this period by induction. We admit the whole, because a part is proved and that part illustrates and proves the entire Principle.” If, therefore, on the basis that one point proved will lead us into all truth, we will make perfection our starting point instead of our goal in all we do or say or think, we shall have opened our consciousness to receive an influx of divine Mind’s unfailing guidance and protection.
I couldn’t count the number of times I’ve had to correct my thought from. ‘I must be progressing in spiritual consciousness’…to…. my starting point IS that God given perfection NOW.
Happy day all❣️
This was wonderful, Thanks everyone. Much Love.
https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/36332.John_Wyndham
The Ultimate Freedom by John H. Wyndham is a compelling, true spiritual adventure story that takes place in a Japanese prison camp on Java during the Second World War. The author, a prisoner of war for three years, was first considered a spy and was about to be executed. He prayed for divine direction and was given an unexpected answer which saved his own life, changed the lives of others and even brought about amazing experiences with his captors.
He carved CT on the cell walk to
remind him to Control Thought.
His book starts with, “When I was a guest of the Japanese people.”
He was a Christian Scientist.
On the cell wall.
Another inspiring example of how thought can be free amidst the most dire material conditions is the story of Immaculee ilibagiza, a Rwandan who survived the genocide that brutally murdered her family, along with one million Rwandans. She and 7 other women huddled in a pastor’s 3 X 4 foot bathroom for 3 months, hiding from the violent mob that was hunting them. During what seemed to the material senses to be an intolerable plight, she learned to pray without ceasing, She experienced illuminating revelations that sustained her throughout this horrific trial.. She discovered within a new spiritual awareness, a deepening of her faith, a oneness with God, and the inner impulsion to forgive. When after 91 days the ordeal was finally over, she went on to become a best selling author and motivational speaker. Her first book is “Left to Tell” and can be purchased on Amazon.
I John 3:1-3 is in the CS Bible Lesson Responsive Reading this week (and also read at the end of every CS Sunday Service). I found the following Sentinel article on these versus that I thought others would enjoy reading. It provides the capitalization that Mary Baker Eddy used for these versus from a January 6, 1906 Sentinel article she authored.
https://sentinel.christianscience.com/shared/view/1x5uj39ecxq?s=e
Here’s a link to Mrs Eddy’s article. And it was actually published March 21, 1901. I had the date wrong in my post above.
https://sentinel.christianscience.com/shared/view/93kseclpxa?s=e
My deepest gratitude for all of the very thoughtful comments. SpiritView is
such a blessing. I have a very simple statement that I declare often throughout the day, “I am the exact reflection of God’s perfection.”
I love this simple statement Lori – thank you for sharing it!
– In prayer we forsake mortal thoughts, imposed on us as though they could be ours, for what Mind knows. (Rebecca Odegaard)
– Fresh thoughts from God are a beautiful gift to each of us that are available every moment. (Unknown)
– When you have freedom in your thinking – because thinking itself is unbounded, unlimited by anything – you’re lifted out of the concept of time restraints or even history. (Ruth Jenks)
– That which appears to be material is only a mental concept, a thought. Thought can be replaced, changed or corrected. For whoever heard of an unchangeable thought! (Daniel Jensen)
WhAT a relief to see this message! Of course we are free thinkers. ThANK you for reminding us that God gives us our thoughts.