Lov Mor

I saw this cool licence plate on a car up here in Canada: 'LovMor'.

Doesn't sound like it, but that's actually a spiritual demand being made on all of us each day.

All problems boil down to this need: to love more...to develop a deeper and more spiritual love for both your fellow man and God as well.

Spiritual progress is intricately entwined with this requirement.

I know in my Christian Science nurse practice over the years I've tangibly felt that what contributed most to a feeling of success working with patients was to yield to and obey this command.

You might even say, what is needed most in a case is not to nurse more, but to love more- and I suppose that is the essence of any healing practice.

photo credit: Mike Seyfang 'love' 

Instantaneous Healing

I came across a blog by an ex-Christian Scientist whom posited that if a Christian Science practitioner can't heal instantly, then they aren't practicing the same thing Jesus practiced, then citing Jesus' and his disciples quick healing record.

And this blogger felt that if modern day Christian Science practitioners don't heal instantly they are demonstrably not practicing the same Science that Jesus practiced. 

My initial response as one having experienced healing from the treatments of Christian Science practitioners is: 1). I've had instant full healings, and 2). I've been daily treated for one month and had a complete medical-science-defying healing,  and 3). I've had ongoing treatments costing me well over a thousand dollars with zero resultant evidence of healing (though i will argue there has to be some healing going on below the visible surface, and I have not given up on eventually cracking that nut).

The successful instantaneous healings felt similar to the month-long ones: tangible mental spiritual progress which was then reflected on a body restored to normalcy. I don't feel that the Christian Science practitioners in either case were practicing a different Science per se.

Mary Baker Eddy answers this question very nicely in her "Miscellaneous Writings" on page 40:

   "It is often asked, “If Christian Science is the same method of healing that Jesus and the apostles used,why do not its students perform as instantaneous cures as did those in the first century of the Christian era?”

    In some instances the students of Christian Science equal the ancient prophets as healers. All true healing is governed by, and demonstrated on, the same Principle as theirs; namely, the action of the divine Spirit,through the power of Truth to destroy error, discord of whatever sort. The reason that the same results follow not in every case, is that the student does not in every case possess sufficiently the Christ-spirit and its power to cast out the disease. The Founder of Christian Science teaches her students that they must possess the spirit of Truth and Love, must gain the power over sin in themselves, or they cannot be instantaneous healers."


photo credit: Daniel Gonzalez Fuster through my window 149 

Bowing Down to Idols Lately?

One of the 'old fashioned-feeling' aspects of Christianity is the mention of 'idol worship'. How relevant is that today? More so than I thought...and I'm not referring to "American Idol".

In the 'Good News Bible' translation that came out in the 1970s, there are illustrations throughout. I eyed one to do with idols in which people are basically bent over in front of a statue.

So I asked myself: what kind of undesirable qualities are being expressed in this picture?

Fawning or Grovelling.  >>> Not attractive! You know, laying on the sugar and feeding others' egos in some way, usually to get something they have that you want....One dictionary says: 'act in an obsequious manner in order to obtain someone's forgiveness or favor'.

Deformed Posture.  >>> It's just not natural to be all bent over like that.

Showing Weakness.   >>> This from Merriam Webster: "to show weakness by agreeing to the demands or following the orders of (someone or something)."

Well that's enough for me to keep busy with today. I'm sure you can go look through your synonym finder for 'bow down' and see what stands out to you: discern and expose these truly unhelpful ways of thinking in your very own consciousness.

Starting Your Day Right by Turning Your Thought to God First

The most important thing to do when you first wake up?

NOT grab breakfast.

NOT check your emails.

NOT check google news to see if World War III has begun.

Commune with God.

Turn your thoughts directly toward God in a way that works best for you. Affirm spiritual facts. Everything you know about God: That God is divine Mind; is All, is divine Love, is Spirit, and how matter is not part of that all because All is All, not All 'plus' some of this stuff, or that stuff...

I find reading the Weekly Christian Science Bible Lesson once though is a great way to guide my thought towards Truth. I usually read it on my digital pad.

"Man is properly self-governed only when he is guided rightly and governed by his Maker, divine Truth and Love." 

106:9 Science and Health by Mary Baker Eddy

Please share how you commune with God first thing in your day.

photo credit: Pilottage, July 7 2009 Extravaganza - Prediction = True; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/

Do animals have souls?

Each and every animal has a unique, eternally preserved identity and consciousness according to Christian Science.

"God is the Life, or intelligence, which forms and preserves the individuality and identity of animals as well as men." (pg. 550 Science & Health by Mary Baker Eddy).

In a nutshell, our beloved pets- who we've learned respond and reciprocate affection, memory etc. have an eternal spiritual identity. But so do every one of the 56 billion farm animals killed every year for food.

It is worth noting that in 1900 there were 1.5 billion humans on Earth, and today there are 7 billion and growing.

(photo credit: by Mehico https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/)

Is your Christian Science branch Church not cutting it for you?

We can wait for church and church members to be perfect, or we can see church and church members spiritually as perfect right now, and work 'backwards' with it from that higher vantage point.

Be SUPER!

Be

Super 

Grateful

Super thankful

Super generous 

Super kind

This is divine 

be-ing!

(photo credit: amboo who? Be thankful; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/)