Category: Supply, Self-Worth, Finances

Supply

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I read an interesting article which really helped me to understand that supply is spiritual and is actually a law and natural part of being.  It’s called Supply as Spiritual Reflection.

The most important thing for me to realize is that supply doesn’t come from a job, it actually comes from God.  A job is just a manifestation of supply, or God taking care of us. But the source is always the same – God.  When I realized that, supply was able to come into my experience in a number of ways that I wouldn’t have expected or perhaps even recognized or been truly grateful for.  Friends, church members, and family members have naturally given us food, sporting goods, clothing, books, furniture of their own accord.

Realizing that supply is so much broader than a paycheck has really helped me to see the fullness of supply and all the ways that supply is present.  Perhaps it is the supply of ideas for an assignment or creativity in your business or artwork or ideas and inspiration if you’re looking for spiritual healing.

Supply is a natural and normal part of our being and existence and because God is it’s source, there can’t be any lack since God is infinite, unlimited, endless good.  Also since God doesn’t know time, God doesn’t see supply here today and gone tomorrow.  It is ever the same constant and consistent.

Another idea the article talks about is that it’s not my supply or your supply, it’s simply supply.  Just like it’s not my sun or your sun, it’s the sun.  We all have the same supply, and therefore the same access to supply.  Supply is based on our reflection of God.  Man is more than the recipient of good, man is the expression of good.  So if we go out with the motive and mindset of expressing God, divine Mind, Soul, Love, we never have to fear any lack.  We will have all that we need.

Supply is as normal and natural as the leaves changing in the Fall.  Instead of dreading paying for things, we can realize that trading money for a service or a product is simply the expression of gratitude.  And we can rejoice in giving gratitude as well as joyfully accepting when people see our value and give gratitude to us.

Prayer

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As I was reading and studying the Bible along with Science and Health this morning, I realized that prayer is an absolute benefit to us.  What I mean by this is that prayer doesn’t change God; it doesn’t change God’s action or God’s will, and it doesn’t bring God down to us.

Prayer lifts us up to God.  God already sees and knows perfection.  He/She sees and knows its perfect creation as flawless, spiritual and immortal.

In the chapter entitled Prayer in the book Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures (by Mary Baker Eddy), it states:

Prayer cannot change the Science of being, but it tends to bring us into harmony with it. (pg. 2:15)

I find such comfort in this statement.  And it helps me ask myself more clearly, why would I let anything stop me from praying?  Why would I not find the time or not feel like it when I know it is only blessing me and lifting me up?  In this world we find time to do the things that are good for us and that make us feel good – going to the gym, eating healthy, researching and doing new things.

But prayer absolutely lifts us up higher than any of these things can.  It makes us feel at peace, and have less stress and worry.  This of course impacts our health as well as our interactions with our family and relationships. Prayer opens up our thought to new ideas and opportunities which affects our business endeavors and life purpose.  This makes us feel more fulfilled, a greater sense of self-worth and value, and results in more consistent supply.

So why wouldn’t we pray?  Prayer is going to open us up to more of God’s perfection; seeing and knowing Him/Her more clearly and with more understanding.  Prayer will absolutely not change God; it won’t make Him act differently, or think differently, and it won’t make him “do” anything He wasn’t already doing.

So let’s not cheat ourselves out of what is going to benefit us most greatly, along with blessing the rest of the world.  Let’s find that time to sit, be still, listen, read the Bible, Science and Health or other spiritual writings.  And this will greatly benefit us, bless us, and lift us up (our thought, our consciousness) to behold and see God.


Unconditional love for the world & progress in government

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Last week’s Christian Science Sentinel magazine titled “Unconditional Love” gave me some great food for thought.  And what a beautiful magazine it is filled with several wonderful articles on the nature, essence, and meaning of unconditional love.

Unconditional love is what God feels for each of us.  It doesn’t matter if we have been good or bad, God is still loving us and caring for us.  And Love doesn’t just keep us in a position of behaving in a way that is not our highest, but Love uplifts us, corrects us and shows us the true path – the path that includes health, blessings, happiness, and helping others.

Christ Jesus demonstrated unconditional love beautifully.  And he did it as an example of what we should do also.  He said in essence that we are known as his disciples because we love one another.  He included many wonderful examples of this unconditional love in washing the feet of his disciples and in praying for forgiveness for those who crucified him.  And told us that we should forgive our neighbor an endless amount of times – forever!

This, coupled with the spirituality.com chat “Prayer for progress in government”, has led to some wonderful prayerful ideas for me.  The speaker, Bruce Fitzwater, CSB, a practitioner and teacher of Christian Science in Portland, Oregon, talked about the need to pray with a trust in God’s ability to direct and govern the world instead of praying for a particular outcome with our limited knowledge of circumstances.  He also showed great steps in the progress of peace in examples such as the Berlin wall and in his own life overcoming hostility and intimidation in places in Africa.

One of the ideas he shared that I especially enjoyed was that progress is a clearer understanding of God and of what is real and power.  I love thinking of this as the real measure of our progress.  And this spiritualization of thought is going on each moment.

We can see evidence of this in businesses that do good, honest, and moral business, having wonderful relationships with their customers, putting forth good products, and operating in a smooth and orderly way.  In the same way, we can see individuals governed by forgiveness, gentleness, neighborly love and kindness.  This comes from a sense of knowing that there isn’t any limitation or lack.

We don’t need to worry about trying to get our own needs and wants taken care of and undercutting others.  God is supplying all of His creation with all they need and is elevating our desires and wants each moment to those, which bless and include everyone.

In fact, another point this speaker made was that our government representatives re-present its citizens.  So if the citizens are acting in a way that is undercutting others or dishonest or greedy, than of course the representative can only represent that.  However, if honesty, justice, goodness, mercy, tenderness and kindness govern the people, than that is all that can be represented.

I have loved knowing this in terms of my own taxes, business and in dealing with corporations.  If I want Truth to be the only power in my life than I have to exhibit Truth and hold to it firmly.  And if I really know and believe that supply is absolutely spiritual than no taking what isn’t rightfully mine, or withholding of good, or lying can actually bless me.  Since supply and goodness come solely from God, and not from matter than living in absolute accord with God’s character and nature is what enriches me, keeps me safe, and blesses me with all that I need.

Mary Baker Eddy writes in Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures,

Let unselfishness, goodness, mercy, justice,
health, holiness, love — the
kingdom of heaven — reign
within us, and sin, disease,
and death will diminish until
they finally disappear. (Pg. 248)

This is what our role is – to let God’s light shine through us so that creation is seen and known as 100% spiritual.  I read a wonderful analogy in the Sentinel I referred to earlier which said that the sun reaches the earth through it’s rays; just as God/Heaven reaches the earth through His/Her expression – man and woman and all of God’s varied ideas.

So if we want to see more peace and less violence, more good and less evil, more honesty less corruption, we can each be that light shining on earth.   We can live and express our prayer (that which we want to see for the world and our experience) in our lives.

One last point the speaker made was that trusting in the power of love and goodness is Christianity.  Anger, fear, resentment all come from thinking there is another power than God.  But when we trust that God, good, divine Love, is the only power, presence and authority, just as Jesus and his disciples did, than we can’t help but continue to move forward with the spirit of love, truth, helpfulness, and happiness and have total victory over error.

Mrs. Eddy says,

The devotion of thought to an honest achievement makes
the achievement possible.  (Pg. 199)

Honesty is spiritual power.
Dishonesty is
human weakness, which forfeits
divine help. (Pg. 453)

Right motives
give pinions to thought, and strength and freedom to
speech and action. (Pg. 454)