This is a beautiful post published on The Christian Science Monitor website.
“Time – too little or too much – can be opposite ends of the same stick, the heart’s yearning to live a life that’s full but not frantic, happy instead of haphazard, purposeful without stress.” Read more…
“Spiritual sense is the constant, conscious capacity to know and understand God.”
“…spiritual sense lifts human consciousness into eternal Truth.”
“Spiritual sense, contradicting the material senses, involves intuition, hope, faith, understanding, fruition, reality.”
Unknown: “That which spiritual sense alone comprehends , and which is unknown to the material senses.”
We all have a spiritual sense. Spiritual sense is the means through which Spirit/God, divine intelligence, guides us. This spiritual sense is something that we all have but it must be cultivated. We have to practice using it so we don’t get rusty.
Try going through each day using your spiritual sense. Sometimes we may think there are things too small to be guided about. But God is always governing his children, always guiding them, caring for them even in the minutiae of our every day. Cultivating this conscious, constant communion with God shows us that we are never alone. We always have our Best Friend, our Father, Mother, God with us.
Our Father-Mother is governing each day perfectly. We are part of an interconnected orchestration of being. This interconnectedness is in perfect harmony and is like God’s great song, a beautiful melody.
But in order to hear this orchestration of being, we have to be still and listen. The “still, small voice” talked about in the Bible is governing our everyday affairs. It requires obedience, receptivity, and flexibility to follow it.
Let me give you one example:
I was out doing some errands on my bike. I felt strongly impelled that I should only go to the first stop on my list. However, after the first stop I protested against this spiritual intuition with “human reason”. When would I get the other things done? Why shouldn’t I go? What is the reason? The human mind has a hard time with the “unknown”.
So I went to the next stop. When I got to this place, I discovered they didn’t have what I needed. The trip to this place was totally unnecessary. Part of God’s Principle of harmony is that nothing is in excess and nothing is deficient. There is just the right, needed amount of everything. Our days are ordered by this Principle so there is just the right amount of time needed to do everything. There isn’t too much time or too little time. When we governed by this divine Mind, everything in our day flows together perfectly.
However, my attempt at “human reasoning” to try to solve the problems of the day had really been a lack of trust or faith in God. I didn’t trust that the all-knowing, all-seeing Mind might know more about what was going on than I did.
I learned my lesson, and I am practicing listening to the still, small voice no matter what self-validation the human mind tries to pull.
This Principle of harmony tells us where to go, when to go, tells us what we should purchase, what we don’t need to purchase, shows us what we can give, and who we should call. This spiritual intuition gives us peace, stability, and health. And by listening and obeying it we are ready, we have the tools, for anything that might come into our day.
The quotes in this post are from the book Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy
I have been cherishing an idea from the book Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures lately.
“Emerge gently from matter into Spirit. Think not to thwart the spiritual ultimate of all things, but come naturally into Spirit through better health and morals and as the result of spiritual growth.” (p. 485)
To me this really illustrates and describes the journey I am partaking of.
In the past, I have tended to be a bit extreme. I discover something new and I go for it all the way. The same was when I re-discovered Christian Science. I dove deeply into my study, spending several hours a day in prayer, meditation, and reading. It strengthened me and changed my life. But I realize I had more of a “destination” view of my spiritual journey and understanding. The goal was to get there, to get somewhere.
What I cherish so much about the statement above is that we come into the spiritual sense of life naturally. There can’t be any human will involved. It is really a divine unfoldment each moment. And our job is to be receptive, clear and willing to appreciate each spiritual opportunity throughout our day. This might be in seeing someone’s spiritual identity in the face of conflicting or pushy personality; or seeing our true value and worth as a child or reflection of God; or knowing your and everyone’s God given exemption from a cold/flu, or any disease for that matter.
Any effort to attract does not come from God. God is supplying us with all we need each moment. When we try to attract something into our experience, we are thinking there is another source in addition to God. But God is the only Source. And because of this we can expect that we will have everything we need each moment, through our reflection of Him/Her.
God’s being is the only being and is full and complete. God is the only doer and we reflect and express Him/Her. The only one doing anything is God and therefore activity is perfect, good and right, and it blesses everyone. We simply reflect the action of the divine.
Throughout our day we can feel inspired to begin an activity, to write someone or send a “thank you”, and we can also be guided in the right moment to stop or pause an activity. Each moment of our day is orchestrated by the divine; we are part of the divine symphony, each component playing and holding at just the right moment.
We lose all sense of time when we think this way. Time no longer outlines, defines or limits us. God is conscious of being as a circle, not a linear timeline; of eternity and not mortal measurements. We can live in eternity here and now. Time doesn’t have to be anything more than a method in society to help us see order. It does not have to govern or determine our lives.
Step out of time, and step into the eternal, infinite direction of divine Mind. Soul/Life/Love is leading and guiding us each moment in absolute harmony and usefulness.
Happy New Year!
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