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Pets and healing!

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I’m so grateful that Christian Science is applicable to many aspects of life.

My husband and I love animals and have cats and dogs.

One evening, we fed our cats dinner but they wouldn’t eat!  It was very strange.  They sniffed the food, pawed at it and turned away.

Well, my husband and I have the habit of turning first to prayer (by this I mean a spiritual and metaphysical way of thinking about things).

I was getting ready to go out for the evening so I asked my husband if he would pray about the issue.

He went into his office to do so and I felt a sense of peace and hope that there would be an answer.  I’ve been taught to expect results and healing from our prayer and that praying is practical!

When we returned home later that evening we tried to feed them again.  This time one of the cats ate – he had returned to normal – but the other had the same mysterious behavior.

This time I knew it was my turn to pray.  I considered this kitty one of my dear friends so it was wonderful to turn to God in humble, heartfelt prayer to strive to see what God knows about His creation.  I knew God made his creation spiritually and free from defect (from Genesis 1 in the Bible).  God’s spiritual creation is always harmonious, healthy and good because it is made in His image and likeness.

I went to sleep feeling peaceful from these spiritual insights.

The next morning the cat was eating again.  Over the next couple days everything continued to return to normal, and there has been no recurrence of that problem.

I’m so grateful for this healing.  And it’s totally natural – everyone can experience these same healing results!

Gratitude & Thanksgiving – Why I Love Christian Science

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Even as I write the title of this blog, my heart fills with warmth and love.  I am so grateful for Christian Science, and the understanding of God that it unlocks.   And, lately, as I have been learning more about spiritual creation, I have been moved to reminisce of my family and growing up with Christian Science.

 

My childhood wasn’t humanly perfect, – growing up with a single mom, living in a condo, being the youngest of two.  But as I look back, I remember a sense of love.  The memory of my childhood is wrapped up in an aura of divine Love.  We were taught that God loves us, and that “divine Love always has met and always will meet every human need.” (Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p. 494) I felt that God takes care of every aspect of us being human, and we are His beloved children.  And I also knew there wasn’t a need to worry or fear; I couldn’t be deprived of anything that was good.

 

My family and I had lots of physical healings through prayer (with the help of a Christian Science practitioner, – an individual who supports you in prayer), such as colds, chicken pox, bloody noses, cuts and scrapes, sports injuries, nausea, warts, etc.

 

We learned how to pray in Sunday School, to align our thought with God.  We were taught that God is Mind, and always gives us every “angel” idea that we need to make us feel better or to direct and guide us.  We were told that God created us spiritually, in His image and likeness (Gen 1:26), therefore we are his spiritual, perfect creation (S&H, p. 468). I grew up being told that I was God’s perfect child (even if I didn’t always act that way 🙂 ).

 

Even in my teen years, when I decided to live a more material lifestyle, and got myself into all kinds of things, I always knew there was a better way.  I could love Him and live as God’s child if I wanted to.  Well eventually I did want to.  Life with God in it makes me more happy, secure and confident.  And it’s been a joy to “re-discover” Christian Science, and what it tells me about God and my relationship to Him, in my adult years.  It makes me feel like a kid again, – like the perfect child of God that I am and always will be, just as I was taught in childhood.

 

Now it’s wonderful to share the nature of God, as explained through Christian Science, with others.  Christian Science has given me a fuller life, a greater understanding of God and everyone’s relationship with Him, and has made me a more loving, selfless and giving person.  I’m so grateful for every opportunity to learn more about spiritual existence each day.  Happy Thanksgiving!

 

Original Good

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I listened to a great audio chat on spirituality.com Tuesday  (“What is True Manhood?” by David Stevens, CSB) that referred to the Adam and Eve story as the story of original good.

I love this idea because it shows the inherent goodness of man and woman.  Man and woman were created good, in God’s own image and likeness.  To me, the story of Adam and Eve describes the nature of the serpent – that which tries to entice our thought into believing we aren’t the spiritual, beloved children of God.  It might say that God isn’t our creator, so therefore God isn’t going to take care of us.

What a lie is this.  The entire burden of thinking we have to care for ourselves can be lifted off when we realize that God is our divine, loving parent, our Father-Mother.  It is God’s job to supply us with all that we need – to eat, to be clothed, to express our purpose, and even the proper functioning of our bodies.  And God does do this.

Mary Baker Eddy, a Christian healer and teacher (1821-1910), wrote, “Is civilization only a higher form of idolatry, that man should bow down to a flesh-brush, to flannels, to baths, diet, exercise, and air?”[i]

Jesus said, “Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed? (For after all these things do the Gentiles seek:) for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things.  But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.”[ii]

This points us to God, the source of all goodness.  We are each the beloved child of God.  And abundant goodness, harmony, happiness, purpose and health are the rights of our being and existence.  And there isn’t a being or existence that doesn’t include these attributes, since God is the one and only creator.

All the good that God includes, we include, too, as His reflection.  We have this spiritually, within our relationship, our oneness to God.  When we try to obtain these things materially, we discover they aren’t lasting and are fleeting.

Keeping our eye on God, we cannot be enticed by the serpent (or suggestions in our consciousness).  We find original good and only good to be all there is and all that we can experience.

[i] Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p. 174

[ii] Holy Bible, King James Version, Matthew 6:31