genesis – Page 3 – Spirituality & Healing

God is real. This is a powerful and bold statement. I thought I had faith and an understanding of God before, but this is profound. When I realize that God is real, God is alive and well and here and now and God is governing and controlling all ideas – that is huge! The meaning and implication of this is phenomenal. That means that God is speaking to us always. God is loving us because God is love and we are God’s beloved creation. Therefore how can anything bad happen to us or be part of our experience? It can’t! And when we challenge that statement we will see the effects of it in our lives.

I realized today that we are never healing anything. Our thought is becoming spiritualized so that we see and know that God’s spiritual creation is all that has ever existed and will ever exist. It has never been interrupted or changed. All is constant and consistent harmonious good. And how can it be otherwise since God is actually real?

I think before I was thinking that God was more of a theory instead of an actual living presence which thinks and sees and knows all.

So why do I worry? Of course God knows that I need x amount of dollars to pay rent. Of course God knows that I need to go there or get here. It is God who is sending me and guiding me to these places so that I can be a blessing to others and be blessed (see and know good!). I am always where God wants me and needs me, so I can expect that each event or activity is already full or spirit, life, vitality, harmony and healing (spiritualization & movement of thought).

God is good and since God created man in his own image and likeness, good is all that man can be. Good is all that our neighbor can be or our community. What about terrorists, extremists and other people doing evil around the world?

Well these are good people who just aren’t listening to God. They are sort of blinded and mesmerized by hate and fear. There is nothing wrong with them. They just need to be awakened to the sense that everything is ok. God has created everything perfectly. God is loving them and caring for themjust as He is to all of us. They don’t need to feel it’s their responsibility to govern and take care of the universe. It’s not their responsibility to determine who or what is right or wrong. God is doing that. God is revealing and sustaining all things. The pressure is not up to us. God sustains and maintains his creation. Therefore we aren’t going to end up in some devastation and we don’t need to be afraid.

I saw a wonderful healing when a patient was healed of a cold after I realized that God sustains and maintains his creation – business, supply and family are all sustained and upheld by Love, God.

Therefore we don’t need to worry or fear that we are plummeting in desperation. The first and the last and is God’s spiritual perfect creation. And God is real and true and is helping us to realize and see that is all there is right now. There never has been a moment of parting or separation from God.

I listened to a wonderful online live audio chat called “Spirituality and Women’s Rights” with Christian Science practitioner and teacher Ethel Baker, CSB as the guest speaker. I love this topic because we can learn about how women’s rights have their derivative in our and everyone’s inherent spiritual rights. The true idea of woman is entirely spiritual, created by God and is flawless and perfect. The true idea of manhood is the same way.

A woman called me recently with some health issues that she had learned
about at the gynecologist.  We prayed to see the truth about women –
all women.  Together we read and prayed with the definition of man (as
in mankind) found in the Christian Science textbook Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy. This definition starts with asking, “What is man?” referring to generic man.  To help us discern the true nature and identity of woman, we replaced the word man with woman in our reading so the question became “What is woman?”.  The answer states “[Woman] is not matter; [s]he is not made up of brain, blood, bones, and other material elements.  The Scriptures inform us that [wo]man is made in the image and likeness of God” (Pg. 475).  We prayed to see that her true identity, her womanhood, came from God and was entirely spiritual, indestructible and flawless.  She is the image and likeness of God – whole, complete and perfect – as the book of Genesis explains to us (Gen, 1:26-27).  God sees her only as perfect.  We also took this a step further and thought about God as Mother and brought in more of the feminine nature of God to our prayers, which is attributed in love, compassion, purity and strength.  In Science and Health Mrs. Eddy identities God as Father and Mother which emphasizes a complete balance of the masculine and feminine qualities.

After praying with these ideas for a couple weeks, the call came
from the gynecologist saying that all was clear and normal. We were
both very grateful for learning more about the true sense of woman — flawless and perfect – and God’s feminine nature as the source of womanhood and the true Mother and Creator.

In the world today, there might be some resistance or fear in thinking about woman as equal to men, just as some may find it problematic to
thinking of God as “Mother”. And in this online chat it pointed out
there may be a fear of one then becoming greater and the other becoming lesser. We can really fight and combat this fear of duality in our prayers in seeing and knowing that there is no duality in God’s
nature. God’s being is in total balance and harmony with itself and
included in God is manhood and womanhood. So we can see and recognize
right now that the harmony, balance, and equality of manhood and womanhood doesn’t include any destructive element.

In Genesis it states that God made them “male and female”. In Christian Science we learn that this doesn’t refer to the male and female material reproductive systems, but that each of us is a whole complete idea embodying both manhood and womanhood. We do this by express and possessing an equal balance of “masculine and feminine qualities” (Ibid pg. 57). Strength, intelligence, wisdom, compassion, tenderness, gentleness belong to each of us because we are each the whole, complete idea of God – the embodiment of both masculine and feminine qualities. This totally frees us from gender limitations and gender related disease. And it helps to know that our happiness never comes from another person, but we are whole, complete and happy ideas now.

The interviewee also shared an idea in which she helped someone else to see a healing. It was “your manhood protects your womanhood”. I love this idea, and it immediately helped her patient to be healed of the menstrual cramps with which they were dealing. None of these ideas – manhood or womanhood – could ever be exposed. Our manhood or masculinity is protecting our femininity. And our femininity is nurturing or “tenderizing” our masculinity. Therefore you can’t have strength and power ever get out of control; neither can you have feeling or compassion ever be deprived of wisdom, intellect and good judgment. We can begin to see how praying and thinking from this standpoint can erase gender related problems such as emotionalism often attributed to women, and power-control often associated to men.

I love thinking and praying about these ideas and I know, just as in the two examples stated above, that they have transforming affects, and
these spiritual ideas begin to appear in our human experience.

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God is real!

Women’s rights