Tag: spirituality

Our eternal life purpose

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I just returned from a trip to Boston.

It was great to meet with people, share insights, experiences, and ideas for progress and betterment.

The latter half of my visit was for my annual spiritual Association meting.  Each year I gather with a group of people to listen to and learn new spiritual ideas and metaphysical insights.  These are lessons on Life, Love, Spirit, Soul, Mind.  Everyone who goes through a class in Christian Science becomes part of an annual Association.  It’s like a post-graduate course in metaphysics (in learning more about a spiritual sense of God).

I am very grateful for these annual Association meetings where I get to learn and expand my spiritual growth.  I attended a spiritual talk on Saturday and participated in workshops throughout the weekend.

One of the “Life Lessons” I learned about this weekend was:

  • Be true to your spiritual selfhood—your unique individuality.

Mankind has such diversity.  And I appreciate each one’s uniqueness.  We don’t have to try to be like someone else.  And, in fact, we can’t — we each have our own niche to fulfill.

“Each individual must fulfill his own niche in time and eternity.” (Retrospection and Introspection by Mary Baker Eddy)

Have you ever considered that you have an eternal purpose?  That you will always have a purpose?  And that those who have gone before you have a purpose and are expressing it now?

Life is another name for God.  And we all have the same life!  Those who have passed on are aware and conscious of their eternal experience. I think this is a beautiful concept to meditate on: those who have gone before us are still fully expressing their life purpose, embodying eternal Life, and living in divine Love, never separated from Good.

If we listen to our spiritual intuition, we will hear these insights; we will see the wholeness and completeness of Life; Life is really like a sphere (and not a straight line with a start and finish).

I hope these ideas will give you some peace and inspire you to live the vitality Life and Love in your day today.

 

Many blessings

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!

“Emerge gently” in our spiritual journey

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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!