May 31, 2013 - Sawtelle dogs

"Happy Dog in Colorado"
photo by Aaron Springston

ACIIM Workbook Lesson #151

“All things are echoes of the Voice for God.”

I love the affirmative nature of our metaphysical studies! It is not necessary to deconstruct ourselves in order to figure out what is wrong so we can fix it. That belief doesn't even exist in the vastness of spiritual sense we are building. By acknowledgement that all true seeing, hearing, and feeling, is spiritual -- or "echoes of the Voice for God", as today's lesson expresses it -- all we need do is practice this truth and the error falls away. Tonight was another great book club night for me. We discussed "The Story of Edgar Sawtelle". It could be described as a book about dogs-- and it is that, and more. But it left me hanging -- on so many levels! Materially, it left unanswered questions. Metaphysically, it could have gone all the way, but it stopped short of everything at which it hinted. Perhaps that's why I loved the book! It showed me what could be, and described why it isn't. That's what we see every day, and that's what we aspire to surpass -- the beliefs that we've accepted this as the way it has to be. This story asks us to take a journey which, in many ways, is not plausible to our belief system.. I don't know where those what-ifs will take me, but I do know it'll be a fun story. Just like this book! Namaste', one and All!

Mary Baker Eddy quote:

“Your mirrored reflection is your own image or likeness. If you lift a weight, your reflection does this also. If you speak, the lips of this likeness move in accord with yours. Now compare man before the mirror to his divine Principle, God. Call the mirror divine Science, and call man the reflection. Then note how true, according to Christian Science, is the reflection to its original. As the reflection of yourself appears in the mirror, so you, being spiritual, are the reflection of God. The substance, Life, intelligence, Truth, and Love, which constitute Deity, are reflected by creation; and when we subordinate the false testimony of the corporeal senses to the facts of Science, we shall see this true likeness and reflection everywhere.”

Science & Health Page 515:25-6