New Beginnings...

Dear Friends,

I have written to you each night for over seven years, and have loved every day of it. Due to life's circumstances, I am looking for ways to cut back on duties in order to carve out time for something else I feel is important. Many of you have expressed to me your enjoyment of these morning musings in your mailbox, and I don't want you to be disappointed if you need or want a thought to start your day. Please know that there are more than 2,000 entries on the blog link below. Let's say you wake up and are worried about your dog. You can go to this blog and search for "dog" and all the dailies which mention this topic will be shown you. So in this way, you will be able to customize your morning spiritual focus!

Please know that when an event happens which prompts me to write, I shall do so! I hope you will keep me on your list of people you receive emails from, and feel free to write me with your thoughts, as many of you have done these last few years. 

“Love one another” (I John, iii. 23), is the most simple and profound

 

counsel of the inspired writer.

" Mary Baker Eddy - Science & Health Page 572:6-8

Love Enriches

PC: Steve Shogren

I know a woman who is in her 90s. Since her husband passed on, she has been unhappy with everything around her. Holidays only remind her of times they shared, and she's sad they're gone. The changing of seasons brings grief for various husband-related reasons. She doesn't enjoy meals or celebrations of any sort because she can't share them with him. We have spoken numerous times about this, as she talks about him a lot. Every time she relates her grief, I remind her of her happiness. I don't think she knows it's all right to be happy. She feels she would dishonor him by having fun without him. I see it as the opposite: the dishonor is in the turning from joy to sadness in the name of love. Today I will examine the thoughts I have which hurt. Is it possible to change the pain to quiet joy by a slight shift in thought about the situation? I look forward to finding out! 

“Human affection is not poured forth vainly, even though it meet no return. Love enriches the nature, enlarging, purifying, and elevating it. The wintry blasts of earth may uproot the flowers of affection, and scatter them to the winds; but this severance of fleshly ties serves to unite thought more closely to God, for Love supports the struggling heart until it ceases to sigh over the world and begins to unfold its wings for heaven.” Mary Baker Eddy - Science & Health Page 346: 13-16

Remembering

PC: Aaron Springston
Central Park

Any number of people, whom I know quite well, have told me they don't feel like they belong here. I think we all, at some time or another, have felt this way. What if, rather than us not belonging here, this "here" we speak of isn't what we think it is? What if we don't belong in this crazy world, but the world we see isn't reality? Perhaps our true home is something we've sensed is there, sort of like seeing a movement out of the corner of your eye, but when you look directly at it, it's not there.  For years I grasped at straws while ignoring the vast Truth of eternity. We're not strangers in a strange land when we realize the truth of Life. We may think everything is real that we touch and see, but it's shifting and changing, as opposed to the omnipresent stability of our true home. So let's be still a moment and ask to know what that home is. We want it so badly, but we've forgotten what it is. Now we're not afraid to remember!

Mary Baker Eddy quote:

“As mortals begin to understand Spirit, they give up the belief that there is any true existence apart from God.”

Science & Health Page 282:30-32

Infinite Possibilities

Lothar Schäfer

Someone was sitting on my couch in the living room. She was checking her phone for messages, holding it up to her ear, when a movement in the reflection on the screen caught her eye. As she looked closely at it, she saw that it was showing her the mirror which hangs on the wall across the room from her. In that reflection, she saw the house across the street, and it was moving as though she were passing it in a car. She checked the angles and reflections, searching for how such a thing could have happened, but there was no explanation. When she told me about this, she was surprised I believed her. I explained there are dimensions right here and now which are invisible to us, because we don’t want to believe anything exists other than what we see. I am now contemplating the field of infinite possibilities — and thinking of my dear friend, Lothar Schäfer. Hugs and Love sent to you!

“As mortals gain more correct views of God and man, multitudinous objects of creation, which before were invisible, will become visible.” Mary Baker Eddy - Science & Health Page 264:13-15 

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