Saturday, August 1, 2026

Reversing Our Feeble Flutterings



Upon awakening, I had about 20 inane and/or insane thoughts before realizing what I was doing. "What day is this and where am I supposed to be?", was quickly followed by a chain of remembrances which took me from a lovely cooking store to my childhood home, then zoomed over to a friend's house and a remembered conversation, before zipping back to a neglected household chore. This illustrates why it is so important to guide first-thoughts of the day to paths centered in Spirit. Without this discipline, I could spend all my time with meaningless thoughts, which create turmoil rather than peace within. I have discovered that guiding first thoughts to spiritual truth helps to keep my mind in tune for the rest of the day. Often we feel bombarded by feelings of fear and hostility, lack and disease, error and disharmony. What if our thoughts of peace and harmony could quiet the turmoil of the world? Then we would happily expend the effort to pull our thoughts away from inanity, holding steadfastly to the ideas of divine Mind!  Everything we think or speak or do is shared. How important then to see the reality of it all, rather than the beliefs we are taught by the repetition of them. Join me in taking a stand for Truth, and experience the transformational power!

“I have judged everything I look upon, and it is this and only this I see. This is not vision. It is merely an illusion of reality, because my judgments have been made quite apart from reality. I am willing to recognize the lack of validity in my judgments, because I want to see. My judgments have hurt me, and I do not want to see according to them.”
—A Course in Miracles W-51.2:2-6

“We cannot fathom the nature and quality of God’s creation by diving into the shallows of mortal belief. We must reverse our feeble flutterings — our efforts to find life and truth in matter — and rise above the testimony of the material senses, above the mortal to the immortal idea of God. These clearer, higher views inspire the God like man to reach the absolute centre and circumference of his being.”
—Mary Baker Eddy - Science & Health Page 262:9-16

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Reversing Our Feeble Flutterings

Upon awakening, I had about 20 inane and/or insane thoughts before realizing what I was doing. "What day is this and where am I suppos...