Our friend, Shanna, often posts thoughts which come through John Smallman. I particularly liked every word she put on Facebook today. In it, he speaks of 2021 being a time of “stuff” coming up, and 2022 is the year of it falling away. What does that mean to you? To me it means the reality of our existence will be emerging without all the disguises we have given ourselves. We can live joyously as expressions of Love, leaving behind false idols. While reading the words of “Saul through John Smallman”, I kept imagining the people who use software to make themselves look better in photographs they post online. Most of us have been taught to pretend in order to get along in the world. We don’t speak plainly, because we may be ostracized from polite society. On the flip side, we think we should be offended if someone doesn't agree with us. These reactions are learned behaviors; not honest feelings and thoughts. Joy is the key to facilitating the new world we all long for! As Shanna’s post ends: “Be You! There is no one else you can be, and give thanks for your magnificent and divine purpose as a human on Earth now, brilliantly and beautifully assisting in the collective awakening process. That is why you are precisely where you are…” Every thought is important. Be happy!
This blog began by presenting the daily workbook lesson from A Course in Miracles with a correlative passage from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy, with my writing in between telling tales of how I use these ideas in daily life. In 2019, my format became more free form. What you find here are short dissertations on what I notice each day. Feel free to comment!
Friday, January 14, 2022
Bring in a New World With Joy!
Our friend, Shanna, often posts thoughts which come through John Smallman. I particularly liked every word she put on Facebook today. In it, he speaks of 2021 being a time of “stuff” coming up, and 2022 is the year of it falling away. What does that mean to you? To me it means the reality of our existence will be emerging without all the disguises we have given ourselves. We can live joyously as expressions of Love, leaving behind false idols. While reading the words of “Saul through John Smallman”, I kept imagining the people who use software to make themselves look better in photographs they post online. Most of us have been taught to pretend in order to get along in the world. We don’t speak plainly, because we may be ostracized from polite society. On the flip side, we think we should be offended if someone doesn't agree with us. These reactions are learned behaviors; not honest feelings and thoughts. Joy is the key to facilitating the new world we all long for! As Shanna’s post ends: “Be You! There is no one else you can be, and give thanks for your magnificent and divine purpose as a human on Earth now, brilliantly and beautifully assisting in the collective awakening process. That is why you are precisely where you are…” Every thought is important. Be happy!
Thursday, January 13, 2022
Ordinary Things ...
Having spent the day doing ordinary things with my good friend, Richard, the first thing I saw online upon getting back home was this wonderful sentiment. It says it all ...
Wednesday, January 12, 2022
Meaning of Life?
photo credit: Aaron Springston
We hear many statements regarding our right to privacy. This privacy which people value is more than giving out email addresses or putting photos on social media. People seem to value keeping their thoughts and beliefs private, their emotions secret, their inner-most desires to themselves. For the past decade or so I have bared my soul through this daily writing, not to mention the sharing I do on Facebook. I openly tell of my love as candidly as regurgitating my shame, probably eliciting comments from others of "too much information"! But that's okay, because by talking through times of turmoil, I heal my mind and heart -- hopefully giving someone else permission to do the same for themselves. A couple of days ago, I mentioned inexplicable events with inanimate objects and how I've wondered about the metaphorical meaning. I've begun to question my sanity in the ongoing series of happenings, but I don't think I'm "losing it", although something is happening. Am I being contacted by aliens or loved ones who have passed? Am I being directed to do something? I'm not sure what it's about, but it has crossed my mind that I may be close to passing on from this plane. If that happens, it's okay with me. If I'm hanging around here a while, that's okay, too. But please know my life is an open book and I'm happy when/if you talk about me! Love to all...
"Life is deathless. Life is the origin and ultimate of man, never attainable through death, but gained by walking in the pathway of Truth, both before and after that which is called death." Mary Baker Eddy - Science & Health Page 487:3
Tuesday, January 11, 2022
Wildness is a Necessity
John Muir Trail - photo credit: Aaron Springston
“Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home; that wildness is a necessity.” John Muir - Our National Parks, 1909.
"Arctic regions, sunny tropics, giant hills, winged winds, mighty billows, verdant vales, festive flowers, and glorious heavens -- all point to Mind, the spiritual intelligence they reflect. The floral apostles are hieroglyphs of Deity. Suns and planets teach grand lessons. The stars make night beautiful and the leaflet turns naturally towards the light." Mary Baker Eddy, Science & Health Page 240
Monday, January 10, 2022
Spinning Your Wheels?
Almost two decades ago our friend, Jim Young, was spinning his wheels. His little black Volvo would spin out at the slightest provocation. He changed tires and did all the things a person would do to alleviate this problem, but nothing worked. Being a deep thinker, Jim asked his Self if there was something he needed to know; something this situation was attempting to show him. He soon realized he was spinning his metaphorical wheels and there was indeed something he needed to be doing. To date, he has been the conduit for 30-some-odd books, he has numerous youtube videos, and recently launched a podcast. I thought of this today when my car and my heater suddenly quit working, then suddenly started again. A month or more ago, my vehicle failed to react when I turned the key. Just nothing. Then after a minute or two, it started and I didn’t think much more about it. A couple of weeks ago, a similar thing happened with the heat in my home. I called to get a repairman, but before he arrived it spontaneously began fulfilling its purpose. And now this morning, both of these events happened again! I think I’ll pay attention this time. I’ll let you know later what insights I learn from this!
"Learning is joyful if it leads you along your natural path, and facilitates the development of what you have." -- A Course in Miracles - T-8.II
“The calm and exalted thought or spiritual apprehension is at peace.Thus the dawn of ideas goes on, forming each successive stage of progress.” Mary Baker Eddy - Science & Health Page 506:12-14
Sunday, January 9, 2022
Harmony or Discord?
Rotterdam Symphony
Saturday, January 8, 2022
I Am That
I Am That
There is only one mistake you are making:
you take the inner for the outer and outer for the inner.
What is in you, you take to be outside you
and what is outside, you take to be in you.
The mind and feelings are external,
but you take them to be intimate.
You believe the world to be objective,
while it is entirely a projection of your psyche.
That is the basic confusion . . .
By: Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
Mary Baker Eddy quote:
"The inharmonious belief does not create an inharmonious condition. The belief of lack is the lack. The belief of disease is the disease. That is why the body seems to change as man's thinking changes. It is simply as beliefs of disease and imperfections fall away, and our thinking is corrected and held true to Truth, so that mental chaos and confusion no longer cloud our vision, we see the body as God sees it, as it eternally is. Then it stands revealed to us in its beauty and its glory, the temple, not made with hands. All that our ignorance does is to affect our vision, or view of things. It does not change anything that God has made.
'We do not handle substance through our personal thought to change it. We only see according to our thought, our degree of enlightenment. Walt Whitman said, "The world is jagged and broken, to him who is jagged and broken," to him whose mental realm is dark. If one's thought is ignorant and unenlightened, it changes his vision as a cloud of mist. As he looks through the cloud he sees this world, the body, all things, distorted, abnormal and wrong.
'If the mental atmosphere is dark and dense, we see but dimly and are not able to perceive the perfection that is. Man does not by mental effort bring God into manifestation, neither does he through wrong thinking prevent God's manifestation. God IS and God is manifest, and it is not in the power of unenlightened personal thought or mental effort to obstruct or hinder the activity of God, or to mar or to deface the perfection of God's creation."
From a statement copyrighted by Mrs. Mary Baker G. Eddy at the Congressional Library in Washington, D.C. January 19, 1886
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