We Are All The Same

At a recent gathering, a group of Jewish women were talking about wearing the Star of David, how one of them had quit doing so for fear of being targeted by a hater, how a swastika had been painted on a music stand at our public school. When Barack Obama was elected president, I truly thought it signified an end to our limited thinking in regard to human beings. It seems to have brought up all sorts of fear and hatred towards anything unlike what we see when we look in the mirror. My heart aches for those who fear because of their religion or race. My mother was a Chicano from South Texas living in Arkansas. I often lamented her not teaching me the Spanish language, but she wouldn’t do so because she was afraid I’d have an accent. Hers had plagued her all her life, in her quest to fit in in America. We have come a long way in equality issues since I was a child, but when I hear people speak of the fear they have of living their truth, I realize we have yet a long way to go. 

"Legally to abolish unpaid servitude in the United States was hard; but the abolition of mental slavery is a more difficult task. The despotic tendencies, inherent in mortal mind and always germinating in new forms of tyranny, must be rooted out through the action of the divine Mind." Mary Baker Eddy - Science & Health Page 225:22-28

How Was Earth Created and When?

I watched a Public Broadcasting Service show about how rocks give us clues to the earliest beginning of our planet, Earth. It was fascinating to hear scientific facts providing an explanation of how we have arrived at this parenthesis in eternity. I hear tell that many people don’t want to believe in science, but would rather believe something they call God created everything just like it is today. Through the ages, we have been pointed toward truth by many wise men. Through my studies, I have come to see that a spiritual God cannot create a material universe, hence the dead end that many religions run into. I love thinking about these concepts and trying to understand how giving up concrete concepts can lead to flowing with cosmic consciousness. To quote someone else, How far down the rabbit hole do you want to go?

Lulled by stupefying illusions, the world is asleep in the cradle of infancy, dreaming away the hours.” 
― Mary Baker Eddy, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures

Starting The Blog Again!

My book club has been meeting for more than 15 years. We are a group of women who read books and discuss them deeply, all the while having great food and drink and friendship. This evening, we discussed Becoming by Michelle Obama. This woman could be sitting in our living room, laughing and having fabulous conversation with us. Her insights into daily life are uplifting, and her realizations about the public life of a first lady are humbling. We have decided to have three goals by our next meeting. These goals will center around how to get young people and grandmothers out to vote on election days, or perhaps how to help a favorite candidate become a winner of an election, or what we can do to help the environment, or -- well, the possibilities are endless! On the way home from this gathering, my friend, Jean, told me she missed my daily writings. I realized I did, too! So I'm back to my daily emails and blog posts. I've missed them, and hearing from all of you, too!

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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