"Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery." (Dickens, David Copperfield) Wilkins Micawber's frequent bouts of misery were usually the result of his chronically impecunious and feckless nature, but in these troubled times financial worry and anxiety can come calling on almost anyone, even to the prudent and frugal.
Christian Science provides the only real and permanent answer to what supply and substance really are, though Martha Wilcox feels this is frequently a Brazil-nut concept to crack spiritually. To most of us (Americans at any rate) sawbucks, fins, and c-notes are supply and the provider of substantial things. At some point, all of us will need to master the truth of supply on the basis that Christ Jesus mastered it when he fed the thousands with almost nothing materially, but with unlimited wealth and supply in spiritual understanding of God. He effortlessly embodied omnipotent and omnipresent Truth as a fact.
Until we get it the way Christ Jesus and Mary Baker Eddy clearly got it we will be subject to the terrible demons of temptation to believe in lack and loss. Many of the association addresses mentioned in the previous entry have strong and liberating statements on supply. Greenwood has an entire association paper devoted to the subject.
Milton Simon, one of the best contributors to the periodicals over many years, also has many fine articles on supply and finances, frequently from the business point of view. He can't be over-recommended. Two compilations of his articles (17 and 19) should still be available from The Bookmark. Two feasts.
Finally, a can't-be-over-recommended book: From the Methodist Pulpit Into Christian Science and How I Demonstrated the Abundance of Substance and Supply, by Reverend Severin E. Simonsen (1928). It should also still be available from The Bookmark. A lasting Thanksgiving dinner with all the trimmings.
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A wonderful entry! So uplifting in these downright frightening times for so many.
With much gratitude to you,
I've told you this before, and probably will many times more, but I think this one may be your best!
We love you out here for all the good you are doing!
Such an uplifting entry. I just know this will help many people who are doing their best to not sink under worry in these challenging times.
A big thank-you.
Thanks for pointing us the right direction. Like the reassuring title, and well as your last sentence. Thanks, too, for mentioning those un-watered down metaphysicians, especially Simon. I had the most uplifting experience with one of his pupils when I was in my first job at the Church Center. One day in a meeting, I certainly fainted. This insettled people. My employer, who I later found out was taught by Milton Simon was such a rock for me. He had called my mother to tell her what had happened, who phoned my teacher in Christian Science who began praying for me at once. But what I recall is this man sitting beside me when I came to, telling me the most wonderful truths from Christian Science. Will never forget how comforted I felt. He was not impressed with the mortal picture at all. So, yes Simon as well as those others you mention, many of whom I have read, can be a wonderful, lasting Thanksgiving gift. As is your blog!
Just reading your latest posting, can't help thinking about something Mary Baker Eddy wrote in one of her messages to her church, this from 190l: "...rest assured you can never lack God's outstretched arm so long as you are in His service."
This statement, as well as your own, are so helpful!
Hello from Florida
Thank you for a cheering entry. Gave me such a warm feeling when I read it last night before retiring. And the second thing I want to say: run, not walk, to the phone to get that 1931 paper by Samuel Greenwood, "Supply"! A kind practitioner recommended it to me when we moved down here from New York state, and I can't ever thank her enough. It truly transformed my thinking about the subject of supply/love. If you have to skip two meals out, and make yourself a peanut butter sandwich, do it!
Atlanta, GA
Let me share a small experience that shows God's unfailing supply. Ran across a person so in need, wanted to help financially but the thought came, you can't give anymore right now, just don't have it. But felt so led to help out, so gave the man a small amount of money. Would you believe that that same week, a repair bill came in the mail and this individual, who never had reduced his charges for me, or any neighbor I knew about, made the bill less the same amount I had given! Sure many of you have had similar experiences, but thought it fit right into this discussion.
Truly, God is good to us!
Do you know what I think? And I'm not alone in this opinion, but if Boston was actually trying to be fishers of men in the spirit of our dear Christ Jesus and of Mary Baker Eddy, the money would pour in from the field. There is a lot being withheld because of the wrongdoing of the past few years, and many of us certainly have more than enough, if we felt it right to send it.
Really like your latest!
Arizona
Found that Simonsen book at Waters Book Store way back when. Very helpful, powerful metaphysics in it, and I think anyone would benefit from reading same.
Happy Thanksgiving to you, dear blogger.
To our dear dear blogger, you are just so Grand!!!
Dear Blogger:
Since I read this posting Saturday, have been thinking that this one seems to me to be on a higher level somehow. You are certainly a deep thinker who loves Christian Science, and a talented conveyor of your thoughts. Which is why I have recommended your site to others. Could it be with this particular one that it is your mentioning Christ Jesus before Mary Baker Eddy that gives it something special? I don't know, but again, your latest is up there spiritually, and sure to bless many people.
Sharon Slaton Howell
(Tennessee)
Could it be a new "leader" is upon us? God Bless and Bravo to you!!!
This has not only given me much food for thought, spiritually considered. It is helping someone I know who's worried she might be let go from her job.
Well done!
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