If as a result of some computation hijinks you found your check register balance was a few hundred dollars short, would you lapse into despair and abandon hope of ever getting the missing money back? Obviously not, since a few calm minutes with a pencil (or pen or calculator) would undoubtedly restore the phantom loss. So why are we so often cowed, disheartened, and discouraged by an equally phantom loss of health, security, or peace of mind?
Mrs. Eddy asks essentially the same question, though with greater Scientific precision: " . . . why should we stand aghast at nothingness?" (S&H 563: 7) We stand aghast at the nothingness of matter because we have been thoroughly indoctrinated over many years in mortal mind's ubiquitous classrooms to fear, obey, and respect all the falsities that accompany a belief in material existence. These false beliefs cling to each of us with varying degrees of tenacity, but 10,000 x 4=39,000 is no more real an error than 10 x 4=39 or 0 x 0=1. Why count the teeth in the beast facing you if not one of them can ever bite God's man? It is only false beliefs derived from a misbegotten education that make us fear matter's putative savagery. Let us once again thank our Leader for and perhaps mosey around to acting on her wise statement: "The entire education of children should be such as to form habits of obedience to the moral and spiritual law, with which the child can meet and master the belief in so-called physical laws, a belief which breeds disease." (S&H 62:4-7) A childlike thought should also qualify for re-education.
Even those of us who avoided a summa cum laude degree in false education can undoubtedly do a better job of ridding ourselves of what we did acquire, course by course, and replacing depraved thoughts with an abiding consciousness of Truth, Life, and Love. We must now and forever sit enraptured at the feet of Christ and drop out of the sordid classrooms of mortal mind, however compelling they may seem.
22 comments:
You are such a good writer! I've said this before in a comment, and will no doubt say it many more times. God has certainly led you to begin this blog. Such a blessing to the world.
Love your website. This is very well done, and that thought at the very end, sitting at the feet of Christ, extremely uplifting to me.
Compelling title, and very well-expressed blog posting. God bless you, blogger, for all the good you are doing out here.
Another home run, blogger! As others have commented regarding previous posts: Would that the periodicals were as "ably edited"
Excellent posting. I concur with the previous commenter. Would that the perios had essays such as yours.
Keep going!
Neat title. Well written piece. Thanks for a worth-visiting website.
I'm glad you're using your considerable abilities to write strong metaphysical entries. Like these better than the ones that cause such controversy.
Have a great day...
I second what the man or woman ahead of me in commenting has said: of course, the wrongdoing in Boston is wrong! Wicked actually. But as the Bible assures us, "Vengence is mine, saith the Lord" and He will correct what needs correcting, we know.
Thanks for an inspiring, metaphysically strong blog.
I do enjoy checking out your blog posts as they are so well conceived and presented. As someone else has noted, that sentence about being at the foot of Christ really touched me.
What would I do without the teachings of Christian Science I often ask myself? But the Cause is in God's hands, and He raises up those who love CS and are willing to work for it. (As witness your website.)
Appreciate you,
Love the part about replacing depraved thoughts! Who wants to harbor those for heaven's sake? You are doing a very fine service through your writing.
Just now getting around to your website, and like your last two entries. Both very strong for Christian Science, and I'm happy you are doing what you're doing.
Extremely interesting way you present truths of our religion. Almost always find helpful.
Thank you, blogger.
Just love that part about "now and forever sitting at the feet of Christ". This is beautifully put!
Thanks for the entire blog post.
It's such a pleasure having a lively website like Broken Net to depend on! You write so well, and I want you to keep blogging.
God bless,
Dear Blogger,
CS truths are certainly being presented in a fresh, make-a-person-think way.
Thanks so much,
As someone who works with patients in the practice of Christian Science, can't tell you how inspiring it is to see someone who is obviously a serious student of our Leader's writings! It's clear you are growing spiritually.
Thanks for an alive blog. I can understand why it's so successful. Extremely well done.
Hi there,
Hope you're having a good Saturday. I'm a newcomer to CS, and have found your blog. I think it's worth coming back to you.
Thank you,
To me, you're doing God' work through your website, and I would like you to know how much your efforts are appreciated.
Best,
With other commenters on this particular entry, I, too, love the thought of sitting at Christ's feet. Especially heart-touching is your word, "enraptured." That says it!
As a frequent visitor to your site, want you to know how much your original, often witty blog posts have meant to me. Thoroughly enjoyable.
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