A four year old has instantaneous healing
By Julie Paulk
My daughter and I were riding in the car together on our way to attend the Wednesday evening testimony meeting. When we were about a mile away I realized her window was open a bit. Since it was in the 40’s outside, I rolled her window up using my control on the drivers’ side door.
However, when the window went up I immediately heard a crack and then a scream. I turned around and saw my daughter’s fingers rolled up in the window. I immediately put the window back down so she could get her fingers out. She was screaming and crying, saying “Mommy hurt my fingers, Mommy hut my fingers.”
I told her I was so sorry and was looking for a place to pull the car over so I could comfort her. However, the thought came to me “you are prepared to handle this situation.” I knew it meant through prayer. So through her tears and crying, I said “Karen, let’s pray together.” So I began praying out loud. In Christian Science, we learn how to have effective prayers. One of my favorite passages by Mary Baker Eddy, the discoverer and founder of Christian Science, reads:
“Jesus beheld in Science the perfect man, who appeared to him where sinning mortal
man appears to mortals. In this perfect man the Savior saw God's own likeness, and this correct view of man healed the sick.”
We see that Jesus healed by seeing God’s likeness instead of seeing “sinning mortal man.” So we began our prayers this way: “God, thank you for making Karen in your image and likeness. Thank you for making her complete, whole, healthy, intact. Thank you for making her peaceful.” We went on and on. (Mind you we were only one mile away from church, so this prayer wasn’t very long.)
With each part of the prayer, Karen was increasingly calm. We ended our prayer with a little song. It only has one verse “There is no spot where God is not.” But then Karen added a second verse “and God made my fingers all better!”
With that, we arrived at church and she jumped out of the car completely joyous and healed.
This incident got me thinking… When we are in any situation and panic, or guilt, or other negative thoughts creep in, we can remember to change that at once and turn to God in gratitude for what He’s already done. All eternity ago he created each and every one of us in His image and likeness and nothing can ever change that. All we have to do is bear witness to His Truth.
Prayers that heal, are prayers that don’t beg God to do something or change something or heal something. God already made us whole and complete and healthy in the first place. The prayers that heal are ones that affirm what God has already done. We are bearing witness to Truth.
Christ Jesus said “And Ye shall know the Truth, and the Truth shall make you free.”
I witnessed this first hand in so many situations, including this instantaneous healing of my four year old daughter. It was such a joy for her to learn, once again, what happens when you turn to God in prayer and gratitude.
Tuesday, February 05, 2008
Sunday, July 08, 2007
Freedom - a Spiritual Quality
Freedom, a Spiritual Quality
I’m sitting here on the 4th of July – better known as Independence Day. It’s dusk and the sound of fireworks are randomly exploding from all sides. The laughter of neighborhood children brings a smile to my face, as my two children are already fast asleep.
The word independence stays in my thought. What does it mean? Freedom! One dictionary definition says “freedom from the control, influence, support, aid, or the like, of others.” Freedom from the control or influence of others means we’re upholding the first commandment, which reads “thou shalt have no other gods before me.” Or as I like to think about it “thou shalt not let anything else have power in your life except me, God, good.”
So, if we’re free from the control or influence of others, that means we don’t let anyone influence or control us but God. We refuse to let others control our moods, our actions, and even our reactions. What an incredible sense of freedom that must give us. What wonderful independence!
More and more I’ve been understanding the importance of this. Another way we seem to let people have control over us is when we’re looking to another to be our source of happiness, our source of fulfillment and love. The people we often look to for this is our spouse, our children and our parents.
While this may seem like a natural thing to do, it’s actually believing that God didn’t create us complete in the first place. That something was missing – happiness, love, completeness – and that we need someone to give us what was missing.
The more I’ve been able to stop thinking of people as my source of happiness, the more unconditional love I have for them. I’ve noticed the sense of condemnation and judging disappearing. Instead I’m able to see my family members as pure, innocent ideas of God on a more consistent basis.
This brings freedom to not only myself, but all those around me. It becomes obvious that I’m at peace and not looking for others to give me what may seem to be missing.
Knowing God made us in His image enable us to understand that we automatically come with everything we could ever need. Since God is all harmony, we automatically are created with unlimited amounts of harmony. This is true for every good, wonderful, satisfying quality you could ever think of.
As I’m finishing this article, the fireworks are booming all around and I’m really feeling the sense of freedom. I’m looking forward to being with each family member – knowing they are completely independent of my happiness. They are not my source, God is!
For more, visit www.GodDoesHeal.com
I’m sitting here on the 4th of July – better known as Independence Day. It’s dusk and the sound of fireworks are randomly exploding from all sides. The laughter of neighborhood children brings a smile to my face, as my two children are already fast asleep.
The word independence stays in my thought. What does it mean? Freedom! One dictionary definition says “freedom from the control, influence, support, aid, or the like, of others.” Freedom from the control or influence of others means we’re upholding the first commandment, which reads “thou shalt have no other gods before me.” Or as I like to think about it “thou shalt not let anything else have power in your life except me, God, good.”
So, if we’re free from the control or influence of others, that means we don’t let anyone influence or control us but God. We refuse to let others control our moods, our actions, and even our reactions. What an incredible sense of freedom that must give us. What wonderful independence!
More and more I’ve been understanding the importance of this. Another way we seem to let people have control over us is when we’re looking to another to be our source of happiness, our source of fulfillment and love. The people we often look to for this is our spouse, our children and our parents.
While this may seem like a natural thing to do, it’s actually believing that God didn’t create us complete in the first place. That something was missing – happiness, love, completeness – and that we need someone to give us what was missing.
The more I’ve been able to stop thinking of people as my source of happiness, the more unconditional love I have for them. I’ve noticed the sense of condemnation and judging disappearing. Instead I’m able to see my family members as pure, innocent ideas of God on a more consistent basis.
This brings freedom to not only myself, but all those around me. It becomes obvious that I’m at peace and not looking for others to give me what may seem to be missing.
Knowing God made us in His image enable us to understand that we automatically come with everything we could ever need. Since God is all harmony, we automatically are created with unlimited amounts of harmony. This is true for every good, wonderful, satisfying quality you could ever think of.
As I’m finishing this article, the fireworks are booming all around and I’m really feeling the sense of freedom. I’m looking forward to being with each family member – knowing they are completely independent of my happiness. They are not my source, God is!
For more, visit www.GodDoesHeal.com
Friday, March 02, 2007
The Lost Element of Healing
The Lost Element of Healing
by Julie Trevor-Roberts, CS
Mary Baker Eddy, the discoverer of Christian Science, author of the best selling book Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, publisher of The Christian Science Sentinel magazine, The Christian Science Journal magazine, Der Herald of Christian Science magazine, and founder of The Christian Science Monitor newspaper, also founded a church, The First Church of Christ, Scientist. This church was “designed to commemorate the word and works of our Master, which should reinstate primitive Christianity and its lost element of healing.” (Church Manual p17).
As a member of this church, I am one among thousands who are in communities just like yours who have discovered the “lost element of healing” and help bring this healing to families, local communities and to the world.
What is the “lost element of healing”? It is the Science of Christianity, also known as Christian Science. Mary Baker Eddy discovered there were divine laws behind the way Christ Jesus healed. Jesus says in John 14:12 “Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do.”
Right there he’s telling us, all of us, that if we believe in Christ Jesus we can not only do what he did, but even greater things. The question is how. How can we do the healing that Christ Jesus did?
Mrs. Eddy explains the Science of Christianity in her best-selling book, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures. It’s a book that has been studied by millions of people all around the globe for over a century. The book is 700 pages filled with healing truths about God and your true identity as the image and likeness of God (which of course we learn in Genesis 1).
For me, I’ve always been a “Cliffs Notes” kind of girl. (For those of you who aren’t familiar with Cliffs Notes, they are available in bookstores and are a series of booklets. In high school we would be assigned to read various works of literature. I would go to the book store and get the Cliffs Notes version of the required reading and study it because it was a summary of the book I was supposed to be reading. It explained the given text in easy to understand summaries.)
One day I prayed to God to give me the “Cliffs Notes” version of Science and Health. My desire was to know the basic, simple, easy to understand summary of this Science. Within minutes the answer came. It came in the form of four statements. Two were from the Bible and two were from Mary Baker Eddy’s writings.
First: “And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.” John 8:32
Second: “Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus.” Philippians 2:5
Third: “Jesus beheld in Science the perfect man, who appeared to him where sinning mortal man appears to mortals. In this perfect man the Saviour saw God's own likeness, and this correct view of man healed the sick.” Science and Health 476:32
Fourth: “Beloved Christian Scientists, keep your minds so filled with Truth and Love, that sin, disease, and death cannot enter them. It is plain that nothing can be added to the mind already full.” My 210:2
Now, let me expand a bit. The first one talks about knowing the truth and it will make you free. The question is – what is the truth? The truth is what God knows. Mrs Eddy explains that Truth is a synonym for God. So, the more we know about God, the more we will be free. As God’s image, the more we know about God, it naturally means we will know more about our true identity as His reflection.
The second statement talks about having the mind which was in Christ Jesus. In other words it says to me “Think the way Christ Jesus thinks”. Oh! I get it! Think the way Jesus thinks. To get a better idea of the way Christ Jesus thinks, we can study the Sermon on the Mount. He talks about forgiving, not judging, not holding grudges, etc. If we’re not thinking along those negative lines, then we are thinking in terms of forgiveness, unconditional love. We are seeing ourselves and our fellow beings as the image and likeness of God.
The third statement talks about how we see our fellow man versus the way Jesus saw our fellow man. We see “sinning mortal man” and Jesus “saw God’s own likeness”. And “this correct view of man healed the sick.” What does it mean to see sinning mortal man? Well, don’t we end up going around holding grudges, being upset by other people’s actions, becoming irritated at things, thinking and talking about illnesses?
That’s not how Jesus saw us. He knew we were “God’s own likeness.” Genesis 1:27 tells us “So God created man in his own image.” Well, if we’re Gods image, we can only have those spiritual, God-like qualities such as harmony, wisdom, unconditional love, strength, honesty, integrity, joy, etc. And not just a little bit of these qualities here or there. Isn’t God unlimited? Isn’t God infinite? Then we, as His reflection, automatically have an unlimited amount of each and every good and wonderful quality! Woo hoo!!! That’s exciting! So, it’s our job to not only see ourselves this way, but to also know it’s true for our family, our neighbors and the entire universe.
The fourth statement talks about keeping our mind so filled with Truth and Love. Then, what happens when we do that? Eddy says “sin, disease, and death cannot enter them.” Wow. Wouldn’t you like those things to stay out of your thinking? Keeping my mind so filled with Truth and Love is easy when I’m truly living by Jesus’ teachings in the Sermon on the Mount, found in Matthew 5-7 in the Bible.
All four statements come down to knowing the Truth, thinking the way Christ Jesus thinks, knowing who God really is and who we are as His image and likeness. Knowing this enables me to be a better healer, a better Christian, a better citizen. This works not only for physical healings, but brings healing to all areas of your life. See how you too can take part in the “lost element of healing” and bring peace and freedom to the world. As each one of us takes a stand to know the Truth and behold that in our fellow man, the entire human experience will be lifted up to a more spiritual, peaceful existence.
by Julie Trevor-Roberts, CS
Mary Baker Eddy, the discoverer of Christian Science, author of the best selling book Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, publisher of The Christian Science Sentinel magazine, The Christian Science Journal magazine, Der Herald of Christian Science magazine, and founder of The Christian Science Monitor newspaper, also founded a church, The First Church of Christ, Scientist. This church was “designed to commemorate the word and works of our Master, which should reinstate primitive Christianity and its lost element of healing.” (Church Manual p17).
As a member of this church, I am one among thousands who are in communities just like yours who have discovered the “lost element of healing” and help bring this healing to families, local communities and to the world.
What is the “lost element of healing”? It is the Science of Christianity, also known as Christian Science. Mary Baker Eddy discovered there were divine laws behind the way Christ Jesus healed. Jesus says in John 14:12 “Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do.”
Right there he’s telling us, all of us, that if we believe in Christ Jesus we can not only do what he did, but even greater things. The question is how. How can we do the healing that Christ Jesus did?
Mrs. Eddy explains the Science of Christianity in her best-selling book, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures. It’s a book that has been studied by millions of people all around the globe for over a century. The book is 700 pages filled with healing truths about God and your true identity as the image and likeness of God (which of course we learn in Genesis 1).
For me, I’ve always been a “Cliffs Notes” kind of girl. (For those of you who aren’t familiar with Cliffs Notes, they are available in bookstores and are a series of booklets. In high school we would be assigned to read various works of literature. I would go to the book store and get the Cliffs Notes version of the required reading and study it because it was a summary of the book I was supposed to be reading. It explained the given text in easy to understand summaries.)
One day I prayed to God to give me the “Cliffs Notes” version of Science and Health. My desire was to know the basic, simple, easy to understand summary of this Science. Within minutes the answer came. It came in the form of four statements. Two were from the Bible and two were from Mary Baker Eddy’s writings.
First: “And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.” John 8:32
Second: “Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus.” Philippians 2:5
Third: “Jesus beheld in Science the perfect man, who appeared to him where sinning mortal man appears to mortals. In this perfect man the Saviour saw God's own likeness, and this correct view of man healed the sick.” Science and Health 476:32
Fourth: “Beloved Christian Scientists, keep your minds so filled with Truth and Love, that sin, disease, and death cannot enter them. It is plain that nothing can be added to the mind already full.” My 210:2
Now, let me expand a bit. The first one talks about knowing the truth and it will make you free. The question is – what is the truth? The truth is what God knows. Mrs Eddy explains that Truth is a synonym for God. So, the more we know about God, the more we will be free. As God’s image, the more we know about God, it naturally means we will know more about our true identity as His reflection.
The second statement talks about having the mind which was in Christ Jesus. In other words it says to me “Think the way Christ Jesus thinks”. Oh! I get it! Think the way Jesus thinks. To get a better idea of the way Christ Jesus thinks, we can study the Sermon on the Mount. He talks about forgiving, not judging, not holding grudges, etc. If we’re not thinking along those negative lines, then we are thinking in terms of forgiveness, unconditional love. We are seeing ourselves and our fellow beings as the image and likeness of God.
The third statement talks about how we see our fellow man versus the way Jesus saw our fellow man. We see “sinning mortal man” and Jesus “saw God’s own likeness”. And “this correct view of man healed the sick.” What does it mean to see sinning mortal man? Well, don’t we end up going around holding grudges, being upset by other people’s actions, becoming irritated at things, thinking and talking about illnesses?
That’s not how Jesus saw us. He knew we were “God’s own likeness.” Genesis 1:27 tells us “So God created man in his own image.” Well, if we’re Gods image, we can only have those spiritual, God-like qualities such as harmony, wisdom, unconditional love, strength, honesty, integrity, joy, etc. And not just a little bit of these qualities here or there. Isn’t God unlimited? Isn’t God infinite? Then we, as His reflection, automatically have an unlimited amount of each and every good and wonderful quality! Woo hoo!!! That’s exciting! So, it’s our job to not only see ourselves this way, but to also know it’s true for our family, our neighbors and the entire universe.
The fourth statement talks about keeping our mind so filled with Truth and Love. Then, what happens when we do that? Eddy says “sin, disease, and death cannot enter them.” Wow. Wouldn’t you like those things to stay out of your thinking? Keeping my mind so filled with Truth and Love is easy when I’m truly living by Jesus’ teachings in the Sermon on the Mount, found in Matthew 5-7 in the Bible.
All four statements come down to knowing the Truth, thinking the way Christ Jesus thinks, knowing who God really is and who we are as His image and likeness. Knowing this enables me to be a better healer, a better Christian, a better citizen. This works not only for physical healings, but brings healing to all areas of your life. See how you too can take part in the “lost element of healing” and bring peace and freedom to the world. As each one of us takes a stand to know the Truth and behold that in our fellow man, the entire human experience will be lifted up to a more spiritual, peaceful existence.
Friday, February 23, 2007
The Sermon on the Mount Heals Lifelong Emotional Pain
The Sermon on the Mount Heals Lifelong Emotional Pain
I’ve been in a life-long quest to find freedom from the past. Ever since I was 14 years old I’ve been trying to heal a relationship with a close family member. When I was in college I finally came to see this person as Gods beloved child. However, the emotional distress this person was causing continued. It seemed that she consistently found ways to belittle me and degrade my choices and my family.
Recently I was asked to confront this person, along with a family counselor. I was told I had better go because this person really wanted to find a way to stop doing the things that were so hurtful. So I was supposed to go and tell her and the counselor what behaviors I wanted her to change.
I found in even thinking about having to confront her, I would get sick to my stomach. Of course I wanted her behavior to change, but I knew that if I actually told her the things she did that were hurting me, it would really hurt her (as there were so many things).
However, I came up with a list of things that were hurtful and needed to be changed. But, on the drive out of town to go to this meeting, it came to me to study the Sermon on the Mount. In it I found the answer to letting go of the past.
Jesus stressed over and over the importance of forgiveness. Forgive every single person of every single thing – and quickly. No holding grudges, no condemning or criticizing, no judging. He was very clear on this. Suddenly, I knew that if I was to bring up the past, it was directly against what Jesus taught about living a Christian life. It was my duty to forgive her immediately and let go.
This is what I had been trying to do for so long, but reading it in Jesus’ words, hearing it from his mouth finally made it clear. If I was to be a Christian, I had no choice but to let things go, forgive, and refuse to judge or condemn or criticize.
What a freeing thought. Christ Jesus commanded us to love our enemies, and even to pray for them! How can you pray for someone and be holding on to hurtful things at the same time. It was impossible!
From that moment on it became very clear that I could not go into the meeting with the list I had come up with (which was 4 pages long!). Instead I went to the meeting expressing gratitude for the progress this person has made and was able to make very general comments about letting go of the past and having us both only talk about loving things from now on.
A wonderful thing happened. For the first time ever, I was completely free from holding on to the past. Never before had I found a way to completely let go of the things that had happened in the past. Now, I was just free of it all. Before, it seemed like such a part of my identity, of who I was. But now I saw that it was my duty to stop holding on to painful things from the past because that wasn’t in line at all with Jesus’ teachings.
The process of letting go of the past was natural and quick. I’ve never felt freer. I felt free from the need to confront this person and point out how she nearly ruined my life. I felt free from the need to hold on to the hurtful things and continue to be hurt by this person. I felt free from the need to ever think about those things again. They were NOT part of me. I had to live by the teachings in the Sermon on the Mount and boy was it freeing!
If you’d like to learn more – see Matthew 5-7 in the Bible. Study it, ponder it, apply it to your life and see the tremendous healings that emerge.
also visit www.GodDoesHeal.com
I’ve been in a life-long quest to find freedom from the past. Ever since I was 14 years old I’ve been trying to heal a relationship with a close family member. When I was in college I finally came to see this person as Gods beloved child. However, the emotional distress this person was causing continued. It seemed that she consistently found ways to belittle me and degrade my choices and my family.
Recently I was asked to confront this person, along with a family counselor. I was told I had better go because this person really wanted to find a way to stop doing the things that were so hurtful. So I was supposed to go and tell her and the counselor what behaviors I wanted her to change.
I found in even thinking about having to confront her, I would get sick to my stomach. Of course I wanted her behavior to change, but I knew that if I actually told her the things she did that were hurting me, it would really hurt her (as there were so many things).
However, I came up with a list of things that were hurtful and needed to be changed. But, on the drive out of town to go to this meeting, it came to me to study the Sermon on the Mount. In it I found the answer to letting go of the past.
Jesus stressed over and over the importance of forgiveness. Forgive every single person of every single thing – and quickly. No holding grudges, no condemning or criticizing, no judging. He was very clear on this. Suddenly, I knew that if I was to bring up the past, it was directly against what Jesus taught about living a Christian life. It was my duty to forgive her immediately and let go.
This is what I had been trying to do for so long, but reading it in Jesus’ words, hearing it from his mouth finally made it clear. If I was to be a Christian, I had no choice but to let things go, forgive, and refuse to judge or condemn or criticize.
What a freeing thought. Christ Jesus commanded us to love our enemies, and even to pray for them! How can you pray for someone and be holding on to hurtful things at the same time. It was impossible!
From that moment on it became very clear that I could not go into the meeting with the list I had come up with (which was 4 pages long!). Instead I went to the meeting expressing gratitude for the progress this person has made and was able to make very general comments about letting go of the past and having us both only talk about loving things from now on.
A wonderful thing happened. For the first time ever, I was completely free from holding on to the past. Never before had I found a way to completely let go of the things that had happened in the past. Now, I was just free of it all. Before, it seemed like such a part of my identity, of who I was. But now I saw that it was my duty to stop holding on to painful things from the past because that wasn’t in line at all with Jesus’ teachings.
The process of letting go of the past was natural and quick. I’ve never felt freer. I felt free from the need to confront this person and point out how she nearly ruined my life. I felt free from the need to hold on to the hurtful things and continue to be hurt by this person. I felt free from the need to ever think about those things again. They were NOT part of me. I had to live by the teachings in the Sermon on the Mount and boy was it freeing!
If you’d like to learn more – see Matthew 5-7 in the Bible. Study it, ponder it, apply it to your life and see the tremendous healings that emerge.
also visit www.GodDoesHeal.com
Friday, January 19, 2007
How to Heal Depression Metaphysically
How to Heal Depression Metaphysically
Webster defines Depression as: “a condition of general emotional dejection and withdrawal; sadness greater and more prolonged than that warranted by any objective reason” “dullness or inactivity” And, Webster defines dejection as “depression or lowness of spirits”
If you’re depressed, you’re sad, you’re low in spirits – meaning you don’t feel very connected to Spirit, God. You don’t always have a reason for being sad, it’s just something that seems to pop up and doesn’t want to go away.
An opposite of sadness would be gladness – or gratitude. A hymn in the Christian Science Hymnal reads “Gratitude is riches, complaint is poverty.” Going by that guideline, how rich or poor are you? Don’t we inadvertently find ourselves complaining about things dozens of times a day?
But what if there seem to be a lot of things to complain about? Perhaps your kids really were being extra naughty today. Or, maybe your spouse wasn’t being respectful. Perhaps you are overwhelmed with bills to pay and little money to pay them with.
There are many things in our daily lives that can upset us and certainly cause depressed thoughts.
So how can we get out of the slump of depression? There’s the old saying “have an attitude of gratitude.” How many times does the Bible mention gratitude or thanks? Hundreds!!! We read over and over “praise God.” “Praise the Lord” “Give thanks unto our Lord”, etc. etc. The Bible stresses over and over in countless ways, the importance of gratitude.
How do we give gratitude in times of overwhelming sadness, when you don’t feel like you have much to be grateful for?
Here’s a sample gratitude list to help get you started:
Dear Lord,
Thank you, thank you for creating me in your image and likeness.
Thank you that, as your image and likeness, I automatically have an unlimited amount of every good quality imaginable.
Thank you that you gave me an unlimited supply of joy.
Thank you for giving me an unlimited supply of peace.
Thank you that as your image, I automatically have an infinite amount of wisdom.
Thank you that there is only one Mind, not many millions of minds at war with one another.
I am grateful, God, that you fill all space.
I am grateful that since you fill all space, and you are Love, then all space is automatically filled with Love.
Thank you God for talking to me every moment of every day.
Thank you for giving me the patience to be still and listen to you.
Thank you that my house is automatically filled with Love and harmony.
Thank you for showing me that supply isn’t just money.
Thank you for supplying me with joy, peace, intelligence, grace, love, wisdom, harmony, family, usefulness, etc.
Thank you for giving me an unlimited, infinite supply of each and every quality.
How’s that for a start? You can make your gratitude list as long as you like. Any time you’re starting to feel sad, depressed thoughts, take out that spiritual gratitude list and you’ll feel the spirit of Love fill your thought and the darkness automatically vanishes.
Finding out more about God and more about who you are as His image and likeness is a life-long journey. Without knowing your true relationship to God, it’s easy to feel lost and depressed.
Each time the overwhelming sadness starts to creep in out of no where, I have to take a “time-out” and focus on gratitude. The dark thoughts stay until I sit down and take time to be grateful for all the little things, and for all the spiritual qualities God gives me. Then, before I even finish my gratitude list, my thoughts are automatically replaced with light and Truth.
How exciting to be on this journey! Stand porter at your door of thought and as soon as you feel the dark thoughts creeping in, kick them out with a flood of gratitude and love. Welcome to mental freedom!
For more information visit www.GodDoesHeal.com
Webster defines Depression as: “a condition of general emotional dejection and withdrawal; sadness greater and more prolonged than that warranted by any objective reason” “dullness or inactivity” And, Webster defines dejection as “depression or lowness of spirits”
If you’re depressed, you’re sad, you’re low in spirits – meaning you don’t feel very connected to Spirit, God. You don’t always have a reason for being sad, it’s just something that seems to pop up and doesn’t want to go away.
An opposite of sadness would be gladness – or gratitude. A hymn in the Christian Science Hymnal reads “Gratitude is riches, complaint is poverty.” Going by that guideline, how rich or poor are you? Don’t we inadvertently find ourselves complaining about things dozens of times a day?
But what if there seem to be a lot of things to complain about? Perhaps your kids really were being extra naughty today. Or, maybe your spouse wasn’t being respectful. Perhaps you are overwhelmed with bills to pay and little money to pay them with.
There are many things in our daily lives that can upset us and certainly cause depressed thoughts.
So how can we get out of the slump of depression? There’s the old saying “have an attitude of gratitude.” How many times does the Bible mention gratitude or thanks? Hundreds!!! We read over and over “praise God.” “Praise the Lord” “Give thanks unto our Lord”, etc. etc. The Bible stresses over and over in countless ways, the importance of gratitude.
How do we give gratitude in times of overwhelming sadness, when you don’t feel like you have much to be grateful for?
Here’s a sample gratitude list to help get you started:
Dear Lord,
Thank you, thank you for creating me in your image and likeness.
Thank you that, as your image and likeness, I automatically have an unlimited amount of every good quality imaginable.
Thank you that you gave me an unlimited supply of joy.
Thank you for giving me an unlimited supply of peace.
Thank you that as your image, I automatically have an infinite amount of wisdom.
Thank you that there is only one Mind, not many millions of minds at war with one another.
I am grateful, God, that you fill all space.
I am grateful that since you fill all space, and you are Love, then all space is automatically filled with Love.
Thank you God for talking to me every moment of every day.
Thank you for giving me the patience to be still and listen to you.
Thank you that my house is automatically filled with Love and harmony.
Thank you for showing me that supply isn’t just money.
Thank you for supplying me with joy, peace, intelligence, grace, love, wisdom, harmony, family, usefulness, etc.
Thank you for giving me an unlimited, infinite supply of each and every quality.
How’s that for a start? You can make your gratitude list as long as you like. Any time you’re starting to feel sad, depressed thoughts, take out that spiritual gratitude list and you’ll feel the spirit of Love fill your thought and the darkness automatically vanishes.
Finding out more about God and more about who you are as His image and likeness is a life-long journey. Without knowing your true relationship to God, it’s easy to feel lost and depressed.
Each time the overwhelming sadness starts to creep in out of no where, I have to take a “time-out” and focus on gratitude. The dark thoughts stay until I sit down and take time to be grateful for all the little things, and for all the spiritual qualities God gives me. Then, before I even finish my gratitude list, my thoughts are automatically replaced with light and Truth.
How exciting to be on this journey! Stand porter at your door of thought and as soon as you feel the dark thoughts creeping in, kick them out with a flood of gratitude and love. Welcome to mental freedom!
For more information visit www.GodDoesHeal.com
Monday, December 04, 2006
Why Nothing is Incurable
To explain why nothing is incurable, we need to start by uncovering who God is and who we are as the child of God. The Bible tells us God is all and made all in His image and likeness (see Genesis 1). God created us perfect, whole, and complete. Each and every one of us has been that way for all eternity. Nothing can ever change that fact.
So, right here to begin with, it’s so wonderful to know that you have been Gods perfect child for all eternity. You have been complete and whole for all eternity!
When we are feeling ill, it is not Gods child that’s ill. Gods’ idea can never be anything but whole and perfect. The way we are healed from any problem is to see the child God created. See the spiritual qualities God created.
Christ Jesus summed up the law of healing in a brief statement: “Ye shall know the Truth, and the Truth shall make you free.” (John 8:32) What is this truth? To know the truth is to know what God knows about you, or any given situation.
So, what does God know about me? One of my favorite quotes from Mary Baker Eddy says “Jesus beheld in Science the perfect man, who appeared to him where sinning mortal man appears to mortals. In this perfect man the Saviour saw God's own likeness, and this correct view of man healed the sick.” That corresponds perfectly to what Jesus said… we shall know the truth and the truth will make us free.
So, how does God see me? He sees His reflection. He sees a collection or grouping of His qualities such as: peace, harmony, joy, integrity, innocence, wisdom, love, etc. Is that how you are seeing yourself? Is that how you’re seeing your children? Don’t we so easily tend to identify people as being in the “terrible twos,” “too old,” “too young,” “sick,” “healthy,” etc.
So if God is seeing us as His qualities, His image, how can there even be anything that can become ill, diminished, decayed, etc? Gods’ qualities can’t be anything less that perfect, whole. Since we are the image of God, the qualities that God created, that leaves nothing to be destroyed. If our spiritual qualities can’t be destroyed, there’s nothing to cure, but our view of things. Hence, nothing is incurable. Are we seeing the qualities of divine Love, or are we believing what our bodies are trying to tell us? .
When we or someone else is faced with a so-called incurable disease, be it the common cold, cancer or AIDS, the simple remedy lies in the brief but powerful statement from Christ Jesus “Ye shall know the Truth and the Truth shall make you free.”
An example of this happened recently. Two different women called me one week for Christian Science treatment. Both women said they had a lump in their breast. And, both women were healed with just one treatment. I began the treatments by knowing with all my heart that the only thing that exists is God and His ideas. I then focused on the God-given qualities these women expressed. There were no thoughts like “this might be a difficult disease to heal,” or “those poor women.” My thought was strictly focused on God and His ideas. I knew the Truth about these women and they were both immediately healed.
I didn’t have to ask God to heal them. Why? Because He had already created them perfect all eternity ago. So their healing was a guaranteed success. God already saw them as complete, perfect, whole, etc. He had already created them that way. It was my job to see them that way too. Then the healings came immediately.
Force yourself to see Gods qualities instead of the mortal/material body that appears before you and you will begin to experience the freedom that was yours all along. See the “truth” about people, about yourself, your family, your co-workers. See them the way Christ Jesus would see them. It’s such a freeing and healing journey!
So, right here to begin with, it’s so wonderful to know that you have been Gods perfect child for all eternity. You have been complete and whole for all eternity!
When we are feeling ill, it is not Gods child that’s ill. Gods’ idea can never be anything but whole and perfect. The way we are healed from any problem is to see the child God created. See the spiritual qualities God created.
Christ Jesus summed up the law of healing in a brief statement: “Ye shall know the Truth, and the Truth shall make you free.” (John 8:32) What is this truth? To know the truth is to know what God knows about you, or any given situation.
So, what does God know about me? One of my favorite quotes from Mary Baker Eddy says “Jesus beheld in Science the perfect man, who appeared to him where sinning mortal man appears to mortals. In this perfect man the Saviour saw God's own likeness, and this correct view of man healed the sick.” That corresponds perfectly to what Jesus said… we shall know the truth and the truth will make us free.
So, how does God see me? He sees His reflection. He sees a collection or grouping of His qualities such as: peace, harmony, joy, integrity, innocence, wisdom, love, etc. Is that how you are seeing yourself? Is that how you’re seeing your children? Don’t we so easily tend to identify people as being in the “terrible twos,” “too old,” “too young,” “sick,” “healthy,” etc.
So if God is seeing us as His qualities, His image, how can there even be anything that can become ill, diminished, decayed, etc? Gods’ qualities can’t be anything less that perfect, whole. Since we are the image of God, the qualities that God created, that leaves nothing to be destroyed. If our spiritual qualities can’t be destroyed, there’s nothing to cure, but our view of things. Hence, nothing is incurable. Are we seeing the qualities of divine Love, or are we believing what our bodies are trying to tell us? .
When we or someone else is faced with a so-called incurable disease, be it the common cold, cancer or AIDS, the simple remedy lies in the brief but powerful statement from Christ Jesus “Ye shall know the Truth and the Truth shall make you free.”
An example of this happened recently. Two different women called me one week for Christian Science treatment. Both women said they had a lump in their breast. And, both women were healed with just one treatment. I began the treatments by knowing with all my heart that the only thing that exists is God and His ideas. I then focused on the God-given qualities these women expressed. There were no thoughts like “this might be a difficult disease to heal,” or “those poor women.” My thought was strictly focused on God and His ideas. I knew the Truth about these women and they were both immediately healed.
I didn’t have to ask God to heal them. Why? Because He had already created them perfect all eternity ago. So their healing was a guaranteed success. God already saw them as complete, perfect, whole, etc. He had already created them that way. It was my job to see them that way too. Then the healings came immediately.
Force yourself to see Gods qualities instead of the mortal/material body that appears before you and you will begin to experience the freedom that was yours all along. See the “truth” about people, about yourself, your family, your co-workers. See them the way Christ Jesus would see them. It’s such a freeing and healing journey!
Thursday, July 13, 2006
Jesus Never Talked About Symptoms
Think of all the accounts of Jesus healing people in the Bible. There’s one thing missing.
Jesus never asked about symptoms. He didn’t ask how long they’ve been in that condition. He didn’t ask about all the aches and pains.
He simply healed them.
I decided to think more deeply about this interesting fact. Why didn’t he talk about symptoms?
This quote from Mary Baker Eddy sums it up: “Jesus beheld in Science the perfect man, who appeared to him where sinning mortal man appears to mortals. In this perfect man the Saviour saw God’s own likeness, and this correct view of man healed the sick.”
Instead of buying into symptoms and the material picture, Christ Jesus was seeing the perfect man – “God’s own likeness.”
The Bible tells us we were created in God’s image and likeness. So, why would we waste our time thinking about what appears to be happening to our material body.
As I was thinking of this the other day, I was instantaneously healed of a sprained wrist. It had been so painful up to that point that I didn’t sleep for the two nights prior due to the intense, constant pain.
But realizing that I must refuse to look at the symptoms, refuse to question how it happened, why it happened, how long it would stay, and understanding that I must see myself only as the unimpaired, complete, perfect child of God – healed me instantaneously.
I didn’t have to spend my time trying to figure out how to heal a sprained wrist. All I had to do was realize I was God’s daughter – made in His image and likeness and that left no room for anything at all that is not 100% good and wonderful.
So, the next time you’re tempted to think about or dwell on symptoms, remember how Jesus healed. You’ll find your freedom quickly and wholly.
For more on healing visit www.GodDoesHeal.com
Jesus never asked about symptoms. He didn’t ask how long they’ve been in that condition. He didn’t ask about all the aches and pains.
He simply healed them.
I decided to think more deeply about this interesting fact. Why didn’t he talk about symptoms?
This quote from Mary Baker Eddy sums it up: “Jesus beheld in Science the perfect man, who appeared to him where sinning mortal man appears to mortals. In this perfect man the Saviour saw God’s own likeness, and this correct view of man healed the sick.”
Instead of buying into symptoms and the material picture, Christ Jesus was seeing the perfect man – “God’s own likeness.”
The Bible tells us we were created in God’s image and likeness. So, why would we waste our time thinking about what appears to be happening to our material body.
As I was thinking of this the other day, I was instantaneously healed of a sprained wrist. It had been so painful up to that point that I didn’t sleep for the two nights prior due to the intense, constant pain.
But realizing that I must refuse to look at the symptoms, refuse to question how it happened, why it happened, how long it would stay, and understanding that I must see myself only as the unimpaired, complete, perfect child of God – healed me instantaneously.
I didn’t have to spend my time trying to figure out how to heal a sprained wrist. All I had to do was realize I was God’s daughter – made in His image and likeness and that left no room for anything at all that is not 100% good and wonderful.
So, the next time you’re tempted to think about or dwell on symptoms, remember how Jesus healed. You’ll find your freedom quickly and wholly.
For more on healing visit www.GodDoesHeal.com
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