Because mortal mind is kept active, must it pay the penalty in a softened brain? Who dares to say that actual Mind can be overworked? When we reach our limits of mental endurance, we conclude that intellectual labor has been carried sufficiently far; but when we realize that immortal Mind is ever active, and that spiritual energies can neither wear out nor can so-called material law trespass upon God-given powers and resources, we are able to rest in Truth, refreshed by the assurances of immortality, opposed to mortality.
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Thursday, July 14, 2011
Day 195: Mentally Overworked?
Monday, May 23, 2011
Day 135: Work as God Works
The crude creations of mortal thought must finally give place to the glorious forms which we sometimes behold in the camera of divine Mind, when the mental picture is spiritual and eternal. Mortals must look beyond fading, finite forms, if they would gain the true sense of things.
As mortals gain more correct views of God and man, multitudinous objects of creation, which before were invisible, will become visible.
There can be but one creator, who has created all.
Tuesday, May 17, 2011
Day 122: Mental Work
People with mental work before them have no time for gossip about false law or testimony.
The objects we pursue and the spirit we manifest reveal our standpoint, and show what we are winning.
Wednesday, September 1, 2010
Day 243:
Today, the questions in Recapitulation are about healing and what is or isn’t involved. I was looking for a new idea or fresh insight when I found these two gems that seem to have nothing to do with healing at first glance:
One must fulfil one's mission without timidity or dissimulation, for to be well done, the work must be done unselfishly.
The physical universe expresses the conscious and unconscious thoughts of mortals.
Sunday, July 4, 2010
Day 175: Treating Disease & Meekness
In yesterday’s reading, Mary Baker Eddy wrote that mere opinion is valueless. Well, today, here I am giving my opinion to her question in today’s reading:
Why should one refuse to investigate this method [Christian Science] of treating disease?
She states that allopathy and homoepathy are fashionable but I, from my own experience, think there is a deeper issue. Prayer and understanding are work. To remember why it is that God made us whole and how we came to that understanding means we have to take time (a few minutes? a few hours?) to go down that road again, if we have forgotten it. For a non-CSer, they have to take time to get there. Who has that kind of time? It seems faster to take a pill, let the doctor do the thinking. I don’t think it was fashion that made Christian Science healing appear less, I think it was the commitment it required. I speak from experience. I don’t want a lot of work, I just want to be healed. I’m not proposing CS doesn’t heal, it does and has for me. But there might be more than fashion to the reason. What do you think?
Meekness is mentioned several times in the reading. I gather that I might not have a deep enough understanding of the word to figure out why this word is being used. The point that I knew I missed was:
submission to divine will
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