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A poets verse
I wake up reluctant, and say:
“Thou to whose power our hope we give,
Free us from human strife.
Fed by They love divine we live,
For Love alone is Life;
And life most sweet, as heart to heart
Speaks kindly when we meet and part.”
I forget to pack a lunch, and say:
“Free us from human strife.
Fed by They love divine we live,
For Love alone is Life;
And life most sweet, as heart to heart
Speaks kindly when we meet and part.”
My car light goes on, and I say:
“Free us from human strife.
Fed by They love divine we live,
For Love alone is Life;
And life most sweet, as heart to heart
Speaks kindly when we meet and part.”
My boss yells at me and I say:
“Free us from human strife.
Fed by They love divine we live,
For Love alone is Life;
And life most sweet, as heart to heart
Speaks kindly when we meet and part.”
Dinner is a can of beans, warmed up, with my husband who loves me and made a car appointment for me, and I say:
“Free us from human strife.
Fed by They love divine we live,
For Love alone is Life;
And life most sweet, as heart to heart
Speaks kindly when we meet and part.”–Mary Baker Eddy
Creativity
Creativity isn’t stuck in the past. It’s living now. It’s giving advantages to wisdom, wellbeing, and the future.
The human mind resists creativity by insisting on repeating the past, which is impossible because God, Life, is now, new, and nimble. Unfortunately, the human mind also is actively struggling to hold onto its mortal identity and insists it’s pure and right. Thus, ignoring creativity.
We just moved to a new house. Well, it’s an older house, but new to us.
And, it is the middle of a hot summer.
Sunshine heats the inside of the house in a blink. This house has old moldy, disintegrating curtains (I kid you not) and vertical blinds that only partially help the situation.
At first, I resisted the whole move. I was ready to move back to our old house which sits in a cooler climate and has efficient window blinds.
The resistance came with the insistence that the past scenario was best, however, it the past scenario involves material things.
And material things, whether buildings, books, or human bodies, can’t stop creativity.
So, I took what we had and used them effectively while ordering new blinds.
I removed the decomposing curtains and hung them outside to continue blocking the sunshine. I broke down emptied moving boxes and hung the cardboard on other windows. Yes, there are a lot of windows in this house, but I re-learned again that we don’t lack, and creativity is active.
The neighbors understand. Our children crack jokes. “Oh, just look for the house with the curtains hanging on the outside.”
Life goes on. Instead of bemoaning the decomposing past, instead of enabling a decomposing future, get with creativity. It’s here. It’s alive.
Quoting from science & religion to God
“Consider these factors:
- The temporal never touches the eternal;
- The changeable never touches the unchangeable;
- The inharmonious never touches the harmonious;
- The self-destructive never touches the self-existent.
Reproduction by Spirit’s individual ideas is but the reflection of the creative power, God.”
Get an independent view of God
Church is where I met a veteran who served in Afghanistan. I talk about it in my memoir, I Am My Father-Mother’s Daughter. Roland told me about when overseas, he got caught in a melee of explosions, and in his words said, “I remember sh*&#ting my pants and then waking up in the hospital.”
He recovered and retired from the army after twenty years.
Today, Roland and I mostly talked about God.
It’s weird because the word God is loaded too and involves a lot of wars and battles. But it also involves blessings and healings, and because I’m in the mood to celebrate July 4, I’m making a new connection.
July 4 is the agreed upon date we remember the United States Declaration of Independence, made public in 1776.
First, it’s important to recognize that a declaration is a far cry different from winning independence. Eight years of combat fighting was necessary before independence was won, so it stands to reason that a fight, or at least hard work, is required to win an independent thought about God, free of past mistaken thinking.
People’s views of God are vast and famous. But over the centuries many views are proven irrelevant.
Examples:
Because we can experience hell or heaven on earth, then God didn’t predestine us to heaven and hell after death. Might as well aim for heaven.
Because we’re still learning about everything, then we can’t say God created mortal human beings. Because we’re still discovering, we can say God created unseen spiritual beings.
Quoting from science & religion to God, “Let us prepare for the supremacy of Spirit—the government and law of universal harmony, which cannot be lost or remain forever unseen.”
