tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35933152825608138612024-03-13T05:02:16.919-07:00Inspiration and Healing Blog from Prayerful LivingThis blog site - hosted by <a href="https://prayerfulliving.com/">PrayerfulLiving.com</a> - is dedicated to expressions of gratitude and healing through affirmative scientific prayer, poetry, prose and other pearls of inspiration.PrayerfulLiving.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13281189074804993137noreply@blogger.comBlogger279125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3593315282560813861.post-25030625032543622702023-09-07T06:17:00.003-07:002023-09-07T06:18:46.466-07:00Friendships that bless<p> By Kathy Ball - for the St. Helena Star - September 5, 2023</p><p>I’ve been thinking a lot about friends lately — what they mean to me and what it means to be a friend. A friend is someone you can trust; someone who is loyal, compassionate and forgiving; someone who makes you feel loved. And for me, there is no better example of what it means to be a friend than the master Christian himself, Jesus Christ....</p><p> Love distinguished everything Jesus did. He taught love for God, for
ourselves as God’s children, and for others both in what he said in his
sermons and what he did with his life. He uncovered the divine law of
Love, or God, that inspires and impels us all to love. As the author of
First John describes it, “We love each other because (God) loved us
first” (4:19, New Living Translation)....</p><p><a href="https://napavalleyregister.com/community/star/opinion/thursday-pulpit-friendships-that-bless/article_c860cc8c-4c19-11ee-acdf-a770c603b029.html" target="_blank">Click here for complete essay» </a></p><p><br /></p><p><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs xlh3980 xvmahel x1n0sxbx x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x xudqn12 x3x7a5m x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u x1yc453h" dir="auto"><img border="0" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-xh8s8Pxqd8Q/XYbTfaM5TxI/AAAAAAAAC6s/taTE9fTLZDUHzfXWjjFkAf5lt9OyIx3XACK4BGAYYCw/s400/plflower-150.jpg" /></span></p><p></p>PrayerfulLiving.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13281189074804993137noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3593315282560813861.post-62588857844073447502023-08-16T13:15:00.003-07:002023-08-16T13:16:33.545-07:00Mind-Wholeness Reigns<p>By <span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs xlh3980 xvmahel x1n0sxbx x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x xudqn12 x3x7a5m x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u x1yc453h" dir="auto">Julio C Rivas, CS</span></p><p><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs xlh3980 xvmahel x1n0sxbx x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x xudqn12 x3x7a5m x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u x1yc453h" dir="auto"> </span>“Next, the Lord commanded Moses, “Put your hand inside your shirt.” Moses obeyed, and when he took it out, his hand had turned white as snow—like someone with leprosy. “Put your hand back inside your shirt,” the Lord told him. Moses did so, and when he took it out again, it was as healthy as the rest of his body.” — Exodus 4:6-7 CEV</p><div><div dir="auto"><div class="x1iorvi4 x1pi30zi x1swvt13 xjkvuk6" data-ad-comet-preview="message" data-ad-preview="message" id=":r4m:"><div class="x78zum5 xdt5ytf xz62fqu x16ldp7u"><div class="xu06os2 x1ok221b"><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs xlh3980 xvmahel x1n0sxbx x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x xudqn12 x3x7a5m x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u x1yc453h" dir="auto"><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a"><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"> </div></div></span><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs xlh3980 xvmahel x1n0sxbx x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x xudqn12 x3x7a5m x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u x1yc453h" dir="auto"><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a"><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;">“When we fully understand our relation to the Divine, we can have no other Mind but His, — no other Love, wisdom, <span></span>or Truth, no other sense of Life, and no consciousness of the existence of matter or error.” — M B Eddy </div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"> </div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a"><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;">“Love-Intelligence saturates, generates and holds all existence.</div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a"><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"> </div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;">As we awaken to the provable fact that we are Wisdom-Grace’s perennial effulgence, we pierce evil’s mirages, and rebirth our human system with omnipotent health, pulchritude, plenitude, and excellence.” — Julio C Rivas, CS</div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"> </div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"><img border="0" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-xh8s8Pxqd8Q/XYbTfaM5TxI/AAAAAAAAC6s/taTE9fTLZDUHzfXWjjFkAf5lt9OyIx3XACK4BGAYYCw/s400/plflower-150.jpg" /></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"> </div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"> </div></div></span></div></div></div></div></div>PrayerfulLiving.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13281189074804993137noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3593315282560813861.post-56768856767400619912022-12-22T11:28:00.000-08:002022-12-22T11:28:02.705-08:00Love's Christ-birthing<p> By Julio C. Rivas, CS</p><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs xlh3980 xvmahel x1n0sxbx x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x xudqn12 x3x7a5m x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u x1yc453h" dir="auto"><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a"><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;">“For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.” — Isaiah 9: 6, KJ</div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"> </div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a"><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;">“The time cometh when the spiritual origin of man, the divine Science which ushered Jesus into human presence, will be understood and demonstrated.” “The life of Christ Jesus was not miraculous, but it was indigenous to his <span><a tabindex="-1"></a></span>spirituality, — the good soil wherein the seed of Truth springs up and bears much fruit.” — M B Eddy </div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"> </div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a"><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;">“In our Love-impregnated mentality/sentiments there is a holy birthing going on of more Christly intelligence, joy, health, vim, purity, and might. </div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"> </div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a"><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;">This is Truth-germinating, and it is healing us and all humanity.” — Julio C Rivas, CS</div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"> </div></div></span></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"><img border="0" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-xh8s8Pxqd8Q/XYbTfaM5TxI/AAAAAAAAC6s/taTE9fTLZDUHzfXWjjFkAf5lt9OyIx3XACK4BGAYYCw/s400/plflower-150.jpg" /></div><p></p>PrayerfulLiving.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13281189074804993137noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3593315282560813861.post-34592354006755754962022-12-22T11:23:00.001-08:002022-12-22T11:24:43.868-08:00Salt<p> By Patti C. Christopher</p><p>
</p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Since the
beginning of my experience in Christian Science, I have read in Matthew 5:13 “Ye
are the salt of the earth….” Recently, while reading the gospel of Mark, I
encountered the concept of being salted or having salt within us (Mark 9: 49
For everyone shall be salted with fire…. Mark 9: 50 …Have salt in yourselves
and have peace one with another.) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Being too
embarrassed to admit that I did not understand the phrase, or ever ask a Bible
scholar what it means, I have wondered for years what being “salt” or “salted”
meant.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So I asked God recently, and this
is what He said: “To be salted is to be filled with all goodness, purity, and
Love, and to live this way eternally.” </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Over the
years I have learned that salt has 4 uses: </span></p>
<ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">it gives flavor (goodness, Love)</span></li><li><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">it cleans (purity)</span></li><li><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">it preserves (eternal life)</span></li><li><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">it was used as payment (worthiness)</span></li></ul>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">These are
all qualities of our original status when God created us as ideas made in His
image and likeness (Genesis 1:26, 27). For one to be the image of God, good,
one must have goodness inherent in him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Since
there is no evil in God, good, one must be pure as His image and likeness.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>God is eternal, so His ideas must be eternal
as well. Mrs. Eddy says, “…man is immortal and lives by divine authority.” (SH
76:20) The divine authority of God gave man dominion, which speaks to our
worthiness.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">But what
does it mean to be “salted with fire” (Mark 9:49)?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>To this God answered, “To be salted with fire
is to be brought to that point where your light shines brightly.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This reply brought forth a memory from my
childhood.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As a kid sitting in front of
our fireplace, I loved when dad put a piece of driftwood on the fire because it
burned with beautiful colors of turquoise, purple, and green.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Also, the fire glowed brighter if salt itself
was thrown on the fire.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">From this I
perceive that, if we are salted with fire and are the salt of the earth, then
we are to bring goodness, Love, peace, and purity into every aspect of our
lives, and to burn so brightly with our salted-ness that we become a beacon of
the Christ for all mankind to see.</span></p><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"><img border="0" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-xh8s8Pxqd8Q/XYbTfaM5TxI/AAAAAAAAC6s/taTE9fTLZDUHzfXWjjFkAf5lt9OyIx3XACK4BGAYYCw/s400/plflower-150.jpg" /></div><p> </p><p><style>@font-face
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Scientists demonstrate absolute Christian Science as far as possible.
Beyond this we are obliged to choose the lesser of two evils.”</span></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleItalicBody; font-style: italic;">—Alfred
Farlow, CSD, first Committee on Publication of The First Church of
Christ, Scientist. (appeared in Kansas City, Missouri Star, 7 Nov.
1897) </span></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 29.2px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleItalicBody; font-style: italic;"></span><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleItalicBody; font-style: italic;">“Honesty is spiritual power.”—Mary Baker Eddy. (Science and Health 453: 16 only)</span></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"> </span></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Farlow’s
frank comment above shows a humble and winning honesty. It raises the
question of what Christian Scientists might do when choosing the “lesser
of two evils” when it comes to the employment of temporary aids in
certain emergency cases or in others when spiritual healing and comfort
may not come rapidly.</span></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 29.2px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">His
view connects with statements and actions by the Founder of Christian
Science. In such circumstances Mary Baker Eddy advises the Christian
Scientist in </span><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleItalicBody; font-style: italic;">Science and Health</span><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"> to
seek divine guidance in finding the proper temporary means of help,
while still praying for spiritual healing. So often in the Christian
Science textbook, she recommends a gentle emergence from material means
to spiritual.</span></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 29.2px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">And in the </span><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleItalicBody; font-style: italic;">Church Manual</span><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">,
the provision for Christian Science nurses is another indication of
Eddy’s realization that, for some, healing may not occur immediately and
that wise steps for temporary care may be in order.</span></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 29.2px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Our
family faced just such a circumstance. A daughter had been riding at
camp when her mount came too close to a barbed-wire fence, and she
suffered a leg wound. Camp officials, expressing a considerable amount
of fear, called my wife and me. They felt that significant first aid
had to be administered immediately, so we asked for our daughter to be
transported to a nearby hospital to obtain professional help.</span></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 29.2px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Part of our decision was motivated by our desire to alleviate the fear at the camp. <span> </span>But,
more importantly, we turned to divine Love for help, knowing that we
would be led to do the right thing with no harm to the child. <span> </span>We
felt confident that our prayers would be answered. At the same time,
we telephoned a Christian Science practitioner for spiritual guidance
and prayerful support, which she gladly gave.</span></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 29.2px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">When
we arrived at the hospital, the scene did not appear good from a human
point of view. Continuing to pray, we patiently awaited a doctor—knowing
that there was only one Great Physician, divine Love, and that the
outcome would be harmonious. When the doctor arrived, he seemed
concerned, but we expressed confidence in his skills and started quietly
singing hymns. To our surprise he hummed along with us. As he
proceeded, the doctor’s initial prognostication began to abate, and
skillfully-done stitches and other first-aid steps moved along rapidly
and harmoniously.</span></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 29.2px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">It
became increasingly clear to us that we were following Eddy’s
compassionate and wise counsel: “Until the advancing age admits the
efficacy and supremacy of Mind, it is better for Christian Scientists to
leave surgery and the adjustment of broken bones and dislocations to
the fingers of a surgeon, while the mental healer confines himself
chiefly to mental reconstruction and to the prevention of inflammation.”
(</span><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleItalicBody; font-style: italic;">Science and Health</span><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"> 401:29-3)</span></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 29.2px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">We
were grateful for the inspiration and physical help, but even more
grateful the next day to discover our daughter had returned to
riding—without fear. Christian Science treatment ensured that mental
reconstruction had taken place and that no inflammation could occur.</span></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 29.2px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">The
question might be asked, “Did we sacrifice spiritual power by seeking
medical help in this situation?” Well, we sought spiritual help first,
and we never gave up the thought that divine Spirit could lead us to the
right temporary means. All that is symbolic of good, in the end, comes
from God, however it may be expressed.</span></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 29.2px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Was our temporary turning to a physician for first aid “radical” Christian Science? Let’s look at that word, “radical.”</span></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 29.2px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">A
friend of ours studied classics at Oxford University, and I queried him
once about it. I learned the connotation had changed considerably in
the last century to become “extreme,” but he told me that the word
actually derives from the Latin “radix,” meaning “root.” We find this
usage in a word used by Shakespeare, “deracinate,” meaning “to pull up
by the root.”</span></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 29.2px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">I
checked on-line and found other definitions: “an underlying support,”
“basic,” and, of course, “arising from or going to a root or source.”
From this point of view, our choice for temporary means was, indeed,
“radical.” We had turned “radically” to God for our “underlying
support,” and all involved were blessed.</span></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 29.2px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Here’s another remarkable case of a Scientist in a similar situation. On May 31, 1913, </span><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleItalicBody; font-style: italic;">The New York Times</span><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"> reported
that a Christian Scientist, returning from a Rochester-Montreal ball
game, was thought to be dying after an automobile accident. At first,
according to the article, the Scientist refused to be taken to a
hospital, but soon realized he needed practical care and agreed to go.
The newspaper further reported that “he had little chance of recovery.”</span></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 29.2px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Although
we cannot know exactly how he prayed, we do know that the Scientist
fully recovered through his understanding of Christian Science. He
later had class instruction with a Christian Science teacher, who had
served as Mary Baker Eddy’s secretary.</span></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 29.2px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Interesting
enough, he went on to become a Christian Science teacher himself and
the author of many healing articles in the Christian Science
periodicals. My wife and I knew him for a number of years, and his
honesty about the need for temporary aid had not prevented his healing,
robbed him of God’s caring love, nor impeded his spiritual progress.</span></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 29.2px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Sometimes
the suggestion comes in situations like this, “Why was interim help
even needed?” It’s a question that goes nowhere since in the truth of
being as taught by Christian Science, accidents and illnesses represent
erroneous mental impositions—never occurring in Spirit’s, God’s,
dominion. We need to be mindful that Spirit renews and remakes us every
moment, without histories of accident or delayed healing.</span></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 29.2px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">But
we also need to be honest about them from a human point of view. In
doing so, we’re spiritually empowered, as Eddy suggests—and, in
addition, we avoid misunderstandings by non-Christian Scientists.</span></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 29.2px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Alfred
Farlow wrote many years ago: “Why not admit the truth? That, while a
knowledge of Christian Science enables one more easily to prevent,
lessen and overcome the ills of life, there is no Scientist who is
wholly exempt, at all times, from aches and pains, or from trials of
some kind.” (</span><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleItalicBody; font-style: italic;">The Christian Science Journal</span><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">, June, 1892) Again, his statement rings with a disarming humility and honesty.</span></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 29.2px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Early
Christian Scientist, Edward A. Kimball, CSD, pupil and associate of the
Founder of Christian Science, stated with the same frankness: “It is
not pretended that Christian Scientists have as individuals or as a
class risen to the height of demonstration that excludes all failures.”
[“Facts and Fictions About Christian Science,” published in </span><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleItalicBody; font-style: italic;">The Atlanta Constitution. (Lectures and Articles on Christian Science </span><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">by Edward A. Kimball, p. 39)]</span></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 29.2px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Such
statements need not be cause for discouragement. They present a candor
that can lead to an increased sense of spiritual guidance and power.
After all, we’re told that even the Master found such challenges on
occasion, as St. Matthew openly reports: “And he did not many mighty
works there because of their unbelief.”(Matthew 13:58) That situation
did not impair his faith, worthiness, or later demonstrations of
spiritual healing.</span></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 29.2px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">On
the other hand, we have this encouraging report from Mary Baker Eddy
about the present possibility of the healing effectiveness of Christian
Science, “when honestly applied under circumstances where demonstration
was humanly possible”:</span></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 29.2px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">“Late
in the nineteenth century I demonstrated the divine rules of Christian
Science. They were submitted to the broadest practical test, and
everywhere, when honestly applied under circumstances where
demonstration was humanly possible, this Science showed that Truth had
lost none of its divine and healing efficacy, even though centuries had
passed away since Jesus practised these rules on the hills of Judaea and
in the valleys of Galilee.” (</span><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleItalicBody; font-style: italic;">Science and Health</span><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">, 147: 6)</span></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 29.2px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Here is an honesty informed by profound spirituality, successful demonstration—and radical promise.</span></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"> </span></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><img border="0" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-xh8s8Pxqd8Q/XYbTfaM5TxI/AAAAAAAAC6s/taTE9fTLZDUHzfXWjjFkAf5lt9OyIx3XACK4BGAYYCw/s400/plflower-150.jpg" /><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"> <br /></span></span></p><p></p>PrayerfulLiving.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13281189074804993137noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3593315282560813861.post-79564654009684915932022-12-11T07:38:00.003-08:002022-12-11T07:46:42.870-08:00Inspiration From Hymn 64<div style="text-align: left;">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">By Patti C. Christopher</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Many years ago, I had a healing by
singing Hymn 64 as I walked in a nearby park, memorizing it as I went.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Recently, I decided to go back to Hymn 64
(From sense to Soul) to get a clear idea of Truth. Not only did I sing the hymn,
but I also dug deeply into the words.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">In the first verse, I acknowledged
that I was right now in “Truth’s clear day.” In this moment, I could clearly
understand all the Truth about myself and others dealing with any challenge.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">In the second verse, it dawned on me
that I am always one with divine Mind, and therefore always stand on “holy
ground.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I am an idea held in the Mind
that is God, and so cannot step out of that holy ground, and so can see and
feel the “loveliness of Love” all around me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Being held in the Mind of Love and having only the Mind that was in
Christ meant that my thought easily “soars enraptured, fetterless and
free.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That is why healing occurs even
though great distances seem to lie between practitioner and patient, or us and our
loved ones for whom we pray.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Isaiah
55:11 says, “God’s word goeth out in righteousness and doth not return unto Him
void… but He maketh it to prosper in the thing wherein He hath sent it.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In Truth, everyone is an idea held in the
Mind of Love, and therefore there is never any separation between us and
God.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">When I came to “I touch the fringes of
eternity”, I thought about the woman with the 12-year issue of blood, who
reached out to touch the hem of Christ’s garment.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She was reaching out hoping to understand the
laws of God, knowing they would heal her.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>During Biblical times, the hems of garments were made by gathering the
threads into tassels and knotting them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Each tassel represented one of over 300 of God’s laws.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Knowing this, the woman reached out to touch
Christ’s hem, even though the unclean were not to touch or be touched by
others.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When she felt that divine Love
pour out of Christ into herself, she knew immediately that she was healed of
that issue.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She had a glimpse of the law
of omnipresent Love, and saw how beloved she truly was.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Not even her uncleanness could prevent God
from sending His Love out to heal her.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">With this inspiration, I definitely
had touched “the fringes of eternity.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>This inspiration continues to fill my thought.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I am grateful for the inspiring hymns in both
of the Christian Science hymnals, which so easily come to mind when we need
help.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><img border="0" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-xh8s8Pxqd8Q/XYbTfaM5TxI/AAAAAAAAC6s/taTE9fTLZDUHzfXWjjFkAf5lt9OyIx3XACK4BGAYYCw/s400/plflower-150.jpg" /><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> <br /></span></p>
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<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-xh8s8Pxqd8Q/XYbTfaM5TxI/AAAAAAAAC6s/taTE9fTLZDUHzfXWjjFkAf5lt9OyIx3XACK4BGAYYCw/s1600/plflower-150.jpg"><img border="0" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-xh8s8Pxqd8Q/XYbTfaM5TxI/AAAAAAAAC6s/taTE9fTLZDUHzfXWjjFkAf5lt9OyIx3XACK4BGAYYCw/s400/plflower-150.jpg" /></a></span></p>PrayerfulLiving.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13281189074804993137noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3593315282560813861.post-33587835244798166152022-04-20T13:15:00.001-07:002022-04-20T13:15:11.436-07:00Moving in Life/Love<p> </p><p> By Julio C. Rivas, CS</p><p>“Even though I walk through the [sunless] valley of the shadow of
death, I fear no evil, for You are with me; Your rod [to protect] and
Your staff [to guide], they comfort and console me.” — Psalms 23:4
AMP</p><p></p><p></p><p>“Frights, agonies, diseases and deaths are
foreign to my Harmony-essence, for Love-Excellence owns everything about
my Truth-me, and lives in every part of me.</p><p></p><p>Omnipotent Love/Health/Life is transitioning and ascending my perceptions, my comprehension, my ego, my well-being. </p><p></p><p>Grace-Wholeness is generating transformational effects in my physiology, sentiments and relationships. </p><p></p><p>Resurrection is going on throughout my humanity— in my genetics, bio-chemistry and immune system. </p><p></p><p>A healing revolution is taking place; a sacred awakening; a Christly rising. </p><p></p>Love/Life: I am grateful.”<p></p><p><span class="d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql oi732d6d ik7dh3pa ht8s03o8 a8c37x1j keod5gw0 nxhoafnm aigsh9s9 d3f4x2em fe6kdd0r mau55g9w c8b282yb iv3no6db jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v knj5qynh oo9gr5id hzawbc8m" dir="auto">Julio C. Rivas, CS, is a Christian Science practitioner in Los Angeles, California. <a href="http://www.cspractitioners.com/california.html#rivas1" target="_blank">Connect with Julio»</a><br />
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<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-xh8s8Pxqd8Q/XYbTfaM5TxI/AAAAAAAAC6s/taTE9fTLZDUHzfXWjjFkAf5lt9OyIx3XACK4BGAYYCw/s1600/plflower-150.jpg"><img border="0" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-xh8s8Pxqd8Q/XYbTfaM5TxI/AAAAAAAAC6s/taTE9fTLZDUHzfXWjjFkAf5lt9OyIx3XACK4BGAYYCw/s400/plflower-150.jpg" /></a></span></p>PrayerfulLiving.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13281189074804993137noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3593315282560813861.post-76436125873125963652022-04-06T16:17:00.005-07:002022-04-06T16:17:59.090-07:00We Are Spirit's Motion<p> By Julio C. Rivas, CS</p><span class="d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql oi732d6d ik7dh3pa ht8s03o8 a8c37x1j keod5gw0 nxhoafnm aigsh9s9 d3f4x2em fe6kdd0r mau55g9w c8b282yb iv3no6db jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v knj5qynh oo9gr5id hzawbc8m" dir="auto"><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q"><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle ii04i59q"><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;">“Nothing really has Life but God, who is infinite Life; hence all is Life, and death has no dominion.” — M B Eddy </div></div><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle ii04i59q"><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"> </div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;">“Verily, verily, I say unto you, If a man keep my saying, he shall never see death.” — John 8:51, KJ</div></div><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle ii04i59q"><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"> </div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;">“While enthralled to, and hypnotized by, a finite, egotistical, in-matter existence we go through afflictions and deaths. </div></div><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle ii04i59q"><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;">We can be grateful, though, that our Soul-essence is undying and ever-burgeoning in superlative Life/Love. </div></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;">Our Christly intelligence pierces the fog of mortality, and exteriorizes our Spirit-derived, age-exempt joy, grace, vigor, puissance and productivity.”</div></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"> </div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;">Julio C. Rivas, CS, is a Christian Science practitioner in Los Angeles, California. <a href="http://www.cspractitioners.com/california.html#rivas1" target="_blank">Connect with Julio»</a><br />
<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-xh8s8Pxqd8Q/XYbTfaM5TxI/AAAAAAAAC6s/taTE9fTLZDUHzfXWjjFkAf5lt9OyIx3XACK4BGAYYCw/s1600/plflower-150.jpg"><img border="0" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-xh8s8Pxqd8Q/XYbTfaM5TxI/AAAAAAAAC6s/taTE9fTLZDUHzfXWjjFkAf5lt9OyIx3XACK4BGAYYCw/s400/plflower-150.jpg" /></a></div></div></div></span>PrayerfulLiving.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13281189074804993137noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3593315282560813861.post-30762952992682147652022-04-06T13:16:00.002-07:002022-04-06T13:16:48.986-07:00A Prayer for Ukraine:<p> </p><div><div dir="auto"><div class="ecm0bbzt hv4rvrfc dati1w0a e5nlhep0" data-ad-comet-preview="message" data-ad-preview="message" id="jsc_c_3yp"><div class="j83agx80 cbu4d94t ew0dbk1b irj2b8pg"><div class="qzhwtbm6 knvmm38d"><span class="d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql oi732d6d ik7dh3pa ht8s03o8 a8c37x1j fe6kdd0r mau55g9w c8b282yb keod5gw0 nxhoafnm aigsh9s9 d3f4x2em iv3no6db jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v b1v8xokw oo9gr5id hzawbc8m" dir="auto"><div class="kvgmc6g5 cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q"><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;">A Prayer for Ukraine:</div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;">(from ChurchesTogether in England website)</div></div><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle ii04i59q"><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"> </div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;">God of all peoples and nations,</div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;">Who created all things alive and breathing,</div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;">United and whole,</div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;">Show us the way of peace that is your overwhelming presence.</div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;">We hold before you the peoples of Ukraine and Russia,</div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;">Every child and every adult.</div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;">We long for the time</div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;">When weapons of war are beaten into ploughshares</div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;">When nations no longer lift up sword against nation.</div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;">We cry out to you for peace;</div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;">Protect those who only desire and deserve to live in security and safety</div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;">Comfort those who fear for their lives and the lives of their loved ones</div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;">Be with those who are bereaved.</div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;">Change the hearts of those set on violence and aggression</div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;">And fill leaders with the wisdom that leads to peace.</div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;">Kindle again in us a love of our neighbour,</div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;">And a passion for justice to prevail</div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;">and a renewed recognition that we all play a part in peace.</div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;">Creator of all hear our prayer</div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;">And bring us peace. Make us whole. Amen.</div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"> </div></div><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle ii04i59q"><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"><span><a class="oajrlxb2 g5ia77u1 qu0x051f esr5mh6w e9989ue4 r7d6kgcz rq0escxv nhd2j8a9 nc684nl6 p7hjln8o kvgmc6g5 cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x jb3vyjys rz4wbd8a qt6c0cv9 a8nywdso i1ao9s8h esuyzwwr f1sip0of lzcic4wl gpro0wi8 q66pz984 b1v8xokw" href="https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/weprayforukraine?__eep__=6&__cft__[0]=AZW0gACllmD4WNd9rwxNtvYkJC8i8WQ4wER1ToRShv5_fdQdnnVONneZ_sFklt1dYpRQEMOpe1XnrtLmfryOarwFVP7JvqneSKjT_C5Av4KDcROWZ1JiM-HVJtIYAFTDl18&__tn__=*NK-R" role="link" tabindex="0">#WePrayForUkraine</a></span></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"><span> </span></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"><span><span class="d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql oi732d6d ik7dh3pa ht8s03o8 a8c37x1j keod5gw0 nxhoafnm aigsh9s9 d3f4x2em fe6kdd0r mau55g9w c8b282yb iv3no6db jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v knj5qynh oo9gr5id hzawbc8m" dir="auto"><a href="http://www.cspractitioners.com/california.html#rivas1" target="_blank"></a><br />
<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-xh8s8Pxqd8Q/XYbTfaM5TxI/AAAAAAAAC6s/taTE9fTLZDUHzfXWjjFkAf5lt9OyIx3XACK4BGAYYCw/s1600/plflower-150.jpg"><img border="0" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-xh8s8Pxqd8Q/XYbTfaM5TxI/AAAAAAAAC6s/taTE9fTLZDUHzfXWjjFkAf5lt9OyIx3XACK4BGAYYCw/s400/plflower-150.jpg" /></a></span> <br /></span></div></div></span></div></div></div></div></div>PrayerfulLiving.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13281189074804993137noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3593315282560813861.post-50182961355657994712022-04-02T14:50:00.001-07:002022-04-06T14:52:03.552-07:00Continuous Perfectness<p> By Julio C. Rivas, CS</p><span class="d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql oi732d6d ik7dh3pa ht8s03o8 a8c37x1j keod5gw0 nxhoafnm aigsh9s9 d3f4x2em fe6kdd0r mau55g9w c8b282yb iv3no6db jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v knj5qynh oo9gr5id hzawbc8m" dir="auto"><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q"><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"><span class="d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql oi732d6d ik7dh3pa ht8s03o8 a8c37x1j fe6kdd0r mau55g9w c8b282yb keod5gw0 nxhoafnm aigsh9s9 d3f4x2em iv3no6db jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v b1v8xokw oo9gr5id hzawbc8m" dir="auto"><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle ii04i59q"><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;">“The Science of being reveals man as perfect, even as the Father is perfect, …..” — M B Eddy </div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"> </div></div><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle ii04i59q"><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;">“He restoreth my soul: he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name's sake.</div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;">4Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.” — Psalms 23: 3-4, KJ</div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"> </div></div><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle ii04i59q"><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;">“Superlative Truth-Perfectness is substantiating and enfolding the minutiae of our entities.</div></div><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle ii04i59q"><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;">This Christly cognition is liberating us from mortality’s beguiling mirages, among which are wars, malevolence, miseries, birth/death, and destruction. </div></div><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle ii04i59q"><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;">In Truth/Perfectness we possess immutable and age-free harmony.</div></div></span><br /></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"> Julio C. Rivas, CS, is a Christian Science practitioner in Los Angeles, California. <a href="http://www.cspractitioners.com/california.html#rivas1" target="_blank">Connect with Julio»</a><br />
<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-xh8s8Pxqd8Q/XYbTfaM5TxI/AAAAAAAAC6s/taTE9fTLZDUHzfXWjjFkAf5lt9OyIx3XACK4BGAYYCw/s1600/plflower-150.jpg"><img border="0" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-xh8s8Pxqd8Q/XYbTfaM5TxI/AAAAAAAAC6s/taTE9fTLZDUHzfXWjjFkAf5lt9OyIx3XACK4BGAYYCw/s400/plflower-150.jpg" /></a></div></div></div></span>PrayerfulLiving.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13281189074804993137noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3593315282560813861.post-20028905246041193282021-04-09T06:36:00.010-07:002021-04-09T06:37:35.068-07:00Treatment for Apirl 9, 2021<p> By Julio C. Rivas, CS</p><div><div dir="auto"><div class="ecm0bbzt hv4rvrfc e5nlhep0 dati1w0a" data-ad-comet-preview="message" data-ad-preview="message" id="jsc_c_100"><div class="j83agx80 cbu4d94t ew0dbk1b irj2b8pg"><div class="qzhwtbm6 knvmm38d"><h3><span class="d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql oi732d6d ik7dh3pa ht8s03o8 a8c37x1j keod5gw0 nxhoafnm aigsh9s9 d3f4x2em fe6kdd0r mau55g9w c8b282yb iv3no6db jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v knj5qynh oo9gr5id hzawbc8m" dir="auto"><div class="kvgmc6g5 cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q"><div style="text-align: left;">Perfection-Reality</div></div></span></h3><span class="d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql oi732d6d ik7dh3pa ht8s03o8 a8c37x1j keod5gw0 nxhoafnm aigsh9s9 d3f4x2em fe6kdd0r mau55g9w c8b282yb iv3no6db jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v knj5qynh oo9gr5id hzawbc8m" dir="auto"><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q"><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;">“When we realize that Life is Spirit, never in nor of matter, this understanding will expand into self-completeness, finding all in God, good, and needing no other consciousness.” — M B Eddy </div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q"><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"> </div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;">“Thou hast turned for me my mourning into dancing: thou hast put off my sackcloth, and girded me with gladness; 12To the end that my glory may sing praise to thee, and not be silent. O Lord my God, I will give thanks unto thee for ever.” — Psalms 30: 11-12, KJ</div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q"><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"> </div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;">“When we find ourselves alone, in torments, terrorized and confused, Love- Perfection is whispering to us this: ‘You are Spirit-constructed, living in and flourishing in My hegemony of Love-Goodness. We are One, entwined with My absolute Mind-Wholeness. My Christ-animus is in you, abolishing evil’s schemings — malignancies, turmoil, vileness, anguish, dread and depression. In this moment, in this place, You are My sacred singing and dancing, flowing with My omnipotent goodness.’” </div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"> </div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"> </div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"> Julio C. Rivas, CS, is a Christian Science practitioner in Los Angeles, California. <a href="http://www.cspractitioners.com/california.html#rivas1" target="_blank">Connect with Julio»</a><br />
<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-xh8s8Pxqd8Q/XYbTfaM5TxI/AAAAAAAAC6s/taTE9fTLZDUHzfXWjjFkAf5lt9OyIx3XACK4BGAYYCw/s1600/plflower-150.jpg"><img border="0" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-xh8s8Pxqd8Q/XYbTfaM5TxI/AAAAAAAAC6s/taTE9fTLZDUHzfXWjjFkAf5lt9OyIx3XACK4BGAYYCw/s400/plflower-150.jpg" /></a></div> </div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"> </div></div></span></div></div></div></div></div>PrayerfulLiving.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13281189074804993137noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3593315282560813861.post-88903000135375614892021-01-25T22:10:00.001-08:002021-01-25T22:11:22.215-08:00Faith, Hope and Love <p>By Ken G. Cooper<style>@font-face
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</p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #833c0b; font-size: 24pt;">God of glory give me <b>FAITH</b>,</span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #833c0b; font-size: 24pt;">Grounded in Thy perfect Love.</span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #833c0b; font-size: 24pt;">Let each day in wisdom grow,</span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #833c0b; font-size: 24pt;">Each thought stemming from above.</span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #833c0b; font-size: 24pt;"> </span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #833c0b; font-size: 24pt;">God of glory give me <b>HOPE</b>,</span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #833c0b; font-size: 24pt;">See Thy promises fulfilled;</span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #833c0b; font-size: 24pt;">Open now my eyes to see</span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #833c0b; font-size: 24pt;">Thy pure Love in me instilled.</span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #833c0b; font-size: 24pt;"> </span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #833c0b; font-size: 24pt;">God of glory give me <b>LOVE</b>,</span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #833c0b; font-size: 24pt;">Permeating through and through.</span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #833c0b; font-size: 24pt;">Leave no part of me untouched,</span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #833c0b; font-size: 24pt;">LET ME BE THE LOVE THAT’S YOU!</span></b></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #833c0b; font-size: 24pt;"> </span></b></p><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;">
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</p><h2 align="center" style="text-align: center;"><b><span lang="EN-GB">“And ye shall
know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>John 8: 32</span></b></h2>
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</p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 16pt;">The promise of our Master was really very clear,</span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 16pt;">Its message was to all of us, follow without fear,</span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 16pt;">He said “If ye continue”, - and that means every day:</span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 16pt;">To be his true disciple, his Word you must obey.</span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 16pt;">What is this truth that we shall know and which maketh
free?</span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 16pt;">It is this fact: God made man, that He made you, made
me!</span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 16pt;">Behold the beauty of this Truth, it isn’t something
strange:</span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 16pt;">Despite false evidence we see, Truth will never change!</span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 16pt;">So, with eternal Principle, Truth remains the same,</span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 16pt;">Man is God’s creation in both nature and in name.</span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 16pt;">Jesus healed his thousands, and he never made them
wait,</span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 16pt;">No need for convalescence, no need for empty plate!</span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 16pt;">He knew God’s work was finished, he could expect no
less,</span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 16pt;">It was merely false belief that thought the world a
mess!</span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 16pt;">Should we believe in error, succumb to matter’s threat?</span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 16pt;">NO! Turn to God, and know for sure He’s the only bet!</span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 16pt;">Our Master showed to all the Love God has for man,</span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 16pt;">All fear is simply blown away: Spirit is Truth’s fan!</span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 16pt;">Spirit’s breath is Life itself: this truth it maketh
free: </span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 16pt;">With open eyes and Truth at hand, in freedom you will be!</span></b></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 16pt;">
</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 9pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; tab-stops: 28.0pt 308.0pt; text-autospace: none;"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">John 8:31,32</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 9pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; tab-stops: 28.0pt 308.0pt; text-autospace: none;"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Then said Jesus to those Jews which believed on him, If ye continue in
my word, then are ye my disciples indeed; And ye shall know the truth, and the
truth shall make you free. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 9pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; tab-stops: 28.0pt 308.0pt; text-autospace: none;"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Ecclesiastes 3:14 (to:)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><sup><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></sup><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
know that, whatsoever God doeth, it shall be for ever: nothing can be put to
it, nor any thing taken from it: </span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-indent: 6pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Jeremiah 29:11</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: 6pt;"><span lang="EN-GB">For I know the
thoughts that I think toward you, saith the <span class="small-caps">Lord</span>,
thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>expected end.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"> </span></p><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;">
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</p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">For many years, engrained as true,<span style="mso-no-proof: yes;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Avoid all dealings with the Jew!</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Their way of life does not belong</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">To how we live. It’s simply wrong.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">The feeling mutual. It’s well known:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Though side by side we keep alone!</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Imagine then my great surprise</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">When this Jew looks into my eyes!</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #806000;">“<i>Give me to
drink</i>”</span></b><span lang="EN-GB"> his simple ask;</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">But why should I perform
this task!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Perhaps he does not understand </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">The social mores of this land.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">I take a risk and answer back, -</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">His clear response reveals my lack!</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">His living water I should seek, -</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">It’s only found through being meek.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Yes, I’ve been thirsting all these years:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">He’s offering Life with no more tears!</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">He reads my mind with healing thought,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">No condemnation from him wrought.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">My past revealed and laid quite bare, -</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">That he’s a prophet is quite clear.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">I sense great Love, he speaks with me:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">I feel at one, feel harmony.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">
</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">He speaks of God and worship true,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">A <i>spiritual</i> start to all we do.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">God not confined to single place,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Embracing all as face to face.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">I ask him straight: “Are you The One?”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #806000;">“<i>Yes, I’m God’s
true anointed Son</i>.”</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #806000;">Touched by the
Christ I’m now reborn.</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #806000;">New freedom with
my past forlorn!</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">I leave the waterpot*
behind,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Run to my home, - my friends to find!</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">I tell them all about this man:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">My heart full-singing now it can!!</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #bf8f00;">Many believe from all
I say,</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #bf8f00;">They searched out
Jesus straightaway.</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-no-proof: yes;"> </span><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #bf8f00;"></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #c45911;">Two happy days he
stayed and taught</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #c45911;">Illuminating heart
and thought!</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #806000;">The living water just
o’erflows:</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #806000;">In Christ the flood
of Life just glows!</span></b></p>
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prejudice, the old way of life, mortal thirst and expectation.</span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB"> </span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB">
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</p><p class="MsoNormal"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #385623; font-size: 16pt;">My
life it seemed hemmed in, with walls on every side,</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #385623; font-size: 16pt;">Whichever
way I looked, however hard I tried, </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #385623; font-size: 16pt;">Wasn’t
any future, just how to be set free?</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #385623; font-size: 16pt;">The
walls were like a tomb, this not a place to be!</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #385623; font-size: 16pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #385623; font-size: 16pt;">I
prayed my heart to God, to show me what to do,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #385623; font-size: 16pt;">And
heard His message clear, “My Love is great for you,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #385623; font-size: 16pt;">Behold
right now, and know, no matter what’s been done,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #385623; font-size: 16pt;">I am
your Father-Mother, and love you as My son.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #385623; font-size: 16pt;">By
My very nature, My arms are always wide,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #385623; font-size: 16pt;">My
door is always open, from Love one cannot hide”.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #385623; font-size: 16pt;">I
listened and obeyed. One step to Him I trod,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #385623; font-size: 16pt;">My
true home found at last: my life at one with God.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #385623; font-size: 16pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #385623; font-size: 16pt;">That
one step took trust, -and I had to hold God's hand, -</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #385623; font-size: 16pt;">He led
me to His kingdom, into the Promised Land!</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #385623; font-size: 16pt;">God's
Love was there, 'twas all around, freedom it was won.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #385623; font-size: 16pt;">I
felt and knew a truth divine: I stood as God's own son! </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #385623; font-size: 16pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #385623; font-size: 16pt;">No
matter where you are, just one stride lets you in.</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #385623; font-size: 16pt;">His
Love is always there, and takes away all sin.</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #385623; font-size: 16pt;">God
can never shutter Her constant love for man.</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #385623; font-size: 16pt;">Love’s
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</p><p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #806000; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themeshade: 128;">Let me ask: “Who was there when Mary gave birth?” </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #806000; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themeshade: 128;">– The Father of Jesus, the God of all earth!</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #806000; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themeshade: 128;">‘Though her bed in a barn, midst cattle and sheep,</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #806000; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-no-proof: yes; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themeshade: 128;"> </span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #806000; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themeshade: 128;"></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #806000; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themeshade: 128;">Her faith in The Father was constant and deep.</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #806000; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themeshade: 128;">His Love that was present so perfect, she smiled.</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #806000; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themeshade: 128;">She knew God was guarding both mother and child.</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #806000; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-no-proof: yes; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themeshade: 128;"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #806000; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themeshade: 128;"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #806000; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themeshade: 128;">And when the time came for her boy to be born,</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #806000; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themeshade: 128;">In peace and in stillness began the new morn.</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #806000; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themeshade: 128;">God’s angels were present dispelling the night</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #806000; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themeshade: 128;">For all around Mary and Jesus was light!</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #806000; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themeshade: 128;">This light drew the shepherds that wanted to see</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #806000; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themeshade: 128;">The Son that was promised to save you and me!</span></b></p>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #806000; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themeshade: 128;">Led to the barn by the star shining above,</span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #806000; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themeshade: 128;">O everyone feel what they must have felt, -</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #806000; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themeshade: 128;">God’s love for man is not randomly dealt:</span></b></p>
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{page:WordSection1;}</style> <br /></p>PrayerfulLiving.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13281189074804993137noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3593315282560813861.post-81657907562887953172020-11-30T17:15:00.007-08:002020-11-30T17:18:26.492-08:00Abigail - A Love Story<p>By Ken G. Cooper</p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">NABAL:</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">I am rich. </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">I have three thousand sheep, a thousand goats.</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">That sets me well apart from other people.</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">My money lets me buy and get myself out of any problems.</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">What I think and do is all that matters, </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">- and that includes anything concerning my wife, the beautiful Abigail.</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">She loves me, as is her due, and I deserve no less.</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #bf8f00; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">ABIGAIL: </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #bf8f00; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">I love him for his good qualities.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #bf8f00; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">And I love him because he is my husband.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #bf8f00; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Sometimes, nay, too often, he fulfils the attributes of
his name.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #bf8f00; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">But he needs my wisdom to counteract his foolishness.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #bf8f00; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">I will be loyal to his goodness, the tenderness he
occasionally shows.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #bf8f00; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">But I shall have respect to my virtues</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #bf8f00; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">And seek to instil them in my man because I love him.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #bf8f00; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">NABAL:</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">A band of ten young men have sought my presence.</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">As something to do, I deign see them, these servants of this David. </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">I have heard of him, but I shall nevertheless demean him in their eyes,</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Make him out as nothing, a nobody, and them therefore as worthless
knaves.</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">They seek to share my riches! Let them grovel with their empty request.</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">The custom of hospitality is for fools.</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">I shunt them away with my words.</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">One of my servants dares approach to speak on their behalf. I know his
face but not his name. He is a slave, nothing more. I wave him away with a
flick of my hand and snap my fingers for my wine cup to be filled.</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">The insult enrages <b>DAVID.</b> </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Four hundred men get themselves armed</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Gath’ring their pace towards Nabal </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">For he and all his will be harmed.</span></i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #bf8f00; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">ABIGAIL:</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #bf8f00; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">One of our servants, Shammah, comes running to me, bows
and begs my attention.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #bf8f00; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">His words run through me like a sword. Oh Nabal! Nabal!</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #bf8f00; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">We are all in peril for our lives.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #bf8f00; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">There is no time to lose.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #bf8f00; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">I order a feast of supplies, done quickly, sent on before
me.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #bf8f00; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">There is no time or wisdom to tell Nabal. The servants
leave. I follow.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">An angry <b>DAVID</b> leads his men</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Their swords are drawn and blood-ready</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">But laden asses cross his path:</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Abigail’s resolve holds steady.</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; tab-stops: 28.0pt 308.0pt; text-autospace: none;"><b><span style="color: #bf8f00; font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">ABIGAIL: </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; tab-stops: 28.0pt 308.0pt; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: #bf8f00; font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Gifts from our best produce mellow his
wrath.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; tab-stops: 28.0pt 308.0pt; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: #bf8f00; font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">I meet the proud David, falling at his
feet, beseeching him.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; tab-stops: 28.0pt 308.0pt; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: #bf8f00; font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">I take upon me full responsibility for
all that has made him angry,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; tab-stops: 28.0pt 308.0pt; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: #bf8f00; font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Offering my life to spare the foolish
life of Nabal. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; tab-stops: 28.0pt 308.0pt; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: #bf8f00; font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">I appeal to his reason, to his innate
sense of justice and mercy.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; tab-stops: 28.0pt 308.0pt; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: #bf8f00; font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">I see in him what I would see in my own
husband, despite my admission of his folly Nabal name.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; tab-stops: 28.0pt 308.0pt; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: #bf8f00; font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">An underlying strength of purpose born
of love for both men flows out from my heart, </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; tab-stops: 28.0pt 308.0pt; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: #bf8f00; font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Gives me a power that seems divine and
omnipresent.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; tab-stops: 28.0pt 308.0pt; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: #bf8f00; font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">It lends eloquence to my words, and a
surety that he will respond truly.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; tab-stops: 28.0pt 308.0pt; text-autospace: none;"><b><i><span style="font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">[DAVID]</span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; tab-stops: 28.0pt 308.0pt; text-autospace: none;"><i><span style="font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Like melting mist his anger gone</span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; tab-stops: 28.0pt 308.0pt; text-autospace: none;"><i><span style="font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Replaced as warmth of rising sun </span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; tab-stops: 28.0pt 308.0pt; text-autospace: none;"><i><span style="font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">He blesses me with generous word</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; tab-stops: 28.0pt 308.0pt; text-autospace: none;"><i><span style="font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">And thanks me for a deed well done</span></i><span style="font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; tab-stops: 28.0pt 308.0pt; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; tab-stops: 28.0pt 308.0pt; text-autospace: none;"><b><span style="color: #bf8f00; font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">ABIGAIL:</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; tab-stops: 28.0pt 308.0pt; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: #bf8f00; font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">I return back to Nabal, - quite
oblivious of what has passed, and find him feasting to glut.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; tab-stops: 28.0pt 308.0pt; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: #bf8f00; font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">He is beyond reason, senses dulled to
nothingness in the excess of self-gratification.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; tab-stops: 28.0pt 308.0pt; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: #bf8f00; font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">I will tell him when he is sober what
has come to pass, for it is right that he knows and understands.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; tab-stops: 28.0pt 308.0pt; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: #bf8f00; font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; tab-stops: 28.0pt 308.0pt; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: #bf8f00; font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">And in the morning, when the sun’s rays
lifted the dark, I told him everything.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; tab-stops: 28.0pt 308.0pt; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: #bf8f00; font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">As I spoke the light of Truth shone
steadfastly through my words and the error of his ways touched me no more.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; tab-stops: 28.0pt 308.0pt; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: #bf8f00; font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">His heart turned to stone in the cold
realization of all he had done,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; tab-stops: 28.0pt 308.0pt; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: #bf8f00; font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">And for ten long days I nursed him as
one would a newborn babe. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; tab-stops: 28.0pt 308.0pt; text-autospace: none;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">NABAL:</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; tab-stops: 28.0pt 308.0pt; text-autospace: none;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">I
love you Abigail.</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; tab-stops: 28.0pt 308.0pt; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; tab-stops: 28.0pt 308.0pt; text-autospace: none;"><b><span style="color: #bf8f00; font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">ABIGAIL:</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; tab-stops: 28.0pt 308.0pt; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: #bf8f00; font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Ten days of utter dependence, enforced
humility, his wealth irrelevant, my love all.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; tab-stops: 28.0pt 308.0pt; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: #bf8f00; font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">On the tenth day I wiped a tear from his
eye, and he passed from my company.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; tab-stops: 28.0pt 308.0pt; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: #bf8f00; font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">I knelt once again before God and He
comforted me.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; tab-stops: 28.0pt 308.0pt; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: #bf8f00; font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; tab-stops: 28.0pt 308.0pt; text-autospace: none;"><b><i><span style="font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">[DAVID]</span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; tab-stops: 28.0pt 308.0pt; text-autospace: none;"><i><span style="font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">So Abigail was left alone.</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; tab-stops: 28.0pt 308.0pt; text-autospace: none;"><i><span style="font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Days followed, and the news soon spread:</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; tab-stops: 28.0pt 308.0pt; text-autospace: none;"><i><span style="font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">It reached to David, now contrite,</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; tab-stops: 28.0pt 308.0pt; text-autospace: none;"><i><span style="font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">That churlish Nabal, he was dead.</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; tab-stops: 28.0pt 308.0pt; text-autospace: none;"><i><span style="font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; tab-stops: 28.0pt 308.0pt; text-autospace: none;"><b><span style="color: #bf8f00; font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">ABIGAIL: </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; tab-stops: 28.0pt 308.0pt; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: #bf8f00; font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">I prayed for my departed husband, and I
also prayed for myself. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; tab-stops: 28.0pt 308.0pt; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: #bf8f00; font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">God rewarded my prayer, for this David
sought me as his wife, not in conquest but in love. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; tab-stops: 28.0pt 308.0pt; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: #bf8f00; font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">I found a richness in living that
surpassed the empty richness of wealth, </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; tab-stops: 28.0pt 308.0pt; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: #bf8f00; font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">In humility I was led to grandeur, and
gave all I had.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; tab-stops: 28.0pt 308.0pt; text-autospace: none;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; tab-stops: 28.0pt 308.0pt; text-autospace: none;"><b><i><span style="color: #806000; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">SO
IN LOVE WAS TENDER BLESSING,</span></i></b></p>
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MORE HELD BY WHAT WAS WRONG</span></i></b></p>
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WERE BLESSED BY LOVE’S NEW CARING</span></i></b></p>
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DEEP RESPECT, THEIR MARRIAGE STRONG.</span></i></b></p>
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THE EVIL THAT WAS DEADLY</span></i></b></p>
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BY ACTION FAST.</span></i></b></p>
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<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-xh8s8Pxqd8Q/XYbTfaM5TxI/AAAAAAAAC6s/taTE9fTLZDUHzfXWjjFkAf5lt9OyIx3XACK4BGAYYCw/s1600/plflower-150.jpg"><img border="0" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-xh8s8Pxqd8Q/XYbTfaM5TxI/AAAAAAAAC6s/taTE9fTLZDUHzfXWjjFkAf5lt9OyIx3XACK4BGAYYCw/s400/plflower-150.jpg" /></a></div> </div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"> </div>PrayerfulLiving.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13281189074804993137noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3593315282560813861.post-17183995094117425732020-11-25T11:18:00.005-08:002020-11-25T11:18:44.416-08:00Treatment Ideas for November 25, 2020<p> By Julio C. Rivas, CS</p><div class="kvgmc6g5 cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q"><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;">Gratitude/Healings</div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"> </div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q"><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;">“Give to the Lord the glory due His name; Bring an offering, and come before Him. Oh, worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness! 31Let the heavens rejoice, and let the earth be glad; And let them say among the nations, “The Lord reigns.”” — 1 Chronicles 16: 29, 31</div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"> </div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q"><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;">“If action proceeds from the divine Mind, action is harmonious.” — M B Eddy </div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"> </div></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;">“Munificent Mind-Love, I thank You for the power and grace you’ve crowned us with to forgive, cherish, bless, heal, support, comfort, and honor each other. We are Your Love-acting. We are the unified living of You — the One-All, our Ego-Love. This heartfelt cognition is releasing Your harmonizing/healing potency throughout my life, in everyone, and into the world.” </div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"> </div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"> Julio C. Rivas, CS, is a Christian Science practitioner in Los Angeles, California. <a href="http://www.cspractitioners.com/california.html#rivas1" target="_blank">Connect with Julio»</a><br />
<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-xh8s8Pxqd8Q/XYbTfaM5TxI/AAAAAAAAC6s/taTE9fTLZDUHzfXWjjFkAf5lt9OyIx3XACK4BGAYYCw/s1600/plflower-150.jpg"><img border="0" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-xh8s8Pxqd8Q/XYbTfaM5TxI/AAAAAAAAC6s/taTE9fTLZDUHzfXWjjFkAf5lt9OyIx3XACK4BGAYYCw/s400/plflower-150.jpg" /></a></div>PrayerfulLiving.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13281189074804993137noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3593315282560813861.post-61817340793798702762020-11-16T21:24:00.004-08:002020-11-21T21:27:47.729-08:00In the Atmosphere of Love<p> By Ken G. Cooper</p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #806000; font-size: 18pt;">In the atmosphere of Love we move.</span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #806000; font-size: 18pt;">No mist is here*,</span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #806000; font-size: 18pt;">No fog to hide the way,</span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #806000; font-size: 18pt;">To smother the heart’s intent,</span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #806000; font-size: 18pt;">Leaving lost and confused the mortal soul.</span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #806000; font-size: 18pt;"> </span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #806000; font-size: 18pt;">Love beckons:</span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #806000; font-size: 18pt;">Clears the road before me,</span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #806000; font-size: 18pt;">A pure-lighted path that guides me home,</span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #806000; font-size: 18pt;">Home to the habitation of God;</span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #806000; font-size: 18pt;">No, not just nearby,</span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #806000; font-size: 18pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>nor yet long way off on far horizon,</span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #806000; font-size: 18pt;">But here and NOW,</span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #806000; font-size: 18pt;">An adventure already complete,</span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #806000; font-size: 18pt;">The fullness and presence of unfolding infinity.</span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #806000; font-size: 18pt;"> </span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #806000; font-size: 18pt;">The one Father-Mother God</span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #806000; font-size: 18pt;">Nestles Life’s children in eternal comfort,</span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #806000; font-size: 18pt;">Perfect health,</span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #806000; font-size: 18pt;">Resting in the action of Soul and
freedom in Truth.</span></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #806000; font-size: 18pt;">Infinite Love my only dwelling</span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #806000; font-size: 18pt;">And abiding.</span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #806000; font-size: 18pt;">My safe and happy home.</span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #806000; font-size: 18pt;"> </span></b></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #806000; font-size: 18pt;"> </span></b></p>
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</p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #806000; font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Heaving,
rocking, no ordinary squall,</span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #806000; font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Forget the
fishing, survival is all:</span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #806000; font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">The wind is
contrary, deep is the night,</span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #806000; font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">When we see
Jesus, - it gives us a fright!</span></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #806000; font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">We had left him
alone upon the far shore:</span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #806000; font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">This must be a
spirit amidst the storm’s roar!</span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #806000; font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">But he felt our
fear as waves merged with sky,</span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #806000; font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Calmly said, “Be
not afraid; it is I”</span></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #806000; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">My thoughts
were in turmoil, how could this be, -</span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #806000; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Things
impossible he’d do constantly.</span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #806000; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">The previous
day five thousand were fed</span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #806000; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">And all he had
were some fish and some bread.</span></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #806000; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Walking on
water and standing on sea,-</span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #806000; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">It does make
me question reality!</span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #806000; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Dare I believe
in my friend, in my Lord,</span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #806000; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">“If it really
is you, give me the word”.</span></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #806000; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">I feel the
strength of his simple command</span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #806000; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">For he has
said “Come” and I cannot be harmed.</span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #806000; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">I step out of
the boat and onto the sea:</span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #806000; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Each step
toward Jesus has strange buoyancy.</span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #806000; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #806000; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">But winds and
waves continue to scream.</span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #806000; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">What am I
doing? Surely I dream?</span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #806000; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">I look down at
my feet, deep water there,</span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #806000; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">I feel all
alone. I feel sudden fear.</span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #806000; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #806000; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">It seems like
slow motion, as I start to sink,</span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #806000; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">I’d glimpsed
something true, I’d been on the brink,</span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #806000; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">But this is no
dream, am I going to drown?</span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #806000; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">“Lord save
me!” I cry as I drop down down down.</span></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #806000; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">He answers my
need without need of time.</span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #806000; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">In the instant
I call his arm around mine.</span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #806000; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">My friends
stand amazed, they all want to shout.</span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #806000; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">But Jesus asks
quietly “Why didst thou doubt?”</span></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #806000; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Jesus’ calm
presence dissipates fears.</span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #806000; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">We enter the
ship, and the storm disappears.</span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #806000; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">The power of
God and dominion of man</span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #806000; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Becomes even
clearer, for with God <u>we</u> can!</span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #806000; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #806000; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">I now claim
the faith that mountains can move,</span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #806000; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">The mere
mustard seed that thy works I prove,</span></b></p>
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remember, undoubtedly,</span></b></p>
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Christ, I walked on the sea.</span></b></p>
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