Inspiration From Hymn 64

 

By Patti C. Christopher

Many years ago, I had a healing by singing Hymn 64 as I walked in a nearby park, memorizing it as I went.  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. 

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.

In the second verse, it dawned on me that I am always one with divine Mind, and therefore always stand on “holy ground.”  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.  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.”  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.  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.”  In Truth, everyone is an idea held in the Mind of Love, and therefore there is never any separation between us and God. 

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.  She was reaching out hoping to understand the laws of God, knowing they would heal her.  During Biblical times, the hems of garments were made by gathering the threads into tassels and knotting them.  Each tassel represented one of over 300 of God’s laws.  Knowing this, the woman reached out to touch Christ’s hem, even though the unclean were not to touch or be touched by others.  When she felt that divine Love pour out of Christ into herself, she knew immediately that she was healed of that issue.  She had a glimpse of the law of omnipresent Love, and saw how beloved she truly was.  Not even her uncleanness could prevent God from sending His Love out to heal her.

With this inspiration, I definitely had touched “the fringes of eternity.”  This inspiration continues to fill my thought.  I am grateful for the inspiring hymns in both of the Christian Science hymnals, which so easily come to mind when we need help.

Our Love/Perfection-covenant

 

 By Julio C. Rivas, CS

"Immortal man demonstrates the government of God, good, in which is no power to sin." -- M B Eddy

 

"...this is my covenant with them, saith the Lord; My spirit that is upon thee, and my words which I have put in thy mouth, shall not depart out of thy mouth, nor out of the mouth of thy seed, nor out of the mouth of thy seed's seed, saith the Lord, from henceforth and for ever." -- Is. 59: 21, KJ

 

"Soul is generating our forever-in-Spirit-living, immaculate, healthy, and majestic individualities.

We are safe and prospering in Love's time-free, sacred, goodness-proliferating reality.

We are in the Reality of Love-oneness, of Perfection-unity.

Our awakening to this sacred indivisibility with our Principle/Source, and each other, is producing healing in the quotidian minutiae of our experience."

Julio C. Rivas, CS, is a Christian Science practitioner in Los Angeles, California. Connect with Julio»

Moving in Life/Love

 

 By Julio C. Rivas, CS

“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

“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.

Omnipotent Love/Health/Life is transitioning and ascending my perceptions, my comprehension, my ego, my well-being.

Grace-Wholeness is generating transformational effects in my physiology, sentiments and relationships.

Resurrection is going on throughout my humanity— in my genetics, bio-chemistry and immune system.

A healing revolution is taking place; a sacred awakening; a Christly rising.

Love/Life: I am grateful.”

Julio C. Rivas, CS, is a Christian Science practitioner in Los Angeles, California. Connect with Julio»

We are Life’s Immortal Wonders

 By Julio C. Rivas, CS

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.” — John 3:16, KJ

 

“His resurrection was also their resurrection. It helped them to raise themselves and others from spiritual dulness and blind belief in God into the perception of infinite possibilities.” — M B Eddy 

 

“Life-Love is resurrecting us from hypnotic born-live-die-in-limitations, to our wonderful, timeless, in-Spirit flourishing.

We are Truth’s everlasting wonders.”

Julio C. Rivas, CS, is a Christian Science practitioner in Los Angeles, California. Connect with Julio»

We Are Spirit's Motion

 By Julio C. Rivas, CS

“Nothing really has Life but God, who is infinite Life; hence all is Life, and death has no dominion.” — M B Eddy

 

“Verily, verily, I say unto you, If a man keep my saying, he shall never see death.” — John 8:51, KJ

 

“While enthralled to, and hypnotized by, a finite, egotistical, in-matter existence we go through afflictions and deaths.

We can be grateful, though, that our Soul-essence is undying and ever-burgeoning in superlative Life/Love.

Our Christly intelligence pierces the fog of mortality, and exteriorizes our Spirit-derived, age-exempt joy, grace, vigor, puissance and productivity.”

 

Julio C. Rivas, CS, is a Christian Science practitioner in Los Angeles, California. Connect with Julio»

A Prayer for Ukraine:

 

A Prayer for Ukraine:

(from ChurchesTogether in England website)

 

God of all peoples and nations,

Who created all things alive and breathing,

United and whole,

Show us the way of peace that is your overwhelming presence.

We hold before you the peoples of Ukraine and Russia,

Every child and every adult.

We long for the time

When weapons of war are beaten into ploughshares

When nations no longer lift up sword against nation.

We cry out to you for peace;

Protect those who only desire and deserve to live in security and safety

Comfort those who fear for their lives and the lives of their loved ones

Be with those who are bereaved.

Change the hearts of those set on violence and aggression

And fill leaders with the wisdom that leads to peace.

Kindle again in us a love of our neighbour,

And a passion for justice to prevail

and a renewed recognition that we all play a part in peace.

Creator of all hear our prayer

And bring us peace. Make us whole. Amen.

 

#WePrayForUkraine

 

Continuous Perfectness

 By Julio C. Rivas, CS

“The Science of being reveals man as perfect, even as the Father is perfect, …..” — M B Eddy 

 

“He restoreth my soul: he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name's sake.

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

 

“Superlative Truth-Perfectness is substantiating and enfolding the minutiae of our entities.

This Christly cognition is liberating us from mortality’s beguiling mirages, among which are wars, malevolence, miseries, birth/death, and destruction.

In Truth/Perfectness we possess immutable and age-free harmony.

 Julio C. Rivas, CS, is a Christian Science practitioner in Los Angeles, California. Connect with Julio»