This does not sound like you
One healing way to deal with a comment by a critical relative, an email by a disappointed colleague, a note by an offended church friend or an unjust lamentation by a family member – or any other expression of frustration – is a simple phrase, I find. This simple phrase can open the door to reconciliation, […]
Feeling comfort – not pain
I woke up some months ago in the middle of night with intense pain in my body. So intense that it was the only thing I could, well, think about. But very soon I was mentally calm enough to start praying – listening for an answer and being unwilling to take physical evidence more seriously […]
Good is God
Some time ago I was invited to speak to a professional alliance about my profession: Christian Science Practitioner. Since I didn’t know anyone in the audience – not even the board members of the organisation – I felt the one thing that we all can agree on, is: Good. We all know what good is, […]
The next step is here
If you want to be an entrepreneur, explore the possibilities, find support, and start the work. If you want to be an artist – start being creative. If you want to become a pianist find a teacher, a piano – and start practicing. If you want to explore cooking with plants only, find a cook book, […]
What is impelling progress?
Life seems to be an endless string of challenges. Health issues, supply, relationships but even more so the larger topics such as social justice, a fair equilibrium between the west and the global south, the welfare of the planet with its vast plant and animal life, captivate our attention every day. Often the heart aches […]
Navigate me home
We all are home where we belong, truly belong. Augustine discovered this essential fact of life, when he wrote in his confessions:“Thou hast made us for Thyself, and our heart is restlessuntil it finds its rest in Thee.” This is how unrest ends.This week a brilliant poem captured this sense of belonging in a very special […]
Something to be happy about
Love loves LifeandLife lives Love. No hate, nor deathwill ever be, for Love loves LifeandLife lives Love, eternally. This truth will be– for you and me –A law to demonstrate. And then you‘ll seehow every daywith certainty, Your life is meaningfuland good, and real, Eternally.
Close-Up View of Fear
This post is being written for you! It has a timely message – in many ways. It shares ideas on how to overcome fear, it acknowledges that there is a Love, that is law – a law as fundamental and unavoidable as the law of gravity. I wrote this post some time ago and it […]
Forgiving is For Giving
One of the greatest gifts to humanity are the periodicals of the Christian Science Publishing Society. Every single one is offering healing, comfort, a fresh perspective. Every article is written in order to share something with others. I support the periodicals in the best way I can, and it is such an honour to be […]
Being more than a visitor
Are you just visiting creation? Or are you already part of it? The most fundamental truth of all is that there is only one consciousness and its infinite, wonderful, daring ideas. We can never visit this creation: We ARE this creation. Mary Baker Eddy writes in her wonderful Science and Health with Key to the […]
Goodness and mercy
What is the next step? What will happen if you really move forward/upward? Will the next step be successful? Can we be sure that the next step will be o.k.? Should we say “yes” to the proposed move/job/assignment – or no? Is something good waiting for you? Is light coming your way? These questions and […]
The day of resurrection
Does revelation have a sound? Well, certainly. Revelation is revealed in order to be understand and heeded. Resurrection is felt and real. It is a live event.The Icelandic composer Kjartan Sveinsson composed a work with the telling title “The sound of the revelation of the Divine”. The text is from Halldór Laxness, and what you […]
You have a friend
In Northern German historic homes you see sometimes an inscription over the entrance: Christ is the unseen guest in this house. This is very moving to see, that people actually carved those words into the wooden frame of the entrance door. It tells you something about the spiritual perspective of the inhabitants, doesn’t it? Entering […]
Remember who you are
God and man are linked by an unbreakable connection and forever at one. Mary Baker Eddy writes: “It is only by acknowledging the supremacy of Spirit, which annuls the claims of matter, that mortals can lay off mortality and find the indissoluble spiritual link which establishes man forever in the divine likeness, inseparable from his […]
Your life has a rock-solid foundation
Your life has a rock-solid foundation. God is your rock, this concept is coming straight from the realm of ideas. God as a rock is a metaphor for power and strength. Pure thought, it exchanges a material object for a spiritual idea – leading our thought onward and upward.” Indeed, the Bible often speaks about […]
Appointments with God
In my treasure chest for spiritual enrichment and progress there are articles and poems that were written with so much love, experience, and common sense that I was unable to forget them. Hundreds of thousands of individuals have been not only providing examples and testimonies of healing but also inspiration and insights into the vast […]