How to get there
To get up and go. To stand up. To arise. Before we can experience the new, before we can be free – we need to get up. And go. Nobody can make this one decision for us. It is more a right than a must. We are free to do it, always. There is a mental […]
A special post: From loss to Life
This week an article written by Anna-Zoë Herr was published that means a lot to me. It has the telling title “From loss to Life” and describes her own spiritual path “from loss to Life” after the passing of her dad, my first husband. I know that you will find spiritual nourishment for yourself at whatever stage in life […]
No more “spirit of heaviness”
In a recent chat with a friend she – almost casually – shared with me her definition of complaint: “Making evil real.” We both realised that complaint is not constructive, it does not aim at change or improvement. It expresses your dissatisfaction with a current situation and most often leaves the other one with a little […]
Problem Solving
Our dear world needs problem solvers – individuals with a willingness not just to wait for the good and right things to happen, but to make them happen. Individuals with a commitment to mercy and a vivid respect for compassion. Individuals with a certain sense of fearless listening to even unconventional and surprising solutions. In […]
Finding happiness
Who does not yearn to be happy? Who does not deserve to be happy? We all do. The secret to being happy is out in the open for more than 2000 years, and it is Mary Baker Eddy who rewrites it for our modern age: “Happiness consists in being and in doing good; only what […]
Finding God, finding individuality
Individuality is found when self is lost, sounds contradictory? Let me explain: There was a dark time in my life, in which I was confronted with a series of surmounting problems, serious career challenges and the urgent need to understand, who I was, what my purpose in life was, where I belonged. It was a […]
Unity
Unity, I thought yesterday, is the true fabric of being. It is such a divine gift, not a human achievement. Unity is oneness and is shows the infinite hues of Truth and Love, all good. We all take a deep breath when we are reminded of this sparkling, comforting truth of being. Unity is from […]
Strong and calm
In praying for a specific issue in my own experience I prayed with this beautiful poem from Mary Baker Eddy: Dear God! how great, how good Thou artTo heal humanity’s sore heart;To probe the wound, then pour the balm —A life perfected, strong and calm.(Poems, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 22:14–17) “Strong and calm”—what a wonderful, […]
Mighty goodness
We can rejoice that every germ of goodness will at last struggle into freedom and greatness, and every sin will so punish itself that it will bow down to the commandments of Christ, — Truth and Love.(No and Yes, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 8)
A good day, a good year
Days are long, years are short— this saying has been around for quite some time. And it has never been truer, it seems. It reminds me to use opportunities in the now, and it reminds me not to push needed progress into the future… for years are indeed short in hindsight… and moments can only […]
Appreciation
The Gift of Appreciation [From an article by Dr. George H. Morrison. In: The British Weekly, London, England. 1926] Few gifts are more helpful than the gift of appreciation. It is like rain on the mown grass, or sunshine falling on the flowers. A recent essayist has divided people into minus and plus people. The […]
Be healed today
We are cherished by God, Love, the creator and queen of a spiritual universe:No death nor hate will ever be/for Love loves Life/and Life lives Love/eternally.In this eternal, indestructible universe, the relationship between Love, God, and Love’s child is strong and everlasting. No element of insecurity or doubt enters man’s feel for tangible Love and […]
Beauty is divine
Beauty is divine. It is everywhere where God is. It is the most noble quality of everything of real worth, of substance and intelligence. There is a wonderful beauty in faith, for example. There is a special beauty in patience. There is a marvelous beauty in goodness. I have experienced beauty in healing and peacemaking. […]
…as our purpose grows…
“I have now realized that you are not what you do, because if you are, then when you don’t you aren’t.” This insight into the true nature of purpose is a conclusion of a healing from the aftereffects of a stroke. The writer is Doug Dombek, and I invite you to read his article A new […]
Make a move!
The Bible is a book of movement. It instructs, inspires and gives us cues from others — it asks us to invite thousands of individuals into our lives. These individuals followed neither tradition nor social expectation but Life’s calling or the search for God. People make a move, they walk and walk and walk, they […]
A worthwhile endeavor
I know of a woman who wanted to be more active and start running. Just a little bit more movement in her life of working behind a desk all day. The thought to introduce more movement and air into her day seemed reasonable and was on her mind for more than a year and day […]