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2/6/2014

Are you a virgin?

Are you a virgin? I am not asking about your sex life. I am asking about your thought life.

Are you receptive and ready for something new? One definition of virgin is "up to this time unused, unexplored, unworked, undiscovered." How ripe and ready are you to explore new thoughts and to discover new experiences?

Isaiah said, “Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign; a virgin shall conceive and bear a son.” And sure enough one did. Mary's pure openness to the infinite possibilities of good, and her consciousness of God as the true creator, brought world rocking, life-saving, problem-solving, death-mastering new experiences to the world through her child, Jesus. This was the sign then. Could it still be the sign now?

“Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign;
Behold a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son...” ISAIAH 7:14

Have you ever considered that you may have a place in that prophecy? That you may be a present day expression of that virgin thought?

Now stay with me here. I am not talking about birthing babies or second Christs.

I am suggesting that we can be more - in fact, we must be more - open to the possibilities of the amazing and wonderful in our lives. Humanity is ripe and ready for more and more amazing proofs of God.

Mary was completely open to God. Her pure conception of God as the source and originator of good ushered the Messiah into the world. Christ Jesus healed the sick and dying, and brought the dead back to life. His teaching redirected the world away from the dogma of a far-off salvation and pointed to the vibrant, practical spirituality that is here and now, to be lived today.

Through her discovery of the Christ Science, Mary Baker Eddy perceived and proved the possibilities of healing through a better understanding of God as divine Love. She founded a movement on the healing power of the Christ - a movement that is reinstating primitive Christian healing in the world.

What now? Who now? Could it be that we, too, have thoughts to think and work to do that is uniquely our own?

Perchance some one of you may say,
“The evidence of spiritual verity in me is so small that I am afraid.
I feel so far from victory over the flesh
that to reach out for a present realization of my hope savors of temerity.
Because of my own unfitness for such a spiritual animus
my strength is naught and my faith fails.”
O thou “weak and infirm of purpose.” Jesus said, “Be not afraid”!

“What if the little rain should say,
‘So small a drop as I
Can ne’er refresh a drooping earth,
I’ll tarry in the sky...’”

... A dewdrop reflects the sun. Each of Christ’s little ones reflects the infinite One,
and therefore is the seer’s declaration true, that “one on God’s side is a majority.”

A single drop of water may help to hide the stars, or crown the tree with blossoms.

MARY BAKER EDDY, Pulpit and Press 3,4

There are no limits to the good that your virgin thought can accomplish.

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11/24/2011

Action(s) of Grace

My friend Lisa, visiting from Arizona

That is the literal meaning of action(s) de grâce, or thanksgiving. Sometimes written with an s and sometimes without, the word action can refer to doing or to something accomplished or already done. In French the word grâce signifies favor, pardon, redemption, divine help, or prayer.

Thanksgiving Day in the United States commemorates the courage, fortitude and blessings bestowed on those who came before us in the early days of American history. The first Thanksgiving Day marked a new beginning for them. It can also signify a new beginning for us.

While Thanksgiving gives a special opportunity to focus on the good we have received - divine favor, pardon, redemption and help, it also encourages us to engage in doing even more good in the world through our prayers.

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