A story of forgiveness

A friend sent me a link to this article - truly a thouching story of forgiveness:

http://www.truthout.org/012509F

Much love.

Service movie

Have you seen this video about Johnny the grocery store bagger? Very touching! Truly an example of how love transforms.

http://www.stservicemovie.com/

The Truth

Here's an interesting video from YouTube sent by a friend today, and a good quote from Science and Health to consider along with it:

"Delusion, sin, disease, and death arise from the false testimony of material sense, which, from a supposed standpoint outside the focal distance of infinite Spirit, presents an inverted image of Mind [God] and substance with everything turned upside down." (301:24)






Here are some other ideas from Science and Health that relate:


"Science reverses the false testimony of the physical senses, and by this reversal mortals arrive at the fundamental facts of being." (120:7)

"In viewing the sunrise, one finds that it contradicts the evidence before the senses to believe that the earth is in motion and the sun at rest. As astronomy reverses the human perception of the movement of the solar system, so Christian Science reverses the seeming relation of Soul and body and makes body tributary to Mind. (119:25)

"The evidence of the physical senses often reverses the real Science of being, and so creates a reign of discord,--assigning seeming power to sin, sickness, and death; but the great facts of Life, rightly understood, defeat this triad of errors, contradict their false witnesses, and reveal the kingdom of heaven,--the actual reign of harmony on earth." (122:1)

"The higher nature of man is not governed by the lower; if it were, the order of wisdom would be reversed. Our false views of life hide eternal harmony, and produce the ills of which we complain. Because mortals believe in material laws and reject the Science of Mind, this does not make materiality first and the superior law of Soul last." (62:27)

"If you wish to know the spiritual fact, you can discover it by reversing the material fable, be the fable pro or con,--be it in accord with your preconceptions or utterly contrary to them." (129:7)

"We cannot fathom the nature and quality of God's creation by diving into the shallows of mortal belief. We must reverse our feeble flutterings--our efforts to find life and truth in matter--and rise above the testimony of the material senses, above the mortal to the immortal idea of God. These clearer, higher views inspire the God-like man to reach the absolute centre and circumference of his being." (262:9)

How important to begin with the real Truth - God and His creation - to come to the correct conclusions about ourselves, others and the world around us.

The Crow and the Kitten

Had to post this video - a bit long at 7 minutes, but really interesting! A wonderful example of crossing perceived boundaries (in this case species), mothering, friendship, breaking down false concepts (here, "natural born enemies"). Hope you enjoy!

"Mark Twain & Mary Baker Eddy" a film by Val Kilmer

This weekend, I heard about this new project by Val Kilmer. Interesting.

Church-State divide - interesting interview

I was just reading today's post in Laura Matthew's blog about politics and religion and remembered a friend sent me a link to this NPR interview with Garry Wills, emeritus professor of history at Northwestern University and auther of a number of books including his latest Head and Heart: American Christianities. The focus of the interview was on the constitutional separation of church and state - the topic of this new book. I found the interview very interesting and learned a lot about the background of this basic principle of US government. There's an excerpt from the book along with a link for the 20 minute interview. Hope it stays up so you can check it out. Good food for thought during another election season.