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May 18, 2022 at 1:19 pm #14791

JPalmer

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Thank you for these posts!

The picture shown in Isaiah 11 : 6-9 feels like what it will be when every creature looks to God alone for all they need and therefore know no lack, fear, division, or hate. This must be why Christ Jesus told us to “preach the gospel to every creature.” (Mark 16 : 15) Until this picture — which Mrs. Eddy called “The Millennium” — is what we see in the world, the following quote, and similar, are what I have been working with while handling the unreal mortal mind images:

Watch that you do not lose your love from the attacks of hate. Better lose life in matter than love for God and man. This is why our dear departed are better blessed than those that remain if they are returning evil for evil.

Let our finite judgment never settle on who is troubling us, and never defend ourselves against a person. Rather ask what is troubling, and then meet the what.
from Fragments gathered from Unpublished Items ascribed to Mary Baker Eddy, page 189