Reply To: Absorbed in material selfhood

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Reply To: Absorbed in material selfhood

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March 17, 2017 at 10:20 am #3794

Susanne

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Curious to know a deeper meaning, I looked up “absorbed” in the 1828 dictionary: Imbibed; swallowed; wasted; engaged; lost in study; wholly engrossed.”

“Wasted” and “lost in study” stood out to me because I once was absorbed in material selfhood (while keeping my Science mostly on the sidelines, waiting…) and now feel so much time was wasted where I could have made more progress getting closer to my Father-Mother! But I didn’t know how practically to go about it, really, until the teaching in this church got me straightened out. I went from “discerning and reflecting but faintly the substance of Life” to now really feeling that my true substance is spiritual, it is walking with God. What a shift–that I hardly thought possible–but now I know there is no more time to waste or be “lost in study” of the material rather than the substantive spiritual.