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Be silent, O all flesh

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Announcements › Forums › Matter – September 16th, 2018 › Be silent, O all flesh

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  • September 11, 2018 at 7:50 pm #7223
    spencel
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    “Be silent, O all flesh, before the Lord.” Zecharariah 2 : 13

    SILENT, (Websters 1828)
    1. Not speaking; … Still; having not noise; … as the silent watches of the night; not proclaiming…. Calm; as, the winds were silent

    To me not reacting is one way for me to silence the flesh. Mrs. Eddy mentions in the article “Taking Offense” several ways to counter the pride, ego, self-will, (the flesh) that gets challenged daily with a, “thousand million different human wills, opinions,… that each person has a different history.” She tells us to have the, “smallest expectations,” “largest patience,” a “keen relish for and appreciation of everything beautiful, great, and good,” a “temper so genial that the friction of the world shall not wear upon our sensibilities;” a “equanimity so settled that no passing breath nor accidental disturbance shall agitate or ruffle it;” and a, “charity broad enough to cover the whole world’s evil,” and “sweet enough to neutralize what is bitter in it,” These are all active qualities that can be lived in place of being demanding, critical, over sensitive, complaining, resentful, all of which take my peace and keep me from hearing God. As we were told at our last Roundtable we need to have, “infinite patience with others stories.”

    September 11, 2018 at 8:04 pm #7224
    spencel
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    “The Science of Life, overshadowing Paul’s sense of life in matter, so far extinguished the latter as forever to quench his love for it. The discipline of the flesh is designed to turn one, like a weary traveller, to the home of Love. To lose error thus, is to live in Christ, Truth.” by Mary Baker Eddy from Miscellaneous Writings p. 33

    September 13, 2018 at 7:30 pm #7230
    chardelle
    Moderator

    Thank you!. What is written here also applies to our hurricane Watch.

    September 14, 2018 at 9:46 am #7233
    Betty S
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    This week’s Golden Text, “Be silent, O all flesh, before the Lord” Zechariah 2: 13 has stood out to me all week. Gradually, while working with this, it became Be silent, mortal mind, before the Lord. And this morning, realized that once mortal mind is silent then it is possible to “Be still and know that I am God.” (Psalms 46: 10) When I looked up Psalm 46, I realized that it could have easily been referring to a large storm (mortal mind raging) like a hurricane. In this week’s lesson, Jesus “arose, and rebuked the wind and the raging of the water: and they ceased, and there was a calm.” And so can I, it is just another false idol.
    Thank you for this lesson, and to the lesson writers, and for all of this week’s posts.

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