Thank you to the lesson writer–this is always one of my favorite subjects.
This lesson is a wonderful treatment for the belief of climate change that is gripping the planet in fear of an impending doomsday scenario. Are we to be swept along this river of panic? Or do we proclaim that God knows how to, and will, care for His creation?
Mrs. Eddy states in S&H, citation 11: “The seasons will come and go with changes of time and tide, cold and heat, latitude and longitude. The agriculturist will find that these changes cannot affect his crops. “As a vesture shalt Thou change them and they shall be changed. …”
There is and has always been a general fear of change in human thinking. People want to cling to the “good old days”, and yet those don’t really exist. True change is continued evolution and revolution of thought, always progressing!
I love Mrs. Eddy’s definition on page 585 of “Euphrates (river). Divine Science encompassing the universe and man; the true idea of God; a type of the glory which is to come; metaphysics taking the place of physics; the reign of righteousness.”
When I think of climate change, I have the choice to either see a baffling and alarming material picture (with its contradictions of either global warming or cooling going on, for example), or to translate what is being shown into the spiritual reality of things: “Divine Science encompassing the universe and man” (not the secular atheist vision being sold). “All nature teaches God’s love to man” (S&H p. 326)–am I seeing the beauty of God’s love everywhere in its infinite abundance?
In this river of “Divine Science encompassing the universe and man; the true idea of God; a type of the glory which is to come; metaphysics taking the place of physics; the reign of righteousness”, is there anything to fear? While doing my best to steward the beautiful nature around me on our property–caring for the plants, animals, trees and honeybees–I can also pray that my thought be always washed clean with the living waters of Truth right from the Euphrates.