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WATCH 420 & Rev. Kratzer – Spiritual Progress

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Announcements › Forums › Everlasting Punishment — October 31st, 2021 › WATCH 420 & Rev. Kratzer – Spiritual Progress

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  • October 30, 2021 at 3:38 pm #13649
    Kerry
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    WATCH 420 by Gilbert Carpenter, provided with this week’s Lesson, speaks of not becoming “too concerned over your own spiritual progress” and “to consider ourselves as lilies that grow naturally.” As I was reading articles from my Plainfield carousel folder to my mother, I came across “Making the Port” by Rev. G.A. Kratzer (October 18, 2021). It immediately connected my thought with our WATCH and I wanted to share again what he wrote:

    “Just as the mariner does not ask the winds and waves whether or not he is making progress, but asks his chart and compass, so I will not ask the feelings or states of my body whether or not I am getting on, but I will ask my increasing understanding of God’s word, which is my chart and compass. I will “look away from the body into Truth and Love” (Science and Health, 261:2.) I will, in my calculations of progress, “be absent from the body, and present with the Lord” (2 Cor. 5:8). And when this storm of distress is past, I shall be farther on than before it commenced, in moral strength, in character, in health, and in knowledge of the Truth.”

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