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And this does really make me chuckle:
A scientist called God and told him ‘God, we humans don’t need you anymore. We have got everything we need, and we can do everything we need to. We can even make humans now, so we really don’t need you.’
God replied ‘Is that so? Oh my. Well, tell you what, let’s have a competition. Let’s see who can make a human the fastest. If I win then you’re stuck with me. But if you win then, well, you’re free to go without me.’
So the scientist thought whoopee I’m on to a winner here, and he gladly accepted God’s offer. He went off to his lab, popped his white coat on and picked up his stethoscope and his microscope and all his other equipment, and then said to God, ‘Ok, I’m ready’.
And God said, ‘You know what, why don’t I even give you a head start. Take ten minutes extra, go on, you get started. I’m interested to see how you create this human.’
So the scientist shuffled his papers and got busy. He leaned down, and picked up a handful of dust.
‘Whoa, whoa, whoa!’ God said. ‘What are you doing? You get your own dust.”
I came across this on a Christian social media group, and I love it. It helped me discuss God with my young niece when she asked ‘I can’t see God, so where is He?’
Wise Teaching Of Elders:
In a mother’s womb were two babies. One asked the other: “Do you believe in life after delivery?” The other replied, “Of course. There has to be something after delivery. Maybe we are here to prepare ourselves for what we will be later.”
“Nonsense” said the first. “There is no life after delivery. What kind of life would that be?”
The second said, “I don’t know, but there will be more light than here. Maybe we will walk with our legs and eat from our mouths. Maybe we will have other senses that we can’t understand now.”
The first replied, “That is absurd. Walking is impossible. And eating with our mouths? Ridiculous! The umbilical cord supplies nutrition and everything we need. But the umbilical cord is so short. Life after delivery is to be logically excluded.”
The second insisted, “Well I think there is something and maybe it’s different than it is here. Maybe we won’t need this physical cord anymore.”
The first replied, “Nonsense. And moreover if there is life, then why has no one has ever come back from there? Delivery is the end of life, and in the after-delivery there is nothing but darkness and silence and oblivion. It takes us nowhere.”
“Well, I don’t know,” said the second, “but certainly we will meet Mother and she will take care of us.”
The first replied “Mother? You actually believe in Mother? That’s laughable. If Mother exists then where is She now?”
The second said, “She is all around us. We are surrounded by her. We are of Her. It is in Her that we live. Without Her this world would not and could not exist.”
Said the first: “Well I don’t see Her, so it is only logical that She doesn’t exist.”
To which the second replied, “Sometimes, when you’re in silence and you focus and you really listen, you can perceive Her presence, and you can hear Her loving voice, calling down from above.”
Thanks Jeremy! I didn’t see that you had replied but was just very grateful to hear this mentioned in the Round Table.
Plenty to read and take in in your reply, thanks so much!
Thank you!
Agreed.
So often, and especially over the past two years, I have seen the media – mortal mind – prey on people’s vanity and sense of superiority. This seems to be able to fool them into believing the most unbelievable things and has led me to believe that vanity is quite possibly the most dangerous human sense of all.
Thank you Kari for this post and the quotes from the articles, very inspiring. I often find myself wondering what comes first, the weather, or the forecast.
I am also most grateful for Thursday’s watch on the weather.
Reading Watches Prayers and Arguments I was struck by something I don’t remember reading properly before, the description on page 13 of how Gilbert Carpenter handled the weather watch:
“he found his work was always successful, when he took up the weather from the standpoint of Mrs. Eddy herself, not as if she wanted pleasant weather for her own enjoyment, but as if the atmosphere at Pleasant View was the effect of her demonstration of a vantage, from which she might do the most efficient work for God and man. In his work he would relate the weather to her demonstration, declaring it to be governed by her reflection of Mind, and therefore to be harmonious, in the sense that it met the human need either for sunshine or rain; but that it could not be controlled by malice or hatred to do harm or to disturb her peace by extremes of any sort.”
and in the next paragraph:
“one cannot work scientifically on the weather, without endeavoring to excommunicate the so- called human mind from the world, in order that divine Mind may come in and govern in this physical universe”
I realise I have been mostly working on the weather by knowing that it is controlled by what I can only describe as a somewhat external or detached God. Here we are clearly advised that Mr Carpenter declared it was Mrs Eddy’s harmonious reflection of God, Mind, that governed the weather.
In the present-day absence of Mrs Eddy I can only think that we must declare it is our own harmonious reflections of Mind, God, that govern the weather. Thus we excommunicate our own human minds from the world, so that divine Mind may come in and govern.
I too am so grateful for this church and this Science, and to be among others working together for the good of humanity and the world.
And just as I type this a heavy rainstorm outside has just stopped!
This is really beautiful. Thank you for sharing!
Imogene, thank you sooo much for your beautiful testimony from a little while ago when you spoke of passing as graduation. It is the most beautifu thought and description. I have shared this word with many people, all of whom gave a little smile when they heard it, it has spread much comfort and peace. Huge thanks to you!
Thank you for this link and info! So lovely, truly heart-warming!
Beautiful, emotional film! Thank you so much for sharing! Such evidence of the ONE divine, infinite, omnipresent Mind governing all its formations.
Watched it alone, then dragged other half into watch it. Then shared it to a few other friends. Then found another film about this lady on utube, the longer film that this clip is from, and watched that.
And then continued this beautiful, awe-inspired lesson into a powerful watch. Thank you again.
(Also I really need to read SH first edition!)
What a beautiful story, thank you so much for sharing! What clarity and faith, to be able to trust God’s love even amidst the heat and the suffering.
I can just imagine dear Walter, digging away in the heat at nine and a half feet deep, saying ‘if this don’t work out to somethin’ I don’t want to hear another word about that God o’yours…wait, what the…? Marlene, fetch the bucket!!!’
I had not considered this before but it is so true, thank you
Yes, agreed, thank you so much to everyone for the Christmas Eve service. I listened at the end of Christmas Day, it was just the most marvellous end to a beautiful day, such a professional production with superb performance after superb performance. I agree with everything Imogene has written, plus I shed a tear at ‘Silent Night’ and at the sweet children’s voices.
Everything was just wonderful. How you all make the time to practice and produce such a professional-sounding music production, as well as the weekly Sunday services, all of which include excellent music performances, Wednesday meetings, Sunday School, the watches, the websites, newsletters, Round Tables etc etc – I’m not sure I could find a group of people more dedicated and hard-working!
The realisation of the many years of hard work that have gone before hangs poignantly. Thank you, again, so very much for all that you do.
Thankyou, yes I also loved this story and the nobleman’s ‘u-turn’ enabling him to go home.
What a beautiful thought also at the end of your post.
Thank you. I also loved the reminder about pride, and the courage showed by Namaan’s servants in urging him to think again about the instruction.
Thankyou. These are wonderful additions to those lines.
Thank you so much for sharing this article! Just what I needed to read, also exactly when I needed to read it.
Studying The Beatitudes has been on my to-do list for some time, I felt I have never really understood them. I read the article, printed it out, read it before bed, read it again this morning and have studied it today. This has been so helpful, thank you again. And I am definitely guilty of point 3!
Thank you everyone who has replied. Given me plenty to work on and think about!
Very much agreed. Listening to last night’s service was such a wonderful way to wake up this morning, I am so grateful for the very timely uploading to utube (I know how long videos can take to upload!) It seemed every testimony had a special message for me and was just what I needed to hear or could relate to, from dogs to roadside angels to hair loss. I love to hear how differently people have approached different issues.
The wonderful audio of God’s Law of Adjustment was also so good to listen to and I will listen again over the weekend. Huge thanks to all for so much dedicated hard work!
Beautiful, thank you
Agreed! What a wonderful Roundtable.
Loved the story of the persistance and eventual healing after 35 years, how well it followed the Testimony Meeting from Wednesday. Truly inspirational!
Thank you for this, I have read WKMBE but did not remember this conversation, but what an insight it gives!
This has been a great inspiration to make Sundays more as they should be from now on.
Thank you for sharing this!