Thursday, October 21, 2010

12. The Mother of all mothers

The Mother of all mothers cares for all the caring. Love and care under all circumstances show the true and victorious nature of motherhood. Mother stands for gentle protection and guidance, with patience and heavenly wisdom. Her smile reveals peace and comfort.

How can this motherhood ever go missing? The securest way to find again these precious experiences is by seeing that motherhood is ever intact and by letting her qualities be reflected freely.

With mother's love,
Hanna

Tuesday, September 28, 2010

11. "Keep Thou my child on upward wing tonight"



Mother's Evening Prayer
by Mary Baker Eddy

O gentle presence, peace and joy and power;
       O Life divine, that owns each waiting hour,
Thou Love that guards the nestling's faltering flight!
       Keep Thou my child on upward wing tonight.

Love is our refuge; only with mine eye
       Can I behold the snare, the pit, the fall:
His habitation high is here, and nigh,
       His arm encircles me, and mine, and all.

O make me glad for every scalding tear,
       For hope deferred, ingratitude, disdain!
Wait, and love more for every hate, and fear
       No ill, — since God is good, and loss is gain.

Beneath the shadow of His mighty wing;
       In that sweet secret of the narrow way,
Seeking and finding, with the angels sing:
       "Lo, I am with you alway," — watch and pray.

No snare, no fowler, pestilence or pain;
       No night drops down upon the troubled breast,
When heaven's aftersmile earth's tear-drops gain,
       And mother finds her home and heav'nly rest.

Saturday, February 6, 2010

9. The Good Day

When someone asks another: how was your day? The answer would sound like: fine, great, bad, boring, or nothing special. At the end of the day, one makes an evaluation of what has occurred or not occurred that day, and how these events influenced the person’s feelings and experience. This means that one’s happiness largely depends on what happens in his/her life.

Mary Baker Eddy teaches us that “we should seek happiness only of God” (EOF 209). When we do that, the evaluation of the day would not depend on the things that happened to us throughout that day. It would depend on God solely. And every day would be a good day. The assessment of this day would be made before the day has even started.

“This is the day the Lord hath made; Be glad, give thanks, rejoice” (hymn 342, Christian Science hymnal). We must decide what will be our thought and motive for the day before it even has started. Will this day be the day of the Lord in our experience, or a day where our feelings depend on worldly good and (consequently) evil, on earthly pleasure and pain?

If God is our measuring rod, then we can never miss out on anything, and nothing can happen to outshine the light of Truth, Love and divine happiness. No words or events can disturb us, and no material pleasure can make us more satisfied than the happiness we find of God. Goodness and faith will break the night with the first faint morning star. Order and peace will be the new time of experience. Love and harmony will be the consistency to sustain and lift us. Joy and happiness will bring forth the full radiant glory of the day.

So let me ask you in the spirit of this metaphysical law: How is the day?

Love,
the Hanna

Abbreviation:
EOF = ‘Essays and Other Footprints: Left by Mary Baker Eddy, Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science’ by Mary Baker Eddy, (compiled by Richard Oakes).