Perhaps you’re struggling with too many bills to pay, can’t find a job, agonize over a spouse’s angry attitude or have a boss who doesn’t care. Maybe you’re fighting a health problem?
Troubles seem to come in waves at times, wanting to flood out all sense of hope and expectancy of good from our outlook.
But don’t let despondency set in!
Rather than letting difficulty swamp your perspective with despair, ride over the waves of trouble like a surfer glides over the waves of churning twisting seething water in the ocean with his surfboard.
After the tsunami hit Asia a few years ago, I read a story about an orphanage director who saw a giant wave coming toward his orphanage on the shore of his land. Acting quickly, he got his 20 or so orphans into a little boat and as the water flooded inland the boat was lifted by the water and they rode over the top of the wave. They were all saved.
We each have a boat to jump into when waves of trouble come pounding our way. We don't have to suffer. We have a choice to make.
We can either stand on shore, watch the trouble sweep in, believe we are helpless, and then drown in the trouble. Or we can act and save ourselves from suffering. We can get into our boat, into a consciousness of Truth and Love, and be spared.
Evil is as real as we make it, or allow it to become in our thought. “The devil is a liar,” Jesus Christ taught, meaning that all of the claims of evil are lies. They are not real. To the one who believes they are real the trouble appears certain, and they suffer from their conviction until that belief is mastered.
Believing evil is real, is like standing on shore, petrified, and allowing the tsunami waves of error to sweep over one and drown all hope. It is not necessary. We are spiritual beings who can act with decisive authority to overcome evil and prove its nothingness.
But we must act. We must do something. We have to get into our boat—into a consciousness of Truth and Love—and let the boat float us over the waves of error to safety.
Don’t unnecessarily drown in the waves of error today. Step into your sanctuary of Truth and Love, and ride the storm out. It will pass. It always does.
Like a surfer gliding over the waves in joy and delight, you too, can ride over your fear of the moment and put it behind you.
God is good, and you live in the omnipresence of this goodness. A consciousness of this truth protects you and preserves you from all harm. You will survive!
6 comments:
A beautiful, powerful idea. Thanks, Evan!
Thanks Evan. I thought if I could survive last week I would be doing well and I did survive last week. There is a giant 'wave' looming over me and I have been retreating into Truth and Love in order not to feel overwhelmed.
It does work.
Miriam
Day by day the manna fell:
O, to learn this lesson well.
Still by constant mercy fed,
Give me, Lord, my daily bread.
#46, Christian Science Hymnal.
These are learning experiences.
This is very helpful. Could you please give some help on how to escape into Truth and Love. How does one get there and know they are there and safe??
Having invested in the stock market with reirement funds and other investments, I had to ride the wave and I am not always sure I am in the right boat.
I have placed my trust in God and then began expressing my love and care for others. I felt relieved that I was able to control my negative thoughts and some small monetary blessings have come in to my possession which I thought were lost and probably the deception of a fraud sceme. Abundance is always provided by God's direction if we devote an honest trust in his love for each one of us. We may not experience it at first, but ride wave and we shall be safe.
To anon,
To escape into Love is to be conscious of infinite Love. You've escaped into different consciousnesses before, I'm sure. Like getting absorbed into listening to a musical melody. You forget about everything else. Well, divine Love is a universe unto itself. It is a consciousness of harmony, peace, goodwill, forgiveness, mercy, kindness, etc. As thought gets committed to being filled with love it's going to be in a consciousness of Love. We have to cease the opposite to find it, cease the anger, ill-will, worry, fear, etc...
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