Follow Spiritual Ideas

For daily supplies.

made in midjourney

In my early twenties, I lived in a small duplex in Venice Beach, California., with my three small children.

I struggled to provide for my family every day.

A light in my world arrived when I joined a lovely little white church just around the corner from our house. There, I hoped to find answers to my many seemingly overwhelming questions.

On the wall of the church was Mary Baker Eddy's statement, “God always has met and always will meet every human need.”

Although I believed it to be true and wanted it to be true, I didn’t really understand it.

During that time, I often listened to a poem by Mrs. Eddy called Angels.

It included another statement that I believed but didn’t understand.

She said, “God gives us spiritual ideas, and in turn, they give us daily supplies.”

For me, daily supplies meant enough money for food and rent, with maybe a little left over to save for the next time we needed them.

At first, I thought both promises meant that God, who acted like a good human parent, would give me ideas of things to do that would produce money for food and bills.

Over time, I realized the God referred to is not like a human parent but the infinitely loving Mind that is the substance of all things.

With that dawning awareness, I began to understand the first statement.

Since God is infinite Love and omnipresent, nothing but Love has ever been going on, no matter what the material picture suggested.

It followed then that an infinite Love would always provide.

But not in the way I thought. I realized that my belief systems often blinded me to that fulfillment.

I started to see that even in the bleakest of times, my needs were being met, but worry, desire, or expectation for a different way of meeting them kept me from fully appreciating what was in front of me.

I hadn’t yet appreciated how impossible it is for Love to not always provide for everyone and everything at all times.

That led me to the second statement about providing spiritual ideas.

I thought it meant that I would have to gather ideas of things to do, do them, and then my needs would be met.

I set goals and followed many books that told me to visualize what I wanted. Sometimes, that worked, but then gradually, it didn’t.

Now, I know that was a time of celebrating, not dismay, because I had to turn to the real meaning of that statement. I had missed the obvious.

She said spiritual ideas, not material ideas.

I turned it into two sections to better understand the phrase “spiritual ideas.”

• First, I realized that spiritual ideas are qualities, qualities of God, and, therefore, qualities that are ever-present for everyone at all times and in all situations.

Qualities like love, patience, intelligence, security, safety, stability, freedom, joy, peace, kindness, comfort, and harmony can always be found because if God is omnipresent, so are they.

It takes practice to see these qualities when the worldview is adamantly determined to hide them from us so that we look at people, places, and things and see only what appears to be wrong.

We are hypnotized into the opposite of spiritual ideas, and that has caused an apparent deep separation and rift between people and nations.

We can wake up from hypnotism if we each refuse to participate in any form of separation and cover-up.

• I turned the second aspect of spiritual ideas into the phrase Angel Ideas.

These are the ideas that impel us to do something and, when followed, open paths we could not have found otherwise.

Julia Child followed the Angel Idea of sending Bernard DeVoto a knife because he couldn’t find a good one. The result was a lifelong friendship with his wife, Avis. It was Avis who opened the way for Julia to publish her now famous cookbook.

That wasn’t Julia’s intention. She didn’t send the knife to make a connection to make money or enhance her career. She was simply following the still, small voice within. She heard and followed the direction of an Angel Idea.

• Spiritual ideas are always present.

• They are always free.

• They are always infinite.

• They are for our use, but we can never use them up.

Let’s not be tempted by the belligerent call to hate spiritual ideas and fall into the habit of seeing and talking about people and ideas as if they were material and separate from their divine nature.

Instead, let’s rise out of the worldview and replenish our storehouse of qualities.

Let’s practice seeing people, places, and things as evidence of the infinite expressed in many unique ways, all working together in harmony, none more or less important than another.

When doing work that appears to bring us supplies, let’s remember to first follow spiritual impulsion and listen for Angel Ideas that reveal our daily supply, which is already present for our use.

We can remember, moment by moment, that anything not seen as a spiritual idea is a misconception, a human concept, a belief, and therefore nothing.

Let’s cloak ourselves in gratitude that there is only infinite Love, always providing to everyone, consistently and equally.

May that awareness open our eyes to what is now, and always has been, provided for us, healing all divisions within and without.

"'God is Love.' More than this we cannot ask, higher we cannot look, farther we cannot go." Mary Baker Eddy

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