Prayer and the environment [47 mins ENG]
February 04, 2011
Prayer and the environment
Watch Ron Ballard’s lecture, “Prayer and the environment: Spiritual solutions for a healthy planet,” filmed in Boston, Massachusetts, USA, in the Original edifice of The First Church of Christ, Scientist on Monday, September 27, 2010.


Peggy A.
- 5/25/2011Thanks so very much to Ron Ballard for this very informative and helpful way of thinking and praying about our mental atmosphere….I know Lubbock, Tx. can certainly benefit from this type of prayer.
Berta Brass
- 5/25/2011Great to watch and listen to you.
So healling and loving.
Thank you Ron
kath
- 5/25/2011thank you so much for making it possible to see and hear this wonderful lecture by Ron Ballard. In listening to some of the examples he gave of people praying and being cared for , I thought of the many many instances where my prayer has been answered. Everything from a mOther bear trying to break into our tent when camping (at age l3) to being with my family on mountainous roads and losing the breaks in our car. to being on highway traffic in the pouring rain near Seattle,Wa and having a double trailor truck swerve out of control and across the freeway in front of us, we were headed right into the side of that truck at highway speeds, there was no time to think long thoughts, I declared out loud three times God is in control! everything began to appear in slow motion, like watching a film in slow motion, we stopped within a couple of feet from hitting the side of that truck and five lanes of trafffic behind us came to a stop like a gate in a horse race had been put down in perfect order, no one was hurt. my husband and I have talke about this many times, and affirmed it was God’s power changing the human situation and revealing the spiritual situation, where all are safe. thank you again for this lecture. Kathy McGuill, Olympia Wa
Maxine, Phoenix
- 5/25/2011Thank you sincerely for the new way of thinking about prayer, and furthering my concept of retirement as the 24/7 concept of employment.
THOMAS K. MUGERA
- 5/25/2011So inspiring and awakening. We look forward to listening to you on your Kenyan touring.Especially in Kenya where enviromental changes have had seeming adverse effect on the agricuteral sector.
Thank you so much
jackie guarneri
- 5/25/2011Dear friends,
I’m so grateful for this new lecture which arrives at a timely junction. Tomorrow, (if I can get my new router installed for my lap top), this lecture will be available at a book fair for the Haitian community where our Reading Room is participating. WHAT a HELP MATE!!! Thanks to Ron Ballard and all who are making these lectures available on so large a scale. Such generosity!!!
Joan, Chicago
- 5/25/2011Such practical explanation and examples of prayer! So helpful to hear how the misconception of prayer would lead to mistrust of prayer’s effectiveness. True prayer leads to alignment with absolute Truth about where we are.
Thank you!
Sandra
- 5/25/2011Thanks for some great examples of shifting from sense to soul.
I hoping to be able to expand this to prayer for my seemingly
rather perfumed environment.
Karen in Las Vegas
- 5/25/2011Wonderful. Thank you so much for answering the questions I had on how to pray for the environment. How timely God is in supplying the answers we ask for, as you gave in your lecture. I could have listened for another hour, ( or more.)
Anon
- 5/25/2011Thanks Ron for directing pray for our mental environment–focus on the solution, not the problem. #3 Kath reminded me of a similar situation when I found myself entering the wrong way on a busy freeway and facing fast oncoming traffic. No time for ‘long thoughts’, just knowing and declaring that “God is in control.” Immediately all traffic appeared to shift to slow motion, leaving ample room for me to turn around and exit properly–no panic, no fear. Everyone smiled and waved–no angry looks–just joy and gratitude!
D
- 5/25/2011Thank you for making this lecture available to me and all the rest of us.
It has renewed my hope and faith in our only option — God. I, too, could have listened for hours more.
Thank you #3 for your testimony.
LittleChild
- 5/25/2011Loved this engaging, uplifting talk, from your explanation and examples of bio-mimicry to the spiritual meaning and practical application of the terms FIRE, WIND, SUN and WILDERNESS found in the Glossary of Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy.
For those who want to read The Vaclav Havel op-ed “Our Moral Footprint” that you cited, it’s here: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/27/opinion/27havel.html
Ann, Boca Raton
- 5/25/2011Superbly inspiring, having practical application to every aspect of the human condition. Thank you
Cathryn Rathsam in Oceanside, CA
- 5/25/2011Very enlightening and helpful, Ron. I remember sharing about how I was praying about bees at a Wed. testimony meeting. The bees were dying in droves and scientists couldn’t get a handle on it. The following day I received a telephone call from a woman who had been listening in on the service, via telephone, and she shared how she had read just recently how mosquitos were pollinating areas in Alaska and the result were acres and acres of beautiful flowers which had never been there before! Who would have thought mosquitos had a purpose like that? The lesson for me is that God, Good always has a solution to every problem.
I’ll be sharing this with others. Thank you so much!
Lynne from PA
- 5/25/2011Thank you to all who make these fine lectures available online….since many of us cannot travel to hear a lecture that might be meaningful to us at any given time. Such a beautiful gift….WOW! I appreciate this more than I can say! Also the wonderful lecturers who give so freely…Thank you so much!
Arlene, UK
- 5/25/2011Thank you Ron for sharing how we perceive the environment can bring peace. I remember when I was youn, the river which was about 500 metres away overflowed due to heavy rain and flood of water came from all directions. Our family prayed and bring up furnitures (what we can bring up) to the upper level. Then, we prayed some more although the water seemed not to stop spreading. After awhile, the heavy rain turned to drizzle and stopped. The water also stopped just outside our perimeter. This is one of the evidence of how powerful prayer can bring us.
I also love the part of your lecture about how we can achieve praying so naturally as we are thinking!
Marilyn in Mallorca Spain
- 5/25/2011Thank you, Ron, for this beautiful lecture. so many helpful and timely ideas. I loved your references to teh Glossary in S&H. and, thank you to CSPS for making it possible to hear these outstanding lectures, as I live where no CS church or lecture opportunities occur. Thank you all!
diane robinson
- 5/25/2011it nust be a good lecturer but I am unable to get the sound…have you changed your system?
MODERATOR’S NOTE:
The system hasn’t changed. Please contact us at lecture@christianscience.com so that we can assist you.
marilyn from Idaho
- 5/25/2011Your delivery was so wonderful and sincere. I too am not in an area for lecture opportunities. I am now, through the internet and am so grateful for this lecture. To think I am ever at prayer in everything I do and think. Unselfed love receives directly the divine power will stay with me when thinking of the environment.
Sueintheshoe
- 5/25/2011This is by far one of the best lectures I’ve ever heard. Cutting edge thinking.
David
- 5/25/2011How we “see” things is very important. Jesus “saw not the hand withered, but healthy and whole” Mrs. Eddy writes in Science and Health.and this is what heals.
ThankYou for your excellent presentation.
I’m reminded that mostly taught by world post Constantine religion/State “christianity” that enslaved and tourchered millions today!!!!!! ,vigourously trying to instigate angst and “the barbarric codes of Moses” attributed to God , certainly not the one that spoke to Abram ,isic,Jacob,.
By this time God has undergone exstreme makeover to resemble man, wrathfull(not the God David knew as he stood over his flock,anthropomophized has been the inverted material error drawn and suffered since “Eve was by snake, then to deceive Adam” in chapter 2 of genesis, an allegory/myth.
The whole story of creation is contained and complete in Chap.1 .All is well, and very good; that what was created(all that is)and not as if of a matrix of evil opposed to All.
God fills all space and there is no room for evil to enter. in a mind filled with love said Mrs, Eddy. Evil has no place, even matter-no substance.