Yes, it is "comfort and uplifted thought" that is most needed in any tragedy.
It often takes prayer - thought turned toward God and his blessings;
and fasting - cleaning out the limitations imposed by material conditions;
to remove fear and blame from our heart, and make us fit to comfort and uplift.

Thank you Heloisa for this timely and important Lift that enables us to hold our thought steadfastly in prayer to those needing to feel comforted. On page 248 of Science and Health, Mary Baker Eddy speaks of "..the unchanging calm and glorious freedom of spiritual harmony." This harmony has never been based on nor dependent upon the physical senses. What seemed to be true to the material senses was a lie; harmony is in and of God alone. When the material senses present a picture that is upsetting, we can ask the question,"What has really happened?" We can answer this in our hearts by knowing that God's eternal love forever holds man in a state of perfect spiritual harmony.

Beautiful and emboldening, I immediately started praying w your Lift in thought for those who have asked for prayer in general, like friends on FB, those on the news, and myself..

Thank you Heloísa!
Love to the Community!

Thank you, what a blessing!

Thank you so much Heloisa for this deep and efficacious prayer.
Anne-Françoise
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What a message in the face of tragedy! : "Everlasting arms of Love are beneath, around, above. God it is who bears us on, His the arm we lean upon." Thank you deeply that you shared your awareness of reality with the world-wide community.

Daily Lift Team:
Quote is from Hymn 53 verse 1 from the Christian Science Hymnal.

Such a tragedy just the same and so much grief for those parents who have now lost their children to continue without them, and who came into the world through love in the first place, and taken away.

Thanks Heloisa.

7 Whither shall I go from thy spirit? or whither shall I flee from thy presence?
8 If I ascend up into heaven, thou art there: if I make my bed in hell, behold, thou art there.
9 If I take the wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea;
10 Even there shall thy hand lead me, and thy right hand shall hold me.

When the USS "Thresher" sank off the coast of Cape Cod in 1963 the Christian Science Monitor included a cartoon with a very powerful message. It depicted a submarine on the sea bed and the two words "even there"

Since then the verses above have been my prayer when mortal thought wants me to accept that this is part of the kingdom of heaven.

Thank you Helisa for this much needed uplift of comfort,and I hope that the verses from Psalms bring comfort to others as well.

Thank you, Heloisa,
Another demand for us to see the unreality of disasters that we see and read about in the media. All of us are embraced in and with God in Love, as you rightly say. Nothing can change that. ".....The storm may roar without me" (CSH, 148. We are never part of the storm or separation from God nor are our loved ones.

Merci Heloisa. Je me joins à cette prière silencieuse continue.

Listening in the middle of the night, this prayer brings my thinking to a higher place. I am very grateful.

From my own human experiences I can simply add: "He [Love] knows the angels that you need,/ And sends them to your side,/ To comfort, guard and guide." (Christian Science Hymnal #9). In the kingdom of Heaven, any so called tragedy is unreal and therefore unknown!

Thank God for this uplifting message as facing a personal tragedy in the middle of the night. Thank you to all the daily lift crew.

God, divine Love couldn't be separated from His image neither here nor in the hereafter!

"Love is our refuge" Misc. 389:10
"Divine Love is an ever-present help" Misc.307:3
"Love cannot be a mere abstraction, or goodness without activity and power" Misc. 250:20
"Out of the gloom comes the glory of our Lord, and His divine Love is found in affliction" Misc. 276:19

ESPAÑOL
¡Dios, el Amor divino no puede separarse de imagen ni aquí ni en el más allá!

"Amor, refugio nuestro" Misc.389:10
"El Amor divino es una ayuda siempre presente" Misc. 307:4
"El amor no puede ser una mera abstracción, o bondad sin actividad y poder" Misc. 250:23
" En medio de las tinieblas emerge la gloria de nuestro Señor, y Su Amor divino se encuentra en la aflicción" Misc. 276:20

Thank you, Heloisa, for the sweet comfort of these words.

Well done Heloisa, you have addressed this seeming tragedy head-on - Truth speaking out, reminding us of the protection each of us has, and in particular those people affected by the event in Brazil. Lifting our hearts to this Truth reveals that they, their families and all of us are blessed with Life, not death, blessed with being at one with God, never seperated. Thank you.

Thank youy Heloisa ! This Daily Lift has fueled anew my prayers on that issue !

Thank you for all, every and each daily lift. They all make me begin my day uplifted and full of energy.
Thanks.

What a strong uphold of Truth. Thank you so much.

Heloisa,
Thank you

Thank you, Heloisa, for “Comfort in tragedy … the essence of … Christian Science is love … St. John defined Love when he said, ‘God is Love’ … something that ‘cannot be a mere abstraction, or goodness without activity and power … the silent, ceaseless prayer’ … God … is tenderly holding each one of His children right now … there is no sorrow beyond the infinite capacity of Divine Love to lift our thought and give us comfort.” I’ve always known God as ever-present, sometime though more in theory than in practice. Before I learned Christian Science as the Comforter, I didn’t realize sorrow or any other “dis-comfort” could or should be healed as much as endured. I’m grateful to be learning and living Love’s ever-presence. “God says … It is My sympathy with and My knowledge of harmony (not inharmony) which alone enable Me to rebuke, and eventually destroy, every supposition of discord ... I am ever-conscious Life, and thus I conquer death; for to be ever conscious of Life is to be never conscious of death. I am All. A knowledge of aught beside Myself is impossible” (Unity of Good 18). And we, in this image and likeness of “ever-conscious Life,” accept and share this Truth of our being and so are comforted and comfort each other and are even lifted up from needing comfort, through Divine Love. “Earth has no sorrow that Love cannot cure … Earth has no sorrow but Love can remove” (Hymn 40).

A powerful respose to seeming tragedy . Yes indeed Love is all : " No power can withstand Divine LOVE ." -S&H by Mary Baker Eddy

Merci pour ce message de reconfort et d'amour, de nous rapeleller cette loie divine toujours presente et toujour active dans notre vie.

Those who have died in the tragedy to human perception, have not left the kingdom of Life, Truth and Love, to spiritual Christly perception. The kingdom of heaven is within those who have lost loved ones and within those who have been hurt.

This is lovely. It is strong and uplifting. It radiates Truth and Love. It must help and heal the grieving heart. Thank you, Heloisa.

Thank you

Thank you, what a great way to start our day and week.

Helosia:
Very strong spiritual ideas to pray with. Thanks.

Thanks for your lovely uplifting thoughts.

Thank you, Heloisa for this lift today on Love's ever available comfort for all. Ecclesiastes 3:11& 14 gives us heart: "He hath made every thing beautiful in his time" for " it shall be for ever: nothing can be put to it, nor any thing taken from it." But we must love Him and all in revelation.

Thank you for your affirmation of Life, Truth and Love . And I appreciate all the comments and prayers of those who responded to your helpful Lift.

Thank you. This morning I find Heloisa's lift and the following comments much needed and helping me with my personal thoughts and prayers. I am blessed to have found this beautiful community. I am blessed with the Daily Lifts guiding me every morning.
Thank you.❤

Good to know the reality of Life is eternaly, nothing can happen to Gods beloved chid, eternaly is the only Truth, Thank you Heloisa and I remember you vivt

"Nobody has ever left God's presence" -- I will hold to that today. Thank you so much, Heloisa.

Thank you for delivering the message of God's everlasting love and life to all of us this morning and particularly to those in Brazil who need to feel the comforting presence of God's arms around them today.

Thanks so much, Helosia, for such an inspiring, love-filled, Lift, and for each and every comment thus far. "Love iInspires, llumines, designates and leads the way. Right motives give pinions to thought and strength and freedom to speech and actions." From Science and Health, but probably not a direct quote. But our motives to help those needing comfort will give us the inspiration we need to uplift all.

In Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mrs. Eddy tells us that "... we must deny sin and plead God's allness" (pg.15). In this case, it is as Wendy #9 tells us -- "to see the unreality of disasters that we see and read about in the media", to deny the sin of believing in the media's reports of tragedy as being reality. And we plead God's allness by knowing His children are never separated from Him, divine Life. There is no separation. We are one with God forever.

Thank you, Heloisa. Thank you, dear Mother Church.

I wasn't even aware of this until tonight, Heloisa, and I have a granddaughter in South America on holiday. But I do know from my own many instances of loving care right at every precise moment it is impossible to be separated from God's love and tenderness. Emma is held close and comforted right there and now. While many are seeking help from flooding, and at the same time prayers are being strengthened for protection from bush fires, still we can be assured that there is never a moment when we can be separated from God's love and care.
Many thanks to the producers of this wonderful Lift, and to all who comment so compassionately, many thanks.

Thank you very much for this lovely Daily Lift

Thank you, Heloisa, for such a Powerful Lift! With your words and thoughts, you have truly brought together Principle and Love! The strength of the Love that you speak about is definitely felt and I am feeling for the first time that Love in Christian Science is much more than just sweet human affection! It is a powerful, active force that not only comforts, but also upholds All in its strong embrace. Thank you so much for this! This Lift can be used by all of us for so many different situations in our lives! Blessings to All!

Thank you, Heloisa. Your daily lift is inspiring and provides good thought as I pray. I appreciate your message content and how you lovingly expressed it. Thanks for helping me to grow in understanding.

I was listening to the news on the radio this morning. They were covering the nightclub tragedy, discussing the damage, quantifying the loss. It's as though my sub-conscious had had enough and was ready for a different perspective. Without thinking much about it, I turned off the radio and clicked "play" on the lift. It was so lovely to be able to literally turn off the noise cluttering my consciousness and turn on the Truth. Thank you for this timely lift, and for the intro and outro melody of "Satisfied" from the Into The Day album.

What wonderful ideas to cherish all day long. Thank you Heloisa. I'll be thinking of our brothers and sisters in Brazil with a deeper, more meaningful understanding of the power - effective and active - of Love.

Thank you Heloisa for your inspired message. Thinking of the events in Santa Maria, I found this sentence in Miscellanous Writings, p. 103, by Mary Baker Eddy: "The individuality is embraced in Mind, therefore is forever with the Father.
Hence the Scripture, 'I am a God at hand, saith the Lord.'"
Pensando en lo ocurrido en Santa Maria, encontré esta frase en Escritos Misceláneos, pág. 103, por Mary Baker Eddy: "La individualidad está incluida en la Mente, y por tanto está por siempre con el Padre. De ahí que las Escrituras declaren: 'Yo soy Dios de cerca, dice Jehová'".

Thank you SO MUCH! I was mezmorized by the image of tragedy about which I heard over the weekend. Thanks for breaking the spell, removing the question of "How could this happen?", and replacing it with the knowledge, assurance, and comfort of what really happened. "Nobody ever left God's presence."
What a breath of fresh air!
Thanks!

Thank you, Eloisa. "As one whom his mother comforteth, so will I comfort you;" Isa 66: 13

Thank you so much for such a timely, comforting message and the reminder that we can only be locked in the presence of embracing Love.

Thank you Heloisa! This message applies to those who have lost the loved ones all over the world -
Love is Life for all - Life is loving all!!!

As they suggest in airplane travel emergencies, first place the oxygen mask over your own face, then assist others. Once we hear of such nightmares, we must pull the oxygen mask to our face and take a deep breath of Truth.

The first thought which caused me to grab the oxygen mask dangling in front of me, was the idea of contagion. You know, where whatever affects one badly may similarly affect another as sympathy.

Love suggests something entirely different. Love is the term for God’s immediate care for us and others. There is no overcoming God’s Love with fire or smoke. It is Love’s nature to give a hand up and that’s what is being provided.

Thank you Heloísa for including us in comfort’s work.

Dear Heloisa,

Thank you for the beautiful lift. Daily, I find myself praying for the world to know God's comfort and care are present, even in the midst of these events that want to tell us that there is no place that isn't filled with pain or possible tragedy. To hold to the thought that life is eternal, and that these dear ones and everyone who loves them is held as God's treasure has brought me much comfort during challenging times.
Thank you so much,
Kalani

Those who never studied C/S have a misunderstanding of our way of prayer, by not acknowledging tragedy. As the Bible tells us; "God is of purer eyes than to behold evil." Since God doesn't acknowledge evil, so we in our prayers disavow evil of all power. As we do this, evil is eliminated from our experience and thus from others who we have in our thoughts. When I saw the images of the horrific fire in Brazil, I thought, "Thank God it never happened." NOT, "Thank God that my son or brother, sister or mother was not there when the fire happened." That kind of prayer never works since it personalizes. The former includes all mankind.
by TOBIAS A. WEISSMAN

"The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light." (Rom. 13:12). This was the healing message that lifted a heavy weight of grief and sadness from my shoulders following the sudden and unexpected passing of a beloved child. Turning to the definition of "Day" in S&H (p. 584), we read: "DAY: The irradiance of Life:" That Life, God is everpresent is our comfort and reassurance that these precious ones are going right on and our assignment is to keep up with their spiritual growth by acknowledging this fact. There IS a "balm in Gilead" (Jer. 8:22), a healing comfort that blesses all! Thank you for this strong declaration of what is true, Heloisa, and to all the DLs who are declaring Life is God, now and always. With tender love.

Thank you, Heloisa, for your loving, comforting message. I trust the following will be reassuring to readers as well. Years ago, after the Challenger exploded during take off, to the silent NASA command station rocket scientists, a friend of a friend stood up and said, "I wonder what the first thing was that they said to each other when they realized they had lost contact with earth." What a wonderful way to indicate that they all went on, safe in the allness of infinite Love!

Thank you Heloisa. A good example of how gentle yet powerful God, Love is.

Thank you Heloisa
for pouring out the healing power of Love
present for each and every one!

Thank you Heloisa, Your Daily Lift so good, I will work with it today.

Thank you Eloisa. What a powerful prayerful thought for all occasions. AND thanks tony. thanks everyone for sharing. Thanks for all these prayers for the world.

Thank you for these loving thoughts that heal!

What a beautiful message for all to hear and understand Such an inspiration and comfort, knowing that we are ALWAYS in God's presence and surrounded by His love. Thank you so much, Helosia.

Thank you Heloisa for this Daily Lift. Your inspired thoughts respond beautifully to the deeply moving question about coping with loss of dear ones during a tragedy, and finding peace.
Lots of love!

Thank you, thank you for this heartfelt and supportive Lift of comfort and caring. A friend just experienced a loss that was unexpected and tragic. This Lift will be shared with her to help spread the arc of comfort. .

Thank you.

Thank you Heloisa. Your Daily Lift was so helpful in regards to this tragedy as well as the ones that we hear about so frequently in the news media, such as the recent school shootings in Connecticut and those resulting from crime and wars going on. Your message is such a healing one for me and for the whole world!! I am so grateful for these Daily Lifts and also the comments which are an inspiring way to start my day!

So comforting, thank you.

How grateful I am for this Daily Lift and our dedicated lecturers and staff!
This click was so "instant in prayer" (Rom 12:12), providing the comforting, powerful spiritual fact to reverse the counterfeit beliefs and pictures being played before thought by the news. Kesra - #42 says it perfectly!
Thank you all!

Thank you. It is only what God is knowing - His infinite point of view - that governs reality and the reality of anyone's experience.

Thank you.A very,very helpful lift.

Forever safe in His tender care, even though we can't see them...my brother and my mother passed on in the month of January (different years) and Heloisa, your strongly delivered message has lifted me up and out of any sense of an end or death regarding these dear ones. God knows exactly where each one is...how I love that statement! This is going into my archives, thank you for your clear thinking and sharing it with us.

Thank you Heloisa!
I have often thought of God as being defined by love, but just listening to your lift, I realized for the first time that love is defined by God also. I'm going to enjoy pondering that today.
Thank you!

Could I add another incident which might help those who feel so closely affected by the events in Brazil.

During World War II one of my parent's friends had the task of driving lecturers from Southampton to the town hosting the lecture.

On one journey she was driving a lecturer who she knew to be recently bereaved... and yet the lecturer was talking about her husband as if he had not recently passed on.

So my friend said " I hope you don't mind my mentioning this but I gathered that your husband was not here any more"

The lecturer replied "Of course he is still here. Where else is there to go?"

Thank you Heloisa... I was needing these words to straighten my own thought

Thank you Heloisa, you just sent us a wonderful lift! It is so important to think clear and to remember
God is a "living God"and all of the latest bad news are not even real...God sustains man under all circumstances... and what appears to be is not the reality!! God, Love is the reality!!

Thank you so much Heloisa, for the comforting and helpful message.

Thank you so much, Heloísa and Daily Lift Team for this immediate healing and comforting response.

How blessed we are to have this timely Daily Lift to turn our thought to the face of God to see and feel God's present Love right here, right now everywhere. Thank you, Heloisa and all who make Daily Lifts happen.

Than you, Heloisa.

Thank you, thank you. It is quite moving to realise that there are so many around the world uniting in prayer. So many healing ideas expressed here!

Thank you very much Heloisa for delivering this beautiful message, transmitted by our Mother Church and inspired directly by divine Love

Wonderful, powerful, tenderly comforting message/Lift! Thanks very much, Heloisa. Thanks to the Daily Lift Team and all contributors.

Thank you! This strong message can and does embrace the world, i.e., the refugee camps in Syria, the tent camps in Haiti, Newtown, our homeless, the Sudanese, the Brazilians. Held in His loving arms, we are forever safe, secure and cared for, as Mrs. Eddy states in her interpretation of Christ Jesus' words, "Lo, I am with you alway,"--that is, not only in all time, but in ALL ways and conditions." (S&H317:13)

Thanks Heloisa to refresh with this truth our families here in Brasil.

Beautiful, beautiful Lift. Thank you for your comforting words, Heloisa.

Thank you for this Daily Lift, that's helpful

I will be faithful to Love(God) like the Shunamite woman, who when confronted with the death of her young son, went to Elisha the prophet for help. When he asked her "Is it well with the child? She answered, "It is well." (2 Kings 4:26) She did not allow herself to mentally or emotionally jump into the pit of grief and acknowledge the lie of death, loss and separation, but instead, she chose to hold to the great truth of being, to glorify God as Life, as Love, regardless of the picture presented and of the outcome. Her son was healed.
In this case, we too can be healed by holding to the truth of God's ever-present tender mothering Love, the great Comforter, touching every heart, and reassuring all that their loved ones are safe, always safe in Love's care, no matter what the appearance, these are the incontestable facts: that man is the loved child of God, inseparable from all good, forever at one with the Source of their being.

Thank you so much. This was a compassionate and uplifting message. I've been wrestling with the sorrow a friend of mine is dealing with, she is a Christian, but not a CS, who felt - although married she and her husband couldn't afford to have another child so she recently had an abortion and wasn't prepared for the pain and mental, spiritual anguish it caused her. But I was speechless to comfort. Much of what you said I will prayer with and when the time is right, I will share and know that she will be comforted and that the child is oh so safe in God's gentle Presence.

How strong, and yet full of love! Thank you Helosia! Love is with us all.

Thank you for these powerful words of comfort - they embrace all of us!

Thank you for the strong affirmations of Love's power and presence to comfort all, and leaving no one out. None can ( or did) from His omnipresence stray. None are outside infinite Life and Love.

What a powerful idea it is to realize that we are not part of the storm, the fire or the raging torrent and that we can only ever be in the presence of God.

Very helpful thought as I pray for the families in Brazil... thank you for this loving lift:

Thank you so much for this Daily Lift which the world needs. God is our ever loving Father -Mother embracing each of his children at Santa Maria - Berazil. kI send my prayers and love for the families and the nation. Love heals the hearts
and minds - Love never fails. Blessings for all Brazilians always.

Let me add my appreciation for your words, Heloisa. It was nice to hear your voice again sharing such an uplifting message.

Thank you so much for your talk and the omnipresence of God. Jesus wept-and I think its ok for us to weep at times of tragedy as well.

Thank you dear Heloisa for this great prayer! Love just loves and includes the whole universe in the same Love and speaks to all of His/Her creation in ways that makes sense and comforts us all!

Nancy Sadler Armbruster - 1/30/2013
Thank you Heloisa for your message. It is wonderful to have contact with you after so many years.

Christian Science is very important for the people of this Universe and its the only tonic that can leadeth everyone whosoever take this as a tonic will definitely be in God's Kingdom of everlasting life.Every believers should always go this Treasure of Christian Science and its the only WISDOM on this PLANET EARTH. Being a International Poet a poem from my heart.

“ JESUS THE PRECIOUS GIFTS ”…!!!

I sometimes think about the Cross,
And shut my eyes and try to see,
The cruel nails and Crown of thorns,
And Jesus crucified for me.

It’s a most wonderful thing,
Almost too wonderful to be,
That God’s own Son should come from heaven,
And die to save a child like me.

I cannot tell how He could love
A child so weak and full of Sin,
His love must be most wonderful.
If He could die my love to win.

And what I knew that it’s true,
He choose a poor and humble lot,
And wept and toiled and mourned and died,
For love of those who loved Him not.

It is most wonderful to know,
His love for me so free and sure,
But it’s more wonderful to see,
My love for Him so faint and poor.

And yet I want to love thee, Lord,
O Light the flame within my heart,
And I’ll love thee more and more,
Until I see thee as thou art.

But even could I see Him die,
I could but see a little part,
Of that great love which like a fire,
Is always burning in His heart…!!!

Good comfort! Thank you.