What a fun way of looking at the truth!!!
I like the truth about God being the director, & the script writer, and the maker of
all the characters!!! Truly we are all ONE family!
Thank you Mary!

Ha! How true! Thank you to all who contributed to this Lift. The animation is so witty, and the Scottish intro a wry touch too. Most of all, thank you, Mary, for sharing the insight that we always can choose to not enter the illusion. Instead, we can choose to act according to God's script.

This is wonderful! Thank you so much for this fresh way to see reality and to recognize unreality. :) GREAT!

I loved that. Thank you, Mary.

This was precious! Thank you Mary!

Thankyou for this clear message.

It reminded me of what Mrs Eddy said about "Stand porter at the door of thought, admitting only such conclusions as we wish realised in bodily results" Similarly individuals have the choice about which "movie" they will see or experience.

Thankyou BoL for providing us with this daily inspiration.

What a lovely thought to start the week.
Have a happy week.

Great graphics, powerful ideas, nice accent. Thanks, Bob from LA

Absolutely!
I couldn't agree more too Mary's gorgeous words.
I have been at peace all today in my Garden, working in my outside office!!!!
One can see God's calm thoughts working in Harmony as I was viewing my Cat, Chooks and Birds all living and in awe of each other while I was WAITING for my turn in line for about 20 minutes ( seemed like an hour ..) on my phonecall.. A wonderful feeling of peace and quite came upon us all !! Great to be able to experience such happiness and joy ...and becoming aware all simple events: seeing all goodness as a reality that stem from good thoughts ,coming out of such a simple base..

Life is not a nightmare or a bad movie, Life is God. We are God’s image and likeness, God’s very thought, that’s why is so important to watch our thoughts and choose what we let in.
“Stand porter at the door of thought. Admitting only such conclusions as you wish realized in bodily results, you will control yourself harmoniously. .. then perform your office as porter and shut out these unhealthy thoughts and fears” S&H 392:24. Only then we’ll see harmony at work in our lives. “The calm and exalted thought or spiritual apprehension is at peace. Thus the dawn of ideas goes on, forming each successive stage of progress” S&H 506:11
ESPAÑOL
La vida no es una pesadilla o una mala película, la Vida es Dios. Somos la imagen y semejanza de Dios, Su propio pensamiento, por eso es tan importante cuidar nuestros pensamientos y elegir lo que dejamos entrar.
“Estad de portero a la puerta del pensamiento. Admitiendo sólo las conclusiones que queráis que se realicen en resultados corporales, os gobernaréis armoniosamente… desempeñad entonces vuestro oficio de portero y cerrad el paso a tales pensamientos y temores malsanos” CyS 392:27
Sólo entonces veremos la armonía obrar en nuestras vidas. “El pensamiento sereno y elevado, o sea la aprehensión espiritual, está en paz. Así continúa el amanecer de las ideas, que forma cada etapa sucesiva de progreso” CyS 506:11

Many thanks Mary for those inspiring thoughts to open our eyes. Yes. "Peace is recovered by deeper calm thought about genuine reality." "Open now our eyes to see,/ As the clouds of sense are riven,/ We behold reality,/ Know the glory of Thy [Love's] heaven;" (Christian Science Hymnal #85).

REUBEN;
Life is always easier to those that knows the truth, believing with God everything is possimble.Thanks Mary for the inspiration for adding strength to my life

Just EXCELLENT! Thank you

Thank you for the lovely lift and the lovely animation - a good thought for the day.

A statement from S&H is something I work with frequently, and it is so helpful.

"When the illusion of sin or sickness tempts you, cling steadfastly to God and His idea. Allow nothing but His likeness to abide in your thought. Let neither fear nor doubt overshadow your clear sense and calm trust that the recognition of life harmonious, as Life eternally is, can destroy any false sense of or belief in that which Life is not. Let Christian Science instead of corporeal sense support your understanding of being, and this understanding will supplant error with Truth, replace mortality with immortality, and silence discord with harmony." ( I quote from memory, so it may not be word perfect!)

I love the idea of clinging steadfastly to God and His idea - rather like a fretful child might cling to its Mother or Father to find a sense of peace and reassurance. This statement turns the whole dream or nightmare around so that we can find the perfect spiritual reality revealed for us and for those we want to help.

Coming to understand that all the claims of sin, sickness or whatever is troubling us is nothing but illusion - "a bit ballooned up lie" as I read somewhere in an article, we can find ourselves free. An illusion has no reality and no power over us when we realise that that is all it is.

Muy buena la representación, no estamos encerrados en un castillo esperando que alguien venga a salvarnos, porque ya somos salvos en Dios, y esa es la realidad que tenemos y las y los protagonistas de los cuentos han sido encerrados y esa fantasía se repite con bastante frecuencia ewn nuestro accinar humano pero nosotros en la supuesta realidad de este mundo nos encerramos solos olvidando quienes en realidad somos y que nada puede encerrarnos ni atraparnos y que dependemos de nosotros mismos para no permitirlo, ¿Cómo? simplemente escuchando a Dios dejando aflorar las ideas que vienen a nosotros por el constante esfuerzo de asimilarlas y para ponerlas en practica en obras que sean la plena expresión del Amor divino.
"Ciudadanos del mundo, !acepta la "libertad gloriosa de los hijos de Dios", y sed libres! Este es vuestro derecho divino. CyS, MBE

Muchas gracias, thank you Mary so much

'Watching out for acts of goodness' - I think I'll choose to start from this joyful premise, and stay with it. That will provide a good viewpoint to assess various scenarios through my day.
The whole Lift is very helpful and the examples will stay with me - thank you Mary.

What a wonderful, contemporary way to deliver the Daily Lift, and what a wonderful healing message.

Thank you for a wonderful Lift, a great way to start our week. Many thanks.

Thank you, Mary, excellent lift!!!

Yes, and the beautiful Lesson Sermon today, subject Spirit, let's us into the vista of seeing that we are truly reflections in the mirror of God, our activities are spiritual reflections of Life, and Love. Our 'film', our lives, are authored by God. Isn't that great?! Thank you so much for the film, the delightful soundtrack too.

This lovely concept is circling the globe,thank you ALL for this, all, in ALL.

Thanks for the labour that must have gone into this animation! It is a fun way to remind us of the value of magnifying the good in our lives. In Sunday School, I like to put a magnifying glass in the hand of each child in turn and ask them to tell of some good thing in their life recently. This focus on good is refreshing and often shifts their thought to be grateful.

Wonderful. Thank you for such a beautiful start to a new week.

Perfect! Thanks so much for the ideas and video so wonderfully put together!

This lift is pure proof of the rightness of the Daily Lift and how it brings (lifts) us all up to a higher state of love and joy in presence of our Father Mother God.

22, Robin - thanks for the idea about the magnifying glass in Sunday School. Wow! Great idea.

Mary, thanks for the message of Truth in such fitting terms and practical application. A great lift for the day!

Excellent , thank you !

What a wonderful analogy. And what a beneficial difference it makes in our lives.

great lift! i might share this with my sunday school class this week! Thank you to everyone who dedicates so much thought and effort to these lifts.

Two thumbs up!!

Looking behind the material curtain! Wonderful!

It reminds me to an event many years ago - it was at a fasching-party, and my costume was " being a punk-girl" with all the requisites, like a funny colored and wild hairstyle, leather-jacket, shredded colorfully painted t-shirt etc..
I had great fun! It was the time of the "punks" here in Europe, and I loved their music.
The people on that party were all Christian scientists - and nearly everbody asked me why I didn´t have a costume...?? - well, they were all thinking that costume was part of me- although it wasnt.
I was never dressed in that way before - and I had to smile, it seemed that I could plausibly play that role.
But the lesson I have learned out of that was - dont trust a picture, a mask or well played action-
one should always be open for the spiritual view, through our calm and clear christian vision. And then we are able to see the reality...behind the scene.

Love this! The Daily Lift is such a gem, God's good unfolds in the most creative and inspiring ways like through this awesome video. Thank you!

Thank you for the clever and perceptive presentation and thought. I love God being director and script writer and his children are the characters - All created by God - perfection. WOW - What a lift for today and everyday. Thanks so much, Joyce

Great metaphor, Mary. Thank you for helping us to see more easily that we can choose our own scripts, our own movies -- that God is our scriptwriter. There is good wherever we look, if we choose to look for it. In reality, as God's perfect expressions, we can only see good.

Thank you so much Mary. How easy it is to get swept along with the pathos and heartbreak of whatever is up there on the big screen. I remember one of our great actresses being interviewed about her role, which portrayed extreme privation and suffering at a supposed time of inhumanity, and when asked if it didn't affect her in any way, she just smiled and said "At the end of the day I just remove the mask and go home to my family." There was no blurring of reality and illusion there. I love how we are taught always to start with God, and then relate all good directly to Him and always with gratitude. Mrs Eddy says in Science and Health". . . to understand God is the work of eternity, and demands absolute consecration of thought, energy, and desire." That leaves no time at all to wonder what's behind a closed doorway.
Thank you Nate and the production crew; the BoL and lecturers; and our Lift family who are quick to discern between the real and the illusion.

Well done! thank you

Wonderful. God is Love! Lets be Godlike!

Thank you! This is just what I needed to see through the illusion of a mask I've been seeing on my neighbor. Great visual presentation.

Oh my! I am facing a conflict with a friend. I see the need to pray and see the situation differently and know that God is present. Your words hit home to me exactly. I'm very grateful.

If Mrs. Eddy were to add a comment, she might say, "Those instructed in Christian Science have reached the glorious perception that God is the only author of man." (S&H 29)

Thank you Mary and thanks to everyone up so early (or late) commenting! AND a big thank you to the production team which must have taken a great deal of planning and thought. Today and every day, a "God scripted day."

Good on Ya, Mary! Love the Aussie Flavor today and all the Comments from Australia! I was having lunch with a friend yesterday who had been preparing for a trip overseas to a certain country and was leaving the next day. She told me how she had been on the InterNet reading Blogs by others who had visited this country and they were recounting various fears and bad stories of being robbed, etc. She felt such a sense of Fear about going to this country, that she actually thought of changing her destination! Then she woke up and realized that these were just the fears of other people being expressed. I reminded her not to "buy into someone else's dream" and how we have the power to bring our own Light and Love with us wherever we go! Although she is not a C.S., I was able to talk to her in a way that she could "get" and she realized that it's our own thought that determines our experience. We read in this week's Bible Lesson that Spirit is supreme over all material pictures or illusions! So Grateful for this Lift and for the Bible Lesson this week! Love the music this week, too!

Thank you for the creative message. Very timely and simplified way of expressing truth.

Thank you.

Mary, Thank you so much for this... This is similar to how often if someone tries to voice, "lack, lack, lack" - it's so easy to turn instantaneously to "abundance". Can Love be limited, confined, restricted, cease? No! It's just not possible. Can Mind, intelligence be limited? No! Thinking on a simple concept like a home - how many varied expressions are there of a home throughout the world? And these are always being added. It is SO possible to think in the spiritual realm of all that is provided for us. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you for this again-reminder of this idea!

Precious! Thank you!

Your graphis, collectively with your expressions of truth and thought, provide a total concentration on your wonderful message.

What a good lift, and the visuals support the message so well. Thanks to commentators, too. I am reminded that once a Christian Science practitioner was helping me pray through a complicated time of grief, and she said something along these lines: "Fear or human will may try to hand you a script, but you don't have to read it or act it out." That thought was very helpful then, and still is.

This DLift has set the stage for my day. I am meeting CS friend for lunch and thought I would unload all my challenges to her. Not now. It isn't true for me so why tell her lies about me. We have mutual blessings to share.

What a wonderfully light-hearted (vs. dark-hearted)way of looking at an important subject, that of NOT buying into illusory drama . . .I am so very grateful for this Lift. And I thoroughly enjoyed the new music. And many thanks for all the comments, especially Margaret #35.

Thanks so much for this lift today! I had to listen twice to fully get everything you were saying. Relating life and choices to a movie...is a clear metaphor I feel. Thanks so much for the graphics and this message of the power of Truth.

Thank you Mary!! Exactly what we all need to remember "The calm and exalted thought or spiritual apprehension is at peace" from the chapter of Genesis - The creation is constant calm expression of God's goodness, isn't it? Much love to friends of Daily Lift!!

A wonderful lift - thought/music/animation . .. . . Now I'm ready to start my day. . .. standing porter at the door of thought . . . :))

Mary,

Thank you.

Perfect message for today. Look beneath the outward material picture of the soap opera or drama which is presenting an illusion. It comes to us for life. Don't get pulled into the illusion.

God's goodness is the reality expressed in calm and exalted thought.

God is the director and the direction.

To Bless All Mankind. - MBE

Rob Scott

Chicago, IL

Thank you, not only to Mary, but to all who put this together. Simple but powerful visuals!!! Love how you are reaching out to all ways of "listening." With loving gratitude ,

Thank you Mary, and to Marilyn #48 so very true.

Fun to watch, while this touches on an extremely important point....focusing on what is ACTUALLY SHOWING (manifesting) in our own mental movie theaters today and every day.....Bob

The movie theater analogy--picking among ten different shows, none of them really going on--is a brilliant way to portray the choices we have in our lives. Thanks so much for the message! And to the production folks who put it together...great job!

How Nice!! What a terrific way to present the need to see the fictional aspect of "movies" presented to us for acceptance by mortal, material views of life. THANKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Well done. thanks!

My four-year-old grand daughter appreciates the Lifts that are in video. Thank you!

Thank you Mary ........God is Love and we are reflections......

Enjoyed the visuals about the cinema, etc. ... pulled me into the theme very well.

What an inspiration, and perfect for my day. Thanks, Mary, and thank you to those who produced the delightful animation.

Jr, from bonita, God does not panic, He is like the calm water of gulf of mexico, feel his power! What a great start to productive monday!

Love, love, love it!!!!! Thanks for the perfect illustration of our REAL world ! Cindy...Lakeland,Fl.

Thank you, Mary! In our family, we took to saying about life's various dramas, "It's only a movie!" But it's right also to replace the movie with the spiritual reality and live there, and not get fascinated and caught up with the colorful and embroiling fictions that can confuse and upset us. To be able to be of use to other, we have to completely divorce the movie dialogue with Love's glorious reality. I love this idea!

Mary, how wonderful! As are the preceding comments. I got to this late in the day so the Lift plus the comments has been a real treasure trove of good scripts. And I was struck by #49's comment, too - one with which I can identify. Thanks to Mary and all of the responders.

So beautifully put. Thank you Ms. Beattie.

Thank you for the wonderful lift!

Thank you Mary. And thanks also to Malcolm, Elena, Js (only one word is different, yet has the same meaning-- painful sense instead of false sense) Jane, Robin, Gaby, Joyce, Kathleen, and Margaret Sunshine, that always shines. Also Bev., Lori, Marilyn, and Sue have blessed me. Thanks to all who comment.
We have a duty to God, to our Leader and to mankind to guard our thoughts against false beliefs and mental suggestions, This lift is a big help in doing this,

LOVE the illustration of this beautiful Lift. Thank you!

A wonderful message and illustration.

MARY! What a great video! Exchanging the lens of mortal mind for the lens of Spirit really does change our outlook and our experience for the better!

Mary, and all those who make our DL possible, thanks, gracias, merci, etc. What a breath of fresh air and so easy to share.

My husband makes TV commercials, and he often reminds me of their scripted bais, the setting up of scenes with actors, props, etc. It's always powerful to be reminded that the reports of the 5 senses are illusions, not actual or binding.

We do have a choice...let's choose not to get caught up in the drama of the mortal scene. I will play this lift several times to pick up on all the points presented. Thank you, Mary! Also, thanks to Robin, #22 for the Sunday School suggestion. I really like that idea and will use it at an appropriate time. Thank you to all the people involved in making this wonderful production each day. I look forward to viewing this each day to start my day and have learned so much from the presenters and the commenters.

I love the video. It's very Christly to meet the need of the individual. A video version is just another way of meeting an individual's need. I remember when the Christian Science Monitor adopted color. Folks had trouble with the transition from black&white to color. An artist friend of mine told me that "color is just more information". Keep up the good work! Your creativity moves us all forward!

Very timely message following the SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL in Park City, Utah! Thank you... your two minute video and message should have premiered here!!! :)

Excellent!! what a wonderfully clear way of expressing the Truth. Thankyou Mary!!

Great message Mary. Thank you

Wonderful, clear message today. Thanks Mary!

Great analogy of the movie theater.

Thank you for yet another way of viewing our world and all that's in it.

with much love, and gratitude,

UJ

funny, creative and drawing excellent parallels in reality. Great way of looking at the truth. Thank You! Mary, you have a great way of talking about dominion and reality.

Thank you so much for this wonderfully clear dividing between the mortal illusions tempting us to believe they are going on, (in my case 'dramas in the office'), and the peaceful reality of God's directing. I am so grateful.

Thank you for this intelligent and meaningful presentation of ideas. Quite an effort, but very helpful.
And thank you all commentors for great added ideas and realizations. I've gotten a lot out of many of the things in this Lift page today.

lovely happy lift Mary thank you how we should all feel when clothed in Gods world and not the illusion

Thanks Mary and all the commenters today! Loved the video and how true that a movie is really only a "story" that either we agree with; learn from; or reject and replace to represent the Godlike man/woman! Thanks to everyone for their helpful and meaningful comments and thoughts!
Thanks to Nate and all that make this Daily Lift possible!

That was great thank you so much.
I love going to the movies so that really spoke to me.

Does anyone know what the name of the introductory piece of music was?

"God is the director, screenwriter, and the characters are all his offspring."

What an interesting thought...

Thanks for having me take a moment to consider something new.

Thank you Mary for this Daily Lift! So perfect.

Thank you so much

Good on you #42 where you use the phrase "these were just the fears of others". That's one to remember. Thank you for all the added goodness to the main message.

When I told a family member that the Daily Lift was supported by folks from all over the world, their response was "Really".

The Daily Lift is a real treasure we have to lift and guide all of us.

With much love, and gratitude

UJ

That was great. Thanks!

saving this one or Sunday School!! :)

Sooo approprriate! Thanks for the lift today, Mary.

Thank you for the charming, clear graphics, and the fresh new look at the subject. I will probably always be reminded whenever I go to a movies. Terrific!

Thank you Mary. The video is great. And the message, "right on". I appreciated it and all the Daily Lifters and the Daily Lift team. Many Thanks.

I love the video lifts! Thank you!!

Thank you! Nice pictures--simple but effective!
love and peace,
Christe T.

Wonderful message and animation!
Thanks so much! :)

Wow, that just melted away all the weariness of my workday away. Now I am truely refreshed.
Thank you

Great thoughts, thank you!

Just amazing. This has helped me a great deal. Thank you Mary

I enjoyed this the first time I watched and listened, but I especially needed this reminder today and find it helping me get to a better place in thought. Thank you so much.

Thanks Mary. Due to the fact that God is All-in-all, He writes, produces, directs and blesses all of us, and that is not illusion!

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Gracias Mary. Debido al hecho de que Dios es Todo-en-todo, Él escribe, produce, dirige y bendice a todos nosotros, y eso no es ilusión!

Thanks Mary - an excellent and appropriate lift.

The graphics really fit the message.