Evan...
That was soooo good! I just loved it!

This is GREAT! Thanks!

Thanks Evan! Very helpful and graphic message; thought-provoking too.

Oh, Evan. Thank you so much for this. I needed it tonight. I appreciated your light-hearted rebuke on those attitudes. And I loved your fabulous enactment of those erroneous thought patterns. Tonight, I was really struggling over my work situation, this relationship that seems not going anywhere, etc. Just an overall feeling of stagnation, which has been going on for a long time. I was actually even thinking of just calling it all quits and packing and leaving town, or something. And I was ready to hit the bed in misery and a bit of anger tonight. But with this DL, I will remember to kick out those spoilers out of my thought, out of my life and live with more honesty and courage. That is true me. And I haven't lost it. Thanks again.

What a joy to watch this lift!! It is fun and funny, yet educational. Thanks so much, dear Evan, for your pure lightheartedness. This Halloween I'm not going to wear a poor-attitude mask, but I'm going to remove it to reveal my true identity as a happy, whole child of Soul -- thanks to this Daily Lift. Hooray!

Thanks Evan, this is so sincere.

Just as this cool lift has been fun to watch and a joy to listen to. Thanks so much Evan.

I was just thinking on the movie, The Mask, what a laugh!
A mask that shows the real you is an impossibility!
Behind the masks hides attitude; states of thought, despair, discouragement, anger, impatience, or any thought that distort our real self, the way we treat other people and hides our true identity -God's child.
"If we have triumphed sufficiently over the errors of material sense to allow Soul to hold the control, we
shall loathe sin and rebuke it under every mask" S&H 30:26
ESPAÑOL
Estaba pensando en la película, La Máscara, ¡qué risa!
Una máscara que muestra tu verdadero yo es imposible!
Detrás de las máscaras se esconden las actitudes: estados de pensamiento, desesperación, desaliento, la ira, la impaciencia, o cualquier pensamiento que distorsiona nuestro verdadero yo, la manera en que tratamos a los demás, y esconde nuestra verdadera identidad -hijo de Dios.

"Si hemos triunfado suficientemente sobre los errores del sentido material para permitir que el Alma mantenga el dominio, aborreceremos el pecado y lo reprobaremos bajo
toda máscara" CyS 30:27

Evan, Thank you

We don't need to pay to strip off the mask of sin. In barrel-horse racing here in Maine if you lose your hat during one of the three barrel turns, while racing (or perhaps some of us slowly walking) back to the starting line, the officials charge five-dollars to give it back. It is just part of the show event, a sort of cost of doing business so to speak. But no mask or costume can hide our true identity, or cause us to feel upset or angry unless we play along. A really fast expert riding time would be about 17 seconds. But it does not take any time at all to refuse to be angry. In Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy writes, "Never born and never dying, it were impossible for man, under the government of God in eternal Science, to fall from his high estate." (Page 258). Thank you for "under every mask," and for music, too.

Thank you Evan for this timely Lift! It really does help to put things in a visual context as you have done this morning. This is an excellent lift for Halloween and the elections next week. Yielding to Soul's concept of us and letting our identity unfold naturally in thought allows us to see the face of God's creating. In everyone! So grateful for the Lifts this week and every week and for our wonderful BOL, Nate and everyone involved in producing these mini lectures for us.

Thank you we should always keep a "happy face" and never let mortal mind get in the way.

Many thanks Evan for this inspired lift to "loathe sin" and "replace it with a spiritually inspired state of mind filled with love and gratitude and good will toward others." "Reclothe us in our rightful mind;/ In purer lives Thy service find,/ In deeper reverence, praise." (Christian Science Hymnal #49).

Oh yes, a wonderful portrayal on the subject of masks, a light-hearted thought to remember through the day and a deeper message to remember always, thank you Evan!

Thank you very much for this lovely and graphical DL. And what could we say when we put on masks of self justification, self will coupled with anger and impatience? Oh I will surely remember this mask along the day when I am at work and have to deal with people with whom I would rather not be... when I hear the news about corruption in the highest spheres... I will strip off the mask from me and others to see our real identity as the spiritual sons of God.

La máscara del error donde a veces nos atrapan nuestros pensamientos y hasta nuestras acciones desnudemos al error y vistamosno con el ropaje celestial que no oculta ni confunde, y entonces estaremos en pleno conocimiento sin máscara, cara a cara con la Verdad., ¡Qué haremos, seguiremos ocultos tras la máscara del error? o como dice Pablo en Romanos: "Porque no hago el bien que quiero, sino el mal que no quiero, eso hago" "!Miserable de mi! ¿quién me librará de este cuerpo de muerte?" "Gracias doy a Dios, por Jesucristo nuestro señor", sí gracias a Cristo que nos han quitado la máscara que oculta la Verdad.
Y la Ciencia Cristiana que, "revela a Dios y Su idea como el Todo y lo Único" MBE.
Quitando la máscara al error que pretende ocultar la Verdad.

Muchas gracias Evan, un inspirativo mensaje que nos hace estar alerta y "revestidos con la panopla del Amor, que quita la máscara al error" MBE

Thank you, Evan, for such a lucid explanation and memorable metaphor.

Special thanks also to #4. Your frankness and eager shift in thought are much appreciated as they prove that, scientifically, a change of thought can be quick and very effective.

Thank you so much for this Lift. I loved the clarification of our 'face' being our attitude towards others. It really brings home how important it is to portray those spiritual qualities which are natural to us, such as tenderness and joy, and to reject the sinful states of thought such as anger and impatience, which would 'bear false witness' against ourselves and others.

Hi Evan thanks so much. My son wake up today so happy and willingness to make trick or treat for halloween party in school.

Thank you so much for this beautiful lift. I have been struggling with something and wondering how to address a situation. Your lift is my answer! Much gratitude.

Excellent, thank you!

Very good, thanks Evan! A kind word and smiling face makes the world go round.

Hi Evan thank you so much !!! Great daily lift!!

Oh Thank you Evan for such an uplift. I fight off all of the masks you just showed. This has helped me for this weekend on an unwanted meeting with a controlling and insulting person that I dread each time that I have to go. :( Yes....LOVE more is my que. and to strip of their masks also. :)

Boo! Just kidding. I will be trying to not let any of those "scary thought" cause me fright and I will turn on them until they flee, like phantoms in the night Thank you, Evan, and all to all the wonderful comments.

Thank you Even that is so true. Just take tne mask off, be in your right Mind.

Than you Evan! Your words and video are very didactic; and your message is perfect! My gratitude to you and the DL Community!
Lots of Love

Thank you, thank you, thank you.

Just what I needed this morning to take off the mask of sorrow and a false view of someone dear. And thanks, Robert #11 for the quote from Science and Health, "it were impossible for man, under the government of God in eternal Science, to fall from his high estate." My daughter has informed me last night that the doctors have given up on her husband and are recommending hospice care. I really needed this higher outlook on his true identity.

Good one! A mask is worth a thousand words.

Mrs Eddy writes under the marginal heading "Immutable identity of man" (SH 261:21) ... "Detach sense from the body..." " and you may learn the meaning of God, or good, and the nature of the immutable and immortal". There is so much to find in her words, but a simple example is how we knew immediately that seeing your facial expressions of sadness, anger, etc. had nothing to do with you. Well, if our senses can lie to us in one case, perhaps they are unreliable!

By the way, Evan... anger is hopeless for you!!

thanks so much! That's not a "trick" but a wonderful "treat!" (ment)!

Thanks Evan, let's remove all masks with their lies that intend to hide our true identity as beloved and perfect God's children, who always “live, move and have our being” only in Him, in divine Love.

Years ago when I was teaching an acting class in high school, I proposed to the students that daily they wore "masks" in their real lives. The "mask" of student, teacher, athlete, etc. It must have been, or certaily SHOULD have been, subconsciously knowing all the while that as reflections of God there was no need for an mask or guise to hide the true person, who they really were!
Thank you for this inspired and timely lift.

Evan, I had to laugh at you mimicking negative states of thought. Then I had to know that they look equally ridiculous on me! Thanks, that was great.

THANK YOU Evan!!!!!! I loved the visuals, that was fun and such a great way to demonstrate your point.

So simple, so true, and easy to do. Much appreciation.

Thank you! You are welcome and have a great day.

Sometimes these masks that slip over us can seem so real, But then there is always that quiet voice, a divine idea, that comes to thought, reminding us of our true identity. God knows who we really are and He won't ever let us forget. Actually, it is not possible to forget, as there is only one Mind -- our mind is divine Mind. Thank you, God.

Lori #30, My heart goes out to you and your family. I have a similar situation with my son. However,
I viewed the doctor's decision that no further treatment is available as a blessing because now we can
turn away from a false distraction that says medicine heals to thought that realizes God is the only creator and God only creates good. Mrs. Eddy defined "health" in Rudimental Divine Science as "the consciousness of the unreality of pain and disease; or, rather, the absolute consciousness of harmony and of nothing else." Just as Evan took off the mask, we can see disease as unreal and strip away that mask and replace it with an awareness of "harmony and nothing else."

Thank you Evan! I always love your lifts, they are just enjoyable and inspiring to hear and this one is no exception. Such a great reminder for today,Halloween, and everyday. Thanks to you and to all on the daily lift team.

Perfect Lift for today, Evan! Thanks for the reminder of stripping off the "mask of clay" as we strive to reflect only our God-given, God-like qualities. Love the comments of this wonderful DL family! Many thanks to ALL!!!

Amazing, love this lift, thank you once again, Evan !

Hi Evan,

Thank you for your funny but timely and meaningful thoughts!
As always, I enjoy very much your messages since they are presented in a so friendly and frankly way!

Thanks Evan, that was great!

"Behind every mask there is a very pleasant face". This thought is from my dear husband who is a student of Christian Science.

Thank you.

I don't think Mrs. Eddy meant that we weren't supposed to have Feelings. It is not a sin to have feelings and to feel them. The only "sin" is to think that we are separated from Divine Love. When we allow ourselves to feel close to God, we know it's okay to be human and to have a full range of healthy feelings. One of the reasons C.S. Healing and the Church are floundering right now is that CSer's have shut down their feelings for so many years and are just coming from the Head or intellectual. That won't work! It is time now to let old, repressed feelings come up so they can be felt and then let go of. The age of intellectual thinking is coming to an end. It is time now to jump into our Hearts and think, feel and act from that soft, warm place of feelings and intuition. If we, as CSer's, fail to do this, we will continue to see the Church, Religion and its wonderful Spiritual Healing go by the wayside. Wake Up People!!

Thanks for a wonderful lift! Sometimes, it's easy to be duped into believing those lies of discouragement, sadness, anger, despair, impatience. Thanks for the reminder that the way to remove the mask of error is by changing thought and we do that by trusting God.

THANK YOU EVAN! :0)

Thank you Evan for your wonderful Lift this morning. Indeed strip of the mask, loathe and rebuke sin. It is heartbreaking when you watch a dear one continue his evil ways, apparently finding pleasure in sin. MBE says it so nicely "Sin kills the sinner and will continue to kill him as long as he sins". My heart goes out to Alex 4 and Lori 30. Remember always that nothing unlike God can be part of you. He has created your son in law perfect and no power can take that away or add anything to it. Christ said "The Kingdom of God is within us or by MBE "Thy kingdom is come, Thou art ever present" abd this statement rebukes any evidence that God is absent. Follow Christ's comforting words: "Come to me all who are weary and burdened, I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you....." May the everlasting arms of Love be beneath, around, above you, Evan, my dear misguided friend, Lori, Alex and all readers.

Excellent!

Bonjour

Thank you so much for this great lift of today! Fun to watch and so true.

Mmerci beaucoup

Thanks Evan. What a powerful quote. The comments are so heartfelt and full of searching and as others have shared, spiritual solutions and joy.

A very important analogy when praying as we are taught in Christian Science. The only thing that has to disappear for health (healing) to become obvious in one's experience is that mask of mortal belief that says you are not what God sees about you--that claims your identity as something beside the creation of God found in Gen 1:26, 27. The ultimate mask has to be the Adam dream.

Thanks, Evan!.

Thanks you #40 Alabama and #51 for sharing your very helpful ideas. I'm striving to pray only and not give Christian Science treatment, which has not been requested. But I can certainly keep my thoughts uplifted and pure.

thank you to Bev, from Sandpoint. So much of my disconnect from the true source has been because of people making me feel guilty for feeling. As a consequence, I have become more and more discouraged and want to give up on being "right with god". Well, of late I have held to this. God doesn't make junk and whatever I am feeling is just that , a feeling, for which I don't need to repent, repent, repent.
In trying so hard, I have forgotten that there are good things about me, that I don't need to "fix, or get fixed or be exonerated of.
I choose to believe that God sees me as he made me, good.
I am healing, from what others have put on me, and if I have ill feelings against people that don't live and act and do right, toward me, but rather disdain me, from the stuff inside them, why would I class it as a "defect" of mine?? Feeling anger for being treated as anything but a creation of the Almighty is not something I need to feel bad about. I am so saved from learning to accept all of my feelings. amen

This is one of my struggles. I don't know what to consider sin. Didn't Jesus come to save us from sin so therefore it does not exist?

Response from Evan

To Roberta,

In a nutshell, I see sin as wrong-thinking. It’s mortal mind states of thought that are contrary to God’s way of thinking. God is Love. So, for example, hatred, resentment, ire, ill-will, and their kin are sin. They are opposite ways of thinking to God’s way of thinking. Jesus came to save us from sin, to teach us how to live true to our spiritual identity made in God’s image. As we follow Jesus’ teachings of love and put them into practice, we conquer sin.

Yes, in the absolute there is no sin, but in the human we have to make this demonstration.

Hope that helps.

Evan

Thank you, Evan, for “Strip off unwanted masks … let the real you be seen … a joy to behold.” Any false pretense we accept about ourselves and others is a mask of sorts. Our understanding of “real you” has got to convince us that unmasking is worth it. The one-and-only “real you” is the provable Truth of our being as God’s image and likeness. A mask. A costume. The party. A chosen or seemingly imposed lifestyle. There’s nowhere to hide anymore. It might seem scary at first. A whole new lifestyle? Maybe; but, Love will lead us, safely. As we continue to unmask, “real you” shines forth in a myriad of Godlike qualities – always intact and ready to be enjoyed! It takes moral courage to “strip off unwanted masks” of same-old-same-old and put on the new man, as we discover “real you” revealed - our child-of-God status unfolding along our spiritual journey. As Mrs. Eddy shared in Science and Health (109), “I … devoted time and energies to discovering a positive rule. The search was sweet, calm, and buoyant with hope, not selfish nor depressing … I won my way to absolute conclusions through divine revelation, reason, and demonstration.” Masks? Costumes? Parties? Just for fun. Not for real. Just “real you … a joy to behold.” Thanks again, Evan.

Thank you. Cast off the mask of evil and put on the whole armor of God!

Amen, Bev #48

"If we would heal by the Spirit, we must not hide the talent of spiritual healing under the napkin of its form, nor bury the morale of Christian Science in the grave-clothes
of its letter. The tender word and Christian encouragement of an invalid, pitiful patience with his fears and the removal of them, are better than hecatombs of gushing theories, stereotyped borrowed speeches, and the doling of arguments, which are but so many parodies on legitimate Christian Science, aflame with divine Love." Science & Health: 366

And if we find ourselves wearing or observing the mask of fear or anger or sadness, make it a wakeup call to melt that mask with the flames of divine Love.

Thanks, Evan for a fun Lift.

Love it! I shared it with my Sunday School class in Geneva Switzerland. That is really a fun and effective !

Fantastic, Evan! It certainly reminds me to remove that mask and keep the good face of God throughout the day.

Thank you for this sincere invitation to mask-free living.

Hilarious; poignant; practical; perfect!

Thanks ever so much.
'In accepting a virtue, it becomes yours.' Wm. Shakespeare.
You showed how "exchange" works so well, from one mental state mask,
to another, the only one, the Christ state.

Thanks Evan!

Thank you BEV from Sandpoint...you're on target! We must honestly
express our feelings and change them to the beautiful, free.....happy
pure children of God qualities that are true about us.

Love it! Thanks Evan!

Thank you for this timely message.

Made me smile the whole time! You presented powerful Truth in such a sweet and fun way. Thank you!

Thank you Evan. The only mask that we all should wear is the truth of God's love - and that can be shown with a smile. Mary Baker Eddy said, "Divine Love always has met and always will meet every human need". And would could be better than to express that but with a smile?

Thank you Evan for this great Lift and the presentation that accompanied it. Mary Baker Eddy says in Science and Health page 62, "Our false views of life," and I would add ourselves, "hide eternal harmony, and produce the ills of which we complain." When we unmask error, and all its false claims, we realize its nothingness; and its powerlessness over us. We prove the nothingness of error by proving the allness of God. Elsewhere in S&H Mrs. Eddy says "mortal mind will be without form and void, for mortality will cease when man beholds himself God's reflection, even as man sees his reflection in a glass."

Thank you, Evan, for sharing that insight, which helps us relinquish attitude masks today. I needed that, and appreciate the quote from Science and Health, p. 30!

Thanks to Bev, really something to think about. The hymn #69 Verse 3, is one I sing every day. "Give me , O Lord a gentle loving heart, That I may learn to be more tender, kind, And withThy healing touch each wound and smart With Christly bands of Love and Truth to bind." When we feel that love, when holding a new born child, that is the love we must feel for everyone we come in contact with. It is the love jJesus had and we have too. The warmth and dearness of Divine Love has to be felt and expressed. Thanks for all the comments, with love to all.

Thank you Bev and Kathleen for contributing another point of view about feelings that wasn't covered in this short little video. I agree, being honest with our feelings is important, and nothing to be ashamed of. Per my video, the message was more about being aware of what we're holding in thought, and if the thought is a heavy, less than god-like attitude, the effect can be a distorted outward picture to others of who we truly are as an expression of divine Love. But, points well taken. Cheers...

This lift is terrific, excellent! How could anyone not experience joy, happiness and laughter after seeing this DL! Well done! Thanks so much Evan.

Excelente y sanador Lift!!! muy agradecida Evan por tu inspirado mensaje . Las máscaras que debemos quitar de nuestros pensamientos son de diversa índole y nadie está exento de alguna de ellas, pienso .
Hasta llegar al estado del ser puro y perfecto a la semejanza divina - gradualmente - a medida que comprendamos nuestra identidad espiritual - se irán descartando las máscaras q ocultan nuestro ser real .

Mrs. Eddy escribió: ' El hombre íntegro es aquél cuya regla constante es seguir el camino del deber, conforme se lo indican la Verdad y la voz de su conciencia......' El hombre recto es guiado por un Principio fijo, que lo destina a hacer solo aquello que es honorable, y aborrecer todo lo que sea bajo o indigno '...
' No finge ser lo que no es. No se oculta detrás de una máscara ' ( Esc. Misc. p 147)

Es bueno para el desarrollo espiritual imitar a Jesús - que nos enseña a mirar más allá del aspecto exterior o máscaras de la mortalidad , hasta ver al hombre perfecto creado por Dios ( en c/u y en todos ).

Agradezco los comentarios anteriores.
Un abrazo grande y Bendiciones del Amor , Ma. Cristy

Thank you Evan so much for this thoughtful video. I have so enjoyed your videos. I am relatively new to Christian Science (less than 6 mos) and have watched Every video there is...and have to say that I find yours to be very entertaining and enlightening.
Now, I do want to say something about the" poor sinning misguided people" mentioned above. I have spent 25 years studying metaphysics before Christain Science and believed before reading MBE that there are 'no accidents' and God's plan is always in perfect order. So you can't have it both ways. If you believe that God's plan for ALL is in pefect harmony always (regardless of whether you understand it), then the "poor misguided sinners" are a part of that perfect plan. I find it arrogant to think that we can know or understand what is ultimately needed in another's life. Maybe they do need more years of working in the illusion before they can fully accept all the blessings ready at the drop of a hat...or should I say at the drop of their knees. Because sometimes someone needs to drop to their knees from the crushing load before they can become humble and tired and open enough to finally let go and let God. The rest of us can meanwhile hold a continual vision of this person being healthy, happy, wise, abundant as we try to always see the reflection of God and all that entails in another.

"spiritually inspired state of Mind"...me...you...our brother! Thank you, Evan!!

Good one - Happy Halloween, Evan :-)

Loved this video. Also loved the secondary discussion started by #48 Bev and picked up on by several others. Thank you, too, Evan, for adding your response in #74. I never got the sense that Evan was saying to "fake" the joyous face, or to squash down and hide any negative feeling. Rather, I sensed that the negative thoughts were being brought into the light and allowed to heal and dissolve . . .leaving a joyful face in place.

Bev (and others)--I, too, grew up in Christian Science and somehow ended up with a "think only happy thoughts" approach. maybe it was CS as taught and shown to me; maybe it was the area I lived in; maybe it was the times. Who knows? But as I've grown, I realize that that approach (stuff all "bad" feelings, stay "positive" etc etc) is NOT pure CS. If it were, how could Mrs. Eddy write in S&H 66:30-32: "If we would open their prison doors for the sick, we must first learn to bind up the broken-hearted." ? In this human scene, we experience broken hearts that need healing. I've had friends tell me not to "dwell on the negative." If the time seems right, I tell them about the lament Psalms of David, where he stood in the midst of his sorrow, his bed wet with tears, but with his face and heart towards God. And inevitably, healing came. My sense is that if we are willing to stand smackdab in the middle of raw feelings, as long as our face is toward divine Love, then that raw openness also opens us up to incredible uplifting healing thoughts. Love to all.

Thank you.

Thanks, Evan! It's so refreshing to know that these bad attitudes are simply just masks that we can remove. We then see the real face of our spiritual being untouched, in perfect condition shining forth. Now that is something to smile and be joyful about! Love, love your blogs, sharing and videos! Keep up the good work!

No. 77, Unless I read this wrong, you seem to say that God's perfect harmonious plan includes the misguided mortal sinner. God's creation is all that which is good and real, perfect and eternal but not of matter or evil. The misguided sinner is not God's man and harmony can only exist as we cease to manifest evil. (S & H 346). Christ said it beautifully "Evil is a liar, and the father of it", meaning a creation of itself, evil but not reality. Man is the spiritual image and likeness of God, the full representation of Mind. The MBE Library L05298A has a wonderful citation where Mrs. Eddy reminded Judge S. Hanna "the tendency to teach that man is physically as well as spiritually God's son.... loses the logic of Christian Science". She insisted on the necessity of making clear that sin and sickness linked to the flesh, is not part of the image of Spirit but man is the image of Spirit....

First of all, I am sending special love and prayers to the DL community in NJ and everywhere the storm has hit.

Evan, thanks so much for your lift today and the video that helps demonstrate your message. I appreciate all of your daily lifts. My husband was a dedicated life-long Christian Scientist who became seriously ill last year. He was convinced he would be healed in CS and daily worked with a practitioner. Your lectures were a special source of inspiration for him. But, sadly, he passed within 3 months. During the last few weeks of his life here, his mental state appeared to deteriorate and he couldn't think clearly. Question: During times like this, shouldn't the practitioner's prayers be enough for healing to occur? I know my husband really wanted to demonstrate healing here as did I! Although I know he is experiencing freedom now and he is with me in spirit, the heartache of missing the physical presence of my husband is just one of the "masks" I am trying to uncover. I am listening to God's guidance day by day, and these daily lifts (and many subsequent comments) are very helpful to me. Thank you.

Note from Evan:

Hi Jayne,

Thank you for your kind comments. And my heart is with you per your husband. I’m sure he is a dear one and evidences the presence of divine Love in your life in many different ways. We can certainly be grateful for that! You two are inseparable in divine Love, and this truth will become increasingly clear to both of you as you continue to grow in understanding of Spirit and see there is no separation of death in eternal Life. I’m sure the practitioner praying for your husband was working assiduously and conscientiously to save your husband from whatever the false belief was that was trying to impose itself on him. It certainly is the hope and prayer of every practitioner I know for healing to be realized. It hasn’t always happened though, for we all have much to learn about Truth to fully conquer all forms and phases of evil. But each of us praying to heal others will keep striving and growing in Truth until the full demonstrations are made. That’s my prayer, anyway! Lots of love…

Evan

Fantastic, I am removing several masks right now and putting on a peaceful smile for everyone and everything that I encounter today.

Thank you, Evan, for this original Lift and also everyone for your heartfelt comments.

Thanks Evan, such a great Lift! Love your work. xxoo

Thank you for the uplifting word.

Evan -- have thought of your reminder sooo many times today! -- when I was annoyed, critical etc. -- really don't want to remember how many times! Anyhow, I whipped off the mask each time! :) Thanks for sharing that practical idea for Hallowe'en!

B.J.

Thank you, Evan! Very appropriate!

Loved the talk and your upbeat attitude! Thanks, Evan!

Thank you, Evan ...Very upbeat!

Awww! Lightens the day, doesn't it, to be lifted by light-hearted humour! Thanks, Evan. And also to JD #12 for " Yielding to Soul's concept of us and letting our identity unfold naturally in thought allows us to see the face of God's creating." Grateful as well for the responses to comments, which were enlightening and helpful.

Thanks so much Evan. I always enjoy your Daily Lifts and I always like the video lifts. So, today was a double treat. Well, actually, a triple treat since I really liked what you told Jayne (#84) as well.
Thanks to the BofL and the Daily Lift team for all that you do to make these Daily Lifts so beneficial.

But what if the smiling happy face IS the mask?
Some masks can look nice n funny.
Is it possible?

Dear Evan,
Thank you for that...good fun ....great ideas to put into practise. Lots of other masks also that would try to rob our health and well-being but just as important to put off.
Still appreciating your lectures to us in Wynnum, Australia
Pam

Thank you so much Evan.

Thanks Evan. Funny and pointed. I've been wearing a mask of tiredness and sadness for too long, and just realized recently that I need to show joy all the time. This was a help.

Dear Jayne (84), if you happen to check in on these comments again, I hope you feel the love of those who read your honest thoughts. My husband passed on a number of years ago,and it has taken me a while to work through a variety of things; but I have come out of the grief. You can, too. You are God's beloved, now and always. Let yourself feel God's comfort.

Evan, That was just great! The 'visuals' really enhanced the concept! Thank you. The quote from S&H also - 'let Soul hold control' was one I learned in Sunday school and has stayed with me over the years.
So grateful for these 'lifts'!

Thanks, Evan. What a great analogy for all of us, esp. SS children.

Thanks so much for your response, Evan, to me (#84). I really appreciate it. Also, thank you to East Coaster (#98).

Thanks Evan, you said it sure and true! I too have been trying to consistently unmask all feelings of pain and shame for immobility problem, etc. Working with a Christian Science practitioner is so helpful for me to have regained gradually joy and strength. What I found out for myself is as I kept holding on to the feeling of sickness and being ashamed I couldn't progress because as I think it is what is being manifested in the flesh. I am continually unmasking all sorts of wrong feelings about myself (as sick) and that is a step towards what inspired Mary Baker Eddy to write in Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures page 476:32 Jesus beheld in Science the perfect man, who appeared to him where sinning mortal man appears to mortals. In this perfect man the Saviour saw God's own likeness, and this correct view of man healed the sick. The practitioner pointed out too that he is a guide in the path but I need to walk too. I understood that I can't just lay in bed doing nothing about unmasking the beliefs I have been entertaining like fears of incapability, unforgiving, etc, I also have to Rise and walk or put on a whole new armour of Love! I couldn't have not done it if I remained to keep feeling sick and unloved, etc. even though I seem to be bleeding in my footsteps. Unmasking is still in progress. And I love to listen and appreciate all what our Board of Lectureship is sharing to all in their inspired ideas through DL and Lectures.

Dear Tita and all of us who are crying out for the light of Truth: the light is always there, even if at the end of a tunnel and even when we feel we cannot take another step in the dark. And - ha, Evan! I found that “...the ghastly farce of material existence' came to mind (S&H p. 272) - especially seeing your awfully unsuccessful attempt to look angry! No doubt the ghastliness was made worse by the lack of synchronisation - which I think nobody else has mentioned? Is it my settings? It is out-of-sync for me on YouTube too. .

Won't you be my neighbor?

This DL has helped take fear, hurt and astonishment about a person from my past who has completely iidentified me wrongly with lies about me, people around me and my situation. I will work very hard to see this person's true, spiritual identiy and know the great negativities that he pours out are but a mask of horrible attitudes that include much self justification. Seeing my true identity will help me start this day out expressing many good attitudes.

Yes Evan, I fully agree, attitude is very important when it comes to the practice of C/S. To remove the false mask of muchoness, expressed in self righteousness, mortal indignation, the mortal view of man has to be replaced with the correct view, the view that God sees. Then we're on the right track.

Lori #30, I understand about your son-in-law not being a CS. My son isn't either. My practitioner has helped me see that I can deal with my own thoughts and see my son as God sees him. As she told me, " 'all whom your thoughts rest upon' will be blessed." When we see others as God does that does not mean giving a treatment but God's view is the only true view, and this view alone can be very powerful. There was a recent article about a healing in the Journal or Sentinel - not sure which. I can't seem to find it again. A man prayed when a commuter train was supposed to be a half hour late. He felt God's harmony, love, and an immense peace as he prayed. The train arrived a few minutes later. He continued feeling God's presence while on the train and two women with horrible colds standing on either side of him suddenly commented that their colds had simply disappeared. I burst out laughing when I read that. The joy of experiencing good just made me laugh. He gave them no treatment at all, just allowed God to fill his own thoughts. God's goodness and power is immense. So I pray to open up my awareness to new spiritual heights and stay close to God. My thoughts are something I can do something about. I pray to see others as God does.I can view my son as God's child, the beautiful spirit that God created. Just love him. When others are receptive to good, it blesses them.

To Bev, # 48, if you seem to think that the "church is floundering right now", you may find an article in the November issue of the Journal helpful:

"To judge a church by what it is or is not doing, its successes or failures, from the perspective of the human expression rather than the spiritual idea behind this expression, is not metaphysically sound. Such a misconception may lead us into believing there is something wrong with Church, or into thinking we have nothing to gain by our association with it. Healing always takes place when thought moves from the human picture to the divine, whether the subject is an individual, a church, or all of mankind."

From: Church and Generic Man, but Heather Howland Kany

We are each on our own spiritual journey with God, each expressing His divine Love. Progress is a law of God, and to see each one of us as obedient to this law is healing.

What a precious treat!

I truely love this lift! It is really an "open discourse and platform" for opening and elevating thought! I so love how this lift literally "strips off many of the masks of mortal mind!". I've really enjoyed reading the ongoing dialog and have listened to this lift many times! It's a keeper! Thank you Evan!

Dear Prayerful #108. Thank you for sharing the article in the November issue of the Journal. This is very helpful as I have been pondering over the comments by Bev #48. Bless you on your spiritual journey with God.

So many various applications. Wearing the mask of age isn't so great either. Wrinkles are witnesses against us, I recently read. Evidence of time worn thinking. Splotches of common beliefs about the sun, gone uncorrected, sagging alertness, wake-up calls, all. Mindless floating with the crowd needs vigorous self defense.

Thank you so much Seeker #103 for mentioning that at the end of the tunnel lis light... Truly even while in the midst of a seemingly dark tunnel is the true Light guiding my steps. I remember when we were kids we had to go through 2 tunnels to be able to go home and though I was a little fearful I was able to master going through those tunnels not fearing anymore. And thanks to all for your comments.

I do not agree w you this time Bev;

Did Jesus explore his potential anger at his enemies in the Garden of Gethsemane? Here's Mrs Eddy's definition of that:

“GETHSEMANE. Patient woe; the human yielding to the divine; love meeting no response, but still remaining love.”

This is evidence of our dialogue with God, through which comes all earthly relationships, and it is very spiritual.

What if Jesus, after being nailed to the cross, felt justified in getting angry at the crowd, and decided to explore this human feeling? He would have lost his Christ-likeness, anger is the result of a human belief, that someone, a human, can actually affect the direction of your life. Jesus' life was untouched, he loved through it all, and was rewarded with the Resurrection. By not running the gamut of human emotions, it saved him from going back to square one:

“Despised and rejected of men,” returning blessing for cursing, he taught mortals the opposite of themselves, even the nature of God; and when error felt the power of Truth, the scourge and the cross awaited the great Teacher. Yet he swerved not, well knowing that to obey the divine order and trust God, saves retracing and traversing anew the path from sin to holiness.”
(Science and Health)

Also, elsewhere Mrs Eddy warns, “If man is not victorious over the passions, they crush out happiness, health, and manhood.”
(Science and Health)

For Jesus, these were very human struggles, but his divine nature won out over the human everytime, and it wasn't just an intellectual exercise, although every bit scientific, which includes the head and the heart.

We must follow Jesus in every way because “Implicit faith in the Teacher and all the emotional love we can bestow on him, will never alone make us imitators of him. We must go and do likewise, else we are not improving the great blessings which our Master worked and suffered to bestow upon us. The divinity of the Christ was made manifest in the humanity of Jesus.” (Science and Health)

Mrs Eddy followed Jesus, and she loved like Jesus, healed like him, but neither were considered emotional.

All feelings of guilt and anger and suchlike are masks to removed to reveal the joy and love of God's creating, and this will be manifested in love for our fellow-man in meaningful ways.

I think the article at the end of the June 18, 2012 Sentinel, entitled, NOT Guilty, written by the editors, is worth reading here..…

Evan you are amazing! I had got to thinking earlier this year about 'masks'. Sometimes when we feel let down by others who seemed good, but then did bad things it feels like the good was a deception or mask, and the bad behaviour was their 'real self'. This daily lift really unmasks that belief, and the quote from Mary Baker Eddy is just what I needed! Refusing to wear masks myself will make it easier to see behind the false masks of others to behold the 'likeness of God'.

I'm just seeing this. Wonderful.

That is awesome! Thanks, Evan! xoxo

I feel I have a few masks to lift but so scared this wonderful lift and these comments are so helpful thank you all

What a delight this was to read several days after its appearing. It was so timely thougth ... perfect for the ineed I have to strip off mortal mind's mask, strutting itself and parading its drama before me as my thought and projecting it upon the gaze of others. Thanks Evan!

This is just great! Thank you, Evan!

And your "Lift" was a joy to hear and see! Thanks bunches, Evan!

Thank you, Evan!