The so-called 'inane'--'insane' has no more sense NOW than they ever will HAVE and we cannot BE
MADE to believe in them.......GOD keeps all HIS/HER IDEAS SAFE,sane AND IN total MIND.........

Let us remain in our understanding of what our dear Leader, Mary Baker Eddy knew was/IS TRUE

"Infinite Holiness of all Mankind" forever kind and loving spiritual manhood" ............ARN/ UK

Thank you! Thank you!! This is one of my favorite hymns and today's DL couldn't be more appropriate. It has been a difficult few days since Friday. I knew that I needed to gain clarity so that I could pray effectively for others. Today's DL hit home. I am very grateful for these daily lifts and for Christian Science. May God's loving thoughts (his angels) bless all in need of comforting today and every day.

Thank you John for this much needed Lift in response to the recent tragedy in Newtown, Conn. I know that much purposeful and prayerful work is being done in helping to clarify and lift thought above mortal sense. These precious children of God are right now being tenderly cared for and nurtured as they are forever held in the arms of Divine Love. I look to Mrs. Eddy's statement in Science and Health page 519, (found in last weeks Bible Lesson): "Thus the ideas of God in universal being are complete and forever expressed, for Science reveals infinity and the fatherhood and motherhood of Love." Thank you again for your good work.

Hug, love, and comfort one another; no one is left out, not from doing this or experiencing this...

Jesus was talking a series of parables in Matt 25 and in verse 34 he speaks of a King who speaks to those gathered on his right hand and says, "Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world: For I was an hungred, and ye gave me meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink: I was a stranger, and ye took me in: Naked, and ye clothed me: I was sick, and ye visited me: in prison, and ye came unto me: "
And questioning the King as to when they did these things unto him:
"And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily, I say unto you, inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me."

Mrs Eddy says, “Love giveth to the least spiritual idea might, immortality, and goodness, which shine through all as the blossom shines through the bud.”

So we are all, as God's individualized expressions, worthy, valuable, contributing, important, loved, loving, and lovely, and we are "brethren."

It is our duty to demonstrate these things before, during, and after a tragedy; it is God's love for us made practical in our daily lives, no one left out, ignored, passed over, left alone, left behind..

Only love to the DL community..

How beautiful and comforting and healing Thank you John

Thank You

Thank you, John, for your comforting, strong, and clear message about the Christ. I am sending it to family members who are not Christian Scientists because I know this Truth will be of comfort to them as well.

Thank you for your much needed thoughts.

Dear John,

Thank you so much for yoor comforting words - they are just what I needed to hear. Bless all those dear people in Newtown and bless you too.

Eva

Thank you John Adams. Every comforting thought counts. I can feel the sincerity in your message. No thinking person can remain unmoved in the face of this senseless violence. We all need the comfort and new outlook that the Christ can bring to our hearts. Jesus was a human whose love of the Christ was so profound that their identities became inseparable. The Christ, God's man, is an eternal glorifying presence. We can all identify ourselves with the deathless, healing Christ, as was proven by the prophets, by the disciples of Jesus, as testified by the discoverer of this Christ Science, Mary Baker Eddy and her followers. Let's pour more of this leaven of the Christ into our own hearts, and into the atmosphere of mortal thinking until the plague of mental illness is destroyed.

When a crime is committed against children, it touch us all. Fear, doubt of our neighbors, uncertainty, takes over our thinking and we feel vulnerable.
But we find strength in Christ, Truth itself, He embeds us in the rock that is “Christ, My refuge” (MBE’s Poem.)
The heart of Christ, who loves, strengthens and supports us eternally, will not break under the weight of human sorrow and will lift all above the darkness of this moment.

ESPAÑOL
Cuando se comete un delito contra niños, nos toca a todos. El temor, el dudar de nuestros vecinos, la incertidumbre, gobierna nuestro pensamiento y nos sentimos vulnerables.
Pero hallamos fuerzas en Cristo, la Verdad misma, El nos enclava en la Roca que es “Cristo, Mi Refugio” (Poema de MBE.)
El corazón de Cristo, quien nos ama, fortalece y apoya eternamente, no se quebrantará bajo el peso del pesar humano y nos elevará a todos por encima de las tinieblas del momento.

Beautiful and so comforting! Thank you John so much!

Thank you John, how good to know the comfort of the Christ is everpresent, "Holy Spirit, source of gladness, come with all Thy radiance bright; Lift all burdens and all sadness; O'er thy children shed Thy light" Hymn 119 in the C.S. Hymnal

What wonderful words of comfort for all those grieving families in Newtown.
May all the families know that the love and prayers of all South Africans are with them all.

For a nation without proper gun laws..."There no tumult can alarm thee,/ Thou shalt dread no hidden snare;/ Guile nor violence shall harm thee/ In eternal safeguard there." (Christian Science Hymnal #33).

Dear John,

I am looking out of my office window at a group of wood pigeons roosting in the top of two barren trees, peacefully awaiting the activity of the new day, but for the moment simply resting in the now. The dark clouds, which have brought us nothing but snow, rain, fog and darkness these last few days are breaking apart, letting through the first glimpses of blue sky, silver lined with the light of the morning sun. It fits your Lift perfectly - although all seems still, with nothing happening, the promise of day and productive activity is there, not as something far of in the future, but imminent, due to happen today! For the moment, however, there is time for stillness, even sorrow; that time is now. But see there, geese are flying overhead towards the rising sun, already moving. So let us move forward also, toward a new day, a good day!

awesome,,a great DL today,this is one of my favorite hymns,too.. many thanks to you John and to everyone!

Thank you for this Daily Lift. May all the families Know that the Love and prayers of all here in Switzerland are all with them

Thanks, John for lifting my thought above the fray and torment. John from Trinidad

Thank you for this thoughtful, healing Lift!

Thank you.

Very comforting! Thank you!,

John:

Your clear thinking is always inspiring. Aren't we blesses to have Christian Science and to share it with the world! God's care is with each and every one of us.

Love from the Father and Mother of us all is the only real peace which redeems and heals all human woes. We may not understand the "why" but those children are all right now being embraced and soothed, "Fed by thy love divine we live for love alone is life;"- and their parents, families and friends are all included in this promise- "And life most sweet, as heart to heart speaks kindly, when we meet and part." (C. S. Hymnal- Brood o’er us with Thy sheltering wing)

Much gratitude for helping us re-focus on what IS - the abiding Love that is the Comforter.

Thank you...I am sharing this Lift with many dear ones, who are seemingly struggling. May this beautiful reminder of God's constant Love for His children help bring each Peace and Healing.

thank you john

Thank you for your very inspiring Lift. yes we do need to know that each and every one, where ever they are, is God protected and God directed.

I needed this - how grateful I am to have my Christian Science at a time like this. will definitely be sharing this

Thank you John,

You gave us exactly what we so need at difficult times like this.

Very comforting! THANK YOU!

A fitting and timely message for all times .Thank you John .Much Love and blessings .

Good point that God's heart cannot be broken

My prayer today is from hymn 174..."Like as a mother, God comforteth His children; Comfort is calm, and bids all tumult cease; Comfort is hope and courage for endeavor; Comfort is love whose home abides in peace."

Thank you for this uplifting message!

May divine Love embrace and comfort the Newton families fully over their indescribable loss. Each happiness and joy and bliss they experienced with their children, brothers and sisters, goes with them and stays with them. Love holds the children that have perished from their sight, alive.

My gratitude for this comforting Lift, and its inspiring, healing thoughts, as well as to the current healing articles on JSH-Online. Thank you, John, Church workers, all men, women, children united in prayer to the one dear Shepherd, holding all in the arms of divine Love.

Thank you for addressing this tragedy directly where it needs to be addressed - in thought, where it would claim to dominate; and for showing us that the Christ lifts us all up above it.

Science and Health, page 70:
"The divine Mind maintains all identities, from a blade of grass to a star, as distinct and eternal."

Great lift. Thank you for the healing thought.

What a beautiful and spiritually empowered healing message, John! I shall ponder and pray with it all day!

Thank you, thank you!!!

Si algo nos distingue sobre el error es justamente nuestra confianza en Dios y en el niño que cada Navidad nos recuerda su pureza y su consuelo en las tribulaciones.
Quizás debieramos pensar en que Él no escatimó esfuerzo para que así lo comprendieramos y practicaramos y esforzarnos en ser ese ejemplo que la humanidad necesita y que va más allá de creencias, enojos, indignación ya que está indisolublemente ligado a la tarea Evangélica, científica... Dios no conoce el mal, por lo tanto sólo el Bien encuentra respuesta en Él, practiquémoslo para que oleadas de Él le lleguen y en la reciprocidad vuelvan a nosotros en proteción y paz permanente para toda la humanidad.
"La paz os dejo, mi paz os doy ; yo no os la doy como el mundo la da. No se turbe vuestro corazón ni tenga miedo" Juan
Confíemos en esa paz verdadera que está ahí para ser tomada y ampliada en nosotros por el infinito Amor en paz permanente y perfecta.
"Sólo lo que alimenta y llena el sentimiento de espiritualidad, puede traer paz y buena voluntad para con los hombres" MBE

Muchas gracias John.

Thank you so much for this LIFT from a Connecticut resident where mortal mind's assessment of this incident is so prevalent. There is such a need for us to lift our thought above the "mist", and you have helped us to do that.

Thank you John for the comforting words! Much gratitude for our lecturers and DL community who send their love to Sandy Hook and around the world wherever healing is needed. Peace to all!.

The greatest gift that God has given us is Love. Love for us and all mankind. Let us bow our heads and listen for His" tender and divine talk" comforting and leading the way. Thank you so much for the DL and I am so grateful for the hymns and their messages.

Christ is our refuge - everyone's - and this is such a comforting thought. As someone was lamenting on the news all that these children would be missing - proms, marriage, etc. - I thought these children aren't missing anything as their lives are continuing in love, peace, harmony, joy - where there is no evil. Life is eternal and all existence is spiritual untouched by material events. And in thinking about the parents Hymn 412 came to mind:

The Christ is here, all dreams of error breaking,
Unloosing bonds of all captivity.
He comes to bless thee on his wings of healing,
To banish pain, and wipe all tears away;
He comes anew, to humble hearts revealing
The mounting footsteps of the upward way.

He comes to give the joy for desolation,
Beauty for ashes of the vanished years;
For every tear to bring full compensation,
To give the confidence for all thy fears.

Thank you so much for sharing your inspiration!

John, what a beautiful, healing treatment. Thank you for your compassionate response.

Thank you John, for your heartfelt compassion and strength. Prayer will bring the needed changes. Today with our second son and his children we enjoyed a wonderful lunch together. God had certainly gone ahead and prepared the way. This lunch would have been impossible three years ago, but love was present with each one. On the way home we played "I spy. . . " the letter was f, and it was inside the car. Almost all of inside the car. We came to this Village and were ready to "Give up. . . " but as we arrived and got out to say Goodbye, Darcii said it was "family"! God speaks to our children, and our children hear. Our beloved Father-Mother brings broken families and broken hearts together, reunites and reawakens them with love and lovingkindness, and we can pray for others that they too, will be healed and tenderly shown a better way forward.
Thank you Nathan and the production team; the Board of Lectureship;and the lecturers; and the almost Christmas Daily Lifters!

Thank you, John, for this timely and loving DL that gives us all hope and strength. The world's prayers will support and guide the families forever.

This is so comforting! Thank you John and thank you all for your comments. "...and Love is reflected in love..."

The quote above is from "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy (p.17).
Daily Lift Team

Thank you! The clarity of your thoughts reveal the compassion and consistency of God's love.

What a tender, strong, powerful, practical, compassionate message, John. I hear healing in your voice. Thank you for this gift today. God bless us all.

P rinciple
E ffectively
A ffirms
C hrist's
E ver-presence

Thank you, John, for “Christ my refuge … ‘And o'er earth's troubled, angry sea I see Christ walk, And come to me, and tenderly, Divinely talk.’ … even now … ‘Thus Truth engrounds me on the rock, Upon Life's shore, 'Gainst which the winds and waves can shock, Oh, nevermore!’ …” For the first time, I understand in these verses, the spirit of the First and Second Commandments as “the rock” upon which healing can happen. “I see Christ walk” calls my attention to “Thou shalt have no other gods before me.” To keep focused on God/Good even (and especially!) when it seems humanly impossible in the wake of terribly tragic events. And “shock, Oh, nevermore!” calls my attention to “Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image.” We have seen and heard, in news coverage about this terribly tragic event, images that would be engravened on our hearts and minds that might keep us “frozen in our tracks” towards progress in honoring and protecting innocence and purity, courage and care giving, every day. I will not let these children and adults, have died in vain. I will prayerfully and actively promote in our society, qualities of character that can prevent such terribly tragic events. “My prayer, some daily good to do To Thine, for Thee; An offering pure of Love, whereto God leadeth me.” (Thank you, Mrs. Eddy, for reminding us that, indeed, Christ is our refuge – no matter what!)

John, what a magnificent prayer message. Thank you so much.

Dear John

Thank you so much for your loving supportive Daily Lift today.

How true it is today and every day. That God is in the details.
Let us put each and every perfect spiritual child in its rightful place, with God.

Love in Christ

Peter Reichl-Cunningham CS

Thank You for sharing this Beautiful moment this morning. A most soothing couple of minutes I have heard since this devastating moment....thank you again. Let us all keep those in need in our hearts.
God Bless.

How quickly we must move from appearances to reality!

Human experience may not be the best teacher, but God certainly is. Christ as the manifestation of divine Love comes to us always to guide, comfort, and lift us higher than we were aware we needed to go.

Thanks #33 for reminding us of Hymn 174. Mother's comfort is right there, not to be missed by anyone.

John, thank you for answering this need.

Thank you, John, for that clear reminder of the Christ presence that brings a sense of love, comfort, mercy, and direction.

Now that we have received this clear spiritual view, I trust that our prayers for the community of Sandy Hook will make available in that community and the surrounding areas the spiritual resources to support the families, the school, the government, and the first responders.

If prayer leads our church members in Connecticut to volunteer in the community, to bring food to a family, to hug them, to share a message of compassion and hope via pulling together an appropriate or newly written lecture in direct support of the community, then those steps should be taken with courage and care.

Our hearts, and the world, have been wonderfully touched and lifted by this Daily Lift, and we must also pay the love forward in actions and words the community can feel and understand.

"Wait, and love more for every hate, and fear
No ill..." Mother's Evening Prayer, by Mary Baker Eddy.

Thank-you John, I was very grateful to listen to your comforting message this morning. It gave deep spiritual and practical perspective and direction for my prayers re the events of last friday.

Thank you for reminding us that the love of Christ grounds us in Life/life with no parting, no pain, no sorrow.

Dear DL thank you so much for putting into words & sound what we carry in our hearts & prayers!

Thank you John, for this timely and healing Lift...!

Thank you for your healing thought.

Thank you, John.

Thank God for the great heart of Christ, and thank you too dear John.

Thank you, dear John for the comforting words.
I love the comments of Beatrix #15. Thank you.
M.B.Eddy often puts together REASON and REVELATION. I always loved this combination. And I now feel that I have to pray deeper about the necessity of Reason in our daily life; and that it should gain some place and space in our decisions, and that we should know that divine revelation still wants us to follow human laws (like following the street laws) and the discipline of wearing only the divine arms of love. None else.

Thank you, John. I shall return to this lift again today," lest my footsteps stray" from uplifted, healing, peace-filled consciousness... A beautiful Lift, so perfect for this morning...

The quote above is from a poem by Mary Baker Eddy, "Feed by Sheep" (also words for hymn 304).
Daily Lift Team

Thank you John for your deeply felt thoughts of loving comfort this morning, which reach out to embrace all.

Thank you for this lovely Lift, it helps me realize that the beauty of holiness will lift us above this strife.

Thank you, for the beautiful message, and to all of you who commented....very comforting...Love heals! and thank you to 45.~ Hymn 412 is so lovely.

Much Needed comfort ,,, Thank You .

"Now ye are come to an innumerable company of angels, written in heaven" Hebrews 12:22
Thank you!

Thank you John, God's love surrounds each and everyone throughout the world. Not one God's idea can not be uncomforted, loved in His strong and loving embrace, The Christ is herewith each one in Newtown and beyond.

Thank you again.

Thank you John this is just what I needed to be comforted and inspired today and to continue to pray for these dear ones.

Thank you, John, for this response. Thank you, listeners, commenters, readers of the comments, and everyone involved in bringing this lift to the world. There seems to be a great need for comfort and joy ...

God rest ye merry, gentlemen,
Let nothing you dismay,
Remember Christ our Saviour
Was born upon this day;
To save us all from Satan's power
When we were gone astray.

[Chorus]
O tidings of comfort and joy,
Comfort and joy,
O tidings of comfort and joy!

I am so grateful for the out-pouring of prayer, of good thoughts. As the mesmeric, hypnotic, erroneous images tempt the human mind into an indulgence, Truth and Love comes to bless us with healing.

Thank you so much dearest John for this beautiful and comforting message. Much love

I am working so hard grappling with this deep sadness, as are all. Your message is right - the children and adults are God's children and their condition is God's condition.

Comforting, Life affirming words from # 58 hymn in the Christian Science Hymnal:

Father, we Thy loving children
Lift our hearts in joy today,
Knowing well that Thou wilt keep us
Ever in Thy blessed way.

Thou art Love and Thou art wisdom,
Thou art Life and Thou art All;
In Thy Spirit living, moving,
We shall neither faint nor fall.

Thank you, John and BoL, for supporting all of God's children.

Thank you John, for sharing this Love with us today.

Thank you so much for your comforting thoughts. This is a time of great need for all prayers in the world to come together and lift those in a time of such sorrow.

Thank you John for this timely lift; and everyone for sharing. We are all "...grounded on the rock." And from another hymn, " and on that rock, we are secure..." (hymn 293) This hymn has these lines as well: Rock of Ages, be Thy strength forever mine, safe above life's raging sea, our fortress strong, our refuge from all wrong, peace is there our ife to fill, cure is there for every ill. " Thanks to the Boston team who puts these lifts on.

Thank you, John & DL Family ~ wrapping ALL in Divine Love, the Comforter is here always and in all ways!

Thank you John.
How comforting to know that the Christ is always with us and those who mourn will be embraced in God's loving care forever.

thank you

Oh how comforting your words are John!!! Thank you so much. It's so peaceful and calming to know the Truth especially at these times.
Love to all and to our friends at Newtown

Thank you, John and commenting community for the strong, prayerful sharing here. I also found the article "Protecting the Innocents by Protecting Innocence" by Lynn Mahoney and from the Editors "Not Even Death" (both in the Dec 3 2012 Sentinel) helpful this morning.

Thank you so much, John, and all who have commented today.

On Friday's list of comments, Gary (see #9 today, and I believe it was #37 on Friday) wrote that he was understanding his 5-month old grandson's individuality as already at the standpoint of complete development (taking the spiritual view of God's creation). One of the fathers who spoke on national television seemed to have a similar view of his daughter: He spoke of his parenthood in the present tense (a permanent gift that he cannot be deprived of) and of her qualities as quite mature, i.e., very Christly.

This is true also of all children, whatever our age: No one's development or parenting can be cut off or subverted...because development is already complete. God's ideas are whole and permanent. We are gifts forever. And nothing can thwart the giving of our gifts. May your gifts go out with power and grace today...with healing.

Thank you John. Perfect.

I'm so grateful to have recently been introduced to these DLs, and so particularly grateful for the timeliness of this one. It penetrated right to the crux of the situation. I will keep returning to it throughout the day (instead of turning on the news!!). Thank you so much for the comforting truths.

Let me add my warmest thanks for such helpful comments by Mr. Adams and also for the supportive words of other listeners.

Beautiful...thank you for this right perspective. It will keep me afloat...

Thank you, dear John Q.! We truly do abide in Heavenly Love - Nothing changes Here! The individuality of each adult and child that went through the "death process" is still shining brightly - and forever. Our Hearts are Broken Open to the Divine Love and Comfort of God today. All things are possible to God - the Divine Being in which perfection is the standard that never changes. Big Love and Hugs to All Human Beings on the Planet at this time. We are all being pushed forward to see our true spiritual glory!

Thank you, John, for your message of hope and compassion in the face of this situation. May we all turn away from the television set and return to your healing truths again & again today. The Christ is always with us.................God IS omnipotent !

Thank you!

I've struggled with how to pray for the families after this tragedy. Many times, all I could do was sob, uncontrollably at times, for hours. Thank you for this healing message and for all the comments from the Daily Lifters. This reminder of the Christ is so comforting and has given me an anchor to pray from a position of Truth, strength and knowing.

Amen. A powerful affirmation of truth, of reality, of the facts of all identities. #15 outstanding. Gratitude to all sharers.

thank you John, very well said.

Healing message...from start to finish.
Thank you, John.

I, too, will share this beautiful "Daily Lift" with family and friends who are not active participants in the Christian Science church. My favorite hymn has always been #139, "I walk with Love along the way, And O, it is a holy day; No more I suffer cruel fear, I feel God's presence with me here; The joy that none can take away Is mine; I walk with Love today." In the Christmas Card I created to send family and friends this year I have featured a local California light house with this quote from Matthew 5:16 "Let your light so shine before men that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father in heaven."

Thank you for this healing message.

Thank you John and thanks and much appreciiation to all of you. It is gratifying to know our prayers are encircling the world, angel messages for everyone. God is the Mind, the source, of each pray-er , each prayer, so can't be in vain.

Wonderful words to cling to...thank you!

John, I cannot tell you how meaningful your message was for me. It was so very, very helpful. Thank you.

Thank you Peter #59, for bringing out the necessity of expressing our love and help in ways that are simple and can be understood. Instead of focusing on my problems I need to extend love and comfort, and support to those dear ones suffering because of this incident. Thank you John for your comforing thoughts and love. I will stay with this wonderful lift today.

Beautiful, John. So gentle. So caring. So strong.

What is compassion? It's in John's message. Tender mercy AND healing words.

Unable to attend my local Church services yesterday, I tuned in to the Mother Church service online. I was touched with the readers' focus on comfort and healing in not only the announcements from the desk but in the Scriptural selections and the hymns.

What a blessing the gift of Christian Science is!

A perfect response. I'm posting it to my FB page immediately. Thank you so much, John.

Thank you for this loving response to such a horrifying tragedy. Each day it seems as though new waves of sorrow assault human thought as shock turns into feelings that span the spectrum of human emotions. I found this Daily Lift a great comfort and strengthening standpoint to lift my prayers to the reach the tones of Mind that sends healing thoughts to all.

That "Rock of Ages" still strengthens and shelters us--thank you. It's good to feel and know that God is both Love AND Principle and won't allow our ships to be swamped by this sea of tragedy!

I'll have to listen to that a few more times. Thank you, John Q.

I cannot let this day go by without expressing my gratitude for this comforting lift and to all who comment. I am tenderly holding all of God's dear children (which includes adults) in my prayers and seeing each one as forever complete. No one can be outside of Divine Love's embrace. The hymns are such a wonderful source of comfort and inspiration for me, too. I get so much out of these Daily Lifts and refer back to them often as I don't want to miss any comments. Many, many thanks and much love to all.

Thank you, dear John, for your healing Lift.

Thanks so very much John! Beautiful indeed!

Thank you for these comforting and uplifting thoughts.

'Spot on,' John. Your message could not have been more compassionate, yet it is spoken with spiritually scientific certainty - straight from its source of divine Life and Truth and Love, thus bringing a healing message to all listening - and beyond - encompassing and blessing all. Thank you, dear John, for your clear, spiritual vision, and for sharing it with us and all mankind.

Thanks so much John! All those individuals are being embraced by God, just as they have been in their earthly lives. No idea of God has ever been out of our Father-Mother's tender embrace. How comforting that idea is and how comforting your beautiful words are!

Thank you so much for this message. I have been cherishing the promise of victory to each and every heart.

With a grateful heart ,
Mary Beth

What strikes me about today's comments is their worldwide nature: Lifters from Germany, UK, Pakistan, Mexico, Canada and many more, as well as so many different states in America. We are all "family" with those living in the community of Newtown: their children are our children. As we unite in prayer, we feel the confidence of knowing that our prayers are answered, and that all may feel the comfort of God's presence, here and now. Dear residents of Newtown, Conn.: You are not alone! You are loved and cherished!

So helpful and uplifting. Thank you for this comforting prayer, and spiritual affirmations to denounce its opposite with the light of Christ, the great heart of divine Love in action within human consciousness.

What a beautiful Lift, thank you so much, John, it says it all!

Thank you, John, for listening for and hearing and speaking Christ's ever present healing message.
It could not have meant more to me to hear it and trust it and know its prayerful power is being felt.

Thank you to everyone for the wonderful thoughts and ideas for praying about this tragedy.

These are the thoughts I would like to share. As we are all created by God, we are all His creatures, and Mrs. Eddy says on page 514 line 28:- "All of God's creatures, moving in the harmony of Science, are harmless, useful, indestructible". I find this also helpful in thinking not only about the victims and their families, but in praying to understand that the poor misguided culprit is also created by God in His image, and I would like to understand more clearly that God knows nothing of this picture which the mortal thought is portraying, and that He has never been absent. Everyone, including the culprit, needs to feel the wonderful all-encompassing Love of our true Father-Mother God so that we can find the spiritual reality which wipes out the whole thing from our consciousness. We are all the beloved children of God and He is always with us protecting and guiding and blessing us all.

I am sure all our prayers are going out to help and heal.

Thank you John for this lift!

Robert Krueger Florida I know what it's like to be touched by the Christ. I retired from my business in 1980 about 2 months after I retired I went to bed one night & when I tried to lay down I felt sharp pains in my chest by my heart & could not take a deep breath without pain & my left side was very numb . I was a student of Christian Science & always turned to God for healing as this appeared to be all the symptoms of a heart attack. I called C. S. Practitioner to pray for me while she was praying for me I felt a strong warm feeling in the area of my heart & I could take a deep breath without pain & my left side was no longer numb. There was no doubt in my mind that I had been touched by Christ;s Healing Love I pray to know that , that same Love that healed me Heals the hearts & minds of all parents , children, loved ons neighbors &friends & all the little children that seemed to have died , because they remain alive in God's Great Love that He has for all His children P S thank you John Adams for your healing lift

Thank you.

So powerfully good, john. Thanks so much.

Thank you John for lifting us up and out of the human picture.Your understanding and sincerity brings
healing,joy and peace.Your lift has inspired many helpful comments.Thank you everyone!

Well put. Well done. Thank you.

Thank God for this universal Truth... may the families of NewTown-- and the Globe-- be united in prayerful peace. Thank you, John. --Rob of the Rockies

John, thank you so much for this encouraging message. Your voice was so right, so sincere, that I know, that who ever hears this message will receive comfort and encouragment. Thank you for giving to us all, the wonderful daily lifts.

Thank you, John, for this lovely lift! I hope those asking "where is God" will listen to this and find peace.

Thank you, John, for this lovely lift. I hope that those wondering "where is God" will listen to this and be assured of His ever-presence.

Thank you ... Thank you ... Thank you! So appreciate John's DL contribution ~ how blessed we are to have this timely resource at our fingertips/ears (via telephone). Also grateful yesterday as I listened to the Sunday service from Boston ... Sandy's Scriptural selection, comments and hymns were inspiring and comforting ...

Oh Thank you John for this heart-felt message!

This helps us all to be comforted and to pray for those family members in Newtown, CT dealing with such loss of the children and teachers.
Thanks to #89 and #103 and ALL of you in this Daily Lift community -- your messages and prayers are helping to heal the shock and sorrow.

Many thanks for this. Not sure the berieved will want to sing the jolly carol 'God Rest you Merry Gentlemen' when they've just lost their six year old, but I understand the sentiment expressed. We must be very careful with people berieved, many of whom are Christians but not Christian Scientists as some of us may be. We need to put ourselves in some of those people's shoes and be human as well.

Thank you John and all. I also wish to add that there is NO mental illness to drive any to the insanity we see in this act. Mental illness is the belief that there is more than one Mind, God, and that we are not driven by this devil, evil, falsity. We need to overcome this dis-ease and free those loved ones of God.

truly, a heartfelt thank you for this message.

Beautiful lift, John. Thank you so much. And thank you lifters for all the loving thoughts and prayers. So healing. I have also been pondering and praying with the definition of "Children" in Science and Health, "The spiritual thoughts and representatives of Life, Truth and Love....." Life, Truth, and Love never cease to exist. Much love and blessings to all.

Thank you!

Thank you John for your loving and comforting words!
I join you and all my american family and specially the parents of those little angels with prayers of love and comfort!
May God´s blessings reach all of you bringing hope, courage and strengh so deeply needed on those painful ocasions!

Thanks we need this.

Thank you for those good, timely thoughts, John!

Thank you for this comforting Lift with its message of eternal love, here and now.

Yes, Thanks for such a comforting and uplifting prayer. We did need this.

lynn
With a heart filled with gratitude for your precious and powerful message, I offer a simple but sincere, thank you, John, for sharing these truths with us all today. Healing is going on right now, right where tragedy seemed to strike. God's Love comforts all.

Mrs. Eddy is specific. She writes, "There was never a moment in which evil was real. This great fact concerning all error brings with it another and more glorious truth, that good is supreme. As there is none beside Him, and He is all good, there can be no evil. Simply uttering this great thought is not enough! We must live it, until God becomes the All and Only of our being. Having won through great tribulation this cardinal point of divine Science, St. Paul said, 'But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held; that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter.' " ( "Is There A Personal Devil?" in No and Yes pages 22-25. By our Leader, Mary Baker Eddy.)
Thank you for the Daily Lift this day.
Robert Donaldson, Brunswick, Maine U.S. of A.

Thank you so very much for this healing thought.

Thank you, John. Yours is the first true solace helping me with this tragedy.

Thank you John, for this beautiful and heartfelt message.

Beautifully spoken, John. The words from the CS Hymnal (don't have here at work), "Oh Love, our mother ever near....." goes on with words of great comfort and healing. Thanks to all.

Our prayers from Buenos Aires, Argentina, are sent to all the american family who is going through this moment of sorrow. You are not alone. Thanks to all the Daily Lifters and to all the comments above. We are never alone, evil is not real, timely comment from # 147. Christ is OUR refuge!

Thank you all. Every one of your right and true thoughts is healing and comforting.
Here's what I was thinking: Father-Mother God is loving all. I am knowing that the moment the children in the Newtown tragedy were seemed to be shot, they were instantly caught up to God, and embraced in a love that surpasses anything we know - that washed away every vestige of fear and pain. They are cared for with unimaginable tenderness. For them, all is well - very well. The heartbreak is those still here who can no longer see and hold their children in the traditional sense. God, may they feel your loving comfort, for you are holding us all. I am comforted by this poem by Eddy that I have recited and sang for myself and my children all our lives:
O gentle presence, peace and joy and power;
O Life divine, that owns each waiting hour,
Thou Love that guards the nestling's faltering flight!
Keep Thou my child on upward wing tonight.

Love is our refuge; only with mine eye
Can I behold the snare, the pit, the fall:
His habitation high is here, and nigh,
His arm encircles me, and mine, and all.

O make me glad for every scalding tear,
For hope deferred, ingratitude, disdain!
Wait, and love more for every hate, and fear
No ill, — since God is good, and loss is gain.

Beneath the shadow of His mighty wing;
In that sweet secret of the narrow way,
Seeking and finding, with the angels sing:
"Lo, I am with you alway," — watch and pray.

No snare, no fowler, pestilence or pain...etc.

All of these tradgedies that are happening now symblize the destruction of material thinking that's seemingly going on. It behooves us to not let these tragedies tear us down, as if our prayers are not working. That's what error wants, and when we are able to not let it bother us by knowing; "Thank God, it never happened." This is not being cold, it enables us and man to overcome these horrors.

Thank you John.

I felt the deep compassion for all those affected by this seeming terrible tragedy; in your heartfelt message John And I thank OUR FATHER for this comforting message coming through you John Than kYou

Thank you so much for the comforting lift.

John: Thank you for this Daily Lift. These thoughts are so needed at this time. I have been able to share your thoughts and hymn with several very stressed and fearful parents and grandparents.
Ann Botts, Banning, CA

Thank you John for this wonderful healing lift. Thank you, everyone for all your good thoughts.

Thank you so much, John

Thank you so much for the God-inspired ideas that you expressed in the Daily Light, John!

I I too am so grateful for this DL, thank you for affirming that the great heart of Love, God, is not broken and ii.s right now embracing each one of Her dear children, reaching them even in this experience.This has helped me so much in my prayers today.

Somehow I missed this DL and found it today, thank you so much for those uplifting ideas. All our prayers must continue to go forth to support those who face tragedy at all times of the year. But we need to hold those in New Town especially in our hearts and prayers this holiday season. Thank you for these inspiring words.