Mrs Eddy says, “We are Christian Scientists, only as we quit our reliance upon that which is false and grasp the true. We are not Christian Scientists until we leave all for Christ.”...leave all for Love...again from Mrs Eddy, “the human self must be evangelized. This task God demands us to accept lovingly to-day, and to abandon so fast as practical the material, and to work out the spiritual which determines the outward and actual.” And in starting down this path of loving our neighbors as ourselves, we seek to always "judge righteous judgement." (John) This is amplifying Jesus'Love..
Love to the Lifters, always..
martin vesely
- 2/7/2013
Great Lift Mark, thank you. Hate is the sense of the absence of an all-loving God. Jesus gave us the true meaning of Love, because he gave us the true meaning of God. He demonstrated (for all mankind-for all time) the healing, saving, and transforming power of divine Love. When we are faced with the belief that hate, or jealousy can have any power over us, we can confidently know what Mary Baker Eddy knew when she said, "No power can withstand divine Love." (S&H pg. 224:31)
J.V.
- 2/7/2013
I kind of think love is like karma. You give it to anyone and it dees come back.
Rose Deary
- 2/7/2013
Thanks Mark, "Wait, and love more for every hate,....." As Mrs Eddy's poem Mother's Evening Prayer says. Wonderful how Love (God's Love) dissolves hate, just as the morning mist dissolves when the sun's rays beam down on it, effortless!
siouxsioux
- 2/7/2013
Oh, yes, Mark -- bravo! What a soothing antidote to those feelings of anger, partisanship, criticism...wiped away by pure love, with the authority and power of God as Love! What an empowering thought from Booker T. Washington, "I shall allow no man to belittle my soul by making me hate him." That's an "ah ha" concept, that no one can make us hate! Trading anger for love... now that's a good deal!
Manfred
- 2/7/2013
This lift comes to me just in the right moment! Thank you Mark
Mary Jo Milner
- 2/7/2013
Love this message!!! Thank you so much for starting my day with God's love.
Malcolm Drummond, Henrietta NY
- 2/7/2013
Many thanks Mark for this inspiring reminder. Yes. "Define Love with our pure affection." "Light of Truth wherein no sadness/ Dims the radiant peace we find,/ As we set our whole affection/ On the beauteous things of Mind." (Christian Science Hymnal #370).
Peter Reichl-Cunningham.
- 2/7/2013
Dear Mark
Thank you so much for your inspiring and factual Daily Lift, it will certainly uplift all who go to it.
One would ask ALL TODAY, NOW to pause before doing anything and Let Love go before one,Wonderful things will be revealed, NOW, of what the Master creator has for each and every one.
All have a wonderful adventure
Love in Christ
Peter Reichl-Cunningham
Tony Martin
- 2/7/2013
Thank you for pointing out that we too can demonstrate God's Love by our pure affection for the perfect man thatJesus saw. As we do this we will be loving the man that God loves.
Thanks for the reminder that we have the authority of a true reflection and we can expect a reflection to be accurate to the original.
As someone commented recently, included in "Les Miserables" is the line:
"To love another person is to see the face of God"
Mrs Eddy writes:
248:3-5
3 Love never loses sight of loveliness. Its halo rests upon
its object. One marvels that a friend can ever seem less
than beautiful.
This must be the best love you can give someone, to see them as they truly are, as God created them, and to reject the mortal thought of how they appear to be in matter.
Perhaps it would be a useful exercise to define the other synonyms of God in the same way.( See Science and Health Page 465)
Elena Shideler, California (San Diego)
- 2/7/2013
True love is generous, unselfish.
In an article named Taking Offense, MBE said, There is immense wisdom in the old proverb, “He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty.” (the poet and philanthropist) Hannah More said, “If I wished to punish my enemy, I should make him hate somebody.” Misc. 223:25
And quoting American educator, Booker T. Washington, "I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him."
Mrs. Eddy also said of the Master Christian: Out of the amplitude of his pure affection, he defined Love. S&H 54:3
ESPAÑOL
El verdadero amor es generoso, desinteresado.
En un artículo llamado Sentirse Ofendido, MBE dijo, Hay una inmensa sabiduría en el antiguo proverbio: "Mejor es el que tarda en airarse que el fuerte". Hannah More (la poetiza y filantropista) dijo: "Si deseara castigar a mi enemigo lo instaría a que odiase a alguien". Misceláneos 223:26
Y citando al educador Americano, Booker T. Washington, "No permitiré que ningún hombre reduzca y degrade mi alma haciéndome que lo odie".
La Sra. Eddy también dijo del Maestro Cristiano: De acuerdo con la amplitud de su afecto puro definió al Amor. CyS 54:3
Luise
- 2/7/2013
Thank you dear Mark, it seems like me having a deficit in defining devine Love through my life. My action is mostly a reaction especially when it pertains to closest family. Now you gave me some homework to do: Define devine Love by being a transparency for it. In other words: "Make channels for the streams of Love, where they may broadly run; and Love has overflowing streams, to fill them every one."(Hymnal # 182).
Ruth D
- 2/7/2013
So special to quote Booker T. Washington, a man who had so much prejudice directed towards him
and yet he could say what you quoted in your Daily Lift. Thank you very much for this inspired lift.
Tony Martin
- 2/7/2013
While I was listening to Mark's daily lift once more another thought came to me that I would like to share with you. In the Bible we read:
John 15:12,13
12 This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you.
13 Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.
This is usually quoted in association with remembering those killed on wars, but could it have a deeper more spiritual meaning?
If the life referred to in verse 13 was a mortal sense of life then this would imply that the greatest love we can have for another person is to give up all faith in life in matter so that our understanding of life in Spirit can help others. If this is correct then it is true that Jesus "lay down his (mortal sense of) life long before the crucifixion.
Just a thought.
Heidi from Grand Forks, Canada
- 2/7/2013
What a power Lift this morning. Thank you so much Mark.
Michelle in Paris
- 2/7/2013
Love that BT Washington quote! What a blessing to me is this lift.
Diane D. from New Hampshire
- 2/7/2013
Thank you Mark , you messages always help define and reflect God's divine love.
Nelly
- 2/7/2013
Pienso que cuando personalizamos puede atraparnos un sentido rencoroso y que el mismo puede transformarse en odio sin darnos cuenta,por eso la importancia de no ver a los demás como pecadores, sino ver en ellos y en nosotros la verdadera imagen la divina, que es la real, ya que sabemos que la otra es la contrahechura de la real, no es fácil a mi no me afecta lo personal no me ofende ni me irrita, pero no me sucede lo mismo cuando de alguna manera siento que no se está siendo fiel con Cristo y de hecho con Dios por que eso aleja de Dios y confunde a quien aún no comprende bien cual es el verdadero sentir que nos debe atrapar y que no debemos dejar escapar...el Amor , la tolerancia, el afecto sincero, y la paciencia, es muy bello cuando descubrimos que en realidad, sí, amamos aún a aquellos con quien disentimos por su accionar, por que de cierta forma nos han ayudado a ir modelando nuestro caracter, tomando lo que edifica y desechando lo que confunde.
"Así dijo Jehová: Guardad derecho y haced justicia; por que cercana está mi salvación para venir, y mi justicia para manifestarse" Isaías
Debemos recrearnos en su promesa no dejando que ningún sentimiento ajeno a su justicia nos atrape menos el destructivo odio.
"La salvación universal se basa en el progreso y la probación, y es inalcanzable sin ellos" C. y S. MBE
Odiando jamás la alcanzaremos, no permitamos siquiera irritarnos.
Muchas gracias Mark por el mensaje, nos hace meditar.
JUNE U.K
- 2/7/2013
Thank you Mark it's exactly what JESUS was saying when He said "All I ask, is that you LOVE one another" meaning I'm sure, that only then shall we find our inner peace, and aid in bringing peace to others. I love the quotation from Booker T. Washington, and Thank you also to no; 10 for those beautiful words from Les Miserables. It's the first time I have ever heard them mentioned, not having seen the "show". LOVE to ALL.
Marita de Buenos Aires
- 2/7/2013
Thank you Mark, for this LOVEly DL! It made me think about this other passage in Science and Health:"let us labor to dissolve with the universal solvent of Love..." It is Love that makes us think big, and allows us to be transparencies... and if we wait, never doubting we shall see the results in our lives and in the lives of those who come across us. I am so grateful for these morning lifts that set my thinking in the good path to start each new day!
Love and blessings to ALL.
Mary H,AL
- 2/7/2013
Thank you for thiis inspiring Lift. Hymn # 179 in or hymnal comes to me very ofyen "Love one another,-word of revelation; / Love frees from error's thrall.-Love is liberation.
Sheila M
- 2/7/2013
Thanks Mark. I am appreciating the word 'transparency' this morning. How did Jesus pass right thru that 'crowd' of anger, jealousy etc? Mark Sappenfield in his article "Children of Light" in Feb Journal quotes from Einstein: The Life and Times, "All mass was merely congealed energy; all energy merely liberated matter" Light was composed of 'particles which had shed their mass and were traveling with the speed of light in the form of energy, while energy below the speed of light had been transformed by its slowing down..." I asked myself, what's been slowing me down? Am I looking in the rear view mirror? Am I clinging to the past? Am I holding onto grief? What am II rubbernecking at? all false knowledge - all baggage that was slowing me down and I will "lay aside every weight"; drop it "as fast as practical" and "run the race." Jesus didn't have any baggage - he was a transparency for Truth and Love. Hatred & jealousy burned up in his atmosphere of Love. He traveled at the speed of Love and so can we.
Patty from New Jersey
- 2/7/2013
Thank you
Parent of Three Serving
- 2/7/2013
Hearing you Mark I see Love rising over the Sandia Mountains and above the Rio Grande river and never setting, never failing to bless, always defined. God's light "paints the petal with myriad hues", MBE, p. 247, SH. Thanks Mark, for being a "starry gem" that never faulters or fails. Blessings to all at the DL, each who testifies these early mornings, every one "shining resplendent."
Sunshine
- 2/7/2013
Thank you for guiding those who will stop today at Love's open door gallery. We pause for but a moment to view the work of the Grand Master of the Universe. Today, the signature on Life's canvass is that of Love, itself, even divine Love. With willingness to study the nature of this completed and perfect canvass, the one masterpiece, reflections of Perfect Likeness shall be revealed. As the preacher did speak, "He hath made every thing beautiful in His time," Ecclesiastes 3:11. Today's Lift brings to inspired thought that very beauty of all things true. This gallery is free to all and the door is always open. Love welcomes us.
name
- 2/7/2013
Thank you for this Lift, Mark. Jesus set such a wonderful example. Choosing to express love instead of hate not only blesses ourselves but those around us as well.
I love the quote shared in this Lift by Booker T. Washington. I also love two other quotes by him: "You can't hold a man down without staying down with him." Also, "If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else."
Expressing Love is always rewarding. Sending love to all of you!
Kathy in N.J.
- 2/7/2013
Thank you Mark, Pure affection, the grace to be that Love!
Sarah Kelly
- 2/7/2013
HUGE lift for all mankind! Thank you!
Margaret Sunshine Coast Australia
- 2/7/2013
Thank you Mark. Listening to you, I'm hearing a man who has much experience in following the example of Christ Jesus, in trading anger for God's love. You witnessed the evaporation of anger when that older friend hit you in front of his girl friend. Anger or hatred simply can't stay in the presence of divine Love. The love simply dispels whatever was masquerading : impatience, frustration, "frozen anger". Once they are no longer on the scene all that space is seen to be filled and overflowing with divine Love.
Thank you Nate and the production team; the BoL and lecturers; and the awesome Daily Lifters.
Karim
- 2/7/2013
Mark, thank you. This was a very enriching insight.
I love the idea of defining Love "out of the amplitude" of affection. This is definitely an incentive for us all to "amp up" the volume (abundance) and the clarity and potency of Love.
I looked up the word "amplitude" in Webster's and here are some of the definitions:
+Extent of dignity and excellence
+The quality or state of being 'ample':
+Fullness
+Abundance
name
- 2/7/2013
Thank you I needed that.
Lori in California
- 2/7/2013
Thanks so much, Mark, for defining Love so clearly and the quote from Booker T. Washngton which reminded me of a story in Reader's Digest many, many years ago. It tells of a man who stopped at the same newspaper stand every morning and greeted the attendent with a smile and cheerful greeting, and received only a grump in return. Someone observing this after some time asked him why he continued being so cheerful when it was not returned. His reply was that he wasn't going to let anyone else determine what kind of a day he was going to have. This has stayed with me as not letting any negative thoughts or actions determine what kind of a day I'm going to have - this is God's day filled only with good.
Robert, Brunswick, Maine U.S. of A.
- 2/7/2013
Mrs. Eddy writes to assure her "Beloved Students," and we are they, "You have laid the corner-stone of your church edifice impressively, and buried immortal truths in the bosom of earth safe from all chance of being challenged." (Miscellany, page 203.)
name
- 2/7/2013
Wonderful lift. I'll put it to work immediately, thank tou!
nela
- 2/7/2013
Thank you, Mark, for “Define Love … Mary Baker Eddy’s … ‘Out of the amplitude of his pure affection, he defined Love.’ … he felt the authority of God as Love and that’s what he answered with … through the power of Divine Love, he was a transparency to that power … Booker T. Washington … ‘I shall allow no man to belittle my soul, by making me hate him.’…” I hear in your Lift, an invitation to define Love in each interaction and under every circumstance as I let Love shine through me, prayerfully guided by the answers to, "What is the most loving thing I can think, say, and do?" And more than an invitation! Love was not only modeled but also mandated by Jesus, himself. “These things I command you, that ye love one another” (John 15:17).
Naida Oliveira Goebel, Brazil
- 2/7/2013
Thank you Mark. Obrigada a mensagem de hoje..
Obrigada também a Nelly e Elena por compartilhar o Daily Lift em espanhol.
Michael Steven Van Stone, Lewiston, Idaho, USA
- 2/7/2013
Thank you.
Bevi, Sandpoint, ID
- 2/7/2013
Love your clear Heart, Mark! I was thinking......What makes us want to respond with Anger or Hatred to another's words or acts? I'm thinking that often the question we need to ask ourselves is: "Who Do We Think We Are?" Do I think I'm a mortal ego who needs to "be right' in order to achieve some sense of self-esteem? How do I define myself? With self-hate or self-condemnation? Jesus always defned himself as The Son of God. He didn't have a little, petty ego to defend. Perhaps one of the ways we can achieve responding with Love, no matter what, is to never claim a personal ego. In Christian Science we are given the liberty of claiming our true, spiritual identity - always held perfect in God, the one Mind. Perhaps having the courage to claim my true identity would also help me to define Love. Thanks All for Beautiful Comments this morning! Live is being Defined!!
Leah
- 2/7/2013
Such a beautiful and empowering lift... thank you immensely!
Kurt R.-Evanston, IL-USA
- 2/7/2013
Mark,
Thank you fo your short and simple truth about Love. t was just what I needed for a joyous start to a good filled day...!
name
- 2/7/2013
Thank You for the reminder that God is in control not the material or ego. Great thought to start the day.
Nancy from Yellow Springs
- 2/7/2013
After listening to Lifts, I love the after-thoughts. However, sometimes an idea springs forth which may seem sort of off the mark. Today an odd expression popped into thought -“Trigger Points” - What?- I thought about this. Ah, you know the “other guy” cuts you off and triggers you (ha!) to become embarrassingly un-loving.
While realizing that latent anger has no real place to hide to be sparked by trigger points, I am reminded of Mrs. Eddy’s suggestion “We must look deep into realism instead of accepting only the outward sense of things.” S&H 129:22
Mary #21, great truth "Love frees from error's thrall - Love is liberation".
Well, if I haven't let go of all trigger points, at least I can recalibrate them. Watch out! I may slap with Love!
Shirley from Naples, Florida
- 2/7/2013
What a lovely transparency of Love you are, Mark! Thanks for sharing such an inspiring Daily Lift today!
gj from MD
- 2/7/2013
Mark, Thank you, nothing is more important than to shine forth love and to #22, Sheila and #26 name, great quotes!!! Thank you and Love to all...
margaret
- 2/7/2013
Thanks Mark and thanks everyone who has shared. I love the additional B.T. Washington quotes as well. "Love is our answered prayer," (a line from hymn 179).
Happy Dancer, Canada
- 2/7/2013
Thank you, Mark. Everyone wants to feel loved, and turning to God, Divine Love, enables us to reflect all the wonderful qualities of our Spiritual source. Let's share with each one we meet today ( and every day), joy, kindness, warmth, tenderness, respect, a smile, an uplifted, pure thought.
name
- 2/7/2013
Thank you Mark, and thank you Elena for your inspirational messages.
TOBIAS A. WEISSMAN
- 2/7/2013
A C/S Practitioner once told me what to do when some one upsets your Ira. "Just LOVE the HELL out of them." And another saying I heard when I was new to C/S; "Upon getting so mad at some one, instead of saying or thinking, "To HELL with you," say or think, "To HEAVEN with you!" Thus you have accomplished two important attitudes, no anger but pure forgiving Love for the individual. The Love that sees man as God's pure reflection.
Marilyn from Maine
- 2/7/2013
Thanks so much. Very helpful. I was reminded of what Mary Baker wrote in one of the shorter pieces collected in her book Miscellaneous Writings (page 104): "I will love, if another hates. I will gain a balance on the side of good, my true being. This alone gives me the forces of God wherewith to overcome all error." I thought the quote from Booker T. Washington, the American educator, was so appropriate. Here's a link to a biography
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BookerT.Washington
name
- 2/7/2013
Louise Ohio - 2-7-13
What a great way to start the day. Mark, all of your writings and lifts are truly inspirational. I'm so grateful for all you do. We are truly blessed as you share your demonstration of love to every listening heart.
Merri McElderry
- 2/7/2013
My grandma used to say:" Love even when your feet are hurting," and she did that. Made us all never even know what things she was dealing with in her South SIde Chicago life in the 1950's. She also sang a song when things got kind of hard: " I have a great sufficiency of all I fancy for." and well, we all benefited from her joy in that spiritual understanding. of divine Love meeting all of her daily needs. Thank you for being that transparency, Mark, and for reminding me that I have that responsibility to God and to my beloved grandma to be that transparency as well.
Joy H, Alberta Canada
- 2/7/2013
Thank you Mark! Perfect.
And thanks all for sharing your insights, blessings and gratitude
about God's Love, and
how we can better live Love!
Nancy in New York
- 2/7/2013
Thank you so much Mark. Your comments and the quote will uplift me throughout the today and beyond.
Mary in Maryland
- 2/7/2013
Thank you
Much appreciated!
nela
- 2/7/2013
2nd Submission: Inspired further by this Lift, I continued to prayerfully consider "Define Love." First came, "Love DEFINES us/me!" and then “How can we/I, the beloved, BE Love?”
"God is Love" (John 4). In Science and Health, Love is a synonym for God. In God’s/Love's image and likeness, we reflect corresponding attributes, qualities of character; thereby living Love everyday. In a recent Bible Lesson, "Love" was the topic under study.
Throughout that week's study, I was drawn to and circled the words and word combinations that represent living Love. Here's a sample: Sincere; without offence; nothing through strife or vainglory; esteem; rejoice; rest; singing; gracious; compassion; tender mercies; beauty; faith; hope; fruition; without dissimulation; holy; kindness; meekness; forbearing; forgiving; charity; yield to spirituality; casteth out fear; good; brotherhood; Love thy neighbor as thyself; spiritual living; blessedness; be thou an example; healing; unselfish affection; common sense and common humanity; peace; the tender word; encouragement; patience; Christian Science, aflame with divine Love; be still and know; gravitate Godward … (Hooray, Bible Lessons!)
Love? Can I count the ways? :-) Love is ours to live, ours to BE. Love is the most powerful force in the universe. “… the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds …” (II Cor 10:4). Weapon and/or tool, Love is The Way.
Thanks, again, Mark and all!
Jan in Laguna Hills
- 2/7/2013
Thanks, Mark, for another Lift just filled with Love.
tori
- 2/7/2013
I love that Booker T. Washington quote and will forever be inspired by it. Thank you Mark. Mrs. Eddy says something to the extent of and I am paraphrasing, be love, know love, love, love love. I need help because I never have time to look up these things. I also love her quote "The way to extract error (hate, etc.) is to pour in truth through floodtides of love.
name
- 2/7/2013
nice. i attended tuskegee , so i love that.
Mimi
- 2/7/2013
Just yesterday I experienced uncalled for anger from a colleague. It helps to just yield into Love and embrace the whole situation with genuine affection. It is a sweet confirmation to hear this lift today. Thank you.
Mark Swinney
- 2/7/2013
Thank you everyone! The human need is always for God, divine Love, so that line Mary H. and Margaret mentioned from Hymn 179 is SO insightful: "Love is our answered prayer."
Fay
- 2/7/2013
Thank you for this inspiring message. It is just what I needed to hear today.
Bootsie in Georgia
- 2/7/2013
Thank you, Mark, for your wonderful lesson on love. Being love is the greatest gift we can give to ourselves and to the world.
Kaye from Kansas
- 2/7/2013
Love it! Thank you a lot!
Bevi, Sandpoint, ID
- 2/7/2013
Thank you to #14 Tony Martin - I think you have an excellent insight there! Right On! And Thank you to #22 Sheila - beautifully expressed and so true! (Plan to read that Article today!)
Penni L.
- 2/7/2013
Cool stuff! Thank you all.
You cannot keep a man down without being down with him.
Here is another favorite Booker T. Quote:
"The changless laws of Justice bind
oppressor with oppressed
and sure as sin and suffering
we march to fate abreast."
Pam Waller
- 2/7/2013
Pam -- Irvine
Thanks so much Mark for the reminder. I love to reread now and then in Miscellaneous Writings, Pg. 8 "Love Your Enemies". Mrs. Eddy says, "Simply count your enemy to be that which defaces, and dethrones the Christ-image that you should reflect." A wonderful lift to start the day. I'm so grateful for all the daily Lifts and all the avenues we have for our spiritual growth.
In Progress
- 2/7/2013
Thanks, Mark, and lovely guitarist (the music sounds like hope and expectancy!), and #42 Nancy, for "realizing that latent anger has no real place to hide to be sparked by trigger points." That's really helpful to me. The Christ uncovers whatever needs to be healed, and Love meets the need in profound and innovative ways.
Mary Baker Eddy counsels "self-knowledge" and this doesn't mean psychoanalyzing ourselves or others, but it might mean (in part) praying meekly every day to see our innate wholeness and perfection. I'd welcome more thoughts on this from Mark and other Lifters.
js
- 2/7/2013
Thank you Mark and one and all - great lift. I love all the wise comments and the humor.
Marie
- 2/7/2013
Thank you Mark! I decided yesterday to put a display in our Reading Room window to honor February as "Black History Month.". All the lovely quotes in today's DL filled this need. MLK preached a dream but Booker T. Washington, Mary Baker Eddy, and Jesus preached the Truth of God. Mrs. Eddy was an early worker to abolish slavery and injustice. No wonder there has been so much advancement in a short time by blacks. I would also like to thank the Mother Church in Boston for the "Church Alive" and "Circle of Love" programs. These are both steps to bring the day closer when God is in total control of our churches, our lives and thoughts.
Sibylle
- 2/7/2013
Thank you, Mark. Yes. the feel of divine Love is comfort in loneliness, assurance in fear, guidance in bewilderment and warmth - oh so much warmth....Thank you.
Robert in California
- 2/7/2013
Thank you, Mark, and all the uplifting comments! Rose #4's sweet comments turned thought to our Leader's "Mother's Evening Prayer", which also reminds us that "Love is our refuge...His arm encircles me, and mine, and all." That "all" includes every dear one we come across in our daily walk with God, no matter the sense testimony. The circumference of divine Love's enfolding arms is infinite! We're never outside those arms, we never have been, and we never will be. That's Love's grand and wonderful design for all of us, His precious children!
Sibylle
- 2/7/2013
Thank you, Mark. Yes, the feel of Love is an anchoring feel in times of loneliness. It is an assurance in bewilderment and ever so comforting when stumbling. Thank you!
Sibylle Swinney
- 2/7/2013
Thank you, Mark. Yes, divine Love guides in bewilderment- comforts in loneliness - defines your daily route.....Thank you!
name
- 2/7/2013
Trading anger for LOVE
Karen
- 2/7/2013
Boy...talk about "one Mind!"...on the way, to work in the Reading Room this morning, before I heard your Lift, I was filled with such a sense of Love...I vowed to share that Love with everyone I came in contact with...then I heard your Lift, my heart is overflowing.
name
- 2/7/2013
Thank you.
Dorothy L.,NYC
- 2/7/2013
"Higher we cannot go....God is Love....and each one of us is His perfect reflection;patient,honest,unselfish,pure,intelligent,charitable,healthy....
Kay
- 2/7/2013
Thank you so much, Mark, and all for adding the enriching inspiration! This morning it came to me to write a note to the Methodist church in our Christian Science church neighborhood thanking them for the huge, colorful banner they've just hung over their entrance. It reads, SAY YES TO LOVE! This was such a lovely guiding thought for me all day yesterday after I first saw it! Helping me to realize, "...all that really exists ... manifests His love." Science and Health, page 340
Now this Lift confirms for me I should do it!!
dolores sandoval, Montreal
- 2/7/2013
So many wonderful responses to Mark's admonition to Define Love. Since there are references to Black History Month, which is actually American History Month, I feel the need to note this. My father's mother was born a slave in Virginia. My mother's family lived briefly in Cambridge and my mother often attended the church here because I assume my grandmother came in contact with C.S. there at the turn of the century. Obviously they had all passed on before my birth but they left the U.S. and moved to Montreal to experience less racism. So the hopeful comment by #69 "No wonder there has been so much advancement in a short time by blacks," needs to have the additional request, that we pray that more LOVE can be found in our judicial system so that the disproportionate number of men and women of color in our prisons, and the total number of prisons, being an international disgrace, can better reflect what we know God knows about us all.
Robert, Brunswick, Maine U.S. of A.
- 2/7/2013
In an article called FIDELITY, Mrs. Eddy writes, "When will the whole human race have one God, -- an undivided affection that leaves the unreal material basis of things, for the spiritual foundation and superstructure that is real, right, and eternal?" (Miscellaneous Writings page 341.)
Renate Lohl, Germany
- 2/7/2013
Superb
Pamela Osgood
- 2/7/2013
Thanks you so much for this lift. I especially appreciate the Booker T. Washington quote and the words from " 79. I pray daily for justice to be expressed in the USA and all countries. And when I see injustice being expressed in front of me, I often challenge it, not just in prayer, but in human action, too. Knowing that my moral courage comes from God alone gives me the presence of Mind, the wisdom to say and do the right and just thing even though others appear to be afraid to act.
Janice
- 2/7/2013
Say YES to Love today!
Great lift Mark. Thank you!
Susan
- 2/7/2013
What a powerful "Lift.!" The quote from Booker T. Washington tells me God is, always has been and will ever continue to speak to all people with inspiration and love..
Thank you for continuing these terriffic podcasts.
nancy
- 2/7/2013
Thank you, Mark! What a profound Lift. Christ Jesus lived Love, we must too, the world is hungering for it. "Love now is dawning over every nation...Love, Love alone is power." (hymn 179) Your ideas express such a strong, healing message for all. Thank you, again.
Amy Southard
- 2/7/2013
Thank you Mark.
What a wonderful lift and also thank you all for the comments, which we also very nice!!!
amy
Caryn, B.C., Canada
- 2/7/2013
Thanks, Mark, for expressing the message of the "Define Love" Lift with such clarity, wisdom, pure and Christ-like affection! I/we need to knowingly reflect & bring out this pure, loving affection towards ourselves & others. Thought-provoking DL community comments. An affectionate thank-you to the DL team. Love/love to all.
June Nettles Clark, CS
- 2/7/2013
When we look to God in every way knowing His Love is "DIVINE" is comfort food and your Lift has fed the multitudes today. Thank you.
LG
- 2/8/2013
Thank you so much. Your DL & all these wonderful comments have helped me so much this morning.
I am going through a tough challenge right now and this is really helping.
Almenia
- 2/8/2013
Wow! What a powerful quote from Booker T. Washington. Thank you soooo much for sharing that.
carolyn
- 2/8/2013
Thank you - this living 'love' is sometimes a learning thing for me but i am learning. Good message!!!
name
- 2/8/2013
Thank you - only Mind's intelligent knowing can define man.
Adrian Smith
- 2/8/2013
Beautiful, powerful, practical. I love the freedom this message gives us Mark. Thank you!
name
- 2/8/2013
Thank you Mark, I am holding to this daily, trying really hard to be a transparency for the power of Divine Love and watch the anger melt away.
I absolutely love the ending guitar part, does anyone know what melody this is an excerpt from???? Would love to have my daughter learn to play that on her guitar.
Luise
- 2/9/2013
Thank you, Lori (#32) for mentioning this article from the Reader's Digest from long long ago. I read it as well and until to day I'm willing to put it into practice. In another Reader's Digest (German ed.) from long ago I read the following and copied it right away: "Liebling, Du bist die Antwort auf meine Gebete. Du bist zwar nicht genau derjenige, um den ich gebetet habe, aber ganz offensichtlich bist Du die Antwort." Here the translation: "Sweetheart, you are my answered prayers. You are not exactly the one I prayed for, but quite obviously, you are the answer." After almost 50 years of marriage with the same spouse, I stick to that beautiful thought with heartfelt gratitude.
Rose2/10/2013
- 2/10/2013
Thank you for those wonderful thoughts they have lifted me as I really do need this healing to disolve hate
kerry
- 2/11/2013
Thanks for this fresh reminder - for me, how important not to belittle ourselves by hating, bearing false witness, etc. against another. WOW! Thanks Mark.
El Paso Patt
- 2/12/2013
Whenever I pet my cat or dog, I get such a warm, loving connected feeling with them. That is the feeling that I want when I interact with people. It happens, but not all the time due to unsettling circumstances. This lift gets to the heart of the problem with nothing but divine Love as the answer. Thanks to all the sharers for their added unfoldment.
Maggie
- 3/4/2013
Listening to this nearly a month after its broadcast - but today is the day I needed this message! Thank you!
Steve Hopewell, NJ
- 2/7/2013What a great quote by Booker!
Thank you Mark! I love your encouragement!
Mrs Eddy says, “We are Christian Scientists, only as we quit our reliance upon that which is false and grasp the true. We are not Christian Scientists until we leave all for Christ.”...leave all for Love...again from Mrs Eddy, “the human self must be evangelized. This task God demands us to accept lovingly to-day, and to abandon so fast as practical the material, and to work out the spiritual which determines the outward and actual.” And in starting down this path of loving our neighbors as ourselves, we seek to always "judge righteous judgement." (John) This is amplifying Jesus'Love..
Love to the Lifters, always..
martin vesely
- 2/7/2013Great Lift Mark, thank you. Hate is the sense of the absence of an all-loving God. Jesus gave us the true meaning of Love, because he gave us the true meaning of God. He demonstrated (for all mankind-for all time) the healing, saving, and transforming power of divine Love. When we are faced with the belief that hate, or jealousy can have any power over us, we can confidently know what Mary Baker Eddy knew when she said, "No power can withstand divine Love." (S&H pg. 224:31)
J.V.
- 2/7/2013I kind of think love is like karma. You give it to anyone and it dees come back.
Rose Deary
- 2/7/2013Thanks Mark, "Wait, and love more for every hate,....." As Mrs Eddy's poem Mother's Evening Prayer says. Wonderful how Love (God's Love) dissolves hate, just as the morning mist dissolves when the sun's rays beam down on it, effortless!
siouxsioux
- 2/7/2013Oh, yes, Mark -- bravo! What a soothing antidote to those feelings of anger, partisanship, criticism...wiped away by pure love, with the authority and power of God as Love! What an empowering thought from Booker T. Washington, "I shall allow no man to belittle my soul by making me hate him." That's an "ah ha" concept, that no one can make us hate! Trading anger for love... now that's a good deal!
Manfred
- 2/7/2013This lift comes to me just in the right moment! Thank you Mark
Mary Jo Milner
- 2/7/2013Love this message!!! Thank you so much for starting my day with God's love.
Malcolm Drummond, Henrietta NY
- 2/7/2013Many thanks Mark for this inspiring reminder. Yes. "Define Love with our pure affection." "Light of Truth wherein no sadness/ Dims the radiant peace we find,/ As we set our whole affection/ On the beauteous things of Mind." (Christian Science Hymnal #370).
Peter Reichl-Cunningham.
- 2/7/2013Dear Mark
Thank you so much for your inspiring and factual Daily Lift, it will certainly uplift all who go to it.
One would ask ALL TODAY, NOW to pause before doing anything and Let Love go before one,Wonderful things will be revealed, NOW, of what the Master creator has for each and every one.
All have a wonderful adventure
Love in Christ
Peter Reichl-Cunningham
Tony Martin
- 2/7/2013Thank you for pointing out that we too can demonstrate God's Love by our pure affection for the perfect man thatJesus saw. As we do this we will be loving the man that God loves.
Thanks for the reminder that we have the authority of a true reflection and we can expect a reflection to be accurate to the original.
As someone commented recently, included in "Les Miserables" is the line:
"To love another person is to see the face of God"
Mrs Eddy writes:
248:3-5
3 Love never loses sight of loveliness. Its halo rests upon
its object. One marvels that a friend can ever seem less
than beautiful.
This must be the best love you can give someone, to see them as they truly are, as God created them, and to reject the mortal thought of how they appear to be in matter.
Perhaps it would be a useful exercise to define the other synonyms of God in the same way.( See Science and Health Page 465)
Elena Shideler, California (San Diego)
- 2/7/2013True love is generous, unselfish.
In an article named Taking Offense, MBE said, There is immense wisdom in the old proverb, “He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty.” (the poet and philanthropist) Hannah More said, “If I wished to punish my enemy, I should make him hate somebody.” Misc. 223:25
And quoting American educator, Booker T. Washington, "I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him."
Mrs. Eddy also said of the Master Christian: Out of the amplitude of his pure affection, he defined Love. S&H 54:3
ESPAÑOL
El verdadero amor es generoso, desinteresado.
En un artículo llamado Sentirse Ofendido, MBE dijo, Hay una inmensa sabiduría en el antiguo proverbio: "Mejor es el que tarda en airarse que el fuerte". Hannah More (la poetiza y filantropista) dijo: "Si deseara castigar a mi enemigo lo instaría a que odiase a alguien". Misceláneos 223:26
Y citando al educador Americano, Booker T. Washington, "No permitiré que ningún hombre reduzca y degrade mi alma haciéndome que lo odie".
La Sra. Eddy también dijo del Maestro Cristiano: De acuerdo con la amplitud de su afecto puro definió al Amor. CyS 54:3
Luise
- 2/7/2013Thank you dear Mark, it seems like me having a deficit in defining devine Love through my life. My action is mostly a reaction especially when it pertains to closest family. Now you gave me some homework to do: Define devine Love by being a transparency for it. In other words: "Make channels for the streams of Love, where they may broadly run; and Love has overflowing streams, to fill them every one."(Hymnal # 182).
Ruth D
- 2/7/2013So special to quote Booker T. Washington, a man who had so much prejudice directed towards him
and yet he could say what you quoted in your Daily Lift. Thank you very much for this inspired lift.
Tony Martin
- 2/7/2013While I was listening to Mark's daily lift once more another thought came to me that I would like to share with you. In the Bible we read:
John 15:12,13
12 This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you.
13 Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.
This is usually quoted in association with remembering those killed on wars, but could it have a deeper more spiritual meaning?
If the life referred to in verse 13 was a mortal sense of life then this would imply that the greatest love we can have for another person is to give up all faith in life in matter so that our understanding of life in Spirit can help others. If this is correct then it is true that Jesus "lay down his (mortal sense of) life long before the crucifixion.
Just a thought.
Heidi from Grand Forks, Canada
- 2/7/2013What a power Lift this morning. Thank you so much Mark.
Michelle in Paris
- 2/7/2013Love that BT Washington quote! What a blessing to me is this lift.
Diane D. from New Hampshire
- 2/7/2013Thank you Mark , you messages always help define and reflect God's divine love.
Nelly
- 2/7/2013Pienso que cuando personalizamos puede atraparnos un sentido rencoroso y que el mismo puede transformarse en odio sin darnos cuenta,por eso la importancia de no ver a los demás como pecadores, sino ver en ellos y en nosotros la verdadera imagen la divina, que es la real, ya que sabemos que la otra es la contrahechura de la real, no es fácil a mi no me afecta lo personal no me ofende ni me irrita, pero no me sucede lo mismo cuando de alguna manera siento que no se está siendo fiel con Cristo y de hecho con Dios por que eso aleja de Dios y confunde a quien aún no comprende bien cual es el verdadero sentir que nos debe atrapar y que no debemos dejar escapar...el Amor , la tolerancia, el afecto sincero, y la paciencia, es muy bello cuando descubrimos que en realidad, sí, amamos aún a aquellos con quien disentimos por su accionar, por que de cierta forma nos han ayudado a ir modelando nuestro caracter, tomando lo que edifica y desechando lo que confunde.
"Así dijo Jehová: Guardad derecho y haced justicia; por que cercana está mi salvación para venir, y mi justicia para manifestarse" Isaías
Debemos recrearnos en su promesa no dejando que ningún sentimiento ajeno a su justicia nos atrape menos el destructivo odio.
"La salvación universal se basa en el progreso y la probación, y es inalcanzable sin ellos" C. y S. MBE
Odiando jamás la alcanzaremos, no permitamos siquiera irritarnos.
Muchas gracias Mark por el mensaje, nos hace meditar.
JUNE U.K
- 2/7/2013Thank you Mark it's exactly what JESUS was saying when He said "All I ask, is that you LOVE one another" meaning I'm sure, that only then shall we find our inner peace, and aid in bringing peace to others. I love the quotation from Booker T. Washington, and Thank you also to no; 10 for those beautiful words from Les Miserables. It's the first time I have ever heard them mentioned, not having seen the "show". LOVE to ALL.
Marita de Buenos Aires
- 2/7/2013Thank you Mark, for this LOVEly DL! It made me think about this other passage in Science and Health:"let us labor to dissolve with the universal solvent of Love..." It is Love that makes us think big, and allows us to be transparencies... and if we wait, never doubting we shall see the results in our lives and in the lives of those who come across us. I am so grateful for these morning lifts that set my thinking in the good path to start each new day!
Love and blessings to ALL.
Mary H,AL
- 2/7/2013Thank you for thiis inspiring Lift. Hymn # 179 in or hymnal comes to me very ofyen "Love one another,-word of revelation; / Love frees from error's thrall.-Love is liberation.
Sheila M
- 2/7/2013Thanks Mark. I am appreciating the word 'transparency' this morning. How did Jesus pass right thru that 'crowd' of anger, jealousy etc? Mark Sappenfield in his article "Children of Light" in Feb Journal quotes from Einstein: The Life and Times, "All mass was merely congealed energy; all energy merely liberated matter" Light was composed of 'particles which had shed their mass and were traveling with the speed of light in the form of energy, while energy below the speed of light had been transformed by its slowing down..." I asked myself, what's been slowing me down? Am I looking in the rear view mirror? Am I clinging to the past? Am I holding onto grief? What am II rubbernecking at? all false knowledge - all baggage that was slowing me down and I will "lay aside every weight"; drop it "as fast as practical" and "run the race." Jesus didn't have any baggage - he was a transparency for Truth and Love. Hatred & jealousy burned up in his atmosphere of Love. He traveled at the speed of Love and so can we.
Patty from New Jersey
- 2/7/2013Thank you
Parent of Three Serving
- 2/7/2013Hearing you Mark I see Love rising over the Sandia Mountains and above the Rio Grande river and never setting, never failing to bless, always defined. God's light "paints the petal with myriad hues", MBE, p. 247, SH. Thanks Mark, for being a "starry gem" that never faulters or fails. Blessings to all at the DL, each who testifies these early mornings, every one "shining resplendent."
Sunshine
- 2/7/2013Thank you for guiding those who will stop today at Love's open door gallery. We pause for but a moment to view the work of the Grand Master of the Universe. Today, the signature on Life's canvass is that of Love, itself, even divine Love. With willingness to study the nature of this completed and perfect canvass, the one masterpiece, reflections of Perfect Likeness shall be revealed. As the preacher did speak, "He hath made every thing beautiful in His time," Ecclesiastes 3:11. Today's Lift brings to inspired thought that very beauty of all things true. This gallery is free to all and the door is always open. Love welcomes us.
name
- 2/7/2013Thank you for this Lift, Mark. Jesus set such a wonderful example. Choosing to express love instead of hate not only blesses ourselves but those around us as well.
I love the quote shared in this Lift by Booker T. Washington. I also love two other quotes by him: "You can't hold a man down without staying down with him." Also, "If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else."
Expressing Love is always rewarding. Sending love to all of you!
Kathy in N.J.
- 2/7/2013Thank you Mark, Pure affection, the grace to be that Love!
Sarah Kelly
- 2/7/2013HUGE lift for all mankind! Thank you!
Margaret Sunshine Coast Australia
- 2/7/2013Thank you Mark. Listening to you, I'm hearing a man who has much experience in following the example of Christ Jesus, in trading anger for God's love. You witnessed the evaporation of anger when that older friend hit you in front of his girl friend. Anger or hatred simply can't stay in the presence of divine Love. The love simply dispels whatever was masquerading : impatience, frustration, "frozen anger". Once they are no longer on the scene all that space is seen to be filled and overflowing with divine Love.
Thank you Nate and the production team; the BoL and lecturers; and the awesome Daily Lifters.
Karim
- 2/7/2013Mark, thank you. This was a very enriching insight.
I love the idea of defining Love "out of the amplitude" of affection. This is definitely an incentive for us all to "amp up" the volume (abundance) and the clarity and potency of Love.
I looked up the word "amplitude" in Webster's and here are some of the definitions:
+Extent of dignity and excellence
+The quality or state of being 'ample':
+Fullness
+Abundance
name
- 2/7/2013Thank you I needed that.
Lori in California
- 2/7/2013Thanks so much, Mark, for defining Love so clearly and the quote from Booker T. Washngton which reminded me of a story in Reader's Digest many, many years ago. It tells of a man who stopped at the same newspaper stand every morning and greeted the attendent with a smile and cheerful greeting, and received only a grump in return. Someone observing this after some time asked him why he continued being so cheerful when it was not returned. His reply was that he wasn't going to let anyone else determine what kind of a day he was going to have. This has stayed with me as not letting any negative thoughts or actions determine what kind of a day I'm going to have - this is God's day filled only with good.
Robert, Brunswick, Maine U.S. of A.
- 2/7/2013Mrs. Eddy writes to assure her "Beloved Students," and we are they, "You have laid the corner-stone of your church edifice impressively, and buried immortal truths in the bosom of earth safe from all chance of being challenged." (Miscellany, page 203.)
name
- 2/7/2013Wonderful lift. I'll put it to work immediately, thank tou!
nela
- 2/7/2013Thank you, Mark, for “Define Love … Mary Baker Eddy’s … ‘Out of the amplitude of his pure affection, he defined Love.’ … he felt the authority of God as Love and that’s what he answered with … through the power of Divine Love, he was a transparency to that power … Booker T. Washington … ‘I shall allow no man to belittle my soul, by making me hate him.’…” I hear in your Lift, an invitation to define Love in each interaction and under every circumstance as I let Love shine through me, prayerfully guided by the answers to, "What is the most loving thing I can think, say, and do?" And more than an invitation! Love was not only modeled but also mandated by Jesus, himself. “These things I command you, that ye love one another” (John 15:17).
Naida Oliveira Goebel, Brazil
- 2/7/2013Thank you Mark. Obrigada a mensagem de hoje..
Obrigada também a Nelly e Elena por compartilhar o Daily Lift em espanhol.
Michael Steven Van Stone, Lewiston, Idaho, USA
- 2/7/2013Thank you.
Bevi, Sandpoint, ID
- 2/7/2013Love your clear Heart, Mark! I was thinking......What makes us want to respond with Anger or Hatred to another's words or acts? I'm thinking that often the question we need to ask ourselves is: "Who Do We Think We Are?" Do I think I'm a mortal ego who needs to "be right' in order to achieve some sense of self-esteem? How do I define myself? With self-hate or self-condemnation? Jesus always defned himself as The Son of God. He didn't have a little, petty ego to defend. Perhaps one of the ways we can achieve responding with Love, no matter what, is to never claim a personal ego. In Christian Science we are given the liberty of claiming our true, spiritual identity - always held perfect in God, the one Mind. Perhaps having the courage to claim my true identity would also help me to define Love. Thanks All for Beautiful Comments this morning! Live is being Defined!!
Leah
- 2/7/2013Such a beautiful and empowering lift... thank you immensely!
Kurt R.-Evanston, IL-USA
- 2/7/2013Mark,
Thank you fo your short and simple truth about Love. t was just what I needed for a joyous start to a good filled day...!
name
- 2/7/2013Thank You for the reminder that God is in control not the material or ego. Great thought to start the day.
Nancy from Yellow Springs
- 2/7/2013After listening to Lifts, I love the after-thoughts. However, sometimes an idea springs forth which may seem sort of off the mark. Today an odd expression popped into thought -“Trigger Points” - What?- I thought about this. Ah, you know the “other guy” cuts you off and triggers you (ha!) to become embarrassingly un-loving.
While realizing that latent anger has no real place to hide to be sparked by trigger points, I am reminded of Mrs. Eddy’s suggestion “We must look deep into realism instead of accepting only the outward sense of things.” S&H 129:22
Mary #21, great truth "Love frees from error's thrall - Love is liberation".
Well, if I haven't let go of all trigger points, at least I can recalibrate them. Watch out! I may slap with Love!
Shirley from Naples, Florida
- 2/7/2013What a lovely transparency of Love you are, Mark! Thanks for sharing such an inspiring Daily Lift today!
gj from MD
- 2/7/2013Mark, Thank you, nothing is more important than to shine forth love and to #22, Sheila and #26 name, great quotes!!! Thank you and Love to all...
margaret
- 2/7/2013Thanks Mark and thanks everyone who has shared. I love the additional B.T. Washington quotes as well. "Love is our answered prayer," (a line from hymn 179).
Happy Dancer, Canada
- 2/7/2013Thank you, Mark. Everyone wants to feel loved, and turning to God, Divine Love, enables us to reflect all the wonderful qualities of our Spiritual source. Let's share with each one we meet today ( and every day), joy, kindness, warmth, tenderness, respect, a smile, an uplifted, pure thought.
name
- 2/7/2013Thank you Mark, and thank you Elena for your inspirational messages.
TOBIAS A. WEISSMAN
- 2/7/2013A C/S Practitioner once told me what to do when some one upsets your Ira. "Just LOVE the HELL out of them." And another saying I heard when I was new to C/S; "Upon getting so mad at some one, instead of saying or thinking, "To HELL with you," say or think, "To HEAVEN with you!" Thus you have accomplished two important attitudes, no anger but pure forgiving Love for the individual. The Love that sees man as God's pure reflection.
Marilyn from Maine
- 2/7/2013Thanks so much. Very helpful. I was reminded of what Mary Baker wrote in one of the shorter pieces collected in her book Miscellaneous Writings (page 104): "I will love, if another hates. I will gain a balance on the side of good, my true being. This alone gives me the forces of God wherewith to overcome all error." I thought the quote from Booker T. Washington, the American educator, was so appropriate. Here's a link to a biography
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BookerT.Washington
name
- 2/7/2013Louise Ohio - 2-7-13
What a great way to start the day. Mark, all of your writings and lifts are truly inspirational. I'm so grateful for all you do. We are truly blessed as you share your demonstration of love to every listening heart.
Merri McElderry
- 2/7/2013My grandma used to say:" Love even when your feet are hurting," and she did that. Made us all never even know what things she was dealing with in her South SIde Chicago life in the 1950's. She also sang a song when things got kind of hard: " I have a great sufficiency of all I fancy for." and well, we all benefited from her joy in that spiritual understanding. of divine Love meeting all of her daily needs. Thank you for being that transparency, Mark, and for reminding me that I have that responsibility to God and to my beloved grandma to be that transparency as well.
Joy H, Alberta Canada
- 2/7/2013Thank you Mark! Perfect.
And thanks all for sharing your insights, blessings and gratitude
about God's Love, and
how we can better live Love!
Nancy in New York
- 2/7/2013Thank you so much Mark. Your comments and the quote will uplift me throughout the today and beyond.
Mary in Maryland
- 2/7/2013Thank you
Much appreciated!
nela
- 2/7/20132nd Submission: Inspired further by this Lift, I continued to prayerfully consider "Define Love." First came, "Love DEFINES us/me!" and then “How can we/I, the beloved, BE Love?”
"God is Love" (John 4). In Science and Health, Love is a synonym for God. In God’s/Love's image and likeness, we reflect corresponding attributes, qualities of character; thereby living Love everyday. In a recent Bible Lesson, "Love" was the topic under study.
Throughout that week's study, I was drawn to and circled the words and word combinations that represent living Love. Here's a sample: Sincere; without offence; nothing through strife or vainglory; esteem; rejoice; rest; singing; gracious; compassion; tender mercies; beauty; faith; hope; fruition; without dissimulation; holy; kindness; meekness; forbearing; forgiving; charity; yield to spirituality; casteth out fear; good; brotherhood; Love thy neighbor as thyself; spiritual living; blessedness; be thou an example; healing; unselfish affection; common sense and common humanity; peace; the tender word; encouragement; patience; Christian Science, aflame with divine Love; be still and know; gravitate Godward … (Hooray, Bible Lessons!)
Love? Can I count the ways? :-) Love is ours to live, ours to BE. Love is the most powerful force in the universe. “… the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds …” (II Cor 10:4). Weapon and/or tool, Love is The Way.
Thanks, again, Mark and all!
Jan in Laguna Hills
- 2/7/2013Thanks, Mark, for another Lift just filled with Love.
tori
- 2/7/2013I love that Booker T. Washington quote and will forever be inspired by it. Thank you Mark. Mrs. Eddy says something to the extent of and I am paraphrasing, be love, know love, love, love love. I need help because I never have time to look up these things. I also love her quote "The way to extract error (hate, etc.) is to pour in truth through floodtides of love.
name
- 2/7/2013nice. i attended tuskegee , so i love that.
Mimi
- 2/7/2013Just yesterday I experienced uncalled for anger from a colleague. It helps to just yield into Love and embrace the whole situation with genuine affection. It is a sweet confirmation to hear this lift today. Thank you.
Mark Swinney
- 2/7/2013Thank you everyone! The human need is always for God, divine Love, so that line Mary H. and Margaret mentioned from Hymn 179 is SO insightful: "Love is our answered prayer."
Fay
- 2/7/2013Thank you for this inspiring message. It is just what I needed to hear today.
Bootsie in Georgia
- 2/7/2013Thank you, Mark, for your wonderful lesson on love. Being love is the greatest gift we can give to ourselves and to the world.
Kaye from Kansas
- 2/7/2013Love it! Thank you a lot!
Bevi, Sandpoint, ID
- 2/7/2013Thank you to #14 Tony Martin - I think you have an excellent insight there! Right On! And Thank you to #22 Sheila - beautifully expressed and so true! (Plan to read that Article today!)
Penni L.
- 2/7/2013Cool stuff! Thank you all.
You cannot keep a man down without being down with him.
Here is another favorite Booker T. Quote:
"The changless laws of Justice bind
oppressor with oppressed
and sure as sin and suffering
we march to fate abreast."
Pam Waller
- 2/7/2013Pam -- Irvine
Thanks so much Mark for the reminder. I love to reread now and then in Miscellaneous Writings, Pg. 8 "Love Your Enemies". Mrs. Eddy says, "Simply count your enemy to be that which defaces, and dethrones the Christ-image that you should reflect." A wonderful lift to start the day. I'm so grateful for all the daily Lifts and all the avenues we have for our spiritual growth.
In Progress
- 2/7/2013Thanks, Mark, and lovely guitarist (the music sounds like hope and expectancy!), and #42 Nancy, for "realizing that latent anger has no real place to hide to be sparked by trigger points." That's really helpful to me. The Christ uncovers whatever needs to be healed, and Love meets the need in profound and innovative ways.
Mary Baker Eddy counsels "self-knowledge" and this doesn't mean psychoanalyzing ourselves or others, but it might mean (in part) praying meekly every day to see our innate wholeness and perfection. I'd welcome more thoughts on this from Mark and other Lifters.
js
- 2/7/2013Thank you Mark and one and all - great lift. I love all the wise comments and the humor.
Marie
- 2/7/2013Thank you Mark! I decided yesterday to put a display in our Reading Room window to honor February as "Black History Month.". All the lovely quotes in today's DL filled this need. MLK preached a dream but Booker T. Washington, Mary Baker Eddy, and Jesus preached the Truth of God. Mrs. Eddy was an early worker to abolish slavery and injustice. No wonder there has been so much advancement in a short time by blacks. I would also like to thank the Mother Church in Boston for the "Church Alive" and "Circle of Love" programs. These are both steps to bring the day closer when God is in total control of our churches, our lives and thoughts.
Sibylle
- 2/7/2013Thank you, Mark. Yes. the feel of divine Love is comfort in loneliness, assurance in fear, guidance in bewilderment and warmth - oh so much warmth....Thank you.
Robert in California
- 2/7/2013Thank you, Mark, and all the uplifting comments! Rose #4's sweet comments turned thought to our Leader's "Mother's Evening Prayer", which also reminds us that "Love is our refuge...His arm encircles me, and mine, and all." That "all" includes every dear one we come across in our daily walk with God, no matter the sense testimony. The circumference of divine Love's enfolding arms is infinite! We're never outside those arms, we never have been, and we never will be. That's Love's grand and wonderful design for all of us, His precious children!
Sibylle
- 2/7/2013Thank you, Mark. Yes, the feel of Love is an anchoring feel in times of loneliness. It is an assurance in bewilderment and ever so comforting when stumbling. Thank you!
Sibylle Swinney
- 2/7/2013Thank you, Mark. Yes, divine Love guides in bewilderment- comforts in loneliness - defines your daily route.....Thank you!
name
- 2/7/2013Trading anger for LOVE
Karen
- 2/7/2013Boy...talk about "one Mind!"...on the way, to work in the Reading Room this morning, before I heard your Lift, I was filled with such a sense of Love...I vowed to share that Love with everyone I came in contact with...then I heard your Lift, my heart is overflowing.
name
- 2/7/2013Thank you.
Dorothy L.,NYC
- 2/7/2013"Higher we cannot go....God is Love....and each one of us is His perfect reflection;patient,honest,unselfish,pure,intelligent,charitable,healthy....
Kay
- 2/7/2013Thank you so much, Mark, and all for adding the enriching inspiration! This morning it came to me to write a note to the Methodist church in our Christian Science church neighborhood thanking them for the huge, colorful banner they've just hung over their entrance. It reads, SAY YES TO LOVE! This was such a lovely guiding thought for me all day yesterday after I first saw it! Helping me to realize, "...all that really exists ... manifests His love." Science and Health, page 340
Now this Lift confirms for me I should do it!!
dolores sandoval, Montreal
- 2/7/2013So many wonderful responses to Mark's admonition to Define Love. Since there are references to Black History Month, which is actually American History Month, I feel the need to note this. My father's mother was born a slave in Virginia. My mother's family lived briefly in Cambridge and my mother often attended the church here because I assume my grandmother came in contact with C.S. there at the turn of the century. Obviously they had all passed on before my birth but they left the U.S. and moved to Montreal to experience less racism. So the hopeful comment by #69 "No wonder there has been so much advancement in a short time by blacks," needs to have the additional request, that we pray that more LOVE can be found in our judicial system so that the disproportionate number of men and women of color in our prisons, and the total number of prisons, being an international disgrace, can better reflect what we know God knows about us all.
Robert, Brunswick, Maine U.S. of A.
- 2/7/2013In an article called FIDELITY, Mrs. Eddy writes, "When will the whole human race have one God, -- an undivided affection that leaves the unreal material basis of things, for the spiritual foundation and superstructure that is real, right, and eternal?" (Miscellaneous Writings page 341.)
Renate Lohl, Germany
- 2/7/2013Superb
Pamela Osgood
- 2/7/2013Thanks you so much for this lift. I especially appreciate the Booker T. Washington quote and the words from " 79. I pray daily for justice to be expressed in the USA and all countries. And when I see injustice being expressed in front of me, I often challenge it, not just in prayer, but in human action, too. Knowing that my moral courage comes from God alone gives me the presence of Mind, the wisdom to say and do the right and just thing even though others appear to be afraid to act.
Janice
- 2/7/2013Say YES to Love today!
Great lift Mark. Thank you!
Susan
- 2/7/2013What a powerful "Lift.!" The quote from Booker T. Washington tells me God is, always has been and will ever continue to speak to all people with inspiration and love..
Thank you for continuing these terriffic podcasts.
nancy
- 2/7/2013Thank you, Mark! What a profound Lift. Christ Jesus lived Love, we must too, the world is hungering for it. "Love now is dawning over every nation...Love, Love alone is power." (hymn 179) Your ideas express such a strong, healing message for all. Thank you, again.
Amy Southard
- 2/7/2013Thank you Mark.
What a wonderful lift and also thank you all for the comments, which we also very nice!!!
amy
Caryn, B.C., Canada
- 2/7/2013Thanks, Mark, for expressing the message of the "Define Love" Lift with such clarity, wisdom, pure and Christ-like affection! I/we need to knowingly reflect & bring out this pure, loving affection towards ourselves & others. Thought-provoking DL community comments. An affectionate thank-you to the DL team. Love/love to all.
June Nettles Clark, CS
- 2/7/2013When we look to God in every way knowing His Love is "DIVINE" is comfort food and your Lift has fed the multitudes today. Thank you.
LG
- 2/8/2013Thank you so much. Your DL & all these wonderful comments have helped me so much this morning.
I am going through a tough challenge right now and this is really helping.
Almenia
- 2/8/2013Wow! What a powerful quote from Booker T. Washington. Thank you soooo much for sharing that.
carolyn
- 2/8/2013Thank you - this living 'love' is sometimes a learning thing for me but i am learning. Good message!!!
name
- 2/8/2013Thank you - only Mind's intelligent knowing can define man.
Adrian Smith
- 2/8/2013Beautiful, powerful, practical. I love the freedom this message gives us Mark. Thank you!
name
- 2/8/2013Thank you Mark, I am holding to this daily, trying really hard to be a transparency for the power of Divine Love and watch the anger melt away.
I absolutely love the ending guitar part, does anyone know what melody this is an excerpt from???? Would love to have my daughter learn to play that on her guitar.
Luise
- 2/9/2013Thank you, Lori (#32) for mentioning this article from the Reader's Digest from long long ago. I read it as well and until to day I'm willing to put it into practice. In another Reader's Digest (German ed.) from long ago I read the following and copied it right away: "Liebling, Du bist die Antwort auf meine Gebete. Du bist zwar nicht genau derjenige, um den ich gebetet habe, aber ganz offensichtlich bist Du die Antwort." Here the translation: "Sweetheart, you are my answered prayers. You are not exactly the one I prayed for, but quite obviously, you are the answer." After almost 50 years of marriage with the same spouse, I stick to that beautiful thought with heartfelt gratitude.
Rose2/10/2013
- 2/10/2013Thank you for those wonderful thoughts they have lifted me as I really do need this healing to disolve hate
kerry
- 2/11/2013Thanks for this fresh reminder - for me, how important not to belittle ourselves by hating, bearing false witness, etc. against another. WOW! Thanks Mark.
El Paso Patt
- 2/12/2013Whenever I pet my cat or dog, I get such a warm, loving connected feeling with them. That is the feeling that I want when I interact with people. It happens, but not all the time due to unsettling circumstances. This lift gets to the heart of the problem with nothing but divine Love as the answer. Thanks to all the sharers for their added unfoldment.
Maggie
- 3/4/2013Listening to this nearly a month after its broadcast - but today is the day I needed this message! Thank you!