remembering Mary Baker Eddy

Spiritual resource to share:  the ongoing influence of a life of Christian healing

Today, my Google Alerts were full of references to Mary Baker Eddy, as it was 100 years ago today that she passed away,  In addition, friends have posted about her ( see Tony's wonderful collection of

100 reflections on why Mary Baker Eddy's life and ideas still resonate 100 years on! ) , tmcyouth.com has their own list of 100 things to know about Mary Baker Eddy and others have used social media to share their comments on her life, just as I am doing here! 

Above all things, Mary Baker Eddy had an incredible record of Christian healing.  Of the many biographies about her, the book Christian Healer ( Amplified edition) written by Yvonne Cache von Fettweis and Robert Townsend Warneck, is one of my favorites.  This book brings out,  more succinctly than others, how Mary Baker Eddy healed.  Or, I could say, how Mary Baker Eddy loved, because healing and loving are so closely related. More than 300 documented cases of healing by Mary Baker Eddy are included in this one book.

The Mary Baker Eddy Library hosted an author talk with Robert Warneck which you can hear by clicking here and scrolling down halfway to the page where you will see this explanation:

One of the original authors of Mary Baker Eddy: Christian Healer, Robert Warneck, discussed the recently issued amplified edition of this bestselling book. This new edition includes many more documented records of Eddy’s healing work, and presents her life story as a narrative of healing. There was also an opportunity for questions and answers with the author.

I have been deeply influenced by Mary Baker Eddy's life.  She not only has modeled courage and compassion, but also given me an example of how to love, how to heal and how to be the blessing to one another that we were all meant to be.

 

"Low, sad and sweet....."

Spiritual resource to share: quietness and peace

Friends and family have a a lot happening this month: Graduations, summer plans being made, school ending, houses being sold, moves being planned, new adventures ahead -- the month of May can be a lot about endings and beginnings.

In most major events, we say good bye and say hello almost in the same breath. Parting may be such sweet sorrow, but in that parting, there is a ripening of the human spirit.

When facing a major change in my life or my family's life, I have learned the wisdom of giving myself some quiet space to say goodbye. It gives me time to reflect and consider lessons learned. It gives me time to feel the gratitude for the experiences and people that make up my life experience.

"Low, sad and sweet" sums up the tone of these quiet times. It helps to recognize and reaffirm the ongoing nature of Love. This helps ease and then remove any sense of pain or separation. It awakens new gratitude for Life and reminds that however deep the struggle, however glorious the victory, God's "angel-throng of thoughts" are always present to comfort, guard and guide.

Mary Baker Eddy's poem "Christ, My Refuge" is like a blueprint for a soulful prayer of peace, satisfaction and progress.


O'er waiting harpstrings of the mind there sweeps a strain, low, sad, and sweet,
whose measures
bind the power of pain,
and wake a white-winged angel throng of thoughts, illumed by faith, and breathed in raptured song, with love perfumed.

Then His unveiled, sweet mercies show Life's burdens light. I kiss the cross, and wake to know a world more bright.

And o'er earth's troubled, angry sea I see Christ walk, and come to me, and tenderly, divinely talk.

Thus Truth engrounds me on the rock, upon Life's shore, 'gainst which the winds and waves can shock, oh, nevermore!

From tired joy and grief afar, and nearer Thee, — Father, where Thine own children are, I love to be.

My prayer, some daily good to do to Thine, for Thee; an offering pure of Love, whereto God leadeth me.







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