Be Thee My Example…

all pictures are taken by Eva-Maria, ..........except one.....a flower by GR

Shape me – forever > LOVE!

What if the soul and  the heart discern

What is not discernible to the naked eye?

What if there is more beyond the heights

Of physical and romantic love?

Ah – Yes, to be deeply loved gives you strength – and 

Loving deeply gives you daring!

But what if you walk into the green, lush meadow

Of the garden of your heart, 
Hear Love's voice in the song of a Meadowlark, 
But are without gratitude

For tears from a full sky, 
Song and flowers, 
Could your love-devotion die?

Lean on LOVE, and survive!

Love supplies with burning flames
Of yearning to surrender to its might,

Even though, the tears from your eyes
Grow the roots of love deeper.

To love someone because you want love

Is not enough --

 To love because someone needs your love

Is enough!

Loneliness needs Love!

Love is the presence of light within you,

Love, and love more . . . and if love hurts,

Walk right on with LOVE, because

Love moves you, leaving behind the pain,

 And elevates you higher in its atmosphere, to shine.

Such love is the beginning of wisdom!

Can we live without wisdom?

Without the evocatively beautiful that is LOVE?

Where there is love there is all of Life!

When you see the smile of Love that’s

The beginning of love filling your heart!

If you want to be with a friend,

Can distance and time keep you apart?

No! It cannot!

Love is already there,

It is within – You,

“In word, in conversation, in charity, in spirit, in faith, in purity!”

Love within you sees the Beloved’s face

In the landscape of an inner life,

Which instantaneously unites. 

Listen to Love and you are in its presence!

But then, don’t mind distances’ lessons,

It may just fan the fire of affection.

Love is a force, more enriching, more formidable

Than any other so-called power –

Love is All-in all! 

It regenerates, lifts the flower of your being,

And blesses you immeasurably!

Just a touch of Love and we become lovers . . . 

It seems when we are waiting for Love

It’s slow as a snow-bound roe, but when we are still

And soak every moment with love

We experience Love’s thrill of eternity!

Consistency is its nature,

Nourishing us with its bread and sublime wine,

Its cup is full of encouragement,

LOVE calls out “Be Mine, live in Me!

And you’ll never hunger and thirst again!”

Ah then– we love to love, to love Love! 

It makes us kind and patient with those

Who need LOVE the most,

Because they live under a self-imposed burden,

Believing in a loveless life.

But how can that be?

We are all Love’s offspring.  All! 

You cannot stop Love . . . 

In one way or another love continues to flow

Like a strong river of pure energy cutting

Through the valleys of dry soil and hard stones.

  Perhaps human love goes through changes,

It evolves, and

If we are careless dries up.

But LOVE that is infinite has none beside itself.

It is our guide and bard and heart,

Trusting Love makes all things possible!

Even if we yearn for it without the ability to clearly define . . . 

LOVE defines itself, and as we yield 

To Love and its vastness, we see

Its changelessness dancing softly within . . . 

O we then understand how Love defines

In the love-rhythm of our hearts

Each one of us, including you and I!

--Eva-Maria

Spiritual proofs

of existence:

Spiritual living

and blessedness are the only evidence, by which we can recognize true existence and feel the unspeakable peace which comes from an all-absorbing spiritual love.

--Science and Health p. 264

A bouquet of roses lovingly arranged next to where I would speak to a large group in Zurich/Switzerland

No power can withstand

divine Love.

 --Science and Health, p. 224

 Let love be

without dissimulation.

 --Scriptures, Roman 12:9

photo by Gisbert Rentmeister ... a friend!

Love inspires, illuminates, designates, and leads the way.  Right motives give pinions to thought, and strength and freedom to speech and action.  Love is priestess at the altar of Truth.  Wait patiently for divine Love to move upon the waters of mortal mind, and form the perfect concept.

----Mary Baker Eddy

What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. 

All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.

--Helen Keller

Love is the beauty of the soul.

--Saint Augustine

Warmly . . . 

Eva-Maria

STRENGTH!

Eva-Maria

YOUR STRENGTH! 

WHERE do you find it?

         

                                   

The fallacy is to believe that weakness could produce strength. 

For example, a weak mind is not strong enough to deal with contradictions, or to be at peace in the storm of multiple opinions, or deal effectively with fear, or a fear of sin and death.  Stand up to these notions of weakness and you’ll discover that the Mind that is good is also strong.

Nothing is so strong as fearlessness -- nothing is so strong as gentleness!  

A notion of weakness of body is not strong enough to deal with normal bodily functions. A person who feels dis-eased is burdened by the weight of its weakness. Illness is a weakness and not strength.

You need a spiritual sense of what true health consists of: And it is HARMONY! Harmonious coexistence of thought, feeling, and deed, held in the awareness of God, the God that is with you, Good is with you and, its benevolent influence over you!  Helping you to let go of resentments, and to forgive wherever forgiveness is needed.  And to move on!

To think that the strength of humanity lies in both good and evil, is a weakness – a foolish weakness of the mortal concept of things. Good and evil are in constant conflict. Conflict is not strength.  If we are manipulated by the contradictions of a lie that one reality can destroy another reality, and we believe it, we have nothing we can rely on.

Infinity and finiteness are not the same. 

Good is infinite and strength! Evil is finite and weakness.  Simply said, …. evil’s finite “nature” is self-destructive. All that which by its falsity perpetuates, is self-destroying, and cannot be called, or relied on as, a power!  Both cannot be real and mutually experienced as reliable strength.

Good is real, and its goodness is strength!  Good and its power intercept all the whisperings of the false senses.

Spirituality and physicality are on two different levels of thought. The power of spirituality’s elevation is selflessness, peace, harmony, insights, love, and so on.  And these empower you to live in harmony with Self, your neighbor, and nature.  And thus you have an immeasurable strength to draw from! 

Physicality delivers uncertainties of strength.  It forever is swinging back and forth between different opinions of matter-notions of what constitutes strength.  It is the yielding to exclusively material means and methods, and never sure what is right but forever stubbornly insisting what it believes is ethical.

 That is not where true strength is found.

Love is a “Power house!”

Hatred is a pit.

And these are obviously not the same. Hatred cannot supply the healing strength you need.  Hate is the “master” of dislike, injustice, unjust criticism, oppression, diminishment when accepted, and thus cannot strengthen you -- instead it depletes. 

However, Love comforts, supports, acknowledges who you are, and guides you safely through the jungle-fever of worldliness.  The influence of Truth, makes your love unconditional. The deeper the cleansing waters of love the safer you navigate through life and its activities and, especially, through the sometimes turbulent waters of relationships. As you gather your moral courage, you’ll have strength and even a good sense of humor.

--Eva-Maria

They go from strength to strength, every one of them [who]… 

appears before God.

For the LORD God is a sun and shield: the Lord will give grace and glory: 

no good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly.

--Psalm 84:7, 10

Only the weak are cruel.

Gentleness can only be expected from the strong.

--Leo Buscaglia

For I know the thoughts that I think of you, saith the Lord, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.

--Scriptures, Jeremiah 29:11

Unselfish ambitions, noble life-motives, and purity, -- these constituents of thought, mingling, constitute individuality and collectively true happiness, strength, and permanence.

--Mary Baker Eddy

Science and Health, p. 58

You have power over your mind - 

not outside events. 

Realize this, and you will find strength.

--Marcus Aurelius

One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles 

possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.

--Albert Schweitzer

A truly strong person does not need the approval of others any more than a lion needs the approval of sheep.

--Vernon Howard

 

Who lives in good, lives in God,-- lives in all Life, through all space.  

His is an individual kingdom, 

his diadem a crown of crowns.

Wait patiently on illimitable Love, the lord and giver of Life.  Reflect this Life, and with it cometh 

the full power of being.  

–Mary Baker Eddy

Warmly, 

Eva-Maria