Watching our thoughts

Detail. Specificity. How important are they anyway?  I love this image showing the detail this woman is putting into her work.  The steady hand, the up-close work, the beauty of her thought manifesting itself on her home. It's such a clear example of dedication, care, and detail. 

To many it seems like a person is either detail oriented or they aren't. It's either in the weeds or big picture stuff.  But, this image shows how attention to detail forms and manifests the big picture. So why the inattention to detail in our lives? Why do we sometimes just slough over things or let things build up in the corners of our homes... or of our thoughts? 

Looking around our home, our office, our cars, even our purses and tennis bags and briefcases we may find clutter, disorganization, lack of attention to detail and specificity. Aren't these signs of our thinking?  Then, wouldn't it be logical that in order to change the outward manifestations we have to first change the inward -- our thoughts? 

It's necessary to keep a close guard on what we are letting into thought. Why? Because thought is always manifested in experience, whether good or bad. Ask yourself, are you agreeing with everything you hear, are you being pushed here and there? Are you believing that you're just not the organized type or that clutter and disorganization is truly an asset? Do you believe you're lazy or disinterested? 

Then we have to stand guard against these culprits that would turn our thought and experience into a mangled mess.  Scientific prayer, as taught in Christian Science, enables us to overcome laziness, disinterest, inharmony, disorganization, etc., by replacing these culprits with genuine interest, activity, harmony, and orderliness. 

Standing guard over our thought, watching what we let in and even what we need to push out, enables us to clean up the corners of thought, then we find the light of Christ, Truth, awakening us to our true Christly nature, pure and perfect. 

Mrs. Eddy, the Discoverer of Christian Science, writes, "Watch your thoughts, and see whether they lead you to God and into harmony with His true followers. Guard and strengthen your own citadel more strongly" (My. 213:20–22). 

And she tells us how: "Watch, and pray daily that evil suggestions, in whatever guise, take no root in your thought nor bear fruit. Ofttimes examine yourselves, and see if there be found anywhere a deterrent of Truth and Love, and 'hold fast that which is good'" (My. 128:30).

Let's do that today, let's "hold fast that which is good"!

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