Flee as a bird to your mountain...
We all must be ready and able ‘to flee as a bird to our mountain’ – to our immediate awareness of God’s presence and power – with our silent, earnest, uplifted heart to God, which brings a sweet peace. This mountain is a mental place that sees through the clouds of evil to the very face of God through understanding prayer to the divine Mind – prayer that establishes man’s oneness with his Maker.
I want to tell you about a healing a friend of mine had. One evening, after dinner she became very ill. As the night advanced the symptoms worsened she felt she needed some backup from a Christian Science practitioner. So, she emailed a practitioner asking for help. She knew the practitioner may not receive the email until early morning, but she felt spiritually confident that the very act of reaching out to Truth for help would meet the need and so she could expect healing.
Then, in the midst of the night when things seemed quite severe she mentally thought: “I just can’t seem to pray for myself!” She was stunned! She’s never thought this, nor had she ever felt incapable of praying for herself. She reached out to God and the answer came, “Seek one’s own in another’s good.” That’s all that came. Later that morning she looked up the full quote in Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy: “The rich in spirit help the poor in one grand brotherhood, all having the same Principle, or Father; and blessed is that man who seeth his brother's need and supplieth it, seeking his own in another’s good.”
On the heels of the thought that she couldn’t work for herself came the next unfoldment: “Well, if I’m unable to pray for myself, then I’ll pray for others. I can’t be kept from praying!” And so she did. She was fleeing as a bird to her spiritual mountain, her place of communion with God. She spent the next many hours of the night praying for her family and the world and immediately on starting down this road the light began to dawn and she found what she was declaring for others was true for her self and the symptoms began to subside. Our Bible teaches us, “…the Lord turned the captivity of Job, when he prayed for his friends.”
Naturally, she was healed.
If the thought either aggressively or subtly suggests we can’t pray for ourself, we can seek our own in another’s good, and begin working for another, -- take up the problems with government, church, civics, neighborhoods, crime, or most recently this world belief of covid-19. But, whatever we do, we should never take evil lying down, -- get up – mentally – and pray! You’ll then find that what you are knowing as true for another is true for you.
This will break the mesmerism.
The carnal, fearful thought never measures things rightly. It is always off balance. When we reach out to Truth directly or through the support of a Christian Science practitioner, or when someone reaches out to us for prayer, we can be spiritually confident that Truth, God, is leading the way. Truth leads the patient. Truth leads the practitioner. Truth speaks to each one individually. And Truth always wins the case.
Place your case in the hands of Truth and trust. Learn to ‘flee as a bird to your mountain!’
