Let's discuss staying on-task...

As much as we all like to stay on task and accomplish our goals there appears to be moments when thought simply wanders and distraction sets in. Thought that flints from God, Spirit, to God’s opposite, matter, can be frustrating. It can make it feel like there are two realities, Spirit and matter, the real and the unreal. But, in actuality, at least to God and His creation the real man, there is only one reality, God, Spirit and His spiritual creation. This creation reflects the very mind of God and is governed by the divine Mind. All thoughts that are pure and holy come from divine Mind and are expressed in Mind’s creation. As an idea, or the creation, of divine Mind every truthful idea needed for healing is present and effective. In reality, thought does not flint back and forth between Spirit and matter, good and evil,  but is held by divine Mind who never allows any sense of teeter-tottering between what God and His idea, man, is and what matter claims. 

This standard of spiritual cohesion and adhesion with divine Mind is upheld because God is embraces His perfect creation as His very thought. Mind is always full of ideas and so an idea must be the thought of divine Mind. So, it's not possible for an idea to leave His presence nor forfeit His power. Truthfully, man's  relationship to God is never severed because Mind and idea could never be severed.  As God's conception, man is held in divine Mind. As a result thought stays with divine Mind, forfeiting even the possibility of flinting back and forth between Spirit and the claims of Spirit's opposite, matter.

In reality, all is perfect and whole and man is never separate from divine Mind and this can be practiced and demonstrated every day as we hold thought to God and His perfect creation.

Mary Baker Eddy, the Founder of Christian Science, writes in Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, “When the illusion of sickness or sin tempts you, cling steadfastly to God and His idea. Allow nothing but His likeness to abide in your thought. Let neither fear nor doubt overshadow your clear sense and calm trust, that the recognition of life harmonious — as Life eternally is — can destroy any painful sense of, or belief in, that which Life is not” (495:14).

When the false suggestion comes to thought that we’re not consistently keeping thought on God and His goodness and therefore cannot be healed or don’t deserved to be healed because of our lack of attentiveness to Spirit, we can rise up and claim man's innate oneness with God -- knowing that attentiveness is God-given, God-provided, and man-reflected. Clinging steadfastly to Spirit and Spirit’s creation, allowing nothing but His likeness to abide in consciousness, allowing no evil thought to overshadow a clear sense of man's relationship with God we scientifically, prayerfully, keep on task and keep thought at-one with divine Mind. This maintains our thought, our action, and our demonstration with Spirit and we will win! Thought that is “stayed on thee,” as Isaiah states, has healing results (26:3).

Christ Jesus shows us this method through his demonstrations. After healing the adulterous woman and then discoursing with the Jews concerning doctrine, they attempted to stone him for his teaching and healing work. John records, “Then took they up stones to cast at him: but Jesus hid himself, and went out of the temple, going through the midst of them, and so passed by” (8:59). It would not have been possible for Jesus to “pass by” this angry mob if his thought was vacilating between matter and Spirit, mortality and immortality, fear and love. His escape from the hatred and anger of the carnal mind, and St. Paul puts it, which was trying to kill him, was made because Jesus' thought clung to divine Mind and allowed nothing but God’s likeness to appear to him. Jesus simply perceived the element of mortal mind and its intent to kill him and then he turn on this suggestion to divine Mind to view the reality. Then, he held his thought at-one with divine Mind and saw only as divine Mind sees, -- the real man pure, whole, sinless and loving. If for any reason, his spiritual sense of who he was and who the others were as God’s beloved child had given into the supposed reality of life in matter he would not have passed by them unharmed.

The same is true for us.

We may be bombarded with mortal mind’s attempt to harm us. We may feel as if there are crowds of mortal, material thoughts surrounding us and preventing our safe escape to health, peace, or harmony, but by clinging steadfastly to God and His idea, to our Maker and His perfect creation, the true idea of man, we are able to recognize such intents, turn on them through scientific right prayer, and release ourselves from the false suggestions of life or power in matter. We are able to see ourselves as God sees us, -- as His perfect man. 

When one of our daughters was in elementary school she developed a large lump behind an ear. Immediately, we turned our thought away from the supposed threat of matter and its claims to the present power of God. The quote above sustained me throughout this healing. I learned to cling steadfastly to God and His perfect idea, keeping His likeness abiding in thought. Fear began to subside for both of us and we gained a calm trust of the nothingness of this aggressive suggestion. I put great trust in these words that follow the above quote, “Let Christian Science, instead of corporeal sense, support your understanding of being, and this understanding will supplant error with Truth, replace mortality with immortality, and silence discord with harmony” (ibid). We found that as we allowed Christian Science to support our spiritual understanding of her perfect being that indeed, error was supplanted with Truth and discord was silenced with harmony and she was perfectly healed in a short time.

Staying on task is not difficult when we spiritually understand that God holds His creation inseparable from Him.