Comments on: It’s OK to love yourself

By: Jen

Jen — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 13:31:32 +0000

What a beautiful way to see life- as a fantastic chance to get to know yourself and love that person. Love is always the God, whether it is Love inwardly or outwardly.
Thank you so much:)

By: Lisa

Lisa — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 07:11:20 +0000

Just listened to your podcast concerning weight and then read this. I love the idea that there can not be an out of control child of God.
Thanks for the beautiful testimony on the podcast and the reminder that we are all beautiful flowers just waiting to bud.

By: Judy Osmundson

Judy Osmundson — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 19:48:27 +0000

Evan, I love that you are tackling this subject! We are to war against the propensities, and yet, we know we are God’s own! Soul is individualized, and those individuals are the very idea of us! So that’s pretty special!

Lovingly,
Judy Osmundson
(your Leader)

By: Evan

Evan — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 15:19:50 +0000

Hi Ali,

I think you pretty much answer your own wonderings. “How to stick with it?” Well, one way is to realize that sticking with the old patterns of thought is no fun, downright miserable, actually. Awakening to the suffering that old habits brings and being honest about that suffering can spur one on to improve and do better. You know from experience, it sounds like, that study and prayer pay off. They really do!

Seek spiritual understanding. Yearn to know God better. Strive to understand yourself as a child of God better. Be repulsed by the lie that you are govenerned by mindless impulse and empty eating. There is no pleasure there.

You are a beautiful creation of God. Acknowledge that creation and let it shine forth for all to see in the form of your committed spiritual mindedness, inner joy and peace, and spirituality expressed.

Lots of love…

By: Nikki

Nikki — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 06:31:49 +0000

Thank you, Evan, that is comforting and inspirational. A lifelong Christian Scientist, I have nevertheless found it difficult to understand how to love myself in a ‘morally right’ way, as you say. You make it perfectly clear and doable, thanks.

By: jazzrascal

jazzrascal — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 23:35:14 +0000

Thanks, Evan, this is great. It made me think of “The Problem of the Hickory Tree” by Louis Knight Wheatley, in the Anthology of Classical Articles.

By: Ali

Ali — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 19:45:30 +0000

The photo pulled me in. Arresting colors!

Great ideas. I think I get impatient about this. I’ll think some of this and feel better but the next day, I’m back where i was. In the same food eating no excercise, feeling bad about myself rut. How do you stick wiht it? i think my biggest problem is lack of discipline. I love CS but I never study. I pray and get results, but i could do more.