Daily Inspiration, August 30th

Posted on August 30, 2016 by LauraMoliter

“Therefore, as God’s chosen people, holy and dearly loved, clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience.” (Colossians 3: 12, New International Version)

We have our outfit picked out for the day! We wake up as God’s loved child and we know who we are. So, we can dress the part, and we have everything we need to pull this look together already in our “closet.” It is all so very natural to us.

We are the reflection of all that God is. We are the immediate and perfect expression and object of His pure, boundless, unconditional Love. This Love is always abundant in us and makes up the reality of our very being. When we accept gratefully and without argument just who we are as Love’s own substance, it is easy to show forth that ideal in our lives.

We are chosen to be the way in which God shows forth Her Love. We are naturally humble, compassionate, kind, gentle, and patient. This is the clothing that suits us. These rich qualities fit us well. They belong to us, and we look beautiful, simply radiant, in this wardrobe, which has been bestowed upon us by divine Love’s own tender generosity and Her faith in Her own loving and lovable children—you and me.

These messages are based on passages from the Bible and Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy. These books are our “pastor” in Christian Science. Come back every Tuesday and Thursday for fresh inspiration. Or get a free subscription to receive an inspirational message like this one every weekday morning directly to your inbox by contacting me at lauramoliter@gmail.com.  Put “subscribe” in the subject line. A downloadable compilation of categorized messages is also available by request.

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Daily Inspiration, August 25th

Posted on August 25, 2016 by LauraMoliter

“He plucked me out of a pit of confusion, even out of the quicksand; he placed my feet on a rock and established my steps.” (Psalms 40: 2, International Standard Version)

Confusion is not a natural state. We don’t need to feel as if our thoughts are in a muddle or if as if decisions and right footsteps are elusive or unclear. We have a rescue from this belief chaos and lack of clarity and that feeling of overwhelm that often comes with this confusion.

We have God’s loving Christ to reach out to us, right where we are, and pull us out and up above the fray to a clear line of vision, where all things settle and make sense. This inspired Comforter is always at the ready to show us that we are not alone, but, rather, at one with God, established on a rock that is never unsteady and always under our feet.

When we feel confused and afraid, we can turn away from the human senses and opinion, its pros and cons and ups and downs, and instead turn to God, to Love. The Christ is with us and at the ready. There is always a clear answer. There is always a loving presence. There is always harmony where the discord seems to be—a ready and established concord to feel and know.

Your steps are established. God’s purpose for you is at hand and His clear voice of wisdom is ready to lead the way home to peace.

These messages are based on passages from the Bible and Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy. These books are our “pastor” in Christian Science. Come back every Tuesday and Thursday for fresh inspiration. Or get a free subscription to receive an inspirational message like this one every weekday morning directly to your inbox by contacting me at lauramoliter@gmail.com.  Put “subscribe” in the subject line. A downloadable compilation of categorized messages is also available by request.

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Daily Inspiration, August 23rd

Posted on August 23, 2016 by LauraMoliter

“…a man’s words depend on what fills his heart. A good man gives out good—from the goodness stored in his heart;” (Matthew 12: 34-35, JB Phillips New Testament)

What is in your heart? What lies within the core of your being? What truly motivates you and makes you feel happy and whole?

Know your heart’s true intention. Keep in touch with that inner goodness which no person or circumstance can take away from you. Connect with this heart of love regularly and let it lead you in what you say and in what you do. Our words, uttered from a place of sincerity and good intention, are healing balm to others and to the world. Likewise, when we let our conversation proceed from fear and resentment, we bring to others a spirit that is no good to the world or to ourselves.

We do have a rich storehouse of good in our heart. We have an abundance of kindness, understanding, wisdom, compassion, patience, good will, within us. God put it there to bear witness to His own purpose. As we recognize this, it leads us in our words and works. It also ushers in the true serenity and confidence that we may seek for ourselves. We will never really feel contentment and peace when we let wrong motives guide us. It simply isn’t authentic to us. It isn’t honest.

The Truth is that you are made of good. You have it abundantly within you. In being and doing good, you are being yourself, true to what is natural, comfortable, right, and powerfully healing.

These messages are based on passages from the Bible and Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy. These books are our “pastor” in Christian Science. Come back every Tuesday and Thursday for fresh inspiration. Or get a free subscription to receive an inspirational message like this one every weekday morning directly to your inbox by contacting me at lauramoliter@gmail.com.  Put “subscribe” in the subject line. A downloadable compilation of categorized messages is also available by request.

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Sagrada Familia–Barcelona for the Soul

Posted on August 19, 2016 by LauraMoliter

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So, I told you about how Barcelona awakened the playful side of me (Spiritual Journeys, 2nd Stop, Barcelona). Here’s the rest of that story.  I was also profoundly blessed to be set into the middle of a poem of praise that both awed me with its grandeur and calmed me with its simplicity.

The city streets of Barcelona that I had spent some time on were energetic and youthful. Everything was full out—colorful, loud, in-your-face but with a smile and a sly invitation to engage. But while that personality of the city turned me on and won me over to its charms, it was the strong, silent type that gained my true and deep love.

Sagrada Familia. There are hardly words to describe this almost mythic cathedral begun by Antonio Gaudi in 1883, taken over by others with diligence and devotion after he passed on, and which is still taking its spires to the heavens today as construction by master architects and artisans continues. Somehow even its incompleteness defines it. How can one house the Infinite in anything that has a limit? How can one worship divine Life in a place that doesn’t make the very sky feel small and confining?

As I walked toward this great temple, neck craning in an impossible posture, mouth wide open with amazement, I felt something already stirring.

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The day was hotter than Hades, but heaven was calling me in. We waited in lines, asked questions in English to people who only thought they understood us (they certainly tried more than I did to learn Catalan or Spanish), and circled the great temple several times before the right door and the right time got us in, sweating and ready for a respite from the heat.

But when we entered, all those mere mortal sensations paled in comparison to the touch of something so much greater.  I was a willing victim to the absolutely overwhelming sensory magic of the seemingly boundless church. It was a forest primeval. It was a living painting. It was giant with a heart of gold. It was intricately, artistically, meticulously designed and yet with the feel of a monk’s abbey, blown up to embrace the profound majesty of their silence.

It was a powerful and poetic dream come true! I loved it!

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I had visited other ornate cathedrals in Europe, monuments to God and also often to garish displays of worship. Most of these churches are very beautiful and I certainly felt a holiness in many of them. It is hard not to, as one feels at the very least that the hands that built these architectural masterpieces were doing it in the name of God and with His inspiration as well. But often the obvious worship of the church’s wealth rather than God’s spiritual plenty, made me feel a little less reverential and a little distracted from the sacred intent.

But, I felt different about Sagrada Familia. It had a glory that felt almost natural, and its design was modern, and yet with a symphony of divine flourishes and artistry to keep one feeling they were in the presence not only of a space of unfathomable size, but one that was divinely inspired as well, that some very unique little angels had a hand in.

The place was mobbed, but it seemed in the great sanctuary as well as in the little turns and nooks and small areas within, I was able to easily grab a moment with the Lord…again and again. I don’t know that my fellow tourists had the same experience, but this is my story, my journey, and I surely did! The breath-taking and breath-giving force of this place left me changed—awakened, stirred, touched in a way that felt like divinity coinciding with humanity, the spiritual and the sensual revealing a moment of connection.

I knew this short visit wasn’t going to be my last. I would have to return to this place, and regularly retreat to the inspiration that came to me while there. I was beginning to see that the Cathedral life was not meant only for time spent in inspiring physical spaces, but it is that infinite possibility that we all have within, only needing to be stirred by a receptive heart. I am continuing to recognize and cherish that God knew what She was doing when Sagrada Familia welcomed me into its space. This magnificent Cathedral moved me to the core and told me something important—a truth for me and for us all. The experience was an intentional invitation from the Divine (not the first or the last such invite, by the way) to see more clearly what was already within me, within each of us; to mirror what my own true soul looked like—expansive, serene, elegant, simple, natural, resonant, beautiful, compelling, and perpetually growing upward in the unlimited skies of Life!

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This blog contains my own personal recollection and experience at the Cathedral and what it meant to me. This National Geographic article gives much more detail on Gaudi, his inspiration, the building’s history, and the completion date. It’s a fascinating story!:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2015/11/151105-gaudi-sagrada-familia-barcelona-final-stage-construction/

I hope you enjoy some of my reflections and insights into discovering who we truly are and why our most authentic self is one that needs to be let out of the box to soar, to sing, to live abundantly and freely, poetically and powerfully! If you’d like to explore more of the possibilities for your life, feel free to contact me at lauramoliter@gmail.com. I’d love to provide a free consultation and get you started on the very best days of your cathedral life!

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Daily Inspiration, August 18th

Posted on August 18, 2016 by LauraMoliter

“Experience should be the school of virtue and human happiness should proceed from man’s highest nature.” (Science and Health, page 65)

It seems that trials would come to us and beat us down. But, in fact, we can and should always be at the ready to be instructed by our experiences into a greater understanding, and into the peace that comes naturally along with it. We can recognize that our lives are schools and we are forever children in them. We aren’t expected to have the answers, but to continue to be taught, to grow, and to be clearer each day on what Life is truly all about.

Don’t allow that mortal mind—that doubting, judging ego—to tell you what your story is and what it means. Your story is about an increasing awareness of your own goodness, deserving, and power. Your virtues are coming to light and you will see them clearly if you aren’t too busy analyzing your seeming vices, mistakes, fears.

Human happiness is the natural result of divine awareness. The more we begin to know who we really are as children of God—and very simply, as children—the greater, more honest, peaceful, and powerful our lives will be. We come to see our lives as a blooming flower, each day displaying more petals of purity and sweetness and loveliness—uniquely beautiful and also strengthened through growth, humility, and gratitude.

These messages are based on passages from the Bible and Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy. These books are our “pastor” in Christian Science. Come back every Tuesday and Thursday for fresh inspiration. Or get a free subscription to receive an inspirational message like this one every weekday morning directly to your inbox by contacting me at lauramoliter@gmail.com.  Put “subscribe” in the subject line. A downloadable compilation of categorized messages is also available by request.

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Daily Inspiration, August 16th

Posted on August 16, 2016 by LauraMoliter

“…your light will shine like the dawning sun, and you will quickly be healed.
Your honesty will protect you as you advance, and the glory of the Lord will defend you from behind.” (Isaiah 58: 8, Contemporary English Version)

Keep the faith. Stay true to what God has told you about yourself and about Life. You are made to radiate His perfection and this light does not wane with time, phases of human experience, or material circumstances. You are the very glow of God’s own well-being and nothing can delay ever-presence from being All-in-all.

Your honesty will protect you. Being absolutely authentically you, as God caused you to be, guarantees that you rest in His care, in the Truth of you and a Life that is just right, good, and safe. As you proceed forward, stay devoted to God and to yourself as His very expression. This gives you divine authority to enter into any place with the power and strength of God’s own purpose behind you.

God is guiding and guarding. He is also assuring that no lurking error from a human past can attack you and sabotage your natural progress. He is defending from behind—eliminating the false fears and beliefs of unworthiness, distress, limit, mistake, regret—and turning you forward, into the light of the new day, the dawning sun of your life today.

Healing is at hand. You are surrounded by Truth and you are safe in God’s own certainty, a Life full of His faithful, powerful Love.

These messages are based on passages from the Bible and Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy. These books are our “pastor” in Christian Science. Come back every Tuesday and Thursday for fresh inspiration. Or get a free subscription to receive an inspirational message like this one every weekday morning directly to your inbox by contacting me at lauramoliter@gmail.com.  Put “subscribe” in the subject line. A downloadable compilation of categorized messages is also available by request.

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Daily Inspiration, August 11th

Posted on August 11, 2016 by LauraMoliter

“I do not consider, brethren, that I have captured and made it my own [yet]; but one thing I do [it is my one aspiration]: forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead,  I press on toward the goal to win the [supreme and heavenly] prize to which God in Christ Jesus is calling us upward.” (Philippians 3: 13-14, Amplified Bible Classic Edition)

Paul admitted he hadn’t yet achieved the ideal. He had not fully claimed in thought and embodied the saving message of the Messiah. But his certainty in these verses is still loud and clear and inspiring for us all.

Paul’s intention was to keep on seeking earnestly. He humbly admitted to being a student. He recognized that human sense may not be able to instantly grasp and bear witness to divine Truth, but Paul was not letting that stop his ongoing pursuit of it.

The Christly goal was before Paul’s thought and its promise animated his words and actions. He chose to look forward and not back at what had gone before—his mistakes and his ignorance. Paul knew the prize was his for the taking. Inspiration and revelation had made clear that God’s Word of eternal Life, goodness, and Love, as demonstrated by Jesus, was the reality and available for all to know completely and to live fully.

Let’s keep that prize before us. Let’s not judge what we did before or feel daunted by what we do not understood or have not yet proven. Let’s do what Paul has done and humbly listen to God’s Word to us in each new moment. Let’s receive gratefully His constant encouragement and let the goal and its guarantee burn within us, warming and guiding us every day, with joy!

These messages are based on passages from the Bible and Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy. These books are our “pastor” in Christian Science. Come back every Tuesday and Thursday for fresh inspiration. Or get a free subscription to receive an inspirational message like this one every weekday morning directly to your inbox by contacting me at lauramoliter@gmail.com.  Put “subscribe” in the subject line. A downloadable compilation of categorized messages is also available by request.

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Daily Inspiration, August 9th

Posted on August 9, 2016 by LauraMoliter

“And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul (life), and with all your mind (thought, understanding), and with all your strength.” (Mark 12: 30, Amplified Bible)

I love how this statement is so imperative! It isn’t a request and it isn’t partial, allowing exception or excuse. You shall love God thoroughly, deeply, wholly, with all that you are and all that you do.

Jesus knew that obedience to this divine demand would set us free and that it was absolutely within each one of us to accomplish. This Love that we express and feel toward God is, in fact, God’s own love powerfully within us. It is the Love God feels towards His own ideas, reflected naturally back towards its Source. For Love simply can’t help but love.

Claim this ideal. Be willing to be what you were made to be: a lover of good, of joy, of life, and of love itself. This is consciously and genuinely loving God with our very being, and with our every action. It is being true to our calling and to our nature. And it is our joy.

We were not made to live and love in a scattered or partial or part-time way. You and I were built to embody Love’s purpose and to shine forth with a powerful devotion to God and to His almighty and magnificent Truth of Life!

These messages are based on passages from the Bible and Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy. These books are our “pastor” in Christian Science. Come back every Tuesday and Thursday for fresh inspiration. Or get a free subscription to receive an inspirational message like this one every weekday morning directly to your inbox by contacting me at lauramoliter@gmail.com.  Put “subscribe” in the subject line. A downloadable compilation of categorized messages is also available by request.

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Apology NOT accepted!

Posted on August 8, 2016 by LauraMoliter

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Okay, Love, I’m ready to take you up on that.

I’m really tired of apologizing. I’m weary with taking on blame and defensiveness for everything. I’m coming to realize that the last thing I want to be is the proverbial Eve of the Bible tale, coming clean on taking the apple from the tree and yet carrying the burden of guilt with her in spite of her admirable honesty. How many years do I intend to be on the defensive, hiding from my natural confidence, bravery, and wisdom? Not to mention my right to hang out in the available paradise of feeling worthy, innocent, and free?

It’s taken a long time for me to really see that this subtext of apology coursing through my experience isn’t doing me or the world any favors. Sure, I do remember years ago my mom saying to me something along the lines of: “There you go again, Laura, apologizing for being alive.” I even apologize for apologizing. My mother’s comments woke me up a bit to that behavior, but I just kind of owned it as a cute little quirk, another element of my unique little insecurities. “Oh, she’s right,” I thought, “I do spend an awful lot of time apologizing.” But did I give it up or really even seek to? No, that was years away. TODAY.

As I’ve been immersed in training for life coaching, I’ve had to be my natural and necessary first client. A litany of limiting beliefs and long-held fears began to emerge—some of them old friends and others startling to discover! It’s been a challenging time emotionally and mentally and an exciting, invigorating time as well. Everything in my life had been coming up for a reckoning anyway, and the call to coaching was divinely well-timed. I have been forced to face my fears and doubts pro-actively, and finally ready to do that so that I can help others do the same; so they can wipe the slate clean to find the power we all have within us, only needing simple permission from ourselves to begin living like we were meant to live.

As I’ve made my way through the maze of my own weirdness, I discovered one very crystal clear thing: I like honesty. I find artifice to be toxic when I put it on, knowingly or not. I am coming to realize that I am what I am and that who I am is not some fool or some devil that needs to have excuses made for her behavior. My heart is big and my spiritual intuition is strong. I know what I know and I feel the best when I act like myself and when I stop hiding behind apologies, accommodations, excuses. I not only feel MY best when I stop saying I’m sorry for being me, I am also able to do infinitely more good for others. Because, I’ve discovered, when we hide behind the false, no one gets the benefit of our Truth, our genuine sincerity, and the power that comes from that. No more hiding!

I realize I need to break in here before anyone accuses me of saying we never need to apologize for wrong doing. Of course, we do! It is polite and kind to recognize a mistake, one that is really a mistake, and own up to it with our genuine contrition. Kindness is the key. It is often the most loving and healing thing to say we are sorry, even if it is just for a misunderstanding, whether we were truly at fault of not. I’m talking about something else here and I think you already know that! I’m talking about wrongly living your life as if it needs a defense attorney following it around. I’m talking about self-kindness.

So, here’s a quick summary of me, yesterday—I apologized every time I left a job that didn’t suit me, a relationship that wasn’t from my heart, an endeavor that I was no longer feeling committed to. I apologized for being too quiet or for saying too much. I chastised myself mentally when I have been too vulnerable and also if I’ve been too vocal about something that felt wrong to me. I got defensive and overly explanatory about being an introvert, about my food choices, the hours I keep, the way I sing a song. Nearly everything I am was fodder for an apology or justification. (Man, I sound pathetic!)

But, actually, I wasn’t really pathetic. I was just keeping myself small. I was jumping to self-judgment (verbally or mentally) before anyone else did so I could head them off at the pass. And in the process of staying safe, I was effectively subjugating my natural free spirit, reining her in because, my God, what would happen if she went wild and just lived each moment without judging it?

Guess what? What would happen? The world would keep turning and the wild girl would still remain her natural, loving, responsible, giving self and shine even brighter with the shield of deflection down so her true, natural, smiling, confident face could be seen. That girl I just described is the me of TODAY. That’s my new reality. And while I may be late to the party, I’m not saying I’m sorry! Today is as good a day as any to live loud, proud, authentically, and unapologetically!

Would you like to join me? Awareness is the first step. Listen to yourself as you go through your days–both to your words and your inner thoughts. What are you hearing? What are you feeling? Are you keeping yourself small and selling yourself short? Or are you letting your genuine power out of the box to run free and do some of its intended good in the world, without apology or explanation?

Love yourself enough to stop saying you’re sorry or feeling that you should. I am learning to do this for myself and it feels heavenly. We can stop agreeing to be like poor Eve, giving away her true innocence by taking on the role of the guilty and giving up her natural joy and freedom as a result. Be yourself. Love what you are. It is freeing, powerful, and honest!

I am a Life Purpose Coach specializing in helping people to find the keys within themselves that unlock the doors of small and limiting experiences. I help guide them to new perspectives and actionable steps toward a bigger, better, more authentic , powerful, and poetic life.  I would love to hear from you if you are interested in learning more about being coached or becoming a coach yourself! LauraMoliter@gmail.com, www.poeticandpowerfulliving.com

 

 

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Daily Inspiration, August 4th

Posted on August 4, 2016 by LauraMoliter

“Behold, I send an Angel before thee, to keep thee in the way, and to bring thee into the place which I have prepared.” (Exodus 23: 20)

Behold! Open your eyes and see! There is divine guidance, a ready and steady angel, leading you in all that you do. God has given us this spiritual intuition, inspiration, and protection as we go forth expressing fresh aspects of His Life.

Each of us has a holy purpose, God’s moment-by-moment demand, to which our lives bear witness. God has prepared us for everything we have to do to accomplish this mission, and He always prepares our place, our success, ahead of our arrival. He has assured that we get where He would have us go, and that we have all that we need on the journey.

God has also lovingly given us His angel, His divine messenger, to guarantee that we don’t miss our holy land, our place of contentment, freedom, and peace. This angel, this divine guidance, is not obscure nor does it require us to have special visionary powers.

Our angel is the voice within us that knows us and loves us. It is that intelligent goodness that resides in our hearts and instructs us wisely and well. You always have your angels. God has given you the way home, written clearly within your own eager and trusting soul. Behold, follow, and rejoice!

These messages are based on passages from the Bible and Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy. These books are our “pastor” in Christian Science. Come back every Tuesday and Thursday for fresh inspiration. Or get a free subscription to receive an inspirational message like this one every weekday morning directly to your inbox by contacting me at lauramoliter@gmail.com.  Put “subscribe” in the subject line. A downloadable compilation of categorized messages is also available by request.

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