Daily Inspiration, December 27th

Posted on December 27, 2016 by LauraMoliter

“‘Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid.’ Let us watch, work, and pray that this salt lose not its saltness, and that this light be not hid, but radiate and glow into noontide glory.” (Science and Health, page 367)

You are made to illumine the world with your authentic and powerful God-light. The goodness and love within you are meant to be shared and to bring healing and comfort and joy to others far and near. This light that is you; this valuable commodity that is genuine and needed, must endure.

If we are to be of use to others and find peace and satisfaction ourselves, we must be faithful about tending our light and keeping the “salt” of our nature real and true and of its most pure quality. It takes alertness not to get sucked into letting others take our light away from us by their own opinions and judgment. Likewise, it can be tempting to allow ourselves to blend in with others, thus losing the very specialness that is truly honest, God-designed, and therefore, powerful.

Continue to nurture your own light and love and capacity by remembering its Source. When you feel too small or too overwhelmed or too uncertain to cut loose and share boldly what you feel and know and are, simply remember that the all-wise Mind saw fit to form you, just as you are, and His purpose is that you express His own glory, presence, and goodness.

So, put yourself on that “hill.” Let yourself be aligned with and defined by God on High, and not by the earthly perceptions. Stay above and beyond limits, and on that mountain of Truth, shining boldly, joyously, and naturally!

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, December 22nd

Posted on December 22, 2016 by LauraMoliter

“For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.” (Isaiah 9: 6)

Jesus was born on that glorious morning and with him came realizations that would change the world. The Truth of Life was awakened in mankind, fulfilling the prophesy of Isaiah. This son of God was the Messiah who gave us not only a healing and loving view of life, but one that was mighty and everlasting.

We can be reminded this holiday season that grateful awe is an appropriate feeling just as it was on the day of the Christ-child’s birth. For this innocent idea of God and His child continues to be the very governing power of our lives. This simple yet profound event dawns in our hearts each day as we accept this law of Life, God’s eternal Word about us as His own children and beloved.

Let’s bring to each day a renewed reverence for what we have been given. This light of healing Love continues to be the very undergirding Principle of the world and the controlling, guiding, protecting power over us all. The Prince of Peace has come and has not left us. This is everlasting Christmas—a new morning light each day awakening us to the Christ, the active presence of the divine here and now for all mankind to feel and know.

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, December 20th

Posted on December 20, 2016 by LauraMoliter

“…one cannot suffer as the result of any labor of love, but grows stronger because of it.” (Science and Health, page 387)

We are strengthened by our commitment to goodness. We gain power and comfort and peace as we do good. We can’t be depleted by giving, from an honest heart.

Why is this? It is certainly easy to feel at times that doing for others is draining and overwhelming. But, when we approach any right action from the standpoint of its Source in God’s own Love, we are safe and secure. A “labor of love” that finds one also equally burdened with personal responsibility, fear, doubt, or colored with resentment, is not fully reliant on the Love of God, which is strengthening, progressive, and peaceful.

Listen to your heart and do what it tells you to do. Let divine Love guide you, step-by-step. For a labor of love for another is also an activity with Love—that is, with God and within His Love ourselves. Divine Love is protection and power. We reflect this Love; we don’t carry it as a burden. It is a healing force for others and it lifts us up as well, carries us through, gives us success, energy, clarity, and appreciation.

We cannot suffer for doing loving work. Remember to do these inspired tasks with divine Love—with God’s guidance and His power, as well as His care for and joy in, you! Your work will benefit others and bless you as well!

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, December 15th

Posted on December 15, 2016 by LauraMoliter

 

“Do not be seized with alarm and struck with fear, little flock, for it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the kingdom!” (Luke 12: 32, Amplified Bible Classic Edition)

Be calm and be thankful. These may seem like days to fear and doubt, to feel anxiety about our lives individually and about our world. But we do have a promise. There is a higher intention that is keeping us safe, secure, and with gifts of goodness to enjoy.

Let’s envision ourselves as Jesus did. Let’s see that we are not a scattered and confused and discordant horde of people, constantly bickering, warring, and lacking in substance and in joy. Let’s instead recognize that we are part of a flock. To God we are a “little flock,” a product of His great Love, but also His intimate family, dear ones who are learning, growing, straying, mistaking, wandering, wondering, but continually beloved and watched.

We don’t have to earn the kingdom of God’s grace and Love. It is His pleasure to give it to us, for that is what Love does. It loves. Our task is to realize that we are indeed sheep in God’s flock, under His patient and wise care, and that not one of us is excluded or out of His sight.

Each of us has a place and sufficiency in His pasture—in the kingdom of true peace, harmony, safety, and with a fearless awareness of the Shepherd’s abundant 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, December 13th

Posted on December 13, 2016 by LauraMoliter

“…test and prove all things [until you can recognize] what is good; [to that] hold fast.” (I Thessalonians 5: 21, Amplified Bible Classic Edition)

We are students in the laboratory of life. Through our experiences, we are given the opportunity to discover what is true and demonstrable and right for us. We gain a genuine recognition of and appreciation for what is good and lasting and beneficial.

We are not being asked in this passage to simply take something on faith. While trust is a beautiful thing, more is required if we are to be sure not only of the Truth of something but also of our own understanding of the Principle and its practicality in life. We must take whatever inspires us or what we are being taught, and utilize it, put it into practice.

And when we discover what does work—what brings us healing and happiness and a sense of purpose and productivity—to this we must stay loyal. We can come to realize and comprehend, even through trial and error, that God’s control is more freeing than personal control; that Love feels healthier and more productive than resentment, hate, fear, guilt; that a limited view of our life is not the reality of it and that we have access to more freedom. And then these truths we can trust and nurture, continue to practice and to love.

Let’s put our lives to the test. We are safe in God’s reality as we gain a deeper recognition of the magnificent Life we’ve been given and so to experience it fully, with awareness and gratitude, generosity and 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, December 8th

Posted on December 8, 2016 by LauraMoliter

“Live right, and you will eat from the life-giving tree. And if you act wisely, others will follow.” (Proverbs 11: 30, Contemporary English Version)

Living rightly is riches. It feeds and sustains us and causes us to grow in understanding and in grace. This “right living” is not moral uptightness or a sober and joyless experience. Right living is living in relation to the divine. It is being so connected to God and His goodness, His very design for our being, that we can’t fail to act in love, with good intentions, and to flourish in doing so.

Actions that proceed from a sincere, gracious, and grateful heart, give us not only sustenance and strength, but also a spring in our step, a happiness that isn’t simply pleasure, but is truly contentment within. When we consciously recognize the truth of our being—at one with God and expressing His qualities—we walk naturally and easily forward. We progress.

And we become leaders not by force or appointment, but because others are drawn to what we do and who we are. They recognize and respond to the wisdom that we have gained and that we practice. They are also attracted to our joy—our true satisfaction in being and doing good just because it is who we want to be and who we are.

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, December 6th

Posted on December 6, 2016 by LauraMoliter

“[Jesus’s] students slept. He said unto them: ‘Could ye not watch with me one hour?’ Could they not watch with him who, waiting and struggling in voiceless agony, held uncomplaining guard over a world?” (Science and Health, page 48)

This statement is a real wake-up call to us all. Jesus spent the night in the garden of Gethsemane, awaiting what he must have known would be his eventual arrest and crucifixion. He found his students sleeping.

Jesus did not ask them to do all that he had done. He didn’t request that his students overturn every supposition of life in matter and of evil as real, or that they definitively demonstrate health and life as enduring and available in every place. Jesus didn’t require the apostles to do all that he himself had so willingly and lovingly done to change the world. He did not ask them to sacrifice their own lives for him.

He asked them for one hour. Jesus was standing at the brink not only of his human life being threatened, but also so near that momentous occasion that would reveal his resurrection and the world’s recognition of God as everlasting Life. He desired this one thing of his friends—one hour to guard over this truth, be alert for danger, and to watch with tender care, peace, and a deep and grateful love for the Master and his saving mission.

Will you take up a watch today? Such a watch is not sitting in wait for trouble. It is not paranoid or fear-based. It is a listening with Christ. It is taking an honest and earnest stand for an hour (or more!) to be love, see love, expect love, and act love for that small but powerful span of time. This is natural to us and it is powerful for our own well-being and for the world as well.

Will you watch with me and with the Christ for one hour? Will you be awake to the world’s need for your prayers, your trust, your love? Will you stay awake then to witness the results of your tender vigilance, empowered by divine Truth and 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, December 1st

Posted on December 1, 2016 by LauraMoliter

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“Progress is born of experience. It is the ripening of mortal man, through which the mortal is dropped for the immortal.” (Science and Health, page 296)

Our human lives are not wasteful or declining. They are constant progression. The steps and circumstances, the overcoming and the learning, are experience that leads us to the very best awareness of Life as it was meant to be.

We are not aging and eventually retiring from life. We are ripening. We are coming to fruition, maturing into our full flower, developing into our prime state of being. This life we lead provides daily opportunities to drop the old way of thinking for a new, wiser, more progressive way. Each step forward we take is development, advancement, because it is impelled and governed by God, by Spirit, by the Truth that must be made known.

Let’s recognize and be eager to give up the mortal sense of ourselves. Let’s allow our learning lives to shine us up, display our bright colors and our true and natural and necessary purpose—to show forth God’s nature and goodness, fully and freely, genuinely and eagerly!

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, November 29th

Posted on November 29, 2016 by LauraMoliter

“I am not praying for these alone but also for the future believers who will come to me because of the testimony of these. My prayer for all of them is that they will be of one heart and mind, just as you and I are, Father…I have given them the glory you gave me—the glorious unity of being one, as we are…” (John 17: 20-22, the Living Bible)

Jesus is praying for you! Isn’t this wonderful? I love to recognize that this prayer with his immediate apostles extends to us all. Jesus was consciously embracing in this earnest request, all those who believe in God and His Christ—in that Truth of man’s oneness with divine Life and Love.

Jesus’s prayer for us all is that we feel and know our true unity with God, and with one another, through divine Love. Because of the Master’s awareness of his own tender yet powerful relationship with God, he could not contain this good news or leave it to disappear into time. He was “of one heart and mind” with God, and this treasured consciousness was what healed, saved, and even overcame death.

This absolute unity with God—heart and soul and mind—was glorious! This glory was not exclusive. Jesus was certain that all should have this same magnificent and powerful Truth to feel and know and declare and share and live. So, this inspired man who always prayed with perfect results, prayed for us. He prayed that each one of us receive the full and deep awareness that we are one with God and with one another.

Let’s receive this prayer and believe in its healing power for ourselves and for our world!

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, November 24th

Posted on November 24, 2016 by LauraMoliter

“Enter into His gates with thanksgiving and a thank offering and into His courts with praise! Be thankful and say so to Him, bless and affectionately praise His name!” (Psalms 100: 4, Amplified Bible Classic Edition)

Thanksgiving is a blessed occasion to celebrate our gratitude for the good that we have. It is a day to recognize God as the abundant Source of this goodness. We can eagerly enter this wonderful realm of Love with a consecrated awareness of the blessings that are ours both to enjoy and to share.

Many of us come together today on this holiday, as we celebrate it in the United States, and are aware of our family, friends, and food! It is a joyous time, focused on gratitude and grace, and it should be a reminder to leave fear and anger and contention outside His gates.

We can actively express this grateful praise every day. Our offering to God is our recognition of His ever-presence and of His control over all. Our sincere thanks should be an acknowledgment not only of the good material gifts we see before us, but of those infinite qualities of good that are much greater and more lasting than a festive table setting.

Love, Truth, peace, joy, compassion, goodness, forgiveness, mercy, wholeness, unity, are the enduring ideas that make all the good we see possible and truly felt in our hearts. Let’s try to remember today and every day to give thanks to God—affectionately, lovingly, genuinely. Let’s remember gratefully that as we share these God-qualities, we ourselves are further enriched, all year long.

A Happy Thanksgiving to you!

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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