Daily Inspiration, January 21st

Posted on January 21, 2016 by LauraMoliter

“He shall feed his flock like a shepherd: he shall gather the lambs with his arm, and carry them in his bosom, and shall gently lead those that are with young.” (Isaiah 40: 11)

Divine Love is our faithful Shepherd. God’s loving Principle is always guarding each and every one of us. The Truth of God’s love, control, perfection is always with us, watching over us, keeping the fields of our lives safe from wolves and brambles, and making sure our bodies are nurtured and well.

God feeds us with a tender patience and care. He doesn’t leave us alone—watching with diligence but not judgment, making sure we are safe and that we know this. This Shepherd is always looking out for our needs—giving us the freedom to frolic when joyful expression is needed, and likewise carrying us safely home when we feel weak or uncertain or afraid.

I love that this verse reminds us that those that are with young are led gently, so gently, along the path and pasture of Life. This means that we are guided with parental care as we care for our own children. We are little sheep, dear children ourselves, to this Father-Mother-Shepherd. And these young ones of ours include also our new ideas and inspirations. As the seeds of right desires begin to develop in consciousness, our Shepherd gently leads us forward, with those new thoughts and intentions, protecting them while they develop fully, and making sure we get where we are going.

God’s flock gets tended individually and as a collective whole. Each of the sheep are known fully and loved completely, and all are made to play harmoniously together, as one fold of a Shepherd called 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 morning directly to your inbox by contacting me at lamolitercs@aol.com. Put “subscribe” in the subject line. A downloadable compilation of categorized messages is also available by request.

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Daily Inspiration, January 19th

Posted on January 19, 2016 by LauraMoliter

“Love, the divine Principle, is the Father and Mother of the universe, including man.” (Science and Health, page 256)

The parent of all creation is God. The Source and active Principle of the universe is God, perfect good. This Father-Mother gave birth to you and to all, and His substance endures as the very quality and nature of each one of us. We were born of this perfect Principle, this brilliant intention, and the whole of all Life proceeds from this one and only creative power.

Our Father-Mother is Love itself. We were created by Love, of Love, and for Love. No idea in the universe was caused by anything less than divine Love.  You are the child of Love’s holy purpose and Love’s expansive glory. You are constantly being fathered and mothered by the very quality of perfect Love. This is both your origin and your destiny–to be the living child of Love.

And you have countless brothers and sisters, also born of Love, of the common Principle that underlies all creation. We are all equally rejoiced over by this Mother. We are all guarded by this Father. Love’s infinite facets—kindness, understanding, mercy, forgiveness, comfort, laughter, assurance, uplift, safety, tenderness—are always being expressed toward you and through you. You were born to bless and be blessed, loved among the loved. Realize yourself to be the very son and daughter of divine Love and the recipient and proof of all that means!

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 morning directly to your inbox by contacting me at lamolitercs@aol.com. Put “subscribe” in the subject line. A downloadable compilation of categorized messages is also available by request.

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Daily Inspiration, January 14th

Posted on January 14, 2016 by LauraMoliter

“Judas had the world’s weapons. Jesus had not one of them, and chose not the world’s means of defence. ‘He opened not his mouth.’ The great demonstrator of Truth and Love was silent before envy and hate.” (Science and Health, page 48)

Deception, ignorance, selfishness, and pride fueled Judas and those who accused Jesus. They sought to blame and shame and persecute this inspired man, using any reason they could to find innocence guilty.  They twisted Jesus’s own words against him in hopes of incriminating him toward their own ends.

Judas betrayed Jesus with the world’s weapons, which included self-justification and fear. He chose money and prestige and aligned himself with human power, believing that would be his salvation. Jesus, on the other hand, drew upon divine power, that which was truly saving.

Through his awareness of God’s presence and his oneness with Him, Jesus did not need to lower himself to fighting through self-defensiveness, egotism, or reverse accusation. He did not open his mouth. He kept silent before the adversary, thus giving no life or power to envy and hate. Jesus wasn’t passively setting himself out as prey for wolves by his silence. He was actively aligning himself with the only real power—divine Truth and Love. This was his salvation. This complete devotion to Love demonstrated eternal Life, freeing him from the grave of complicity with mortal beliefs and uplifting him to his true estate of glory, joy, peace.

Jesus is our example. Resist the temptation to get in the mud with hate and envy and fear. Be silent and certain in the safety of Love’s everlasting protection and affection.

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 morning directly to your inbox by contacting me at lamolitercs@aol.com. Put “subscribe” in the subject line. A downloadable compilation of categorized messages is also available by request.

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Daily Inspiration, January 12th

Posted on January 12, 2016 by LauraMoliter

“Spirit diversifies, classifies, and individualizes all thoughts, which are as eternal as the Mind conceiving them; but the intelligence, existence, and continuity of all individuality remain in God, who is the divinely creative Principle thereof.” (Science and Health, page 513)

Creation is full of God’s wonderful ideas. They are unique expressions of His infinite nature and goodness. Each one of us is designed to give evidence to God in an individualized way—none of us exactly like the other, but each complete and right and whole.

Diversity is essential to God’s infinite nature. He must display His grandeur and glory and power and Life and Love in a multitude of ways. The universe is full of His limitless goodness, and the way in which this brilliant Mind expresses Himself is through His ideas, including you and me.

We are special and individual. But we are not alone or disconnected. We are not separate in this uniqueness, but rather at one with the very Mind that saw fit to make us and to share us with the world, in all our beautiful and incomparable glory. And this means everything about our true and perfect nature and individuality is controlled and kept by God. He never loses any one of us, nor can we lose any right quality of life.

God loves each of us uniquely and fully. We are all diverse and dazzling stars in the heaven of God’s vast and perfect Mind.

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 morning directly to your inbox by contacting me at lamolitercs@aol.com. Put “subscribe” in the subject line. A downloadable compilation of categorized messages is also available by request.

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Daily Inspiration, January 7th

Posted on January 7, 2016 by LauraMoliter

“The blessing of the Lord brings wealth, without painful toil for it.” (Proverbs 10: 22, New International Version)

God’s blessings to us are not to be gained through pain and laborious effort. It isn’t by hardship and punishment and shame and trouble that we receive the riches of true wealth. God’s gift of Love to us is our wealth, our prosperity, our peace, because it brings with it all that is truly right and satisfying.

We can gratefully give up the belief that we have to work our way up to God’s grace—starting as miserable sinners and climbing arduously upward in hopes of a possible absolution. God did not create us in order to tease us with goodness and deprive us of it through punishing conditions. This is the liar’s mesmerizing belief, but it is not the Truth of our loving God Who is supreme over all.

The blessing of the Lord was given to you as an inheritance because you are the heir of Love, the very evidence and object of this all-embracing goodness. While we may at times find that human challenges do help us to grow in wisdom and an awareness of reality, God does not require these woes as a necessity to gaining His blessing. The treasure is and always has been ever-present and infinite Love—yours freely, plentifully, naturally, and right now.

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 morning directly to your inbox by contacting me at lamolitercs@aol.com. Put “subscribe” in the subject line. A downloadable compilation of categorized messages is also available by request.

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Daily Inspiration, January 5th

Posted on January 5, 2016 by LauraMoliter

“He ordered his angels to guard you wherever you go. If you stumble, they’ll catch you; their job is to keep you from falling.” (Psalms 91: 11-12, Message Bible)

Don’t be afraid. Don’t feel timid and fretful about life and your place in it. You have been given this holy promise. Indeed you have. God has ordered His angels to guard you wherever you go and whatever you are doing. These obedient angels belong to God and their purpose is to guide and protect you, and to remind you of your natural peace.

You can’t fail or fall. Human experience would want to present obstacles and mistakes that hobble us or stall us out altogether. But your angels know better. They carry the word of God on their wings, and His word is uninterrupted abundance, health, new opportunity, fresh promise, balance, poise, and real peace and joy.

The angels of God are His inspired ideas appearing in the form that is the most needful, comforting, natural, saving, and ready to aid us in any moment. You were built to glorify God. It is His demand, and so He has sent a legion of angelic ideas and qualities to abide with you in order that you achieve His purpose of Life and Love.

Don’t be afraid. You are safe in Life and in being wonderful you in it. You are loved. Trust God and His angels. You can’t fall, but you can soar into the open skies of life with those very angels by your side!

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 morning directly to your inbox by contacting me at lamolitercs@aol.com. Put “subscribe” in the subject line. A downloadable compilation of categorized messages is also available by request.

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Daily Inspiration, January 1st

Posted on January 1, 2016 by LauraMoliter

“Do not remember the former things, Or ponder the things of the past. Listen carefully, I am about to do a new thing, Now it will spring forth; Will you not be aware of it? I will even put a road in the wilderness, Rivers in the desert.” (Isaiah 43: 18-19, Amplified Bible)

Let’s bid farewell to yesterday and start fresh into this New Year. Let’s give ourselves the permission to let go of what went before and to seize this fresh opportunity to realize and claim all the good that God is promising us.

It is tempting to reflect on the past, either with regret, pain, loss, or with a sort of wistfulness that the good old days, or our own personal best days, are behind us. God wants us to “listen carefully,” and to do so we have to be in this moment—attentive and ready. If we are looking over our shoulder we can’t walk forward naturally and comfortably, nor can we see the real new view of our lives ahead, unfurled generously and progressively for us to enter in.

We can’t judge what is to come based on yesterday. That limited sense is too small for our unlimited God, Who is ready to show us the way where we didn’t see it, the infinite possibilities that may have seemed to us before impossible. God’s nature is never stale or old or lost or declining. Everything about Him is new, fresh, invigorating, lively, and full of Love for His ideas—you and me.

Listen. Be ready. Now is the time and here is the place. Happy New Year!

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 morning directly to your inbox by contacting me at lamolitercs@aol.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 31st

Posted on December 31, 2015 by LauraMoliter

“…don’t lose a minute in building on what you’ve been given, complementing your basic faith with good character, spiritual understanding, alert discipline, passionate patience, reverent wonder, warm friendliness, and generous love, each dimension fitting into and developing the others.” (II Peter 1: 5-7, Message Bible)

You’ve been given a treasure. Your very being is filled with all the pure and lovely qualities of life which sustain and satisfy you and that bless the world as well.

Don’t lose a minute in recognizing, claiming, nurturing, and cultivating these riches you have. God’s Truth has revealed you to be the very image of Him, of all that is right and good. Make the most of this great gift and fall in love with your own potential for excellence and happiness. This isn’t about human will or hypocritical positive thinking. It is about relishing the real and true in you, and letting it shine just as it was naturally meant to do.

So we can build on each good quality that we recognize within us. We can begin by trusting our higher motives to guide and protect us. We can know our faith in goodness must lead to purer lives and growth in grace. This humility must naturally open our hearts and minds to Life’s wise instruction, so that we gain understanding, alertness to what we are called to do, and a natural willingness to do it.

This beautiful qualities glimmer with power and with color. We are not only patient, but passionately so—full of earnest and genuine fervor for being still and listening for Life’s guiding voice. We are not only friendly, but really warm, sincere and full of sweetness and tender regard. We are generous with our love because we know its Source is abundant and its use multiplies the blessings for us and for all!

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 morning directly to your inbox by contacting me at lamolitercs@aol.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 29th

Posted on December 29, 2015 by LauraMoliter

“The Lord make His face to shine upon and enlighten you and be gracious (kind, merciful, and giving favor) to you;  The Lord lift up His [approving] countenance upon you and give you peace (tranquility of heart and life continually).” (Numbers 6: 25-26, Amplified Bible, Classic edition)

What a wonderful gaze to receive! How inviting it is to look into the face of God and to see powerful kindness, wisdom, and love. God’s expressive countenance is the very substance and impulse for our lives. As He sees us, so are we seen and known. His vision of us, His focused awareness of who we really are, sustains our true being perpetually and perfectly.

Looking to other people or to the world or to material achievements to tell us who we are or how we are, can’t give us the true “tranquility of heart and life continually” that God’s face shining upon us can do. We can turn our own faces upward, like eager children, to receive this great smile of Love and to look into the eyes of understanding, compassion, approval.

Receive this rich blessing today. I know that you are worthy of it. Don’t wait to seek out divine Love’s face, that ready look of energizing, inspiring, uplifting, comforting affection. You will not find anger or disapproval in God’s view of you. You will find gentleness, wisdom, guidance, assurance, and this will give you your well-deserved and grateful 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 morning directly to your inbox by contacting me at lamolitercs@aol.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 25th

Posted on December 25, 2015 by LauraMoliter

“And this shall be a sign unto you; Ye shall find the babe wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying in a manger. And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God, and saying, Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men.” (Luke 2: 12-14)

The birth of Jesus was a sign to those of old and to us today. A child born in humble surroundings announced the very birth of a new way of thinking and living. This little one’s arrival was cause for celebration of God’s own presence and His love, for Jesus would declare and prove the Truth of life, the real meaning of Christmas as the eternal day of God’s Love realized.

This birth ushered in a multitude of angels, and those angels would remain with Jesus and with us as well. These were the inspired thoughts singing forth reality, harmony, joy to the world. These angel inspirations are those healing ideas that Jesus proclaimed and demonstrated. They are focused on that vital Truth that he would repeatedly declare: God’s glory, goodness, ever-presence and all-power.

Jesus’s birth brought to humanity the great news that the Master would continue to share through his teaching and healing and living. This Christmas message is that God is One and All and that we are His children, the very expressions and recipients of His Love. Jesus’s holy birth declared a new birth, a new recognition for us all, that God’s heavenly glory is present on earth bringing peace and good will to each of us. This surely is a perfect cause for praise, giving, and celebration today and every day!

A joyous Christmas to you all!

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 morning directly to your inbox by contacting me at lamolitercs@aol.com. Put “subscribe” in the subject line. A downloadable compilation of categorized messages is also available by request.

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