Daily Inspiration, April 30th

Posted on April 30, 2015 by LauraMoliter

“Now the God of patience and consolation grant you to be likeminded one toward another according to Christ Jesus: That ye may with one mind and one mouth glorify God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.” (Romans 15: 5-6)

The Christ message was one of unity. Jesus came preaching and proving the power and presence of divine Love. This Love is God and it does not argue or compete. This Love is not colored by bias or judgment, nor does it make any exceptions.

We believe in one God. If we are to obey this one God we must obey this one Love, for God is Love. The goodness and healing that Jesus taught through his awareness of his relationship with God must actively continue through his followers. If we claim the Christ-message as true and valid and right and powerful, then we must proclaim and live it accurately. That honors God and the graceful gift of the Christ.

Let’s be true to Love and recognize the pure agreement that is in God, Mind. We can release the sense of many minds with many motives, and let divine Love be expressed by us. We can realize just how much more powerful we are for good when we are unified by that which we love and He who loves us.

God’s Love expressed with a sense of kindness and respect toward one another sufficiently glorifies Him and makes the name of Truth and Life and Love known in every place, with signs of harmony, joy, and true peace following.

This is today’s e-inspire. 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. A downloadable compilation of categorized messages is also available by request.

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Daily Inspiration, April 28th

Posted on April 28, 2015 by LauraMoliter

“Be alert and on your guard; stand firm in your faith (your conviction respecting man’s relationship to God and divine things, keeping the trust and holy fervor born of faith and a part of it). Act like men and be courageous; grow in strength!” (I Corinthians 16: 13, Amplified Bible)

You can be strong and vigilant. You have the power to stand firm and ready to beat back the enemy of sense and self and to emerge triumphant. Don’t give in to a sense of weakness, victimization, or fear. You are more powerful than those demeaning accusations.

It is not by human will that we are made mighty, able to keep our watch and to win the battle. It is by our “conviction” about our relationship with God. It is because we stay firm in the awareness that we are one with God at all times and in every condition, and therefore naturally and eternally inseparable from His might, presence, and unopposed certainty. It is by our reliance that we have strength equal to each day’s devilish temptations and fears and evils.

So, to “act like men” is to act like ourselves. It is to agree to be God’s man or woman. It is to lay claim to our real being. It is to honor our true name and nature as the son and daughter of God, forever at one with all that He is and protected by His constant Love. We can “grow in strength” as we grow in our awareness of our true heritage and its enduring promise of safety, satisfaction, life, and peace.

This is today’s e-inspire. 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. A downloadable compilation of categorized messages is also available by request.

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Daily Inspiration, April 23rd

Posted on April 23, 2015 by LauraMoliter

“Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life; and I will dwell in the house [the consciousness] of [Love] for ever.” (Science and Health, page 578)

This last verse of the inspired 23rd Psalm, as illuminated by Mary Baker Eddy, is a fitting conclusion to any prayer. It reminds us of what is real and true now and what certainly must be so going forward. This verse recognizes and honors the ever-presence of the Mind that is God, therefore infinite, immortal, and perfect.

This prayer does not plead with God. It recognizes and trusts what God is, acknowledges it, and rests in the comfort that awareness brings. Surely, since Our Father-Mother is good and deathless and complete, merciful blessings will be with us, His children, forever. We are the very ideas and expressions of His perpetual purpose.

Our house is consciousness. Our true home is our thinking; it is in that which we acknowledge as true and accept and dwell with. We can have our physical abode in a mansion and yet be uncomfortable because our thought is not at peace. We can live in a tiny hut and feel joyful and grateful, if our thinking is content.

The surest way to know our happy home is to claim the truth in this verse. We can and do dwell in God’s consciousness, in the Mind that is Love, and this Love dwells within us. We can gratefully release the sense of personal control over our lives to the One Consciousness that is never wrong, never frightened, never alone, and never unkind. We can know with confidence and accept that we live in Love, with Love, and because of Love, now and forever.

This is today’s e-inspire. 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. A downloadable compilation of categorized messages is also available by request.

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Daily Inspiration, April 21st

Posted on April 21, 2015 by LauraMoliter

“Mark the blameless man and behold the upright, for there is a happy end for the man of peace.” (Psalms 37: 37, Amplified Bible)

A man of integrity, righteousness, purity, and peace surely must reap the rewards of such qualities. There is true satisfaction and real happiness for such a one as this, for he feels content in his own being.

This happy end is available to every one of us. In ourselves and in others, we can behold, truly perceive, that blameless man. This pure ideal is not an aspiration beyond any one of us. It is the truth of all of us. Jesus preached and practiced this principle. As he saw and honored the real man, the one that God made and not the one that mortal beliefs would present, healing came about; the reality of perfection was revealed. The man full of shame and doubt, of evil and of mistaken motives, was cast out and off, and the real man emerged, radiant with goodness.

We can see what Jesus saw and what the inspired psalmist recommends in the passage cited. We can look upon ourselves not as our human judgment would paint us—ignorant, fearful, limited, bad, foolish, lost—but as God designed and created us to be. We can recognize the Truth of our being and see that goodness in others as well.

God did not make sin or sinners. He made men of peace, of Love, of innocence and integrity. Let’s rejoice in actively beholding and being this blameless man of God and gratefully experience the happiness of being and seeing God’s peaceful creation everywhere.

This is today’s e-inspire. 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. A downloadable compilation of categorized messages is also available by request.

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Daily Inspiration, April 16th

Posted on April 16, 2015 by LauraMoliter

“…God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.” (I John 1: 5)

God creates and constitutes reality. He is the substance of all Life and the nature of all that exists. God’s qualities make up the universe. His Truth and Love made and continue to sustain all things. And this divine Truth and Love are without any darkness, any impediment, any lack, any evil or error.

God is all light, and this is our safety and our strength and our foundation. Light dispels darkness not by force of will or battle, but by simply being light. God’s radiance is infinite, active Love. This light can’t be touched by a belief in hate, lies, evil. The light’s presence naturally dispels the dark, makes it nothing but an attempt to be something in a place where it can never exist.

When we think of God, do we see Him as having an evil, vindictive side? Or do we credit Him with punishment we or others receive? Do we see Him with some ulterior or mixed motive or method? He is all light, John says here. There is no darkness at all in our God. The beliefs to the contrary are graven images. Merely calling something god doesn’t give it power to be godlike, have control, presence, or potency.

God is light. We dwell in Him and are always both the object and the evidence of His radiant and eternal flame of Life and Love.

This is today’s e-inspire. 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. A downloadable compilation of categorized messages is also available by request.

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Daily Inspiration, April 14th

Posted on April 14, 2015 by LauraMoliter

“If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.” (I John 1: 9)

Hiding from God isn’t wise. To pretend that we are perfect humans is not only to lie but to deprive ourselves of the most natural and effective way to be better.

Confession isn’t simply stating a roster of moral lapses according to some human rule book. It is really about turning to God first. He is faithful. He is right there ready to shine a light on us, to reveal those things that He didn’t make or condone and that don’t belong in His presence or in that wonderful idea—you—He saw fit to create.

And our job is to allow these mistaken thoughts about ourselves, our lives, about others, and about God, to be exposed and cleansed, all in the safe, intimate sanctuary of God’s Love. It is not to own these wrong ideas, these fears and doubts and resentment, but to confess them, to offer them up to God for His Truth to enlighten us, purify us, cleanse us of what is hindering our natural holiness.

This confession should be a joy. It is not an act of admitting to evil and lingering in it with blame, shame, and hopelessness. It is our opportunity to be loved into renewal, refreshment, a cleansing from all that isn’t right, isn’t God-like, isn’t ours or us at all.

Let us love each occasion to turn our humble faces to God and let Him clear away the dirt that hides our loveliness with His powerful, perfect, purposeful Love.

This is today’s e-inspire. 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. A downloadable compilation of categorized messages is also available by request.

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Daily Inspiration, April 9th

Posted on April 9, 2015 by LauraMoliter

“Gladness to leave the false landmarks and joy to see them disappear, — this disposition helps to precipitate the ultimate harmony.”  (Science and Health, page 323)

Sure, we all want to progress. We want to get past yesterday’s woes or limits or ignorance, and move forward in life, with freedom and energy and expectation. This is not only a desire. It is truly our divine right.

But we have to leave the false landmarks, the mistaken beliefs, worries, past experiences behind. We have to stop contemplating what yesterday may have been about or who we might have been in it. We have to release hold of disappointments and hurts and even that sense of “the good old days,” and be willing to let God turn a fresh page on our life and write something brand new and wonderful upon it.

Rest in this moment with expectation and receptivity. Refuse mortal mind’s call to ruminate, despair, doubt, linger in a limited sense of self and of life. Life is God. It has no limits. Truth is God. It does not abide its ideas remaining in the dark to the brightness of this new day and of our magnificent, blessed place in it.

If we want to feel the ultimate harmony, we can’t keep on bringing the heavy, old, ugly beliefs into this precious moment, or let nostalgia keep us looking back with yearning for something we feel we lost. Stay in this moment, poised for God’s symphony to begin, for the right notes to blend and to reveal the true and new song of your harmonious, inspiring Life!

This is today’s e-inspire. 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. A downloadable compilation of categorized messages is also available by request.

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Daily Inspiration, April 7th

Posted on April 7, 2015 by LauraMoliter

“Serve the Lord with gladness: come before his presence with singing.” (Psalms 100: 2)

Our obedience to divine Love and infinite Life certainly can’t be morose and apathetic. As we serve God; as we devote our lives and our thoughts to what is good and true, we must surely do it in a way that honors Him, that truly represents what He is all about.

That means we can’t forget the joy. Don’t get so caught up in the duty, the day by day alertness and active responsiveness, that you forget the very nature of our Master, the Father-Mother to Whom we strive to be faithful. Our faithfulness is found by honoring God’s own nature, one that is built of Love, joy, peace, goodness, light.

Our God merits our gladness. We go forth in Life with His presence and intention radiating through us. How can we fail to dance, to glory, to rejoice, and to sing? God’s Love is infinite. His Life is eternal. His goodness is unopposed. We are forever at one with all that is right and good and necessary and wonderful. How can we not delight in this?

Remember, we can take our inspired work seriously (for it is important and needed) but at the same time never leave the joy outside the door. A gloomy worker can’t possibly honor God, for that state of being has nothing to do with Him. But, a song of joy expresses God’s presence and brings energy and power to all that we do, not to mention peace, healing, genuine satisfaction.

This is today’s e-inspire. 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. A downloadable compilation of categorized messages is also available by request.

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Daily Inspiration, April 2nd

Posted on April 2, 2015 by LauraMoliter

“After this manner therefore pray ye: Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name.” (Matthew 6: 9)

Jesus taught us many things. One of the most important of these is how to pray. He gave his disciples and the world a prayer to meet all human needs. It must have held within its words the very spirit of Truth that he utilized in his own wonderful healings.

I’m often asked and I often ask the question myself: How does one really pray? Those who have been devoted to God for years will still often wonder why they seem to have forgotten exactly how to pray. It seems at times like an elusive concept or one requiring more consecrated time, understanding, and faith than we think we have.

But Jesus showed us here the simplicity of it. This first line of his prayer gives us our starting point that opens up awareness to whatever blessings, inspiration, and guidance must come next.  Our Father. The Father and Creator of all of us and of everything dwells in harmony and is the very substance of goodness, reality, heaven. He is the conscious presence of all that is right and good.

So, our prayer is to honor this. It is to hallow His name. It is to reflect on and worship and love the fact of God, good, and His allness, power, perfection, control. When we begin our prayer with this recognition and praise of God, we have turned in the right direction, obeyed that all-important First Commandment, and have left self behind for earnest praise of Soul, of God’s name as the power, the presence, the flawless love.

This one line of prayer speaks volumes and there is surely more to see in it than I have shared here! But when you are seeking a starting point for prayer, begin as Jesus did. Simply love God for all that He is and let Him do the rest.

This is today’s e-inspire. 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. A downloadable compilation of categorized messages is also available by request.

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Daily Inspiration, March 31st

Posted on March 31, 2015 by LauraMoliter

 “See that ye love one another with a pure heart fervently.” (I Peter 1: 22)

If we are to live in line with that Christ-Truth that is healing and good and productive and peaceful, we must be all about loving. To love is essential to feeling right in our lives and to giving and receiving blessings that truly save and satisfy.

But how do we love? This admonition from Peter is pretty clear: See that we love one another. This we must do. And we must do it with a pure heart, for one. Love can’t be full of false motives or about selfish or material desires. This love must be pure, genuine. It must be that peaceful reflection of power that is God, and therefore is not burdened with need or qualification or exception. It simply loves because love is good and right and natural.

And secondly, we must do this pure loving fervently. This means we can’t be lazy or apathetic about it. We can’t be forgetful in loving or do it half-heartedly. We must love fervently—having or showing great warmth or intensity of spirit, feeling, and enthusiasm. We can’t be lukewarm about this, because our love for each other is really about our love for God—that reflected Love that is our very being and is always on fire with goodness and gratitude and power and life.

We were made to do this. We have been given a heart that knows how to love and a spirit that is able to do so freely and fully. This is not a job. It is a joy!

This is today’s e-inspire. 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. A downloadable compilation of categorized messages is also available by request.

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