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Daily Inspiration, February 24th

Posted on February 24, 2015 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)

God has given us a faithful guide in all that we do. His Love provides for that divine direction and protection as we go through our days and our lives. As we pass through the wilderness of uncertainty or fear, as Moses and his people did, we also have our angel of God sent ahead, to prepare the way and to beckon us into the Promised Land, that rightful place of peace and harmony.

This angel is God-sent inspiration, radiant with its clarity and full of comfort and reliability. These messages from God are spiritual intuitions that see beyond the material sense of things, fly above the mortal scene, and scope out the best and most fruitful way to go. Our angels of His presence instruct us in recognizing and claiming the Life that is God—good, right, natural, eternal.

This angel is always with you and it is comfortable and recognizable, familiar and inviting—never frightening or out of your grasp. When you embark on any new thing, new understanding, or simply a new day, know that you have God’s guiding presence right with you. This presence is God’s Love expressed. Keep those angels close in thought, but let them get just far enough ahead of you to lead you. Don’t try to get ahead of your angels. They know the right time and way to go. Listen. Follow. Trust.

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, February 19th

Posted on February 19, 2015 by LauraMoliter

“Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.” (Colossians 2: 8)

Keep your eyes open and your mind alert. The allure of the world’s false ideals and methods can trick even the most faithful followers of goodness and Truth. Don’t let the opinions of others or the often lower expectations of the world drag you down from your summit of peace and love.

The Christ declares and demonstrates the Truth. Be loyal to that inspired and honest and proven word of Life and Love, of goodness and peace. Keep on loving what you love and believing what you believe. The opposition may appear bold and powerful, but that doesn’t make it right or real.

Look to God to measure your actions and thoughts, and stay with the inspiration you receive. You don’t need to run your ideas by the world to see if it agrees. Why lower yourself to a standard set by mortal mind, that mind that is all about limitation, fear, disappointment? Why settle for an unsatisfying ideal that opposes reality, the Truth that is pure goodness and Love?

The traditions of men—those expectations based on arbitrary models that change from day to day and from culture to culture—should not concern us or confine us. We are not in a box of random and often unkind ideas. We express Life and Love. Know who you are and behave in accord with that purity, peace, and love. Don’t let the world change you. You change the world.

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Daily Inspiration, February 17th

Posted on February 17, 2015 by LauraMoliter

“John saw the human and divine coincidence, shown in the man Jesus, as divinity embracing humanity in Life and its demonstration, — reducing to human perception and understanding the Life which is God.” (Science and Health, page 561)

The revelation that appeared to John was really a clear perception of what Jesus had already come to show mankind. It was a vivid realization that heaven and earth were truly one, and that this was Jesus’s message to all of us. The Christ-Truth was the wonderful news that the human and the divine coincide, are one, and that this one is Love.

Jesus came to us as the ideal man, in human form, constantly reminding the world of his relationship with God—his divine sonship. His human life was always expressing an awareness of his divine Life, his real being, and so he was able to heal and save, to be clear and right at all times, and to transcend the limits of the grave.

This is God’s kindness. He is showing us through this eternal Christ-message, that divinity embraces humanity—lovingly exists right where the human would appear to be questioning and struggling. God is Love, and His Love brings the good news of our own holy heritage and inheritance, right to where we can understand it, see it, claim it, and demonstrate it in our lives. Just as Jesus so clearly showed us how to do.

This coinciding of human and divine was no mere coincidence, in the usual sense of the word. It was God’s great purpose and design, to come to us right where we are and show us the heaven of His Love.

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Daily Inspiration, Valentine’s Day

Posted on February 14, 2015 by LauraMoliter

“For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.” (Romans 8: 38-39)

You are always in Love. You are always being held and beheld with the deepest tenderness by divine Love, unconditional spiritual affection. Today and every day you are with infinite Love, inseparable from Him and His loyalty, devotion, care, and approval.

No appearance of separation, of darkness, of turmoil, of loss, can ever sever the eternal bond we have with divine Love. The recognition of this oneness was the great Truth that Jesus knew and proved with healing, world-changing inspiration, and by transcending the belief of death. The Christ-message he gave us was the fact that we are all one with God, at all times and in all places and situations, and that this God, our Father-Mother, is perfect, infallible, unpausing, active Love.

The world may want to make us feel that we are lost and alone or that somehow we are being excluded from love and joy and peace. It would make us believe that our blessings are in yesterday or tomorrow, or that good can be lost with the passage of time or a change in human circumstances. But this is only a mesmerizing idea that would keep us fixated on error, when the Truth is right here with us now—loving us, watching over us, caressing us with Truth and faithfully saying every day, “I love you!”

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Daily Inspiration, February 12th

Posted on February 12, 2015 by LauraMoliter

“Do not be afraid any longer, only believe.” (Mark 5:36, New American Standard Bible)

Trade fear for trust. We may have made a habit of being afraid, of accepting that we are fearful and that there is a reason for it. But we have another option, a better way, and we can choose it now.

Only believe. Simply and without reservation, believe. To believe is “to have confidence in the truth, the existence, or the reliability of something, even if one doesn’t have absolute proof.” This believing is faith, but we can know that this is not a trust that is blind. It is in knowing God that we can give up fear for confident reliance. With this believing, the cloud of fear dissolves and the proof of good is clear and evident.

Consciously remind yourself of God and His omnipotence. Recognize and feel in your heart what you know to be right and good, and don’t let the voices of the mortal mind talk you out of your trust. God is divine and infinite Love. He is good in every place and at all times. There is no room for fear in Love, and there is really nothing but Love going on.

Don’t be afraid. Simply believe. Enjoy the sweet freedom of giving up now and decisively all cowering and paranoia and mesmerized thinking and fretting. It isn’t a great stretch to do this. Only believe. Let yourself trust, love, and live in the awareness of God and His grace. This is not only freeing, it is protecting, saving, and healing.

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Daily Inspiration, February 10th

Posted on February 10, 2015 by LauraMoliter

“Each successive stage of experience unfolds new views of divine goodness and love.” (Science and Health, page 66)

Life is always progressive, new, exciting, satisfying. Cast aside and banish for good the belief of aging, diminishing, and of phases of life as fitting into some expected box of pains and even of pleasures.

God is bigger than that. Your Life is grander than a set of years in time and expected outcomes. Each “stage of experience” is God’s unfolding of good. It is Soul’s own conscious expression to us and for us, of a new aspect of His own glorious nature. There is nothing limited about the Almighty. There is nothing less than lovely and satisfying about divine Love’s gifts for each day.

God’s wholeness is forever. All is complete. What He gives us each day, at each stage in our natural and necessary growth in understanding and in grace, is a new view of this amazing Life He expresses. The Infinite One isn’t about human limits or about merely settling for the inevitable next thing. God is boundless with His ideas and we are the proof of that diversity, sparkle, creativity, and originality.

Leave your Life to God and not to false limits and predictions about it. Release yourself to His activity. Let God open the windows each day on a new view—on stimulating and satisfying ideas and the fearless promise of our boundless Life to gratefully receive, willingly accept, and fully enjoy.

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Daily Inspiration, February 5th

Posted on February 5, 2015 by LauraMoliter

“…and great multitudes came together to hear, and to be healed by [Jesus] of their infirmities. And he withdrew himself into the wilderness, and prayed.” (Luke 5: 15-16)

Jesus’s mission was a great one. Multitudes thronged to hear and to be healed. He was on the spot, called to do great things and to do them with accuracy and from a heart of love. Those hungry people yearned to be fed with the Truth Jesus knew and practiced.

But, Jesus needed to be fed as well. He left those dear ones in the hands of His and their Father, while he went into the wilderness to pray. The Master knew what he needed and that it was essential to his accomplishing his work for mankind. He had to take moments away from the clamor of others’ needs, the noise of the world’s cares, and find his peace with God. Jesus took time and space for conscious communion with his Father, listening to His intention, direction, and feeling the sweet love himself.

When we feel overwhelmed by those in need and by the multitude of daily responsibilities, head out into the wilderness and pray. In other words, allow yourself the tender, specific care of God. Take a devoted moment or day or week to hear what God has to say, just for you. Do as Jesus did and don’t make excuses as to why you can’t step aside mentally and sometimes physically, to withdraw from the noise, recharge with divine power, and regain your peace.

The multitudes are safe. And when you return to see to what needs to be done, it will feel like a mission that is natural and invigorating, right and fulfilling rather than burdensome and lonely and hard.

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Daily Inspiration, February 3rd

Posted on February 3, 2015 by LauraMoliter

“He that touches the hem of Christ’s robe and masters his mortal beliefs, animality, and hate, rejoices in the proof of healing,–in a sweet and certain sense that God is Love.” (Science and Health, page 569)

What does it mean to touch the hem of Christ’s garment? Well, first off, it surely must mean a measure of faith, a willingness to believe—even if not perhaps to fully understand—that the Truth is able to set us free. It is coming into the presence of the Truth of God and of man as His child, and wanting to know more.

It also takes humility. To touch the hem of Christ’s robe is to do what the woman in the press did with Jesus, and was healed of a long-standing condition by her action. It is going to our knees before the higher idea of man and of God. It is humbling that sense of self and self-justification, and simply kneeling before God’s wisdom and Love.

This humbling receptivity, this willingness, requires that we relinquish its opposite. We can’t be willful and full of our own opinions. We can’t keep clinging to those things that would keep that garment of divine Love out of reach—hatred, resentment, false pleasures and reliances, material limits. We have to give up arguing for the reasons why not and simply honor the goodness of the Christ, rejoicing in the power of this Truth and in the sweet certainty of God’s healing Love.

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Daily Inspiration, January 29th

Posted on January 29, 2015 by LauraMoliter

“Jesus said (John viii. 51), ‘If a man keep my saying, he shall never see death.’ That statement is not confined to spiritual life, but includes all the phenomena of existence.” (Science and Health, page 429-430)

Jesus’s promise is a complete treatment for our lives. Keeping his saying, abiding by the Master’s assertion that there is one God, perfect good, and that we are His children and heirs, is an obedience that defies death’s threats.

Mrs. Eddy clarifies that what Jesus spoke of went beyond an assertion that our spiritual lives alone will endure if we trust the Truth of God he declared and demonstrated. Every aspect of life, all the phenomena of existence, must surely be lifted out of a belief in finiteness into its true limitlessness.

Jesus proved that a knowledge of God as Life, and of his own oneness with that Father-Mother-Life, gave him the power to transcend the cross. He knew this relationship to be true for all of us, or he would not have been able to raise back to life Lazarus and others who had died, to material sense.

Apply Jesus’s saying, his promise of infinite Life, to every aspect of existence. In this understanding, there can be no death to good at all. There can be no death to opportunities, no death to enthusiasm, no death to joy, no death to love, no end at all to anything that God’s good Life must naturally and eternally express.

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Daily Inspiration, January 27th

Posted on January 27, 2015 by LauraMoliter

“…Christ has blessed you with the Holy Spirit. Now the Spirit stays in you, and you don’t need any teachers. The Spirit is truthful and teaches you everything. So stay one in your heart with Christ, just as the Spirit has taught you to do.” (I John 2: 27, Contemporary English Version)

You have your instructor always with you. The Christ-light which you have accepted as valid and true, the reality of man and God, remains with you. This light does not need another person to light it, interpret it, or explain it. It is written in your heart by Spirit itself, by God’s own loving revelation, and this Truth is always right where you are to be realized and demonstrated.

This certainly does not mean we have to go everything alone. We must surely be willing to receive of God’s generous provision of ideas shared by others through inspiration and love, when it feels right and true to us. It also doesn’t mean that we aren’t able to, even required to, help others recognize, remember, reclaim that light of Truth. But just stay clear in recognizing that another’s human interpretation of the Truth is just that—their interpretation. Someone’s personal understanding of God is not entirely pure and may not be right for you, nor may yours be just right for them.

You don’t need an intermediary. God’s voice to you is right with you, teaching you every day, at just the right pace for your life and in a unique way that suits your individuality. The Christ has left that instructive Holy Spirit with us, revealing the ever active law that is ours because it remains in our heart, because we have continued to love it.

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