Daily Inspiration, August 6th

“Jesus called the Twelve to him…He sent them off with these instructions: ‘Don’t think you need a lot of extra equipment for this. You are the equipment. No special appeals for funds. Keep it simple.’” (Mark 6: 7-9, Message Bible)

We are taking up where the twelve apostles left off. Jesus’s words apply completely to us as we go forth in our work, in our thoughts and actions. We have a purpose. We are called to carry out the holy intention of the healing Christ—to be the living proof of goodness and love—and we are fully equipped to do this.

For we are made of goodness and love. We have built-in resources—the reflected and powerful qualities of God that He gave us. Never belittle what you are and the infinite capacities of your life to achieve great things. Such a perspective belittles God. It is saying in effect that His creation is lacking, meager, weak, unprepared. In addition, it would suggest that God called us to do His holy work of love but didn’t love us enough to equip us sufficiently!

You are the equipment. You don’t need any tools outside of who you naturally are to do wonderful things and to please God in doing them. You don’t need extra money or time or human validation or great training and intellect. Keep it simple. Trust God and trust yourself, as His natural expression, to please Him, to truly succeed, to be all that you were so perfectly made to be!

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, August 4th

“…it is not the will of your Father which is in heaven, that one of these little ones should perish.” (Matthew 18: 14)

Your Father-Mother has no favorites. His Love is boundless and every idea that He conceived is one that He thoroughly and enduringly loves. Each one of us is safe in the certainty of God’s presence and His awareness of who we are, where we are, and why we are essential to His glorious expression.

God’s will is not destructive or neglectful. You can trust Him as a Shepherd that is able to care for you and for all the others as well. You can be so grateful that you are a sheep and that you needn’t worry your sweet little head over your own well-being or that of any of the other sheep in God’s infinite pasture. Your divine Shepherd knows His own and He loves them, keeps them, carries them, guides them, cleanses them, always brings them home.

Our Father’s heavenly consciousness, that presence that is peaceful reality, embraces each one of us and we each hear and naturally respond to His loving voice. He knows what every one of his little ones most need to find their way to safety and joy, and He can do this tending so much better, wiser, more effectively than we can.

No one is out of God’s care. Each is tenderly watched and expressively loved.

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, July 30th

“Man is not a pendulum, swinging between evil and good, joy and sorrow, sickness and health, life and death.” (Science and Health, page 246)

You are not a pendulum. You are not blown back and forth by the wind of mortal mind’s whims and its unkind, material theories about life. You are not a pendulum, drawn back into a human past to survey loss or pain, swinging with no grounding either backward or forward into some wall that ends it all. You are absolutely and always grounded in Truth, the unchanging Principle. That loving Truth has designed your Life to live naturally and confidently and gracefully forward, at the perfect pace, safely and yet with surprises to discover.

A pendulum is a piece in a clock. It is hanging in time’s clutches. You are not a pendulum. You are grounded in the eternal Now, standing certain in each well-conceived moment, new to its promise and moving forward gratefully and gracefully under the control of infinite wisdom.

You are not swinging perpetually up and down, backwards and forwards. There isn’t a necessary backwards to every forward. God is in control. His law is progress, and His method is Love. You are free of time’s hold and held safely in divine Life’s upward, onward flight. Let go of the pendulum. Don’t buy that belief, that superstition. You are free to be joyful, healthy, whole, all the time, right now.

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, July 28th

“My prayer for you is that you may have still more love—a love that is full of knowledge and wise insight. I want you to be able always to recognise the highest and the best, and to live sincere and blameless lives until the day of Jesus Christ.” (Philippians 1: 9-10, JB Phillips New Testament)

Paul’s sweet prayer is one that we can receive today. Let’s accept this blessing that would expand our sense of love. The Christ-message that Paul preached brought out for all a greater understanding of the Love that is God. It was not only a human sense of goodness, but a greater perception of divine Love as the only Creator, the one Source, and the very Father and Mother of us all.

This prayer would not only have us practice loving-kindness, but really, thoroughly recognize God as Love. It would wish for us to know the Truth of our unbreakable relationship with divine Love as the very children and witnesses to this powerful, healing force. With this awareness, we go beyond faith to a true and confident understanding and appreciation for what is ours to live and to share.

And Paul knew as we do, that if we really perceive God as Love and ourselves as His children, we can’t fail to desire to live in accord with this heritage. This consciousness of who we are uplifts our motives, clarifies our perception of life, and empowers us not only to want the highest and best, but to refuse to be anything less.

“Sincere and blameless lives” are natural to divine Love’s reflection. This prayer is not one which would try to change us into better men; it is one which reveals that we already are innately good, wise, and loving because our perfect God made us to be!

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, July 23rd

“The purpose and motive to live aright can be gained now. This point won, you have started as you should…and nothing but wrong intention can hinder your advancement.” (Science and Health, page 326)

Seize the day! Today, this moment, is your opportunity to live life rightly, truly, honestly, happily. Yesterday is irrelevant in this choice and the sooner you realize this, the easier it will be to continue forward progressively, yet naturally. If we are looking over our shoulder, our movement is likely to be unsteady, faltering, and we may just bump into something.

We can discover that right purpose and motive and by doing so, be led out of limits and into a life that is more suitable and good and therefore also productive. When we keep our intentions pure and sincere, there is nothing that can stop our accomplishing fresh and wonderful things that regenerate rather than deplete us.

We can make this conscious and conscientious decision to agree to be the worthy and wonderful children of God that we indeed are. We can choose in this precious moment to disagree with what human opinions, material circumstances, or personality would try to say about our lives and our potential. We can decide right now to be better than mortal mind’s accusations about us, and to walk with our heads high and our hearts full of love.

Our good intention aligns us with God, omnipotence, and so we have this great power behind us to advance, to live in accord with goodness, and to naturally bring blessings to others as well as to ourselves.

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, July 21st

“Beholding the infinite tasks of truth, we pause,–wait on God.” (Science and Health, page 323)

It often seems like there is so much to accomplish, so much to understand, so much to know to feel a sense of achievement as well as peace. We can get mesmerized and overwhelmed by what feels unconquerable or not within our abilities.

Well, let’s not forget the pause. Yes, we see these infinite tasks of truth—the endless and progressive unfolding of goodness—but should we let this awareness make us feel panicked or in a rush to get ourselves through to the end of the race, to some final result where all things will be clear and complete? Don’t forget that pausing is heaven. It is grateful peace, and in this peace is the next right and reasonable step revealed.

If we wait on God—rest our busy heads and busy lives upon God and His Love and Truth—we have adopted the perfect stance to receive sustenance, renewing energy, focus, clarity and true guidance rather than willful motion based on worry not wisdom.

You can achieve all that God would have you achieve! He is calling you into a better understanding of the grand possibilities of your Life each day. Stop and listen. Love doesn’t overwhelm us or confuse us. It leads comfortably and cares for us as God unfolds our perfect way, our perfect day, in His perfect time.

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, July 16th

“To those leaning on the sustaining infinite, to-day is big with blessings.” (Science and Health, page vii)

The sustaining presence of God is everywhere. You can always lean fully and reliably on that infinite One. There is no space or circumstance where God is not present, occupying that place with His Truth and Love. You are never alone or without powerful support.

Recognize this available and saving presence and release the control, the worry, the fear, the responsibility, to that omnipotent goodness and Love. This infinite substance and sustenance will always keep you from falling, guide you to safety, lead you to success and peace, and supply your needs. Right where you are. Because where you are, God is.

Start your day with this trust and end it with gratitude. Today is not big with sorrow, pain, doubt, fear, dread, regrets, discomfort. Such a false outlook only comes when we lean on finiteness, limits—self, matter, time, persons, mortal opinions. In reality and for you and me, today is big with God, full of goodness and Love, wisdom and strength. Today is big with free and easy and natural blessings when we lean our lives and minds on the infinite One Who is loving us—right here and now and everywhere and always.

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, July 14th

“Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you. And will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty.” (II Corinthians 6: 17-18)

Take your proper place. Don’t get lost in a crowd of human opinions and fears and expectations. Don’t get caught up with fitting in to that which is really too small and confining for you, not to mention to dingy and dark and unlovely.

Come out, with joyful gratitude, and be separate. This separateness from worldly beliefs and limits is not a lonely and unsupported place. We are united to God, to all that is right and good and infinite and sustaining and satisfying and peaceful and true. We may have stepped out of line from a waiting world, but we have taken our rightful place as the sons and daughters of God.

Don’t be shy about claiming your divine heritage and all that that means. Act like a child of God, and shine forth with the light of His Love. Refuse to lead a life that is less than full and joyous and satisfying for you. Refuse to give in to peer pressure and take a road that looks easier because it is more well-traveled, but which is actually darker, stonier, less beautiful, not to mention quite crowded.

We deserve better. Stepping out from the crowd and aligning oneself with God and His purpose, goodness, and love, is not a punishing loneliness. It is protection, affection, peace, and power. We find our real contentment as well as productivity when we are true not to mortal men, but to ourselves and to God.

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, July 9th

“Now is the time for so-called material pains and material pleasures to pass away, for both are unreal, because impossible in Science. To break this earthly spell, mortals must get the true idea and divine Principle of all that really exists and governs the universe harmoniously.” (Science and Health, page 39)

Our salvation is not in tomorrow, in next year, or after death. Now is the time to refuse to accept the confines of a life that is all about matter and its limits and lies. We don’t have to ascend out of matter in order to experience freedom from its bondage, right here and now.

How do we gain this freedom, this heaven on earth? Well, we can’t claim Spirit’s promises when we are focused on matter, making physiology and material circumstances our god and the arbiter of our fate. We must turn toward God, honoring His presence and power, and coming into a higher understanding of what is really true, lovely, enduring, and ours to know and experience.

Let’s be about breaking “this earthly spell.” The first thing we must do is know that we are being tricked, mesmerized into believing that matter holds the cards and that we have to take what it deals us. Refuse that deceptive hand. God has your life and He never created a man subject to another power, limited, or expressing anything less than His own grand ideal.

Recognize in each moment whether you are agreeing to matter’s limits, agreeing to wait on your salvation, or whether you are accepting the fact that you are, not shall be, the sons and daughters of God—heavenly, happy, free!

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, July 7th

“I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you.” (John 14: 18)

This is a promise. Jesus was assuring his followers then and today that his departure from the earth did not leave them alone. He gave us all an enduring, precious, and powerful gift: the Truth.

The Truth that Jesus shared with the world and demonstrated through his healing and transcendence of death remains with us in all its glory and efficacy. This revealed Truth of divine Love and man as God’s child and image, is forever present and active. It existed before Jesus appeared on earth and will continue without end. This Truth is forever with us and its purpose and activity is the divine Love that heals us.

The Comforter is our awareness of this law, this Truth of being. This healing ideal is forever dawning in times of need, coming to us in new ways that enlighten and uplift. We are always being reminded of our divine origin and of God’s ever-presence and power. These attending angels are infinitely available and they come from God, from that perfect wisdom that knows precisely the comfort we need and just when we need it.

I will come to you. The Christ that heals will always be where we are, to draw us in with merciful love and to uplift us with strengthening inspiration. Jesus’s great and undying love for us left us with a faithful companion—a practical and available consciousness of our Oneness with saving, comforting, all-powerful divine 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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