Daily Inspiration, October 9th

Posted on October 9, 2014 by LauraMoliter

“Are thoughts divine or human? That is the important question. This branch of study is indispensable to the excision of error.” (Science and Health, page 462)

It’s worth thinking about your thinking! If we really are to uncover error, the mistaken beliefs about ourselves and about life, we have to be better acquainted with thought. This is not about ruminating over things or intellectualizing every premise and conclusion. What it is about doing is pausing often to ask that one question and listen for the inspired answer.

Is this thought human or divine? Am I thinking from a human perspective, one colored with mortal beliefs and fears and supplemented by the input of the senses? Or am I thinking my thoughts straight from God, from the one Mind that is always announcing good, clearing up ignorance, and giving me both clarity and peace?

All true thinking is divine, for Truth and Mind are One, and that One is God, good. This is the consciousness that constitutes reality, all being, and out of which all right activity must proceed. The human thought is easily identified. It is one which is fraught with pros and cons and which seldom if ever gives us a sense of unequivocal and fearless certainty. It is limited. The divine thought is God’s word. It simply is and knows and does. It settles us and saves us.

Answer this important question: Are these thoughts human or divine? Then believe and trust only the divine, for they are also the true, the powerful, the healing, and the right.

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, October 7th

Posted on October 7, 2014 by LauraMoliter

“Do all things without murmurings and disputings: That ye may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world;” (Philippians 2: 14-15)

Lights don’t argue and fuss. Radiance doesn’t show reluctance to shine or mutter about the fact it must glow. A beam of sunshine doesn’t question the validity of the sun’s purpose or vie with other rays. The shining light of the world just shines because it is natural to do so and because it must do what it is made to do.

We were made to be the innocent children of God, to dwell peacefully together, and to be the very evidence of our Source, the shining Truth of Life as Love. Let’s be careful not to question our capacity to shine or be timid about that intention to brighten the world, to heal and to save it from darkness. This is not only what you can do. It is what you were made to do.

We are the sons and daughters of God. Accept that. Daily. Be yourself—that wonderful proof of God’s presence. Be good and do good. Do it not because you were told to do it or by simply putting on good human behavior that you do with self-righteousness, complaint, and insincerity. Be the genuine light of the world because this is what you truly are. Be this shining beam because it is what you love and what you know. And shine on with gratitude and generosity because it is such a joy to be the blameless, harmless, children of 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, October 2nd

Posted on October 2, 2014 by LauraMoliter

“How much more should we seek to apprehend the spiritual ideas of God, than to dwell on the objects of sense! To discern the rhythm of Spirit and to be holy, thought must be purely spiritual.”  (Science and Health, page 510)

If we want to get into the pure and perfect rhythm of Life, we can’t be fixated on the confused noise of material sense. Spirit’s harmonious being and activity can’t be discerned, appreciated, and lived when we are getting so caught up in the objects of sense, the various details of circumstances, things, persons, bodies.

That beautiful spiritual rhythm is always with us, carrying us forth with balance, harmony, and progress. It naturally regulates experience and body. But if we close our spiritual eyes to this truth of being and junk up our thinking with preoccupation over material things, we can’t hear that perfect beat, the one that is in sync with our truest inner harmony, the natural dance of our lives.

So, shut off that mortal mind and its needy worry. Just turn that cacophony off and open your eager hearts and minds to the soothing, uncomplicated, rhythm of Spirit—your own truest Life that is pleasing, right, and reveals your natural poise and grace 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, September 30th

Posted on September 30, 2014 by LauraMoliter

“Shake thyself from the dust; arise, and sit down, O Jerusalem: loose thyself from the bands of thy neck, O captive daughter of Zion.” (Isaiah 52: 2)

God is calling you. His vital, animating, voice of Truth and Love is beckoning you up and out of the dirt. We are today and every day given the new opportunity to brush off that dust of moldy old thinking, and awake to the fact that we are free to live, to rejoice, to be made new to God’s day and His promises.

We may sometimes tend to feel so burdened by life, old and apathetic, weighed down by too many things and too many thoughts about those things! We may feel we will always be the sum of our fears, our history, caught in a box of time and loss, or merely settling for what little mortal life will offer us and getting used to it.

Shake it off! Allow yourself the gift of a fresh perspective. Open your eyes and see that the dust is easily washed off and that you are not yoked to a life that isn’t good enough for you. Such a life is not good enough for God! Rise up out of that gloomy disposition; shake off yesterday, for its only abiding place is in consciousness, in what we choose to dwell on today.

Get up from the ground and brush yourself off. The new day sets you free, calls you into its satisfying glories, and also gives you a comfortable place to sit down, as Isaiah reminds us. For it is in fact no struggle and a blessed rest to simply be the wonder that God made you 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, September 25th

Posted on September 25, 2014 by LauraMoliter

“A man’s life consisteth not in the abundance of things which he possesseth.” (Luke 12: 15)

Life is not about a collection of possessions, an amassing of things. It is likewise not about the number of accomplishments one can parade out, the amount of money one has gained, or the personal status one may have achieved. Our life is so much greater than that!

True abundance is in what God possesses. The fullness of His qualities of Life reflected assures that our lives are grand beyond measure, good and pleasing and plentiful. Material possessions will never be satisfying to us if we do not have an understanding of joy, of life, of love, and of their spiritual Source and expression. Those material things are fleeting, and what one day is our favorite item, our greatest achievement, the next day has lost our interest altogether.

But the substance of our life as God’s idea grants us riches that can’t be counted and an appeal that never wears off. For example, our home is in our hearts, a sense of peace that God gives us–the genuine comfort and beauty that comes with that settled state of Mind. That abundant quality can’t fail to be expressed in a lovely residence, a place that feels right and warm and welcoming.

When we claim our inheritance as children of God, recognize that privilege of being born to the great Giver of Good, we are able to feel that bounty all the time. Then we naturally feel loved, provided for, and with only and always the best that money itself can’t buy: priceless goodness, peace, and 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, September 23rd

Posted on September 23, 2014 by LauraMoliter

“The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside the still waters.” (Psalms 23: 1-2)

What a tender and wonderful assurance this is! This familiar poem seems to have such an immediate calming affect when we turn to it in times of need. The idea that we are sheep and that God, loving good, is our Shepherd, is a metaphor that is so peaceful and right. Jesus thought so, too, and drew upon the idea of the sheep and its shepherding Father-Mother often as we read in the gospels. This was a familiar picture for many of his followers who may have tended sheep themselves, but it is one that seems to resonate with anyone.

Sheep are innocent. Don’t we all want to be seen that way? The shepherd takes care of each of those little ones without judgment but with a real necessity to keep track of all and make sure each is well fed, sheltered, and healthy. The best shepherds don’t let the sheep run wild or go astray when there might be danger to them or a threat to their well-being. The shepherd watches and guides–diligently, faithfully.

Our Shepherd, God, cares for us with such a firm gentleness. He maketh us to lie down in green pastures. There isn’t a choice here. He requires that we rest when needed and that we rest where it is green, lush and lovely, where there is sustenance in food as well as in beauty and comfort.
Neither does this Shepherd lead us to rushing waters where we can’t easily drink or might lose our balance and get carried away. God leads us to all that is clearly good and natural and sustaining. And He makes us do what is best for us, for this Shepherd can see with His broader perspective the full and flourishing fields of our lives.

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, September 18th

Posted on September 18, 2014 by LauraMoliter

“…I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, Whom shall I send, and who will go for us? Then said I, Here am I; send me.” (Isaiah 6: 8)

God is calling your name. Each day divine Love, infinite goodness, is beckoning you into your true purpose. God has made you to represent Him, to bring good and light and healing and love to the world. Should we be reluctant to be and to do what He has so brilliantly caused us to naturally accomplish?

We should be eager each morning to serve God. We can’t pretend we didn’t hear the call. The world is shouting out for healing, for clarity, for peace all the time. Who should God send? One who is ready, prepared by his own love for God and for that Christ-Truth, the only truth that can bring lasting and genuine harmony, heaven, to earth.

I am resolving each day not to be so quick to ask what God can do for me (which is so very much!), but instead to answer His call and to say, what can I do? Send me. I am here and I am ready. I know that I can glorify your nature, radiate your Love, because you have told me that I can and because you are always with me.

Will you join me in this daily response to God? Will you agree to say “yes” to representing God’s Truth here and now by being just who He made you to be, the very expression of His intention, His power, His Life, and His enduring and healing 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, September 16th

Posted on September 16, 2014 by LauraMoliter

“Don’t let the world around you squeeze you into its own mould, but let God re-mould your minds from within, so that you may prove in practice that the plan of God for you is good, meets all his demands and moves towards the goal of true maturity.” (Romans 12: 2, JB Phillips New Testament)

Your potential for life and for joy goes way beyond what the world around you would suggest. You don’t have to squeeze yourself into a mold of human expectations and opinions about life and individual expression. This approach to living would always have us feel either stifled or inadequate. It is a box which would essentially impede our progress, our growth in understanding, in demonstration, and in peace.

Instead of agreeing to the world’s patterns and trying to emulate them, be free! Give yourself permission to give up and now the uncomfortable agreement to live out life in a way that either feels confining or impossible. Let God redesign your thinking, open your mind and your very life to the great possibilities available to you—possibilities that will not only cause you to flourish, but will bring you contentment as well. These out-of-the-box divine opportunities must necessarily bring a true satisfaction that provides the strength and peace to give, to share, to bring more glory to God and more healing to our often deluded, confused world.

As we give up judgment on our lives—our own analysis or the judgment of others—we are able to let God’s natural movement happen. We are able to release ourselves to the Life that God has already planned for us, that expression of Him that feels most genuine, real, right, expansive, and healing.

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, September 11th

Posted on September 11, 2014 by LauraMoliter

“Simply asking that we may love God will never make us love Him; but the longing to be better and holier, expressed in daily watchfulness and in striving to assimilate more of the divine character, will mould and fashion us anew, until we awake in His likeness.” (Science and Health, page 4)

Your humble and loving heart will reveal your heaven to you. Your sincere desire to be better, to understand more, and to love more truly and fully, is a guarantee of blessings. We can assert that we love God, good, or plead with Him. But without an open heart for instruction in righteousness, without an earnest, honest desire to listen and follow, we are missing something vital to our progress.

If we are to see ourselves truly, as God’s own image and likeness, we must begin with humility, a willingness to lose a prideful sense of self, or alternately a self-pitied one. If we are genuinely longing to listen and follow, to let go of ego and release ourselves to God’s Life, we shall discover the richness of that wonderful Life more and more each day.

It takes discipline, but not mere human willfulness. We should not berate ourselves for mistakes, giving them an enduring life, nor should we push ahead with a human time frame for our spiritual growth when we do not truly understand or feel the Truth of it. If we are recognizing the “divine character” and daily watching our thought for what is out of accord with that, then we shall advance. We shall begin to see more clearly that what we strive to be, is what we already are: the perfect idea that God saw fit to make and continues to thoroughly, attentively 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, September 9th

Posted on September 9, 2014 by LauraMoliter

“…[Divine] Mind measures time according to the good that is unfolded. This unfolding is God’s day, and ‘there shall be no night there.’” (Science and Health, page 584)

Our days are bigger and better and fuller than hours crammed into daylight. Our divine Mind’s measurement of time is according to the amount of good that is unfolding. And this revelation of goodness is God’s doing. He is the substance of our every moment and He is in control of its perfect expression.

Let go of the mortal mind’s need to count the hours and the days, to be constantly aware of the passage of time or, contrariwise, by its seeming delay and our impatience with it. A material sense of time is a mortal measure and so it is necessarily limiting. God’s time is a space for goodness to be revealed—in an instant or sustained in many moments, days, years. God Himself is in charge of this lovely activity, and it is always going on. Infinite good is already right here, right now, and God is revealing more of that reality each day.

So we can treasure this true sense of our day—look forward to each with expectancy, and linger in each as we are in it with gratitude. There is no night in God’s day; there is no stopping point for light and good, no shut down of His presence and power, no absence of His active Love. God’s day is His own expressive presence and there is no evil, no impatience, no disappointment, no loss, and no fear in a day that is full of Life, Truth, 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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