Daily Inspiration, October 23rd

Posted on October 23, 2014 by LauraMoliter

“You took over and set everything right; when I needed you, you were there, taking charge.” (Psalms 9: 4, Message Bible)

Sigh of relief. Peace and comfort felt. Heart full of gratitude. Prayers answered with wisdom. Our good life restored.

God’s powerful presence is at hand. His control is right, certain, and results in harmony. Release your worries, your sense of responsibility, your doubts and confusion, to your Father-Mother-God—the One Who knows exactly what you need, when you need it, and how to bring it to you, how to make it real and satisfying.

I love the Psalmist’s gratitude in this passage, his recognition of God’s ever-presence and omnipotence. He knew, as we can, that what we attempt on our own may feel hard, uncertain, burdensome, wearying, and flawed. And yet when God is in charge, when we consent to that natural arrangement, good things result. We see life set in order, our days proceeding productively, our peace of mind and body restored.

At those times when we don’t know what to do, when we are at a loss for what to think, know, or be, God is there to take over. He is always there. God’s active presence is already right where you are, seeing you clearly, loving you dearly, leading you home not by your own wits and energy, but by the perfect guidance, protection, and care that only our all-wise and all-loving God can give.

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 21st

Posted on October 21, 2014 by LauraMoliter

“We may well be perplexed at human fear;…but why should we stand aghast at nothingness?” (Science and Health, page 563)

Franklin Roosevelt said it well: “…the only thing we have to fear is fear itself.” He went on to call such fear “nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.”

Roosevelt knew, just as the author of Science and Health did many years earlier, that fear could be mesmerizing, perplexing, paralyzing, but also unjustified and without power against the awakened, advancing thought and action. Why stand aghast at limits and lies? Why give power and attention to that which is nothing against the real power of God—Life, Truth, Love?

We often tend to own our fears, to justify them, to hold to them and make them seem either reasonable or so attached to us that we are stuck with them. But fear is not real and it is not yours. The fear is as much a lie about your freedom as is the thing of which you may feel you are afraid. We were not given fear, but Love and the sound mind to know that.

Don’t let your fear of fear, your preoccupation with it, cause you to retreat from Life, from opportunity, from freedom. Franklin Roosevelt knew that the answer to a nation in trouble required action, unity, energy, and expectation. An attachment to fear would impede that purpose, be the death to hope and to a better life. The people responded to his message and rose to the task, just as we must do, daily. Fear is a daily death, but it is not yours, not powerful, not perplexing. It is nameless nothingness!

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 16th

Posted on October 16, 2014 by LauraMoliter

“And Jesus said unto him, No man, having put his hand to the plough, and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of God.” (Luke 9: 62)

Fitness for the kingdom of God is that mental readiness to enter in, to receive God’s new day and be brand new in it. Jesus reminded us often that entering into the kingdom of heaven—that heavenly state of being, that awareness of reality—required us to be like little children. That means consenting to be innocent, to be open, and to be humbly ready to give up the old for the new.

If we have made that conscious choice to cultivate our lives and cause them to truly prosper, we can’t keep looking over our shoulder and expect to do a good job or get where we are going. Your past is not a hindrance to your progress unless you let it be. Your fitness means you must be lean and clean. Let go of that baggage of what you believe damaged you yesterday, what mistakes you feel you made, the challenges mortal life has thrown your way. The kingdom of God, your most natural and comfortable and peaceful state of being right here and now, requires that you leave your so-called past behind.

You can’t live two lives. If you want to claim and feel your divine life, you can’t keep dwelling on your human one. Bless your past and let it go. Move forward and keep your eyes on the spiritual Truth that keeps beckoning you. Keep your focus on God and His daily new Life for you. Moving forward in this way, you will naturally walk out of those limits. You’ll get fit and trim through this productive activity. In addition, letting go of that unnecessary weight of the past, of matter, of disappointment, will have you experiencing a “you” that is freer, buoyant, childlike, energetic, happy, and a blessing to others as well!

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 14th

Posted on October 14, 2014 by LauraMoliter

“Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be salted? it is thenceforth good for nothing, but to be cast out, and to be trodden under foot of men.” (Matthew 5: 13)

Remember who you are. Recognize afresh each day your divine purpose and the Source of it. God has no apathy and no weariness. This perfect Truth of Life is always full of flavor, a precious commodity, one to be valued and utilized with joy and with love.

We are the salt of the earth. We are born to a calling to be the children of God and to share the good news with our very lives. We are here to live as ones that know what they have, that are grateful daily, and who bring goodness to the world rather than letting the world bring us down.

Wake up to your purpose. Realize that this true intention not only enriches the world, but that without you doing what you were made to do, you fail to know the blessing of being yourself. You in essence give up your true and vital identity for one that does not suit you at all. It feels wrong and uncomfortable, not fresh and invigorating.

Remember to receive God’s love for you anew each day. Let Him remind you of the quality of your being. Let Him reveal lovingly just why you are so needed to bring your perfect flavors to the earth and by doing so, to feel the peace, joy, and power that being true to God’s design and purpose must necessarily bring!

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 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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