Being Free Now

“If we are ungrateful for Life, Truth, and Love, and yet return thanks to God for all blessings, we are insincere and incur the sharp censure our Master pronounces on hypocrites. In such a case, the only acceptable prayer is to put the finger on the lips and remember our blessings.” (Science and Health, page 3)

Gratitude is not merely some mantra to get us to feel better about ourselves. Giving thanks when we are not feeling truly conscious of God’s blessings is being hypocritical and it isn’t going to help us find favor with God or men, or reveal the healing we may desire.

If we are still engrossed in our lack, our misery, our material circumstances, or the behavior of others, our thanksgiving has no sincerity. An honest and quiet recognition of God, of the Truth of our Life, will awaken us from the mesmerism of ingratitude and any reason for it. We can’t talk our way into seeing God’s blessings revealed. It is Truth, a genuine honesty and receptivity that must and can open our eyes and call out our natural songs of praise.

Being grateful is not about counting the good in our human lives (the pros) while remaining still well-aware of the opposite (the cons). True gratitude is not human argument. It is a rest in God’s presence, in the awareness that good is All and therefore right where we are. It is a silent consciousness that Love is bigger than the human picture presents and that our coffers are more than full of blessings because our lives are full of the great treasures of 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.

“Even eternity can never reveal the whole of God, since there is no limit to infinitude or to its reflections.” (Science and Health, page 517)

Life is full of surprises. Our magnificent Life is God, the infinite Almighty, and there is no end to His creativity. Eternity is not big enough to hold all that God is and does, and all that His brilliant Mind is actively and perfectly revealing.

There is no such thing as monotony in God’s Life. There is no dropping off of interest and enthusiasm. Neither did God create a single idea that does not reflect His nature, the quality of unendingly wondrous being and acting. The number and diversity of God’s creations can’t be counted or confined within limits, nor can any single idea be less than infinite in its potential and expressiveness.

We cannot even grasp humanly anything as large and lovely as God’s infinite reality, His heavenly cosmos of ideas, nor do we need to. God is grasping, holding within His own Mind, every idea He has caused and cherishing these thoughts within His Love. God knows that there is more to His world and more to each one of us than the physical senses can behold. So, let’s open our spiritual eyes–that higher, broader, truer perception of things–and catch a glimpse of that limitlessness. We can do this one glorious day, one unfolding idea at a time, and be glad that there will always be surprises, newness, and wonder yet to be revealed and experienced.

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.

“O lord, thou hast searched me, and known me. Thou knowest my downsitting and mine uprising, thou understandest my thought afar off. Thou compassest my path and my lying down, and art acquainted with all my ways.” (Psalms 139: 1-3)

God knows you always and thoroughly. His ever-presence with you means He is fully acquainted with who you are–who you really are–and what you need. He is your intimate friend and your faithful guardian. He is your protector and your encourager. God knows you so well for He made you and He is the very substance and Life of you.

The divine Mind is way ahead of us. God already knows what our life looks like and why we can rest easy. He also has a perfect vision of our being, the enduring and beautiful idea that He saw fit to create and perpetuate and to constantly, actively love. God knows your true nature and it pleases Him. There is no reason to hide or be ashamed. There is no cause to justify your actions or thoughts or plead with God to understand.

Our Father-Mother is fully aware of you and your innocence and goodness. He is right there with you when you lay your head down in exhaustion or when you are tossing and turning in confusion. His Love is never blaming and it is never absent. God understands you. He knows your heart and your life and He finds you pleasing, worthy of His attention, His enduring protection, and His boundless, ever-present affection.

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.

“No form nor physical combination is adequate to represent infinite Love.” (Science and Health, page 256)

Love is bigger than anything or anyone. It has no boundaries and no limits and can’t be lost or found in a person or situation. Infinite Love is God’s own substance and being in action, and He is never out of reach or distant in His affections. We can’t lose infinite Love and because it is spiritual, divine, it is full and unconditional and unfailingly right.

No physical form can represent what divine Love is nor can a certain set of circumstances express its fullness; and yet since this Love is infinite, it necessarily embraces and includes all that appears to us as physical being, individuals, and our world. Divine Love encompasses the real and eternal and exists right where the limited personality would try to get our attention and beg for affection. Perfect Love is perfect in its entirety, its unopposed presence and power. It is our comfort in this moment, always enough, and always at the ready.

Let’s snuggle down into that awareness of Love’s presence. It is in us, with us, and for us. We can’t be separated from Omni-presence. We can’t be in the middle of hate and anger and divine Love at the same time. Infinite Love is our solace, our companion, our peace, our power. Realize the limitless nature of the Love that is yours both to have and to naturally express now and always, here and 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.

“…Mary stood without at the sepulchre weeping: and as she wept, she stooped down, and…Jesus saith unto her, Woman, why weepest thou? whom seekest thou? She, supposing him to be the gardener, saith unto him, Sir, if thou have borne him hence, tell me where thou hast laid him, and I will take him away. Jesus saith unto her, Mary.” (John 20: 11, 15-16)

Mary was looking into the sepulcher, seeking out a sense of resolution, of peace, of a conclusive sense of life in the place where the dead are buried. Her faith in Jesus and his works was strong and her great love for the Christ message is seen in her enduring love and her own humble receptivity to Jesus’s message of forgiveness, healing, and freedom.

She didn’t recognize Jesus initially because she was looking in the wrong direction–her thought in that moment expecting a body to mourn and not ever-lasting life to celebrate. She looked right at Jesus and did not see him. Her spiritual eyes were darkened by mortality, closed to the infinite nature of the Christ, that revelation of man as the son and daughter of God.

What woke her and opened her eyes to the risen Christ? He called her by name. He brought the Christ right to her and she heard her own name, her own true nature, spoken, recognized and fully seen and loved. She responded to that clear voice of the Christ awakening her to herself, to the woman who didn’t need to mourn for death but to celebrate life.

Quiet those confused thoughts. Turn from the sepulcher of mortality and limitation in your own life, and listen for the voice of the Christ calling your name, your very name—knowing you, seeing you, loving you, cherishing you, and awakening you to the wonder of your own everlasting, limitless, glorious, 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.

“Willingness to become as a little child and to leave the old for the new, renders thought receptive of the advanced idea. Gladness to leave the false landmarks and joy to see them disappear, — this disposition helps to precipitate the ultimate harmony.” (Science and Health page 323-324)

A new year has begun and what better occasion than this to leave the old behind and to step eagerly and gracefully into a new day and a new way. There is no reason to linger with the old experiences, the old complaints, the old and limiting traits we have agreed make up our being. We are being called forward by our Father-Mother-Life into sweet new experiences and into our best days.

We may be well aware that we are not living up to our best selves or that we are attached to habits or fears that are not productive. Yet we can sometimes be so unwilling to leave them behind, to truly give these things up. We have taken full possession of these lesser qualities and gotten comfortable with our familiar limits. We have owned them and so it feels hard to let them go. They seem to make up who we are and what we are used to.

But the reality is that we should be glad to leave these false landmarks–the human and material sense of what our life is, has been, and what we are–because these are entirely false, never ours to begin with. How excited we should be to go forward like a little child, free of the baggage of our own unfair concepts of ourselves, and to step into a life full of new promise, potential, and “the ultimate harmony.”

Happy New Year all year long!

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.

“And I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, Now is come salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of his Christ: for the accuser of our brethren is cast down, which accused them before our God day and night.” (Revelation 12: 10)

It is time to say goodbye to the accuser and his accusations. It is time to give a big send-off to a sense of the past, its mistakes and disappointments and fears and to prepare for victory. Let’s give gratitude that we have a blessed opportunity to come out from behind the finger of accusation and be a free man going forward into Life.

The future beckons you into blessings and the sense of human resolutions can be uplifted through recognizing God’s resolve to actively show us just how blessed we are. The “loud voice” calls out from heaven, harmony, to wake us from that sense of a life that is condemned by circumstances and damaged by time. That accuser is not there, but cast out by the power of Christ, the Truth of our goodness, safety, and the insistent presence of God’s Love.

We stand here poised on another eve. Let’s make it an occasion to cherish the good that has existed forever and now, and to celebrate our innocence of those accusations against our natural peace and joy going forward. Let’s prepare for our new day, our new year, with a song of praise to God for His salvation and strength and for our own precious place in the vast, timeless, life-giving embrace of His ever-renewing 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.

“The advent of Jesus of Nazareth marked the first century of the Christian era, but the Christ is without beginning of years or end of days.” (Science and Health, page 333)

Christmas isn’t over! The Christ is continuing to shine in our hearts and upon our lives. We really can’t leave behind the blessed day full of the gifts of God’s Love, the conscious recognition of the son of God and we ourselves the very evidence of this Truth come to earth. The birth of Jesus may have been a day in human history, but the Christmas spirit preceded it and follows it.

Unwrap some new gifts today! The delightful, pleasing surprises are not over. The loving exchange of good does not need to wait another year. Each day we continue to have the legitimate opportunity to celebrate the Christ in our days and in our ways. Christmas glows in new colors, with new songs, and new inspiration today, tomorrow, and every day.

Let’s not wait another year to love our Christmas anew, not as a day confined to various festivities, but as an idea revealed for the world with new power and love and promise every day. Let’s realize what the Christ-Truth means for us, and act accordingly. This wonderful message of God’s goodness is a daily reminder. This Christ is our ever-present and active savior, awakening us to our true worthiness to receive and enjoy every good gift because we are the children of God, of 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.

“When they saw the star, they rejoiced with exceeding great joy.” (Matthew 2: 10)

The wise men had not even glimpsed the savior, the baby Jesus who would bring the good news to the world, and they were already full of joy. They had only seen the star, the beckoning light, and felt that impulse to follow it.

They were partakers in a wonderful first Christmas Eve spirit! Wouldn’t it be great to rejoice “with exceeding great joy”? Doesn’t that sound like fun, maybe like the way a child might feel the night before Christmas when they experience the excitement and anticipation of what the morning will bring—surprises prepared just for them and given out of love?

Let’s join those wise men and those children whose joy preceded the full unwrapping of the promised joys. Let’s remember that even if we have not reached the full awareness and greatest understanding of Truth, or the bounty of sought after goodness, still that spirit of trustful knowing is a glorious place to be!
Isn’t Christmas Eve often even more full of wonder than the morning? It is a time when the impelling and sweet ideas dwell in thought, the gentle night holds us in its blanket of hope, and the star of God’s guidance tells us, yes, your gifts, the saving Truth of your Life, awaits, and will come timely, in the dawn of a new day of God’s love.

Please feel free to cherish this idea further, if you are led to, with this article I recently had published on this topic!

http://sentinel.christianscience.com/shared/view/114fafm67qs

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.

“Jesus came into Galilee, preaching the gospel of the kingdom of God, And saying,…repent ye, and believe the gospel.” (Mark 1: 14-15)

Jesus came into Galilee like a breath of fresh air. He came into every place into which he entered with a message, an open secret, one that was meant to save and to regenerate life and being universally. He didn’t create the gospel, but he was vitally aware of it and couldn’t keep such good news to himself.

For that is the gospel that Jesus taught and demonstrated: the good news of Life, of a kingdom of good at hand, available, ready, and real. He didn’t look for the good news or tell us to hope for it with him. What he asked was that his listeners of then and now, repent and believe.

Repentance is a change of thought, a release from an acceptance of an erroneous, sinful, limited, cynical, material, fear-filled point of view, for a new and fresh perspective. It is disagreeing with the old and tired and disappointing for the good news of life in and of God, built of Spirit and of Love. Jesus is asking us to believe in this wonderful news. He asks us to give up that resignation to a sense of coming up from dust and dirt, and feeling dirty, damaged, afraid and ashamed, and to instead believe in the bright and fresh and sweet and satisfying: the kingdom of God, good.

Let’s be eager to believe this gospel, this good news, without qualification and without conditions. Let’s repent of our shackles, change our thought about their reality and power, and gratefully enjoy our freedom.

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.