Being Free Now

“…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.

“The Lord bless thee, and keep thee: The Lord make his face shine upon thee, and be gracious unto thee:” (Numbers 6: 24-25)

This benediction is God’s promise, bestowed upon us daily. His Love is continuously blessing us. His Principle is unfailingly keeping us safe, perfect, secure in His care. We are always on the receiving end of God’s faithful awareness and conscientious goodness. Receive the full wash of this blessing upon you today, without excuse, hesitation, or reservation.

Our Father-Mother’s face is shining upon us. His great smile at our very being continues to be upon us and reflected back by us, in our own true satisfaction, perfection, and radiance. We are always looking into His face, into the divine nature which is Truth and Life and Love, and we can never be without the rich blessing of that prime position. God’s face is always shining, never shadowed with anger, disapproval, or neglect.

Divine Spirit is gracious unto us. He is constantly giving of His own abundant Love, richly. Spirit knows no limits, and so is always generous with good, graciously and gracefully bestowing God’s own qualities upon each of us, individually and collectively, lovingly and wisely. His grace is timely and right, for He is all-knowing, all-powerful, unconditional, ever-present, always perfect Love.

God bless you all today and every day!

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.

“He sendeth forth his commandment upon earth: his word runneth very swiftly.” (Psalms 147: 15)

God’s commands are not delayed. They do not have a lag or wait time. His Word of Truth doesn’t hesitate and ruminate. It does not decide whether or not to be Truth in this place and at this time. His commandment runs swiftly upon the earth—is immediately present and powerful in every place and in all circumstances.

And it is God Himself that “sendeth forth” His commandment. Individuals do not take a truth and make it work on things or fail to do so. God sends forth, fully enforces His own law, His own right idea and ideal for His creation. He demands that earthly belief yield to heavenly Truth. His word of Love reaches the woes of sense quickly and purposefully. The expanse of His goodness does not wait for man to understand or act. God’s action precedes, supersedes, and proceeds unimpeded and unimpaired.

Let us recognize the fact that time is not a factor in grace. Human action is not the impulse for healing or well-being. It is in God that we trust, and with reason. He gets the job done because His work has never been undone. He is already where you want Him to be commanding every false sense of things to kneel before and yield to His infinite law of Life 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.

“The apostle says: ‘For if a man think himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceiveth himself.’ This thought of human, material nothingness, which Science inculcates, enrages the carnal mind and is the main cause of the carnal mind’s antagonism.” (Science and Health, page 345)

The more we come to release ourselves to God as All and in all, the more we may find ourselves feeling resistance, struggling to fully claim that very thing we are coming to know. The carnal mind, that mind that believes in matter body more than in spiritual identity, is very attached to its own power. It may not be willing to give up without a fight.

But the Truth does win out. It has already won by being true. Material nothingness is not a loss. It is a discovery. It is a revelation. It is our true identity coming to light. The human eyes (senses) may be unaccustomed to such brilliance and resist this new ideal and wish to cling to its old familiar darkness.

Be faithful to your own growth in understanding. Trust it to be right. Enjoy the release of self to the reality of being in Soul, at one with God and all that He is. This is expansive being and far superior and more right for us than limited matter and its claim to fame and power. Stay confident that you are winning, on the right track, in the midst of your flight out of the cocoon of sense into the glorious freedom of Soul–your individual being set free and the carnal mind left in the dust.

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.

“[LOVE] leadeth me beside the still waters. [LOVE] restoreth my soul [spiritual sense]:” (Science and Health, page 578)

Our spiritual sense is always proclaiming the reality for us. The Shepherd of divine Love leads us out of the darkness and turmoil that the physical senses would report, to the still waters that are present for our spiritual senses to know and feel.

The metaphor here is powerful for healing, as is the whole 23rd Psalm from which this is excerpted and further illuminated. The psalmist knew that his own soul, his true consciousness of life, was restored by the Lord, by his Shepherd-Father-Mother. He knew that this loving Guide and Protector would never lead him into chaos and fear, but always to serenity, peace, dominion, stability, and grateful joy.

Let’s claim our presence at the still waters, no matter what our body or world may appear to show us. Let’s let our spiritual senses lead us into a true sense of what is real, to that healing presence of God, stilling every wave of material emotion and physical reaction and leaving us to linger beside the still waters of our sweet Life. Divine Love’s presence is always with us. That stillness and assured reliance is never distant. Divine Love gave us the heart to know this and the mind to fully realize it. And so we can rest in calm confidence and feel the gentling, settling, restoring activity of grace.

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.