Being Free Now

“Let Israel hope in the Lord: for with the Lord there is mercy, and with him is plenteous redemption.” (Psalms 130: 7)

Don’t give up hope. Don’t let go of the heart that is open to God’s purpose and His loving care. Do give up a belief that matter and human circumstances can tell you how you should feel and what your prospects should be. This is effectively walling yourself in and giving up, expecting the worst, or at the very least settling for less than what your life can be and what it has to give.

Open the window. Let the dove of hope fly in on a refreshing breeze, and show you the great sky outside, the infinitude of freedom and promise at hand. Let hope reveal that God’s mercy is bigger than matter’s walls of despair, and that His redemption, His rescue and restoration, is at hand and “plenteous.”

Hope is your angel, and it is not a difficult one to find. This quality of thought is ready for us at all times, because we are truly built to believe in good. The mortal mind may try to convince us otherwise–that life is hard, depressing, dangerous. But our hearts truly want to believe in a better idea. We can look deep within and find that we aren’t willing to give up, because something inside tells us that good prevails, that we deserve better. It tells us we are willing to give up anger and fear, for Love and peace.

God is here to deliver you from your own despair. Let that sliver of hope light the darkness and keep your focus on that slim beam of promise. It will expand, and inspire, leading you naturally to a beautiful day. And that hope remembered with gratitude, will help you guide others into the promised land of plenty as well.

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“The divinity of the Christ was made manifest in the humanity of Jesus.” (Science and Health, page 25)

Jesus knew God’s presence and love. He was well aware of the fact of His own unity with the divine Father-Mother. He recognized that God alone was power and reality, and that man was God’s beloved and His own image. Jesus was assured of where he came from and he brought that heavenly understanding to earth. This was the purpose of the Christ–to know the Truth so deeply that he could express it in every place and at all times.

The divinity of this Christ-understanding, embraced humanity. Let’s take a great lesson from this demonstration. Recognize and claim your divine heritage, the true state of your own being as the child and expression of God and made of His quality, His intention. Know yourself as this spiritual radiance and God as the Source. You are at one with infinite goodness. This gives you confidence, peace, and power.

Do not leave your humanity out of this. Jesus didn’t. He was able to take the human sense into his arms, the fullness of his love. He was able to tenderly recognize the need for mercy and understanding, for hope and relief, and to give it to mankind.

As we know ourselves and accept the true nature of our spirituality and God’s presence with us, we can take our human fears and doubts and ignorance into our own Christly embrace, a love which heals. We can see this dear human sense for its own innocence, and feed it with the loving care that lifts it out of that limited sense into the recognition of the divine, an awareness of ourselves and others as the loved and lovable and worthy sons and daughters of God. The Christ does not dismiss humanity as beneath its care. It loves it and so uplifts it.

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“GETHSEMANE…the human yielding to the divine; love meeting no response, but still remaining love.” (Science and Health, page 586)

Jesus’s time in the garden of Gethsemane, communing with God before facing his crucifixion, was essential to his demonstration. He seemed to be afraid and uncertain. He felt the weight of his mission and likely the weight of the world upon his shoulders. He must surely have felt very human in those moments, very far from transcendent.

And these moments with His Father were where the final yielding could take place. He yearned for comfort and for peace, for a release. He desired an answer from God and an escape. He discovered in his prayer that he was not going to find his way through some human circumstance changing. He could only find peace by giving up that desire altogether and letting Spirit’s holy purpose be revealed, through faith and understanding.

Jesus won his release from fear and confusion by Love. He knew his own Father-Mother to be pure Love and so, in spite of what appeared to be a silence from God, Jesus continued to love. This love was so deep and certain, so much bigger than his human fears, that it lifted him out of them. Jesus’s continued love for God and for man in spite of the horrors he faced, was his salvation. This unconditional love was divine–it had God’s own quality and power, and so it elevated his own perspective and the human yielded to infinite Life and its proof for humanity.

Let us aspire to love like Jesus did. Let us remember that Love is the greatest thing, the most powerful thing, and that to love God in spite of the human picture, is to yield a limited sense of life for the infinite possibilities.

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“The human will which maketh and worketh a lie, hiding the divine Principle of harmony, is destructive to health, and is the cause of disease rather than its cure.” (Science and Health, page 445)

Human will is not where your strength lies. Willful pushing for the win is not a useful method for healing. This forced intention tends to causes unease, discomfort, lack of stability, poise, and peace. Human will burdens and unsettles us, so it certainly can’t be the catalyst for harmony. Only the divine Principle of harmony itself can promote and preserve its own qualities.

Yield that firm grip on the self. Stop setting yourself up as creator, savior, or destroyer. The will that relies on a human sense of separateness, mortal courage, or pride can’t lead us to that unity of Life that is health, joy, satisfaction, and safety. It is only by realizing that we are one with God and His will, His perfect control–all that is right, active, and ours naturally—that we can really feel the Truth of that in our own health and well-being.

The divine Principle of harmony is the active fact at all times and it is right where we are, right now. The false and alluring belief in mortal minds, in personalities separate from the One Ego, would hide this fact of our own being by giving us a wrong perspective. The all-knowing Mind is the only Mind that sees clearly. When we presume a separate mind it only brings a lack of clarity–a mist that hides the reality of heaven, our heaven, right here and now. God’s view is gorgeous and right. The divine will is entirely good and it is actively leading you home. Let it. Release to that natural salvation, the hand of infinite wisdom. Let go and let your life reveal the tender peace of His loving, perfect will.

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“If I then, your Lord and Master, have washed your feet; ye also ought to wash one another’s feet. If ye know these things, happy are ye if ye do them.” (John 13: 14, 17)

The man who most expressed God’s ideal knew the necessity, power, and pleasure of humility and love. He washed the feet of his disciples to show that it was loving care for one another, and service to God’s purpose that was most needed. Every act of Jesus’s was more than a personal moment in time. It was a lesson for us all.

He expected his followers, the students of his teachings of life and love, to do likewise. They are to remain meek and giving, not self-righteous or above the dirty work, the humble compassion and goodness required in each moment. They are meant to stay in that place of obedience to Love itself, to kneel before the demands of grace, and to love one another not only in thought or in special situations or times, but in active ways and at all times.

When our brother seems to have mud on his boots, do we step away so as not to get mud on our own clothes? Or do we help him wash his feet off, get himself clean of his mistakes or miseries, and at the same time cleanse ourselves with divine Love’s affection and approval? Jesus reminded us that caring for another, with humility and patience, was not only a good thing to do, it was the very thing that would make us happy, satisfied, energized, and at peace.

Be ready to help your brother and be ready and willing to receive his gifts as well. We are in this together and what we are in is His healing and renewing Love!

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“And as ye go, preach, saying, The kingdom of heaven is at hand.” (Matthew 10: 7)

Harmony and well-being are the present state of being. This quality of life is here for us to claim and experience. God created a good life, a pure identity, a perfect situation that endures. Jesus, who knew and expressed the Christ-Truth, told us the facts: Heavenly harmony is here, God sustains it, and we don’t need to look for it elsewhere or wait for it in the future.

Knowing this, we must walk graceful and grateful in this bounty. We can’t keep this goodness hidden or agree with it only for ourselves. Jesus would not let his disciples hoard the good news. When Love is at the center of the message, it must be shared and bless all. We have to carry this Truth of heaven in our hearts and in our conversation. We have to continue in this elevated awareness and not let the world’s disbelief bring us back down to earth.

We must “preach” as we go. We must make God’s world known by our own gentle yet powerful presence and action. We must do our best not to join the conversation for evil, but to lift the world’s dialogue to goodness, expectation, joy, peace. Of course, we can’t ignore what is around us nor can we judge and decide what another needs. But we can choose to be true to our highest understanding. We can continue to see heaven where earth would try to get our attention, Spirit’s promise and immortality instead of matter’s limitations and dooming prospects.
As you go forth in your daily walk, take your heaven with you and invite the world in to join you. It is their heaven as well and the more the merrier!

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“I waited patiently for the Lord; and he inclined unto me, and heard my cry. He brought me up also out of an horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings. And he hath put a new song in my mouth, even praise unto our God:” (Psalms 40: 1-3)

It may seem on certain days that we are stuck in the mud, maybe sinking deeper into discouragement and despair and fear for our lives, our hopes. This fear itself may serve to paralyze us even further, cementing us to where we are, focused on our troubles, on the walls that seem to keep us locked in and limit our broader view.

But we have a recourse, a salvation. It begins with patience, persistence, and trust. God has never left you and He is greater than your fears and the world’s accusations about you and your prospects. God is always demanding that we stay true to Him. Our faith and trust in infinite good can’t be fleeting and based on human circumstances. We must be as loyal to Him, to Truth, just as His love is to us. We must be true to our Life, believe in its holy purpose and power. Life is God, eternal good.

Stay calm and patient. Listen for the tender voice of Love’s mercy and goodness. Every moment He is blessing you with more good news, an understanding that is the key to unlock the door not only to today’s human misery, but to the very heaven that is a life of Love, here and now. This inspired clarity lifts us up out of the miry clay and shows us that we have always been safely upon the rock, the Truth of Life as God’s own idea, full of faith, gratitude, and a new song of praise to Life ringing out for all to hear!

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“Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.” (II Corinthians 3: 17)

Let freedom reign! Let it reign. We can recognize and rest in the fact that our liberty is not based on human laws, history, or material conditions. We have freedom because God is Spirit and because Spirit–infinite Truth and Love–is in every place at all times. We can’t be separate from our liberty any more than we can be separated from our own being.

God is present and active. He is consciously and constantly expressing Himself through our lives. His perfect qualities which fill all space are actively setting us free every moment of every day and even through those long dark nights when our vision of things seems dimmed. Infinite Mind is boundless and its ideas can’t be caged in fear or limit. No one can imprison Spirit, and this is the very substance of your life. You are a native of a heavenly earth and subject to the laws of infinite kindness and abundant opportunity.

Let’s celebrate our liberty today and every day. It’s certainly wonderful to commemorate and our national heritage, but our freedom didn’t start with the Founding Fathers of a nation (as they themselves also knew), but with the Founding Father-Mother of us all, the creative Principle, God, in whom there is always naturally and necessarily liberty and justice for all!

Happy Independence Day!

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“Belief is changeable, but spiritual understanding is changeless.” (Science and Health, page 96)

Every idea conceived of by human observation, by the evidence of the senses, is subject to change. There is nothing solid about our theories of life and its prospects. Even material science has proved to be flawed, proclaiming a fact one moment and then overturning that conviction when new information emerges. We simply can’t accept beliefs as having any unshakeable permanence, no matter how long they have been held to be true.

Health laws may seem to paint a picture of what our lives must be or not be, and yet these are not solid or invariable. There are exceptions to every case. We are always discovering that the law of matter is not fixed or absolute, and so why should we give it our trust or our fear? And, importantly, it should not get our tacit agreement and unquestioned acceptance. It should not be allowed to write the story of our lives and our attitudes.

Spiritual understanding, on the other hand, is grounded in Truth, the spiritual ideals that never vary. The qualities of God are not changeable because they are absolutely perfect just as they are. Perfect Love, Truth, Life, and goodness are not mere concepts about life. They are abiding principles which, when understood, will always be recognized as the true and sustained view of things. These ideals accepted in human thought can never be lost, for they have their origin in God, the always All-in-all, the changeless and loving Truth of Life.

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