Being Free Now

Daily Inspiration, August 16th

Posted on August 16, 2018 by LauraMoliter

“God is not unjust; he will not forget your work and the love you have shown him as you have helped his people and continue to help them.” (Hebrews 6: 10, New International Version)

Keep on being the light that you are. Continue to nurture and utilize that right desire within to help others, to do good, and to show your love for God in doing this.

For our love expressed toward our brothers and sisters, in both thought and deed, honors God Who is Love itself. By our compassion, kindness, respect, caring, conscious awareness of others, we are the living proof of God and His intention.

Love is His nature and so it is also ours. We are equipped naturally with this love and we have more than enough to share with others, in varied and effective ways, and to keep ourselves feeling safe and cared for as well. God’s Love is forever with us, in us, and for us.

And this Love is just. It doesn’t require that we suffer for others or for goodness. This justice means that we, too, are embraced in God’s great Love, provided with all that is needed to do God’s work and to feel at peace, provided for, and happy as well.

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Daily Inspiration, August 14th

Posted on August 14, 2018 by LauraMoliter

“Divinity is always ready. Semper paratus is Truth’s motto.” (Science and Health, page 458)

Are you ready? Do you feel prepared to take that next step? Do you feel sufficiently geared up for something new? Are you open to change, to inspiration, to experiences that may call you or for which your participation is required?

Yes, you are! We can know that while we may not always feel we humanly have what it takes, or that we don’t have it yet, this is not an impediment to our progress and achievement. Because there is one important thing that we are always fully equipped with:

We are always supplied with the qualities of God at hand and for us. Divinity is always ready. Spirit is ever-present, its nature always active and available. Our reliance is our readiness. Our trust is our empowerment. Our willingness is our sufficiency in all things that God has called us to do and see and be.

You are ready because God is ready, and He is with you and for you. Be poised for glory and goodness. It’s time!

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Daily Inspiration, August 9th

Posted on August 9, 2018 by LauraMoliter

“Faith…is a chrysalis state of human thought, in which spiritual evidence, contradicting the testimony of material sense, begins to appear, and Truth, the ever-present, is becoming understood.” (Science and Health, page 297)

Faith can seem to be an intangible ideal, something which we may wish for but feel we don’t have. Or it may be a quality that can seem to deny what may feel wise to our material sense of things.

But the definition in this passage invites us all in to appreciate and enjoy faith’s importance and its naturalness to each of us. For the chrysalis state of a butterfly is a necessary part of its growth and readying. It is that place where things happen, not by the creature’s own doing, but because it simply must.

So, faith is this state of human thought. It is that place where we simply can no longer rely on or feel complete or safe or fearless based on what the senses present. It is a place of gestation, where human thought expands, but not by its own processes of education or information. It is that space where we simply are awake to what’s next.

Just like that moth or butterfly, we are beginning to grow from the limited and earthbound to the winged and free. We begin to become aware that the qualities of Spirit, of Truth and Love, are more reliably sound and worthy and trustworthy than the world around us.

And this readiness to believe is all that we need. Receptivity. Willingness to move to the next phase of life’s promises, to be open to experience the skies of reality, and get some perspective on the earth from above its confines and limits. It is to begin to see what has always been there, with fresh eyes and a new and higher view.

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Daily Inspiration, August 7th

Posted on August 7, 2018 by LauraMoliter

“…in your hearts honor Christ the Lord as holy, always being prepared to make a defense to anyone who asks you for a reason for the hope that is in you; yet do it with gentleness and respect,” (I Peter 3: 15, English Standard Version)

This is a perfect recipe for a practice that brings individual contentment as well as healing to others. This is in-reach and outreach at its very best.

We begin with our own relationship with God. We consciously recognize and get better acquainted with our Father-Mother and with the Christ-Truth, that ever-active expression of His presence with us. We let Love settle into our hearts. We cherish this dynamic power and know its Source. We honor God as the One and Only, and we are honestly grateful.

Having this pure awareness of God, we are always ready and eager to share the reason for our joy, our hope, our trust. The Love for God within us yearns to be known. So, we are prepared to declare, from our hearts, what we feel and why.

And if we truly know this Christ, this universal Love that is with all mankind, then we are not forceful or arrogant about sharing. We don’t make assumptions about another’s understanding. The Christ within that we accept and adore, finds natural action as we gently and respectfully spread the good news and join others in this universal healing cause.

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Daily Inspiration, August 2nd

Posted on August 2, 2018 by LauraMoliter

“I will comfort you there as a little one is comforted by its mother.” (Isaiah 66: 13, The Living Bible)

We may feel like mature adults, with wisdom and experience and responsibility. We are here to tend to our young ones and to help others around us. Our job is to be the caretaker, the worker, the one strong and in control.

But God sees you in a different way. God knows that She is the Mother and Father of you. You are the child. You will always be the child. Just as you aren’t the Creator of the universe, neither are you its Parent. That’s God’s place.

And there will be times, perhaps, when you are more in need of comfort than any dear baby might be. You may not be humanly innocent and uneducated, but you are a pure little one to divine Love. And this ever-available Mother is ready to love away those cares, wipe away any tears, assure as well as instruct.

So, sink yourself into the arms of God, without guilt or apology. You are never too grown up for God’s Love, for the Mother’s tender caring of Her own child. We can be willing to be this child and to receive this gentle comfort and its powerful results. For the love of the Mother is not just a nice feeling to receive, it is renewing, energizing, healing, restoring, and it is abundant for sharing with others as well.

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Daily Inspiration, July 31st

Posted on July 31, 2018 by LauraMoliter

“We must look where we would walk, and we must act as possessing all power from Him in whom we have our being.” (Science and Health, page 264)

Keep your focus on what matters. Be clear on what you aspire to do and to see and to be. God reveals this right intention to you. Listen to it. With sincerity and an honest motive, take each step forward in the light He provides.

It’s easy to get distracted from God’s higher purpose, the one that is about expanding our sense of Life and about knowing and sharing His qualities more fully and freely. We can look at various human exploits and activities as being of prime importance, and they can lead us off in directions that don’t truly serve that deeper, more important plan for us.

This is not a reason for distress. If we are awake to it, we can align ourselves with God’s vision and redirect our own focus whenever possible. For, this directed line of Life is what is true success and real satisfaction.

And when we choose to walk this path of goodness, of righteousness, as the true children of God we are, we can surely act like it. We can recognize that our high goals come with God’s power behind them. We can claim that conviction, that spiritual confidence that allows us not only to aspire to great things that please God, but to achieve them both timely and naturally.

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Daily Inspiration, July 26th

Posted on July 26, 2018 by LauraMoliter

“I am sure that nothing can separate us from God’s love—not life or death, not angels or spirits, not the present or the future, and not powers above or powers below. Nothing in all creation can separate us from God’s love for us in Christ Jesus our Lord!” (Romans 8: 38-39, Contemporary English Version)

Paul was convinced. He was absolutely positive of the truth in the words of this passage. God’s Love is always with us. We can’t lose its presence, escape its influence, or pass out of its tender power.

Paul wasn’t being a Pollyanna. He wasn’t putting on a happy face and saying everything would turn out okay. Paul had been through the very things that might seem to separate one from God, from good, from Truth. He had been a persecutor of others and was persecuted himself, suffered many challenges, both from the world and from within his own thought.

But Paul knew the Christ. He had experienced the Truth of man’s genuine oneness with God, that pure relationship that Jesus demonstrated so beautifully for us all. Paul recognized that while the seeming powers of the world and the presentations of the material senses would try to convince us otherwise, our connection to Spirit was absolutely a solid certainty. It was the changeless constant on which he could always rely. And so can we.

Let’s trust this Truth. It may seem like things loom in the future to fear, or that other people or governments or circumstances can rob us of Love’s presence, but this is never, ever true. God’s Love is always with us, and often even more tangibly when we are feeling beyond human help. This powerful divine Love is right where we are, and always has been—ready, full, tender, strong, and ours to feel and know.

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Daily Inspiration, July 24th

Posted on July 24, 2018 by LauraMoliter

“‘Now,’ cried the apostle, ‘is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation,’ — meaning, not that now men must prepare for a future-world salvation, or safety, but that now is the time in which to experience that salvation in spirit and in life.” (Science and Health, page 39)

This message really could not be clearer! While some may believe that we are waiting for our redemption and salvation, this isn’t what the passage quoted here is saying at all.

For what does the word “now” mean? We probably don’t need a dictionary to tell us the definition, but here it is: “at the present time or moment; without further delay, immediately; at once.” I’m not getting a lot of equivocation there. Now means right this minute. And the verse says that this time for salvation is the one that is accepted, is right, is when we can fully agree to claim and live it out.

This day of salvation is not something we need to push out into the future, either in terms of some holy day achieved after death or the second coming or some divine event, or in the sense of waiting for our best experience, our truest life, our greatest understanding and awareness of the Truth of God’s Love and our own worthiness to fully know this.

Let’s try to be less occupied with preparing for some looming day, thereby pushing it off into the perpetual future, and be more occupied with living the Truth here and now. Jesus did the proving. This declaration confirms his charge to us, which is also our great blessing.

You are saved and safe now. This moment is just right and you are exactly right in it to feel and express God’s nature, that Life divine and glorious and happy and satisfied. Believe this promise! Lean into this moment with expectation. Now is the time!

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Daily Inspiration, July 19th

Posted on July 19, 2018 by LauraMoliter

“Keep alert. Be firm in your faith. Stay brave and strong. Show love in everything you do.” (I Corinthians 16: 13, Contemporary English Version)

What a great checklist for being a good person. If we are to follow these directives, we will surely make a positive impact on the world. And we will also find our own sense of purpose, satisfaction, and joy. For we will be doing what we were built to do. We will be expressing God’s own presence as we so naturally do. This is healing to the world and it blesses us as well.

I like how these steps seem to have an appropriate order to them. Keep alert. This means to be conscious of Truth and of the opposition to it. It really means staying awake and not allowing ourselves to fall into the mesmerism of mortality, of limit and fear and materiality. It means staying on guard against the evil lies, but also alert to receive good news, assurance, healing angels.

And following this, we are advised to be firm in our faith. As we stay mentally active and ready, we become more aware of God’s presence, so we find faith comes as a natural result. And yet, we can also be swayed by the errors that are being exposed. So, a firmness in this faith is called for. We must trust our God more than we trust the senses, opinions, matter.

And with this faith we are able to stay brave and strong. For we know we are not leaning on personal strength but leaning into the very power of God—His certainty, His capacity, His sure defense of His own purpose of goodness.

And this leads to the way in which this confidence and trust is expressed. It is by Love. For knowing God is knowing Love, and to know Love is to want to experience it always, to share the richness of it, and to bring love into all that we do. And this is not only a nice thing to do, it is where we have the power to save, to uplift, and to truly thrive!

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Daily Inspiration, July 17th

Posted on July 17, 2018 by LauraMoliter

“…don’t remember the sins of my youth or my wrongdoing. Remember me only according to your faithful love for the sake of your goodness, Lord.” (Psalms 25: 7, Common English Bible)

This plea to God is one with which we all may identify at times. We feel that our mistakes and misbehavior, the decisions we’ve made or the way we have acted in the past, has left a lingering impression that we wish could be removed.

Let’s remember that indeed, it can be. The second part of this request of God is that He remember the psalmist according to God’s own faithfulness and His own goodness. This is not only a hope, but it is a declaration of God’s qualities and of His saving law to our lives.

God remembers what He made. He is forever sustaining us, not according to our human goodness or lack of it, but according to His own goodness and fullness of it. We stray like children at times, not knowing what we are doing and blowing it, to our own estimation. It can feel like we are scarred by this, but that’s not what Truth sees. It is not what God knows. He is faithful to His ideal. His Mind is keeping intact that glorious idea that He caused, the true and innocent you that may be hidden by shame and fear but which has not left His thought; which has not left reality.

We are not punished by God for errors of sense. We are always being cleansed by His Love. It isn’t He that needs to be ready to forgive us, but we that must be willing to accept His uninterrupted Love as legitimate, timely, and freeing.

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