Listen up and lighten up

“Never record ages. Chronological data are no part of the vast forever. Time-tables of birth and death are so many conspiracies against manhood and womanhood.” (Science and Health, page 246)

Aren’t you more than a number? Can God’s magnificent idea be confined to an age, a classification based on the passage of time, on that which has no place in eternal Life? We were not conceived on a material date and required to pass through certain material phases, relegating us to the experiences and expectations associated with each age of human life.

Truth sheds light on the conspiracy against us. Divine Love reveals mortal mind’s insidious deceptions which would beckon us into a tapering sense of experience instead of the expanding one which is our true life-walk. How eager we often are to join the club of those who have reached a certain age, to grouse over the expected pains and losses, and to mourn the good old days as if they are all behind us. Do we really want to get on the band-wagon that gives a voice to a depressing lie?

Surely it must be mortal mind–whose most-used trick is “time”–that lures us into this conspiracy, these clubs called youth, middle age, senility, etc. Don’t sign that application! Be at one with the vast forever and wake up to the fact of life as one in which we are new born every day–new to God’s grace, new children subject to God’s laws of Life not material laws of birth and death. You were not made to fit into a box with a number on it. You were made to fly in the unconfined forever, free of any classifications at all except your unchanging status as the image and likeness of God!

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“How think ye? if a man have an hundred sheep, and one of them be gone astray, doth he not leave the ninety and nine, and goeth into the mountains, and seeketh that which is gone astray? And if so be that he find it, verily I say unto you, he rejoiceth more of that sheep, than of the ninety and nine which went not astray. Even so it is not the will of your Father which is in heaven, that one of these little ones should perish.” (Matthew 18: 12-14)

No one is lost to God. Not a single of His ideas is less than precious to Him; all are worth His care, His guidance, a place in His flock, in His loving home. No one has gone beyond or outside of the Father-Shepherd’s interest or influence. No one child has gotten lost in the shuffle of so many others, to disappear and be less than important, less than beautiful, less than beloved.

Those that stay faithful and true–the homebody sheep that stay close to what feels comfortable and right–are already in a solid and familiar place. They are not left alone when the Shepherd goes to seek the lost. His presence and love remain with them, and they know it. They don’t feel slighted when the Shepherd goes in search of the lost one or even the disobedient one. It is what they know He, Love, will do. That missing sheep is one of their own brethren. They don’t feel complete without that little one safe with them.

No one is cast off. No one is abandoned and left to fate. Our God consciously and conscientiously seeks us out. He knows that human mistakes that take us off our human course have not ever taken us out of His Love which is everywhere. He knows the one He has nurtured and He sees this little one’s real potential, goodness, and beauty.

We may seem at times to abandon our best life or may feel abandoned by others, but God, our good Life, has never left us or forgotten us. He knows exactly how to find us for He sees us even when we hide from goodness. He hasn’t stopped believing in us, watching us, and loving us.

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“For thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel; Let not your prophets and your diviners, that be in the midst of you, deceive you, neither hearken to your dreams which ye cause to be dreamed. For they prophesy falsely unto you in my name: I have not sent them, saith the Lord.  For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the Lord, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.”  (Jeremiah 29: 8-9, 11)

The sources of information seem endless these days. We can always find a qualified or unqualified opinion concerning the prospects for our lives, whether it be our health, our careers, our relationships, or our financial well-being. These modern-day prophets may have more material science on their side than the prophets of old, but they still do not have the voice of absolute Truth.

How often do we hear of a physical prognosis of disease that is treated as a death-sentence, as the last word on the case? The concerns may seem to come from a basis of medical examination or experience and from a basis of legitimate care, but they often lead only to fear and grief, or resignation, surely not God’s thought on our being. The last word on life can only come from Life itself, God. He alone knows what He caused and the nature of His own intention: peace, not evil. We must always plead innocent and let God’s word defend our life, His Life.

Likewise, we should not let our own sleeping or waking dreams dictate terms to us. These are false prophets, parading as truthful sources, as gods that can make or break us. Your night dreams are not prophets of life, nor are the stars or time or heredity. The mortal mind’s fearing concepts will never have the force of God’s word which is infinite, eternal, infallible Truth. Divine Love does not doom His own child to a miserable fate, cause him to give himself over to mere material predictions and interpretations.

Your “expected end” is God’s thought about you and towards you. It is Love’s foresight promising you a future full of hope, satisfaction, peace, and joy.

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“…put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him: Where there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcision nor uncircumcision, Barbarian, Scythian, bond nor free: but Christ is all, and in all.” (Colossians 3: 10-11)

Putting on the new man is accepting our true identity as the expression of God, of good, of Love itself. This is the message of Christ—that we are loved and loving children of God, the living proof of His Oneness and His perfect Love. Any delay in letting go of the old man, with his personal, limited, selfish, self-defensive, judgmental beliefs and practices is keeping our harmony, health, and joy at bay.

Our renewal is not simply remaking ourselves. It is a release to divine Love’s original concept, His immaculate conception of each of us as perfect, right, brother and sister ideas in a Mind that has only good ideas that naturally harmonize. The recognition and acceptance of our individual identity as God’s own idea must necessarily include the whole of His vision and the law of Life that Christ revealed.

We can’t be “born again,” have our renaissance into the life that God intended, without loving our neighbor as ourselves. The Christ-man is the ideal man who Jesus presented to us and this ideal is every one of us. There are no distinctions, no material or physical classifications, in spiritual Truth. Christ is the true idea of God and of man, every man, and to be His image, we must accept this fact. The Creator made no separations. He made a perfect idea and expression of Himself and this man and woman is to be seen in every place, because God is in every place.

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“Hatred and its effects on the body are removed by Love.” (Science and Health, page 374)

Divine Love is a powerful neutralizer. Unconditional love, mercy, forgiveness, compassion, can bring healing between people and nations. It can cause even the most entrenched resentments and anger to dissolve and harmony and respect to emerge naturally and beautifully.

Love, spiritual Love received and expressed, can do the same for our bodies. The hatred that we may hold toward others or feel expressed toward us may seem to be found manifesting itself in physical conditions that are uncomfortable, painful, and threatening to our peace. These unkind symptoms then would only aggravate the discordant view and keep one in the throes of hatred, feeling unloved and unlovable and unloving.

We can attempt to soothe the body with material methods and to soothe the hatred with self-pity or revenge, but none of these can bring us true and lasting peace. Divine Love removes the effects of hatred on the body of our world and the bodies in which we seem to live and move. Be willing to let go of a belief in the power of hate to hurt you. Be ready to stop hating your innocent body and begin to truly love it for its loveliness, holiness, wholeness. Divine Love made you and your life. This Love is therefore the natural restorative. It brings to the body what hatred would try to take away, and settles us back into who we were made to be—the object and expression of pure Love.

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“The Lord is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart; and saveth such as be of a contrite spirit.” (Psalms 34: 18)

Comfort is never distant from us. Encouragement is never out of reach, and grace is always at hand. The grief and sorrow that can seem to overtake us do not separate us from divine Love’s attention and affection. The tears and fears that blind us to Life’s hopes and possibilities are wiped away by the tender hand of God.

Even when we feel we have put ourselves in a rough spot, and our broken hearts are self-inflicted, we are still near and dear to God’s heart, at a perfect place to receive His mercy, understanding, and a fresh and even more beautiful start. When we don’t see anything but our own sins and sorrows, God sees us tenderly and comes to us with His comfort, not His condemnation. He shows us that loss can be gain and that He has never and will never leave our sides because we are His own beloved.

Let’s know that this ever-present Comforter, this perfect Friend, is with everyone. Let us keep our sweet compassion for others, our hearts at one with the world, but let’s not get washed over in pity and discouragement over the woes we see. God is right where His dear ones are feeling hurt, afraid, ashamed. He is the ready rescue for you and for all. He is infinite, powerful, perfect, gentle Love.

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“We know that all will be changed ‘in the twinkling of an eye,’ when the last trump shall sound; but this last call of wisdom cannot come till mortals have already yielded to each lesser call in the growth of Christian character.” (Science and Health, page 291)

God’s grace brings a natural pace to our growth. We are promised that we shall all be changed in a moment, that we will witness our true glory as children of God—spiritual, immortal, perfect. This reality of our being does not take time to create, for it is already the truth of life. But, it may take daily listening and following as we come to see this ideal in a way that we can fully understand, appreciate, and experience.

This “last call of wisdom” is our promise and our beacon. God guarantees that we know Him, Life, Love as it truly is. To come into the fullness of such breathtaking knowledge, we must take some necessary breaths along the way. We must daily, hourly, give up those earthen weights that are keeping us down and darkening our way. We must not try to rush out ahead of the lessons needed or we will not fully grasp the final answer if it were shown to us.

The “lesser” calls for growth in our character must be heeded and appreciated. They are there to lead us gently yet firmly and decisively in the way of goodness and Truth. We must realize that anything that doesn’t bring us a real peace needs to be discarded. Anything that does not indicate the presence of Love needs to be abandoned. The selfish motive as well as the self-judgment needs to be given up. We must yield each day, with God’s guidance, a little more of that fruitless human will for that fruitful divine will. Christian character requires our genuine kindness and sincere humility. It necessitates a willingness to be led forward, step-by-step, into our true selves, and to realize also that all of God’s children are worthy of this same timely and timeless glory.

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“…if thou bring thy gift to the altar, and there rememberest that thy brother hath ought against thee; Leave there thy gift before the altar, and go thy way; first be reconciled to thy brother, and then come and offer thy gift.” (Matthew 5: 23-24)

We cannot truly honor God if we are at the same time harboring anger toward one of His ideas. The gift of our devotion is not full and true if it includes something so averse to His Mind, His Principle. Hatred and resentment can’t bring us the full blessing we desire. We must cleanse the anger with Love if we are to truly feel the health and well-being and peace we pray to receive.

Obedience to divine Love requires us to be loving. Anything contrary to this love is disobedience, and it may lead us to feel less protected and blessed by that law of Love. We are built of the substance of Love, so it goes against everything that we are to be angry or feel hatred. That’s why such feelings so often seem accompanied by discomfort, physically as well as mentally. They are an unnatural intrusion on our natural purity and goodness.

Drawing close to God is our salvation and strength. It is always worth the effort to set aside our anger and so to find Love’s perfect remedy. It may not always be easy to reconcile with our brother, an act which always begins in thought. But God helps us to do this. He shows us that His Love and His Principle are one, and His supreme wisdom assures that all can awake to see their own errors and to find a truer sense of goodness. Your gift to God is your genuine love. This gift is a gift to yourself as well.

Cherish love, not resentment. Your health and disposition will improve and you will feel more like yourself, that child of God that is peaceful, poised, good, and happy.

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“And the Lord spake unto Moses face to face, as a man speaketh unto his friend.” (Exodus 33: 11)

We have an intimate friend in God. We have an understanding confidante and a trusty advisor who will never fail us. Moses experienced this tender relationship in the midst of his daunting task to lead a people to freedom, against all human odds. The great burning bush experience that initially got Moses’ attention and awe was not God’s necessary method of communication. He doesn’t need pyrotechnics to get His thoughts across to us.

God is ready to speak with us as our friend and we can commune with him in the same way. Communing means “talking with intimately.” Our prayer to this infinite Love is an intimate connection with Him. We can enter into our communion, our open-hearted prayer, with this sense of being ourselves with a friend. Let’s realize the nearness of God to us as well as the natural ease of this presence with us and for us.

When I read descriptions of the prayer times of Jesus or Mary Baker Eddy, I am struck by how natural this communion was. There was a readiness to listen and a joy in doing so, eagerness in hearing what our Friend should say that would be so right and full of understanding. With these inspired healers there was also the spirit of honest and free questioning, not as one would to a Deity but as one would to someone very close, one in whom there was complete trust. They felt they could humbly reveal right where they were in their thoughts and needs, and this led to healing. God speaks in the language of Love for He is Love. This pure affection is so easy to talk to and natural to listen to and so to gratefully receive answers, comfort, and peace.

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“I know thy works: behold, I have set before thee an open door, and no man can shut it.” (Revelation 3: 8)

God knows what you have done. He knows who you are. He knows the thoughts in your heart and your intentions. Because of His perfect awareness of the truth of you, He also knows what you are capable of. He knows that you include in you the potential for greatness and true satisfaction in it.

And so He sets before you that open door. It may seem that material circumstances close off the portals to true success and contentment. But no man or mortal concept can shut what God has left wide open. It is He that is Life–your life–and He knows where that wonderful life is going and how glorious it simply must be. He sees the goodness that is you, even when you don’t see it yourself, and He awakens you and the world to that radiant Truth of you.

We are constantly being beckoned through that open door to progress and peace. There is nothing holding us back and the password is only our desire to know God, good, and by doing so to also realize our own innocence, His control, and the good life that has more to do with a lasting peace and joy than with fleeting human achievement.  God knows the work of His hand. He knows what He made and He will never hide His glory from the world or from you, His own beloved child.

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“God is at once the centre and circumference of being.” (Science and Health, page 204)

God, good, perfect Love, is the very core of all being. At the same time, He is the boundary of all Life. Everything exists because at its heart is God–divine Life, Truth, and Love–and so all expresses this flawless purpose, this inmost requirement for its nature and action.

And nothing can ever move outside of God, outside of His Principle, His Spirit, His Presence and intention. His infinite embrace is the outer perimeter to all being, all life, and we can never cross that border and step out of His care, out of His boundless circle of Life and Love. God is both the intimate and the ultimate of all things. His reason for Life is at the heart of us, and His expression remains loyal to His perfect Love for us.

Wherever you believe another may be or wherever you think that you are in any moment does not change the law of God’s infinite nature. He is always going to be our heartbeat and our breath. He is always going to be the place where you are headed and the place where you have been. God, good, is your divine destiny and only destination—the fire of life within and the flame that will always lead you home.

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“Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets.” (Matthew 7:12)

This has been called the Golden Rule. It is golden because it is so valuable, its governing Principle a gem in our lives to be treasured and obeyed. This precious instruction seems to me to be at the heart of all the good that comes in the world and disobedience to it constitutes all the discord that appears between individuals and nations. If we weigh every action against this ideal, we will be forces for good in the world and will benefit ourselves as well.

Jesus shared this pure idea in his Sermon on the Mount. In this sermon he also reminds us that to think evil, to judge another as less than our equal–a fellow child of God–is inadmissible and has no place in Christian living and healing. This radiant rule includes not only our actions, but also our thoughts. If we think less of another, and then put on an act with them, this is hypocrisy and lacks the genuine goodness that Jesus is punctuating in his teaching. Would we ourselves want to have someone treat us well and speak ill of us behind our backs? Would we not feel the dishonesty from them? Likewise, thinking less of another is beneath our own goodness, and it will never give us the freedom and peace of mind that really suits us and satisfies us.

This is not a difficult task. The golden rule was meant to be natural to us. Why? Because love is natural to us. We are built of divine Love’s intentions and when we receive eagerly that wonderful love of God, we can’t help but feel the need to share it in all its qualities—understanding, respect, kindness, mercy, receptivity, trust.

Utilize this Golden Rule in your own life and pray to know that this vital ideal is the world’s to claim as well. The hatred and competition and envy that seem to drive the actions of people and nations and to tarnish this golden harmony, can be washed away. Divine Love can do it and we can be a part of an earth that knows heavenly peace.

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“Whither shall I go from thy spirit? or whither shall I flee from thy presence?” (Psalms 139: 7)

Take a moment and listen for the answer to these questions. Come to recognize that there will never be an occasion or circumstance where God isn’t present, with us right where we are. Because He is ever-present, we can never be too far away from Him, and there are no exceptions to this fact. We simply can’t hide from His eyes when He is all-seeing Mind. We can’t escape the infinite All-in-all.

And we should never want to. God is never going to banish us from Himself because of human ignorance or disobedience. We may turn our eyes from His grace by our belief that we have power apart from Him, but we will never leave His Mind; we are His very thoughts and His Mind would be incomplete without every idea His great wisdom conceived. He knows right where we are and just who we really are. This is our comfort, not our shame. He knows our goodness, our sweetness, our lovableness, and He wants us near Him.

Human love may leave us and we may leave it or lose it, but the divine Presence is always with you and in you. It constitutes your very life and being, so you are inseparable from it. This divine Love will always be with you, by your side and on your side. It is divine Life, so it is an active, living Presence, and it is divine Love, unconditional Love, so it will never exclude you or forget you.

Know and feel this Spirit, this divine nature, embracing and infusing your life. There is nowhere to hide and no reason to. You are right where you need to be and you are never alone.

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“The Lord bless thee, and keep thee: The Lord make his face shine upon thee, and be gracious unto thee: The Lord lift up his countenance upon thee, and give thee peace.” (Numbers 6: 24-26)

Who doesn’t need a good benediction? Isn’t a blessing such as this one accepted into our hearts as meant just for us, such a wonderful and healing thing to receive? Everything that this tender wish extends to us is honestly what God already and always is giving us.

Our mighty and tender God is always blessing you and keeping you. His face, His smile of approval and eyes that see you truly, is shining directly upon you. You are always face-to-face with the Truth of His Love. You can’t avoid this gaze of God and your own active, natural reflection of all the good that is in Him, in infinite Spirit–the Life that is pure goodness and completeness and joy.

God’s unwavering attention is His graceful graciousness. The benediction of His presence is our sweet release to all that is right and satisfying and full of love. His countenance lifted, His active glee at our being, is our guarantee of the good life, His Life. God is always looking at you and looking after you, with delight at doing it. Accept this blessing willingly. It is yours perpetually, and its promise and immediate reward is peace.

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“Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time:  Casting all your care upon him; for he careth for you.” (I Peter 5: 6-7)

Does it seem that every day we need this instruction again? It seems so easy to forget that our strength, our certainty, our provision, our success, our comfort is not dependent on a personal ability to keep it all together, to control our world and its varied variables. We are not in charge of life and responsible either for its achievements or for its failures.

Humility is our answer and God’s demand. He is Father. He is Mother. He is Governor and Keeper. He is Creator. He is the only Mind and the true Love. And He is goodness in action. We don’t worship other gods. We have learned that idols have no real power. So, we must give up the worship of our own egos. We must give up a belief that another god called “me” has the power to accomplish anything or fail to do so. Reliance on God alone shows us all that is clearly right and satisfying.

Cast your care upon the One who is care itself. Come before God with an undivided worship and trust. Let yourself be loved by Him. It is out of your hands and this is the solution to your every worry. God has the world. He requires its harmony. He is the infinite Caretaker. You can never be out of His sight or out of His hands. So willingly and joyfully humble yourselves under His might, and feel the triumph of real freedom and a glowing gratitude for this sweet and powerful release.

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“The eternal Truth destroys what mortals seem to have learned from error, and man’s real existence as a child of God comes to light.” (Science and Health 288: 31-1)

Truth is always maintaining the facts of our origin and writing our beautiful life story. The perfect Word of God about our identity cancels out, erases, that wrong solution that we may have worked out humanly. Material circumstances of birth and growth and the human sense of life they present to us are not the real story, not our true history or a true harbinger of our future.

Man is a child of God. All that the human sense seems to have learned from error, the limited and faulty and discouraging material view, is lost in the recognition of the Truth. If we have a math problem we have been doing wrong for years and now realize the true answer and the reason why, we no longer need to factor in the wrong answer, nor would we want to. We just begin with the truth, the solution that really works, and erase the old without hesitation. We don’t cling to 2 + 2 = 5. We replace it with the truth we now realize and use that going forward.

The mistakes and miseries of human experience–the guilt and the shame and the blame and the frustration–do not make a mess of things, of God’s Life-design. You are still His idea. You are still the result of His perfect and peaceful law in operation. As the Truth comes to light that God is Love and the only and perpetual Source of all, we can no longer accept what we seem to have learned. It no longer rings true. It doesn’t help us at all today.

Don’t cling to the false and the unproductive. Start with the right premise and its proper result and go forth with praise, promise, prosperity, and peace!

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“…when I awake, I am still with thee.” (Psalms 139: 18)

The night may seem long. We struggle with our understanding, our peace, our faith. The darkness of material sense and personal responsibility preoccupies our minds and weakens our bodies. We often feel alone, afraid, hopeless. The night of human experience can seem to dim the sunlight and lead us to apathetic days that drag on without a real sense of insight, energy, joy.

And yet this night does not really touch us. The day has always been ours and the dream of pain and limit just that—a dream. We can awake from this mesmeric state of thinking about ourselves as separate from God to find that He has never left our side. Even when we felt our faith falter and our thoughts and behavior slip from the straight and narrow, He has been with us all night long.

I recently heard a story attributed to the Cherokee Indian tribe. The tradition goes that their youth come into manhood by being led to a rock by their fathers and left there, blindfolded, to spend a night alone in the wilderness. All night long these young boys struggle with fear and the noises and threats of danger around them. They are afraid, but the transition to manhood through this secret ritual is essential, so they bear it, though likely with tears and a sense of shame in their own weakness. And when the morning comes and the light of the dawn signals the boy’s time to remove his blindfold, he is able to see the light again, a new day as a strong man of his tribe. And this is when he sees that sitting right next to him is his father. He has been there quietly all night long.

Our Father is always there protecting us even in our darkness. And He is there when we awake to the light, celebrating with us the promise of our new day, one which He Himself has prepared just for us and for which we are ready.

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“Life and goodness are immortal. Let us then shape our views of existence into loveliness, freshness, and continuity, rather than into age and blight.” (Science and Health, page 246)

Don’t let yourself be duped. Life is good and eternal. The presentations of aging and deterioration are not our story. They shouldn’t be what we focus our thoughts and conversation upon. The belief in ugliness and loss and weakness should not captivate us and preoccupy us. We need to and can wake up to reality.

When we focus on doom and diminishment our days are clouded with limitation, fear, depression, discouragement. We experience the unnecessary darkness of belief, when the Truth is really full of light, inviting us forward into Life’s forever renewing and satisfying moments, hours, years. We need to get off the bandwagon of that expectation of decline and the gloomy mental and spoken conversations about it.

All that is good is immortal. God is our Life and His qualities are preserved forever. There is no spoiling of His substance, no wearing out, no wearying. Age is not relevant in the eternal now. We exist forever as God’s children. Nothing about us needs to be old, jaded, apathetic, vulnerable, depressed, resigned. Life is full and flourishing for all always. Life is God, and He is always at the point of magnificence. Keep thought open to the sweet surprise of a new day, a new sense of life and its perpetual promise, beauty, energy, and joy.

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“Ah Lord God! behold, thou hast made the heaven and the earth by thy great power and stretched out arm, and there is nothing too hard for thee:” (Jeremiah 32: 17)

Our loving Father-Mother allows no obstruction to His active presence. Nothing in the divine Life is without proper motion, function, activity. God is Spirit, and His presence is never stagnant or limited in its flow of perfect goodness. God is everywhere, and He is actively expressing His qualities in every place, announcing the full nature of His substance, His Love.

God created everything there is. All that is the heavenly real and all that appears as our earth is according to His design and subject to His government and His nature. The limited concept must yield to the limitless Mind of God. In God’s thought there is no impediment to perfect being and acting. There is nothing too hard or too deep-seeded or too stubborn or too difficult for God, for the cleansing grace of His overflowing Love.

His outstretched arm clobbers that wall of resistance with one swift blow of Truth. There is nothing within a material body or in material life that can withstand the power of divine Love and its activity. It necessarily and naturally dissolves all that seems settled, unyielding, and uncomfortably binding. God’s love requires and brings movement, mobility, release, flexibility, and momentum, and there is nothing Love cannot or would not do to show us our freedom and the progressive sweetness of our lives.

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“Desire is prayer; and no loss can occur from trusting God with our desires, that they may be moulded and exalted before they take form in words and in deeds.” (Science and Health, page 1)

Yes, we can have what we want. We can have our heart’s desires. These genuine longings are God’s loving voice speaking within us, declaring His own intentions for us. And so they are also prayers because they affirm what He caused us to love and what He made for us to express.

We may think that what we truly want is a perfect set of human circumstances fitting some outline we have set out. But really our desire is to know and feel a perfect quality of peace, understanding, happiness, well-being. These are right aspirations and to pray rightly is to cherish our love for those qualities and leave God to show us the “how” of their revelation and activity in our thoughts and in our lives.

No loss will ever occur by leaving our yearnings to the One Who loves us best and knows our needs. God, the only Mind and Life, knows what will truly satisfy us. He sees beyond the limits of time and personal sense that we would place on things. He is conscious of the full measure of what our lives are about and what brings out the best for us and for others, in His good and perfect time, His ideal way. Trust divine Love to be loving. Leave your heart with God and He will never disappoint you. Pause for His inspiration. There is no need to rush. Your goodness will not be lost. It will be nurtured and made to blossom into exactly the bloom that you most love to see and to be and that most blesses the world with its beauty and aroma as well!

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“He brought me forth also into a large place; He was delivering me because He was pleased with me and delighted in me.” (Psalms 19: 18, Amplified Bible)

God’s tender love for us brings us the very best He has. His approval and delight at the fact of our being delivers to us the greatest gift we could receive: the gift of His Life. This Life is never small or limited in any way. It does not find its contentment in one small place or situation, or through only one individual or relationship.

He brings us into a large place. Because of His Love, He reveals to us a large Life, one that is expansive and open and fresh and arable—good for planting and growing, perfect for development and movement and building. This abundant and fertile Life also has much room for others—for an embracing and gracious welcome to other ideas of God, whether they be individuals or new endeavors.

God’s absolute delight in you means that He remains with you. He demands your company. All the protecting and uplifting power He has is at hand and He preserves you just as you are, because He loves you just as you are. Our large place, our abundant Life, is always expanding before us, never diminishing. He establishes us in this grand home of His and He is always opening new doors in this mansion, new paths on His gorgeous property, and at every turn we will always find Him—the good Life that is safe, comfortable, yet invigorating and refreshing Love.

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“Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall believe on me through their word; And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them; that they may be one, even as we are one:” (John 17: 20, 22)

Jesus was praying for you. His loving consciousness of God and His purpose called him to pray that all be embraced in this awareness–those in his immediate presence and those whose calling would come at other ends of the world and in centuries to come. He wanted all to know the powerful grace that he himself felt from our Father-Mother-God.

Jesus loved to pray. He loved to give himself over to the word of God in each moment, listening for the right answer, the right direction, the highest standard and most loving purpose. He knew that this prayer was not a calling out to a god in the distance. He knew it was a sweet and tender consciousness of the God with whom he was always at one, the closest and most immediate presence that he could know or feel.

So his prayer came straight from the heart of God. He shared this message with us: that God’s glory was meant for us all to embrace and celebrate. He shared with his disciples then and today that we are united in God, in the Love that is never divided, localized, or lost. He prayed for those who believe in the Christ, in that truth that we are all the sons and daughters of God, brothers and sisters, worthy of prayer, worthy of healing, worthy of the glory of our divine heritage and capable in our mission of love.

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“Rest in the Lord, and wait patiently for him: fret not thyself because of him who prospereth in his way, because of the man who bringeth wicked devices to pass.” (Psalms 37: 7)

It is so easy to get caught up in what evil another has done toward us. It is alluring to stay focused on how they have misunderstood us, betrayed us, deserted us, caused us shame or loss. And yet, by doing so we are giving to the one we believe caused us harm our attention, a manner of worship. Our sweet and innocent mind has lost its well-deserved high altitude and experience, to cavort with sinners, so to speak.

Rest in the Lord. Be patient with His ability to right all things. Stay faithful to your own innocence by loving God enough to trust Him and to bring justice, and most importantly, peace. Don’t lose your life in the contemplation of your hurt. You are investing that error, that evil, and its perpetrator with your focus, with your thought, which has power when focused on good. Does the evil really deserve this much of our precious time?

We must give God the day. We must stay faithful to our trust in His perfect design, knowing that in it, no transgression against goodness is allowed to stand, and every one must come to know Him, good, from the least of us to the greatest. The evil-doer also must come into accord with Principle, Love. Let’s not put off for a moment our beautiful life by fretting about others’ wrong-doing. Your blessing comes from God, and so it is always full and unadulterated. No man can take that away from you. So relax, and claim the fullness and active presence of good, and feel the freedom that comes of a Mind that is totally filled with Love.

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“And I will walk among you, and will be your God, and ye shall be my people.” (Leviticus 26: 12)

This is the assuring message from a God Who is divine Love. There is no distance to this God. There is no separateness between His purpose, His goodness, His presence, and each of His ideas, His children. This God that is the One and Only, walks among us, touches us with His tenderness, tickles us with His happiness, expresses right where we are the pure fullness of His Love.

We are God’s people. He has claimed us and remains with us. His Truth abides in our lives, preserving us and leading us. We are not waiting for Him to show His face, or for us to gain access to His throne of heaven. He is not separate from His creation. He is in it, abides with it. God, good, is the very essence and quality of all life. He is also our Father-Mother and our faithful best friend.

God is Spirit. This spiritual nature does not separate Him from us, but brings Him nearer. Spirit transcends the limits of matter and is always present giving this moment all that He’s got—all the Truth, Life, Love that there is at the very place where we are. He necessarily constitutes the condition of our own being. God as Spirit is our intimate companion here and now. At the same time He is the place where we are going and the only place we have ever been. Divine Love walks with each of us today and we all walk together in the Love that never fails to save and to bless.

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“The law of the Lord is perfect, converting the soul: the testimony of the Lord is sure, making wise the simple.” (Psalms 19: 7)

God’s law is active. It is profound in its infinite wisdom and yet it is also easily accessible to all. The law of perfect Love is perfectly loving. Its power is always for good, enforcing that which is right and true and satisfying, and barring anything that would oppose this intention.

The law of God has no flaws in it and no exceptions to it. This loving Principle spans the universe and holds all in gracious control, feeding each idea with its daily bread and keeping perfect rhythm, perfect harmony, absolute accord. This divine design of goodness is sure, confident, unquestionable, and its testimony is true; it is proven in the very life that you are living, the perfection of your being held intact, whole, just right.

We can gratefully give up the anxious straining for knowledge, pushing away inspiration by our disbelief that we could have enough intelligence or goodness to understand or deserve it. The simplicity of your thought—the clean and clear readiness to be taught–brings instruction to your door, every idea that you need made lovingly apparent. The wisdom of the mighty God is supplied to each of us, revealing the fact that we are forever already at one with all that we need, with our Truth, moment by moment. This is our right and our rest, our natural and lovely peace of mind.

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“…for all men have not faith. But the Lord is faithful, who shall stablish you, and keep you from evil.” (II Thessalonians 3: 2-3)

Men may fail, but God is always His perfect Principle, Love. He is always faithfully Himself, and this is our assurance of harmony, peace, progress. We shouldn’t let the behavior of others–their unreliability, ignorance, and even their human betrayals– trouble us preoccupy us. We have a firm foundation: a trustworthy One Who is always reliable and is always righteous, right.

Turn away from the opinions and actions of men, and let God show you your natural and always available peace. His Love doesn’t waver. It doesn’t get confused or emotional. It doesn’t misjudge things or make unfair assumptions. It doesn’t lapse into neglect or play games with us. God is true, for He is Truth; and that Truth is always infinite Love, that which faithfully fills all space, acts generously and tenderly and powerfully right where you are.

You always have God in your corner. You always have His conscientious devotion to what is right and true. He is faithful to His own perfect character, His holy goodness. He will never change or vary in His nature or in the nature of His focused care for you. He will always be the All-in-all Who is perfect, present, unconditional, trustworthy, honest, invariable Love.

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“Happiness is spiritual, born of Truth and Love. It is unselfish; therefore it cannot exist alone, but requires all mankind to share it.” (Science and Health, page 57)

Our true happiness is found in God. He has created us to be happy, content, and He maintains this joy through the ever-presence of His qualities with us and in us. Our only and forever true love will always be God’s love for us. We express that same true loving naturally as we realize the generous and uninterrupted Source of that Love that is love.

God’s Love is lasting, pure, unconditional, unbiased, non-judgmental. It is not disturbed or influenced by human history, bad experiences, upbringing, and the idiosyncrasies of personality. God’s Love is the love that is always on our side and never has and never will leave us. Because of the depth, permanence, and broadness of this love, the whole world is necessarily enveloped in it and united by it.

This is true happiness. To realize the presence of Love always and already with you and in you, the very substance of you, and to recognize that its abundance is there for you to share. It is not a love founded on need or false desire. Divine Love’s love simply must love, must be expressed, and rejoices in doing that. This happiness is spiritual, born of God, of Love and of Truth, and it never fails. As we accept it and utilize it, we feel its activity. We know that we always remain on the receiving end of it, for Love is always seeing and knowing and consciously approving of its own beautiful expression.

Have a happy Valentine’s Day, all you lovely, lovable, beloved lovers!

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“Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves.” (Philippians 2: 3)

It’s all about love–respect, true awareness, and selflessness. It’s about approaching all that we do with the intention of valuing another with more thought and loving care than we would ourselves. It means we give up with grateful joy that drive to compete for our good, prove ourselves better than everyone else, and to judge others as less deserving.

Striving for achievement and recognition without regard for others is never going to get us true success and the honest contentment we deserve. Love is the law, the power, the reason. The thought focused too much on self is always missing an opportunity to utilize that wonderful love that is truly so natural to us–an active love that is not only healing but also the true mark of and method for our success. To love selflessly is to be our true selves, and it shows our devotion to God. It gives up the human will that would so often lead us into disappointment and gloom, and releases us to God’s loving intention.

Let’s be humble in our approach to life. Let’s recognize each other as God’s own ideas, and honor all men as better than ourselves—more deserving of our goodness, our affection, our generosity. This doesn’t mean that we are to demean ourselves, to believe that we are not really as good as another. What it does mean is that by our genuine goodness and loving-kindness, we prove without argument that we are truly sons and daughters of God, the offspring of that divine Love which always fully, unconditionally, impartially loves us, one and all.

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“Behold, I send an Angel before thee, to keep thee in the way, and to bring thee into the place which I have prepared.” (Exodus 23: 20)

You will not have to get there on your own. Not only has God prepared a perfect place for you, the right and satisfying opportunity, home, relationship, situation, creative endeavor; He has given you a guide.

God’s angel, His inspired and loving words of wisdom and direction, will lead you. This angel-thought will assure, re-direct, tell you when to pause and when it is safe to go forward. Not one step in your journey, your revealed way, will be on your own, out in the cold. You will never be left without a touchstone, an angel to remind you what is important and why, and to keep you both focused and restful.

Welcome in your angel. God knows where you belong, what that place looks like, and why it must satisfy you and those you are meant to bless. You can’t go wrong when you trust God and the fact of His nearness, His representative angel, that clear and loving guidance that knows who you are, what you need, and just how to show you the way. Your place is prepared. It is just right. Go your merry way, day by day, with your angel by your side, and sometimes skipping ahead, beckoning you on into satisfaction, productivity, and peace.

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“The meek will he guide in judgment: and the meek will he teach his way.” (Psalms 25: 9)

God’s guidance is flawless and available. His instruction is natural to understand and to utilize in our lives. His wisdom is wonderful, precise, healing, saving, complete. We will find no better information or method of discernment than yielding to the perfect word of God’s loving, individual direction.

Meekness is much needed. Without it, we can’t clearly hear what is right and pure and good for us and for all. Pride and human will would attempt to overtake our natural meekness, our humble willingness to hear the good news that the mortal mind might dispute or what mere human intelligence would argue against.

To be meek is not only to be humble, but it is also to be gentle. It is to be patient and sweet-tempered. This does not mean that we are spineless or weak or victims. It means, on the contrary, that we gather our strength from God’s presence and power; that we are quiet enough in thought and word that we can hear the better way, the nobler one, and that ideal which is most healing for all. Give up the push to be pushy, strong-willed, and self-righteous, and embrace the power of meekness. With it, your innate beauty will shine forth and your life will mirror that in its true loveliness, contentment, and grace.

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“Thou shalt not hate thy brother in thine heart:” (Leviticus 19: 17)

This verse is a deeper approach to the Ten Commandments. The directive here takes those commandments beyond mere behavior and into the intention in the heart. It is not enough that we do not strike out against another with the purpose of causing them harm or attempting to extract revenge. It is not even enough to be silent about our dislike of another individual, another race, another group of people with views unlike our own.

We shall not, must not hate within. We mustn’t harbor anything other than love for each other. This is the law. This is the commandment that Moses announced and Jesus further defined. We must love one another. No exceptions. And we must do it in our hearts, within the deepest part of ourselves.

This is not always easy and it certainly can’t be forced, for love is nothing if it is not genuine, sincere. But God’s laws are kind and achievable. He has given us the innate ability to love Him, to love good, and by doing so, to naturally love all that He has made—our fellow brothers and sisters, the true ideas that He created out of His own Love. We needn’t approve of everything that we see acted out by men, but we must see past that false identity, that distraction from that one’s true sweet nature, and obey the mandate to Love.

This is not a call to give without receiving, to martyr ourselves while a wrongdoer gets off the hook. It is a demand that we do what we do best and what ultimately will make us feel right—healthy, happy, clean, good, at peace. Love is the only way to this contentment. Listen to God’s direction, and seek diligently to be free of any hate in your heart. Each occasion to do this will open the gates of heaven for you as only Love can do.

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“The cement of a higher humanity will unite all interests in the one divinity.” (Science and Health, page 571)

We are all together in this. As we recognize those binding properties of our higher and better selves, we have the power of unity with which to accomplish great things. Our higher humanity—our compassion, our morality, our integrity, our devotion to good without judgment of others—unites us to God’s purpose and that is true strength.

We must realize that this loving perspective and the action which naturally results is the truest nature of man. It is that deepest intention within us all, and when appealed to, it will rise to the occasion. Let’s recognize and love that it is God, good, Love, that is the cement that holds us together, as children of one Cause and inseparable from it. We simply can’t be in conflict, for our hearts are one in Truth.

Thus all interests are satisfied. Competition, disagreement, warring viewpoints and warring peoples, simply can’t exist within the one divinity. God is One, and His ideas are one, united in His ideal, His divine law of loving Life. We are bound together because we are all God’s children, born of His perfect Mind, conceived out of His flawless heart, built of His substance–His active, all-embracing Love.

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“You were making splendid progress; who put you off the course you had set for the truth? That sort of ‘persuasion’ does not come from the one who is calling you.” (Galatians 5: 7-8, JB Phillips translation)

Don’t be so quick to give up. Don’t jump off the train just when you are getting somewhere. Material circumstances and personal sense will try to make this journey a difficult one, perhaps not worth the effort, or paint this spiritual pursuit as some aspiration we are simply not good enough to achieve.

Hogwash. Progress is God’s law and just because you may be challenged on the way doesn’t mean you aren’t winning, advancing, growing and doing tremendous good for others and yourself along the way. Liken it to taking a class. As we achieve mastery of the subject, the assignments may become more difficult. It is because we now have the knowledge, wisdom, and experience with the ideas to be able to take on these harder lessons and get even clearer on what we know and why it matters so much.

Those voices of discouragement and apathy and doubt are not the voice of God. They are not valid advisors. Who has put you off course? It is the mortal mind and its desire to stay complacent in matter and its limits rather than to continue to advance out of those limits and into Soul’s infinite promise for Life. God is always calling you forward, onward, and He always will. Listen. You are making splendid progress, and you are ready for the next step, with God, up to where the view is even broader, clearer, brighter, and more beautiful than before.

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“He that worketh deceit shall not dwell within my house: he that telleth lies shall not tarry in my sight.” (Psalms 101: 7)

While it may be wise to take this statement literally and steer clear of those who are not of the best character or who have malicious intentions, this stance goes further. We must guard against the entry of the lying thought, that which defies the word of God and lures us into its deceit. We must begin to recognize this thief when he enters our house, our consciousness.

Have you gotten caught up in a story of your life that seems only to snowball as you think of it, until your sleeping hours are as busy with it as your days are? The small lie, that accusation against your goodness, your safety, your peace, needs to be rejected and all its companions along with it. One lie tends to bring a bunch of friends to companion it, making it seem even more powerful and difficult to expel.

But that lying thought, that worrying, ruminating, self-defensive, self-condemning thinking, should not tarry with us. We don’t need to give it even a moment of our time or attention. Making that wrong idea comfortable for a time will never do us any good. It doesn’t need even a short visit with us. The lies, the accusations against our innocence and our love, won’t ever be helpful. They will only make our house dirty and even more vulnerable to intruders. Keep your consciousness focused on what is good and true and there will be no entry point for liars and no tolerance for lies.

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“The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light. But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness!” (Matthew 6: 22-23)

Our eye is our perspective. It indicates our vantage point, our vision, our focus. To have a divided focus, is to really have no focus at all. We can’t claim the fullness of our aspiration if we are not single-minded about this. This is not a matter of willful devotion to a human ideal or action or a human sense of achievement. It is about making God that “single” Mind, for He is that One Mind that is faithful and good.

This devotion to God’s purpose, setting our sights on what is true and right and good according to His daily declarations to us, is staying single-minded, devoted to a Mind that is light and that will always enlighten, brighten, uplift, and guide us. This dedication to God as Cause and reason will fill our bodies with light—with effortless health, buoyancy, freedom.

Conversely, if our thought is divided, worshipping matter as much as God, or giving the mortal mind and its sob stories an equal or greater part of our attention, we will not feel that lightness that is ours naturally. Our eye, focused on the dark and dreary, has rejected the Christ-light that is extended to us for our healing use. We have agreed to a mind divided from God, which having not the ring of Truth, has no power behind it for demonstration.

Surrender the entireness of your thought to God and His loving design. Take this moment to feel the light of Him alone. Don’t let that divided sense of a personal self, cast a shadow on your glory. Let your eyes sparkle with the inner acceptance of God’s unconditional and powerful Love.

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“For he satisfieth the longing soul, and filleth the hungry soul with goodness.” (Psalms 107: 9)

Does it sometimes feel as if we are always longing for something—health, money, love, achievement, understanding? Does it seem as if our striving never ends? When one ideal is revealed and claimed, another one still seems to gnaw at us, like a hungry stomach in need of sustenance.

That longing, that hunger for goodness, peace, joy, is satisfied by God. Looking to any other source will never achieve lasting contentment. That burning within us to feel better, know more, be more at peace with ourselves and others is met and filled by divine Love. This Love has always been with us, and has always been caring for us, filling us with ideas and inspiration and new awareness. God’s nourishment, accepted without reservation, will always be enough to keep us well, comfortable, and comforted.

We must open our yearning hearts to God’s grace. We must be willing to give up our human expectations of life, and let God show us His grander plan, His ideal ideas made manifest. This satisfaction goes deeper. It is about feeling loved and lovable, and knowing that this is steady and certain and deserved. It is about accepting that we are worthy right now to be happy and well, and so we can be. The answer isn’t out there in the future or back in the past. It is right where you are, tenderly revealing that your life is in God, Love, so it is already harmonious, full, complete, peaceful, and forever satisfied.

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“Commit thy works unto the Lord, and thy thoughts shall be established.” (Proverbs 16:3)

Are you feeling confused? Is there a level of uncertainty about what you need to be doing, or what the future holds? Are you thoughts running rampant with worries or concerns about what you are doing or what is next? Is there an inner dialogue that doesn’t want to shut itself off?

There is an answer. Commit thy works unto the Lord. Consciously dedicate yourself to God, good. Give up the human sense of control over your life and its circumstances, its health, its success. Make a commitment to God, to Truth, to Love. Decide to devote yourself to what feels true and right and which is, most often, amazingly sweet and simple. Do this and you will be set free.

Our dedication to God and His purpose, set not only our experiences in good hands, but actually establishes our thoughts, gives them focus and clarity and wisdom. When we choose God as our Mind, our Life, then our thoughts and being must be obedient to that high standard, that one which is always precise, reasonable, and natural to us. Calm the thought by committing it, devoting it, giving it to God, where all things are harmonious, comfortable, comforting, and full of God’s powerful grace.

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“As every man hath received the gift, even so minister the same one to another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God. “ (I Peter 4: 10)

This is what it means to be a true servant of God. It is because of the abundant love and grace and understanding we have received ourselves, that we are not only able to give to others, but that we also have the genuine desire to do so. If we are truly recognizing what divine Love is about—its power, presence, and purpose—we will not hesitate to share this blessing freely.

The mortal mind would try to lure us away from this natural intention, by telling us that we are too poor to be generous, too weak to carry another, too ignorant to be helpful. These lame excuses are pure lies about you and your calling. To focus too much on self and our own needs alone is not only selfish. It lacks healing power. We simply won’t be our most happy and healthy selves until we lose sight of that personal sense, that focus on self, and begin our true stewardship.

This is God’s intention for us. Being a caretaker in His vineyard is not a hardship. It is utilizing a Love that by its use grows, flourishes, and blesses us and all, and it is completely natural to us. Our ministering is not a personal sacrifice. It is gratitude in action.

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“Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life.” (Proverbs 4: 23)

Diligence is persistent effort and constancy of purpose. This active devotion to a cause or goal should be focused on what is really important, vital in fact, to our lives. We must with awareness keep a guard on our hearts, on the thoughts and intentions that undergird our actions and experiences.

If we keep a faithful watch over our thinking we are protecting our very lives. For our thought is where danger would attempt to turn us from Truth, from God. This defense also applies to our hearts—our intentions, our motives and aspirations. We must, without fear or guilt, look within and determine where our ideas and practices are coming from. What do we seek and for what intent do we seek it? Being honest in this, we can cultivate higher ideals, those which will also naturally most bless us.

Looking outside of ourselves for protection, living in fear of others and their behavior towards us or thoughts of us, will never get to the heart of the matter. The “issues of [your] life” are not resolved by others, and they are not damaged by others’ behavior. Your own thoughts and purposes determine your attitude, your expectations, and their fulfillment in experience. Let your heart know and keep guard on Truth and Love, as cause and means, and you will be safe, happy, and free.

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“For, behold, I create new heavens and a new earth: and the former shall not be remembered, nor come into mind.” (Isaiah 65: 17)

As we enter into a new year, let’s make it an opportunity to take a renewed view on all things. Each day, each moment, God’s creation is newly revealed, fresh with promise and joy and activity. The divine Life does not settle in with old, limited, worn out or overwrought ideas, merely getting comfortable in a crypt of yesterday’s relics. Life lives.

And we are children of the divine Life, so we live as well. All the good there is belongs to God, so it endures. But each new moment we are subject to God’s fresh thoughts and His unchanging ability to bring forth sweet surprises and salvation and peace. A new heaven and a new earth—the reality of God’s kingdom showing itself in our daily human experience– are ours for the taking today because Soul’s infinite beauty can’t be confined or depleted.

Accept today’s glorious and loving renewal. Looking over our shoulder with regret or carrying fears forth into a day that is full of perfecting protection and affection, is an unnecessary burden. The former things, the old thinking that never did us any favors, can be left in last year without a backward glance. You are not your history. You are not even your future. You are this moment’s child, new born through grace, innocent and ready and loved by God.

Happy New Year!

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“Let us therefore, as many as be perfect, be thus minded: and if in any thing ye be otherwise minded, God shall reveal even this unto you.”(Philippians 3: 15)

As we claim that perfect view of ourselves and accept our status as children of God, Spirit, we can think and act accordingly. Knowing that God is the one Mind and that He is in all ways and at all times all-knowing and all-loving, we can rest in His consciousness; we can be the expression of His right thinking and acting, naturally.

No one is excluded from this holy status and the ability to live it forth. If we wait for human perfection, we will be waiting a long time! But, if we accept our true spiritual perfection, as God’s own ideas–perfect because divine Mind is flawless–we are capable of achieving what is in fact our true and original state of being. We must begin with God’s perfect ideal–with Him as Cause and us as perfect effect. God made man, and He made him just right.

Claiming this heritage without reservation, our vision is clearer, for we are not looking through the mask of a false identity, or coming from a premise of personal creation in matter. With this new and true vision, we are able to see God’s revelation. Anything that is not in line with that perfection of thought and action will be seen for its error, and can then be cast off as having nothing to do with the identity God made, the goodness and truth of our nature. No ignorance of our perfection will be allowed by infinite Mind. As we abide in the Truth, any flawed thought will be made apparent to us and its exposure to God’s light in us will cause it to disappear as we shine on, with healing beauty.

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“For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.” (Isaiah 9: 6)

Our Christmas is a sort of birthday of our own to commemorate. It is a new recognition of what Jesus came to show us, the facts of our identity and origin, a fresh new celebration of our life. The emergence of this Christ ideal to human view is a cause for rejoicing today and every day, for we are subject every day to the spirit of Christmas, the Spirit which is God’s steadfast, active, healing Love.

The son of God is innocent and yet he is powerful. He is a pure child of the Almighty and this heritage makes all things possible to him. Jesus declared this holy ideal to us. He showed us what it means to be the children of God, forever at one with infinite Life, Truth, and Love and conscious of that fact, accepting it as the truth.

Let us today get into true sense of Christmas and recognize what Jesus proclaimed and demonstrated. The Truth of Life—God and man as one and perfect and immortal—christens us with that wonderful wisdom and might that endures forever. It is an awareness of divine Love that makes us peaceful peacemakers, forever rejoicing that our savior is right here, and that this right here is the very place where “heaven and angels sing!”

Merry Christmas!

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“This people have I formed for myself; they shall shew forth my praise.” (Isaiah 43: 15)

God made us for Him. He created us in order to shine forth His intention and His high quality. We were made with the express purpose of being the ideal representatives of all that divine Mind could conceive and divine Love adore. We were formed to be the fully accurate evidence of all that God eternally is.

And it is not about us. It is not about human beliefs of self and personality. We are not made perfect in order that we can be arrogant and self-righteous and puffed up with pride and judgment. We were made in order to show forth God’s praise, to be the active manifestation of God, good. Everything we are and do should direct thought and worship back to God, to the Principle that is divine Love and unadulterated Truth.

Let’s be clear about our origin and the reason for our lives. With God as the source, substance, and subject of all that we are, you and I are not left out. We are set free. It is because of God that we must always have that natural purity, innocence and beauty. It is because God is the great I AM, that we are released to His right activity, His perfect productivity, His certainty, His fearlessness. We are because He is, and we are satisfied because to praise Him is to live in goodness and in joy.

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“Love is the liberator.” (Science and Health, page 225)

Our freedom of body and mind is contingent on divine Love. And what is loving is also true, for Love and Truth are one, God. So the Truth of Love is what must naturally and necessarily set us free. Only true Love really can free us from anguish, fear, shame, doubt, and any inharmony that would appear in our lives and our bodies.

Let Love release you. Allow nothing unloving to have control over you, to keep you unfairly imprisoned. Resentment, anger, selfishness, competitiveness, envy, fear neglect the presence of divine Love in favor of human will and its deluded self-righteousness. This false and fallible ego is not setting you free. It is tying you in knots. It limits your capacities by attempting to find power in that which is inherently powerless. Only God, Love, has power.

Divine Love is never distant. A belief that it is far from us or that we don’t deserve it, will never make that lie true. Set aside any excuses for being less receptive of Love or less expressive of it, and just let it in. Divine Love is always and actively right where you are, asking you to believe, to accept, to feel its healing presence. Let yourself be loved and let yourself be Love. Be a liberated man or woman! Be free now!

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“And Moses went up unto God, and the Lord called unto him out of the mountain, saying…Ye have seen what I did unto the Egyptians, and how I bare you on eagles’ wings, and brought you unto myself.” (Exodus 3, 4)

Our escape from the bondage of material sense is assured. No enemy calling itself sickness, problem, shame, fear, can pursue us, gain on us, and ensnare us into its slavery. We are free men. God has made us so, and it is by His love that we can withdraw from confining beliefs about our lives, and go safely home to the land of the free.

God reminds Moses that He has destroyed the enemy, the Egyptians chasing the chosen as they traverse the wilderness to the Promised Land. God has shown His children their release from slavery and their natural place of freedom. God had let no impediment stand in their way, clearing a path through seas and providing food in the desert on a daily basis, guiding them always.

And all of this protection and direction, God is telling Moses and each of us, is in order to bring us to Himself. God is always actively drawing us into His Truth, His Life, His perfect Love. The eagles’ wings that are both powerful and protecting soar above the illusion of material living into the reality of spiritual life. Hear and trust God’s word about your well-being, your safety, your exemption from harm. He is reminding us that we are always being borne, carried by grace to our true home, the promised land of God’s loving, undaunted, and perpetual care.

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“The Lord shall preserve thee from all evil: he shall preserve thy soul.” (Psalms 121: 7)

We may feel spoiled, tarnished. We may feel that our lives have been damaged by experiences, others’ actions, and our own. We may see ourselves as no longer pure and fresh and innocent. But this presentation of you is not the truth of your being. God has preserved you, kept you perfect.

God’s Love is a preservative. His affection and protection means that our true natures and our true lives are maintained and sustained forever. Our goodness and original flavor is in no way lost or tainted. God has made us in Spirit and He keeps us spiritually. We are not material identities with lives that have had their way with us.

We are spiritual ideas, the right and good and beloved thoughts of God. This man and this woman that you were caused to be have not gone anywhere. They are ready for the claiming and the living. We do not need to believe that material life has more control over us than God, our Maker. You aren’t lost from goodness or fallen from grace. You don’t need to remake yourself. God has you in His Love and in this Love you remain at your very best, safe from harm or misuse. Listen for His voice telling you who you really are and how you really are and rejoice that your soul, your identity and glory, is preserved forever.

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“In God’s creation ideas become productive, obedient to Mind.” (Science and Health, page 544)

There is no waste in divine Mind. There is no lethargy of thought and no obstacles to right action. God has created obedient ideas They are built to carry out His perfect plan and to always harmonize with each other. Every individual idea, born of God’s intention, must express that purpose without hindrance or resistance or delay.

Man is a productive idea. We are always the reflection of God’s perfect qualities and His right action. Each one of us naturally expresses God’s pure and loving motive and His capacities for good are inherent in us. This is not because we are personal gods or little creators. It is because we are always at one with the One Mind–ideas that He has conceived and so subject to His high standards.

There is no man or woman that is useless, worn out, or without a significant calling. There is no one who is simply not skilled enough, motivated enough, or “normal” enough to carry out God’s productivity. Perfect Mind made nothing superfluous, extraneous, or faulty. Every idea fits into His broad vision for Life. Each is right and powerful simply by nature of the creative Principle that formed him, and each must contribute directly and productively to God’s active, efficient, perfect, magnificent, satisfying and satisfied, whole.

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“Have mercy upon me, O Lord, for I am in trouble: mine eye is consumed with grief, yea, my soul and my belly. For my life is spent with grief, and my years with sighing: my strength faileth because of mine iniquity, and my bones are consumed.” (Psalms 31: 9-10)

The psalmist’s complaints are no different from ours. We may find ourselves preoccupied with worry, with a sense of grief over our lives and our mistakes and losses. We feel like we are in trouble, in a spot we can’t get out of, stuck forever in the mesmerized sense that we can’t escape from the pain, the fear, and it is making us sick and sorrowful. We just may have lost hope.

But we know, as the psalmist did, that there is a recourse. There is a saving answer. There is a place where hope lives and where peace is the atmosphere. It is the encompassing wings of God’s mercy–those wings of Love that both shelter us and take us aloft and out of doubt and the prison of material sense analysis of things. God’s Love is bigger than our attachment to our troubles. God’s voice of Truth can break that unnecessary bondage and open the doors of our life to the good that is at hand.

Everyone sighs and worries and cries. All of us at times feel lost and without a way home. But just as the psalmist knew, these are times for grace. These are the very times that we can call on God for our answer and our salvation. We can’t do it alone and we don’t need to. When we can’t see past our own illusions, we need the light of Love to show us the door out, to wake us to the fact that we are, in fact, safe, happy, worthy, and free.

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“We should become more familiar with good than with evil, and guard against false beliefs as watchfully as we bar our doors against the approach of thieves and murderers.” (Science and Health, page 234)

You would not willingly allow a shady individual to enter into your home and have full run of your house and all that is in it. Just so, we should be as alert about what thoughts we allow into our mental home and how comfortable we make them there. Our consciousness can and should be filled with welcoming ideas, those that bring beauty and light to our sweet minds.

Are we preoccupied with fear, with lack, with regrets, with self-justification, blame, and anger? Are we ruminating when we could be rejoicing? These mesmerizing ideas are murdering our peace and productivity, and robbing us of a really good time! Don’t allow those sneaky devils to dirty up your good, clean, house–your consciousness that was built to express and to receive love!

A right and good thought can accomplish miracles in moments. An unproductive thought can torture us for years if we let it. Watch that those bad ideas don’t take over, don’t become legitimate pieces of furniture in your home. And, it’s never too late to clear them out. The thought that’s been battered to pieces by our constant attention is even riper for a trip to the garbage, so toss it and celebrate with a new outlook. Leave room for fresh ideas, for simple goodness. These lovely thoughts will not only uplift you, they will protect and heal you and bring joy not only to your mind, but to your life and the lives of those around you.

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