Inspiration—the feeling of animation and satisfaction that comes from transcending one's everyday level of thinking, performance, and insight—is a state we all enjoy.
As each old year dissolves into the new one, we often look back as well as forward to measure our past progress and to predict the possibilities for future development.
If we seem to have done a lot of wrong things, if we have an educationally or economically thin background, if we believe we have inherited bad traits of character and are handicapped by them, we may feel there is no hope of gaining satisfaction and success in life.
One of the most freeing spiritual facts we can come to understand through Christian Science is that God is the only I or Ego, that God is divine Love, the essence of all that is real.
