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In a bad mood?

When you wake up feeling grumpy and tired, is there anything you can do to turn your day around? Read on to learn how this author found inspiration that dissolved her bad mood.

Your spiritual destination is here

You’ve arrived; 
  you’re not getting “there.” 
There’s no future place to be, 
just here and now.

Your being is …

The Christmas message

When the Virgin-mother 
   gave birth to her 
   firstborn son, 
Heavenly heralds 
   announced the …

Thanks for being able to give

I began to be grateful that I could give, realizing what a privilege it is to serve others, how precious each one we work with is, and how the perfect support for our worthy undertakings comes forth from God.

When the wildfire approached

Instead of thinking of myself and the others as fire evacuees in a situation that was outside of God’s care, I found it comforting to remember that God was already right there and that we could remain untouched by anything that appeared to exist outside of the ever-presence of God, divine Love.

To see God face to face

The Bible tells us
   Jacob was alone 
the night before
   his brother Esau came, 
bringing with him
   the four hundred men …
It’s been particularly helpful to me to understand that the God who guided Daniel in the Bible has been doing the same for me throughout my career.

The lightest touch of Love

It brings floating
to the surface
the good already there...
Even though I didn’t know how things would work out, I trusted the promise that God meets every need.
   I’m unimpressed 
      with the carnal mind’s 
      constant refrain: 
“For joys, along the highways 
   and byways of material life, 
   remain.”

Rather, I’m persuaded …
This author never could have known that everything he’d learned from studying Christian Science would culminate in a life-saving moment one fall afternoon while he was out water skiing with a friend.
When we also come to understand God as Spirit, and His creation as purely spiritual rather than tribal or political, it becomes much easier to not only love God supremely but to love all of our neighbors as ourselves.