Forgive us our debts...

"Forgive us our debts as we forgive our debtors."
And Love is reflected in love.

Need love? Turn it around! Give Love!

Need friends? Turn it around! Be one! Need to feel appreciated? Appreciate those around you! Need joy? Be grateful!

God's kingdom - His presence, His authority, His love - is already right here where you are. Where? in your heart. In your consciousness.

You intuitively already know this.

Jesus said, "Neither shall they say, Lo here! or, lo there! for, behold, the kingdom of God is within you."

So let it out! Let God's Kingdom of Love shine! Let your face be the face of Love-at-work in the world. This is your divine right. This is your natural state of being. No. It's more than that: it is your God-given purpose.

"Forgive us our debts [our lack of Love] as we forgive our debtors [forgive those we think are lacking love for us or for anyone]."
And Love, God, is always reflected in love.

Love leads and delivers you

"And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil."
And God leadeth us, not into temptation, but delivereth us from sin, disease, and death.

God is Love. How amazingly grateful you can be that God is, in fact, Love. Jesus lived this Truth throughout his blessed life, delivering everyone he encountered from sin, disease, and death. As Love's true reflection, he taught us the power of Love to lead us, and to deliver us from evil.

God never leads you into trials or temptations, because that is not the nature of Love. Love doesn't put you into impossible situations, doesn't throw you to the wolves of temptation, doesn't smite you with sickness or disease, never ever leads you into death - or even to think that death is a way to reach Him.

God is always with you. The way may be rugged. It may be difficult and fraught with tasks and even dangers that you don't think you can handle. Mrs. Eddy even says the way "is not reached through paths of flowers." But God, Love never leaves you. That rugged way is a way of demonstration. It is a way you are called on to walk because you are actually capable of walking it. It is a way that causes you to learn and to exercise your true purpose as His child, His image and likeness, His reflection.

Jesus is your example, the example for the whole world. He worked as God worked. He never shyed away from a challenge but met it with power. He refreshed himself in prayer and then went to work, Divine Love motivating every thought and act, God-being-in-action.

And this is what you are called on to do as his follower. Don't run away - demonstrate! Demonstrate your way through the challenges, the trials, the tempations that you encounter. You encounter them because you are capable of meeting them. You may not think you're able to bear the challenge, but God can. And He is right with you right now. Lean on God. You're winning the prize of spiritual growth and a tangible awareness of your closeness to Him. Hear His intuitive guidance, His (sometimes outloud) Word: "This is the way; walk ye in it."

You are rising to exercise your true being, breaking through the limited way you've always seen yourself, revealing your purpose, living Love out loud.

As the old hymn says:

Father, hear the prayer we offer;;
not for ease that prayer shall be,
But for strength, that we may ever
Live our lives courageously.

Not forever in green pastures
Do we ask our way to be,
But the steep and rugged pathway
May we tread rejoicingly.

Not forever by still waters
Would we idly quiet stay,
But would smite the living fountains
From the rocks along our way.


God, divine Love itself, already leads you, and always delivers you.