Hello and welcome to the Christian Science Daily Lift, a place for inspiration.

Sharing with us today is Laurie Snorick.

She's a Christian science practitioner and teacher from Harvard, Massachusetts.

Most of us feel nostalgic from time to time. But looking back isn't helpful.

If we're entertaining, maybe unconsciously, thoughts of things were better when.

Thinking back to a certain time period with nostalgia can box us in with a limited sense of life, and it can obscure the spiritual fact that real good is abundantly present here and now.

To help us understand more deeply the good that's always available, Christian science explains true good as sourced in God.

God, divine life, is unchangeable and eternal.

And God's expression is eternally active, never outdated or diminished,

or bound to a certain age or time period.

Referring to the words of Christ Jesus, Mary Bakeretti wrote,

The kingdom of God cometh not with observation, but the kingdom of God is within you,

within the present possibilities of mankind.

This kingdom, or the consistent power of divine harmony,

that we can feel as we know God, helps anchor our thought in the truth of life as divine.

Understanding God as life shows that the blessings we receive are never tied to material circumstances.

They're found through our unbreakable connection with divine life, divine spirit.

God's goodness has never been nearer to us at any other time in history than it is right now. Whenever and wherever thought is receptive

and willing to yield to divine law, we can experience the kingdom of God. There's no time,

no era, in which divine truth has been more effective than it is today.

The teachings and demonstration of Jesus were for all peoples and for all time,

not for a privileged class or a restricted period, but for as many as should believe in Him.

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