Community of Infinite Spirit

Good morning! This is Rev. Teresa. I have a reading for you today from the January 12, 2026 Divine Science Federation International Daily Study titled: A FOUNDATION FOR MIRACLES The word miracle derives from the Greek word meaning “a mighty work.” The same Greek word is the root of dynamite. So a miracle is simply a mighty, powerful work, or happening, that takes place when we are fully in tune with, receptive to, and cooperative with the One Power and Presence we call God.

Today I’m speaking on “A New Vision for Humanity.” The world just celebrated the ending of 2025 and the beginning of 2026. We welcome in the new energies. First I’m going to share a little about the 2026 energy, and then I’m going to have us hold a high vision for all humanity and the world. The study of sacred numbers is called “numerology.” Numbers represent spiritual energies, they are vibrations, and are archetypal in nature. Meaning each number has its own value and spe

Good morning! This is Rev. Teresa. I am speaking today about embracing peace and bringing peace into 2026. There has been a lot of anger in 2025. It is understandable how we come to feel anger due to conditions in the U.S. and in other places on the earth right now. In the U.S. there are large disagreements about the treatment of immigrants and ICE agents in our cities. These are our neighbors, fellow human beings. And this is just the tip of the iceberg of the issues that ar

Today I’m sharing from the book The Christ which is a collection of articles from Harmony Magazine 1887-1906 by Malinda Cramer. This one is titled “Putting on the New Man.” Since God is infinite and unalterable goodness, then all goodness must be eternal; and the opposite must be false appearance... Since that which is eternal is truth, temporary appearances are false. Since that which is eternal is real, temporary appearances must be unreal. Since that which is eternal is s

Good Morning! This is Rev. Teresa. I have a reading for you today from the January 3 Divine Science Federation International Daily Study. Peace be within thy walls, and prosperity within thy palaces. –Psalm 122:7 "When you want peace of mind get away from things," counseled Emmet Fox, "and dwell upon the Presence of God instead." Your palace is your own consciousness. The walls spoken of in this Bible verse are invisible, but just as real as any stone wall. Your walls are yo

Today’s talk is titled Preparing for 2026.This is the first Sunday of January. January is named after the Roman God Janus. Janus has two faces, one looking backward and the other forward. His two faces symbolized watchfulness in both directions—past and future, inside and outside. These symbols were often found above an entrance or doorway. Romans believed Janus guarded all transitions, including the physical transition of moving through a doorway. Doorways were considered s

My topic today is Peace in my Heart. I invite you to get a pen and paper to make notes to yourself as I talk. Then we will do a releasing ceremony at the end. Today is the last Sunday of 2025, a good time to look back and reflect. 2025 was a tough year for many people. There has been a lot of seeming chaos in the United States, and in many places around the world. There have been wars and bombings in various places. There seems to be a great divide in politics, with people in

Today I’m sharing from the Divine Science Daily Studies. It is written by Rev. Dr. Sylvia Eriksson of the First Divine Science Church of Australia One who is really poised in understanding is not led by emotions or governed by feelings, but constantly looks through all appearances to find unchanging Truth. Daisy M. (Mrs C.L) Baum, Individual Responsibility Daisy M. Baum tells us in her writings that we must be strongly poised in the understanding of the Truth of the Greater

Today we conclude the Advent season with the lighting of all 4 advent candles plus the center candle representing the Christ. I invite you to imagine as we light each candle that we are igniting a flame within our own heart. Our first candle represents Hope. Hope is the seed for a greater future. Several hundred years before the birth of Jesus the Christ Isaiah foretold of a great messiah to come, and the Jewish people kept hope burning alive in their hearts. This day we hold

For our Christmas service I’m sharing an essay originally published in Harmony Magazine December 1888 by Divine Science founder Malinda Elliot Cramer titled Christmas. This was republished in 1990 by the Divine Science Federation Int’l in the book Hidden Harmony; it’s a collection of writings from Harmony Magazine 1888-1906. Now imagine Cramer sitting in her San Francisco home in 1888 writing her Christmas message. Thinking back now over nearly nineteen hundred years of the w

We are observing the Advent Season in lighting our Advent candles. We may also use our imagination to light these candles within our heart. We shall now relight the prior 2 candles; first Hope and now Faith. This week is about joy. Today our Advent candle represents joy. I shall read from Matthew 7-11: “Behold, wise men from the East came to Jerusalem saying, “Where is he who has been born king of the Jews? For we have seen his star in the East, and have come to worship him.

Today I am speaking about The Joy of the Soul. Merriam Webster defines joy as, “a feeling of great happiness or pleasure: delight, a state of great happiness: bliss” Spiritually, joy can be seen as a quality of the soul, grounded in faith in God’s presence, even in challenging times. A sense of closeness to God elicits the joy of the soul. We are truly one with God, living, moving and having our being in God. In meditation God’s presence may be felt within, in the heart, in t

This is the second Sunday of the Advent season. Each Sunday we light a candle. You may light an actual candle or light an imaginary candle in your heart. Last week we lit the first candle for Hope. Let’s take a moment to relight the candle of Hope. Now we move to our candle for the second week of Advent, the candle representing Faith. The scripture reading for today is from Luke 1, verses 38 and 45-47. “Mary said, Here I am, a handmaid of the Lord; let it be to me according t

Today’s talk is about Exercising Faith in Difficult Times. There are many kinds of challenges we may experience. These may be a personal life tragedy as in a loss of loved ones, terminal disease, or life altering injury. Then there are traumas as in a break-up of a long relationship, loss of a job, or our home and possessions. We all at times have been challenged living through difficult times. All these and many more can bring about depression or worse. For some people these

Today we begin the annual Christian tradition of Advent. Advent means adventure and coming arrival. This is a spiritual adventure that we take each year which begins on the 4th Sunday before Christmas and ends on Dec. 24th. Advent is the remembering the birth of Christ Jesus, and is the period of preparation for the 2nd coming of the Christ. In Divine Science and New Thought teachings this 2nd coming of Christ happens within us. A popular tradition for the Advent season is th

Today is the first Sunday of Advent and we light a candle for hope. As we go through the Advent season we have the hope of the birth of the Christ, not just in Christ Jesus so long ago, but in each of our hearts right now in this present time. What is hope? Merriam-Webster says hope is “to cherish a desire with anticipation: to want something to happen or be true” It is “desire accompanied by expectation of obtaining what is desired or belief that it is attainable” It is also

Good morning! This is Rev Teresa. I have a reading for you this morning from “Where There is Light, Insight and Inspiration for Meeting Life’s Challenges” by Paramahansa Yogananda. He says: “Every day do some good to help others, even if it is only a pittance. If you want to love God, you must love people. They are his children. You can be helpful materially by giving to the needy; mentally by giving comfort to the sorrowful, courage to the fearful, divine friendship and m

This Thursday many people of this country shall be celebrating Thanksgiving Day by having a feast. Some tables may be serving the traditional turkey, dressing, gravy, yams, pumpkin pie. For others it may be tofu in place of turkey, or eat ethnic gourmet foods of other cultures. A feast represents God’s bountiful good with plenty for everyone. Plenty to share with our family and friends regardless of the particular form it takes. Thanksgiving Day is a national holiday to celeb

Today’s reading is from our text Divine Science Its Principle and Practice page 117. Within the thought of evolution is the recognition of a persistent urge in all living things to move on, to progress to new things and new experiences. Emerson says, “The creation is on wheels, always passing into something else, streaming into something higher.” There is something in the very nature of life that itself that compels it and its creatures to move on. There is an innate urge th

This morning, I am speaking about grief and gratitude. Gratitude is an important element of healing from grief. There are many kinds of losses and reasons for grief: the death of a loved one, the end of a relationship, divorce, loss of a friend, loss of a pet (and a pet generally qualifies as a friend), loss of a pregnancy, loss of a home through a disaster or financial loss, loss of a job, loss of a career, loss of a dream, loss of a physical ability, loss of a body part, lo