Reading & Meditation (Grace) by Rev. Teresa Stuefloten, M.Div. 8/23/2026

Good morning! This is Rev. Teresa. I have a reading for you today from the August 20th Divine Science Daily Study.

Our goal is to attain the spiritual consciousness that enables us to live by Grace. How do we do this? How do we receive the Presence and Power of God within us?  We cannot achieve it vicariously through a minister…or practitioner. Listening to a lecture or a teacher or minister will not do it. They can only help us along the way.

We attain this goal by individually preparing ourselves by conscious remembrance, keeping the mind stayed on God, acknowledging God in all ways, meditating, purifying ourselves of human tendencies, opening ourselves constantly so that the Voice of God can utter Itself within us.

Then we shall live by the Grace of an inner Presence and an inner Power that does all things for us. “He performs that which is given me to do. He perfects that which concerns me.”  So we must listen and put into practice what we have learned until we attain “that mind which was also in Christ Jesus,” until we attain the consciousness of the Presence of God.

Affirm: Today I am still and open to hear; I practice what I have learned.

adapted from work by

Joel Goldsmith, 1892 – 1964

American mystic, spiritual leader

author of many works including The Infinite Way

Meditation:

Now I invite you to prepare to go within for a short time of meditation, letting go of worries or concerns for this time, getting comfortable, closing your eyes with your inner gaze raised to the center of the forehead, turning your attention to your breath, gently noticing the in-breath and the out-breath…feeling the coolness of the in-breath and the warmth of the out-breath… allowing the breath to sink down into the belly with each in-breath… expanding the belly with each in-breath and contracting the belly with each out-breath… coming into the present moment through the breath now, completely awake and aware…

Today I am still and open to hear…

I let go of thoughts for this time and just listen…

The Divine is speaking to me in the silence…

As I quiet my thoughts, I discern the voice of the Divine in the silence…

The still, small voice of the Divine is present in the silence…

As thoughts come to me I just let them pass…

Like clouds in the sky, I allow my thoughts to just pass by…

I allow myself to rest in the silence of Divine communion…

It is in the silence that I attain the consciousness of the Presence of God…

I open myself to the Grace of God in the silence…

I live by the Grace of that inner Presence as I attune myself to the Divine…

I live by the Power of that inner Presence that does all things for me…

I open myself to the Voice of God that utters Itself within me…

I open myself to the mind that was also in Christ Jesus…

I listen within in the silence to attain the consciousness of the Presence of God…

I know that the Divine Presence of God is within me…

We now rest in the silence for one minute, listening to the voice Divine within…

Now that we have rested in the silence, I invite you to return to awareness of the body, feeling rested and rejuvenated. Daily turning within to the silence brings us into Divine awareness, where we live in the Grace of God. Turn within daily to feel refreshed and connected with the Truth of your Divinity. Turn within to experience the mind that was in Christ Jesus. And so it is!