Reading & Meditation (I Am) by Rev. Christine Emmerling, D.D., 6/14/2026

Today’s reading is from the Divine Science daily study titled TESTIMONY OF MALINDA ELLIOT CRAMER 1844 – 1906 Founder of Divine Science

It was early one morning in the year 1885, during an hour of earnest meditation and prayerful seeking, that I asked the following questions in faith, believing that they would be answered, with a willingness to abide the decision, whatever it might be:

“Is there any way out of these conditions?

Is there any power in the vast universe that can heal me?”

The answer to my earnest inquiry…was an all-absorbing realization of a Presence not heretofore realized. I realized it to be my life, my being, my health, knowledge and power. It was an all-consuming fire, in that all things became It. Simultaneously to finding myself in God, I experienced the indrawing of all things; that is, that all are embraced within one eternal God…. I beheld what to me was a new heaven and a new earth.

There was before me a six-pointed star, pure and clear as diamond light, its center calm and clear as pure crystal, and radiating the Light of Life. My experience was that the bliss of Being (God Spirit) is the most perfect peace imaginable.

Do you wonder at my earnestness in preaching this gospel of freedom, or at my determination to do all in my power to forward this movement of Truth and extend it throughout the world, and bring all to a knowledge of the Truth of Unity and Brotherhood?

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Mrs. Cramer was healed first in belief, then in body after twenty-five years as an invalid.

Meditation

We shall now move into a meditation on I Am. Relax, get comfortable. As we close our eyes let us turn inward to our holy temple. Now bring our attention to our breath, the very breath of God, the sacred breath that sustains life.

Omnipresence - the one and only presence of God that is everywhere. God is here right where I am. I live in God and God lives in, through and as my life, my soul, my body, my consciousness.

I am an individualized expression of God. (Repeat)

I am a living expression of God as life.

I am a living expression of God as love.

I am a living expression of God as joy.

I am a living expression of God as intelligence.

I am a living expression of God as wisdom.

I am a living expression of God as peace.

I am timeless, I am eternal.

I now relax into a minute of silence...

Thank you God for these moments in silent communion of at-one-ment. Now let us bring our attention back to our breath, to our body, and be fully present.