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Thank you for this timely message! We DO have a role in bringing peace to the world and it begins with us.

Out of the mouths of babes...Om Shanti everyone. :)

Thank you.
My children used to sing a hymn in their Church of England school which began "Let there be peace on earth and let it begin with me".

It makes so much sense that if we would obey the 10 Commandments there would be no wars, even a little child could see this.
Putting God first we'll respect others and so we would see our identity reflected in His LOVE, we couldn't do less!
God has chose us to be His children, can we see that we ALL are “the offspring of Spirit“? S&H 63:5
ESPAÑOL
Tiene tanto sentido que si obedeciéramos los 10 Mandamientos no habría guerras, hasta un niño pequeño puede darse cuenta de esto.
Poniendo a Dios primero respetaremos a los demás y así veremos nuestra identidad reflejada en Su Amor, no podemos hacer menos que esto!
Dios nos ha elegido para ser Sus hijos, ¿Es que no podemos ver que todos somos los hijos del Espíritu? CyS 63:4

YES. In addition to the succinct commandments of Christ Jesus, my favorite way that
I remember obeying The Ten Commandments is by singing along with Susan Mack and The Solo Committee song, "Ten Ways to be Happy" on the CD "3 Steps and a Bounce", available in Christian Science reading rooms. Great way for children to learn, and a light-hearted way for me to refresh what truly makes us happy and brings us in touch with peace and joy and security in our lives. Praise God!

God said to Moses, I AM THAT I AM. And Jesus said, I know him: for I am from him, and he hath sent me. (EX.3:14, John7:29). Christian Science says, Jesus presented the ideal of God better than could any man whose origin was less spiritual. By his obedience to God, he demonstrated more spiritually than all others the Principle of being. Hence the force of his admonition, "If ye love me, keep my commandments." (Science and Health, p.25:16).

"Out of the mouths of babes...." thank you Mary Alice. for that good advice!

Thank you.

Many thanks Mary Alice for this great reminder. Yes. "Each one of us has a role to play in bringing peace to the world." "Till time and space and fear are naught/ My [our] quest shall never cease,/ Thy [Love's] presence ever goes with me/ And Thou dost give me [all of us] peace." (Christian Science Hymnal #136).

Thank you.we can all bring help to bring peace to the world.

I like the idea that instead of "Dont's" the ten commandments could read "thou shalt have no need to steal...kill...bear false witness...commit adultery" etc. I like the simple prayer that was published by The Mother Church years ago to help little children: filled up full with thoughts from God.

Thank you - I never thought about the ten commandments like that - very helpful!

Thank you for your message and also enjoyed your lecture on Church Brick and Mortar and the value of Christian Fellowship.

A lovely Lift. Thank you.

Great message Mary Alice. Thanks so much.

Thank you Mary Alice,

This morning as I left home on my bicycle, I did so with much prayer and expectation. I have to encounter an individual as part of my weekly routine. We are volunteers but they always have some reason why they cannot perform tasks and ultimately more tasks have been falling on me.

I have explained that my plate is more than full but they never stop and they talk down to me in a very negative manner as they try to assign the tasks. Believe it or not, based on the organizational chart, I am their senior. This weekend they did a number of things to hamper the progress of my work which also negatively affected another volunteer. I am tempted to quit, but that Still Small Voice says to "press on"

As I rode the bike, I prayed for peace, more patience and love and through my actions to send the right healing message to the individual and those looking on. During the ride I saw two clouds looking as if they are now about to touch one another, one on the West, the other on East.

The one on the West was thick with rain, the other radiant with a soft morning glow, edges trimmed with light. I then remembered that the rain clouds always sit lower in the sky which means the radiant clouds will never be touched by these rain clouds. These rain clouds have their work to do, but they never touch the ones radiant with sun. Immediately I felt healed as a sense of peace took over my thought.

Today's Lift helped reinforce this healing. Very timely. THANKS!

Wonderful ! thank you ...

Thanks so much, Mary Alice, for sharing the precious little six year old's solution for peace - obeying the 10 Commandments. What a simple, yet profound, solution we can all practice in our daily lives.

Thank you for this lift. There is so much in it. How interesting that the little child summed up the method of bringing peace in ten words. Adults may well have taken so many more words in their essays to say the same thing.

Thanks for the reminder, Mary Alice, and to the DL for sending it out to the world. Comes the dawn, encircling the world day by day bringing us light. Jesus taught and lived love so amazingly, so gloriously and practically, that nothing has ever been the same since. A so-called six year old of the twenty first century got it and said so. Love really is universal and triumphant.

Los diez mandamientos y el cumplimiento de ellos es lo que nos acerca a Dios de hecho es el elemento sustancial para abrir la puerta a un mayor entendimiento, "El que guarda sus mandamientos, permanece en Dios, y Dios en él" 1ª de Juan.
Cristo Jesús dijo: "Un nuevo mandamiento os doy, que os ameis unos a otros" siento que ese mandamiento que en realidad es el primero es la coronación de todos los otros, porque sin Amor nada somos.
Es el permanecer en Él lo que perdura y fortalece, naturalmente no sin esfuerzo y dedicación como a diario nos esforzamos en asimilar el caracter de los mensajes "Todos somos capaces de hacer más de lo que hacemos" MBE, y si cumplimos los mandamientos sin lugar a duda la tan anhelada paz será permanente ya que reinará el Amor en todos los corazones cumpliendo así con la ley divina.

Muchas gracias Mary Alice por tu mensaje.

It is very important to understand your last statement that we all have a role to play in bringing peace to the world.

Wonderful Lift! Thank you so much!!!

Thank you for this wonderful message... Also, thanks to Susan (#4) for reminding me of a song I love and to Troy (#17) for his beautiful healing.

Thank you Mary Alice. It was inspiring to listen and to read what Troy of Barbados had to write, since I currently struggle. i feel gratitude for the dailylift and the internet power to be able to reach out this morning. The rain here in the Northeast has persisted throughout the weekend. This site is a spot of light on a grey morning.

Thank you, Mary Alice! I can't wait to hear and view your new Lecture! I was just listening to a Sentinel Radio CD where one of the Speakers said that by Loving God and feeling and knowing God's Love for us, we can't help but Love our neighbors. He said that since God Is Love, Love Itself, we are made of the essence of Love and that loving ourselves and others is what we were made to do. If we truly surrender, we can't help being the Love that we are! Our only job is to tear down any false, self-created, mortal-mnd-created beliefs that seem to block the flow of that Love! Yes, Let there be Peace and Love on Earth and It has Begun With Me! XO!

This was especially precious since it was exactly what my Sunday School pupil and I had talked about yesterday. I immediately sent it on to her and we will have some good follow-up, I'm sure.

Thank you.

Thank you Mary Alice. I have tweeted your Daily Lift - So all the world can hear it. I love the saying: "Let there be peace, and let it start with me."

Thank you, Mary Alice! The Ten Commandments have always been a source of prayer and peace for me. It seems I can take most situations to them and find the joy, peace and healing that is needed.
Thanks for the lecture -- enjoyed it in Dallas and think it is wonderful to continue to have the message.
I like the idea of making commandments/rules in positive terms -- not in don'ts; helps all of us to follow them better!

Thank you, Mary Alice. A good reminder: Obeying the Ten Commandments is BEing good/livng the GOOD LIFE. It is "as in heaven, so on earth" living, the state of consciousness in which peace is actively applied and in this way blesses all. What if the angels at Jesus' birth were actually sharing a Christian mandate as if it were a matematical equation: Peace on Earth = Good Will towards Men? By then, Men already had the commandments. Jesus explained and showed us how to live under them lovingly and consistently by God's grace for God's glory and the highest good of all concerned. It's all about love for God (Love, itself!) and love for each other. It's the no "if" clause, that we have to overcome: To love above and beyond manmade barriers like race, religion, socio-economic, class, educational, and political - even familial affilications - all human arrogance yielding to this Divine code of conduct - The Ten Commandments. Peace can be achieved and sustained in no other way. I heard just yesterday: "They weren't called, 'The Ten Recommendations!'" :-) Thanks again, Mary Alice.

The wise words of a child. Thank you for sharing.

One of the worst crimes humanity is facing is the horrific (and doomed) attempt to violate the childlike thought by making children into soldiers. I'm praying today to see and know the completeness and satisfaction of children and adults alike:


That every child is so fully mothered and fathered by God and the ever-operating Christ, that no criminal intent has an opportunity. (God reached Ishmael where he was in the wilderness, even when his mother was giving up.) Each child can hear and obey "the still, small voice" and stay safe. And they can help each other, too.
That the so-called "criminal mind" is arrested by Truth itself. In place of a crime, each one's true, childlike innocence, completeness, satisfaction can gain the upper hand, along with a means to escape tyranny. The Ten commandments are KNOWN to all: they are "written on our inward parts."


I hope other Lifters will pray with me today for this awakening--the never-wasness of this seeming. I want to see more clearly that the childlike thought is both safe and empowered to heal. Thanks so much, Mary Allice, for the connection of individual law-abidingness to world peace.

Thank you Mary Alice!

Thank you, Mary Alice. Loved your lecture yesterday on technology and God in Redmond, WA. Excellent! And did you notice? The sun was shining for you! :-)

How simple and wonderful. The discipline of thought the "Lift" speaks of, put in the terms of obeying the Commandments, is easy to keep in mind throughout the day. As I think about the Commandments and challenge myself to see whether or not I'm keeping them -- and as I find myself being successful -- I can be sure I'm contributing to world peace. It's a way of following Christ Jesus command "repent for the kingdome of God is at hand." Sweet.

What a lovely wake up message i got this morning. thank you Mary Alice and thank you Troy from Barbados! I have been concerned with a situation in my family and have demanded of myself not to go into the lie. Love is present to heal it.
Troy #17, your strength of purpose to serve God is a great inspiration and the lovely word picture of the two clouds is very helpful. Over all is brightness and peace even though the rain cloud must do its work first. It never touches the bright light of Love but is a part of the healing.
The two great Commandments are our protection and our way of serving God. Sally

Just a little addition to my other comment:

I think it's important to be alert to states of thought like 'horror' or 'outrage' or 'gripped by terror' because these suggest that I'm believing the picture being presented by the news or mortal mind. To heal, I know I need to be unimpressed...to keep consciousness in the Christly peace that KNOWS that animal magnetism is "a chained lion."

What is the fact that the counterfact picture is trying to hide? Probably that there's only One Mind. All-inclusive Love. May we know our oneness with the Father-Mother this day.

Thank you so much for your Lift today!!! I was reminded last week of this quote from Mary Baker Eddy when our dear C.S. Church was asked at a Wednesday Evening Testimony Meeting to pray for a peaceful solution of the North Korean missile test. "A small group of wise thinkers is better than a wilderness of dullards and stronger than the might of empires." Miscellany 162:7-9

Mary Alice, Thanks - this eminds me of this I was able to find at www.jsh-online.com (or www.spirituality.com). It was published in 1883 in "The Christian Science Journal" by Pioneer. Lori

"Our Place"

I believe that God has given to every one a place, and in this harmonious creation there is no void,--nothing left out, nothing lacking,--so we may as well try to breathe without air, or think without mind,as to think we can rotate out of the divine order of being, or take any place other than our own. Others may try to usurp us; they may try to be like us; they may move earth, and apparently heaven, to gain our position; but when God has placed us there, we are there, and naught can move us out of this our rightful inheritance.

If this were understood, many warfares would cease; envy and jealousy be exchanged for the peaceful gleams of joy and gratitude; and, mingling with the light of love, would bring to man new health and happiness,--yea, Life immortal.

We never see the stars vieing for each other's places, nor the sun and moon at variance; nor have we seen a Paul take Peter's place, or John the place of our Master, or vice versa. Each fills its own, her own, his own place, whether they have knowledge of it or not; and I, for one, would be content in the sweet consciousness that I have a place with Thee, eternal Love; and however grand or great, humble or small, I am of thy creation; therefore thine."

Thank you! As the Bible tells us "and a little child shall lead them".

How timely, Mary Alice. Thank you.

Thank you Mary Alice. Peace begins in the home which I am praying so desperately to see in my home.

A very helpful thought and a potent message for a peace equation that blesses both sides of a grievance. Thank you for this helpful Lift.

Just Beautiful!

Thank you Mary Alice and the DL team and everyone who contributes.

Thank you Mary Alice - a good reminder and a lovely thought!

Thanks for linking the 10 Commandments with Christ Jesus, and the childlike obedient thought that brings us peace...the Prince of Peace. We welcome it!

Thanks Mary Alice Rose. So much changes but those 10 commandments never change. When I was a kid, I thought they were easy. Now, not always easy. Some were a guarantee, hands down, no brainer, like remember the Sabbath day, keep it holy. But I can't say, yesterday was easy. So thanks for making me realize, I am one with the Christ, and God's law of adjustment, can get these commandments easy again. I can see why Mrs Eddy just reduced it to one word, "Love". Love should be easy, if I remember, I am not doing it God is.

God is sending my parent to honor, this week. What a great opportunity to prove this joy.

Your message certainly overturns the old "eye for an eye" and vengeful "get even" human tendency, and in such an intelligent way and for such a practical purpose: to engender peace in relationships, neighborhoods, and the world! What some would call merely "being objective" (much less, cynicism) is actually the uplifting love of the Christ influencing one, discarding reaction to perceived mistreatment by others, and instead embracing an opportunity to love more, heal more, progress more. Thank you so much!

Gorgeous Lift! Thank you! I lost my wallet today. After retracing my steps with my three school aged children before I dropped them at school, it had been turned in at the grocery store. I saw so clearly the utter and absolute goodness of mankind. I could have kissed the clerk who handed it to me. And I thank my three dear kids who are being raised to know and love God. One of them said, "mom, it will be returned". Such a sweet trust in good. I am so grateful for my understanding of the power of Duvine Love.

Thank you Mary Alice !
What is Peace ? Prehaps it is...
P r a y e r
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Thank you, Mary Alice, you've given us a project! This needs to be consciously refreshed daily. I see a connection. If we do unto others as we'd love to have them do, in our every transaction with people, including our thoughts of them, we'd have Mrs. Eddy's Lord's Prayer interpretation, "And love is reflected in love". By our thoughts and actions reflected, those who reflect them, in turn, would inspire and receive love in an ever outward circle, resulting in world peace, like the little girl said. If only one of us did this, it would take awhile, but all of us hearing this Lift ...! Comments prove, (so far in April) up to 129 took a Lift seriously. Many more didn't comment, yet are just as serious in applying the inspiration. Still to count are others who were shared the thought by listeners, yet who in turn, adopt the uplifting messages, even if they didn't hear the original from the lecturer. Multiply all known & unknown people inspired, by an equally unknown number of contacts or those on whom their thoughts rest. The figures, though unknown, are mind boggling! What an impact! Each of those caught up in reflecting, increase the recipients, who, in turn, reflect on, and on...! This is math without numbers, but with concepts, and it, the goal, is achievable much sooner than we might imagine! We can meet the Monitor's, and the little girl's goal, proving, "and a little child shall lead them." (Isa.11:6) No need to wait for all to plan to obey the 10 C's, we turn it on!

Treat zee others as I want to be treated: hmmm. 'Never thought of it like that. I'll try it & see what happens.

Merci ! N'ayant pas pratiqué l'anglais depuis des années, je ne comprends pas toujours le message oral dans sa totalité. Mais j'ai retenu qu'il s'agissait des 10 commandements et de paix. Il y a plusieurs années, j'ai beaucoup souffert du harcèlement moral de ma directrice d'école envers moi. Cela est allé si loin qu'on m'a conseillé de porter plainte. Mais je ne voulais pas qu'elle soit punie. "Aimant Dieu de tout mon être et mon prochain comme moi-même", j'ai prié pour que la paix revienne, qu'une solution soit trouvée qui conviendrait aussi bien à moi qu'à cette dame, je n'avais pas pas de pensée ni de haine ni de vengeance. Je devais "aimer même mes ennemis". Sachant que derrière les apparences 'haineuses' de cette femme, se cachait une enfant de Dieu au même titre que moi-même. J'ai mis toute ma confiance en Dieu et envoyé de l'amour intérieurement à cette dame. Alors que les délais pour les changements de poste étaient dépassés depuis des mois et qu'on ne pouvait plus changer d'école, elle fut déplacée sur une autre direction d'école, poste qui lui convenait très bien, et JE FUS SOULAGEE !! Dieu avait la solution parfaite ! Un immense MERCI pour son immense Amour qui nous sauve, nous libère, si nous sommes obéissants et restons toujours, en toutes circonstances, dans l'amour de notre prochain. Que toutes mes pensées aimantes vous bénissent tous ! Michèle de France

Thanks to everyone for their wonderful comments and I loved #53...Anne's definition of Peace....TERRIFIC!
Thanks to everyone that makes these Daily Lift's available to ALL!
And, thanks to you, Mary Alice, for reminding us about the 10 Commandments...thru a child's eye!!

Mary Alice Rose.. thank you for sharing "we must treat others the way we would want to be treated.".. So bottom line......on today' uplift for me.... Obey the 10 commandments..... Live the "golden rule" and there will be world peace!

Nice Mary Alice! Reminds me of advice of Gandhi "Be the change you want to see in the world."
Thanks.

Thanks, Mary Alice, for clarifying a great idea!

So helpful and healing. I love the thought that the 10 Rules for Happiness could read "You have no need to ...".

Dear mary,
Thank you very much for sharing it to all and a reminder too that God is peace and love itself wherein we can never be deprived off.

So refreshing, so beautiful, so simple. Thank you so much Mary Alice!

Homework for any one reading this daily lift about the Ten Commandments Write all the commandments down making space between each commandment, and writing your thoughts of what each commandment means to you, based on your prayer "Dear father in heaven, enable me to understand what these commandments mean in it's spiritual sense." One example, take Commandment #3 Thou shalt have no other Gods before me. One could say don't worship some one who is a great singer or actor, but know that talents come from God. This kind of thinking could actually help the singer or actor better himself or herself in their craft.

Thank-you, Mary Alice, for this very truthful message.