January 2026 Daily Guides by Rev. Dr. Margaret Stortz
The Daily Guides have always been a beloved section of this publication. Each month, new spiritual guidance is imparted by members of the Centers for Spiritual Living communities. It’s lifelong insight you can’t find anywhere but Guide for Spiritual Living: Science of Mind magazine.
Each day brings two quotes from various wisdom teachers, a personal guide from the author’s life and a powerful affirmation. This daily inspiration has impacted generations of readers.
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Spiritual Evolution
Affirmation: The Divine Good fulfills me — always has, always will — and I access it every day. I trust myself as a spiritual being to answer to guidance, and I know what is mine to do.
One thing about trust: It can be freely given only once. If trust is broken for any reason, its return must be earned, and then such return will be fragile for quite a while, if not forever. Trust is precious, matchless and soul touching. Without the capacity for trust, we would continually be tossed about by the winds of fate. It is the bond that is formed between people, institutions and governments that depend on one another to be who they say they are and do what they say they will do.
Looking at trust from this perspective, we can see that it is a truly sacred quality — God-like in many ways — the foundation for all that holds honor, truthfulness, stability, love and peace. We all know this, and we know trust as a link between ourselves and the rest of the world. If we look within ourselves we can ask: Can I be trusted? Is my word my bond? Is my face before the world the same from day to day, or is my smile shadowed to deceive? Can I be counted on to deliver?
As spiritual beings living in the world today, we should ask these questions of ourselves with regularity so that our inner visions do not become cloudy. The world needs us; it needs our divinely guided lives to bring light into our atmospheres. Let us freely know that we can be trusted.
Quotes
What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
We have the Mind of Christ in such degree as we trust implicitly in the Universe.
— Ernest Holmes, “The Science of Mind”
