SEASON OF LENT (31st Day)

31st Day of Lent

Wednesday, March 28, 2012

I am committed to being true to God's Kingdom within me.

     Jesus knew what the Psalmist had implied when he said, "Be still, and know that I am God." (Psalm 46:10). Now he knew himself to be an expression of God, or the activity of God-life and intelligence pressing itself into visiblity. Now he knew that the Kingdom of God, the wealth of the Universe, was within the depth-potential within him.

     We don't know how this great breakthrough was actually accomplished in Jesus, how long the process took, or when He achieved self-mastery. But we know when He made His appearance at the Jordan River to be baptized by John. He was a committted and polished teacher with the amazing message that "The Kingdome of God is within you."

Matthew 3:16  And when Jesus had been baptized, just as he came up from the water, suddenly the heavens were opened to him and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and alighting on him.

*** Reprinted from Unity's booklet   Lent 2012  Release Your Inner Splendor

POEM (What More Can you Ask?)

What More Can You Ask?

God's love endures forever---

What a wonderful thing to know

When the tides of life run against you

and your spirit is downcast and low ...

God's kindness is ever around you,

Always ready to freely impart

Strength to your faltering spirit,

Cheer to your lonely heart ...

God's presence is ever beside you,

As near as the reach of your hand,

You have but to tell Him your troubles,

There is nothing He won't understand ...

And knowing God's love is unfailing,

And His mercy unending and great,

You have but to trust in His promise ---

God comes not too soon or tooo late ...

So wait with a heart that is patient

For the goodness of God to prevail ---

For never do prayers go unanswered,

And His mercy and love never fail.

--- Helen Steiner Rice ---

SEASON OF LENT (30th Day)

 

30th Day of Lent

Tuesday, March 27, 2012

I surrender to Spirit what no longer serves my greater purpose.

     Socrates once said that the unexamined life is not worth living. Jesus is constantly challenging us to take a good look at ourselves in the context of the Divine potential within us. We must recognize that the basic problem in life is the frustration of our own potentiality. When we are faced with inharmony in relationships, it is not so much a problem between ourselves and another who seems to be fighting us, as it is a break in our own circuit of good from the Father within.

     Life is consciousness. The problems we face indicate that our wires are down. We need to repair the break within ourselves. The only existence an error-condition has, as far as we are concerned, is that which we give it in our own thinking. Withdraw the thought about it and it fades into nothingness. What matters to us, in reality, is not people or things or conditions in themselves, but the thoughts and feelings we harbor concerning them. it is not the conduct of others but our reaction to it that makes or mars our life experience.

Proverbs 8:14   I have good advice and sound wisdom; I have insight , I have strength.

*** Reprinted from Unity's booklet   Lent 2012  Release your Inner Splendor

POEM (My Garden of Prayer)

     Because it's springtime and so many are preparing to start thier gardens I felt this is an appropriate poem. Think of it while you are out gardening or maybe as you pass by someone else's garden.

Bless and be blessed! ~One Love~ 

My Garden of Prayer

                                   My garden beautifies my yard

                                         and adds fragrance to the air ...

                                   But it is also my Cathedral

                                         and my quiet place of prayer ...

                                   So little do we realize

                                         that the glory and the power

                                   Of He who made the universe

                                         lies hidden in a flower.

                                                        --- Helen Steiner Rice ---

HUMOR FOR HAPPINESS (A Little Boys Prayer)

A Little Boys Prayer

      When a four-year old was asked to recite a prayer the little boy bowed his head and said, "And forgive us our trash baskets as we forgive those who put trash in our baskets."

SEASON OF LENT (29th Day)

29th Day of Lent

Monday, March 26, 2012

I am a limitless child of God.

     In human consciousness, human beings are involved in all sorts of limitations: sin, disease, privation. And in consciousness, all the things that Jesus did were absolutely miraculous! Just imagine turning water into wine, feeding five thousand hungry people with a few loaves and fish, healing people lame and blind since birth. Impossible! Or at least miraculous and beyond duplication. Yet Jesus dealt continuously with our higher nature. He healed and helped and transformed people by the power of their own higher nature and not by any special power of His own.

     Jesus knew that everyone had within, the Divine level of being and that in the Divinity of each human being is the limitless potential of healing. It is because of the Divine potential within you that it can be said, regardless of any medical prognosis, "You can be healed."

Matthew 9:22   Jesus turned, and seeing her he said, "Take heart, daughter; your faith has made you well."  And instantly the woman was made well. 

*** Reprinted from Unity's booklet   Lent 2012   Release Your Inner Splendor

SEASON OF LENT (5th Sunday)

5th Sunday

March 25, 2012

I accept and express my divinity.

     We must begin to see Jesus as the great discoverer of our innate Divinity, the Supreme Revealer of the truth about us, the pioneer  and Way Shower in the quest for self-realization and self-unfoldment. We must see Him turning to His fellow beings, including you and me, and saying, "Come and sit with Me for a while and let Me help you to see as I see, to feel the depth of the Spirit in you as I have felt it within Me. Let Me show you the way, the high road to your own Mt. Olympus.

     Let Me lead you into the wonderful world of the Christ within you, where you will know, and know that you know, that you are a limitless expression of the Infinite. and I can assure you that when you realize the Truth as I have realized it, you will be able to do all the things I have done and even greater things will you do."

Matthew 5:48   Be perfect, therefore, as your heavenly Father is perfect.

*** Reprinted from Unity's booklet    Lent 2012   Release Your Inner Splendor