Dear Spiritual Family,
How is your Lenten Season coming along? Do you feel you’ve made progress in letting go of some things, thoughts, etc., to lighten your life? You may have made great strides. You may have completely forgotten about this “season.”
Wherever you are on this “Lenten spectrum,” how about a healthy dose of self-love for you? For progress made or not, an act of love toward ourselves places us in an ideal space to receive the insights and the inspiration that Easter offers. One week from today, Holy Week begins and we will be offering in our video message for Palm Sunday, April 13, a “journey” through the week that we hope you will find helpful.
Of course, central to Easter is Jesus Christ, our Wayshower. In essence, he is offering, through his loving example, to show us Who we are and to reassure us of our Immortality. Ernest Holmes, the founder of the Science of Mind philosophy and movement wrote, “Immortality is not something we purchase. It is not a bargain we make with the Almighty. It is the gift of Heaven. It is inherent in our divine nature. When the disciples asked Jesus what is God’s relationship to the dead, he answered as we should expect one to answer who had already plunged beneath the material surface of things and discovered their spiritual cause. He said, ‘He is not a God of the dead but of the living: for all live unto Him.’ God is Life, and that which is Life cannot produce death.”
It can safely be said that many still hold the belief that death is real, but of course, not Dr. Holmes or our Unity Co-founder, Mrytle Fillmore who wrote: “The day will come when all adverse states of mind will give way to the light of truth. If you have the poise to keep still when unbelief is talking, the day will come when you will be entrusted by the Father with speaking or doing that which will reveal Jesus Christ indwelling. Pray for understanding for yourself. Get all your faculties and powers awake and working in perfect harmony with the Christ pattern.”
What better time than this Eastertide to follow her sage guidance to quicken our deeper understanding of the Truths that set us free? And what better time to draw ever closer to the Great Example Who loves us so unconditionally?
We love you,
Rev. Steve and Mary