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We’re getting some new windows on one side of our house next week, and it got me to thinking about how our soul could sometimes do with new windows. It is said that your eyes are the windows of your soul; that means they’re not only for others to look into to catch a glimpse of your soul, but they are the windows through which your soul looks outward. So, ask yourself what you see when you look at your life, your world and others in it.

I am reminded of the scriptural passage in Isaiah 54:2, God speaking, “Enlarge the place of your tent, and let the curtains of your habitations be stretched out; hold not back, lengthen your cords and strengthen your stakes.” It seems to me that we often need new windows to look through, to “let the curtains of our habitations (where we habitually dwell) be stretched out,” to see a larger vision for ourselves and for others. We need to grow in conscious awareness of God’s ever-present reality, in which we “live and move and have our being.”

As God said to Abraham (Gen. 13:14-15, 17) “Lift up your eyes, and look from the place where you are, northward and southward and eastward and westward; for all the land which you see I will give to you . . . Arise, walk through the length and breadth of the land, for I will give it to you.” We are talking of awareness, of being aware of the benevolence of God active in your life right now and the gifts that are continuously given. This is the nature of God; it is the lovingness of God presence omnipresent, giving of itself in, through and as you. As it says in the scriptures, “We love because God first loved us.”

I well remember the words of James Dillet Freeman that made a distinct impression upon me when he spoke at the Unity church I attended in 1969, which at that time was located in Arlington Heights, Illinois. He said, “Look with the eyes of love.” I have found that when we really do that we align ourselves with our true nature, and we see rightly.

In answering the question, “Which is the great commandment in the law?” a question which was meant to test him, Jesus, referring back to the biblical books of Leviticus and Deuteronomy, responded “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind. This is the great and first commandment. And the second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself. On these two commandments depend all the law and the prophets.”

When Jesus said, “Love your neighbor as yourself,” he is giving us an imperative, to enable us to dwell in the warmth of our own Divine support. For to live is to be in relationship. If we look with the eyes of love at the other person, we will see that his life is as it is because of the way he is seeing life. We will be looking through a new window and making an attempt to stand with him or her and to see as he or she sees. One of the best ways to try to understand someone is to see the good in him or her. In many places in the scriptures it implies that this is the way of the saints, those who love God in themselves and in others.

All true saints have one characteristic: their ability to relate to all people, to walk and talk with all persons, to identify alike with the leper and the criminal, the disfigured and the stupid, the thief and the alien, the coward and the heretic, with the beast of the field, the bird of the air, and the fish of the sea. Somehow these saints comprehend the shared existence of creation.

A saint is one who is fulfilling the process; a saint is what one is intended to be. Jesus demonstrated the potential in all persons; he showed what a person will be if he or she releases his or her imprisoned splendor. This is what all religions are about, despite doctrinal differences: the proper way to be a spiritually mature person. It is the first and foremost lesson of life. The more creatures unlike yourself you can identify with, the more fully do you reveal what you can be.

Our problem is that we do not know or love ourselves fully enough to be able to truly know and love others. We can identify with the similar, and not with the dissimilar. This is why we tend to organize in groups or categories of people with common traits or needs or backgrounds.

By nature we are generous and loving, but we often frustrate and restrict our impulses in very subtle ways. We must challenge ourselves to change the tendency of simply looking at people, and try to look with them through the same window, which means that we must first accept the fact of their existence and thus the significance of their lives and our shared experience. In this way we are able to empathize and walk in their shoes for a while, as we together look through what may be for us a whole new window.

Remember, God is Blessing You Right Now!

Rev. Alan A. Rowbotham

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Today, Sunday, April 24, is Easter Sunday. During the forty days of Lent we have been preparing ourselves for this resurrection day, this Easter experience of our own lives.
 
 
Here is the message for Easter Sunday:
 
Resurrection is the rising of man out of the human thoughts, beliefs and superstitions in which he is submerged. This is the waste of the ages. Instead of discarding this waste in experiencing Truth, man has become enmeshed, mind, body and soul in this waste which results in an outer experience he calls death. Death is the cessation of the activity of breath and life.
 
All breath and life proceed out of the consciousness of life. The awareness of the functions of life which are faith, love, will, strength, imagination, wisdom, the power to listen and understand and the ability to let the love of God move unhampered through the experiences, is the true purpose of every human form.
 
Life is consciousness! Death is the lack of consciousness. Man becomes smothered and lifeless in the machinations of his own mind and the misdirection of his feeling nature. The result is inertia. It is the destination of power to move itself. Life is activity! Death is the result in life of inherent or habitual indisposition to activity.
 
This activity is caused by the forgotten use of the powers of life, such as loving, willingness and ability to serve with joy, freedom and with original power and authority. Death is a forgetfulness of life which results in heaviness and a dreading of the faculties of life. It is the lethal, fatal condition of complete unconsciousness.
 
The overcoming of such a condition is the resurrection. There is a power in man which if he knows and uses, he will never taste death. Man himself makes the cession by yielding his true self, by accepting something less than all truth.
 
Every time we are aware consciously of this indwelling power within, our mind is resurrected. There indwells man one great Truth, that man himself is not personality or even individuality; man is the one unlimited, all knowing, eternal all powerful essence of life we call God. When man knows in mind, body and soul who and what he is, there will be no death.
 
Resurrection is a moment by moment awareness, a bringing to view again that which was forgotten or lost. It is to rise again to an original concept of life and includes the renewal of the body!
 
 
(This series of Lenten messages was first developed by Unity minister Dr. Sue Sikking, founder of Unity-by-the-Sea, Santa Monica, California, author of God Always Says Yes and Seed of the New Age.)
 
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Rev. Alan A. Rowbotham
 
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Today, Saturday, April 23, is the fortieth day of the Lent. Lent is the period of time during which we can prepare ourselves for the Easter experience. 
 

Assignment 40
 
Relaxing is the perfect form for receiving. An old and familiar phrase, “easy does it,” means the same thing as “let go and let God!” They both have the same effect. To be a happy-go-lucky soul is to win the world. To be tight, tense, fretful and anxious, is to close the door of your good.
 
To receive the Divine activity in our lives, to allow our perfect pattern to come forth, there must be a period of rest, complete detachment and non-resistance. Man’s striving, his laboring, his struggling is a detriment to his release of the real power within. To “be still and know” (resting in the Lord) is man’s most difficult assignment. Nevertheless, it is the only way of accomplishment.
 
To contend, contest, to vie, to compete and battle is a hindrance to man’s true development. It has built a world that is a juggernaut and he himself is crushed by its wheels. Wealth, fame, fortune, possessions momentarily takes their toll, as does poverty, lack and loneliness rob us daily.
 
Striving from one to the other is man’s physical destroyer. To find an inner peace and inner calm in the center of the storm is man’s only hope; continual progress is neither possible nor desirable. We must have times of renewal for consolidating our gains and for gathering new strength. If we do not take them, they are pushed upon us by the wise and unrelenting law of life.
 
There must be a resting in God. This is where we fail, we are afraid of the wait and of the inactivity. We all run in such high speed we miss the true power. We need to let our soul catch up with our bodies. Man is afraid of a rest period, but all of nature is dormant at sometime, that it may be refilled. Man runs dry because he will not rest in the Law.
 
Some of the greatest development is achieved in a rest period; many times it is a forced experience. No one has ever gone down in any kind of experience without coming up a new being. We often must be forced out of the race of striving to find the real power through which all things are accomplished. “Our remedies in ourselves do lie, which we ascribe to heaven,” Shakespeare said. Nothing is truly ours until we use it and prove it. Do your part, rest in the law and see what God will do. The power that raised Jesus Christ from the tomb is in you today!
 
 
(This series of Lenten messages was first developed by Unity minister Dr. Sue Sikking, founder of Unity-by-the-Sea, Santa Monica, California, author of God Always Says Yes and Seed of the New Age.)
 
 
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Rev. Alan A. Rowbotham
 
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Today, Wednesday, April 20, is the thirty-seventh day of Lent. Lent is the period of time during which we can prepare ourselves for the Easter experience.
 
 
Assignment 37
 
Sometimes we feel so alone. There may be many people around us but none to whom we can turn and feel release and companionship. It may take much of a lifetime to find such a one. We live with many we love and honor without finding this precious relationship.
 
Strange as it may be the only completely satisfying companionship in the outer comes only when we have made an inner adjustment in regard to the person. Outer companionships do not “wear well” and lead to loss or maladjustment unless we have made our own inner agreement.
 
First we must be able to commune with an inner wisdom, knowledge and understanding. This has been called “native intelligence.” Biblically it is called “the inner voice,” truthfully it is God. All activity in and through us must be common to our thinking mind, our feeling nature and extend to every cell of the physical body. These three must be connected and must participate in every moment of life if we are to be a whole being. We cannot function fully as a partial God.
 
We usually omit one or the other. If we have accepted mind and feeling, we believe the body unfit for spiritual experiences. If we have accepted mind and spirit we exclude the body. In true communion the man and God interchange, mingle and move into true expression. It has been difficult for man to understand God as part of his physical self.
 
The Truth of God’s presence in man as life and intelligence has been something that man could not “bear to hear.” He did not understand it as a “common” condition or relationship. The very ideas of our mind flow from the fountainhead of God. We are to appropriate, accept, and integrate this Truth into our whole being. We must eat and drink, let our whole being absorb all Truth.
 
The relationship of man and God is common to all. To be aware and let it become alive in us is Communion. The consciousness of God’s Presence with you becomes the bread of heaven. Activity and use becomes the wine of life. Man’s relationship to life and to others is the crux of his fulfillment.
 
Man’s greatest and deepest relationship is his kinship with himself. To have true relationship with yourself is to companion with God! Bread is the Truth of your Oneness, wine is the acting, living, and being. Eat and Drink!
 
 
(This series of Lenten messages was first developed by Unity minister Dr. Sue Sikking, founder of Unity-by-the-Sea, Santa Monica, California, author of God Always Says Yes and Seed of the New Age.)
 
 
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Rev. Alan A. Rowbotham
 
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Today, Tuesday, April 19, is the thirty-sixth day of Lent. Lent is the period of time during which we can prepare ourselves for the Easter experience.
 
 
Assignment 36
 
In you today is a Holy Fire. This fire can burn up all the dross, all the waste matter of your fear thoughts and your beliefs in separation. All that worries you and robs you and causes you untold emptiness and suffering can be consumed by this inner fire. The Scriptures tell, “I have cast a fire upon the world and see, I guard it until the world is afire.” (Thomas) Man has this burning within him, and Isaiah says, “It shall burn and devour his thorns and his briers in one day.” (10:17)
 
The fire is the living, believing, and loving in the mind and heart of man. Tongues of fire are the flashes of illumination and the light of intuition that even now burns in our hearts. The Spiritual fire in us never goes out, it only smolders. Spiritual fire destroys all evil and error. It is direct from “that which is within you that is greater than all that is in the world.” The Kingdom is within you.
 
If you know yourself then you will be known and you will know you are a son of the living God and One with all Power. Never fear to cast out all in the Spiritual Fire, what is cast in will either be destroyed because it is nothing or will come forth pure gold.
 
Give all that you are and all that you can hope to be to the Fire of God, that you may know the real, that can stand the fire, or the unreal that is consumed by it. We are in the potter’s hands and we are fired that we may be beautiful and true and withstand all outer pressure!
 
The flames are Truth in action; the fire is in the supreme knowing that burns in the wisdom of the heart. That which is good and true can never be destroyed – but only purified. “Every man’s work shall be made manifest, for the day shall declare it, it shall be revealed by fire and the fire shall prove it – man himself shall be saved; yet so as by fire! (I Cor. 3:13-14)
 
We may walk through burning forests of life but Spirit never ceases its life-giving purifying glow. In it all error, sickness, poverty, discord or death or anything else that separates us from Truth is burned up in consciousness and the purified being I am and you are manifests this fire as eternal life. “Our God is a consuming fire” – all will be finished in each of us. We shall be fully aware of our Oneness with our Indwelling Spirit. This is the reconciliation of God and man and brings us to the overcoming of the belief in death!
 
 
(This series of Lenten messages was first developed by Unity minister Dr. Sue Sikking, founder of Unity-by-the-Sea, Santa Monica, California, author of God Always Says Yes and Seed of the New Age.)
 
 
God is Blessing You, Right Now!
 
Rev. Alan A. Rowbotham
 
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Today, Sunday, April 17, is the sixth Sunday in Lent and is known as PALM SUNDAY. Lent is the period of time during which we can prepare ourselves for the Easter experience.
 
Here is the message for the sixth Sunday in Lent:
 
 
Palm Sunday
 
Jerusalem is a symbol of love and peace. To go to Jerusalem is to arrive at an inner peace in our minds and bodies so that we may love and live as we were intended to love and live. Jerusalem is a state that follows many prayers, many realizations of spiritual power, many inner struggles, seeming failures, hopelessness – but only that we may turn from the outer self and find our own true God-self.
 
When God takes charge of the body through the action of the mind and heart, that release of all to the care and keeping of the unseen Power, we come into a new order of things. Our vitality is no longer wasted in fear, hate, turmoil, confusion, and war.
 
The people on that day, sang hosannas, spread their garments and branches of trees that Jesus might ride upon them. Yet in a few hours they would be crying, “Crucify Him, crucify Him.” How fickle is the outer world – and we give so much to it . . . There is a time when the outer self must be completely integrated in the God Presence within – “Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul and with all thy mind.” This is the great and first commandment.
 
When this integration of man and God and God and man takes place, all things are possible – even the overcoming of the last enemy, death! We are quite sure such complete integration does not mean us, since we feel we are mere human beings.
 
Yet we cannot comprehend what could happen to us or what will happen to us. “Eye hath not seen nor ear heard, neither hath entered into the heart of man the things which God hath prepared for them that love Him.” (I Cor. 2:9)
 
There is only one thing sure in the heart of man and that is, he must go on toward his good in any way he knows or feels with the assurance that at the end he will find there is only God, only Good, only Life, and always he has been in the care and keeping of the Eternal; and even before he started, his destiny was finished – for he is One with all power – God.
 
 
(This series of Lenten messages was first developed by Unity minister Dr. Sue Sikking, founder of Unity-by-the-Sea, Santa Monica, California, author of God Always Says Yes and Seed of the New Age.)
 
 
God is Blessing You, Right Now!
 
Rev. Alan A. Rowbotham
 
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Today, Wednesday, April 13, is the thirty-first day of Lent. Lent is the period of time during which we can prepare ourselves for the Easter experience.
 
 
Assignment 31
 
There is no need of lack of any kind. The law of God does not take into consideration a deficiency of any kind. There is no normal natural void. There no space in God’s world that contains nothing. Nature abhors a vacuum. There is no true emptiness. The only seeming empty place is in man’s conscious mind when he is unaware of is fullness. We can only be separated from the abundance of God by the width of a thought in our mind.
 
Man has lived so long with a mixed consciousness; it is what the Scriptures call double-minded. “A double-minded man is unstable in all his ways.” (James 1:8) We have been so filled with double-mindedness that we no longer know what is true and what is untrue. We have named things good and evil, clean and unclean, virtue and vice, until we are saturated in nothingness. We are bored with the things we name good and fearful of the things we call evil – when all the time there is only Spiritual Substance. 
 
Spiritual Substance is the essence of our bodies. It flows through our minds like wine. It is the unchangeable, intrinsic, whole, complete, absolute, essential, and indispensable something that exists; and because of it all that exists came to be. Out of Spiritual Substance as the activity of mind comes all material good, first as ideas and then as all things needful, such as wealth and abundance in the outer.
 
In this field active believing is the magic wand. All outer good stems from the inner push we call desire. Desire means “from the Father.” Every thought and word brings forth a reaction in Spiritual Substance.
 
Out of Spiritual Substance comes the essence that feeds our bodies. It is not the meat and bread that builds the body but the invisible essence. It is not the heat-producing calories or the energy-producing vitamin that is vital to life. It is the invisible Spiritual Substance.
 
Spiritual Substance is love in action, and without love no human being is fully alive. Its absence causes the body to lose its resiliency and the flesh to dry up. Old age is love forgotten. None need be old! Without love, children wilt and die. Spiritual Substance invisible lies back of all matter and form. Spiritual Substance cannot suffer loss, it can never be depleted. It is God! “I have meat you know not of.” (Jesus)
 
 
(This series of Lenten messages was first developed by Unity minister Dr. Sue Sikking, founder of Unity-by-the-Sea, Santa Monica, California, author of God Always Says Yes and Seed of the New Age.)
 
 
God is Blessing You, Right Now!
 
Rev. Alan A. Rowbotham
 
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Today, Tuesday, April 12, is the thirtieth day of Lent. Lent is the period of time during which we can prepare ourselves for the Easter experience.
 
 
Assignment 30
 
We have a unique relationship with other human beings, not only with those who are near and dear to us but with all humanity. Each living soul is complete in itself, one with an inner pattern that is the sum total of all that is to be accomplished in life. This pattern is never duplicated and is unlike any other expression on earth.
 
This means you cannot direct, force or influence others to leave their pattern for yours or what you think is right for them. This is very harmful. The world is full of misfits and wanderers in life, seeking surcease from the unbearable emptiness of their inner pattern which is the God direction or the very rudder of the ship of life.
 
Interference with another’s pattern comes in the field of judgment, and we are told not to judge under any circumstances. Judgment is such an insidious thing, we are sometimes of the opinion we are helping and directing another. A great deal of judgment is done under the guise of love and helpfulness.
 
All judgment is presumptive and unfair because we do not have access to the heart and mind of another. The law is exact, your way or belief is for you alone and never good judgment for another. You have only one measure, what you can or would do! What another is doing has nothing whatsoever to do with you.
 
You may cry out that they are doing it to you or that it affects you, but it is because you have involved yourself where you do not belong. This is why we are taught to pray “forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us.” The path of detachment may seem a hard path, but in truth it is the path of freedom. Freedom of the soul is the salvation of the individual. Sometimes our soul cries out to be free from the judgment and dictates of others.
 
There is only law giver and director, and that one is within every soul. The greatest gift you can give to another is to direct them to their own inner voice. This voice is not the opinion or direction of the world, which so often leads us astray. We must listen to our own guidance that we may know how to make the necessary change in our own life.
 
You have your own assignment, You! If Judgment is turned outward like a searchlight, one’s own soul and mind is shrouded in darkness. Do not judge what happens to you or to another, just wait, for God is always back of, in, and through all of our doings.
 
 
(This series of Lenten messages was first developed by Unity minister Dr. Sue Sikking, founder of Unity-by-the-Sea, Santa Monica, California, author of God Always Says Yes and Seed of the New Age.)
 
 
God is Blessing You, Right Now!
 
Rev. Alan A. Rowbotham
 
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Today, Monday, April 11, is the twenty-ninth day of Lent. Lent is the period of time during which we can prepare ourselves for the Easter experience.
 
 
Assignment 29
 
We must understand this world in which we live. We must know it has its right place in the scheme of life. We must not become “spiritually bound.” To be “spiritually bound” is to be off balance spiritually, to go overboard in that direction. We must remember we are physical, mental, and spiritual beings and we must keep our balance in all three. To be truly spiritual is to live in this threefold awareness.
 
There is not a world to overcome if you mean by overcoming, “to fight.” There is a rare old meaning to the word overcome, it means to “spread and flow over.” We must let the spirit of us; the love of us spread and flow over the mind and body of us until we are a perfectly integrated being. This is balance and this is the truth of the whole person. We must remember in trying times, we are being tried but only that we may grow strong and true. To overcome is to keep one’s peace. To keep one’s peace is to be patient.
 
Much of moving through worldly experiences depends on the growing influence of patience in our lives. Patience is akin to love. Patience is the art of waiting, the ability to stand still undisturbed because we are aware of “so much more” than the situation at hand or the act of waiting. Patience is a quiet trust that takes command of the situation. Patience is non-resistance and non-resistance is the greatest power on earth. To “resist not” is man’s highest expression of being. It is a constant alertness and reassurance, while we are waiting for the real to come through.
 
We think of patience as long suffering, and endurance, and we come to a state of mind where we give up and feel the uselessness of going on. The word “suffer” means to “allow” and when we allow anything we permit or approve it. The truest meaning of suffering is to “bear” and to bear is to bring forth.
 
Patience is the ability to let the good of God come forth through us. We are to allow it and to bring forth or complete it; because there is but one power and that power is always working for our highest good. Jesus said, “If patience possess you, you shall win your soul” (Luke 21:19) and “Bring forth fruit with patience.” (Luke 8:15)
 
 
(This series of Lenten messages was first developed by Unity minister Dr. Sue Sikking, founder of Unity-by-the-Sea, Santa Monica, California, author of God Always Says Yes and Seed of the New Age.)
 
 
God is Blessing You, Right Now!
 
Rev. Alan A. Rowbotham
 
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Today, Tuesday, April 05, is the twenty-fourth day of Lent. Lent is the period of time during which we can prepare ourselves for the Easter experience.
 
 
Assignment 24
 
Let us remember that it is through our bodies, through this human self, that we truly feel and know God. We feel this Life Presence as our breath, as the beat of our heart, as the faith that moves us with great power to all fulfillment. We go forward, fired with enthusiasm and interest, moved by the buoyancy and resilience of Spirit willing us forward.
 
We are warm and content by an inner flame of love that lifts the shade from the eyes of the soul and lets it glimpse in the loved one the perfection of God. This is why love has been called blind. Love does not see faults or shortcomings. It is not based on beauty of form. Love sees only the perfection of the within, which glows for the one who loves. Love is God’s healing power in the body of man.
 
Love is the greatest power moving through the body. It is the revelation of the perfection of God in man, which is seen clearly through the eyes of love. It is the power that carries man through the darkest night, the longest day or his supreme challenge. It is love of something that gives him all power. It may be love of country, or all humankind, for honor, for family or for one alone. It may be love of an idea, or of self – for we must love self if we are to truly love God!
 
Love is proof supreme of our Oneness with the Power of the Universe, for with love there is no separation! Not time or space or failure or misunderstanding can dim the strength and power of love. Love can release all outer achievement or gain, for love lives on – Love is God! Lack of health is separation.
 
Let us relax and remember and feel love, love of today or yesterday, love that streams through every cell of the body with a clear and crystal light that renews and recreates us. Feel the greatest love that has ever touched your mind and heart, for if it has ever touched you, it is still with you. No matter if the outer mind would convince you that some love is not good. All love is good and given directly from God. We may not direct love well or even share it at all because of our ignorance and fear, but Love is God in Action! Love is life – I feel love for something or someone with my whole being – And I feel God!
 
 
(This series of Lenten messages was first developed by Unity minister Dr. Sue Sikking, founder of Unity-by-the-Sea, Santa Monica, California, author of God Always Says Yes and Seed of the New Age.)
 
 
God is Blessing You, Right Now!
 
Rev. Alan A. Rowbotham
 
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