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Today, Wednesday, April 6, is the twenty-fifth day of Lent. Lent is the period of time during which we can prepare ourselves for the Easter experience.
 

Assignment 25
 
Peace is a word that is passed back and forth on the tongue of man without meaning. To some people peace means the end of war, but peace is much more than this. Peace is not an end attained on command, not the result of any outer decree.
 
Peace is an individual responsibility and an individual opportunity. Peace without is impossible unless we have peace within. This is true with the individual or with nations. The power of thought and feeling combined is the power of the world. Peace is not outer demeanor, not a face turned to the world. Peace is a state of abiding, a living in an awareness that never wearies, questions, never strains for results.
 
Peace is belief in a power that never wavers. Peace must be great thought waves set in action by deep thinkers. Peace is the understanding of spiritual realities. It is the result of believing without a doubt in your heart that all that concerns you is in the safe keeping of the power that created you and also sustains you.
 
We must become like the little child, playing on the deck of a ship alone. A passenger questioned him, “Aren’t you afraid to be playing out here?” The child answered, “No, I’m not afraid, my father is captain of this ship.” Just such a simple attitude of thinking and feeling could be the answer to this complicated world of ours.
 
Peace can be brought forth by education to the young and old alike. Education must be in trust and honor among human beings. Trustworthiness is a rare commodity in our modern world; perhaps it can be found among a chosen few in close relationships but not among people as a whole. The only reason this condition of separateness exists is because we do not know each other.
 
If we could become aware that we are all One in an invisible way, beyond ordinary human conception, then we would find in ourselves a counterpart of every other human being.
 
Real peace is finding the counterpart of every person within your own self. Peace in its fullest would be to be unable to do anything against another living soul without cognizance of our own relationship and involvement. Peace is an inside job; it is never achieved by changing others or the world!
 
 
(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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