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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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Rev. Alan A. Rowbotham, a Unity minister for over thirty-nine years, invites you to subscribe to his free inspirational newsletter, Spiritual Solutions, at www.spiritualsolutionsblog.com
 
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