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Today, Monday, April 04, is the twenty-third day of Lent. Lent is the period of time during which we can prepare ourselves for the Easter experience. 
 

Assignment 23
 
Our greatest need is awareness. Awareness is gained by associating with something in mind, by thinking and feeling about it. To feel is to be thrilled, touched, moved; it is a sensation, an inner impression of the emotions.
 
You can know what feeling is when you think of something or someone you love dearly. For instance, you can think of home or a place where you have great joy and contentment, you can think of a time when joy and tenderness overwhelmed you, even the sound of music or a word can bring it back to you. This is Feeling.
 
We must be aware of this human self, this physical body as an instrument of God instead of a fleshy transient thing that is just here to be fed, clothed, and satisfied in the outer. An instrument is something that is instructed and moved by a greater power.
 
Our awareness has been on how we affect others and what they think instead of being true to our inner guide; this becomes living a lie, and demands a great toll of us in health and in happiness. Ideas are the seed of God. Let us then become more aware of this invisible self, this self of true choice. Let us practice listening to its needs and directions and set others free to become aware of their true self.
 
Communication and exchange of ideas are healthy and stimulating. All that every person is doing in the outer is the instruction and movement of the power we call God. But our field of action is our own life and our own inner instruction and this physical body in which we live. So let’s stay home with ourselves.
 
There is so much more than the outer indicates or has yet revealed. Let’s learn to be aware and feel this so much more!
 
You are feeling this great Presence in that inner knowing and desire that keeps pressing in the region of your heart to be released and fulfilled. You do feel the inner dream and plan for the next project of your life, which is moving toward outer completion through you. Even the very discontent that urges you forward is but Divine dissatisfaction. Be aware of every pressure as the pressing of God, that every feeling in your body is God movement. “There is None Else.” (Isaiah)
 
 
 
(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, March 16, is day number seven in the Lenten season. Lent is the period of time during which we can prepare ourselves for the Easter experience.
 
Assignment 7
 
There are many things in our world today that overwhelm us. There are situations and conditions of seemingly great evil, manifestations that we cannot understand with our human reasoning, things in our lives and relationships that haunt us with the question “why?” There are in our world today things that strike fear in our hearts and before which the strongest one trembles. Strength is to stand against the appearances of any time.
 
The Scripture reassures us that we belong to the One Power we call God and we as human beings have overcome or conquered “all such” for the power that is in us is greater than this that is in our world. (I John 4:4) It also tells us we are saved from these things “by grace.” (Eph. 2:8) If we are safe from the “things” of the world, we should find out how and be safe!
 
How do we get this grace? How do we use it? What is it? Grace means “beloved, dear.” So we must have the power because we are beloved, and dear, belonging to the One power that dwells in us.
 
Surely Jesus believed He was beloved and dear to the power within Him that He affectionately called “Father.” He also called this Power, “Our Father.” Jesus had power in the invisible far beyond modern man’s greatest achievement. We of this day and age are awed by the invisible realm of feeling and being and here in the invisible realm lies All Power!
 
In the realm of ourselves we have not found our authority. Our minds, bodies and emotions are an enigma to us. We live in the outer. We can only enter into our true being with the realization of feeling. Feeling is the Power.
 
You have been aware of your outer self for years. Have you thought of your body as feeling? Pinch your arm and you realize your body is feeling. Body and soul are merely two aspects of feeling. The body is not one substance and soul another, they are both our feelings.
 
Your response to everything in life is feeling. There is only feeling. We react to sight, hearing, touch, taste, or breath with feeling. Movement is feeling. Rest is feeling. Grace is feeling that you are beloved and dear to the power within. How do you feel?
 
 
(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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