Today, Wednesday, March 30, is the nineteenth day of Lent. Lent is the period of time during which we can prepare ourselves for the Easter experience.
 
 
Assignment 19
 
Above all things man loves life. To miss life is to allow the days to go by without joy and fulfillment. To live in a void, to be empty, to have days that contains nothing, is to completely miss life.
 
You may be busy working or moving from place to place, but if your heart is not in it, if there is no thrill, if you are not moved with a sense of anticipation, a sense of taking life and using it, you are wasting your life-blood.
 
Every moment of living should be intuitive preconception, filled with expectation and foretaste of something wonderful beyond the imagination. The gift of life to man is the God Power itself.
 
Life should be “spilled.” To spill is to let it overflow. Life must overflow to be shared. Life is never skimpy or meager. We hoard life within and it spoils. Unused good is detrimental whether it is joy, happiness, love, peace, or freedom. Unused good in material things is loss also. Woolen clothes hung away, blankets folded, pearls unworn all lose what life gives to them, vitality and luster. Everything is to be used by life.
 
Man loses his life moment by moment, as he fails to live fully, joyously. If man does not “Live” it, it is lost. He will find that the very organs of the body become atrophied, wasted because we refuse to enjoy the experience of life.
 
Life is a vitality, and a joy of living is essential to the continuance of life; this why laughter is the best medicine, why joy is connected with expectation of good. Joy is the lubricant of the body, keeping it supple, soft in texture, making every joint flexible. Joy is the soul set free from the bondage of persons, conditions and our own false beliefs.
 
Joy nearly always comes as twins. It is sharing. Life is to emerge from the mists and shadows of the beliefs of the senses, to learn not to “judge after the flesh.” To become aware of God within is to be set free from human concepts. To become aware of true and powerful life is to be “not of this world.” Let us enter into life and make it our own. Life is an undreamed of privilege.
 
 
(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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