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Today, Thursday, March 17, is day number eight in the Lenten season. Lent is the period of time during which we can prepare ourselves for the Easter experience.
 

Assignment 8
 
It may come to your mind to inquire about the present world crisis. What are we doing about it? There has always been a world crisis because man believes in the power of the outer manifestation. Man believes solely in the evidence of the senses, especially of the sight and of what he can understand and what is apparent.
 
“Apparent,” Webster’s dictionary says, is “appearing as actual to the eye or mind distinguished from, but not necessarily opposed to the actual, true or real; it is the seeming.” We are instructed in the Scripture, “Look not to appearances, judge righteous judgment.”
 
We have worked in the outer realm of appearances and been unaware of the controlling Power. We have not even been aware of our own involvement. We are co-creators with God but we might say, “without portfolio,” for we are without the at-one-ness. We are using the mighty Power without understanding.
 
The great commandment is, “Find wisdom, get understanding: Wisdom is the principal thing, therefore get wisdom.” (Proverbs 4:5 and 7) And we are further told, “The wisdom of the world is foolishness to God. Therefore let no man glory in men.” (I Corinthians 3:19)
 
We believe that we must find the cause of all “world crises” since the beginning of time! We find this answer: In man’s ignorance of God, in his unawareness of his true self, he has not found wisdom.
 
Wisdom is in his inner parts. It is a knowing. It is an inner impression that cannot be shaken. Perhaps conscience, in its true meaning which is “inmost thought or sense?” is our greatest wisdom. But man has reasoned himself out of conscience and inner wisdom and run the gamut of the intellect and theory and made a world in which he himself can no longer live with respect and honor. Man is lost in his own machinations.
 
Jeremiah 2:13 states it clearly: “My people have committed two evils, they have forsaken the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.” We must know the Truth of our real Source and return by daily acceptance to this true self. We must return to the “Fountain of Living Waters.”
 
(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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I remember a time when Ed Rabel, Unity Minister and a former teacher at Unity Village in the ministerial program, was teaching the students when Bill Fischer, Director of Ministerial Training, was away. Ed was taking the students for speech assignments. The top four or five students were scheduled to give their talks in front of their classes. The talk that they were to give was based upon a question: “If you had just ten minutes to speak to all the people on the earth, what would you say?”

Just think about that for a moment. What would you say if you had just ten minutes to speak to all the people on the earth? What would your message be? 

Ed Rabel said the students he heard “Blew it!” Their response to the question was to try to reach out to all the people of the earth and tell them of some great and wonderful philosophical theory. In doing this they did “blow it,” because only that which you experience is true for you. You cannot take in someone else’s knowledge; you can only gain knowledge for yourself.

So if you were speaking to everyone on earth it would have to be something that people could find for themselves, work with, and experience from within their own being. You can’t really tell anyone else how things are. You can express from the depth of your own being that which is true for you, and in that way you speak with authority about your own experience. You can share that with someone else; and you can share ways for the other person to experience for themselves. But borrowed knowledge is not true knowledge. So when you speak with borrowed knowledge you don’t really come across, you don’t really reach a person.

This is what Ed Rabel was really saying, that the students blew it in regard to that. They were trying to get across a great message of God and what they believed about God, but speaking in a way that was not necessarily based upon their own experience. It was based upon knowledge that they had taken in from borrowed sources. They were not being real.

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