Today, Saturday, March 26, is the sixteenth day of Lent. Lent is the period of time during which we can prepare ourselves for the Easter experience.
 

Assignment 16
 
Every child born into the world is created that it might grow, unfold, and become captain of its own soul. We are all free-born. God did not bring forth anything out of Himself that was incapable of fulfilling the purpose for which it came.
 
The limitations of man’s believing have made him temporarily a seeming captive to experiences and conditions that are unreal and impermanent. They are the experiences by which man becomes aware of his true God-self. Like a little boy becomes aware of the principle in mathematics by working problems.
 
The problems have come to pass – the Principle remains forever. We are only separated from our good by the “width of a thought,” not by a condition or outer barrier.
 
Man was not created to be stunted, bound, or inhibited, but to be the expression of a Perfect Idea. Perfection is unfoldment; perfection is a traveling.
 
The infant is not the man, nor is the man yet the spiritual expression in its fullness. The “thorns and thistles” of the ground are the experiences or assignments of life, by which we find the power within us that is the answer to all our questionings.
 
Man without the assignments of life would be man without a purpose. We should never avoid an opportunity to encounter life. It is only in letting things happen to us that we find happiness.
 
Man’s purpose is to feel the power within, to respond to its urgings, and carry out its dictates; to be consciously aware at all times, in all places, that it is there. We are not automatons or puppets with God or the world pulling the strings. We are the God power expressing as a human form.
 
We are not here to be overcome by our assignments, but to overcome! We are not to say to the inner voice of our heart, “I cannot do this or that.” We are to listen for inner directions and receive life and all its gifts with the spontaneity of a child.
 
The purpose of life is that we know for ourselves. How can we know unless we feel directly and perceive directly? Life is God, you are God in expression – do not fear life!
 
 
(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, Saturday, March 19, is the tenth day of Lent. Lent is the period of time during which we can prepare ourselves for the Easter experience.
 

Assignment 10
 
Are you free? You answer, “Yes, I am free. I do as I please, go wherever I desire. I live in a free country.” I ask the same question again, for I don’t believe there are very many free souls. The chains that hold us are so finely forged they are almost invisible but are strong enough that ten thousand wild horses could not break the smallest link.
 
Freedom is of the mind and soul, this is the highest and most prized freedom. Are you able to think clearly without being hampered by the feelings of others: employer, employees, loved ones, friends, members of groups, those of other religious convictions, political parties, or even the entangling web of the outer world?
 
Can you control your feelings? I do not mean hold them in by force until you are about to explode. Can you withdraw your feelings? If you can, you have freedom!
 
Freedom is the power to sustain or refuse to sustain any idea, situation, or condition. Do you feel to withdraw your feelings is a cold, calculating disinterest? It is not! It is refusing to let outer conditions and people make you a prisoner in your own daily life. No one has the power to stop you, but you have the power to let them stop you!
 
Are you one that cannot live without the approval of others? Even strangers? Then you are not free!
 
A Power has been given to you to complete every project in life. You cannot have a need, an idea, or a plan that is truly yours by feeling and desiring, that cannot be completed. The perfected good comes with the true desire just as the bush, blossom, and fruit come with the seed. But in the mind we must plant a seed of desire in the soil of believing.
 
Remember, your feelings, your desire, your inner need to bring forth are the God Power in action. People and conditions are only incidental and part of the environment through which you bring forth – much like hard clods of earth makes a strong plant.
 
There is nothing as powerful as a God idea that is ready to come through, we are told. So, be free to live, to love, and to express your own perfect self-projects.
 
(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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