Keep A True Lent

     Keep A True Lent by Charles Fillmore is a wonderful book and a Unity classic.  This book is full of Unity principles and daily Lenten lessons.

     Lent is a church institution and begins on Ash Wednesday, which is 46 days before Easter.  Most denominations celebrate the Lenten season by giving up or abstaining from worldly things, such as food or drink. In Unity the Lenten season, or any season for that matter, is used as a time to fast from unworthy thoughts and negativity, and feast on the good and true.

     Through daily prayer and meditations we commune with God, the Divine Mind and unchangeable Truth.  We mingle and merge our minds with God-Mind, resulting in spiritual growth.  We fast from "error thinking and meditate on Spiritual Truth until we incorporate it into the consciousness of oneness with the Father."

     Easter is a celebration of the resurrection of Jesus.  Mr. Fillmore writes "The resurrection is the raising up of the whole man - spirit, soul, and body - into the Christ consciousness of life and wholeness."  Each day as we rise to the consciousness of the indwelling life, making union with the God-Mind, the resurrection of Jesus takes place inside us.  Thoughts of limitation and conformity to material law are left in the "tomb of materiality."

     Celebrate this Lenten season as a life changing experience.  Affirm:
"In unity with Christ I realize that I am resurrrected into the life, light and power of God."

Namaste