Lent is
concluded, and I have completed my Lenten series, “Awaken with Jesus” based on
Adyashanti’s book, Resurrecting Jesus –
Embodying the Spirit of a Revolutionary Mystic. This past Sunday we joined
with billions of Christians around the world to celebrate Easter and honor the resurrection
of Jesus, our master teacher and way shower. Unity cofounder Charles Fillmore
said that Easter is “the awakening and raising to spiritual consciousness of
the “I AM” in man.¹” For us in Unity, Easter is a celebration of a profound life-changing
transformation in consciousness.
I invite us
to truly embrace the significance of Easter; to claim Jesus’ evolution of
consciousness as our own. As we choose to embody the spirit of the Jesus of the
gospels and experience our own shift in consciousness, we are transformed by
the renewing of our minds². This transformation allows us to ascend beyond the
limited ideas of self that we allow to keep us from living the greatest
expression of the Christ we are.
Ascension
does not mean that we must relinquish our earthly bodies or that we abdicate
responsibility for our creations; rather we rise above our attachment to them
in consciousness and see ourselves from a new perspective. We know ourselves as
the embodiment of Christ consciousness.
We can
choose to set our intention to celebrate Easter every day, to awaken in
transformed consciousness and know ourselves as the Christ expressing now. As
we set a clear intention in our minds and hearts, we establish a vibrational
frequency to which the Universe responds. It is the law of attraction at work.
The Christ of our being draws us to, or draws to us, depending on one’s
perspective, all that supports us in knowing our Truth.
What we
attract may not match our picture of how our life is “supposed” to look.
However, from Christ consciousness we know that we are constantly held in the
greatest love, and we trust that all unfolds in alignment with the highest and
best for all.
Our only work is to continue to know ourselves as the Christ
and to keep our minds stayed on that Truth. As Paul reminds us in his letter to
the Philippians, “Let the same mind be in you that was in Christ Jesus.” In
doing so, we are able to release our attachment to the things of the world, and
know the Truth in and through all circumstances of life.
In Atom Smashing Power of Mind, Charles Fillmore said,
“Christian metaphysicians have
discovered that man can greatly accelerate the growth in himself of the Christ
Mind by using affirmations that identify him with the Christ. These
affirmations often are so far beyond the present attainment of the novice as to
seem ridiculous, but when it is understood that the statements are grouped
about an ideal to be attained, they seem fair and reasonable.”
I invite you to join me in affirming: “The Mind that was in
Christ Jesus is my mind now.” This affirmation establishes a clear intention
that says to the Universe, “Deliver me to everything that supports realization
of my Truth.”
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