A subtitle for this talk could be: Easter, Part 2: It’s Up to You. We are called to continue the ministry of Jesus and to fulfill his words to his disciples: “The one who believes in me will also do the works that I do and, in fact, will do greater works than these.”
The message of Easter is that we are spirit, free of all lack and limitation, that we are the Christ – not just in potential, but right here and right now.
A wonderful metaphysical interpretation of the Palm Sunday story of Jesus’ entry into Jerusalem, and how it applies to our lives right here, right now.
Like the lotus, we can rise through the muck and mire of our lives and come into the full expression of our Divine potential, transforming ourselves and transforming the world.
To live the Sabbath is to regularly take time to pull back from our distractions and concerns and “to watch what God is doing when we’re not doing anything.” (Eugene Peterson)
Youth is not a time of life, but a state of mind.
Through our inherent ability to imagine—to envision something beyond where we are presently—transformation of our consciousness becomes possible.
The altar is the sacred place where God and man come together, where the human intersects with the Divine. That place resides in each of us and it is up to us to find it.
There is nothing we need to do to earn or deserve God’s grace, which comes to us freely and abundantly. All we need to do is accept it.
Strength, as one of Charles Fillmore’s twelve powers, represents the energy of God within us which frees us from weakness and guides us into greatness when we allow it to flow.