Happy Easter Beloved Community!
“This is the season when hope renews itself. The blossoming's of Spring symbolize the flowering of the Spirit upon the Tree of Life. It is also a time when we enrich the soil, that the roots may reach even more deeply into the creative medium which gives Life. Old branches have been cut off and new ones are growing to take their place. So it is in the perennial springtime of our own spiritual aspirations. The Christ in us stirs anew in the human soil that it may find a deeper root in the Universal Spirit. And in so doing, lifts its imagination to a new influx from on high. But this new beginning is by our own consent.
The Resurrection comes only as we permit it to…” (Dr. Ernest Holmes, 1956)
I love the Easter story! Metaphysically speaking, the character of Jesus...from his conception to his resurrection...is the symbolic journey of the soul. The resurrection story is therefore revealing to us our own spiritual journey. The crucifixion is the symbolic “crossing out” of our lower self, the tomb represents the place of transformation which enables us to break out of the restrictions of the human mind and the resurrection symbolizes our rise in consciousness to claim our Spiritual Identity. It is that Eternal Self that cannot die as it is of the same nature as its Source.
The good news is that we do not have to physically die to be resurrected. Every time we move through a past restriction and take another step along the spiritual path, we are crossing out the old, rolling away the stone of limitation and rising in consciousness to the new. Every time we move past the prejudices, distrusts, suspicions, anger, and isolation that divides us and embrace Oneness, we are resurrected!
This Sunday, we will dive into this story of Renewal and Rebirth and participate together in an Easter Release Ceremony. I invite you to contemplate what needs to be eliminated in your life…what is preventing your transformation into your own Christ nature…the perfection that is your Truth? And join us for a time of release and renewal at 10:30 am Mt. time.
“All the veneration of Spring connects itself with love," wrote Emerson. Easter, like the Jewish Passover from which it arose, reminds us that however difficult things may seem, Faith can move mountains, Truth will always prevail. Love is the great equalizer. And Life is Eternal!
Blessed Sacred Renewal.
Rev. Jackie Holland
Community Spiritual Leader
