40 Days of Letting Go and Letting God
40 Days of Lent – Rebirth and Renewal
Rule 16
“Real filth is the one inside. The rest simply washes off. There is only one type of dirt that cannot be cleansed with pure waters, and that is the stain of hatred and bigotry contaminating the soul. You can purify your body through abstinence and fasting, but only love will purify your heart. “*
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Today, we are releasing BITTERNESS and embracing God’s Love for us.
Our Lent Booklet Invites us today to release and let go of BITTERNESS.
We all carry situations, people, and experiences that negatively impacted our lives. Things done or not done, said or not said, events that we continue to relive may be painful touchstones that reinforce and legitimize our bitterness and resentment.
Sadly, that bitterness is corrosive to our own soul and no one else’s. It eats away at our sense of well-being, joy, and happiness. It impedes our capacity to heal and move forward. It keeps us mired in the past and allows that situation to dictate our future.
You can release bitterness and reclaim your future. When the past is more alive than the present, focus on one blessing in your life right now. Meditate and center in love. Cultivate gratitude and present-moment awareness. Practice affirmative prayer and shift your focus from what wronged you to what supports you. Moment by moment, you can consciously reinforce and legitimize the good in your life. —Rev. DeeAnn Weir Morency
We can choose to embrace ourselves by saying: I release bitterness and embrace the love and support all around me.
Rule No16, as well as todays Lent reading, invite us today to realise how devastating it is for us to harbour negative emotions in our hearts and minds.
Daily contemplative task: Today, I invite you to contemplate on the rule, the text above, and the quote below. In your meditation, I would like you to observe your ‘dirty’ emotions and cleanse your mind and heart of them. Allow the emotions to release and take the unwholesome energies with them into the Light.
Please share your journey and experiences with me. Thank you.
Today we affirm: Today, I release bitterness.
Daily quotes:
Put away from you all bitterness and wrath and anger and wrangling and slander, together with all malice, and be kind to one another.—Ephesians 4:31-32
Note : *My writing is based on the book “40 Rules of Love” by by Elif Shafak and The Lent booklet by Unity.org
Personally, I think it is important to find the True meaning behind the word ‘LOVE’, understand it and experience it as a Spiritual Quality inherently within us.
I am going to walk this 40-day Lenten journey contemplating on the True meaning of Love, Divine Love, Spiritual Love for me by experimenting with the 40 rules and quotes from the Lent Booklet. Every day, between
the 5th of March to the 21 April 2025,
I will post a ‘rule’ from the book ’40 rules of Love’ and an a release idea from the book ’40 days of Rebirth and Renewal – Lent 2025′ by Unity.org. Then, we will contemplate on it and share about it in the UNITY EUROPE Facebook Group (CLICK HERE).
Let’s walk this journey together!
Join me by …
either reading the daily blogposts I create – SEE THEM HERE (CLICK) – or joining the FACEBOOK GROUP (CLICK) where I am going to share my writings and daily contemplative questions. I will also post a short video/audio material on the daily posts. (click on the buttons below to join)
