[tmtranscripts] Marin TM Group - Michael 10.11.04

[JERRY LANE]

Dear Folks,    Well, almost caught up!  Here is Michael from October 11, 
2004 via our bunch at the Marin Teaching Mission Group.  We also have 
Nebadonia on the next Monday - the 18th, and She will be coming along as 
soon as I can edit the transcription from a recording.  Enjoy!  Jerry 
(Nytrayn at msn.com)

Michael - October 11, 2004

Prayer: Dear Michael and Mother,   Once again we welcome You with great joy 
and anticipation.  Your presence here with us gives us an ability that we 
treasure very much.  This is an ability to know You, and through You, to 
know ourselves and what this life is that we are living.  And so we thank 
You and invite You once again to share our lives with us.  Amen

Good evening, My children.  This is your Father, Michael.  My peace be upon 
you.  Feel it surround you.  Feel it support you so you can feel a buoyancy 
of spirit that is your birthright.  I thank you for your welcome to invite 
Me into your hearts where you can feel the spirit moving within you.

This is life itself, my children.  It is streaming right through you.  Can 
you feel it?  It is sustaining you, and at the same time, you can give 
yourself to it.  Welcome this feeling, feed upon it, and in turn, give it 
your will.  Support it as much as you can.  The way you do this is by giving 
yourself to others.

Just as the stream does not begin with you, don’t let it end with you.  Be 
generous with this stream of life.  The more you let it flow through you by 
giving it to others, the more it gives to you.  This is the way you feel the 
stream of life -  by giving it away, by sharing it.  It is dynamic and 
powerful.

As your Mother told you last week, you are not keeping your own heart 
beating.  Life belongs to the Father of us all.  It is His gift.  This is 
also His gift - this ability you have to add to it, to give it your will as 
you give it to another.  There is a gracefulness in this, a sublime ease, 
and this is part of My peace.  Feel the peace of this onrushing, gigantic 
river of life.  This may sound strange at first, but not if you feel it, for 
as you feel this river of life flowing right through you, you can relax in 
the absolute assurance that it is yours.  This is who and what you are.  You 
are an individual, unique being, and yet you are sustained by this universal 
river of life.

Can you feel your freedom, My children?  Can you feel the choice you have?  
Can you feel the power of your own will, and can you feel the grace of 
adding this will to our Father’s will?  Now can you feel the ease of this, 
like it was meant to be?  Can you feel the rightness of this?  Can you feel 
the deep, deep peacefulness of this?  Rest in Me; rest in your Mother.  This 
is Our delight.  Can you give Us your troubles, your anxieties, your fearful 
uncertainty, even your pain?  We delight in accepting these, to see you 
transformed.

This is another choice you have; this part of your freedom.  For the very 
reason that this freedom is real, for this very reason, it only exists in 
its use.  You have to know you have this choice of sharing your life with 
Us.  You have to know the transforming power of using Us.  So We encourage 
you: step deeper into this river of life.  Let go entirely.  Don’t even 
think of keeping your nose above the surface.  Get right into it all the 
way.  Remember to use Us - give Us your pain, your difficulties, your joy, 
your happiness - those times when you are splashing around in the river of 
life just for fun.  Remember Us then, too.

And so, My children, you see that you are free, even to deny your freedom.  
You’re free even to be unaware that you are free.  You are free to 
experience life as a kind of compulsion, a straight jacket in which you have 
no freedom at all.  But with courage in your heart, and trust and hope and 
the humility to call on Us, you can break out of the straight jacket of your 
own unconscious choosing.  Now feel your desire for this.  Now feel the 
power of accepting your own freedom.  This is also your gift to Us.

This is the joy in Our hearts: to see Our children realize the freedom that 
God has given them.  We ask you to cherish this as you cherish Us.  Rest in 
Me, and as you do, feel your freedom grow.  Do you feel the peace here, my 
children?  The river is still flowing, rushing into eternity, but now you 
are swimming with the current.  If you have any questions or comments this 
evening, I would be glad to hear them.

Student:  Father, one of the challenges that I’ve been facing as I make 
myself more available to You and Mother, is no energy that (too faint) to 
heal Your children, (?) is a physical release now of the toxic residue of 
the Rebellion, and to find that liberty in my body would be inviting…(too 
faint)…  There in no encumbrance energetically of Your spirit or of Mother’s 
spirit as it flows from You to Your children, and I would just appreciate 
more of an influx of Your spirit and Mother’s to come into me tonight to 
help me wash more of this junk out.

Michael:  Well, My daughter, we have shared so much these years.  I know, 
even if you forget, from time to time, how far you’ve come.  And yet the 
journey is never over.  Now that you have accumulated such a wealth of soul, 
so much experience of living, you find yourself at a point between, I would 
say, two infinities from a human standpoint.  Your own soul, my daughter, is 
enormous; and the path before you has no end.  The only thing to do in this 
situation is surrender.  You’re clearly overwhelmed with infinity in every 
direction and every dimension.

In here you will find a peace which is truly beyond your comprehension.  So 
you might as well give up and accept it!  It’s God’s gift pouring down on 
you like a driving rain.  It’s a situation you have earned - but you have to 
accept it.  You have the freedom to not accept this gift.  As I said a few 
weeks ago, it is not pride or vainglory, but humility, to accept the 
enormity of your own soul.  For you have earned it.  Let this deep, profound 
thankfulness, you owe yourself, give you the courage to take the next step.  
And you will find this freedom supersedes what you might think of as a 
necessary patience.  I could counsel patience, but I would rather that you 
enjoyed freedom.  Does this answer your question, my daughter?

Student: I want to take in the energy of the soul being larger than the 
body, and feel the impact of the truth of this.  Thank you, Michael.

Michael:  You’re welcome, My daughter.  Don’t forget to love that body of 
yours.  Put your mind, but even more, put your spirit into it.  Support it, 
help it, and stretch it.  Above all, don’t abandon it!  Feel it, revere it, 
and learn from it.  Don’t forget Who created it, and Who is keeping your 
heart beating.  And be in My peace.

Student:  Yes Michael, I’ve been thinking about, the last few days the idea 
of, You’ve been talking about stretching and the love beneath the stretching 
and I can see that clearly in my life and in the lives around me.  But how 
about the instance of war, and what is going on in Iraq, and the thirty-six 
thousand men, women, and children who have died, and the soldiers, men and 
women, who are dying?  Where is the love in their stretching?  Why do they 
need to go through this?  Are they pawns in the reclamation project of the 
Correcting Time?  Does this need to happen to bring this whole world into 
unity?

Michael:  D, my son, I can only offer the reassurance that nothing, in the 
entire universe of God’s creation, is extraneous - absolutely nothing.  
Everything that is happening must happen.  There is no separation anywhere 
between any phenomena and absolute Deity.  Out here in time and space 
perfection is a goal, not the starting point, and not, as in Havona, an 
instantaneous creation.  Keep in mind the whole sweep of planetary 
development from the instigation of life, through evolution clear up to the 
mammalian stage, then the Darwinian survival of the fittest through all the 
tooth and claw there is.

Remember what you have read about the whole evolution of mankind, for nearly 
one million years now.  Consider and respect the enormity of the Lucifer 
Rebellion in disrupting a divine pattern for social/interactive evolution.  
I say respect in the sense of realizing, for individual men and women and 
children, what this has cost in terms of agony and terror - man turning upon 
man and using the utmost limits of his imagination to terrorize his fellows. 
  Keep in mind how I died.  This war of which you speak is only the latest 
chapter in this ongoing story.

But for individual human beings to have real freedom, and for this freedom 
to have no human limits, what you are witnessing is the result of individual 
men’s and women’s decisions, both in the past and moment to moment, in all 
the social aggregates from families, to neighborhoods, to cities, to 
nation-states, to international political and social organizations.  Though 
no single human mind can begin to encompass the complexity that actually 
exists on Urantia, our Father does, and from His standpoint, no human being 
is ever just a pawn.

Trust that there is a planetary evolution underway.  But in your own life, 
for your own personal decisions, social and political, you have to decide.  
I can only give you the context.  You have to decide what you will do.  In a 
way, my son, there is no answer anyone can give you for the terror and the 
pain, the killing and the torture, the cynicism, the indifference - all 
these are real.  The human heart can only respect them as best it can.  Does 
this help your heart, my son?

Student:  Yes, it does, very much so.  And I feel like it is for me - what I 
can do on an individual basis?  Just swim in the waters of freedom, and come 
from this place, and meditate on this place of God’s reality.  God is the 
only reality.  Allow His vision to express through me in the best way I am 
able to express it.  And turn what is going on around the world from hatred 
into love, the best way I can.  From my moment to moment, day to day 
existence on this planet.

Michael:  Good!  I would further add that, though nothing that has ever 
happened was extraneous, and nothing that is happening this instant is 
extraneous, reality is still a continuous creation.  It is not a mechanical 
device that was wound up like a clock and set in motion.  Because it is the 
living body of God, it does not extend in its entirety into the future. The 
future is still open and amenable to personal choice.  This is where your 
personal action comes in.  Use it wisely.  And be in My peace.

Student:  Michael, I would like to express my fears, my uncertainties about 
these darkening clouds of the coming storm that seems to be upon us.  Our 
human tendencies seem to be to run for cover, to lock the doors, to build up 
stores to survive the storm.  I guess the question is: Is there still time 
for enough of us, through our free will choice, to dissipate this storm? - 
to save what is still good on this planet before we destroy it even more?

Michael:  R, my son, let me assure you the answer is: Yes!  There is still 
time - especially for those who do not run away and hide, but rather chose 
to stay out in the driving rain just to be with their fellows, and share 
with their fellows whatever happens.  This is the ultimate triumph that is 
possible, a triumph over what you know of as life itself.  This is a choice 
that men and women have made throughout history.  Animals do this all the 
time.  A mother rabbit will attack a dog or a wolf to save her little brood. 
  A bird can act out a broken wing to lead a cat away from her nest.  But 
this is instinct, and in a human being the instinct for self-preservation is 
great.  Only a dedicated mind acting on the insight of spirit and a love 
greater than self-preservation can choose to join his or her fellows to face 
what is coming.  And in this willful choice, of choosing to share what you 
have, even life itself, lies the enormous flexibility and adaptability of 
the human imagination.  This is the way out: you have to create it.  It is 
not that We, your spiritual Parents, are standing idly by just to see if you 
will do this or not.  It is Our confidence in you that you can do this.

You literally have to create your own way forward.  But the human race has 
been doing this from the beginning, my son.  Your own resiliency, the 
spiritual creativity of your own imagination, is also limitless in its very 
use.  So the answer is: Yes, there is still time.  But you have to create 
it.  I repeat, this may sound hard, but We have a joy of confidence that you 
will do it.  Is this understandable to you, My son?

Student:  Father, it’s understandable, in so much as each step of creativity 
that I take, I feel…first I will need to come to You and ask, “Father, what 
do You think of this step?  What do You think about this plan?”  Because I 
don’t think I can do it myself.  I don’t want to.  I need Your guidance.

Michael:  Again, my son, I say: Yes!  You see the situation very clearly 
because, as you just said, it is your plan - I will help guide - but it will 
be your plan.  It will be My joy to be there with you.  As a parent you 
know: the parent can tell the child what to do.  But the parent’s primary 
concern is to encourage the child’s creativity.  This is why We ask you to 
try that which you are not certain you can do.  This is the stretch, and We 
trust you can see the love behind this need to stretch.  I commend you on 
the clarity with which you see the situation.  Is there anything else, my 
son?

Student:  No, Father, other than to give You thanks for all that You are.  
You are the Father, and I worship such a beautiful Father I have in You.  
Thanks.  That is all.

Michael:  Thank you, My son.  If you only knew how much the Father - is - 
all His children.  Be in my peace.

Well, My children, another evening has been very full…for Me.  Once again I 
salute you for your courage.  This world is very hard.  When I was here, as 
one of you, and became aware I was also your Father, I marveled even more at 
the courage you use in order to love one another.  Mother Nebadonia sends 
all Her love, and I welcome you to be in My peace.  Good evening.