[tmtranscripts] LinEL Group 10/14/2005

[Thea Hardy]

LinEL Teaching MIssion Group
Adair Village, Oregon
October 14, 2005

Serenia (TR Thea)

Distress over differences of opinion - Early mission experimentation
Universe unfoldment process timetables - agondonter life - Teacher 
presence - Human role in the Supreme
Upward reach -  Different experiences of effort
Issues concerning balance - Teacher joy in student growth
Agondonter realities - bringing forth our hopes
More on balance - Michael's serpent/dove metaphor for balance
More teacher appreciation - Urantia children surrounded by love
Unity possible despite problems - moving towards tolerance
The Father is our home


Greetings, dear ones, it is I, Serenia, a teacher associated with the 
LinEL group in Adair Village, Oregon. I have been with this group since 
the early days and I am both grateful and well-pleased to be able to 
have an opportunity to share with you on this occasion.

I know there is some distress throughout the mission about various 
approaches to living a more fully spiritual life and enhancing service 
capabilities in a number of different ways. My elder brother LinEL long 
ago informed our group of the fact that in those early stages of the 
mission, it was important for different teachers to approach groups in 
different ways in order to gather experience in the manner of teaching 
you that could be most effective. This need has not changed. It will be 
many years yet before light and life is accomplished on Urantia, many 
centuries, and from our perspectives of time, these are yet early days.

It is hard for mortals to bear with the time-table for unfoldment when 
your world suffers so from its rebellion heritage. Hope is essential 
for all evolving mortals, and all the more so for agondonters, who must 
use hope to keep faith alive through the darkest hours. We are here in 
part to be hope to you, to be companions in your isolation, for even 
though the circuits now sing with the love and life of a vast universe, 
as a general rule, the hearts of most on your world will remain 
frequently parched and dry for some generations yet as the 
ramifications of healing move through your world culture. You who have 
chosen to have benefit of this process you call the teaching mission do 
not generally suffer as do so many of your fellows spread across a 
vast, still lonely world. This is why it is so critical that you 
strengthen your own reach for the Father so that you may reach out to 
those who can not yet lift their hands up to take their birthright as 
children of that most loving Father of All. As each of you rises upward 
in your path, your hands draw up yet others along the way, and in their 
turn, they do likewise, until a vast tree of life reaching for Father's 
love and down-reaching to those in need illumines the very growth of 
the Supreme in miniature.

You can only manage your own hands - what they reach for, upwards and 
downwards is determined by your own choices. It is not so important 
that your choices are perfect today as that they are increasingly 
informed by a growing desire in your hearts to attain your true 
destinies, to unfold as your true selves. Do not be discouraged by the 
faltering moments. These are inevitable in the young creaturehood of 
which you are a part. It is still the case that you so often recreate 
the patternings of your earlier years, and the blame that you received 
for your lack of perfection then becomes a pattern that you repeat 
without wishing to. It will take effort and multiple decisions to turn 
your path, your pattern of movement, into one whose direction is more 
in the upward direction of Paradise. Even as you are born again, effort 
does not cease. I can tell you from experience that it does not cease 
for some time yet. But the difference between effort on behalf of a 
joyous vision calling you onward is nothing like the effort and 
struggle when you can barely envision through the fog and darkness what 
direction in which you must go, much less what you will inhabit in the 
times to come. When life seems too much, a season of rest in close 
contact with your inner spirit and other celestial companions is called 
for, no, is prescribed. This is a medicine to your weary souls. Take it 
and heal.

There is a balance on this journey that is sometimes difficult to 
understand. You do far better than you know, yet you are troubled by 
this need for balance that sometimes seems too delicate for security. 
Many of you have been talking of this recently in different ways, and 
we watch with profound love for you all, regardless of your beliefs and 
positions. For with the limitations that you have inherited on your 
world, both by genetics and culture, it is hard to see clearly. You do 
literally see through darkened glass until the eyes of the soul are 
fully lit, and for most this will not happen in the first life. Your 
lives are filled with the challenges of living. You are asked to rise 
to these challenges. It is difficult if not impossible to rise to 
challenges you do not understand. And yet, on a world such as this, you 
must do precisely that. And you are indeed doing it! You are incredible 
in our eyes, brave and stalwart, even where you see yourselves and 
others as fumbling back and forth. We see you with wiser eyes and 
larger love, and our hearts are full watching your courage and your 
dedication to high ideals even in the face of much distress.

There is no visible planetary government to turn to for conceptual 
arbitration, for clarification of administrative directions. This is 
one of the special challenges of life as agondonters. Even seeing us 
face to face would not truly alter that status in the blink of an eye. 
For it is not until your very being KNOWS the truth of this, takes it 
almost for granted, that you move past that restriction, that sublime 
faith in the presence of only subjective proof. And forever, you will 
carry with you the shapings of this agondonter life - not as a 
restriction, but as a badge of bright honor. On the day when the 
magisterial son does arrive, whatever that day may be, there is no 
magic that can totally overcome what you have lived without the 
unfoldment of time. This, too, therefore, will take its time to settle 
into you, to alter the brain paths you have built in adversity. The 
peace and joy of that day will prevail, but it will not mean immediate 
healing for all. No world moves to light and life in an instant. Yet no 
world moves there without the endless choices of hope and faith made by 
its inhabitants. And while the mistakes and errors of you who have 
sought with all your hearts to dwell in the realities presented to you 
in this mission will in no way retard your planet;s forward motion, 
even so the faith and hope that you cherish and extend to others is 
even now bringing forth the reality of your hopes that light and life 
will flourish here on this world of your origins, the world of 
Michael's bestowal.

So the delicate balance, which is not so delicate as it appears, is 
found in neither turning your backs on the pursuit of the understanding 
of problems or the deeper definitions of difficulties, nor is it found 
in allowing yourselves to become lost in the dark woods of despair, 
seeing no blue sky and no end to the overcast of sorrow. When the 
Master spoke of the wisdom of serpents and the harmlessness of doves, 
his meanings were vast and multi-layered. Simple of statement, they 
nonetheless reached us all across Nebadon and beyond, in the depth of 
their meanings to us. As he spoke to you in the language of his people, 
so he simultaneously spoke to us in the tongue of Nebadon. And in this 
simple parable-like metaphor are to be found the many facets of balance 
- he did not say be EITHER serpents OR doves, but rather both at once, 
forever dispelling the dualist notions of an all-but-equal fight of 
good versus evil, notions whose distortions have so plagued your 
developing world and its yet primitive religions and culture. So often, 
in your quarrels and disagreements, you are all correct. Where we stand 
this is so clear. But for you it is more difficult to see. You have not 
yet understood how to put your differing truths together to make a more 
powerful and more complete whole. You have not even truly understood 
yet that this is a primary goal of your communications with one 
another, of your discourse about this most important of topics - living 
a more spiritual life. And so it is with children of the realm. We do 
not learn our highest skills for Supreme building automatically, but by 
our navigation through the challenges that are posed by the realities 
of life, whether here or there.

And yet, considering your origins, you do extraordinarily well, and our 
pride in you cannot be diminished by your behaving as you must in the 
inevitable irregularities of the upward path. We are not dismayed by 
the missteps down highways and byways as you so often are. This is the 
way of developing creatures in the first life, even on more normal 
worlds. That it is exaggerated for you on Urantia does not alter the 
fact that it is not different in kind, only in degree. You are still 
beautiful children of the Father seeking love and light with hearts 
sometimes wounded and sometimes soaring as you strive your way onward 
and upward. And even when you have temporarily lost your way with the 
inevitable stubbed toes of the journey, you are filled and surrounded 
with more love than you can imagine even in your highest moments of 
direct contact with the Loving Creator. If you could but see as we are 
able to do, you would know your true and lasting security, and your 
fears concerning one another would diminish greatly. But you cannot see 
as we do - for moments, yes, but not yet continually. This is the lot 
of evolving beings, of children of any species. Yet you do far better 
than you imagine. And we love you with a depth of affection that will 
never stop growing. Our destinies are bound together. And we feel a 
humble gratitude for the opportunities of service that this mission has 
meant for us. Something that has already transformed our entire 
universe careers, working in partnership with you to heal Urantia.

Ease your hearts with the knowledge that your different beliefs are not 
truly a lasting impediment to your unity. The ways of the more 
primitive times are yet upon you from your lack of genetic and cultural 
support. And from this stance, you will sometimes find yourselves 
arguing for something you share with others past even your own belief 
in it in this patterning of tribal culture. I say this to you all, with 
all your different perspectives. You are experiencing the ways of the 
early cultures on your world, for you have yet to move as far beyond 
these as you will eventually move and you are often puzzled with one 
another and with yourselves, finding yourselves in an apparent impasse, 
a quandry that seems impossible of resolution. But dear ones, it is not 
impossible. Bear with one another. Even if you must see another as 
younger than you, it is no matter if you seek tolerance and patience. 
In time, the way to resolution will be made more plain. In the 
meantime, cultivate patience, seek tolerance by looking within, both 
for your own impediments, and for the source of all healing in the 
blaze of glory that resides within each of your beings. And remember, 
we are ever your friends and elder brothers and sisters. You are indeed 
a part of a family much larger than you sometimes realize. For every 
one of our own elders, there are dozens and hundreds and thousands of 
us, by your sides, watching with love and tenderness as you take every 
step. You have arms around you in multiple layers, like the colors in a 
rainbow, holding you fast in endless love.

We came to help you, we are here, and we are not leaving you. It is up 
to you to define who we are, and who else will come and when, but you 
can rest assured you are not and never will be left alone. Hold this 
truth in your hearts and be filled.

The love of our Heavenly Father is home to all our hearts. Your home 
lives within your very being - go there for much needed rest and 
renewal. From the repetition of this choice you will repeatedly rise up 
on the wings of rekindled love.

I will speak again with you, and thank you again for the opportunity to 
share my own heart and thoughts with you.

Farewell,

Serenia

(TR note - Serenia volunteered to bring messages to the correcting time 
list but to be shared with all in the mission)
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