[tmtranscripts] Michael Lightline 1.21.16

[Jerry Lane]

Happy New Year everyone! Here's Michael's blessing and invocation for the new year. Jerry.
 



Michael Lightline - January 21, 2016.


 


Michael—T/R-JL


 


(Keep your
beginner’s mind) 


(Spend some
time with creative spirit) 


(Love and
respect yourself)


(To live a
full life)   


(God’s
blessing)


(Wondering
about God’s will)


(Economic
reality)     


(Duty of a
citizen)


(A most
sincere prayer)   


(Being alive
so many ways within time) 


(Let me
tickle your wonder)  


 


Dear Michael
and Mother Spirit, Greetings. We have a favor to ask and that is, can you wish
us a Happy New Year--as we reckon time on this dear old planet of ours? It
reminds us, Michael, that most of the world does count time dating from your
life among us, now over 2,000 years ago. Although I am sure, in all the various
cultures around the world, they reckon time by other means as well.


 


But on this
New Year, this first month of the year, it does remind us of your life among us.
We thank all the authors of the Urantia Book for giving us an almost day-by-day
account of your life here. It is such an inspiration to see how one person, one
human being so much in touch with our Universal Father, can change the world
for the better. It really gives us a wonderful humility just to imagine how
much courage it took day-to-day for you to live the life you did.   


 


What it is
to be a Creator Son or a Creator Daughter of the Paradise Trinity, we can’t
begin to imagine! We are even more thankful to our beloved Urantia Book for giving
us at least some notion of what has been happening with you two, now for hundreds
of billions of years--the kind of beings, personal beings that you are.


 


We thank you
so much for instructing us, and then reminding us, that we too are creative
beings, creative personal beings right from God. We are co-creating our own
lives, and not only in all the hundred-and-one little decisions we are constantly
making all through the day on how to spend our time, how to spend these lives
we have 


 


But our
creativity even extends so unconsciously into how we perceive ourselves and
everything around us, and how involved we are in that insofar as we can never
fully escape our own subjectivity. We can never be so arrogant as to think we
are truly objective. Fortunately yours and Mother Spirit’s presence right
within us does encourage us to open our minds to all those around us. You help
us get out of this “prison of self” and appreciate how others are living their
lives.


 


So for all
of your wonderful lessons and guidance, we do thank the two of you so much. Amen.


 


Michael: Good
evening, my dear ones.  To all of you who
will come to hear me through recordings, or come to read the transcripts of my
lessons, Mother Spirit and I do wish you a Happy New Year. It is good that from
time to time you have these big demarcations and celebrations of what is
actually, of course, an Eternal Now, a continuity of existence coming right
directly from God.  


 


A wise man
of yours once said that, one of the great mistakes people make is in always
assuming and taking for granted that there is time, time to do all the things
they want to do. This is the sense that you can continually put off getting
started. 


 


(Keep your
beginner’s mind) 


 


This is why
Mother Spirit and I encourage you to keep your “beginner’s mind.” Never be
afraid or shy of beginning, over and over again even in a single day, if that is
what it takes to get you going, get you involved in your life.   


 


Because this
is a paradox, my dear ones. Yes, you do have a soul. You actually have a
presence of God within you that is making a spiritual record of your life.    So in one way nothing of value is lost. You
can count on the Supreme Co-author of your soul to record everything of
spiritual significance. But on the other hand, time is passing and you have a
relatively short period here, of your human life, to begin with.


 


Every day
you do get older. A “beginner’s mind” means that you can constantly start anew.
This is especially true with some old ingrained habits that might be leading you
down the path of less health and power and strength than you might otherwise
have if you were only determined to seek and find them.   


 


One aspect
of co-creativity is that you yourself are creating so much of what is happening
to you. As you said in your introduction, it’s all those hundred and one little
decisions you make so unconsciously throughout the day because old ingrained
habits make these decisions for you. It is the degree of consciousness of what
you are doing--how much you are consciously involved--that is a critical factor
of how to make best use of your time.


 


(Spend some
time with creative spirit) 


 


And so we
suggest you “begin again” every morning as full of pure consciousness as you
can muster. After waking up out of a hopefully wonderful sleep and restoration
of your body, mind, spirit, and soul, and that transition period of sitting on
the edge of your bed and gathering yourself together one more time, you
immediately go, sit down, and spend some time with Mother Spirit and myself,
and our Father--the presence of God within you. 


 


Just open
yourself to a re-birth of wonder—a wonder that: here you are! Wonder at this
life you have. You have an ironic expression that nothing is free, and yet any
time you are consciously spending and paying to have a life, gives you that
life. You are definitely earning your own self, day-by-day, by determining to
such a large degree what is going into your soul.     


 


We point you
at all the people you know and have known, all these other un-limited personal
beings right from God. Recognize this. Let them be without limit in your mind and
in your soul. Sit in your meditation surrounded within and without with all the
people in your life. This can be your greatest thankfulness, your greatest
blessing. This is how you open yourself, by recognizing all these other folks who
have their own unique reality, hopefully just as full as yours.    


 


This is the
marvel of open-minded meditation, consciously breaking old habits by realizing
them anew. Here the only habit is just doing it, just being determined   the first thing when you start your day is
to open yourself to suggestion. Because it is only you, my dear ones--and the
spiritual forces and beings within you--that can determine what meditation
opens you up to.   


 


For so many of
you this kind of a new activity, this meditation of just sitting down and doing
nothing but being open, leads to a whole backlog of things pressing upon you
demanding your attention, seeking your consideration. It might take a while for
you to catch up with yourself and let all the things come into your mind that
you’ve been putting off or denying for so long.     


 


But marvel,
then, that this can happen. What a marvel to appreciate that your own mind,
your own spirit, and your own soul can bring up those things that need your
attention.


 


(Love and
respect yourself)


 


This is
where some love and respect for yourself comes in. Some newfound trust in
yourself can be acquired. It can be earned by paying attention and thoroughly
thinking through and getting to the bottom of all the things that ask for your
attention. Because this is how you pay to have an open mind: you pay
attention.   


 


You let
things come up that want to suggest themselves. It could be reliving some of
the more painful moments in your past, things done to you or even things you
did to others--hurtful things you have done to others. But there they are. They
are part of your past; they are part of your soul. Yet now there is an older
and hopefully wiser you to consider them, to understand and, most importantly,
keep in touch with who you once were, and who they were.   


 


This is how
you open your soul. Let it come forth fearlessly, wondrously. Here you are in
this Eternal Now that yes, on one hand, it is passing. Every moment is unique
and never to be repeated in all of its fullness. But it is an eternal
now, something where you will be with yourself and all your surroundings
forever. This is God’s promise that you will exist as long as you want, as long
as you desire, as long as you decide. This is the power put in your own hands,
and so it is good every morning to remind yourself of your powers of choice, of
what you are choosing to do in all full consciousness.   


 


This is how
you how you have a full life, my dear ones. This is how you fill your soul with
unique, creative days. This is how you make best use of this power that is
intrinsically yours to develop.


 


(To live a
full life)   


 


This is how we
wish you a Happy New Year. This is what makes it happy--your commitment, your
involvement, your decisions, your wonder and appreciation.   You realize how much you are giving value
and meaning to your own life. It is a little bit scary!--how much God has placed
in your own hands. It takes courage to acknowledge this and not to blame
circumstances or others for what is happening to you. It is very humbling, is
it not? But humility is such a spiritual blessing, keeping you in contact with
so much that is so much greater than you. 


 


So yes, my
dear ones, Happy New Year. It is always and forever will be a new year, a new
day, even a new next hour. How are you going to use it? How do you want to use
it? That is kind-of scary. Mother and Spirit and I fully appreciate your trying
as best you can to get a hold on this life of yours and use it wisely, and not
only for yourself, but for all those others you can help and be of
service.    You give them more life by
sharing your life with them.


 


(God’s
blessing)


 


This is our
Father’s blessing to you--all these others, every personality directly from him
with whom to share things. So share your time, share your joy, share your hard
work.


 


Dear Father,
we thank you for all of us--all of us beyond number--all of us beyond time--all
of us to fill eternity. We thank you, Father, and we love you very much.


 


My dear children,
know that Mother Spirit and I, we too love you beyond measure. Now if you have
any questions or comments, let them spring anew.


 


Student: I
have a comment. Now we do have a lot of power to decide what we are going to do.
And of course we want to decide to do God’s will. But we have to figure out
what God’s will is.   


 


So you wake
up in the morning and you say, “Well, I think God’s will is this.” But then you
go: Gee, I just can’t do it. I have more pressing matters to take care of. I
have to feed myself. I have to make some
money instead of going out and being of service. And so we really don’t have
that much choice of what we can do because we do have some limitations on
keeping ourselves alive and functioning in society. Can you speak on that?


 


(Wondering
about God’s will)


 


Michael: Oh
yes, my son. Let me tease you with the notion that you needn’t necessarily
separate those things. How do you know it’s not God’s will for you to earn some
money to pay the rent and buy some food? This is why you need to be very open-minded
about what God’s will might be. I can suggest that the first thing is for you to
be healthy and happy and share your life with others. 


 


You are an economic
being. I know personally that in all your prayers this is such a stumbling
point because you have such spiritual strivings and spiritual ambitions that
you tend to overlook, sometimes, that spirituality is all-inclusive.   It is that dimension, starting with our Father’s,
which incorporates everything, absolutely everything. It includes acknowledging
what you call the hard, even the evil things of life. You don’t in any way keep
anything out of consideration. 


 


Try to open
yourself to everything happening. This is spirit. This is the all-inclusiveness
of spirit. For right within this you have what you call “the economic law of
scarcity.”   Consider all those decisions
I talked about, that you make throughout the day, deciding how you are going to
use your time. Because you can’t do everything all at once.  There is a kind of joke that time is what keeps
everything from happening all at once.


 


(Economic
reality)     


 


You do have
constant decisions on how you spend your time on the economic necessities of
life, those physical things that are limited and not like collecting salt water
on the shore of an ocean. You’re choosing between one thing and another,
material things like food, shelter, clothing, and transportation--all those
physical aspects of your life that need attending to. 


 


And then
there’s time itself. Don’t forget, my son, that your particularly human life is
God’s will. You were created an economic being in terms of time, in terms of
space, in terms of personal resources of energy and will power. All of these
things are involved. So open your mind as to what God’s will might be for you.


 


Obviously it
is to be as generous--spiritually generous--with yourself as you can be, and then
with respect to others. But even to do this you need to be strong and healthy
and not constantly worrying about, shall we say, your food, shelter, clothing,
and all these economic necessities. Does this help you?


 


Student: Oh
yes, it helps quite a bit. One point that comes to mind though is that our
economic system is not very fair, or just, as it’s administered or designed,
and we have to deal with that too. It just gets a little frustrating working in
such an unjust arena.


 


(Duty of a
citizen)


 


Michael: Yes,
my son, that is where your duty as a citizen comes in, does it not? You have to
pay attention and be informed, open your mind to all the different viewpoints
being expressed--especially in this political year of choosing your leaders.
Yet even this duty is something that you can share with all your friends--to help
you both be informed and make the best decisions. This is even if--as you have
the expression--you have to hold your nose and cast your vote for the lesser of
two evils. 


 


Student:  I can go for that. I think that is the name
of the times--to be informed. I was reading in the Urantia Book the chapter Government
on a Neighboring Planet where they spend a lot of time being
informed. I think we do have the time now, and we have the means, that we can
be very well informed of our choices, and our predicament.


 


That was
just a statement; now I have another question for you though, a fun little
question about time. I have this thought that we are always at the beginning of
time, seeing that we live for eternity. We have an infinite amount of time in
front of us, but only a finite amount of time behind us. We are always, like,
at the beginning of our time span.


 


Michael: Yes,
my son. This is what I mean by keeping your “beginner’s mind.”   There is an old saying that, for a totally habituated
person there are very few choices, but for someone who is constantly willing to
begin, they have some means of exercising their creativity. They get out of
living just by habit, by living consciously. Yet that requires all the
sometimes difficult conscious decisions which some folks--as you know--try
their best to avoid.   


 


The other factor
is consciousness of the Eternal Now—as we call it--coming down. You are in it
now, and you always will be, as long as you decide to continue. You can call it
“eternity” but even this is just a human mental projection right within this
Eternal Now.   


 


Student:
OK--thank you. I’ll yield the floor now.


 


Michael:
What I mean by using that expression is that people make the mistake of thinking
they have time when it’s obviously just a way of putting off beginning,
avoiding their “beginner’s mind.” They deliberately try to “kill time” through
habituation to various drugs, coming home from work every evening and “getting
blithered”--as you say--one way or another, just to kill time. It’s the sense
that the present moment is weighing too heavily on them.


 


(A most
sincere prayer)   


 


Rather, it’s
calling for each of you to make fully conscious decisions. Stopping to ask, “Dear
God, what should I do next?” can be the most sincere prayer to open yourself
and get all the help you need to answer that question. It is kind-of scary, and
we acknowledge that--Mother Spirit and I.


 


Student: But
asking “What do I do next?”--is that something you can do in the amount of time
you have to do it though? Or do you have to assume you have plenty of time to
do whatever you want to do?  


 


Michael: That
depends on what you are doing, does it not? Some things you can do in five
minutes, and for some things you are going to have to lay out plans for the
next five years. Call it the flexibility of time. It is a matter of planning
and decisions on some things.


 


Student:
Where I was going with that is, you have eternity to develop yourself, so get
started. You can start anytime, so why not start now because you do have the
time to do it.


 


Michael:
Exactly. Since all eternity is “now”, nothing happens unless you do start it
now. That’s keeping your beginner’s mind and not being afraid of it, not being
shy about beginning something that might take five years.


 


Student: OK.
Thank you.


 


Michael: Thank
you, my son. Be in my Peace. (long pause) 



 


Well, my
dears, if there are no further questions, let me wrap up this session with a
comment on time.


 


(Being alive
so many ways within time) 


 


First, you
are a living being. This physical body of yours that enables you to maintain
consciousness is alive. Yet your mind and your spirit are more than just
physical. You are not just intelligent animals, for an animal has only now.
Starting at a very early age and with the matter of language--the way folks
talk and phrase different things with respect to time--you literally began creating
a conscious past with your worded, thoughtful memories. 


 


Here we’ve
given lessons on how to contact your soul that is co-authored by God--how you
can open yourself and relive moments. I just talked about eternity and the fact
you can have a notion of this Eternal Now never ending.   


Though it’s
mostly an unconscious process, it’s you actually creating what you are going to
do tomorrow, the plans you have, maybe the work you have. You can arrange with
someone else to meet them three months from now at a certain place and a
certain time.   


 


All this is
part of your personal creativity, part of your being human. However
unconscious, it is yours. It is your creation except for those poor folks who lack
certain mental abilities and live in an eternal now with no past or future.
They have to be institutionalized and taken care of because they have lost the
human creativity of understanding days, hours and minutes.   


 


Think of how
your science has chased temporal cause-and-effect right down into the
nanosecond of sub-sub-atomic activity, and out into the millions of light years
through space it took for a star’s light to reach you--time and space so tied
together. 


 


(Let me
tickle your wonder)  


 


This is all
a big tease--I’ll have to admit to that. It’s to tickle your wonder as you
meditate, or as you stop, from time-to-time throughout the day, to wonder and
appreciate all that is involved in your human life.   


 


Yes indeed:
it can be a Happy New Year, even full of all the aches and pains you are heir
to--everything that contributes to your sense of meaning and your
understanding. Then think of all the spiritual value you find in life, indeed! 


 


Happy New
Year, my dear ones. Mother Spirit sends you her love, and I bid you be in my Peace.


 


Good
Evening.


 


 


 


 		 	   		  
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