<P>North Idaho Teaching Mission Group<BR>Topics: Elyon, Celeste, Jessona<BR>Teachers: Stability, Stamina, Relationships, Love is...</P>
<P>August 18, 2002</P>
<P>* Elyon (Jonathan TR): Greetings, Elyon here. Truly is it a blessing to be<BR>associated with you, to always gain from your insights that you provide as you<BR>express to each other your experiences of your week. As you know, I have not<BR>been in the form of life that you are currently dwelling in, so I derive much of<BR>benefit that can become mine. This is the magic, the beauty, of friendship, and<BR>you are my friends.<BR> I spoke last week of strength. Today I am going to complement that lesson<BR>with comments about stability and stamina. We’ve consider and know strength is<BR>not to be had were it not for resistance, struggle, something which causes<BR>application and results in increased strength. You have been each undergoing<BR>strength development simply by living the mortal life and adjusting what you go<BR>through to your comprehension of what is true, good, and beautiful. This<BR>adjustment is yielding of stability, for you could encounter many hardships that<BR>increase your strength, that which builds your faith deepens your trust which<BR>fosters your courage. But if you were not to adjust these experiences to the<BR>patterns of the divine as expressed, or realized the truth, beauty, and goodness,<BR>you would not have stability. Strength can charge a problem, encounter it,<BR>wrestle with it, overcome it. Stability can withstand an attack, remain firm<BR>when buffeted. It can remain stable when all else shakes. This stability is<BR>due to the eternal qualities upon which your philosophy and your spirituality are<BR>built.<BR> You know of the power of a football player who has strength and can plow<BR>through a defensive line. However if this player did not also have stability he<BR>would stumble and fall shortly after the encounter. It is the stability that<BR>carries the strong one beyond the obstacle and to the goal. But even stability<BR>is not enough, for if this player were to become exhausted he would not reach the<BR>end zone, and this is where stamina comes in.<BR> I know at times you have expressed frustration when it appears that lessons<BR>are being re-taught, that you undergo again the same experience or undertaking or<BR>episode and then say, “Why have I not learned it?” Naturally you discover new<BR>lessons each time. Strength is not retained once attained without repetition. <BR>Though stability has the quality of standing firm over time, strength requires<BR>new encounters. In this process stamina develops, each time you approach what<BR>was viewed as a recurring encounter with a fresh vigor, untired by any previous<BR>encounter, just as enthused, just as forward looking as your first encounter. <BR>So, as you run down the field and a new blocker comes your way, you are not<BR>fatigued; you charge forward, you make the strength encounter, remain stable, and<BR>continue forward.<BR> Where I have mentioned that strength must entail repetition to maintain<BR>itself and your stability is derived from the development of your cosmic<BR>philosophy, stamina is something that you provide in the unification of these<BR>other two and through your willing participation, your acceptance of what occurs<BR>to you and your investigation of solution, your refinement of your philosophy. <BR>It is the contribution from within yourself. As I conclude my lesson here I must<BR>again repeat that stamina is also best developed through quiet time with the<BR>Father’s presence.<BR> I will remain for questions. I have not visited alone today.</P>
<P> Ginny: It’s interesting that we get stamina from stillness. Can you<BR>elaborate on that a little?</P>
<P>* Elyon: Yes. Energy is replenished through the intake of new energy<BR>sources. They are consumed and transformed into the work that you wish to<BR>accomplish. This is likewise true of stillness. The intake of energy, that<BR>energizes your will, refreshes your desire, uplifts your constitution. You may<BR>have a sound philosophy that provides your stability, but if you are tired<BR>spiritually, exhausted from overmuch output, you will not be able to carry on. <BR>You will stagnate. It would be as if that football player broke through the<BR>line, managed to stay on his feet, but was out of breath and could not run any<BR>farther. Sure, he may have practiced all week. He may have lifted his weights. <BR>But if he had not gotten a good night’s sleep the day before he would be out of<BR>energy. Likewise if he had not replenished his body with foodstuffs. In a<BR>spiritual activity this rest and replenishment are had through worship, through<BR>communion, and through silence of mind, stilling that allows the rejuvenation.<BR> Have I provided supplement?<BR> Ginny: Yes, thank you.</P>
<P>* Celeste (Ginny): Good morning, this is Celeste. Your discussions on<BR>relationship brought me here. I am one who has been assigned to help out in this<BR>field of bringing opposites together. I have recently been hanging out, so to<BR>speak, in your aura of energy in your group, and your dealings with this<BR>phenomenon of relationship has piqued my interest, being out to ask for an<BR>audition. I have been granted this privilege of speaking with you.<BR> I can be compared perhaps with Cupid who loves to be around when beings are<BR>brought together for exchange, and I can help out, so to speak, with the dynamics<BR>of relationship. All the universe is in relationship. All beings, all energy<BR>sources, are in relationship. Nothing can exist without relationship. So your<BR>interest now in promoting this in your lives, making it more active, taking more<BR>risks, is a good thing to practice.<BR> You do not know fully everything that happens in an exchange, be it in<BR>person or by telephone or your computers, whatever. You cannot fully understand<BR>the dynamics of your efforts, but you can truly trust that we are here; we are<BR>alert, and we are ready to help you enhance your connections.<BR> Goodness and beauty and truth have a magnetic quality in all beings. All<BR>beings whether they know it or not are ready to respond to a heartfelt<BR>connection. There are many who long to express themselves if only a moment would<BR>be risked by one or the other. It is my experience that much good takes place<BR>when you put yourselves out, so to speak, with a kind word, a question, a smile,<BR>a barter. So as you pass by, as you continue your relationships in the<BR>marketplace wherever that may be, always respond to the nudges that you receive<BR>to reach out and touch someone. These are the relationships that are so valued<BR>and so much needed in your lives on this planet where things are in such chaos<BR>and where people are in so much of a hurry to deliver their goods, so to speak,<BR>to get work done, to make more money, to busy yourselves with everyday matters.<BR> Your stillness will help you clear yourselves even though you do not notice<BR>it or feel it. It will prepare you for these moments where you can take with<BR>more ease more risks. It becomes after a while a habit, a pattern of behavior<BR>that is yours and will stay with you.<BR> I delight in being present at these exchanges, for it is surely the music<BR>of the universe. I am delighted to be here, and I will hang around so I too can<BR>learn of your methods whereby you make contact with each other. Thank you.</P>
<P> Evelyn: Could Celeste tell us a little more about herself?</P>
<P> Ginny: I am getting that she is a celestial artisan...<BR>* Celeste: ...who delights in helping the spirit grow through expression,<BR>through connections, through relationships.</P>
<P> Jonathan: Celestial artisans come from many orders. What order of being<BR>are you? Angel, mortal?</P>
<P>* Celeste: I am of angelic origin. I am here to assist this planet as it<BR>evolves toward Light and Life.</P>
<P> Jonathan: Relationship skills are much needed. From government to<BR>families it’s the big struggle.</P>
<P>* Celeste: Yes, and the energy that is put forth when one expresses oneself,<BR>reaches out to another, is where we excel to bring that to completion.</P>
<P> Jonathan: You mentioned being Cupid. It falls to us to connect, then you<BR>are helpful in fostering, uplifting the connection. You aren’t a matchmaker so<BR>much as a match enhancer.</P>
<P>* Celeste: Exactly so in all relationships where one reaches out to another<BR>and the other is prompted to respond.<BR> Hopefully as this TR gets more used to my presence we can converse further.</P>
<P>* Jessona (Jonathan): This is Jessona. I wish to step in at this time to<BR>address my delightful student and his inquiry about the line in the Urantia text,<BR>“Love is the desire to do good to others”, and I wish to add to that, like that,<BR>love is also the desire to receive truth from others. It is that openness, the<BR>willingness and wanting as a child to its parent who loves naturally and trusts<BR>always that the parent will provide rightfully. Love is that desire to receive<BR>truth from another just as love is the desire to do good to others, for you have<BR>in that sense found in your spirit being the parental side of that parent/child<BR>equation where you want to bestow goodness upon another as a parent does for a<BR>child.<BR> Thirdly, is the level of equality, the horizontal plane, where love is the<BR>desire to experience beauty with others, to share in the mutuality of that<BR>manifestation of divinity which is beauty. You know that whenever you encounter<BR>an event beautiful in its expression the first impulse is to see if another<BR>likewise has seen, heard, smelled, or touched that same beauty. Beauty is<BR>enhanced by being shared. Sharing is Godlike, and therein is where beauty is<BR>magnified.<BR> I seek your input.</P>
<P> Tom: Well said. Thank you. That gives us some ammunition to approach our<BR>horizontal relationships.</P>
<P>* Jessona: Also I might add that, as you mentioned love being the big fifty<BR>dollar bill and seeking ways to break that bill down, my comments are in a sense,<BR>the smaller bills, and that fruit of the spirit is the change, the coins that are<BR>spent freely, easily cast about. Less concern for the spending of a quarter<BR>occurs than when you must spend a five dollar bill. The fruits of the spirit are<BR>the coins of love being spread everywhere.<BR> I thank you for having expressed this perspective so that I may join with<BR>you in embellishing it.</P>
<P> Evelyn: I’m glad you pointed out that love is the desire to receive truth. <BR>We are so disinclined to ask for things or allow someone to give. It takes a<BR>certain maturity to allow someone the space to give.</P>
<P>* Jessona: Thank you. I could have said love is the desire to give truth to<BR>others, however, I would have had to go on at length qualifying that, for not<BR>always is the human motivation loving in wanting to give truth to another. <BR>However, in the desire to receive truth it is the openness of love that causes<BR>the receptivity.</P>
<P> Tom: So we have a tetrahedron with love at the top. The desire to do good<BR>to others is the service, goodness aspect. The shared truths are the truth leg<BR>of the corner, and the shared beauty. So we have three ways to look at love, it<BR>being so huge.</P>
<P>* Jessona: And your beauty point of the tetrahedron is correlated with<BR>worship, for worship does increase in its experience of beauty when in fellowship<BR>with others. Truth is the advancement of wisdom. Wisdom is received and owned;<BR>never is wisdom placed upon another. It may be demonstrated, but it is always<BR>the willingness to receive truth that yields wisdom.</P>
<P> Evelyn: That was beautiful; thanks for sharing.</P>
<P>* Jessona: I will withdraw. I can say that this integration of love to love<BR>through truth, beauty, and goodness is the stability that you can have that will<BR>make you strong and give you stamina when hardships confront you in your life.<BR> Until later, farewell.<BR></P>