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<P>Group: Northern Colorado TeaM Group #27</P>
<P>Topics: Preparation</P>
<P> Adversity</P>
<P>Teachers: <B>Rayson, & Arista </B>(TR Dirk)</P><B>
<P>October 27, 2002</P></B>
<P>Dirk: It is our intention today to speak with our Celestial Friends and
Teachers. This is a normal Teaching Mission session, although there are just two
of us here today (and all of our unseen friends, of course.) We are attempting
to receive the lessons under the auspices of the Melchizedeks and Michael and
Nebadonia, the Correcting Time and the Teaching Mission. We will do some
Stillness now.</P>
<P>This is Teacher Rayson, good afternoon students. </P>
<P>Student: Good afternoon, Rayson. Nice of you to join us.</P>
<P>Rayson: We are pleased that you continue on without those to "make a show
for," if that were your intentions. We have not doubted your sincerity for quite
awhile, and we know that you will continue, no matter what, should there be only
two of you. I am delighted to see this effort, especially in light of your
recent medical treatments. You seem to have done preparation that facilitated
your trip through this world of chemotherapy with ease and relative comfort. It
can be thus for those who believe it can, and who take the steps necessary to
make it so. Have you questions this afternoon?</P>
<P>Student: Nothing that comes to mind immediately, Rayson.</P>
<P>Rayson: Dirk’s speculation about what is occurring in his physical organism
as to why he is not having the usual pronounced effects and side effects from
his chemotherapy, is quite accurate. [Note: refers to a conversation we had over
breakfast.] Your Mother Nebadonia and unseen friends are protecting organs and
processes in the body and channeling chemotherapy drugs, specifically to the
lesions.</P>
<P>Student: That makes us feel very, very happy! Thank you, Rayson!</P>
<P>Rayson: It is our pleasure to do work with those who prepare, those who have
made the decision to follow the Father’s path. The path is not always extremely
difficult and rocky and hard of passage. There are decisions you have made that
have smoothed this part of the journey for your benefit. Regarding your earlier
conversation about "how you share" and how to be aware of "what to share, with
whom and at what time," this is the part you may relinquish to Michael, for is
he not the most experienced? (Yes.) Your greatest danger is hiding your light
under the bushel. You will be helped and directed in your exchanges with fellow
students, brothers and sisters, acquaintances—even strangers. Have you questions
concerning this?</P>
<P>Student: No, but I will apply your technique/tool, about asking Michael for
guidance.</P>
<P>Rayson: Yes, this you can do internally; it is a minor shift in gears from
human ego to Michael’s message. Your objective is to let your light shine and it
will be used most efficaciously by your unseen friends and Michael.</P>
<P>Student: Thank you, Rayson.</P>
<P>Rayson: We observe that you are preparing to do the same kind of preparation
for each of your chemotherapy sessions. This is wise; it will facilitate the
work of your unseen friends and Nebadonia, through the coming sessions as well.
Feel free to do this, as you see fit. Remember there are those anxious to see
your well-placed progress on your path. We feel that your efforts toward the
Teaching Mission and the Correcting Time will be very helpful and very well
received in your future, here on Urantia. And now we have a lesson today from
Arista, I believe. </P>
<P>Arista: Good afternoon students, this is Arista. (Good afternoon, Arista.) It
is my lesson today to talk about—I was going to say "Adversity"—but upon
examining your backgrounds, I see that you perhaps have understood adversity
quite well and mastered many of it’s aspects. Can you imagine what kinds of
adversities you will face after you leave Urantia? (Student: No, I have no
"clue!") Yes. Even now, you are preparing for them. You are overcoming your
prejudices, your twinges of superiority, and your tics of bigotry, and are
greatly conquering your "flash points" in your spiritual poisons. You are not
nearly as quick to anger, have little fear (unless it is in cases of "tape
removal")* and I believe exposure to more of your fellow Urantians will
facilitate greatly your growth in areas of prejudice, bigotry, superiority. Your
progress on your path to the Father reduces these; you cannot stay on the path
and embrace "poison," or fear, or hatred, or envy, or greed. </P>
<P>Your progress has been spectacular in the time since you have seriously
started working on these byways to the path. (Thank you.) It has been our
pleasure to observe and be of service whenever and where ever we could. Remember
the joy and the celebration of accomplishment! We feel that that is what you are
doing in holding this group today. You have decided to share with us your joy
and progress you have made, and progress in overcoming chemotherapy chemicals
and their effects. So you see, this is our way of celebrating with you. We
salute you and applaud your progress and are ready to march on the next mile
with you, as you so eloquently state you plan to do. We will be with you. (We
welcome your company!) And so, I have no further lesson. I believe this
concludes our Sunday afternoon session. Love to you all. Good day.</P>
<P>(Students: Good day—thank you for coming.)</P>
<P>[Note from transcriber: During a biopsy procedure, large amounts of very
sticky surgical tape were applied over large areas of very "hairy skin," which
was later ripped off hastily, taking layers of skin and hair follicles with it.
Rayson said Dirk could be heard even on the Teacher’s World! Dirk now has a
phobia about tape removal.)</P></FONT></FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>