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<div align="left"><font face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:12pt">North Idaho Teaching Mission
Group</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:12pt">Topics: Enrichment, The Spiritual
Waters, Ministry</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:12pt">Teachers: Evanson, Elyon, Michael</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:12pt">March 2, 2003</span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:12pt">*   Evanson (Jonathan
TR):  It was said by the master that you are the
salt of the earth, and he spoke at a time when this ingredient held great
value even beyond its culinary use.  To possess it was as important as the
consumption of it, even over the value it added to that which it was
included in.  So, does it apply to you.  While this particular compound
holds less import in your current civilization, the principle of its
enrichment applies today as it did then.  The question was asked, if salt
looses its flavor, how shall it be salty?, and this splendid question
halts the mind with a perplexity: how does salt become salty if it no
longer is?  You know from your pursuit of spiritual truths and the
application of these truths in your lives, that enrichment is from spirit,
that, as in the case of salt, sodium and chloride can combine and be a
molecule.  But it is in its tasting that saltiness is observed,
experienced.  You study, you worship, you serve.  These elements combine
in your life and this combination, this whole quality of your being, is
that spiritual flavor that others detect: how you conduct the affairs of
your life, how you tend to your physical temple, how you train your mind,
how you guide your emotions, how you pray.  Sometimes the salt is good.
Sometimes it stings in a wound.</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:12pt">    You
have experienced over your years the benefits of being enriched by
the master, by Father, by Mother.  You have witnessed the benefits of such
nourishment: the expansion of your soul, in general good well-being, as
well as the ability to wrestle with the complications of life and to do so
positively, to maintain your connection even midst aggravation.  This
experience of being enriched has impacted your lives to the point that you
desire to be enriching to others.  Again, the master’s phrase of salt
becomes a description of the movement of connection to God, appreciation
of the reception of His nourishing grace, and your willingness to be the
salt upon the food of the hungry souls in your lives.</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:12pt">    If this
salt sits within its container it lies there in potential but
is of no service until it is dispensed.  That is why you are encouraged to
reach out, to be bold, to allow that potential that has built within you
to become nourishing, to enhance spiritual flavor in the lives of your
fellows.</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:12pt">    I am
aware that you can -- and often do -- survey your inner being and
notice impurities amongst your salt.  These can be eliminated from your
life.  While they may appear as a hindrance to you, do know that the
hungry soul of another will not taste your impurities, for it seeks salt,
and that it will recognize.  The ministry of grace through you by Father
is what the soul of another seeks to taste.  Be an enrichment, be an
enhancer.  As for sensitivity to that which you perceive as fault within
yourself, let us imagine for the time being these impurities to be simply
a few grains of sand amongst the salt.</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:12pt">    Again
the master said he is the water of life.  Let that water that he
is fill your container of salt.  Merge with the presence of Michael.  The
salt recognizes the water, dissolves, and is suspended within it as you
are in the embrace of worship.  All the grains of sand fall to the bottom.
They do not merge into solution as does the salt.  Seek that still time.
Be absorbed in the presence of God.  Become enriched.  Let your impurities
and your faults and flaws fall, and you will be radiant for others’
uplifting.</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:12pt">    This
is Evanson.  Thank you.</span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:12pt">*   Elyon (Mark): 
Indeed the water from our Father lifts us up.  It
provides the buoyancy.  When we allow it to flood into our beings we are
lifted and raised as the cork floats on the liquid.  We are cleansed as
the water washes over us and sweeps away our impurities.  We are refreshed
in body and in spirit by the introduction of these soothing waters.  In
all these ways the water from our divine Parents  flows through and around
us and provides us the pool in which we are indeed in contact with all
those around us, even all those of our world.  This is a pool large enough
to include all who exist and, when seen as the mode of operation and
transportation, this liquid may be used to help us transport ourselves to
where we would be, to straighten our sails and set our sights to use the
action of this liquid to propel ourselves with the help from the breath of
the universe, our Mother Spirit.</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:12pt">    Water
has long since on your world been used to symbolize many
cleansing and ritualistic acts which provide your fellows with an
experience which is meant to signify an internal experience and provides
for the outward show of this experience.  Every child has a curiosity with
water and, if not monitored closely, is in danger of their curiosity being
their demise around water.  As a small child that curiosity turns to fear
when they are exposed to a medium in which they do not have control over
their buoyancy.  As a child grows and learns to understand the properties
of the new environment he becomes excited at the challenge of learning to
swim.  As an adult one may become interested and excited at the prospect
of mastering crafts on the open waters, even crossing large bodies of
water with the skills attained from the growth as an adult individual of
the realm.  All the while the liquid, the water, the properties of liquid
did not change from the infant to the small child to the swimmer to the
sailor.  It was simply a matter of educational standing of the medium and
therefore mastery over its properties.  This is analogous to your
spiritual career.  At first the waters may be intriguing as a small
infant, then as a youth may be intimidating as you realize you do not have
mastery over this environment.  As a mature individual one may choose to
take swimming lessons and to gain the experience of diving in headfirst
and meeting the challenge and overcoming the obstacles, even accepting the
challenge to embark on a great journey over this great liquid and setting
out on this journey in the knowledge, comfort, and strength that you have
mastery over the skills necessary to traverse such a distance.  This cycle
is repeated over and over in your spiritual careers:  Introduction, fear,
curiosity, accomplishment, and success.  As you see this pattern crop up
in your spiritual lives, you begin to understand the mechanism and begin
to see this process as intriguing, even exciting.</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:12pt">    All
of us here floating in this spiritual medium are treading water.
We have all gathered as a group of swimmers in this environment, and you
look to me and my associates to show you the subtleties of floating and
using the properties of this water to gain propulsion and make your
journey smoother.  As sailors on deck these are the skills you learn when
you sign on to the voyage and take orders from the captain and gain your
life experience.  Soon this cycle will be complete and you will captain
your own ships out upon the high seas and give your own orders that your
vessel be shipshape and be directed toward the farthest shore with
ultimate confidence in your success of arrival.</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:12pt">    Thank
you for hearing my words today.  I remain in attendance.  This
is Elyon.</span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:12pt">*   Michael (Jonathan): 
Teachers, students, I address you today.  This is
Michael.  You at this point in the development of Urantia have exposure to
many undertakings.  Through the reports of your human broadcast systems
you are in touch with much that goes on on this planet.  I do note that it
is often burdening to your hearts.  When I dwelt upon this world I would
seek centers of exchange wherein I might hear of reports from afar.  I
longed to know what all my brethren, my children, were doing, seeking, and
longing for.  But my task was simple and it was local.  While there were
many in far away places whom I would have longed to have taught, to have
touched, there were a few in the towns I did visit that I was able to do
much for their welfare, for their spiritual salvation.   These few
dedicated disciples have impacted this world to a great extent.  I have
commissioned you all to follow in their footsteps.  You likewise long to
minister to and uplift the hurting peoples everywhere.  You do a wonderful
job at focusing within your neighborhood, within the few towns where you
live.  When I arrived on this world few knew of the implications of my
bestowal.  When I left not many more understood what I came to do.
Centuries later far more understand.  This impact repeats itself in all of
your lives.  Trust your motives; trust your actions, for while you may
come and go as I came and went, many remain on this world to carry on the
work that has been handed generation after generation from one of my
seeking children to another.</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:12pt">    I give
you all my blessings, each one of you singly and upon all of
you collectively.  Peace.</span></font></div>
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