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<p><font face="Arial" size="2">Ham 09-28-2003</font></p>
<p><font face="Arial" size="2">Greetings, children, I am Ham and I am happy
to be with you this evening. Often we have spoken concerning the life of
the spirit, and again we wish to speak of this broad and profound topic.
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<p><font face="Arial" size="2">Many people spend their lives within the realms
of mind and matter without often venturing into the spiritual realm of life.
The venturing forward sometimes can involve many steps forward and many
steps back before you may be comfortable functioning in the spiritual dimension,
in the realm where you and exposed completely to the benevolent scrutiny
of higher mind and higher soul. This consciousness of exposure can be frightening
and difficult to adjust to. Most human beings continue for long periods
with a kind of secret compartment where things are not exposed or shared
with God, but this state of affairs cannot continue indefinitely and one
must make the decision to open everything, to share everything, to confide
everything to God, that loving, understanding, friendly and respectful spirit
who stands ever ready to share everything He has with you. </font></p>
<p><font face="Arial" size="2">When you share your life with God, when you
open the inner compartments of your heart, when you stand exposed to the
high beam of the Father’s gaze, you will find that you have nothing there
that is so shameful, nothing that is so frightening that the Father will
not understand and begin to allow you to understand. Most human beings have
parts of themselves that have remained locked away for a long time, so that
the person himself does not understand what lies within. But usually, it
is a wonderful part of yourself that is hidden, it is something that the
Father wishes to nurture and grow that has been stunted and held back by
some secret shame of fear. Once this guilt of guilt-syndrom of shame and
fear is removed, that part of you can being to grow again, can begin to
seek the Father’s light and love and can become a mighty branch on the tree
of your life. </font></p>
<p><font face="Arial" size="2">Human beings pretty much invariably feel more
guilt, feel themselves to be less worthy and feel that everyone else is
ahead of them somehow. You feel that you have more to feel guilty about
than other people, more to be ashamed of, more to hide away and not let
anyone see it - you push it back into your mind where it is forgotten. But,
all things must come to the Father’s light. There is nothing that is hidden
that will not be revealed, nothing that is unworthy of His love, if it is
part of you. The Father’s love reaches all human beings eventually. The
Father’s reach extends completely through you. There is nothing that is
truly hidden, nothing that can remain so. </font></p>
<p><font face="Arial" size="2">Leading a life of the spirit is not an easy
road. It is a road that requires much, it is a road that does not allow
you to take any short-cuts or to re-route your path, for the Father gives
everything. Once you have made the decision to know God and become increasingly
filled with Him and therefore to become like Him, each obstacle must be
gradually pared off, and like Jonah, you may run from place to place, cross
the seas, change jobs, spouses, towns, and you will find at each new place
the same sets of problems, the same repeating cycles of behavior until you
open those inner boxes and reveal the things that are hidden to your self
and to God. The Psalmist wrote, "create in me a clean heart, Oh Lord," and
this sincere longing must be true for every person who desires to know God
completely and without reservation. </font></p>
<p><font face="Arial" size="2">The Psalmist of long ago, asked God to come
into his heart, to open up the hidden places and to purify and cleanse those
things which are impure, those things which are like a secret sin that has
been locked away from God. "Come into my heart, clean away all those things
which require cleansing, change my feelings, my attitude, my ideas, my life.
Create in me that which reflects Your spirit." This is truly the way of
the spirit, these are truly the steps along the pathway. To truly enter
the Kingdom of God as the Master put it, you must allow all cleansing, you
must allow all that serves you not to be left outside, you must be willing
to be born again, to see life with new eyes and to live life thereafter
with a clean and pure heart. Now, this is not to say that the cleansing
process itself is instant, or that you will not find need of periodic cleansing
after your first experience, but you are willing to allow this, you are
willing to stand naked before God with nothing hidden, nothing set aside
that will be brought back. The delight in righteousness that we often speak
of, comes with this process. Your moral sense will be deepened and broadened,
your love for others will be limitless, you patience and understanding will
expand and you will delight in finding yourself a human being on a small
planet, on the outer edges of the universe, just beginning a great and eternal
life. The spirit itself will instruct you. It is not enough to follow moral
laws themselves, but rather to expand your own moral sense in ways that
the Father will show you, in new ways, in exciting chapters of your life.
Be willing my friends to open your hearts completely everyday and ask the
Father to create a clean heart within you. Are there questions at this time?</font></p>
<p><font face="Arial" size="2">Q: Do you have any counsel for me tonight?</font></p>
<p><font face="Arial" size="2">A: Yes my son, you are doing very well. Many
new and exciting chapters are opening for you. Your life will undergo some
changes, some restructuring, and you must have faith in yourself, and that
the Father has placed these responsibilities on you for a purpose. So when
you discharge your responsibilities to others, you will be discharging your
responsibilities the Father himself and to the Master himself. The work
that you have completed during this process of opening and cleansing has
been extremely valuable. You are coming to have love and compassion for
yourself, where before there was guilt, shame and feelings of unworthiness,
feelings of being unworthy of the Father’s love and His gentle guidance,
but now you are past his, you are becoming attuned to His guidance and attuned
to your teacher’s gentle prodding. All of this will be a great benefit as
time goes on and your stature in the world gradually comes to reflect this
knowledge of worthiness and the cleansing of the past, with its associated
feelings continues. Remember that each day, your life is new and each day
you can make new decisions that effect the days to come. Be unafraid of
all these things, for this is part of the godly life. Is this helping?</font></p>
<p><font face="Arial" size="2">Q: I would also like to know if you have anything
for me.</font></p>
<p><font face="Arial" size="2">A: Yes, my son, you are also doing well. Likewise,
your life has been changing and you also have been going through a cleansing
process. You have always had a great urge to be self-expressive, to rebel
against the tried and true and to strike out in new ways, some of which
have been good for you and some, of course, have not been good for you.
But these things are simply the path of your life and so have been necessary
for your learning. All of you have had difficulties, hard roads and difficulties
making adjustments and changes necessary, but my son, you have been ever
more willing to make those changes, to adjust yourself to change the old
thinking and become new, to become re-born. When the Master used this phrase,
this re-birth, he meant it to be taken very seriously because going through
this process can be tumultuous, like a stormy birth, but thereafter, your
life changes, your focus changes, your values change and what you want out
of life is altered. This is what you have been experiencing the last few
years, a re-directing of your will, so to speak, an aligning of your will
with the divine will, the Father’s will for you in life. This is not to
say that every little thing will reflect the Father’s great desire for you,
all of life is a mixture. For within life there are things which are the
Father’s will and things which are not necessarily the Father’s will because
of His allowing each human being freedom, freedom of will. So don’t get caught
up in the details, but keep your eyes focused on where you’re going, and
let the details take care of themselves. Focus on the grand scheme, focus
on Eternal life and you will find the way here will straighten and become
more certain.</font></p>
<p><font face="Arial" size="2">Q: inaudible</font></p>
<p><font face="Arial" size="2">A: Yes, my daughter, you are doing very well,
and you are coming through into a new era of your life. The struggles you
have had with understanding God over the past year have been profound, and
have created within you a much deeper thought process concerning the nature
of reality and life; why we are here and so forth. Life is brief, much too
brief for most human beings, but during this life, you must come to a kind
of peace with God and as yet you have declared a truce, but have not as
yet partaken of His peace completely. The profound sadness still wells up,
but it does not prevent your spiritual growth, does not change the direction
of your growth, it does not limit your growth. Sometimes people get caught
in a cycle of thought that seems to go nowhere, but in reality, it is more
like a spiral, and as time goes on, that thought expands and encompasses
more and more. This is what you are experiencing, this expanding of that
cycle. It’s still okay to think of yourself, to think of your own healing.
It’s alright to put that first and to go through what is required. All is
well, my dear, be at peace.</font></p>
<p><font face="Arial" size="2">Q: May I ask for a message for Jim?</font></p>
<p><font face="Arial" size="2">A; Of course, my son you do very well. This
lesson in many ways, is very pertinent for you this week. You are always
considering the past as well as the present and this process continues as
you grow and change and develop. The old answers don’t always satisfy anymore,
the old way of seeing and being does not always work when so much change
is required, so much adjustment. So continue to create an open heart and
to follow the Father’s leading, wherever this may take you, intellectually
and emotionally as well as physically. Be unafraid of change.</font></p>
<p><font face="Arial" size="2">Q: inaudible</font></p>
<p><font face="Arial" size="2">A: Of course my daughter. Yes, you are continually
rearranging the furniture within yourself to always be pleasing to God,
but real change is upon you, real spiritual movement is occurring. And so
the old room no longer suffices when all things are new. Go ahead and embrace
this inner change, this realignment and allow this leading, this spiritual
impetus to rearrange the past, to sort through it, without your having to
do so yourself - if this makes sense to you. Some things are best left to
their own unconscious devices. Allow the Father to rearrange and sort through
and make sense of for you, and then allow these realizations to come to
you, rather than trying to wrench them before they are completely flowering
in your consciousness. So be at ease, my daughter, for you do very well.</font></p>
<p><font face="Arial" size="2">Q: Anything for Rebecca?</font></p>
<p><font face="Arial" size="2">A: Yes, my daughter you are doing very well.
Many things are opening in your soul, many new growth is occurring, many
new flowers are beginning to bud and to bloom. Find that assurance that
will ground you in this process so that your roots go deep and have a firmness,
a deep, solid grounding in life and in thought. </font></p>
<p><font face="Arial" size="2">My son, you must not worry concerning these
changes in your partner. These things will bring you closer, these life-levels
that you each must traverse together, will bring you great joy and great
happiness. You, my son, are doing very well. You have consistently fulfilled
all requirements. You have generously and completely tackled all effort
required. You have held nothing back in your search for God. Your achievements
have been greater than you know. Your impact in the world has been much
greater than you understand and your work is still in its infancy. All of
you must understand that your lives are just at the very beginning, whatever
your age in years, however long your lives extend in the physical plane,
is tiny, and when you awaken in the new life, in the new world, then the
real work begins. Most of what you do here is preparation, it is the initial
tilling of the soil and sowing of the seed. The harvest is in the next life.
This life is too short for you to see the fruition of all that you do and
all you have done. Be at ease, therefore my son, in all things. Everything
goes very well. Be assured.</font></p>
<p><font face="Arial" size="2">Q: <font face="Times New">Charlie Beyer asks:
Ham, In several weekly progress reports to me, you noted quite correctly
that I have to move beyond certain "thought patterns" which have become
obstacles that I must deal with in order for me to move ahead. To be honest
with you, Ham, one big problem I've been trying to deal with as I am growing
older is the realization of my mortal frailties....I realize we all age,
and often we don't all age very well....Yet, I also realize that our world
experienced the default of Adam and Eve and we Urantians have been deprived
the biological upliftment of our race which would have occurred if we had
received the adamic blood. My "obstacle" is that I feel the heavenly powers
who control and administer our world continue to deprive us of these biological
upliftments, and I can't get over the fact that they don't offer us more
hope and help in this area. For instance....On a normal world, which was
not deprived of the adamic blood, the people often live to be 500 years
old, which gives them plenty of time to commune and eventually fuse with
their adjuster during their normal lifetime...Yet, here on urantia, our
short lifespans do not afford us that same opportunity....Plus we are plagued
with a host of diseases that often cut our lives off even more prematurely.
Anyway.... In a recently posted transcript, which noted the graduation of
mission member Bill Kelly, Monjoronson (our world's magesterial son) revealed
that a "morontial/material blending process" is in the works which is intended
to biologically uplift those of us living on Urantia. Monjoronson said:
"The blending of the Morontial/Material process is truly a gift that will
help lead Urantians into a more spiritual awareness and growth beyond your
present understanding.....I look forward to answering your questions in-group
form or individual through you circuit connection. Understand that anyone
who wishes for greater spiritual understanding with their Thought Adjuster
and the upliftment of Urantia are welcome to this process." My questions
to you, Ham are: Is this transcript from Monjoronson accurate? </font></font></p>
<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><font face="Times New">(Other questions followed,
but were not read aloud)</font></font></p>
<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><font face="Times New">A: My son, let me help
your understanding. All spiritual growth, all spiritual growth, involves
the blending of the spiritual and the material and helps to create the morontia
soul. This soul, this blending of the two, does have some repercussion with
the physical. The Master said, "the well of health will spring up within
you. This is what he spoke of, this blending of that which has perfection,
the spirit, with that which is imperfect: matter. This is not to say that
your lives will be dramatically extended or that you will avoid disease or
that the aging process will not continue. All these things are part of life,
all these things will happen. The physical body is wrought with problems
because it is a material construct. You cannot expect, no matter how much
spiritual growth you have achieved in life, to avoid the problems associated
with bodily aging. These physical problems, these things which enforce a
change of lifestyle, that perhaps force a slowing down, a reassessment of
life, these things are not necessarily bad for the spirit. Going from being
robust and seemingly indestructible in the body to limited physical activities
and frailties; these things are humbling, these things are spiritually valuable
and so it perhaps is not wise that they be avoided entirely. Each person
must strive to come to a place where every day is a gift, every step in
life is valued and treasured and aging confers these gifts on humankind,
confers wisdom and a sense of fragility in life, which makes it more precious.
All these things are part of a growing in wisdom, they are becoming now
a part of your spiritual growth. Welcome them, then, make the necessary
adjustments, strive for the spirit and gradually relinquish the material.
Anything left undone in this life, can be done in the next. You do not lose
anything by death, but you rather gain that next step, gain the very valuable
consciousness of death, a ver valuable understanding of your life as a whole
after your death, and your life as it shall extend. Do not worry concerning
whether this or that transcript is accurate or not. Take from each what
is valuable to you. Take from each what speaks to you, what deepens your
sense of the spirit, but do not make the mistake of expecting magical solutions
or miraculous healings, for as an agondonter, you must live entirely by
faith.</font></font></p>
<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><font face="Times New">Q: Message for Norbert,
please.</font></font></p>
<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><font face="Times New">A: My son, be at peace.
Life is not as complicated as you sometimes tend to make it. Some things
simply are, without too much complex origination. Learn to be accepting
of that which is, without being resentful against that which was. The day
is now. The time is yours to change what you can, to grow as best you can
and to deepen your understanding as best you can each day. Rest in complete
assurance that no man carries more than he is able. The Father gives you
that which you can carry, not more and not less, so be grateful for what
is, and be grateful for what you can learn.</font></font></p>
<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><font face="Times New">Are there any further
questions at this time? In that case, my children, go in peace. My love
and prayers go with you each. Farewell.</font></font></p>
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