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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">SEI TeaM </P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">*<B>Daniel</B> (Bob S.): This is Daniel, my friends.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Let us pray.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><I>To those whose universe we inhabit, we give thanks from our limited perspective on these opportunities, which have been presented, to all of us.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We ask You, Creators, to oversee our attempts to walk this path you have set before each of us.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Help us to see the step that lays next before us.</I><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Amen.</P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><B>*Daniel</B> (Nancy K.): Greetings my dear students, this is your guide and teacher, Daniel, continuing.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>As always it is my pleasure to welcome you back together and to comment on your endeavors of the week or weeks; whatever the time gap between these formal times together.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">It is with great joy that I smile upon each of your progress.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Tonight I wish to focus our group conversation on this concept of progress.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I wish to begin by discussing individual progress, then moving to group progress, and finally I will address the state of Urantia.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I provide this overview in part to assist our TR in dealing with her fears of the unknown, in unknown material.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I smile as I say this.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I have heard it is an efficacious teaching technique.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">My dear friends, you do well.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Each of you is progressing steadily on your paths to the Father.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I have chosen this topic tonight because I realize that it does not always feel as if you are progressing.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Often as you judge it, you are stagnant, or slipping, or advancing in a sluggish manner.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Recall earlier times and older lessons, and you will remember that you were told that you cannot judge your own progress any more than you can judge another’s.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is, first, not for you to do, and second, it is not, you do not have the ability.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You do not see the vastness of the interactions and the complexity of intention.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">You do not understand the workings of mind.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You do not know the layers of mind, and so, you do not know your own mind.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Now please understand that I am using the word mind in its broader meaning, not referring to the thought processes of the ego.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>So you are not in the position to judge your progress, but you can know your intention; you can know your desire, and you can discern your intent.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">We are also not in the position to judge your progress, for it is not ours to judge anymore than it is yours.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>However, we have a broader understanding, and have watched you with loving affection, and see results that you miss in your assessments.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">I again wish to commend each of you for your individual work and for the trueness of your intention and the shining desire to know the Father and to do His will that glows hot and white in each (of you). </P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">As a group you continue to progress.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The quality of the energy that you create jointly in your shared prayer time, and in this time of reception and reflection, continues to grow in brilliance and in it’s ability to have a significant effect upon the human group consciousness.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I would reiterate the thought that both Nancy and Virginia heard this weekend.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>There is a need for cells-of-love, for groups of people to come together, to share love-consciousness, to focus this consciousness together, for there are synergies in collective action.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>As a group, you have been doing this for many years.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The brilliance of your connection grows stronger and more effective.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>As a group you are progressing.</P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">Now we turn to the state of the world and take up a theme that is on many of your minds.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>As you read your papers, listen to the nightly news, discuss with your friends and colleagues the state of the nations, the state of the world, you can feel very discouraged, and it can appear the forces of destruction outweigh the forces of creation.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I assure you this is not possible; always will the forces of creation prevail.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And progress too is happening at the planetary level.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>So I remind you of the nature of change: change is not linear, smooth, gradual, when experienced microscopically, but often happens in fits and starts.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>A sense of chaos may precede forward motion.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Science is realizing this even in child development. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It is natural and necessary for a developing child to appear to regress, and in that regression for chaos to appear in the family for a time.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Not only is it natural but necessary for the next step.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>In your own lives you may often feel the most out-of-touch, the most-lost, the most-disconnected, the most-abandoned and perhaps frustrated, prior to the pieces reforming at a higher level than where they seemingly fell apart.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">This is also how change occurs at the social level.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>So while things are very<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>dangerous, yes, while there is much error, many unfortunate situations, poor decisions, etc, many of you are responding, many of you are making those personal decisions to extend yourselves.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>As situations continue to slide, the need to wake up becomes greater, the call becomes louder, and the response is there, and this is what you may not see.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You are less aware of the hearts that are turning to the Father asking for answers, seeking assistance, offering themselves to the solution, than we are.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>So I say to you progress is occurring at the planetary level, as well.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">This week I ask you to consider the nature of progress and apply this understanding at the many levels in which you function, in which your thoughts turn.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Although progress is often looked to as a great good, and a happy thing, I would point out that progress never comes without change, and change is often experienced as uncomfortable.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">So this week consider that what we tell you may be true, progress may be occurring on all levels.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>As you consider this, note your physiological response.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And for the sake of contrast, decide for a moment to not believe it, experience pessimism, despair, and note your physiologic response.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Allow the hope and the promise inherent in progress to overcome the discomfort inherent in change.</P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">I am now open for discussion in what ever form that discussion may come.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>(pause)<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You are a quiet group tonight.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Are you feeling challenging this evening or simply weary, or none of the above?</P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">Ken: Did you say challenging or challenged.</P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><B>*Daniel:</B> Challenging!.</P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">Ken: Well, we are challenged, or I am challenged.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The bar was raised again tonight.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Thank you.</P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><B>*Daniel</B>: You are welcome.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Well my friends …<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>going once … going twice … let us stand and hold hands.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And my dear, before I begin our final prayer, may I wish you, Virginia, a very, if not happy, congratulatory birthday.</P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">Virginia: Thank you Daniel.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>(You do well) </P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><B>*Daniel:</B> Klarixiska requests the privilege of the final prayer. </P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><B>*Klarixiska</B> (Virginia): <I><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>God of hope and promise, God of progress, God of forgiveness, God of total awareness, we thank You that You are the One that is God.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We thank You for Your hope, that is expressed in angels and guides.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We thank You for Your promise that all things can be used for good.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We thank You for progress.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We thank You, that on Urantia, there have been positive changes.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Give these students optimism, gratitude, and the ability to overcome, so that they might be able to love those that would appear unlovely.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></I>Amen</P></DIV>
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