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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><b style=""><span
style="font-family: Arial;">Ham June 6, 2004<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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style="font-family: Arial;"> <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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style="font-family: Arial;">Greetings children, I am Ham and I am
happy to have you each here this evening.<span style=""> </span>Let
us speak about humility once again.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="font-family: Arial;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span
style="font-family: Arial;">My friends, you are each learning about
how to walk humbly with God.<span style=""> </span>Part of that
effort must be to continually reign in your own personal expectations.<span
style=""> </span>Part of it concerns concentrating so much on the
work that you forget the ego involvement in the work.<span style=""> </span>You
must each reach a point where neither praise nor criticism effects you,
for all your needs are met by the Master’s love, and so all else seems
pale and shadowy in comparison with the reality of his presence.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="font-family: Arial;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span
style="font-family: Arial;">It is wholly appropriate to take stands,
fight for causes, and create something unique in the business world, or
the worlds of arts and science.<span style=""> </span>Being humble
does not mean being invisible.<span style=""> </span>Humility is a
mark of perspective.<span style=""> </span>It is an understanding
that life is but a day’s work, and whatever you may accomplish or try
to accomplish is tiny, and but a beginning step in your eternal career.<span
style=""> </span>It is also an acknowledgement of the truth of the
Father’s over control of your lives, an understanding that you do
nothing but what the Father allows.<span style=""> </span>You are
given nothing but what the Father gives you, and you change nothing but
what the Father allows you to change.<span style=""> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="font-family: Arial;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span
style="font-family: Arial;">Once you have firmly in your minds a
greater universe perspective, then it will be easy to lay down the
needs of ego and the demands of self.<span style=""> </span>Each of
you must begin to continually to opt for the Father’s will.<span
style=""> </span>This is not always apparent, it is not always
obvious how to do this for the ego is stealthy and cunning, but it is
an adversary fighting against its own demise.<span style=""> </span>The
ego is like the scaffolding built up to hold your developing character.<span
style=""> </span>Once your house is completed the scaffolding is an
eye-sore drawing attention to itself, pretending importance that it
does not possess.<span style=""> </span>This life is very short and
your greater selves are rapidly being constructed.<span style=""> </span>It
is the greater self that will endure and survive the portals of death.<span
style=""> </span>And you will be received into a new life where ego
is but a dream of the past, something no longer required.<span style="">
</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="font-family: Arial;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="font-family: Arial;">Humility then is the gradual recognition
and acceptance of truth.<span style=""> </span>It is very humbling to
be in the presence of truth, in the presence of the Master’s spirit.<span
style=""> </span>Each of you is learning to walk with this spirit,
to trust his spirit and when in doubt to lean on his spirit.<span
style=""> </span>Humility of attitude will allow you even greater
access to his spirit and will allow his spirit greater access to your
souls.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="font-family: Arial;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span
style="font-family: Arial;">Slowly you are releasing your fears and
growing in trust.<span style=""> </span>This is how you will build
true confidence as opposed to the false confidence of bluster or
braggadocio.<span style=""> </span>The Master’s spirit brings you all
that you need.<span style=""> </span>It is but for you to trust and
to receive.<span style=""> </span>The Master understands how your
trust in him will grow and he will give those things that will build
your trust and give you confidence in him.<span style=""> </span>Some
may ask “How is it possible to not trust the Master’s spirit?”<span
style=""> </span>But until you actually begin walking with his
spirit in complete trust of his guidance, you will find many times how
easily possible it is to be distrustful, to be frightened, to be fill
with doubt and discouraged.<span style=""> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="font-family: Arial;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span
style="font-family: Arial;">It is easy for the children of time to be
frightened by the shadows of material reality.<span style=""> </span>It
is easy to be disheartened and discouraged by the difficulties along
the way, and it is easy to be filled with doubts about yourselves,
doubting your faith at times.<span style=""> </span>Yes these things
are natural and human.<span style=""> </span>What is difficult is to
hang on with faith when all the world seems to have turned against you,
when you are ridiculed and mocked, when you are defeated in a battle in
time then is your faith truly tested, then do you demonstrate to the
Father your courage and your true faith.<span style=""> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="font-family: Arial;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span
style="font-family: Arial;">Each of you has been tested many times and
your faith will continue to be tested as it grows in strength.<span
style=""> </span>So much of your lives are but a preparation for the
next life.<span style=""> </span>Everything done in this life is but
a tiny step on your path to paradise.<span style=""> </span>You will
have many dark hours but you will also have many times when you break
through the shadows into the sunshine and your faith is fulfilled and
your courage is vindicated.<span style=""> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="font-family: Arial;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span
style="font-family: Arial;">The Master was and is the great way-shower.<span
style=""> </span>In his earthly life he did not lead others of his
own accord, he followed the Father and so the Father led.<span style="">
</span>At each moment of prayer the Master put aside his own desires
and yielded to the Father’s will.<span style=""> </span>When your
lives are examples to others, it is because you have yielded to the
Father and to the Master.<span style=""> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="font-family: Arial;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span
style="font-family: Arial;">Each human being is lost in this world
except for the light the Father’s spirit shines within each person.<span
style=""> </span>Continue then to pray often as the Master prayed,
”Father show me your will and give me what I need to carry it out.”<span
style=""> </span>And when you ask of the Father always recur to the
Master’s simple statement, “Nevertheless your will be done.”<span
style=""> </span>Ask continually that your fears may be removed and
replaced with trust.<span style=""> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="font-family: Arial;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span
style="font-family: Arial;">My friends, during my own mortal
existence, I had many doubts and looking back I seemed to have been
plagued by continuing fear.<span style=""> </span>If I was courageous
it was not of my own accord but only by and through the Master’s spirit.<span
style=""> </span>And on my world we did not have the history of his
presence, we knew of him rather vaguely, the way you may think of the
Holy Spirit of Christianity.<span style=""> </span>But I began to
know him, indeed I began to love him and that love brought me that
knowing, so that the more I loved the Master the greater I came to know
his spirit.<span style=""> </span>And the greater I came to know his
spirit the more I loved and trusted him.<span style=""> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="font-family: Arial;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span
style="font-family: Arial;">I see now you children experiencing the
same baby-steps I took.<span style=""> </span>, the same hot and cold
spells, the same inner doubting, the same fear.<span style=""> </span>But
I am here to tell you that his spirit is the truest most real, most
completely trustworthy reality in this universe.<span style=""> </span>All
human beings upon this world, the many who have gone before and the
many yet to be born are but a tiny fraction of the numbers of his
children who must past through him to the Father.<span style=""> </span>He
is the way.<span style=""> </span>He is the truth.<span style=""> </span>He
is the light of this world. <span style=""> </span>Hold fast to this
truth and his spirit will sustain you through every dark valley of your
lives.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="font-family: Arial;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span
style="font-family: Arial;">This week continue to contemplate true
humility, what it means, how it is achieved and how you may inch ever
closer toward its attainment.<span style=""> </span>Do not be
discouraged to find yourselves failing, stumbling and skinning your
knees.<span style=""> </span>But find it within you to trust that
everything that occurs in your lives is part of the Father’s overall
plan for you.<span style=""> </span>Doors may open and they may close.<span
style=""> </span>You may be received gladly, you may be shunned.<span
style=""> </span>You may be praised and you may be ridiculed. <span
style=""> </span>And through it all walk humbly with the Master and
you will find a joy and peace that transcend all of it.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="font-family: Arial;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span
style="font-family: Arial;">What are your questions?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="font-family: Arial;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span
style="font-family: Arial;">Q:<span style=""> </span>Do I understand
you to say that at the next level there is no ego at all?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="font-family: Arial;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span
style="font-family: Arial;">A:<span style=""> </span>It will develop
again.<span style=""> </span>But the ego as it exists on this earth
is a little different.<span style=""> </span>The earthly ego is part
of the body, part of the animal legacy which will be left and defeated
when you graduate.<span style=""> </span>Self-love and
self-involvement can develop again but it will be a little different.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="font-family: Arial;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span
style="font-family: Arial;">Q:<span style=""> </span>Message for Jim?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="font-family: Arial;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span
style="font-family: Arial;">A:<span style=""> </span>Certainly, Yes
my son, you are continuing to do well.<span style=""> </span>Your
gradual healing is occurring and little by little you will gain
slightly better health even though you may experience some setbacks.<span
style=""> </span>But all-in-all you are making progress.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="font-family: Arial;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span
style="font-family: Arial;">Q:<span style=""> </span>Physically?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="font-family: Arial;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span
style="font-family: Arial;">A:<span style=""> </span>Yes and
spiritually.<span style=""> </span>There exists a great deal of organ
damage that will probably never completely return, but with care,
patience and perseverance the part which are functioning now will gain
back more normal levels of function.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="font-family: Arial;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span
style="font-family: Arial;">Q:<span style=""> </span>Can I have a
message Ham?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="font-family: Arial;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="font-family: Arial;">A:<span style=""> </span>My son you are
doing very well.<span style=""> </span>And you have come through some
difficult personal testing.<span style=""> </span>Do not worry
concerning the tests you will be undergoing.<span style=""> </span>Let
go and trust in the Master.<span style=""> </span>Let him receive
your fears and your doubts.<span style=""> </span>Allow him to do the
heavy lifting.<span style=""> </span>Trust that he will provide for
you all that you need at every step.<span style=""> </span>My son
grow in confidence and courage that only comes from a deep connection
to the spirit.<span style=""> </span>You will have what you need
going forward.<span style=""> </span>Develop the trust of a child and
the courage of a man.<span style=""> </span>Do not worry for the
Master’s hand is upon your shoulder through every step.<span style="">
</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="font-family: Arial;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span
style="font-family: Arial;">Q:<span style=""> </span>Anything for
Rebecca?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="font-family: Arial;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span
style="font-family: Arial;">A:<span style=""> </span>Yes my
daughter, you are doing very well.<span style=""> </span>You too must
develop your faith and trust in the Master’s spiritual gift.<span
style=""> </span>Do not worry, have no fear for the Master will
uphold your step.<span style=""> </span>He will guide and show you
the way.<span style=""> </span>My dear, walk with true humility
step-by-by step, have faith in him who lights the path.<span style="">
</span>Look not to the right nor to the left but train your eyes ahead
and you will have all that you need to continue.<span style=""> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="font-family: Arial;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="font-family: Arial;">Ham:<span style=""> </span>My son Jarad,
you are also learning the meaning of true humility.<span style=""> </span>But
it is also the act linking hands with the Master, it is the trust to
place your hand in his and allowing him to guide you.<span style=""> </span>It
is the trust that allows him into your inner-most mind and self and it
is the willingness to accept and to trust in his council.<span style="">
</span>It is true my son that you are most grateful for you have been
brought very far.<span style=""> </span>You have been broken and then
built again and so your trust is deep.<span style=""> </span>Never
for a moment forget that he will bring you where he wants you to be and
he will use you for his will.<span style=""> </span>Since you have
accepted this be completely at ease in renouncing your own will.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="font-family: Arial;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span
style="font-family: Arial;">Jared:<span style=""> </span>You told me
that I have trusted in the Master for a long time and that I need to
trust in me because of him.<span style=""> </span>Since he came a few
months back I will be able to do anything because of him.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="font-family: Arial;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span
style="font-family: Arial;">Q:<span style=""> </span>Any counseling?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="font-family: Arial;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span
style="font-family: Arial;">A:<span style=""> </span>Yes my son, you
are doing well.<span style=""> </span>You are also growing in your
ability to evermore fully trust in the Master’s spirit.<span style="">
</span>Many changes are occurring within you and gradually you are
coming to find larger and more profound realms of love and of peace.<span
style=""> </span>Much of your time in the wilderness of wandering
and seeking has been concluded.<span style=""> </span>You are now
entering the Father’s house and you must understand that you are
welcomed as his son, his son.<span style=""> </span>Long have you
known of your sonship in the intellect, but only now are you coming to
claim it as your own.<span style=""> </span>Allow this understanding
to deepen and to reorient your mind and attitude toward the world.<span
style=""> </span>Let the awareness of sonship be complete.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="font-family: Arial;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span
style="font-family: Arial;">From Zura:<span style=""> </span>Ham –
now the doctors are talking lung transplant.<span style=""> </span>I
know it will give me a better quality of life.<span style=""> </span>When
will this come through, and will I survive the operation? <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="font-family: Arial;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span
style="font-family: Arial;">A:<span style=""> </span>Dear one, have
peace in your heart.<span style=""> </span>Understand a little of how
the Father loves you.<span style=""> </span>You are his beloved child
and you are deserving of a better life.<span style=""> </span>Put
your faith and trust in Him, allow Him to take the responsibility of
all these things from your hands, allow His will its time to work and
completely trust that the outcome whatever it may be will be the very
best thing that can be.<span style=""> </span>Know with complete
confidence and certainly that your life is eternal whether you wake up
in hospital or wake up in heaven.<span style=""> </span>Either
outcome will be wonderful.<span style=""> </span>Let this be in the
Father’s hand.<span style=""> </span>Have faith in the good will of
your doctors and have faith in their skills, but ultimately have faith
in God and all will be well.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="font-family: Arial;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span
style="font-family: Arial;">Q: Could I have counsel?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="font-family: Arial;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span
style="font-family: Arial;">A:<span style=""> </span>Of course my
son.<span style=""> </span>My son you are doing well.<span style="">
</span>Each day you continue to grow in faith and in trust of the
Father.<span style=""> </span>Continue bringing the Master’s spirit
into your heart.<span style=""> </span>Give him your love and your
complete trust.<span style=""> </span>So much of your life has been
lived with the teaching that there is a right way to God and that there
is a wrong way.<span style=""> </span>But there is no wrong way.<span
style=""> </span>The Father’s arms stretch wide, his forgiveness is
not limited.<span style=""> </span>There is no line to cross with
Him, neither is there any condemnation or judgment, only love,
acceptance and happiness in your existence.<span style=""> </span>The
Master and the Father both take supreme joy in their children.<span
style=""> </span>You have always been a joy to them and a joy to the
Mother-spirit as well.<span style=""> </span>Begin to accept the
great love in the universe that surrounds and evades your soul.<span
style=""> </span>Then you will have peace that passes understanding.<span
style=""> </span>You are doing very well.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="font-family: Arial;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span
style="font-family: Arial;">Q:<span style=""> </span>Do you have
message for me?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span
style="font-family: Arial;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span
style="font-family: Arial;">A:<span style=""> </span>Yes my dear, my
daughter, you are finding yourself in ever greater measure and you are
growing in the gradual acceptance of the love of God for you.<span
style=""> </span>This is not quick.<span style=""> </span>This is
not easy, but things are getting better and each step you take in faith
brings you closer to truth, closer to the Master’s comfort and closer
to his great companionship.<span style=""> </span>Bring the Master
into your thoughts and into your life in ever greater measure.<span
style=""> </span>Allow his spirit to cradle your heart.<span style="">
</span>Allow his spirit to hold you to his breast and smooth your brow.<span
style=""> </span>You have tried to reach him without letting go, but
my daughter, releasing your grip on who you think you are is the only
way he can show you who you really are.<span style=""> </span>Let go
of the old self, the old shell that must be abandoned, the old skin
that must be shed for, much of this belongs in the past and you are
moving forward into the future.<span style=""> </span>Trust the
Father and the Master’s spirit to give you what you need.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="font-family: Arial;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span
style="font-family: Arial;">It is time now for me to retire.<span
style=""> </span>Until next week my love and my prayers are with
you, each one.</span></p>
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Department of Psychology
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301 Wilson Hall
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Phone: (615)322-7800
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a desirability, to philosopy a probability, to
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