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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">SE Idaho TeaM</P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">Opening prayer by Larenzo (Bob S.)<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is Larenzo, friends let us pray.</P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN><I>To our Great Father, First Source and Center, whose universe we inhabit, we turn our grateful hearts to You with feelings of thanks for all You have done for us, Your children.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Though we are just beginning to glimpse the greatness of Your plan, we already stand in awe of its almighty power.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Be with us tonight as each of us seeks to grow into the likeness of You and that personality You have given us, toward that day when we will each stand before You.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></I>Amen</P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">DANIEL (Bob D.): Greetings to you, I am Daniel.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It is my pleasure to be with you, engaging you in higher thought; seeking to understand you even as you seek to understand my words and the meanings behind them.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This time is a growth time, and you have been here for a while now.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You have been spreading your wings trying to gain perspective in the wake of fluctuations in your group, the loss of a good friend in your present companionship and the subsequent searching for meaning and expanding your perceptions to encompass the different reality and the manifold possibilities inherent therein.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>All of this has provided a wonderful platform for growth, individually and as a group.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">I look forward to your continued exploration.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I encourage your personal participation, both in our group setting and in your personal stillness time and in your journaling, to the extent that you undertake such endeavors.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>With all of this uncertainty still on the horizon, the possibilities for great experiences in incorporating sonship/daughtership with our Creator, the potential for building trends toward Light and Life is high.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Although the planetary realization of such a state may be millennia away, your personal journey toward this recognition is filled with ever-present opportunities for increasing comprehension of the parental nature of your relationship to God and your recognition of the sibling-hood of all creatures.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And the path of progress that is characterized by a continued learning and experiencing, so that your personality will find increasing manifestation and your personality in combination with all other personalities may find increasing unity and blending of purpose and potential.</P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">In this I am thrilled that you have been so studious as to work through the uncertain scenario’s and to apply yourselves to the lesson and opportunities you have in your daily lives </P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">At this time I will step back and allow another to speak.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I will remain present if there are questions following.</P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">MINEARSIA (Bob S.): Greetings friends, I am Minearsia, your instructor in residence here tonight to follow up to my assignment given sometime earlier in which each of you were asked to examine those situations in your own life where turning the other cheek was part of the experience.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I would like now to have each of you, who wish, to respond to your reaction to the assignment, what you feel you have learned or gained from this experience.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And anything else you feel germane to the assignment.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Who would like to begin?</P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">LaReen: I personally felt almost a relief that I don’t have to stand up and defend.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I just loved the analogy of “turn the other cheek” that it stops here.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">MINEARSIA: Thank you LaReen for your response.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Yes, there is comfort in the response of turning the other cheek.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Your experience has been the experience of many others whose lives I have interacted with.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>That is a common response.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Do you wish to pursue that any further this evening?</P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">LaReen: I can’t explain in words, it’s just a lighter-easier way to go… catching myself before I internalize… having to stand up for myself or do battle so to speak… catching myself and saying its okay to let it go, and looking at the other person as if putting myself in their shoes… everyone has a story, everyone has a background.</P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">MINEARSIA: Yes, understood.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You’re perception of looking at the situation from another perspective is evidence of great wisdom.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I commend you for that and hope that behavior will continue to be part of your life’s experience.</P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">Who else would like to react to the assignment?</P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">Bob D.: A thought that came to mind was a saying: “God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can and the wisdom to know the difference”.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>That is the thing I have pondered in my mind in dealing with turning the other cheek, is knowing the difference between which is right in any situation.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>If you can’t change the situation the best response may be no response.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>If you can provide a positive, if you recognize there is an opportunity, then you almost have an obligation, whether you follow through on it or not, to try to uplift the situation.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I have had to deal with that and I think trying to understand that is difficult; obviously there are times when it is very tempting to just ignore and just let something go rather than dealing with it.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I recognized that in me just this last week.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I couldn’t tell whether I was just letting it go because I didn’t have the energy to deal with it or letting it go because… you just perceive, no matter how you take it, that it’s going to manifest into a conflict scenario.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The best insight I’ve gotten out of this lesson series and discussions is that Serenity Prayer.</P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">MINEARSIA: Thank you Bob for your reaction.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Yes, the wisdom to know what to do in a given situation is the key at your level of spiritual maturity; here I speak to all of you in general.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It is most difficult for you to have the wisdom necessary in all cases to deal positively with a conflict situations.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>In such cases the right thing to do is nothing.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>As you mature and become more experienced, potential positive ideas will begin to fill your experience section of your brain and your fount of ideas will grow.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Until that time one must be honest in a given situation, and if you lack something wise to say then the correct response is to say nothing.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>A very interesting idea Bob, thank you.</P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">Pat: What has just been said is somewhat like what I have experienced in a situation that happened a few years ago.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It was a family situation; I won’t go into a lot of detail, however I was upset and concerned about a relationship, and when confronted I did not turn the other cheek and say nothing. Eventually, everything was smoothed over, apologies had taken place, but I still harbored feelings.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>That resentment I had talked about a couple of weeks ago was still in my mind.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>When you brought up this lesson a few weeks ago I immediately thought about this situation.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I thought about it for several days and with much help, I’m sure, came to a better understanding of the other person’s reasons and reactions. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It became clear to me that I was the one in the wrong and had I been able to turn the other cheek the situation would not have escalated. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Now with this new understanding I feel better and have gained respect for this other person’s view and for the reactions they took.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It has been a real growth experience for me to be able to see I was wrong, in my view.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I thank you Minearsia for the lesson.</P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">MINEARSIA: And thank you for your response to my query.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The admission of ones mistakes can be positive, as you have been told.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Making mistakes allows one to grow.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Had God wanted you all to be perfect, He would have created you that way.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You’ve heard that said before.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It turns out making mistakes is often a better way or a more efficient way of growing than making the correct decision.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I suspect many of you have had that experience.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">God doesn’t want you to look upon mistakes as a failure.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>He expects you to diligently pursue your decisions when they fail and make the appropriate adjustments in your thinking and your behavior.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It is regrettable that your society is not more open to these kinds of ideas.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>But they will come.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Your society also is very young and immature.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Thank you, Pat, for your comments.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I believe they will be helpful to other members in this group and beyond.</P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">Well, Carol or Kenneth, do either of you have any reactions you would care to share with us tonight.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You may of course pass.</P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">Ken: Thank you… pass.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>(Many group comments and joyful jousting.)</P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">Carol: I think the thing for me the lessons have brought turning the other cheek to the conscious level.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Whether I just bumble along in a coma or in the subconscious or what, it kind of has brought it to the forefront so that I think about it much more and I try to respond in a more positive and hopefully a better way.</P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">MINEARSIA: Thank you Carol for your succinct and thoughtful response.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Kenneth?<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>(more group comments and laughing)</P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">Ken: I tried, I tried.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I have reflected somewhat back on my past, my past behavior, the way I have treated people and things, and I’m not happy with what I have seen.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Thank you for this correcting time that I am now looking at this and seeing the changes that I have been making within myself, my thought process, my relationships, and try to take the positive aspect, to see the other individuals, situations, and come up with a method by which I can grow and develop spiritually.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I concurred with my wife, I concur with Carol, LaReen and Bob in everything said this evening.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I’m trying; I’m working on it.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I thank you for bringing this issue forward.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We have spent several hours discussing this.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I believe I’m beginning to see the fruits of my labor and your labor.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Thank you Minearsia.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Thank you all.</P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">MINEARSIA: Thank you Kenneth and yes thank you all for work in and on this assignment.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I will now allow Bob to react to my question.</P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">Bob S.: For once Bob doesn’t have much to say.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I have not been as diligent as I would hope to have been in this assignment.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I think, hopefully, I will pursue it a bit further.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>What I have noticed is I have over the past few weeks had a lot of youthful experiences bubble up.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I assume that is part of this process, being assisted by someone who has access to my memory banks, and I have been reliving a lot of those youthful, miserable, experiences that we all live through and survive.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I have been trying to look at them now, from a more mature perspective and try to make sense out of them.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>That has been good, I’ve grown some with that, I think.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Thanks to whoever has been helping me.</P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">MINEARSIA: And thank you Bob.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Are there other experiences that some of you may have had triggered in memory through the comments of others this evening that you think might be helpful to our discussion tonight?</P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">LaReen: I kind of have a question.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I understand that through adversity we grow, I understand that completely.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I call that bless-ons and lessons.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>But… <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>when do we get a break, is what I want to know? (group laughing and comments)</P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">MINEARSIA: A very good question but one that is going to have to wait.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>At your level of faith building it is not wise for us to give you too many answers, such as those regarding the future, but thank you my dear anyway.</P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">It has been a most fruitful evening in my judgement my friends. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Your responses were of quality and judged by my associates to have potentially positive effect on others in your group, which is always a plus for us. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Are there final comments before we close tonight’s session. (Pause)<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Very well let us stand for closing prayer.</P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in"><I>Dear Father, I am here with my friends who seek knowledge of Your will; who wish to understand the Cosmos and the innumerable questions that arise in such an exploration.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We put this all before You and ask that you bring insight and understanding, that you give strength, such that all of us, all of Your children everywhere, can face whatever lies in their path.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>For we know that whatever trials and challenges they face, You are right there within us, with us, in those trials and challenges guiding us toward the highest responsive behavior.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We open to the descending of Your peace this evening.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Amen.</I></P></DIV>
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