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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">Opening prayer (Bob S.):<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This Daniel my friends, let us pray.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'"><SPAN style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN><I>To our Father who exists in Paradise, we reach out to You knowing while You are there, yet, You are here; for we have met You among ourselves and that thought gives us faith.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The faith to open our hearts, open our minds, open our very selves to the truth, wherever that may lead.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>In Michael’s holy name we ask.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></I>Amen<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">DANIEL (Bob S.):<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Yes friends, this is Daniel.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Your wish is our command.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We shall endeavor to provide further information to you regarding the second mile, the second generation, the second step in this long path which you have all sought and been prepared for.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It may not flow as well as other lessons because we are, as I speak, putting it together.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>But as you know we are well prepared for this task for which we have volunteered.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And, having been former mortals we understand well and can anticipate well those areas of difficulty.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>So with those words of introduction let us begin.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>One moment please.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">AARON (Bob D.):<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Greetings, I am Aaron, my friends, pleased to be with you again.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Your efforts to comprehend the lessons reflect the very attitude of the second milers club, for the first level would be to hear the lesson and then to go on to the next thing in your life.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Instead you truly want to understand the deeper meaning or perhaps you feel it may provide you with a level of understanding, which can lead to further growth.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">Tonight I would have you look at Michael’s life, as Jesus, to understand certain aspects of this concept of originality and creative expression that reflects a second miler.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">Jesus built boats and in doing so He had the opportunity to express creativity within the discipline He was exploring.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Many boats had common features.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>In His day they built, based upon the standards of the past, that had worked for generations.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Yet Jesus was not satisfied merely to create boats that reflected the past.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Rather did He explore techniques of improving that which had come before. Therefore when people were witness to the result of His labor, they were astounded at the quality of the product, for it reflected a great deal of care and effort.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The boats were not just standard they were exceptional. <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">When Jesus gathered the Apostles He recognized that He would like to develop a ministry that could reach out at various levels.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The first step was to gather and train the Apostles so they could go out and speak to the populace about the ideas that Jesus felt were important to be expressed during that time.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">The second level was to reel the Apostles back in for further discussion and training about the methods and efforts that they underwent, to fine tune those aspects of ministry which worked, to discard methods that did not.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And to share the group mind for a season, so that a cross pollination could occur that would strengthen them all.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Then He sent them back out to do so again, to share the message as it had been adjusted in method, going the second, the third, the fourth mile and so on.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">I believe in these examples you can see what it means in some sense to go the extra mile.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>For in life you all have tasks before you.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Will you punch the clock and do the tasks simply out of the sense of duty and burden, requirement.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Or can you look at how you can manifest your personality to engage with those tasks in a way that expresses one who truly cares about what they are doing.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>[One] who is not burdened by self importance, to feel that tasks are beneath them.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>But rather that each thing before you is an opportunity to express your light.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>If you are cleaning floors in an office building would you just pass the time away and get the job adequately done or would you hope that you could manifest your abilities such that those who work in that office would know the office was well cared for?<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">This is the concept that we are trying to share at this time, about going the second mile.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>To recognize that every opportunity is an opportunity to do your very best.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>To apply yourself to make the quality product such that others can not help but notice, that this quality exists such that it may raise the standard above just getting by to a new level, breaking the bounds of mediocrity, and letting loose the free and creative thoughts of others who have been affected by your work.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">First of all thank you very much for that explanation of the second mile.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I get it and I now realize I am a second miler.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>However, I have, I think, two issues that are weaknesses in me, with respect to the second mile.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Maybe one is weakness and one is just a perspective that I need.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">As someone who doesn’t just want to punch a clock, but does want to bring my creativity and originality and who I am, into my work product, and also one who really wants to do my job, I think I succeed.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>However, I can allow disdain for those who don’t operate in a similar manner, to create relationship difficulties, and painful situations, which I find difficult to forgive, because I so want other people to care as much about what I am pouring my heart and soul into as I do.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And if they did it would sure make my job a lot easier.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And so, that’s a personal weakness that I need some help with, because I want to have whole relationships.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I want to be respectful of other people and respect their right to make the choices that they do, and you know, not let me become poisoned.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">The other one is: how in a professional life, wanting to be a second miler in one aspect of a life, can distort other aspects.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It can be at times difficult to find balance.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I have thought of it as being more about seasons of life than having balance at any particular time.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>At least for me, often, its been one thing or another.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I am hoping that at the end of my life, as I look back, I will have seasons of life where, over all, things were balanced, even if they may not have been perfectly balanced at any one point in time, because there is that tension between… well… actually wanting to be a second miler in all aspects of ones life can be exhausting.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I don’t necessarily expect you to cover them all tonight.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Maybe, the teachers who are putting together the lessons could address those aspects.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>That would be helpful to me.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">AARON:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Thank you for exploring your thoughts regarding the lessons.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Indeed will tension be created at times when one is going the second mile.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>For obviously in a society that perpetuates standardization, it is an uncomfortable fact to recognize another who has raised the bar, who has wanted more and who seeks to express more.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">Two thoughts I have here are: (One) recognizing the insecurity that is created when you would destabilize the norm.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And to know that you will find criticism.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It is often an inevitable fact in a diverse society that productive citizens will no doubt face critical analysis by those who do not share the same value system, who look at life from a different perspective.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">(Two)<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Another aspect to consider is while raising the bar for yourself, to be the best that you can be, in a particular situation, one must be careful not to overtly raise the bar for others and expect them to react similarly on any immediate scale.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>For in achieving, you have control of your actions and reactions.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Others are influenced, lastingly, only by example, that is a continuous example of a different and higher method of activity.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">The most healthy perspective for maintaining sanity for yourself, is to look at life as a field for growth.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And that you, by achieving on a long-term scale, may by example, rally the troops along to raise their level slowly and grudgingly toward a higher method of activity.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Therefore by having the expectation lessened you can recognize a sense of freedom in your activity.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You may find that your own interactions will be taken in a more friendly manner, if those expectations do not seem prevalent in your communications with others; such that you truly love what you do and can joyously share that which you love with your fellows, so that they might be strengthened not only by your achievement but also by your joy and your good natured interaction.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">This attitude of easing expectations helps in the second level of trying to find balance in going the second mile in your life.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>A true second miler does not throw all their eggs into one basket so to speak.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>But recognizes that no matter what is in front of them in a given moment, that that is the most important situation to be dealt with, even if they are considering other areas in the back of their mind.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>So, gaining this healthy perspective is obviously not simple.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You must peel away the layers of expectations you’ve place upon yourself in life, and the influences that have caused you to have compulsions, and tendencies toward compulsion.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This will be achieved by our favorite practice, the stillness.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And balancing your outward activity with the inward activity, of drawing close to your Creator, and recognizing the acceptance that you have there, regardless of your varied activity in life.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It is when you recognize truly that you are completely accepted, simply in the fact that you have been created, that you will be able to more fully manifest this appreciation in all aspects of your environment.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>For it is the good cheer that Jesus spoke of, the living of life with enthusiasm not created outwardly, but manifested from an inward source, outward upon your environment.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">Nancy:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I found it to be a very complete answer.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I am just feeling a little ashamed of myself for saying I knew what a second miler was about.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">AARON:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>But you do have a glimpse (yes) and you do show glimpses of being a second miler, just as each of you do at times in your lives.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">The new rallying we would try to stir you toward is simply increasing your perspective and awareness, everything from brushing your teeth, to changing diapers, to creating affective tools in the work place, and to sharing the light of love and truth in your life.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>All these are opportunities to reflect going the second mile.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>All of them hold equal importance in the sense, that it is what you do with your circumstances at any moment that will define your growing soul and expand your eternal potential.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">Virginia:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Aaron, thank you for the second mile explanation.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I think for years “be the best you can be” has been a personal motto, and I think Carol, you can help me, I think it is the book The Four Agreements, (yes) which says that be the best you can be.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This book was rather a freeing experience for me because “being the best you can be” under any given moment is pretty heavy.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This book says “Your best today may not be as good as it was yesterday, but it’s the best you can be today and it may not be as good as it will be tomorrow.”<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Is that right Carol, did it come from The Four Agreements?<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>(Yes) <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">That was just a very freeing thought for me because there are days you fall on your face and you’ve done your best.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">AARON:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Yes it goes with the adage “to not let the hardships get you down.”<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>For your mental state varies from day to day.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Your physical strength varies from day to day.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Therefore, your spiritual potential in output varies from day to day.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Thus, you can only deal with what you have in front of you in the best manner you know.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Obviously continued reflection in the stillness will build momentum toward spiritual growth.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This does not mean that you will be the same exact person from one day to the next.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Therefore it should ease your mind to recognize that it is the overall trend of your growth and development that is of more concern than any particular instance which may rise or fall.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I believe this is what you were alluding to?<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">Virginia:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Yes, and I like your phrase spiritual potential is less because of the other variabilities.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>That is an adequate explanation of my behavior sometimes.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">AARON:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Again, there are other teachers available this evening if any of you would like to avail yourselves of the opportunity.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">Last week as you heard Aaron introduce the new club that you were being invited to join, the Second Milers Club, open enrollment was announced.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You considered with a mixture of feelings what this new club would be about.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">Aaron has stated that the springboard for this – the ability to go the second mile, to run the race with vigor and good cheer and the desire to go yet another mile – is based in your relationship with spirit, with the divine, with Father.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>So, tonight as in the past, I would again emphasize the practice of stillness, not just as a daily routine, but as an on going checking-in with your beloved, on a regular basis, throughout your waking moments.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It is this practice of seeking to strengthen and develop this amazing relationship that the energy, the originality, and the spontaneity come from.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>So, as you seek to understand the second mile, as you allow the adventure of being the second miler to well up inside you, do not forget to nurture that ultimate and sustaining relationship.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'"><SPAN style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN><I>Father, we Your children stand before You desiring Your love, which we have, Your acceptance, which we have, Your security, Your peace, and the hope that You provide.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Lead us step by step into this grand adventure that ultimately leads to You.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Be with all of us this week.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></I>Amen<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P></DIV>
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