<DIV>ken, I think you sent this to me but I can give Harry one Letting you know I.</DIV>
<DIV>Shirley<BR><BR><B><I>Pat/Ken Anderson <kpander@mindspring.com></I></B> wrote:</DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'">Bob D:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Dear Father, thank you for the blessing of having our brother Ron here, and thank you for bringing us together.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>May we hear your wisdom and insight as it is expressed through your vast creation directly, indirectly, or in any other manner that you find to touch us. [The] interesting times that we live in and with the events that arise, sometimes, I know—speaking for myself—that at times I feel uncertain and uneasy, but you always seem to come through and give a ray of hope to grasp onto and a direction to follow.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>May we ever grasp onto the rays and follow your light.</I> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'">DANIEL (Nancy): Greetings.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I am Daniel, guide and teacher to this Southeast Idaho Teaching Mission group.<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: 'Courier New'">Ron, my brother, it is my pleasure, deeply felt pleasure, to welcome you here this evening.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We have awaited your participation among these our students for some time now.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The desires of your heart are well known, and we feel privileged to be associated with you.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Thank you, my friend, if I may call you that, for your openness and willingness to<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>expand your path to the Father to include this broad highway known as the Teaching Mission which is but its own relatively narrow path in the broad expanse of the Correcting Time.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Welcome.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'">Virginia:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Daniel, thank you for those words.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I had told Ron that I would probably introduce him and the teachers would probably say that they know him and have been awaiting him, so, I thank you very much Daniel for your welcome.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We are just so glad that you and the teachers are aware of people that we need to include.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'">Ron:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Thank you for your greeting Daniel.<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: 'Courier New'">Tonight we wish to provide an open format and to respond to questions, concerns, [and to] provide background.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We wish to assist you all this evening in that which you would find most beneficial.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>When I say “we” I am referring to the group teachers as well as the individual teachers of those present.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We also have a room full of visitors which is normal operating procedure.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>What thoughts are uppermost in your minds this week?<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'">DANIEL:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>My dear friends, I anticipated a desire for encouragement, hope, and faith-building.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I understand the weariness in many of your hearts.<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: 'Courier New'">Tonight I would remind you that Jesus chose not to operate in the political / social spheres of his time, for he wished to live a life that could be understood and would be deeply meaningful to his entire universe and to mortals of all ages.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This does not mean that you should not involve yourselves in politics, no.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>But remember that such institutions are temporal and that the promises given last week with regards to the ultimate destiny of this planet remain solid.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>[Editors Note:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Daniel is referring to promises made by Minearisa in the lesson from the previous week.]<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: 'Courier New'">My dear, LaReen, I am willing to discuss this further, and indeed there others who would take a turn at the microphone on this topic.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>How can we further address your needs? <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'">LaReen:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Oh that’s fine.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I was looking for the magic wand again.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>That’s sufficient.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I know all these things; I just have to apply them.<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: 'Courier New'">DANIEL:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Yes there is great opportunity for growth for nearly half of the politically-minded citizens of this country in avoiding hostility, avoiding discouragement, and looking for those opportunities to carry those messages forward that are most near and dear to each individual heart through positive expression.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'">Virginia:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Daniel, I’m not sure who maybe wants to comment.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I know that God is not limited by my belief system, and as I look at the belief systems that appear to be the majority, I just have to remind myself that God is not limited by whatever a country does, whatever a religion does but rather as the promise that Minearisa made—and certainly the book says—that on a planet, His will will eventually make it.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We are going to light and life.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I have to keep reminding myself that this is perhaps just another step and the pendulum is swinging and it will swing in God’s direction.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Whatever that is!<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You know, I can not say.<o:p></O!
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'">DANIEL:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>My dear, I understand your meaning, and I would remind you that there are those who look at the same political landscape that you view and see God’s will in motion.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'">Virginia:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I know!<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: 'Courier New'">DANIEL:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>God’s will is truth, beauty, and goodness.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>In time, truth becomes discernible, beauty is distinguishable, and goodness will prevail.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'">DANIEL:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>My friend, you have expressed the great conundrum and frustration experienced by mortal beings, and I smiled as did PamElla and many others of us who have lived a mortal life.<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: 'Courier New'">The frustration is the result of uncertainty, lack of clarity, and the desire of the ego to have its own way, to assert itself, to be raised up out of proportion to its purpose, and this can cause great frustration.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>There is also the need for mortal beings to provide themselves physical security, and to trust that the Father does provide all that is needed can be difficult when looking into the future or looking in the past rather than in experiencing the moment in which’s God’s love is full and complete and present.<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: 'Courier New'">Mortal beings are a mixture of electro-chemical, material, signals, even instinctual responses, as well as divine with the great privilege of housing the Thought Adjusters—those aspects of the First Source and Center.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The ego is there to help organize one’s understanding and interactions with the more material realms, but it can often become mal-aligned.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The personality makes the decision of where to put its focus.<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: 'Courier New'">With proper alignment with the Father, the ego is a welcome servant.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Without this continual alignment, the ego can become as a small child, unaware of the larger picture and demanding that it be given time and attention now.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The personality can feel very battered between this great desire to know God, to love God, and to serve God, and the demands of this ego side.<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: 'Courier New'">DANIEL:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Yes, the ego is like a young child, and even perhaps like a spoiled bratty-like behaving child.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And yet it is very important to see this aspect [of ones’ self] as needing love rather than needing discipline—discipline in the austere sense.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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is love.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>To respond with criticism and anger drives this now adolescent into rebellion and self-destructive behavior.<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: 'Courier New'">Daniel:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>My pleasure.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'">Virginia:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Daniel, the word “alignment” came up several times in your discourse here.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is a very silly question.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I’m sure you are going to laugh it down, but why is it that when we most need to spend time with the Father to get this alignment that we desire, that it is most difficult to set aside the time to do that?<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Other things….this last week….see I don’t know if it is my discouragement or whether it’s a matter of regulating time.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Here I am very discouraged about life, and I certainly am not negative, but I guess I am saying…why don’t we do what we know to do?<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>My spirit is willing, my flesh is weak.<SPAN style="mso-sp:
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'">Ron:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Why do we sleep instead of watching and praying?<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'">DANIEL:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>My friends, those of us who do not come from planets that were settled in light and life, and those individuals with experience with planets of rebellion, understand this self-defeating behavior.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>However teachers from more advanced planets have been very discouraged by this behavior.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I would remind you of Will going to Michael with her concerns.<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: 'Courier New'">And, so, rather than answer the question of why this is so, I would promote stillness at whatever hour it can be found.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We have suggested many different techniques to work with your time constraints.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>If you can not make a ten or fifteen minute appointment, try 30 seconds every hour or two.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The goal is to connect with love, with the peace that is there for you.<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: 'Courier New'">Always we promote stillness first, but we are patient.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We understand the difficulties—not only of time—but of success in your attempt to reach out.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Another of the ironies is that when you are most in need, at times you feel nothing but the blur of emotions, the high anxiety, the physical pain, and you do not experience the love and the comfort that is there.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>At these times say “Father, please just let me be with you.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Just, please, Father, hold me and rock me.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I feel so alone, and I can not find you.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>But I know you are there for me.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Help quiet my mind so that I may hear your lovin! g
voice.”<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The discipline of the stillness practice can assist in strengthening the channels so that this lifeline is more apparent to you even in times of duress.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>While we know and acknowledge that electro-chemical malfunctioning can severely weaken the perception of the link, God’s anchor remains solidly connected.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'">Virginia:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Thank you, Daniel.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>That was beautiful.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I need to be rocked.<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: 'Courier New'">DANIEL:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Yes, dear friends.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We understand and empathize.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I would remind you of Minearisa’s address from last week regarding the pressures both spiritual and material that are being applied.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Know that these pressures are to promote greater growth.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We understand the discomfort, and we are here longing to assist you in all ways that we can.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We love you dearly.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It is our desire to serve and to offer encouragement.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'">Virginia:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Thank you, Daniel.<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: 'Courier New'">DANIEL:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>My pleasure.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'">LaReen, my dear sister, is there anything further that I can discuss with you this evening?<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: 'Courier New'">LaReen:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>No Daniel.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>That was another beautiful lesson.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I always appreciate your lessons and you.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And I am grateful that Ron has found us.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'">DANIEL:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Yes.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Thank you.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'">Father, we thank you for the opportunity to hold hands with these our younger brothers and sisters to share our experience, to share the wisdom that comes from a broader (tape turned and words lost).<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We are grateful for the myriad ways that you provide for us to serve you and to grow toward you with ever greater perfection.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Be with these our charges this week.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Encourage them.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Love them.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Provide broader perspectives.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Give them fortitude.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Give them patience.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Reveal your love ever more deeply.<SPAN
tyle="mso-spacerun: yes" s!> </SPAN>We ask this in the name of your Great Son whom it is our honor and privilege to serve, Christ Michael.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Amen.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></I></P></DIV>
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