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Ham: June 26, 2005<br>
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Greetings children, I am Ham and again I am happy having this
opportunity to speak with you. As you each make progress in the
spirit, each one of you undergoes an increase in spiritual sensitivity
and this gives you a window into higher spiritual realms where your
morontia mind is always in touch with God’s spirit. Gradually it is
dawning upon you that you are loved and cherished beyond your human
understanding.<br>
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Humanly you can increasingly receive this divine affection by your
faith but also through your spiritual senses. It is only possible to
receive this love as a child. To receive the divine affection requires
accepting your child status and this acceptance requires some releasing
of the old adult poses that seem to be something safe but instead
creates a barrier between your soul and God’s spirit.<br>
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To find the pure childlike faith and innocence that brings wonder and
this inexpressible joy that soul feels in response to beauty and
goodness and truth, this requires letting go of the things that keep
you from it. How wonderful it is to be the children of the Master and
Mother Spirit, the perfect parents who watch over you with tender care
even while creating, upholding and administering a vast universe. When
you begin to realize how close your real parents are you will come to
be ever more fully blessed for you will feel yourself so blessed in all
that you do. <br>
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Fear first begins to abate and as you abandon your old fears love and
joy and gratitude gradually take over. The joy found in being at home
in this universe and discovering your place in this world is truly
overwhelming. Joy in the spirit will encompass your souls and fear
will be eventually abandoned even before you leave behind these bodies
of animal nature where fear originates.<br>
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This world within this vast creation was made to be your home. You are
not orphaned. You are not tossed upon a hostile shore. This world was
meant for you. Rejoice then in its goodness.<br>
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Your eternal life has begun. There is no end to your existence.
Realize that you are welcomed fully into the great universe of
existence, but you are also welcomed into the invisible fraternity of
believers, those who have knowledge and spiritual experience enough to
be certain of about God and your place in His universe. Let this
certainty bring joy. Let this joy bring peace and contentment.<br>
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In all things, my children, you are finding the way of the spirit to be
the only way forward. The pursuits of self lead nowhere and the
indulgence of selfish desires leads not to everlasting contentment but
rather toward ruinous self-destruction instead. Truly you were called
to lay down your lives, to abandon the life of self and to accept the
selfless calling of higher purpose.<br>
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Fear not and you will find joy, peace and contentment will gradually
ease away the temptation of fear and the temptation of selfishness.
Let your hearts be filled with the pure joy of a child. Release the
burden of carrying the old patched together self, a composite of what
you want to be or think you should be. Simply be and be loved as a
child is loved and a child accepts his place. Rejoice my children you
are all doing well.<br>
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Q: Can I have a message please Ham?<br>
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H: Yes my son, all is well. In all things you are doing well. You
are coming into a better balance that is not so strained. You are
finding joy in fits and starts. Follow this. Examine it. Gradually
release your burden and let go of self as you pick up your new life.
Don’t be worried and don’t keep going back to examine the past. Let
each day begin anew. Allow yourself to change and release your fear of
change as you do this. Have peace, my son, you do well.<br>
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Q: Ham I would appreciate your counsel.<br>
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H: Yes my son, you are doing well. You’re making spiritual progress
in fits and starts, but this is as it should be. Soon you will find
you will have better traction and a better way to set your feet as you
move forward. Continue to examine your heart and to make firm moral
choices as you move forward. Your way seems at times to be beset with
confusion and ambiguity where you wish there was clarity and strength,
moral strength. As you grow in the spirit and learn to release the
cause of self you will find happiness in abundance, contentment and
joy. The life of the spirit will come to replace the life of the
self. Let this occur gradually by releasing the old and praying with
faith for your soul and its greater purpose. Don’t fear my son you
will have all you need. Be at peace.<br>
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Q: Rebecca?<br>
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H: Yes my daughter, continue to uphold righteousness even as you
rejoice as a child in the spiritual goodness of your Father’s
universe. Allow this joy to well up within you and rejoice and be glad
to be reborn in the spirit and to know the truth of the deliverance of
childlike faith. Be at peace my friend, you do well.<br>
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Q: Jarad?<br>
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H: My son, you do well. You are releasing the old fears and anxieties
and are coming to a more mature and complete acceptance of yourself.
Your joy in the spirit wells up within you and is renewed daily. The
beauty of life is entering your soul and balancing the barren harshness
of the past. Give thanks then and be at peace for truly you are
showing the way to others as you continue on your journey.<br>
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Q: Anything for PZ?<br>
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H: Yes. You must remember that you are not alone in your struggles.
To feel alone at times is human but gradually you will come to know the
truth and the truth will set you free from loneliness. Rejoice my
daughter you have eternity before you. Be at peace. All is well.<br>
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Q: Message for me?<br>
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H: Of course my daughter, you are doing well. The Master has beckoned
and you have followed. This is the beginning of your truly coming to
know him and in this knowledge coming to know yourself as well. Don’t
worry about the future for the future will care for itself. Draw
closer to the Master each day in prayer and have full faith and
confidence in his care for you. Have faith my daughter you way is
opening and door the Master has opened in your soul shall never be
closed. Rejoice then and be glad.<br>
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My children go in peace. Let not your hearts be troubled neither let
them be afraid. Hold fast to your faith in times of struggle and in
times of ease as well. Find hope my children. Allow yourselves
sublime hope at all times. That is all. Until next week my love and
prayers go with you each. Farewell.<br>
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Associate Professor</span><br
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<hr style="width: 100%; height: 2px;">Belief has attained the level of
faith when it motivates life and shapes the mode of living. The
acceptance of a teaching as true is not faith; that is mere belief.
Neither is certainty nor conviction faith. A state of mind attains to
faith levels only when it actually dominates the mode of living....
Faith does not shackle the creative imagination, neither does it
maintain an unreasoning prejudice toward the discoveries of scientific
investigation. Faith vitalizes religion and constrains the religionist
heroically to live the golden rule. The zeal of faith is according to
knowledge, and its strivings are the preludes to sublime peace.<a><b>
---The Urantia Book, Page 43<br>
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