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<P class=MsoHeader style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; tab-stops: .5in"><FONT face=Garamond size=5>08-21-05</FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center" align=center><FONT face=Garamond size=5>Michael’s Birthday</FONT></P>
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<H1 style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT size=5><FONT face=Garamond><EM><SPAN style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN>Creator Father, we thank you that you chose Urantia to come and show us the Love of the Father. Help us to give that love away and to trust that love day-by day. </EM><SPAN style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Amen</SPAN></FONT></FONT></H1>
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<P class=MsoHeader style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; tab-stops: .5in"><FONT face=Garamond size=5>DANIEL (Nancy):<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>My dear students, I am Daniel, your teacher, guide and friend, pleased to experience your group dynamic and energy once again.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You have been apart on individual adventures for some time now, and it is my pleasure, our pleasure, the pleasure of your teachers, to experience the focus and joy that your camaraderie and shared vision, shared understanding brings.</FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoHeader style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; tab-stops: .5in"><FONT size=5><FONT face=Garamond>On this significant day in which you remember Michael’s final bestowal life, its power and its blessing, I wish to talk to you of faith.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Jesus’ life was the perfect embodiment of faith, the perfect human life lived in faithful consecration to the will of his Father, your Great Parent.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>As such, when you struggle, when you desire to be of faith and yet you feel despondent, feel cynical, doubt, doubt that the magnificence of God’s plan is real or that God’s love and purpose will prevail, then it is time to once again review Jesus’ life from a fresh perspective.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>For Jesus struggled every bit as much as any of you in His early life, first to find his Father, then to know who he was to be.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>He struggled with loneliness of the human type, for there were things he could not share with any other person.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>He experienced the death of his own human father and had to take on the responsibility of breadwinner at the same time he grieved this loss, his wise guide, his father.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And Jesus prevailed.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>He maintained faith in the good, faith in truth, and he sought beauty always.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>He saw the beauty in the possibility in his fellows even while discerning those traits that could require care.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></FONT></FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoHeader style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; tab-stops: .5in"><FONT face=Garamond size=5>And so I wish to discuss with you your faith journeys over this summer while we have not held formal class.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I, at this time, invite sharing.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I ask you to share with one another your experience, and afterwards I have further comment.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I will not be interjecting until this sharing time is complete.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And so I release PamElla that she may participate fully in this experience.</FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoHeader style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; tab-stops: .5in"><FONT size=5><FONT face=Garamond>I am Daniel back among you.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Dear students, thank you for the sharing of your reality.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Thank you for your willingness to trust one another in speaking your truth.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>All perspectives, all experiences are equally valid and meaningful.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It is in the reflection, in the practice of reflection, and the confirmation experienced through expression, that growth occurs.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></FONT></FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoHeader style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; tab-stops: .5in"><FONT size=5><FONT face=Garamond>And now I wish to address faith generally.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You my friends are all faithful.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Even as you experience lapses, your ability to identify and understand the nature of the lapse and the reasons for the lapse assures the ultimate demise of the lapse.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Growth is ongoing.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Yes!<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And so the ultimate demise of the lapse with which you currently struggle may occur in your lifetime or in some future phase of your existence.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The ability to have faith is a great gift bestowed by the First Source and Center as a homing device that calls you home.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We your teachers see your progress.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And so as we have told you many times before “do not<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>let your emotions be the source of your discerning the actual state of your being.”<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>For your emotions are complex and rooted in electro-chemical states as well as intellectual comprehension.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></FONT></FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoHeader style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; tab-stops: .5in"><FONT size=5><FONT face=Garamond>Isadora shared with you that she believed what drew her on was her ability to find the beauty in life despite the trauma and chaos of her particular world’s and her life’s circumstances.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And so today I say “be easy on yourselves, be gentle in the way a parent is gentle with a newborn.”<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Look for the beauty wherever you can find it.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And if you see it not, do not belittle yourselves, but change your focus to where you can see the beauty.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>If you can find the beauty in another person, see it there.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>But if this is difficult, find it in the sky, in a flower, in an animal, in a child, in a landscape, a sunset, in a piece of music, and then perhaps you will find it easier to see that beauty in another.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></FONT></FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoHeader style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; tab-stops: .5in"><FONT size=5><FONT face=Garamond>I am not the final speaker but I wish to leave you with an exercise before I depart.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>PamElla is familiar with this exercise and is somewhat uncomfortable conveying my suggestion.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Once a day look at yourself in the mirror; look in your own eyes; look with love; see the beauty of the person the Father-Mother created.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Love that person in the mirror, and let love shine back at you.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And if you can bring yourself to do so, say aloud “I love you.”<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This may sound like a sappy exercise but it is in fact profound, and for some individuals it is very difficult, and therefore there is growth possible.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></FONT></FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoHeader style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; tab-stops: .5in"><FONT face=Garamond size=5>I Daniel, commend you, my students, for your dedication.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You are here this evening, and this is a testament to your desire to know and become like our Great Parent.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You all do well.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I love each of you and feel greatly privileged to continue this fine work into another season.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I look forward to our next group opportunity and assure you that I check-in on each and every one of you daily without fail.</FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoHeader style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; tab-stops: .5in"><FONT face=Garamond size=5>I am your teacher Daniel saying good night.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>(Group: good night.)</FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoHeader style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; tab-stops: .5in"><FONT size=5><FONT face=Garamond>MICHAEL (Bob S.): My children, you honor me with your presence at these festivities.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>My time on your world was much different than the times you face today.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Yet, the difficulties and ambiguities of spiritual growth remain the same.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It is as you who are parents know, your children must pass through stages which you can anticipate, and you can provide comfort and solace as (your) children experience some of the difficulties of growing up which you yourself experienced.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></FONT></FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoHeader style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; tab-stops: .5in"><FONT size=5><FONT face=Garamond>It is much like that with me as I view your spiritual development.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I too went through the same difficulties on the same planet, and although the times were different, your problems of today remain very clear to me.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I therefore make myself available to each of you at your pleasure.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Whenever you are feeling down, when the difficulties of your life seem overwhelming, reach out to me, for I am just a prayer away and would consider it my loving obligation to sit with you and consider the difficulties you are facing.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></FONT></FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoHeader style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; tab-stops: .5in"><FONT size=5><FONT face=Garamond>I hadn’t planned to provide a sermon this evening.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>My purpose here was solely to enjoy your company as you were celebrating my birthday.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>But those of you who are teachers know sometimes you can’t resist the opportunity.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>My friends, while you are my children, I consider you my friends, please honor me by allowing me to assist you with the difficulties of life. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></FONT></FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoHeader style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; tab-stops: .5in"><FONT face=Garamond size=5>This concludes my sermon and I will take one more opportunity to thank you for coming together at this time and for this purpose.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I pray the love I feel for each of you may, over time, become experienced in your life.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Good evening.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>(Group: good evening.)</FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoHeader style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; tab-stops: .5in"><FONT face=Garamond size=5>AARON (Bob D.): I am Aaron.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It is my pleasure to embrace with you tonight the universe of Michael.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Words cannot express the depth of feeling that is bestowed by our Creator.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And so I ask you to share with me in silent embrace of all that is. </FONT></P>
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