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<H1 style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>Southeast
Idaho TeaM</FONT></H1>
<H1 style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman"><FONT
size=3>January 8, 2006<SPAN
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></FONT></H1>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold"><FONT
size=3> <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">Topic:
Renewal<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT
face="Times New Roman">Opening Prayer not recorded.<SPAN
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">DANIEL</SPAN></B><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">
(Nancy):<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I am
Daniel.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold"><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">The
sounds of children singing is delightful to our morontian ears as well as to the
ears of those of you who share the joy that the innocent response to life
engenders in the human soul.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>My
reference is in response to the sound of *** singing her song, and yet it makes
a good introduction into what I had at first intended to say:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Happy New Year to all of you!<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>[Editor’s Note:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>the young daughter of the host couple
was singing in the other room.] <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">Pam</SPAN></B><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Thank you.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">DANIEL</SPAN></B><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Thank you.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I appreciate the interaction.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">A
change in time, a new year, a birthday, an anniversary event of some type all
provide an opportunity to stop, to consider the old, and to allow renewal in the
moment.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The sound of children
singing is the song of renewal.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And
this, my friends, is our topic this evening—renewal.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">Tonight’s
format remains undefined and somewhat up in the air and will be shaped by your
willingness and response.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The
concept is to encourage communication from each of you personally and to allow
opportunity for each of you to be the conduit for those of us on our side of the
screen.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">The
fulfillment of the more complex format I described may not yet be attainable,
but it is the goal.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Tonight we can
perceive one of two ways.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We could
proceed either in a dialogue format with each of you contributing to the
outcome, or we can proceed in a roundtable teacher format where we would request
participation from as many individuals who are willing to offer TR services as
possible.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Most of you have that
capability if you are so willing.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">We
will give you a moment and then we will request a response from each of you
before we move forward.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I will ask
PamElla to respond first and then request that she return to TR
receptivity.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">Nancy</SPAN></B><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I’m open to either.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I don’t care.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I suppose it depends on whether those of
you who don’t always TR for the group would prefer to dialogue or to try to
TR.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>That’s how I understood
it.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">Virginia</SPAN></B><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Is the subject wide open
Honey?<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">Nancy</SPAN></B><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Renewal.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">John</SPAN></B><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Well, I’m not a TR, so I’ll participate
in some dialogue fashion.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">Pam</SPAN></B><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I can go either way.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I know that if we did it the TR way, I
would get in some practice that I need and would appreciate—and in a
non-threatening way.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Not that it’s
threatening, but it’s scary.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">Simeon</SPAN></B><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>What we could do is something that mixes
the two: being in receptivity but also being open to
dialogue.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">Virginia</SPAN></B><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I do believe Klarixiska is
knocking.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">John</SPAN></B><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Why don’t you do the TR thing, and we
might as well stick our toe in where we can.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">Ron</SPAN></B><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">:
I haven’t been getting anything.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>I’ve been sitting in my garage [remodeled into a meditation/yoga/workout
space] practicing stillness, and I haven’t been getting anything.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>But I’m not going to beat myself up over
it.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I’m just going to keep doing
it.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>One day maybe…[Ron received
prior to a recent quadruple bypass surgery.]<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">Nancy</SPAN></B><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>[to phone participants] Ken, Pat, any
input?<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">Ken</SPAN></B><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Well, Daniel in his wise way has given
us two options.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I’m looking for a
third way.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Is there a third
way?<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">Nancy</SPAN></B><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I think we decided there is.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>There’ll be some TRing and some
dialogue.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">Ken</SPAN></B><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>That’s not what I was referring
to.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">Nancy</SPAN></B><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Oh, what was your…<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">Ken</SPAN></B><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>“Pass.”<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>[Lot’s of laughter, jokes and
interaction.]<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It would be my
pleasure to TR [words lost] so we’ll stick with dialogue for the time
being.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">DANIEL</SPAN></B><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">
(Nancy):<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>My friends, this is
Daniel.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You delight me.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We are exuberant about your response,
and let me explain why.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Often when
provided with options, human beings, and even some of you, tend to cringe
away.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And tonight we did not
experience cringing…[Ken:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You
weren’t up here!]…I will return to you Ken….but rather an honest assessment and
thoughtful discussion of how to make this work.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">Kenneth!<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">Ken</SPAN></B><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Yes, Daniel.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">DANIEL</SPAN></B><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">:
Your words are not in alignment with your honest response.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I am well pleased with you, my
friend.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">Ken</SPAN></B><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And you are my friend… also.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Thank you for your presence
here.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">DANIEL</SPAN></B><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I am smiling…And, so, I have done my
part in introducing the topic for tonight’s discussion, appropriate to the first
meeting in a new year.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The topic is
renewal.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I turn it over, and I bid
you farewell for now.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">KLARIXISKA</SPAN></B><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">
(Virginia):<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is Klarixiska, and
had my charge responded when I first knocked, she would have heard me welcome
back Ron to the group.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>But because
of her hesitancy, it was not done at the first.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Ron we do welcome you.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>With that, indeed, I will use the topic
to say that you are an example of renewal. And renewal, many times, means
change.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>In your case it has meant
change of many habits, change of staying aware of your physical/emotional
needs.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Change as far as your
spiritual role is concerned is probably not so significant, even though that too
can be a time of renewal for you.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">Now,
as I think in terms of renewal and change, it does mean something for all of
us.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Renewal is not just a word,
but, rather, if you were to take that word apart, the root word is “new.”<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>New is truly what is needed on this
planet and in the lives of each and every child of God.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>New.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>New goals.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Surely the one goal each of you have is
to stand before the Father.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>But
there are many steps before that final presentation of perfection.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>New should be morning when you
awake.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>New should be with each new
conversation that is begun with a brother or sister.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>New should be your anticipation of, yes,
even tomorrow.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">And
perhaps I could even push this a little bit farther and add the word “knew” with
a “k” in front of it.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You knew what
it would mean when you said yes to follow the Christ; you knew it would mean
change, and it truly will and does bring renewal into each of your lives.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">Know
that we are here to support you, that all the help needed is available for your
happiness.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Thank
you.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">AARON</SPAN></B><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">
(Simeon):<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is Aaron.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Greetings.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>[Group members respond.]
<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">I
would like to utilize this opportunity to see renewal in terms of subscriptions,
and as you take inventory of the subscriptions you have, you must determine
which publications you would like to continue subscribing to and which you will
not renew for whatever reason.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And
as you approach life, you have the opportunity to set aside subscriptions that
do not serve you well anymore, that you do not find value in having, and you
have the opportunity to resubscribe to those that hold value.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>What in your life do you find
meaningful?<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>What seems to be
outworn?<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>What mannerisms,
reactions, behaviors do you need to weed out from your subscription pile?<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And as you envision where you would like
to be, who you would like to be, what is out there that you can see that you
have not been subscribing to that you would like to put in your pile?<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Renewal can be seen as the process of
not only resubscribing to what you hold dear but also bringing in those things
which characterize who you would like to be in eternity.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">The
future can be filled with the “Entertainment Weeklies,” or it can be filled with
the “People magazines,” the “Times,” and the “Weekly Heralds.”<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Your choice is to take stock of your
inventory and begin to draw in those things with the most value while
eliminating those things which do not have lasting value for your.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">I
recognize that Simeon is uncomfortable with my playing on the words this
evening, but I am in a more humorous mood than he.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I hope these thoughts give you some
insight and direction.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Thank
you.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>[Group response and
interaction.]<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">IRUKA</SPAN></B><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">
(Pam):<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Good evening, my
friends.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is Iruka.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>How nice it is to be here for the
beginning of the year, a renewal, a new beginning, a fresh start.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Perhaps life and things look as they did
last year, but you can change your perception, your attitude.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You can look on something common,
something that you see everyday without thinking about it, and see it in a new
way, with new life, and react differently to it, noticing something that you
didn’t notice before, not seeing something that perhaps annoyed you or caused
you concern, stress.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You can look
beyond the irritating and begin to see something beautiful.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The power is with you.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You control your own perception.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">I
will say that again.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You are in
control of how you perceive a thing, a situation, your world.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Think of the power that gives you—your
control.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You can filter out the
negative, the parts that bog you down, that trip you up, the places you get
stuck, and see beyond to a brighter goal that you can focus on.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Think of these things that trip you up
and see what you can perceive beyond, and see the beautiful.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Think of the situation that you are
perhaps dreading, perhaps avoiding, and think about how you can perceive that in
a new way, focusing on the beautiful, focusing on the joy, and even focusing on
what the lesson might be so that you can move on.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">Did
you think I was going to let you get off sitting here passively?<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I hope not, because I would like us to
share—not in detail—a situation that is frustrating you, that you might have an
idea how you can get past the avoidance, the dreadedness, and focus on the joy,
something bright.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">John</SPAN></B><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Is it our turn.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">IRUKA</SPAN></B><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I was about to focus on Ken and let him
begin.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">Ken</SPAN></B><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Begin what?<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">IRUKA</SPAN></B><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Begin focusing on something beautiful
that you have been avoiding, been dreading to make it a renewal in your
life.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">Ken</SPAN></B><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Okay.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I’m focusing. [short
pause]<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">IRUKA</SPAN></B><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Shall we give you some more
time.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">Ken</SPAN></B><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Much.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Thank you.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">IRUKA</SPAN></B><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We can begin here then [referring to
individuals present in the room].<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Feel free anyone.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">John</SPAN></B><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We can talk about our five-step process
in going through…when you think about the relocation, and the house, and the
frustration, and the dread, and the avoidance.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And, I’m addressing it through
avoidance, patience, teeth gritting.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>But that’s only step three, and then there’s step four of this year, and
then step five of quitting doing what I’m doing.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And now we are working on the humor and
the rest of it.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It’s a work in
progress.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>But it will be
renewal.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It is significant change
and growth for us, for me.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And I
can see there is more coming.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">IRUKA</SPAN></B><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And did you think your life would become
easy once you are through all of this.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">John</SPAN></B><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Oh no, just different.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>[Group comments and laughter.]<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>After typing her transcripts for four
years, growth doesn’t come easy.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>[referring to Iruka’s lessons delivered in Baltimore in the 1993-1997
time period] This won’t either.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It
hasn’t been easy.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It isn’t going to
be easy this year either.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>But it
will be different, and I think better.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>I hope better—not think.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I
hope better.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">IRUKA</SPAN></B><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And what are the joys, the delights that
you are focusing on.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">John</SPAN></B><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The family.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Being back where the grandchildren
are.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Being back with this group is
a joy, something that I didn’t know I had missed so much until I came back.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Hearing you again is
nice.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">IRUKA</SPAN></B><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Thank you, my friend!….Anyone
else?<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">Virginia</SPAN></B><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Iruka, when you said see something
beautiful that you avoid; I’m sitting here thinking that the biggest thing I
avoid is going down the driveway.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Everything else I can handle.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>And, yet, you said see it as beautiful…and it really is very
beautiful.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Whether I walk or
whether I drive, the seasons are gorgeous up there.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And, so, maybe I have to start by saying
to myself “this is going to be a beautiful drive down the driveway,
Virginia.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You might even see a
moose or a deer or who knows what may be waiting on the driveway for you to
see.”<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>So I have to change my
attitude and say what an opportunity—certainly not for conquering….Oh what was
my thought there?<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I think I face my
fear—not with courage—but I face it and do it.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>But maybe if I changed my attitude, it
would also diminish my fear.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>So,
I’ll go with that.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">IRUKA</SPAN></B><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Thank you, Virginia.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>But also see the confidence that it is
building in you… Is there another who would like to share?<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">Nancy</SPAN></B><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Oh I think it is always helpful to the
individual to run off at the mouth—which is why I do it.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">I
can’t think of any particular circumstance that I am dreading.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Well there are two things.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>There is a friend who has been
personally hurt by the way I deal with people who are geographically distant
from me, which is to have very little contact.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And it is nothing all that personal, it
is more how I function, and I need to get back to her.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>So, there is that particular
circumstance that I have been avoiding somewhat.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">But
for me it is a broader change in attitude that has less to do with circumstances
as to just a general way of being, which I still find so odd and not very
correctable because it is a decision I make every day.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I am making the decision to wake up and
not look for the joy and the beauty and the optimism or to believe the
Correcting Time is here and all that.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>[She starts to choke up as she speaks.]<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I wake up and I…oh I don’t know…maybe
I’m still grieving my Dad’s death or something, but I do not … I don’t have the
sense of adventure that I used to have.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>I used to like challenges, and take them on as challenges to grow from
and learn from and be spiritually bettered as a result of whatever was in my
life.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I don’t really feel like it
anymore.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It is an odd place to be,
and it is weird when you know what works and what doesn’t work, and you choose
what doesn’t work. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It doesn’t make
any sense.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And yet, I’ve been doing
it now for a few years.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">It’s
kind of good that I’m finally crying.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>This is more like the old me.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>I don’t cry very much any more. <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">So
that is my response.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I know what I
should be doing, and I’m not doing it, and I don’t want to do it.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And I don’t know why I don’t want to
do.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>That’s where I am.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And, it’s real nice to have several TRs
to share the responsibility with. <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">IRUKA</SPAN></B><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Of course, and so noted.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>My dear friend, as difficult as this
must have been to share, how are you feeling right now?<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">Nancy</SPAN></B><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Oh, better.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I don’t have many outlets anymore.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We used to have sharing time.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I really loved sharing time because it
gave me an opportunity for renewal.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>I don’t have the same opportunities I had to be real and cleanse, and I
do miss that.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And I do feel better
for having a little cry.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">IRUKA</SPAN></B><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Thank you, Nancy.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And I am so glad to hear this.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And we will be assessing on our side
this comment that you have made about not sharing anymore.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We will be reviewing it, and maybe there
will be a renewal of this.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We will
see.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I can not speak for what we
will do.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">But
thank you so much.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>My heart goes
out to you.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Know that your life
will never be the same, and you will never stop grieving.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It is very healthy to grieve.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The pain will change, but it will still
be there.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Don’t let anyone tell you
that it will stop completely.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It
will be muted; it will change; but there will be a hole in your heart until you
reunite in the Mansion Worlds.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>So,
can I say, look forward to that time and that joy.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It will happen.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>But for right now, you are on this
planet, and this is reality for right now.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">And
Pam is getting emotional about this too.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>She lost her father a few years ago.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">Is
there anyone else who would like to share about seeing a situation in a
different way?<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">Ron</SPAN></B><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Let’s see…Seeing a thing in a different
way.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>As everyone was TRing, I don’t
know if this was Jedidiah, but he kept telling me that actually renewal is a
gift that we can appropriate in our time of stillness.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Renewal isn’t set for a specific day or
time or year.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Renewal can be every
second, every moment.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Renewal could
be coming as our stillness with the Father comes, in as He wants us to be fused
with our Thought Adjuster that our thinking automatically will change, that we
will not see things the same.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Even
though we are in the material realm, we will start to learn how to see things in
the spiritual realm and in an eternal time limit or space, or without time and
space.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It will become stronger
within us because the reality of the truth of the end is going to be more real
to us—that this just isn’t it.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman">I
guess to think of Christ who had to suffer on the cross—not because the Father
needed the blood or anything—but He did see the joy that was set before
Him.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>He knew what was beyond that
suffering on the cross.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>He knew the
joy of returning to His position.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN><SPAN style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">And
I think that we can also have that joy once we continue to spend time with the
Father and to be fused with the Thought Adjuster and to be taught.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And as it becomes more real and strong
within us, the things that we look at will be changed because we will be
beholding it differently.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>A child
and an adult can look at the same thing, and yet they behold it differently
because the adult has more experience than the child has, more
understanding.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">I
don’t know if that made any sense.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>I don’t know if this is me or just whoever but when Nancy was sharing—I’m
not a very emotional person, so I don’t start bawling when people cry and stuff
like that—but I think that in a sense, even by her awareness—she says that she
hasn’t seen any growth in a couple of years or whatever—we’re not always aware
of our growth, we’re not aware of what is going on.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You can be growing more now than you’re
not even aware of it than you ever were.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>I think just by your awareness of seeing things, seeing that you are not
making that choice or not doing this, it is automatically a sign of growth.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Just your awareness of that is a sign of
growth.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I’ll shut
up.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">IRUKA</SPAN></B><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Thank you, Ron.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And if you have more to say, we are
listening.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">Ron</SPAN></B><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>No.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I have nothing else to say.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Thank you.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">IRUKA</SPAN></B><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Thank you.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And I believe that you hear your teacher
more than you give yourself credit for hearing.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">Ron</SPAN></B><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Thank you.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">IRUKA</SPAN></B><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Are we finished with our sharing?<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Ken?<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">Ken</SPAN></B><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Yes, Iruka….You asked me to comment on
something that was beautiful that I am having a hard time with.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I guess, perhaps, the most beautiful
thing I can think of is the stillness, the quiet time, that communication with
that wonderful Fragment, that awareness of the blending of the morontial, of the
material with the morontial.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>That
is very beautiful.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The problem that
I have is that I doubt myself, and I don’t stay in that stillness.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I don’t go into that stillness as often
as I should, and I don’t know why.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>I’m working on that one.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">IRUKA</SPAN></B><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Thank you, Ken.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Did Pat want to
share?<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">Pat</SPAN></B><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>About renewal…I thought of commitment,
and also I had read an article about changing your attitudes on things.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Instead of saying “I have to do this” or
I have to do that” change the words to “I get to do this; I get to do
that.”<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>That has been helping me in
the last couple of weeks to wake up in the morning and say, “I get to have quiet
time.”<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This has been a problem for
me in the past, to make that time.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>And that is all I have.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">IRUKA</SPAN></B><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Thank you Pat.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You have said so much with your
words.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>To change “I have to” to “I
get to” is exactly what I am saying; it is exactly my lesson—that it is a
privilege and an honor, and it does so much with connecting you to the Father to
say, “I get to,” that the Father listens and is with you during that time.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And of course this is what we teachers
harp on.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>For years, this has been
our theme, to spend time with the Father.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Take your troubles, your problems, your questions, to the Father.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We are but helpers, assistants, older
brothers and sisters, pointing you towards the Father.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And, so, I am delighted that you have
brought this up, because it is a timeworn theme that we have hit on over and
over in different ways.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Thank you
very much, Pat.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">Pat</SPAN></B><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Thank you.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">IRUKA</SPAN></B><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Thank you, my friends, for perhaps going
somewhere in your mind that you didn’t want to go, that was uncomfortable, that
you have been avoiding, and trying to see it in a new light, to find the joy, to
get to do it.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Goodbye, my
friends.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">DANIEL</SPAN></B><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">
(Nancy):<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I am Daniel, smiling upon
you, delighted by who you are and who you are becoming day-by-day,
decision-by-decision, interaction-by-interaction.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">Ron</SPAN></B><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Daniel, may I ask you a question.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">DANIEL</SPAN></B><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">:
Proceed.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">Ron</SPAN></B><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Are the teachers saying that we need to
be patient with ourselves in this renewal process?<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">DANIEL</SPAN></B><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Is your question whether we are saying
that patience is required of yourselves in the renewal
process?<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">Ron</SPAN></B><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Correct.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">DANIEL</SPAN></B><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Absolutely is this required. It is
important that you are tender and supportive and kind to yourselves, which would
imply that, yes, you are patient.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>For the opposite of patience is annoyance, irritability, being demanding,
critical, and so forth.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You are all
very young—babies.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We say that you
are beyond certain stages when we are referring to comprehension and desire and
so forth.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>But in the scheme of
time, you are newly arrived.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And,
so, it would be irrational and unfair of you to demand of yourselves that which
can only be developed experientially across vast realms of time.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Your progress will be faster the
friendlier and the more supportive you can be.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">Many
of you are aware of the point that I am about to make, to repeat.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Often when dealing with oneself, one
takes on many of the critical messages that they experienced in early childhood
and later.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Whether the messages
were intended in the way that they were perceived does not matter; what matters
is that the developing ego-being hears impatience, and in the impatience
understands that they are somehow flawed.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>And years later, individuals continue to approach themselves with those
same messages of impatience and the underlying message of incompleteness and
flaw.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And, so, it is important to
nurture one’s own being like one desires to nurture one’s child or grandchild,
to be infinitely loving, kind, considerate, of the emotional aspect of the
individual being of you, yourself.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">You
asked me a short question, and I took it upon myself to provide a lengthy
response, for I am always eager to hammer home this important point.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman">As
you all go forward thinking of renewal, it would be a most helpful tool to begin
your day gently connecting with yourself, inquiring of that tender ego how it
is, and what does it want to do today that it will get to do.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Tenderly, patiently, eagerly,
enthusiastically approach the week.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>We will check in with you to see how it has gone.<SPAN
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">Are
there any further comments or questions from anyone before we
end?<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">We
will close in our usual manner.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Please stand and hold hands.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>And, if there is anyone who would like to offer a prayer, the floor is
now open.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">Simeon</SPAN></B><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Dear Father, Mother and Michael, our
Parents, please help us in our daily lives to see those directions which will be
most fruitful for our growth and development.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Help diminish our fear to follow that
which we know to be true.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Give us
strength to see challenges in the place of failings, to see light in the place
of darkness.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>All too often in
difficulty, we hide and forget that that which is the most real, the most true,
is right with us.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And, so, simply
providing that nudge and insight of remembrance is most appreciated.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Help us not to forget in all of our
efforts to serve you, to also recognize that what you want the most is for us to
be with you.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Amen.</SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">
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