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<div><font size="+1" color="#0000FF"><i>Dear
Siblings:</i></font></div>
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<div><font size="+1" color="#0000FF"><i>Susan Kimsey has shared this
message years ago. It rings for me, and I would like nothing better
than if it would ring your truth bells as well.</i></font></div>
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<div><font size="+1" color="#0000FF"><i>May we all experience renewal
over the coming days, and always,</i></font></div>
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<div><font size="+1" color="#0000FF"><i>In His Love,</i></font></div>
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<div><font size="+1" color="#0000FF"><i>Oliver</i></font></div>
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<div>PS: If you want to stay in touch for whatever reason, I am
at <correctingtime@gmail.com>, and/or sriasana on
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Olfana on "A Lesson Concerning Christmas" 12-04-94<br>
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<div><font size="+2" color="#007700">Let me offer you a lesson
concerning Christmas. Christmas is the<br>
symbol, the image, of the star in the heavens which announces the<br>
birth of God-Energy as an immense gift to this planet! This is
a<br>
story of hope, a story of awakened possibilities, of change and<br>
renewal. There is this strong sense, in the imagery of the
small,<br>
helpless babe, of the immense hope and faith placed in this child.<br>
The growth that will come from the inception of this child's life
is<br>
awaited with anticipation, and yet, there is still this sense of
"the<br>
mystery." The plan of redemption held in this small child
is still<br>
unknown, not yet evidenced in the events of his life.<br>
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We ask you to sense this mystery, this hope, this anticipation of<br>
change and renewal, which now comes again to Urantia with this<br>
Teaching Mission. Gather into yourself, during this season
of<br>
celebration of the advent of Jesus' life upon this planet, this
sense<br>
of anticipation, this sense of exhilaration, which, indeed, the<br>
angels, and all celestial beings who watched that birth,
experienced!<br>
Although you, indeed, know this occurred on a different
date--imagine<br>
the drama of the moment! The date is not the focus of the story;
the<br>
emotions present within this event--this is the focus of the birth<br>
story. And as you participate in this Mission, imagine that you
can,<br>
indeed, partake of this sense of anticipatory exhilaration--that,
"Ah,<br>
the change has now begun! The birth has blessed this
earth!" Move<br>
through your path in life holding to this sense of the miraculous,<br>
which is, indeed, a part of this marvelous event we call</font></div>
<div><font size="+2" color="#007700">"Christmas"--the birth
of the Savior Child on your planet.</font><br>
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<div>Half Moon Bay, CA Teaching Mission Group</div>
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