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<P>DATE:</B> June 5, 1997<BR><B>LOCATION:</B> Pittsburgh, PA,
USA<BR><B>T/R's:</B> Gerdean and Hunnah</P>
<P>Textual Study: Urantia Paper 9: <STRONG><BR></STRONG><B>"Relationship of The
Infinite Spirit to the Universe"<BR></B>Reading from Part IV: Page 1898 on
<B>Divine Forgiveness</P></B><B>
<P>TEACHER SESSION<BR>TOMAS, MERIUM and ABRAHAM<BR>Topic</B>: <B>Walk in Beauty
</P></B><B>
<P>TOMAS:</B> Hail fellows well met. I am Tomas. How wonderful to be with you
this evening.</P><B>
<P>Group:</B> Good evening. Thank you.</P><B>
<P>TOMAS:</B> We have been invigorated by your camaraderie this evening and by
your guests. Might I prevail upon you, Elizabeth, as our esteemed hostess, to
introduce your lady friends to the Teaching Mission?</P><B>
<P>Elizabeth:</B> Well, this is the lovely Jane M. and this is Wendy W., and
they're good friends of each other and I hope they'll continue to be good
friends of ours. Jane is a friend of my son, John. I must say I certainly, in
this case, have enjoyed his choice of friends.</P><B>
<P>TOMAS:</B> Jane and Wendy, welcome. I will not make clever remarks about
Peter Pan, (group chortle) but you will indeed find that as you ascend in the
order of daughtership you will become younger and not older. What a marvel! What
a miracle provided by the Trinity. This is not to say that you do not mature,
but this meddlesome problem of feeling decrepit and useless is history. Your
youth and energy are immediately apparent and appreciated, but even more so is
your sincerity and your integrity.</P>
<P>Both of you have worked diligently in your paths in order that you may be
here today, not only that you may be here today with us, but that you be here in
spirit actuality. Your souls are refreshingly viable. Your approach to your
destiny has been solidly dealt with and grasped. The results are the riches that
you pour forth into your arena, and this arena this evening has been the
recipient of your bountiful and divine deed, thought and word. Welcome.</P>
<P>We also greet Leah back from the United Kingdom. Welcome home,
daughter.</P><B>
<P>Leah:</B> I'm glad to be here.</P><B>
<P>TOMAS:</B> And, of course, welcome to all my trustworthy and loyal daughters,
pupils. We have been attempting to assimilate the concepts as set out in <U>The
Urantia Book</U> in terms of your own personal experience and we have had a
lengthy and leisurely look at how it is that thought, word and deed operate in
your own life -- your own life being a potential microcosm of perfection here in
your realm as the Paradise Trinity are perfect in Their realm.</P>
<P>We have paused to consider self-mastery, for in that moment when word and
thought connect and you begin to feel activated by the spirit, it will affect
your behaviors and your approach -- depending upon your motives -- and so,
looking at self-mastery, we have a way of looking at motives; indeed, is the
motive to serve and to be a part of the Paradise pattern of perfection? Or is it
for self-gain? Or many of those myriad mortal conditionings that flesh is heir
to?</P>
<P>For many weeks now we have paused at the threshold to perceive what our
motive might be in that moment when we act. The question now is: what kind of
act are we talking about? -- Actions that you can undertake as a result of your
thought, your word, and now your deed to be a co-creator in this undertaking of
kingdom-building and perfection attainment. Most assuredly a guideline is that
which is an element of the Father: truth, beauty and goodness. If you are
emitting truth, beauty and goodness, you are surely doing His will.</P>
<P>Last week we discussed this same concept and I ended my "lecture" with the
sentence: you are giving birth to your soul. It is your soul that is potentially
immortal, and as you choose to act for truth, beauty and goodness, your soul is
reaffirmed. The soul becomes more real and therefore <I>you</I> become more
real. It becomes more and more difficult for you to "backslide" into your more
primitive behavior patterns, for your soul has an integrity that precludes
error.</P>
<P>Granted, when you are, as they say, "hungry, angry, lonely or tired" you can
revert to the lesser way, for the human animal is cantankerous and needs much in
the way of self-mastery. And so herein is the value of learning to love
yourself, to take appropriate care of yourself, so that you are not ruled by
your animal nature, but rather that you can allow your higher nature to run the
show, to hold your animal in check.</P>
<P>I hear some of you say, "Well, that doesn't sound like fun!" Au contraire! It
is most enjoyable. But it depends a great deal upon what you perceive "fun" as
being. <U>Beauty</U> is certainly fun, for it is satisfying and thrilling; it is
exciting; it is dazzling; it is soothing, pleasurable, titillating and so forth.
<U>Goodness</U> can be construed as abundant and earthy and robust and sensual
and hardy and hearty and any number of well-rounded qualities. And truth?
<U>Truth </U>is piercing, dynamic, exciting, scintillating. And so these truths
truly are fun. More fun, if you think of it, than their earlier, lesser
understandings of fun. Now, too, you have an entire galactic community inviting
you to join them in their fun.</P>
<P>I know my companion, Merium, is delighted that I have finally come around to
having a good time! (Group giggle) Perhaps it is because of these comely lasses,
(More giggles) but it is also because of the fact that living a life in
accordance with the Father's will is the most enjoyable and satisfying and
liberating way of life there is!</P>
<P>On that remark, I conclude my remarks and allow my colleague to contribute
her vantage point.</P><B>
<P>MERIUM:</B> Good evening. I wish also to welcome our guests. It is as if they
are not guests, they are part of our family. We have been in contact with all
who are awake. They do not all know it consciously. I feel as if we have a party
here and I will place flowers on the table.</P>
<P>My subject this evening will be one that I hold closest to my heart and that
is beauty. It does not have to be a tangible beauty; it can be the beauty that
we discover when we find ourselves functioning as we hoped one day we would.
There is an excitement in this self-discovery of the ability to be far more than
we ever hoped or anticipated we ever could. It is beautiful to know that we
contain the <I>courage</I> that would be there when we wanted it. It is
beauteous that we have the warmth of <I>understanding</I> that we have acted
appropriately. It is beauty when we feel ourselves following through
instinctively with a generous gesture.</P>
<P>We are living in a day and age of great self-consciousness. There is a
self-consciousness of trying to make ourselves what we wish we could be, and
there is often an experience of finding that you are allowed to discover that
you are becoming what you hoped that you could be. <I>I</I> hope that as I speak
to you that there will be a gentle, collective recollection going on in you, as
if you were slipping favorite photos from your memory bank. And they are not
perhaps the photos of years gone by, but current photos of what is going on in
your activities of daily living. </P>
<P>After you have come to the end of your day, before your evening quiet --
perhaps you have a habit of reflecting about how the day went -- (and it's
alright not to beat on yourself if it was not a terrific day or that you did not
function at your best), but you have the satisfaction of knowing that tomorrow
might come along better. </P>
<P>In Hunnah's memory she has a little book where she wrote that her purpose was
for beauty. There are other words that surround that statement, but that is one
of the qualities of our many purposes, for our many goals, for the development
of our personal experiences the enlargement of compassion when someone does
not react well with you -- (may it) be so satisfying to you that it too falls in
the category of what beauty is.</P>
<P>A loss of self-consciousness is a lightening-up. It allows you to travel into
areas where you could not have ever dared enter before. You allow yourself to
meet people quite unlike yourself. There is a confidence that allows you to ease
into situations that before, with conscious shyness, you would have passed
by.</P>
<P>I hope that as you go forward into your week that you will allow yourself to
reflect at the end of the day -- not scrutinize; it is not the same. The moments
will make themselves known to you and it will be fragrant as a flower, a handful
of flowers that you might pick on the walk.</P>
<P>Please do not be hard on yourselves, especially our young ones here. You are
now entering the greatest part of your new life and that is a resting in your
newborn self-confidence of the reality of your true being, and when you carry
this acceptance of this new reality of your true self, you are indeed entering a
state of rest. Your learning will expand. It is not a burdensome task. You will
dine on the opportunity and it will be brought to the level where you can
understand.</P>
<P>We have Hester here who has many years. She has this tremendous mother lode
of memories, but she, too, is developing a new sense of what is important; her
new moments will teach her. Life is ever new. You do not have to carry a heavy
weight of yesterday, but the lightened freshness of the new day.</P>
<P>Hunnah has a very nice memory, and I use it because it is very, very
important to her. It is simply (to make a story short) that if three days go by
and you cannot share with yourself or another the glory of the living-ness and
awareness of this new reality in you, then it's time to get to work. Go home.
Climb up on the Father's lap. Let the Mother tend to your needs and bring you
back to joyous learning, joyous walking the walk, effortless appreciation and
the innocence and openness that is permitted when you know and live as you truly
are, a child of the living God.</P>
<P>I've rather enjoyed myself, Tomas. (Group giggle) </P><B>
<P>TOMAS:</B> I am glad, Merium. Thank you. We arc having fun now, yes? </P>
<P>MERIUM: Yes, we are. We are passing the feather back and forth.</P>
<P>TOMAS: Thank you. The floor is now open for questions or commentary.</P><B>
<P>Elizabeth:</B> Well, I guess I have a question. I get confused when we start
examining our motives, because I'm remembering a part in the Book where Jesus
was talking about self-examination and I would like you to clarify this for me,
if possible. Did I make my...?</P><B>
<P>TOMAS:</B> Yes. I am aware of your point, and I am familiar with the point of
reference, but as you grow, as you reflect upon your learning experiences, as
you look at experience and determine that you could have handled it better and
that next time you hope to do a better job, this is, in essence, a
self-examination. It is another opportunity to be aware of an aspect needing
attention toward self-mastery. It goes to your motives.</P>
<P>Granted, you enter the situation desiring to serve, for it is inherent in you
as a child of God to want to serve. As you avail yourself of the Father, as you
are affected by the Son, as you are activated by the Infinite Spirit, you will
act. But if you are aware of what it is you aspire to do, you will act more
effectively.</P><B>
<P>Elizabeth:</B> But I'm still confused about how that is the same as starting
to examine your motive. If I'm reviewing the day and I think I'm going to do a
better job with something the next time, I-- </P><B>
<P>TOMAS:</B> Let me give you an example. Humanly speaking, you are in a
situation; you look at it. You aren't completely happy with the results. They
did not ring with clarity. They did not reverberate with appropriate harmony.
There was not the Spirit of Truth that you had hoped. And so you look and you
review the situation, the interaction, the response, the stimuli, the dialog,
all the conditions, and you see what you brought with you, and you look to see
if perhaps in your motives, there may have been tucked away in some dark corner
a small fragment of superiority or a dark shadow of vindication or some
imperfection of character.</P>
<P>It is not to say that you are to beat yourself up about it, no, but now that
you see that had you not had that motive underlying, it may not have been
discolored. We are speaking of the human animal, a highly conditioned human
animal that functions in an extremely complex society.</P><B>
<P>Elizabeth:</B> Well then, what was Jesus saying, then, when he said something
about avoiding self-examination. Now, how does that differ? I'm confused about
that.</P><B>
<P>TOMAS:</B> I agree with you, Elizabeth, you make a good point, for the Master
himself would say, "Just do it, and don't worry about the results. Let the chips
fall where they may, for God has got all things in hand and if your desires are
to serve Him, then you are doing fine." It is in our understanding of the desire
to do His will on which I am focusing a certain amount of attention, such as the
self-mastery aspect.</P><B>
<P>MERIUM:</B> May I interject?</P><B>
<P>TOMAS:</B> Yes, Merium. Perhaps you can assist.</P><B>
<P>MERIUM:</B> When you are observing the personality -- You all have been
through this self-examination. I am going to encourage you to do it ever so
lightly. In the past I have asked to help, or have hoped I could help you to
focus on serving the one Life, the truth of your Being, and it is sort of a
tares and wheat principle, that when you focus on the purpose of your being and
the qualities of your Godliness, that which is a quality within your developed
personality that you do not like or is bewildering to you or you wish it would
stay at bay, it will be starved out.</P>
<P>Remember, all of the development of your personality is to reinforce the
personality that you interact with on a daily basis. It could be the lingering
effects of the teaching of the parents; it could be the demands of the business
in which you may find yourself; it could be in the new role perhaps, how a
mother should be, how a wife should be; and this could go on endlessly, and you
could be like a cat, constantly grooming yourself, pulling out snares and more
washing and washing and washing.</P>
<P>What I would like to encourage is this idea of rest. You do not have to dwell
upon your progress for the tiresome task of observing the upside when it is the
glory that you are tending, like a fire within yourself, and as you interact
with people and as you let this develop within yourself, your behavior toward
them will be appropriate, and you can literally take no thought. If the force of
the external situation is powerful enough that you, in this delicate state of
being, back off and perhaps feel fearful or pulled in by the gravity of their
powerful personality that is not of your vibrational frequency, you can pull in,
like our friend described, and ask for help.</P>
<P>There is too much perfecting and grooming of the external personality that is
being greeted to the public because if you look over history, the social way to
be is constantly changing. It has gone from stiff and proper and meticulous to
excessively casual and coarse, so you have to allow yourself to know Whom you
are going to serve, and will you be tending to the fire in your heart or will
you be outside polishing new white coating on your exterior to cover the
blemishes?</P>
<P>I don't mean to be harsh, but it's a working thing that you have been, a
tiresome one, this self-examination. What is going to go will be brought to your
attention and how to attend to the challenges in a light way. Has that
helped?</P><B>
<P>Elizabeth:</B> Thank you very much, both of you.</P><B>
<P>TOMAS:</B> I am reminded of the Master's instructions to teachers and
believers, and he admonished that it was necessary to have tact and tolerance
and that we must learn to prevail with others. And surely in developing tact and
tolerance, indeed in developing and fostering all the fruits of the spirit, you
must apply some examination to your own personage. There is not much more that
humans like to do than pay attention to themselves, one way or another. It is
fruitful to know yourself, that you may be more effective in the field.</P><B>
<P>Elizabeth:</B> I see. Uh-huh.</P><B>
<P>TOMAS:</B> Remember, too, that you are speaking to an old cultural
anthropologist. I am conditioned also, you see, to study behaviors of peoples,
and so this fascinates me. Do not think that I garnered my credentials
academically only, no, but by also studying myself. I am not asking you to
psychoanalyze yourself, for you are not necessarily becoming a psychologist, but
as an active religionist you will be acting (Did you hear that? "Acting") and
interacting with other religionists, other individuals who are sons and
daughters of the Father, and so you learn to prevail with men and sometimes this
means you need to do some examining of yourself in terms of your arena.</P>
<P>It is <U>not</U> necessary for you to examine yourself in terms of your worth
for God. You do not need to do penance, do sacrifice, wonder if you are worthy
of His love or of eternal survival. This is incorrect examination, for you are
not qualified- to make that determination. This kind of self-abasement is
damaging. By the same token, the potential exaltation of ego also is unnecessary
and undesirable. That is an incorrect examination.</P>
<P>But examining how you react or respond to life, to your culture, to fellow
believers, to the matters of life at hand -- this is the stuff that life is made
of; this is the meat that feeds the kingdom builder; this is what whets the
appetite for the ascent, for with each self-revelation and/or divine revelation
comes increased truth, beauty and goodness within yourself and within your realm
and within the Father's realm, which is what -- way back in the beginning -- you
resolved you wanted to do. Make it so.</P>
<P>Elizabeth: I remember that when we did the fruits of the spirit, it was a
kind of an examination itself that was rather different for me, in a sense,
because I was striving to achieve those fruits occasionally in my life. I
certainly was not able to implement them as much as I would have liked to, but I
did achieve that occasionally, and that was why I really was so happy we did
that, because that was one way of looking at one's behavior, I felt, in a very
positive way -- for me, in any case.</P><B>
<P>TOMAS:</B> Indeed, for everyone concerned. For as everyone makes strides
towards perfection, everyone else benefits. Do not cease your efforts to prune
your branches, to fertilize your soil, to reach for the sun(/Son), that you
might bear fruit, fruit of the spirit.</P><B>
<P>Elizabeth:</B> Well, this study of personality seems to be a kind of a
looking at oneself, too, because in looking at others and enjoying them, you
also then look at your own personality and you enjoy it, which is something
rather new in the Christian way of doing things.</P><B>
<P>TOMAS:</B> I am not particularly affiliated with the Christian way of doing
things. Perhaps you would like to educate me.</P><B>
<P>Elizabeth:</B> Well, of course, it's something we are trying to throw off
here. You know, of course, Tomas, how we were brought up with all of this thing
about ... original sin, I suppose, ... so much a part of us and our society
that, to be released from it is so wonderful!</P><B>
<P>TOMAS:</B> Surely it must rankle them, then, when they see you walking so
tall and filled with the Holy Spirit. </P><B>
<P>Hester:</B> If they can see it!</P><B>
<P>TOMAS:</B> Most assuredly their Thought Adjuster is resonating frantically
within.</P><B>
<P>Hester:</B> True.</P><B>
<P>TOMAS:</B> I don't know that is true. I don't know that a Thought Adjuster is
ever frantic. That was an inaccurate descriptive adjective.</P><B>
<P>Hester:</B> Well, maybe it was a poor choice of words, but my reaction to my
Thought Adjuster is that it is pretty active, and it has a way of slapping me
around a little bit on occasion.</P><B>
<P>TOMAS:</B> It is sometimes necessary, if only to get your attention for your
own good. Did we not gloss upon, this evening, a reference to "hammering out"
something? Justice?</P><B>
<P>Elizabeth:</B> I think it was mercy, but I'll look at that part again.</P><B>
<P>TOMAS:</B> Are there any other questions?</P><B>
<P>Wendy:</B> A thousand of them, but I didn't write them down.</P><B>
<P>Elizabeth:</B> Start with one.</P><B>
<P>TOMAS:</B> I once had a session with a young woman who was very eager to meet
with the spirit guides and when I asked for questions, she said, "Well, I had
several when I was in the shower." (Laughter) That did me no good, but I know,
however, that you are filled with questions and with wonder. It is not unnatural
for you to not know quite what question to ask. Even my more advanced students
are still stumbling to formulate their own souls' questions. I get lots of
curiosity questions and some "intellectual" questions, but the greater, soulful,
far-reaching, meaningful questions emerge as a result of our compatible
discourses.</P>
<P>This is one of the reasons I have been urging my students to learn to
communicate on a more substantial, in-depth level than they are accustomed to,
for true communication can take place if it is given the opportunity. Not only
does the external personality seek to be seen and heard, but the indwelling
Thought Adjuster also needs your personality, so that it may express itself. And
this is the basis of the marriage between you and your Thought Adjuster that
evolves your own soul. You grasp onto the God Fragment and it works through you
for personality expression. How can it express itself if you will not work with
it, if you cannot recognize how it feels, what it sounds like, what effect it
has on others? Many times our more substantial lessons are gotten to by -- what
would you say, Merium? -- coming around to the back door to get in?</P><B>
<P>MERIUM:</B> In my case, I would like for you to think of the back door as the
myriad opportunities to accept any situation and know that at hand there is a
proper response. I was thinking -- I should say I was putting up with Hunnah's
eavesdropping on this conversation -- and it is, perhaps at her request that she
who doubts the validity of my talks sometimes -- because she feels that our
personalities are, in some ways, so much alike and wonders if her personality
doesn't color my delivery
and it is true that it does happen, just as the
personality of Gerdean colors the expression of Tomas' ability to teach
back
doors are for neighbors. Back doors are short-cuts for friends.</P>
<P>It is true that there is one way to go and that is through the sincerity of
the heart, and once you have made this established journey, there are back doors
and side doors and those for your convenience, because you know now where you
live! And there is no classic, sworn way that you have to be taught or how you
must live within the framework of this discovery of Coming Home.</P>
<P>Every one of our talks involve the new and living way entering a conditioned
way, and lofty ideas of truth being applied into the arena of your established
habits. It is like bringing home a guest to dinner. The people at the table
being your familiar world, and the guest, perhaps, being the Christ of your new
intentions that you wish to expand.</P>
<P>And part of you feels divided. You hope this family that you have acquired
will like this new fellow or friend and they do not know that you pay such total
allegiance to this Christ that you have invited home to dinner, into every
aspect of your life, that you are constantly, constantly being influenced by the
opinions of your elaborately-woven life-style. And many of these patterns that
you have woven, you must keep. So you are hoping that your new friend, this
Christ presence, will allow you to keep some of these patterns that you have
already woven, and others, weak threads in your pattern, will wither, dry up,
and dissolve. They may be relationships or ideas.</P>
<P>So what I am touching upon here is a total freedom for you, as you evolve and
experiment with your conditioned behavior and with the aura and fascination of
the new expression within the framework of the old. Hunnah is looking forward to
reading this paper. I am looking forward to Hunnah's humbleness. And I want to
thank you for inviting me back in, Tomas.</P><B>
<P>TOMAS:</B> Thank you, Merium
<I>and</I> Hunnah.</P><B>
<P>Hester:</B> Tomas, I have a question.</P><B>
<P>TOMAS:</B> Yes, ma'am.</P><B>
<P>Hester:</B> I'll sort of blurt it out here so I can get it right. In this
thing called Correcting Time in which we are supposed to be in at the moment?
How long is this pattern or new attitude toward life going to go on, and is
there
? In other words, is it to be accomplished rapidly? Or would it be like
some experiences that take years to come about?</P><B>
<P>TOMAS:</B> Thank you for your question, Hester, and I hope I do justice to
it, but let me respond this way. The Correcting Time that you are experiencing
now is rather like a spiritual renaissance and it will last depending upon how
involved you are in it. If you are looking only for the froth and glitter of
spiritual scintillation and the net value of angels, you will not last long in
Correcting Time, but if you are a worker in the field, you will not cease your
efforts until we have begun to realize our goal of Light and Life for
Urantia.</P>
<P>The workers are few. We need more workers in the field. There are many who
like to find a pied piper and follow him through the fields willy-nilly,
playing, but there are a few who will truly work in the Father's vineyard, and
these are those who are devoted, day after day, who humbly and earnestly and
with deep joy, prepare the feast for the Guest they have invited: the Master,
that they may sit at His feet and learn from Him how to experience Him
even
more, how to know the Father, how to love their brother.</P>
<P>There is great joy in the kingdom, but it is not glitzy. Those who like the
amusement park aspects of this spiritual renaissance are doomed to
disappointment when they discover that it takes real guts, it takes real
courage, it requires fortitude and stamina; it sometimes requires adversity, for
this is how you grow, this is how you learn wisdom. I am not saying that you
need to sacrifice or atone for your sins; I am not saying that, no. I am saying
that in order for you to become a full-blown tree bearing fruit, you must be
diligent in nurturing your soil and pruning away your branches. Not only is that
parable true, but many others hold value, for here comes Abraham to discuss his
vantage point. One moment.</P><B>
<P>ABRAHAM:</B> Mark you well, indeed, I have come to sound the trumpet. I have
come to shake you up. I have come to give you your orders, my soldiers. Remember
my words for I am active, I am a General in the Lord's army. I train my troops
to carry the pack that is at once heavy, but in the end is light. Your steps
will gain precision, for you will go from being bumbling clods to being lifted
up.</P>
<P>The analogies of military service are part of my mannerisms, you could say,
for I have had the experience that would befit a military man approach. I always
refer to you as soldiers of the circles. I always speak to you as if you were
warriors, laboring in the war against fear, in the fight for faith. It is not
only that you tend to your tree and do your horticulture well, but that you band
with others in this noble march forward. It does require stamina, and yet those
of you who begin to feel the precision and the disciplines of following orders
(Have you not heard that in due</P>
<P>time you will be led not by a Thought Adjuster but by a Thought Controller?),
you will sing to the radiance of those instructions, you will kneel to obey His
orders.</P>
<P>I speak as one who knows. I have long fought in the battlefield against
darkness. I am victorious, and my men, and my women --those brothers and sisters
who do battle with me -- graduate to glory. My friends, be at peace. Gerdean
used to fear me, but she has learned that I am just another uncle, and although
my uniform has certain connotations, they are of an earlier conditioning. There
is no real pain in this God's army. There is no blood spilled. It is a victory
from the first moment. Carry on. Shalom.</P><B>
<P>Group:</B> Thank you for coming, Abraham.</P><B>
<P>TOMAS:</B> I am Tomas and I will certainly say "At ease." I am going to take
my ease, as is Merium. We have had a full repast this evening. You are hungry
little monkeys and we have been pleased to delight your palate.</P>
<P>My precious friends, we bid you a fond farewell, ... but not before Abraham
prods me and says, "They need something to do!" One moment.</P>
<P>I will join with Merium and ask you this week to walk in beauty, to look at
beauty, to recognize your own beauty, to see beauty in others. Behold your
personality and recognize those things in it which are of natural beauty and
those which are acquired beauty, those which are real beauty. And look at your
friends and ascertain of them their beauty, their devotions, their adventures,
their mischief, even, in good faith.</P>
<P>See the beauty around you: the physical beauty; see the beauty of
relationship; see people interact and see it be beautiful. See the
communications that occur between people you know and see how hard it has been
to attain this high level of communication art and how they have succeeded. See
the beauty in laughter. See the beauty in truth, even when the truth is
piercing, even when the truth hurts for a moment. Look beyond that to see the
beauty of the lesson learned. There is beauty everywhere! Beauty is part of The
Father. Farewell.</P>
<P><STRONG>Group:</STRONG> Thank you. Farewell.</P>
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