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<P>DATE:</B> August 5, 2007<BR><B>LOCATION:</B> Rio Rancho, NM,
USA<BR><B>T/R:</B> Gerdean</P><B>
<P>TEACHERS: NEBADONIA and MERIUM <BR>TOPICS: <BR>Embracing Divine
Reality<BR>Acceptance and Forgiveness <BR>The Mad Hatter's Tea Party<BR>Attitude
of Gratitude on the Job</P></B><B>
<P>NEBADONIA:</B> I am with you now, Nebadonia, your mother, embracing you with
my presence, my ministry. All of my angels and ministering spirits who are
involved in your development are also focused on our efforts, for it is our
intent to assist your ascent into greater consciousness of true reality. </P>
<P>It pleases us to hear you discussing the impact of emotional energy
directives -- how your disciplines to focus can affect your world and how this
up-swelling of greater consciousness can affect the whole, the globe, even
ultimately the universe. Thus it is that your decisions are important. </P>
<P>Your efforts to embrace divine reality and cosmic energy are part of the
organizing of the oversoul of creation. This lofty thought does not preclude you
from having very real and poignant human associations, experiences and
perceptions based upon your knowledge and understanding thus far of who you are
and what your life is all about. </P>
<P>In truth, you are wee babes, cosmic neonates, still small and starting out.
But even from this sense of smallness, you are each developing a relationship
with your spirit so as to become a powerful point of light and energy that can
affect the course of destiny. You belittle yourselves when you believe you are
ineffective. You have yet to practice and develop your powers, perhaps, but you
are not without power. You are given spirit power, morontia energy and material
matter with which to effect these changes that bring you greater happiness, even
peace. </P>
<P>I see you in your many phases of development, each of you a different
configuration of evolving reality, occasionally overlapping, occasionally
conflicting, some more advanced in areas than others, some falling behind, and
yet all as one, all my children, all engaged in the more or less
industrialization of purposive energy, milling around and seeking to find those
regions wherein your inherent abilities can shine, how you can reveal yourself
and the Father to best advantage. </P>
<P>I am with you unceasingly in this process of redefining yourself, and
wholeheartedly in support of your efforts. Your desire to please Michael and me
is noted On High in the records of your history as a Son, a Daughter of God in
becoming.</P>
<P>I add "in becoming" because it is on-going and just as you attain a pinnacle
of accomplishment, a new wave appears on which you may pull yourself up and ride
the crest onto shore, having the time of your lives on the ever undulating tide.
</P>
<P>I see a question, the question being: <B>Is forgiveness the same thing as
acceptance? Is acceptance the same thing as forgiveness?</P></B>
<P>They can be … but in the style of your Teacher Tomas, I would say there are
qualifiers. Just as in understanding "tolerance" as compared to "forgiving
tolerance," we could say there is acceptance and there is acceptance with
forgiveness. You can accept things by resigning yourself to them, but not with
the full-hearted embrace that forgiveness brings; thus there is a difference,
but acceptance is a beginning. </P>
<P>Acceptance does not mean resolve, resolution, or resignation. It means seeing
things the way they are. If you see things as they are, in such a view as to
find no fault, you have nothing to forgive. However, if you accept that things
are a mess, that lessons need to be learned, (and/or) that remedial work needs
to take place, it may be that acceptance of the situation has motivated an
action <I>other </I>than forgiveness. Do you accept that babies need their
diapers changed? Or do you have to forgive the child each time you clean up
after him? Acceptance is not surrender as much as it is acknowledgement of what
is. </P>
<P>There are those who say that <I>what is, is perfect</I>, and while this may
be true with certain colored glasses, it is not at all true from other
perspectives. It is just as easy to say "It is far from perfect!" and this would
also be true. It is sometimes difficult to respond to your human needs for
understanding and reassurance. Even those of you who are bathed in the spirit
have questions as to how to reveal the spirit. And so these are worthy concerns,
even if they are only temporary concerns on the highway to heaven. </P>
<P>Here is a good place to add that accepting the fact that everyone is on his
or her own individual path is <U>a forgivable estate</U>. The generic truths of
your being and your relationships are all transient. You are all buffers for one
another. Like bumper cars, you press upon one another for the adventure of the
action, as an exercise, even as diversion and recreation from the placid and
serene regions of your inner life where you commune with Deity in Stillness and
where all is right with your world. </P>
<P>There is also the matter of follow-through, for in acceptance, you accept and
there is an end to it. But in forgiveness, there is an echo of reality that
hails from beyond you. It is a reflection of your harmony with the infinite,
taking it and you -- the situation, the parties, the principles -- out of and
beyond the restrictions and confinements of the circumstance you have accepted.
The spirit has lifted it up into a realm where action is made possible, where
growth is immanent, and resolution forthcoming.</P>
<P>You can accept all by yourself, but you need spirit to know forgiveness. Does
that help?</P><B>
<P>Gerdean:</B> Yes. Yes.</P><B>
<P>NEBADONIA:</B> I wanted to be with you for awhile today, to express myself
through you and for you, for you to be reminded of how it is that I maintain a
place in your being, in your consciousness and in your superconsciousness, even
in your morontia reality. You have indeed created me, but I existed before you
created me. You have created only that which you can understand. This is not to
be disdained, for I am part of you and I am engaged in helping you toward your
ultimate destiny goals. </P>
<P>It is my task, as the Divine Minister, to minister to you and through you by
way of my spirits, myriad spirits, ministering spirits and adjutant mind
spirits. A thrilling retinue of helpers has been created for this purpose -- to
help you in your ascension. And as you strive to know more about them, more
about us, and more about your place in the community / neighborhood / galaxy /
universe, the more you push the envelope, the more you open the doors of
perception and let in the light of truth. I will see to it that your feet remain
firmly on the ground as you reach up to find the Son and the Father, and
beyond.</P>
<P>Recognize this life as the cradle in which you lay, safe in the boughs of my
branches. Rest in me that I may minister to you. I am your Mother. Come to
Me.</P>
<P>I leave you now. Perhaps another will take the microphone and engage with
you. Farewell.</P><B>
<P>Reneau:</B> Thank you so much.</P><B>
<P>MERIUM:</B> Hello, my darling daughters. This is Merium.</P><B>
<P>Reneau:</B> Hello.</P><B>
<P>MERIUM:</B> Hello. We have a small tea party today. These are to my great
delight. They allow us to be more intimate, even affected and stylized, as it is
not so necessary that I be so generic as to attempt to reach the community soul
of such a large and diverse group as we have seen and known here in this Rio
Rancho TeaM Community. </P>
<P>We have others in attendance watching, so it is not like we can just "get
down," as girls will do, but we can certainly relax and be familiar. Oh yes, I
know, "familiarity breeds contempt," so let's not be <I>that</I> familiar! As it
is appropriate, however, for a tea party, I have my hair in place and my shoes
on and so we can comport ourselves as little ladies, little darlings of a
certainty.</P><B>
<P>Reneau:</B> You mean "figuratively speaking." Because I don't have my shoes
on.</P><B>
<P>MERIUM:</B> Much of the morontia reality is strictly figurative. It is very
much like playing dress-up. In fact, prayer stems from children babbling to
their own alter ego, their imaginary friends, but what starts out as immature
and juvenile is that which allows for its own growth through the bumps and
bruises of disorder in growth, in the trials and tribulations of maturation on a
finite world and with its inherent challenges. </P>
<P>But see, the thing is, while it is always possible to remember that we are
children of God, our efforts to play grown up bring us into those dilemmas that
call upon us to check our ethics and morals and principles and standards and
practices and decorum and all. And so we create an environment, an architectural
sphere, a realm of reality in which to work so as to experiment with those
budding realities.</P>
<P>It is much easier to see when we sit around this table with our teacups and
practice being gracious with one another in company with spirit. It is not as
easy to see it, in the large, at a parliamentary procedure, or a conventional
conference, but it is all the same thing -- children playing grown-up and
becoming better at it as they practice. Of course, getting better <I>at what</I>
is the question! Is spirit included? Or excluded? And how is it defined?</P>
<P>Here is what makes it interesting, and also makes it look more like the Mad
Hatter's Tea Party than this one. There is an assignment for you this week: to
think in terms of life as a tea party, and observe the engagements of those at
play. What for? Well, because, it will help you to see how it is that these are
children. It will help you accept them and forgive them. It will inspire you to
think in terms of what they might do to improve the nature of your tea party.
</P>
<P>You will notice some not having any fun at all, to your mind's eye, and so
you will be able to study how other people live, just as Jesus was able to do
when he traveled. This was not so that he could tell them how to live
differently, but his personal encounters with individuals did help them as he
taught them how to live better as individuals. </P>
<P>Naturally, you will not be invited to everyone's tea party, nor would you
want everyone to attend yours. But observing these enclaves of individuals as a
mother might see her precious children could help give you a more empathic or
compassionate approach to your judgment. Oh, yes. I did say "judgment." I said
"judgment" on purpose. </P><B>
<P>Reneau:</B> Discernment.</P><B>
<P>MERIUM:</B> Discernment, of course, is the goal. But often it is revealed as
judgment until a certain level of maturity is reached that allows discernment to
override. It is such a busy playground. Instead of feeling overwhelmed with how
much there is to observe or assimilate or ignore, also you may appreciate how
your own tea party functions in itself and in the aggregate with others. </P>
<P>This is how the brotherhood is spread - through these small clusters of
peace-loving, forward-thinking individual children of God. Children are only
going to respond to the voice of spirit authority anyway, and so you might as
well say, "Please pass the sugar." "Would you like one lump or two?"</P>
<P>Was there something else, in particular, that you wanted to talk about
today?</P><B>
<P>Reneau:</B> Do you have any personal thoughts or do you know much about what
is going on in my office and stuff that that I would ask you about?</P><B>
<P>MERIUM:</B> I don't care what goes on in your office. </P><B>
<P>Reneau:</B> (Laughter) [Indistinguishable commentary]</P><B>
<P>MERIUM:</B> Perhaps you need to think in terms of becoming a transmitter in
your work environment. That would mean you need to train, as the transmitters do
(as the T/Rs do) to stay out of the way in order for the teacher to prevail. If
Linda stays out of the way and allows the nurse to operate, then Linda can live
in her little pond happily and the nurse can represent the professional
standards that are expected from the institution.</P>
<P>This is a challenge. It involves the subjugation of your own personality
expression, allowing only for that in you, which is divine, to manifest. That
may manifest in service, as a representative of the health profession, and as
merciful ministry to those you would help. But it does require a curtailment of
your attitudes and prejudices, your humor, your sarcasm, sloth, resentments, and
your desire to go above and beyond the call of duty in a sense of expectation
for some unnamed reward. </P>
<P>So while I do not urge you to humble yourself before hospital administration,
you would do well to reflect a humble attitude in your works such that the
administrators could observe it [your humility]. Your humility is for God and
before God and in the work you would do for Him. So to the extent that the
administrator / administration wants you to bow down to them, render unto Caesar
that which is Caesar's and to God the things that are God's.</P><B>
<P>Reneau:</B> And do the paperwork.</P><B>
<P>MERIUM:</B> It's all about paperwork! That's what institutions are for:
paperwork. There is also a critical matter of personality expression, and many
times institutions are unfriendly toward personality manifestations over which
they do not have control. And since you are "out of control" they keep a
suspicious eye on you, and you feel paranoid as a result, yes. So the task is
yours, not theirs, since you are aware. You are conscious of consciousness. </P>
<P>Set yourself aside. In this way you will have so much more freedom. Yes, you
will have to do the bloody job. (Laughter) But if you quit fighting it, it
really is much easier. </P><B>
<P>Reneau:</B> [Inaudible]</P><B>
<P>MERIUM: </B>And it's only temporary. </P>
<P>You need to develop what they call an attitude of gratitude. It will help you
if you can begin to thank God for everything, including your overbearing
administrators and the restraints of the working environment, the absurd rules
and regulations in effect that you are required to abide by. You need to be glad
about and grateful for the machinery, which churns on like a large clock, having
far too many moveable parts but nonetheless keeping time and broadcasting its
existence far and wide. </P>
<P>Be grateful that a hospital represents Healing, that the work that you do and
that your co-workers are engaged in was motivated by a desire to heal and/or
relieve the suffering of the sick and those in pain. It is a field founded on
compassion, fathered in mercy. </P><B>
<P>NEBADONIA:</B> The work environment is a little kingdom where Michael and I
rule -- his mercy and my compassion. Allow us to come through. Envision us in
the inherent infrastructure of the place you work. We are your employers, and
those who are doing the job of administrating the task of healing are like
children at a tea party, playing grown up, doing what they feel they need to do
as they grow into their potential. </P>
<P>Bring with you a spirit of encouragement, of sanction, of cooperation, and
impress upon them in your attitude and in your performance how dedicated you are
to serving in the field of your choice. They may or may not recognize that you
do this for Me. You do not need to worship them. You only need to acknowledge
their position at the table, at the tea party you are attending. Can this be
helpful?</P><B>
<P>Reneau:</B> Yes, thank you. We're going to have a tea party on Wednesday
morning. I will invite you to be there.</P><B>
<P>MERIUM:</B> Is it a staff meeting?</P><B>
<P>Reneau:</B> Yeah. The boss [indistinguishable]</P><B>
<P>MERIUM:</B> And so what is it they are going to do? "Off with her head!"
</P><B>
<P>Reneau:</B> Sometimes she thinks I have an attitude, but … I'll think about
that. [Indistinguishable] … just little cogs in the wheel. </P><B>
<P>MERIUM:</B> Understood. It is flawed. I understand that. </P><B>
<P>Reneau:</B> Naturally, I wouldn't want to have to do her job.</P><B>
<P>MERIUM:</B> Then, come back with your attitude of gratitude and give her
flowers for taking on the responsibility of doing what she feels she can do best
to keep the clock ticking, keeping the heart of medicine pumping, and the gears
of your workplace on time. Assume she seeks to serve Me, and know that the
angels of health are involved in all you do. </P>
<P>Across the globe, angels of health -- Mother's angels, Father's angels, your
angels -- are busy engaging in the healing arts. Not only in making people feel
better physically, but in helping them in their transitions -- not only to the
next life but the next phase of their mortal life, for "growing old is not for
sissies" and learning how to live with disease, learning how to face infirmity
and death is an incredibly powerful ministry. </P>
<P>I have spoken to you before about hospice work. If you are working closely
with these people who are approaching a transition of any kind, your work with
them is invaluable. You do indeed act as "a soul on the job" when you allow your
personality expression and your Adjuster's expression to come together in the
soulful ministry of the healing arts to which you have dedicated your life.</P>
<P>Be ever grateful to those folks you serve. And be patient with their fears as
they fall apart, with their anger as they grapple with their own demise. Help
them along their path as they lose their faculties, even their minds in the
process of letting go of their dependence on the material framework and making
that leap, bridging that gap into the next dimension, always appreciating,
understanding and respecting that what they feel they are approaching is perhaps
not at all what you know to be true. </P>
<P>But here, Child, is where you can pretend to be a Reserve Corps of Destiny,
hall-marking the decisions and choices that these mortals make as they lay
dying, as they confront their mortality and their human frailty in ways that
most people have denied exist, or have not had to look at until now. You have a
tremendous responsibility. </P>
<P>You have been nursing for so many years it is second nature to you. You are
quite blasé about it, on certain days cavalier, about the fact that you go in
and do a few medical procedures and say a few words and fill out a few papers
and go onto the next one. Muster up a new appreciation for the value that you
provide that institution, and rather than begrudge what you do, uphold what you
do. Represent Mother, the Divine Minister. </P>
<P>Bring dignity to your duty, that the administrators may take delight in you
rather than be disturbed by you, thinking you may try to get away with
something, or cannot wait to get away, or look for something to criticize, or
generally disdain the way they do it. This comes from familiarity. It comes from
having done it for so long. You have become weary. You take yourself and your
efforts for granted, and when you forget how important the work is, you forget
to allow the light to shine upon it. </P>
<P>You want the light to shine on you, instead, for being so long-suffering. And
that is understandable! You need to treat yourself well. You need to devote
time, energy, expense and whatever it takes to nurturing you when it is your
turn, when it is your time. </P>
<P>Render to Caesar and render to God, and when you render to God, render to
Reneau as well, for that is in part who you are becoming. Nurture that in you
which is divine.</P>
<P>Not to say you are to overlook the creature comforts of the animal, no. But
understand that it takes more than physical and emotional nurturance. It also
requires psychic and spiritual nurturance. Give the spirit first position and
let spirit take care of you such that you can take care of your animal nature.
Get your personal priorities in order so as to improve the quality of your own
life. As you improve the quality of your own life, you improve the quality of
the lives of those around you. </P>
<P>You begin to co-create with divinity the new dispensation, the new epoch, the
new world, the new spiritual realm for humanity, the new tea party. </P><B>
<P>Reneau:</B> Thank you, Merium</P><B>
<P>MERIUM:</B> Yes. I see also a truckload of stuff here I would do well to
discuss with Gerdean. She would do well, however, to attend a group where she
can be ministered to by someone outside of herself and her own immediate frame
of reference.</P>
<P>Therefore, Gerdean, I am going to suggest to you that you formulate your
concerns into a question and submit the question to your trusted teachers in
other teacher bases. Teacher Daniel would be happy to counsel you again. Abraham
would also be privileged to address your needs. There are others whom you trust
that would not abuse you, even as they are able to cut through to the truth of
your being. </P>
<P>Yes, I know that your favorite T/R friends are dying … dying out. But we
Teachers are not dying out. We are still here and yearning to serve you and your
soul needs in your growth. You cannot see the forest for the trees. You don't
have to put it on TML. You can receive private counsel. </P><B>
<P>Gerdean:</B> Yes, I could.</P><B>
<P>Reneau:</B> It sounds like a good idea.</P><B>
<P>Gerdean:</B> It does. Sounds like a good idea.</P><B>
<P>MERIUM:</B> Because, yes, it does affect you as a personality in your TeaM
community and your co-dependence concerns. Yes. You fight very hard to rebuke
victimization, but you confuse it with vulnerability. In the context of the
development of the movement, you are feeling impacted in ways you would do well
to have counsel about. [Pause] Isaac can't help you. There are others who can.
Go pour some tea and cheer up.</P><B>
<P>Reneau:</B> Fear not! Be glad! Rejoice! </P><B>
<P>MERIUM:</B> I'll be in the wings if you want to come back after Intermission.
We have had some good discussion today, but if there is more, and if there is
time, I'll certainly be around. </P>
<P>Bye-bye.</P>
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