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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center"
align=center><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">Michael—</SPAN><st1:date
Year="2007" Day="10" Month="9"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">September 10,
2007</SPAN></st1:date><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">Marin TM Group—</SPAN><st1:place><st1:City><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">Mill Valley</SPAN></st1:City><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">, </SPAN><st1:State><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">California</SPAN></st1:State></st1:place><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">—</SPAN><st1:country-region><st1:place><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">U.S.</SPAN></st1:place></st1:country-region><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"> A.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">MICHAEL—T/R-JL<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">(God’s gift of life)<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">(The choice of eternal life)<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">(God’s mystery, love, and respect)
<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">(Forgiveness, that does so
much))<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Dear
Michael and Mother Spirit,<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Welcome to your home-away-from-home with us--actually within us, from
where your words of inspiration and insight emanate. Thank you for your help in
our understanding the impulsive nature of bad habits, and how these unwanted
impulses that come will pass and fade away in time, in the face of our
determination to find a better use of our time. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We do appreciate your willingness to tell
it like it is, and lay the truth on the line for us. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It’s a very direct manifestation, or
proof--if you will, of your love for us. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It encourages us to be the same kind of
good friend to those we love as well. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>So thank you very much. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Amen.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">MICHAEL:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Good evening.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is
Michael, Creator Son of God and the Eternal Son, Father Spirit of the local
universe of Nebadon.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>But as a
one-time human being like you, my children, I tell you this is great. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It is truly great to be with you, for as
you parents know, and those of you without children can imagine, there is
nothing like being with those to whom you have passed on life. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>To have passed on this marvelous
gift from those who have gone before you, and then to hold your own children in
your arms, is the living proof of the continuity of life itself.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It brings you face to face with the
marvelous humility of acknowledging we are but carriers of the life of God, who
originated it in the beginning.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">(God’s gift of life) <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">We are truly His children above all, and we can say
with assurance, with confidence in His goodness: this is the way it should
be--even though it may not always be the way it is--this love between parent and
child, between the person who bequeaths life to the one who receives it.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is the story of generations, and not
only of humans. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Expand your
imaginations and consider for a while the passing of the lamp of life as it has
been going on for hundreds of billions of years. <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">It is interesting to us the way your scientists
trace everything back to a Big Bang about thirteen or fourteen billion years
ago.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>They have their own somewhat
limited evidence for doing so, and they will revise their theories soon enough,
but here we come telling you that life has been passed on for hundreds of
billions of years to many millions of inhabited worlds just in our Local
Universe alone.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">Tonight I would like you to imagine and feel, if you
can, this enormity of the living universe, and not only of your human type of
life, my children, but think of the fantastic variety of living creatures just
on your own planet.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Then multiply
this by millions upon millions of living worlds, every single one somewhat
unique in its life development. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You
live in a veritable sea of cosmically evolving life. <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">We’ve mentioned how extremely, extremely rare it is
for a planet such as Urantia to be isolated, to be cut off from the universal
broadcasts that intimately tie all this life together, instantaneously, across
the vast light-years of distance between these living spheres. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>In terms of age, Urantia is long past the
stage where most worlds are connected to the universal broadcasts. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Indeed, in your own planetary history it
is just so recently--I’m talking only a few decades--that your international,
world-wide telecommunications have been set up to where you can nonchalantly
tune in within minutes to places all over the globe.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Now extrapolate this, my children, to
our whole Local Universe of nearly four million worlds.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Imagine these inhabited worlds that
comprise it being linked so instantaneously across these vast spaces, in time
and other dimensions far, far beyond your imagination, communicating and sharing
their life in ways only vaguely approached in your wildest science fiction.
<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">Just let it blow your minds, my children.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Rest secure for a moment, in your
imagination, and imagine as you sit here hearing me, or reading these words, all
this is actually going on out there. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>While your scientists eagerly look for
evidence of even planetary existence elsewhere, let your imagination people your
night sky with life. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>All the while,
let your souls--fed by the presence of God within you--reassure you of the truth
of what we say.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We say those
star-studded expanses out there are teeming with life.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">(The choice of eternal life)<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">This should help you get over some of your parochial
attitudes. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>(chuckles all around)
<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Yet at the same time don’t feel
like you personally are lost in some strange neighborhood of a vast city for all
the estrangement and isolation of Urantia. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We have assured you, however it may seem
a contradiction, that while your world was deliberately spiritually quarantined
several hundred thousand years ago, this fact has not interfered with the
eternal destiny of a single human being. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Every person who has ever lived on your
world has had a clear and distinct, unequivocal choice of eternal life.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>No being subordinate to me, such as
Lucifer or Caligastia, for all their megalomaniacal notions of being in control,
ever had the power to cause a single human being to miss that
choice.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">This is the life that came before you, that preceded
you by hundreds of billions of years all across our galaxy and six other Super
Universes, going back to the very beginning of the time/space realms. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We’ve informed you of a universal cosmic
expansion and evolution of not only sun systems and material worlds--all the
stuff being presently created out there, but the personal beings as well. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is the true story of the Supreme
Being, that evolving aspect of God the Father who is the soul of time and space,
the repository of all the personal experience of all these personal beings: to a
human being—an infinity of infinities.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">Yet here you are, taking your next breath, feeling
your next thought, hopefully realizing your completeness moment to moment,
realizing the tenacity of the profound reality of this life you have, coming
down all these billions of years to you right now.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Each moment adds to all that has gone
before something new, something that has never happened before.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is the marvel of God’s creation,
the unfathomable and ungraspable nature of His infinity and His absoluteness of
perfection.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">(God’s mystery, love, and respect)
<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">This is what constitutes Him mystery, not that He is
hiding away somewhere.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Rather, He
is right in front of you, my children, jumping up and down, waving His arms with
a universe.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Realize further this is
a universe that He did not even directly create Himself, but created all the
living personal beings—the Architects of the Master Universe, the Primary
Eventuated Master Force Organizers, the Creator Sons and Daughters, etc--who
did, just to share His primal creativity with others. <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">He is right inside you, right now. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Here inside, He’s not jumping up and down
and waving His arms, but--in a way--being your servant, acquiescing to your
will, honoring your choices, even His suggestions subject to your paying
attention and welcoming them.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This
is the value and the respect with which He considers you. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is what makes us all His children,
and gives us the prime example of how to relate with each other--with love and
respect, and with the wonder that each of us is unique by His creative power
alone.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">This is what you are all a part of, my children, as
well as me.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Isn’t it great?
<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Isn’t it great to be mothers, and
fathers, and children, of such a Father? <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is our worship this
evening.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">Do you have any questions or comments? <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I certainly do enjoy them as well.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It lets me play my
part.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">Student:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Father Michael, forgiveness has been on mind the last few days. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I’m wondering, how I can forgive myself,
and others?<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And how do I know when
I’ve actually done it? <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>How do I
know that I’ve really forgiven somebody for something I think they did, or
actually did; and also myself? <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>How
do I forgive myself for the things I’ve done and things I’ve not
done?<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">(Forgiveness, that does so
much))<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">MICHAEL:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Yes, my son, this is at the heart of what you call attitude, is it
not?--how you relate to yourself and to others?<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Forgiveness is not always a one time
thing: sometimes it is a continuous process, for the quality of the forgiveness
changes the nature of the forgiven. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>When you forgive yourself or someone
else, it changes you or them in your mind. <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">It’s hard to talk about this comprehensively because
it is so many-faceted, how you or others change with forgiveness.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>But with respect to you, there’s a
quality of recognition, an acute ability to put things into proportion. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>To forgive yourself is to put back into
proportion with the whole rest of your life that which you are forgiving, that
was temporarily way out of proportion. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You know it works when you can see
this.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The forgiven act or omission
no longer sticks out, as you say, like a sore thumb.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The forgiven act no longer has you;
you’ve risen above it.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Now you can
see it in proportion to its causes and effects. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You know you’ve forgiven yourself by the
fact of understanding yourself: to understand clearly is to forgive. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You are clearer now as to what came
about, and why, and what the results were.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>And so, much of the fear, or contempt, or anger, or even loathing and
despising of oneself is gone. <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">Often it’s creatively breaking out of an
all-too-hasty re-action on a solely mental/physical level--what you call a
knee-jerk reaction, by truly acting, by rising to a spiritual level.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You are simultaneously deriving a great
spiritual value out of this forgiveness. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It’s recognizing the spiritual aspect of
your soul that is so unbelievably and profoundly unaffected by what you’ve done
or failed to do. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You are no longer
fragmented by some unforgivable act or omission, separated into before and
after. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Now you are continuous right
through by this act of forgiveness. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You are whole again, perhaps even more
whole than before, than ever before, for what you’ve learned and now understand
about life. <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">Now you are complete, my son, you have this incident
well within you, no longer denied, put off, rationalized, or made excuses for.
<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You’ve forgiven and accepted
another part of your true story.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Now you have it; it no longer has you. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is usually accompanied by feelings
of relief and openness, and a desire to get on with your life.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It’s over: it’s done with: it’s past.
<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You can strike out in a new
direction. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You are no longer
tethered like some poor animal to a stake, endlessly revolving about something
unforgiven that had you fixed in place.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">So you see, my son, it is a complex thing, this
forgiving.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>But that’s only because
it does so much. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Ultimately it
allows you to regain, or even to know better than you’ve ever known before, your
essential completeness.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You’re
beginning to approach the reality we call your soul--the totality of your life
as God sees it.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You are closer to
your Father Fragment because of it. <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">All this applies as well to your forgiving someone
else. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You’re better able to see
them in their wholeness in a non-judgmental way. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Whenever you truly forgive someone for
what they’ve done or failed to do, it’s with the deep humility of realizing you
cannot even begin to know them as God does--but at least you are trying to.
<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You are trying to open yourself up
to all they are, all in and around and before and after the incident. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>As we have said before, it requires no
forgetting, but if it’s complete, it changes everything: and this is how you
know. <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">Student:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>I can relate to the part where you said it no longer has me, but I have
it. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>That last thing I’m going to
have to do a little study on. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I’m
driven by the fact you forgave a lot of people a lot of things back when you
lived on this world, much, much worse than I’ve had to go through, or will ever
have to go through.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You forgave
completely, and I can’t get that part out of my mind yet; so that’s all I have
to say on that right at the moment.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>40:40<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">To be continued<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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