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<p class=MsoHeader style='tab-stops:.5in'><font size=3 color=black
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>Southeast
Idaho, October 28, 2007</span></font><font color=black><span style='color:black;
mso-color-alt:windowtext'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'><![if !supportEmptyParas]> <![endif]></span></font><font
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<p class=MsoHeader style='tab-stops:.5in'><font size=3 color=black
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>Topics:<span
style='mso-tab-count:2'> </span>Concept
of Family</span></font><font color=black><span style='color:black;mso-color-alt:
windowtext'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>Teacher(s): <span style='mso-tab-count:
1'> </span>Minearsia, Daniel </span></font><font
color=black><span style='color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'><![if !supportEmptyParas]> <![endif]></span></font><font
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style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'><![if !supportEmptyParas]> <![endif]></span></font><font
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>[Opening prayer not recorded.]</span></font><font
color=black><span style='color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'><![if !supportEmptyParas]> <![endif]></span></font><font
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>Greetings, my friends, this is<b><span
style='font-weight:bold'> MINEARSIA</span></b>, stepping in ahead of Daniel to
welcome you to this fellowship of sharing, this family, this place of love and
caring.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>I am most pleased to be
present this evening and a part of your group and its dynamic.</span></font><font
color=black><span style='color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'><![if !supportEmptyParas]> <![endif]></span></font><font
color=black><span style='color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>I have an assignment I wish to
propose.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>I wish for you to
consider the concept of family and what it means in its many manifestations,
from the broad concept of one family, God’s family, down to the more narrow
concept of the nuclear family and then the extended family.<span
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>I wish you to consider this in its
ideal and in the ways in which human families fall short of the ideal.<span
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>In your contemplation I wish for you to
begin with the ideal.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span></span></font><font
color=black><span style='color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'><![if !supportEmptyParas]> <![endif]></span></font><font
color=black><span style='color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>The purpose of this exercise is to assist
you all in becoming more effective family members at all levels of family
functioning.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>This is a topic we
will take up at a future date.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>However, the assignment is immediate and ongoing, to set the stage for
further exploration in the future.</span></font><font color=black><span
style='color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'><![if !supportEmptyParas]> <![endif]></span></font><font
color=black><span style='color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>Again, it is my delight to be a part of
this family.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>I will take questions
regarding this assignment if there are any before passing the microphone to
Daniel who stands ready.</span></font><font color=black><span style='color:
black;mso-color-alt:windowtext'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'><![if !supportEmptyParas]> <![endif]></span></font><font
color=black><span style='color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black;font-weight:bold'>Student #1:</span></font></b><font
color=black><span style='color:black'><span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>I was going to ask you, Minearsia: “Are there any books to read?”<span
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>But on second thought, I think you
would say “The Life of Christ” would be a perfect example of what you are
asking us to do.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Thank you for
your presence this evening.</span></font><font color=black><span
style='color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoHeader style='tab-stops:.5in'><font size=3 color=black
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'><![if !supportEmptyParas]> <![endif]></span></font><font
color=black><span style='color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black;font-weight:bold'>MINEARSIA:</span></font></b><font
color=black><span style='color:black'><span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Thank you for your insight.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>There are other books as well, books that address connection and
relationship.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>While I will not
promote any one, I would ask you to be willing to be led, all of you, you
inclusive, to these human sources that can augment and supplement the life of
our Master who lived an exemplary family life, albeit, at a different time in
history.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span></span></font><font
color=black><span style='color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'><![if !supportEmptyParas]> <![endif]></span></font><font
color=black><span style='color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black;font-weight:bold'>Student #2: </span></font></b><font
color=black><span style='color:black'><span style="mso-spacerun:
yes"> </span>Minearsia, I need to try to say back to you what I think we
are supposed to do.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>And that is to
look at the family in different dimensions.<span style="mso-spacerun:
yes"> </span>Of course “all human beings” is the family of God, and then
groups that we belong to, that are in a sense our families.<span
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>And then our nuclear family, and state
how we can enrich those situations.</span></font><font color=black><span
style='color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'><![if !supportEmptyParas]> <![endif]></span></font><font
color=black><span style='color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black;font-weight:bold'>MINEARSIA:</span></font></b><font
color=black><span style='color:black'><span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Each person’s exploration of this topic will be different.<span
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>I am recommending that you begin with
the </span></font><i><font size=4 color=black><span style='font-size:14.0pt;
mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;color:black;font-style:italic'>ideal.<span
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span></span></font></i><font color=black><span
style='color:black'>And you understand in the ideal what the family provides to
its members, such as security, respect, and so forth.<span style="mso-spacerun:
yes"> </span>This is for your work and exploration.<span
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>As you explore the various components
of the ideal family and the benefits to its members and the responsibilities of
its members to maintain this ideal organization and you then compare it to the
functioning of the human families, the areas of difference will become apparent.<span
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>And through this exploration one will
understand one’s own roles, benefits, responsibilities, etcetera.<span
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>I do not wish to limit in any way your
thinking on this concept at this time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>We want it to be very broad, very free.<span style="mso-spacerun:
yes"> </span></span></font><font color=black><span style='color:black;
mso-color-alt:windowtext'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'><![if !supportEmptyParas]> <![endif]></span></font><font
color=black><span style='color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>At a later date, through your own
discussion, we hope to draw out, from you, those aspects of the ideal
family.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>I purposely referred to
you as family [this evening] so that you might think about what makes God’s
family.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>The Urantia Book, of
course, teaches that children are a necessary component of a family.<span
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>This exercise is not intended in any
way to contradict that perspective, but rather to enlarge it.<span
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Is this helpful?</span></font><font
color=black><span style='color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'><![if !supportEmptyParas]> <![endif]></span></font><font
color=black><span style='color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black;font-weight:bold'>Student #2:</span></font></b><font
color=black><span style='color:black'><span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Yes, it is.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Start with the
ideal.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>That is very helpful.</span></font><font
color=black><span style='color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'><![if !supportEmptyParas]> <![endif]></span></font><font
color=black><span style='color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black;font-weight:bold'>MINEARSIA:</span></font></b><font
color=black><span style='color:black'><span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Yes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Are there other
questions? ….<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>My statements are
not meant to close off in any way areas that might feel not right to you.<span
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>If there are no further questions about
this assignment, I will turn the floor over to Daniel.<span
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>It has, indeed, been my pleasure to
speak with you, and I do look forward to continuing this discussion after you
have had time in contemplation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>My
love to you all.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Farewell.</span></font><font
color=black><span style='color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'><![if !supportEmptyParas]> <![endif]></span></font><font
color=black><span style='color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>This is <b><span style='font-weight:bold'>DANIEL,</span></b>
my greeting to one and all.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Thank
you all for making the effort to get to this meeting tonight.<span
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>We appreciate your efforts in your busy
lives to work us into your lives.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span></span></font><font
color=black><span style='color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'><![if !supportEmptyParas]> <![endif]></span></font><font
color=black><span style='color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>I have no further things to say regarding
the assignment except to encourage one and all to take it seriously and see
what you come up with.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>At a later
time we will return to this subject.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>It is my sense that we are ready to close.<span style="mso-spacerun:
yes"> </span>Are there other questions or comments? ….<span
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Very well, let us stand in our usual
manner.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Is there someone who
wishes to pray?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span></span></font><font
color=black><span style='color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'><![if !supportEmptyParas]> <![endif]></span></font><font
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>Prayer:<span style="mso-spacerun:
yes"> </span></span></font><i><font size=4 color=black><span
style='font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;color:black;font-style:italic'>Father,
we know that the ideal family is only in potential.<span style="mso-spacerun:
yes"> </span>Help us as we face this assignment to realize what the ideal
could do to our planet, to our nation, to our families and to ourselves.<span
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Help us to take it seriously.<span
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Guide us as we turn over our minds to
you, that our hearts might respond with the kind of love that would feed
information to our behavior and to our culture.<span style="mso-spacerun:
yes"> </span>Help us that we truly try to find the ideal in our
lives.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>May we support each other
and those who are willing to be a part of Your standards.<span
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Help us to reach for them.<span
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>We thank You that we know one human
being, that though He was God, was truly man, man that showed us the way.<span
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Help us to follow Him.</span></font><font
color=black><span style='color:black'><span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></span></font></i><font color=black><span style='color:black'>Amen.</span></font><font
color=black><span style='color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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