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<DIV>Dear Folks, Special thanks to Michael DiMattia for his
transcribing this lesson in time for Thanksgiving. Michael--our Creator
Son--reminds us that in the eyes of God, and himself and Mother Spirit, in their
greater reality, we are already and always whole and complete. This is
something for which we can certainly give thanks. So in the joy of their
presence within us: Jerry.</DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center"
align=center><FONT size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">Michael—</SPAN><st1:date Month="10" Day="29"
Year="2007"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">October 29,
2007</SPAN></st1:date><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT size=3><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.A.</SPAN></st1:place></st1:country-region><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT
size=3>MICHAEL—T/R—JL<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>(On walking and talking; and
roller-coasters {again})<BR>(To whom do you belong)<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>(Deep calls to deep)<BR>(Keep
growing)<BR style="mso-special-character: line-break"><BR
style="mso-special-character: line-break"><o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>Dear Michael and Mother spirit,<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>As we gather together
tonight to feel your presence and hear your cheerful words of inspiration
and hope, we gladly remember all the hours and hours we've shared with you,
and all the tears of joy we've known, all the times when our sincerest and
most genuine response was, "Wow!<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>What was that?" And then we'd all break up laughing, shake
our heads, and wonder.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><BR><FONT size=3>So we thank you for all those
happy, happy moments we've know, all the inspiration and the guidance we
have received, and how our lives have changed both within us and
without--especially in our relationships with all of our dear friends and
even all those others out there we might only have chanced to meet.
We thank you for giving us all of them too.
Amen.<BR><BR>MICHAEL: Good evening, my dear children, my brothers and
sisters, my very dear friends. This is Michael, and while I am very
literally your father and your brother, most of all from my own heart, I am
your very dear friend. I want you to take that
super-literally without any kind of condescension from a superior
being--none of that whatsoever, but just your dear friend with whom you can
relate most informally. As I put it once before, I wish we could
go fishing together, or just take a walk.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>(On walking and talking; and
roller-coasters {again})<BR style="mso-special-character: line-break"><BR
style="mso-special-character: line-break"><o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>I think you've noticed--some of you who
have considered how Mother Spirit and I have been parents to worlds
millions and millions of years more advanced than your own—how still I
chose to serve out my human incarnation on a world such as Urantia was two
thousand years ago, where I spent most of my time just walking and talking
with my apostles and disciples and all the others who would come and visit
with us for a while. But this is something that you yourselves can
cherish most dearly; that it is the simple visiting time you can spend with
each other that fills your souls.<BR
style="mso-special-character: line-break"><BR
style="mso-special-character: line-break"><o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>I'm sure so many of you delight in what
you might call "visiting dreams,” those times when you dream of
simply sitting down and visiting with old friends or acquaintances you
haven't seen for many many years, and are wondering what they're
about. It's interesting that sometimes when all the high points and
the low points have dissolved into each other, just the everyday getting
together and living our lives is what remains closest to our hearts.<BR
style="mso-special-character: line-break"><BR
style="mso-special-character: line-break"><o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>We once mentioned that human wondering
if perhaps our Universal Father--God doesn't have some innate love of
roller-coasters; or if it's simply closer to your own human nature--all the
ups and downs you go through: indeed, whether or not this is just a facet
of youth and adolescence before you have yet acquired the experience and
the wisdom necessary for a greater balance as you go along, often buffeted
by circumstances beyond your control.<BR
style="mso-special-character: line-break"><BR
style="mso-special-character: line-break"><o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>Mother Nature herself is another force
to be reckoned with as you live on an as yet somewhat geologically unstable
planet with earthquakes and the resulting landslides and tsunamis; and
then also your floods and, recently in your United States here, the
great firestorms that are just part and partial of a certain kind of
landscape where they can come quite regularly. These are all circumstances
far beyond any human control. They do remind you, from another angle that
I mentioned in my last lesson, how much the future that seems so solid to
you at times is so much a social construct, susceptible to all the
varieties of Mother Nature's catastrophes, small and large.<BR
style="mso-special-character: line-break"><BR
style="mso-special-character: line-break"><o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>When the social contract breaks down
between you, not only on a nation/state level of warfare, but even
personally in your own lives, all those well-laid plans you shared with
your loved ones can all of a sudden change, not only through circumstances
but just simple human emotion, and be thrown totally awry. What was
once such a positively welcomed future can become full of such fearful
wonderings and apprehensions. In all these times, my children, both
in the ups and the downs, to find your balance as you go along it is good
to take a break from this ongoing sense of time rushing along, the
future coming at you helter-skelter, and in a way remind yourself,
from your spiritual level, just how much you always
are.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>(To whom do you
belong)<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>A very wise poet of yours put it once,
"…to keep in mind and not forget: it is not he, nor she, nor them, nor it--that
you belong to.” You belong to yourself and your Father: you belong to
yourself and God. In God and in yourself you are whole and
complete. In the most profound sense that you may not yet grasp
fully, but only intellectually and with the spirit of faith, there is no need
for time.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>There is no
need even for a future. It is all God's will, and God, and His
total creation are complete moment to moment--just as are you, also His
creation.<BR style="mso-special-character: line-break"><BR
style="mso-special-character: line-break"><o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>Along (with this concept of
completeness) comes the concept of replete-ness, of how you can add to
what is already 100%. And so we tease you with the notion that the
only way out, ever, is to grow, to simply add to what you already
are. <BR>And this is possible because you are God's creation.
In this most profound sense you are made in His image. Though you are
whole and complete from His standpoint and the standpoint of your
soul--the summation of all your experience; and there is a kind of eternity
right within now, still: here comes the next moment by God's will.
<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">Out here in time and space this whole cosmos of
His is in motion, quite contra-distinct from </SPAN><st1:place><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">Paradise</SPAN></st1:place><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">, His home. Out here it's all in motion,
even—especially--right inside you. You cannot even know your exact
thoughts some few minutes from now. You can focus on a subject; you
can concentrate; you can decide that the next five minutes will be spent
thinking of whatever you choose. But the exact thoughts themselves
almost happen to you as much as do day and night, as much as the earth is
moving around the sun to create the seasons, and your whole solar system is
swinging about the center of our Local
Universe.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>All this is in motion by God's will;
but he doesn't need it.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>He chooses
it. It is His free will. And it can be yours too, my
children. Right within all this motion--inside and outside--you can
know calmness and an even more perfect balance by becoming ever more one
with it. We've alluded to this as "swimming perfectly along within
the stream of life.” It's kind-of dog-paddling along with it, along
with the flow, even sometimes--just for the shear fun of it--turning
around and heading back upstream, getting into some really vigorous
activity just to glory in your own power.<BR
style="mso-special-character: line-break"><BR
style="mso-special-character: line-break"><o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>This is our glory too. This is
how Mother Spirit delights to be within you and, even more correctly, it's
how you can delight in realizing you are always within her. We call
this human mentality you have the Spirit/Adjutant kind of mentality of the
Local Universe Mother Spirit. And I am always by your side, your
spiritual father, your human brother and friend.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Together the three of us make another
kind of completeness, for just as Mother Spirit and I together represent
the Trinity--the Universal Father, the Eternal Son, and Infinite Spirit--so
you too, together with Mother Spirit and me, we three also make a different
kind (of completeness).<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>With your God-given (unique) personality, it is a unique kind of
wholeness and completeness. <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>But you are an experiential being; so
come to us when you wish to feel this, when you wish to experience
this. Take time out from all your other human connections and
activities and visit with your spiritual
parents.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>(Deep calls to deep)<BR
style="mso-special-character: line-break"><BR
style="mso-special-character: line-break"><o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>You have a wonderful expression that
"deep calls to deep.”<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is
how you rest, how you sink down into us, and into yourself, while the walls
fly away and "now" begins to expand. You come to feel us and yourself
more and more--a very real presence, a really strong connection. This
is where you feel Mother Spirit's love nurturing and healing and loving
you. This is where you feel my peace in your soul, giving you back to
yourself, giving you this assurance: My dear sons and my dear daughters:
this is your life. Do what you think best.<BR
style="mso-special-character: line-break"><BR
style="mso-special-character: line-break"><o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>This is how you expand, my dear
children. This is how you become at one and the same time both decisive
and yet ever more open. If you think in terms of a zero sum game of
life, being decisive is constantly closing off alternatives: it has to be
either this or that. And here we come saying that you can decide, you
can commit yourself to a coarse of action, to an understanding, to
a realization, yet be open the very next moment to a greater future,
a fuller growth of possibility and potential. And so if this
sounds like a contradiction, you are not taking your ability to grow
into consideration, of how you grow by that decision, by that
momentary acceptance/definition of who you are. That very quality can
put you in touch with a spiritual dimension.<BR
style="mso-special-character: line-break"><BR
style="mso-special-character: line-break"><o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>And so you grow, and in that growth
more is possible--more decisions are possible. You don't worry about
being determined moment by moment. For also, moment to moment, you
are becoming more free to exercise your will, more open to see the true and
more complete results of your decisions. You slowly emerge from
denial and inner dishonesty to embrace this being
determined--self-determined and defined moment by moment, realizing this
very thing is adding to your soul.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>This being who and what you are moment by moment—consciously--sets you
free. Soon you no longer avoid but you begin to discover who you
are. You are a child of God. You are a unique being taking his or
her first few steps into eternity.<BR
style="mso-special-character: line-break"><BR
style="mso-special-character: line-break"><o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>And so you come not to fear but to
rejoice that there was such a roller-coaster back in your youth and
adolescence. You cherish all those narrow escapes from
near disasters.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You come to
trust in our Father's will for you. For as you discover what it is,
you will grow in your ability to choose it for your
own.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>(Keep growing)<BR
style="mso-special-character: line-break"><BR
style="mso-special-character: line-break"><o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>So keep growing my children. Do
not fear to feel how each moment does define and determine you.
Embrace it. Embrace all that you are--as much as you can feel and
realize that you are. For in feeling this definition and
determination of who you are, however paradoxically it might strike you,
this is the way to your freedom. This is that "true discovery" I
mentioned before, and how the quality of it grows as well. This is
the way to go. Lean into it. Embrace it. Thrill with glory in
it. This is the life that is His will for you, joyously
expanding. This is the organic life of your soul—if you will. <BR
style="mso-special-character: line-break"><BR
style="mso-special-character: line-break"><o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>If you have any questions or comments
this evening, I certainly welcome them.<BR><BR>QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS TO
COME LATER<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P></DIV></BODY></HTML>