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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center"
align=center><FONT face=Tahoma size=3>Michael--May 12, 2008</FONT></P>
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face=Tahoma>Marin TM Group--Mill Valley,
<st1:State><st1:place>California</st1:place></st1:State>--<st1:country-region><st1:place>U.S.A.</st1:place></st1:country-region></FONT></FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face=Tahoma
size=3>MICHAEL--T/R-JL</FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT size=3><FONT
face=Tahoma>(God is with us)<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN></FONT></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face=Tahoma size=3>(Actual
and potential) </FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT size=3><FONT
face=Tahoma>(Ego--self-image)<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN></FONT></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face=Tahoma size=3>(Right
effort)</FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT size=3><FONT
face=Tahoma>(Time traveling)<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN></FONT></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT size=3><FONT
face=Tahoma>(Insight and foresight)<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN></FONT></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT size=3><FONT
face=Tahoma>(The ineffability of the spiritual)<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></FONT></FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face=Tahoma size=3>Dear
Michael and Mother Spirit,<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Hello again.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Once again we
are tickled to get together and contact with you this way.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>In addition to our own conversations
with you by ourselves, this way too is kind-of special.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We love to give human voice to you, to
loan you our vocal cords for a while, just to be in your point of view.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We thank you for this, all the ways you
present how you see things, with all the assurance and clarity that only you two
possess.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>So we consider these true
revelations of what is just a little bit beyond our grasp on our own.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We thank you for helping us make sense
of these human beings we are.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Amen.</FONT></P>
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size=3>MICHAEL:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Good evening, this
is Michael.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Welcome, welcome
indeed.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It’s good to be back,
though of course I’m never exactly away.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Or, in another way, I’m as away as you want me to be.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I try not to be intrusive, and I do love
it when I am welcome, when you send me a thought or two during the day just to
say hello, or even take the time out to inquire about my point of view on
things.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Mother Spirit and I are
always glad to be forthcoming.</FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT size=3><FONT
face=Tahoma>(God is with us)<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN></FONT></FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT size=3><FONT
face=Tahoma>This is fun for us; we enjoy this--being parents in the way that we
are--fully committed into your lives.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>In this we do our best as Creator Son and Holy Spirit to emulate our
mutual Father.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>For He too is right
here, riding along with us, setting us free to make our own futures--surprise
Him--if we can.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>(Michael
laughs)<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We will always be a part of
Him, never going beyond His absolute infinity of possibility--the parameters of
reality, if you will, insofar as you cannot make square circles or violate His
absolute spiritual laws.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Just so we
try to give you a sense of the enormity within which you can move and have your
being, and determine your own future.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>We hope you are getting some sense of awe and humility of that
enormity.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></FONT></FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face=Tahoma size=3>You
never quite escape being a finite being.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>As Mother Spirit put it last time, you will always find yourself in the
middle of an infinite encompassing no matter how enormous your own soul becomes
after a few billion years, on and on into that far distant future when the whole
Grand Universe is settled in Light and Life and has exhausted its possibilities
of expansion, physically, mentally, and spiritually.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>For this will be just the opening
curtain to the First Outer Space Level.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Consider not only who you will be but what you will be in that far
distant future, the roles you will have to play, the personal beings of all
levels you will have come to know in all that time; and still there will be that
same infinite encompassing of God’s that you experience even now at the very
beginning.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I guess you could say
that the backdrop of infinite reality doesn’t change that much in its nature;
it’s always pretty big.</FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face=Tahoma size=3>(Actual
and potential) </FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT size=3><FONT
face=Tahoma>This is God’s will for you.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>He delights in setting you free.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>He delights in riding along with you and experiencing everything you do,
even, or especially, as Mother Spirit addressed last time, in the limited but
fully real way you see yourselves.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>As you know, there was presented the idea, current among some
philosophies and metaphysics, that the essence of human life is bliss.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>True enough, every human being has such
enormous potential and possibility in them, and that fact can register as
blissful indeed.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>But you have to be
very careful here that you do not mistake this blessing of possibility for the
full actuality of which it is only a part.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Yes, possibility is real, especially with your growing abilities.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Every time you increase your actual,
achieved abilities as a personal being, your potential grows as well.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>But it is not yet; it is latent, if you
will.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Your reality contains not
only this potential, but so much more--the complete, moment-to-moment events
coming down, un-recallable, never to be repeated, resolving a swarming cloud of
possibilities into one actuality.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>The perfect memory of God--the cosmic soul of the Supreme Being, even
your own soul-essence co-authored by a pure fragment of His, contains everything
you experience of this real event, blissful or not.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This totality is your essence, and
nothing less will do.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN></FONT></FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT size=3><FONT
face=Tahoma>From your point of view in the everlasting now, both your past and
your present existence are areas of discovery.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Mother Spirit pointed out how a
nostalgia, a longing, a sadness for what might have been, can get in the way of
discovering and appreciating the fact that, although human life here on Urantia
has been different from that experienced on a more regular, spiritually-directed
planet, it has nevertheless always been transcendent.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>With very few exceptions, all those
human beings who lived here are still alive, working their way out into the
universe, having their continuing adventures.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And your conscious life right now is
transcendent.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You have a
God-created personality.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You have a
soul that already exists on a Morontia level, co-authored by a fragment of God,
containing everything of spiritual significance that’s happened to you.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></FONT></FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT size=3><FONT
face=Tahoma>But if you mistake the part for the whole, the only potential for
the actual, this has lead historically, and still leads, to equally mistaken
notions that somehow certain past events needn’t have happened; things happening
now needn’t happen.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Yet as we put
it once, everything that happened, and is happening, had to and is as the result
of necessary and sufficient causes, whether physical, mental, spiritual, or a
combination of these, in their natures.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Not that you can’t change things, but you must first see them ever more
completely, comprehensibly. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Simply,
higher spiritual beings are able to perceive this total causality more
completely.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>In this sense there is
nothing unnatural happening, however people feel their own life is unnatural or
incomplete compared to notions they should be in some kind of continuous
bliss.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>These teachings, these
indoctrinations that tend to discredit or make only relative anything
un-blissful, like real pain, psychic suffering, social injustice, do their
followers a great disservice. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></FONT></FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT size=3><FONT
face=Tahoma>You have been able to chase physical causality down into the
sub-atomic level, and out across the billions of light years of space, and you
are well along in developing psychologies of mental/physical behavior, but in
the spiritual realm there are those Morontia mota, those more universal
spiritual laws beyond what you are yet able to perceive, that we try to reveal
to you in these lessons.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>One is the
way in which total reality, being God’s creation, is complete; the past is
constantly arriving complete, absolutely repeating physical laws, and yet there
is also something ever new making each moment unique: both; both the continuity
and the creativity.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The movements
of the celestial bodies can be predicted precisely, but when you get down to
personal beings with God-given, God-shared initiative--and their interactions,
it’s a different story.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The next
moment hasn’t happened yet, and the living combination of possibility, and
probability, and what you call pure chance, creeps into the assured, the
knowable, the determinate.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN></FONT></FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT size=3><FONT
face=Tahoma>God is riding each moment with us.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This was His purpose of sharing
His creativity--by creating us also creative, this whole universe of personal
experience out here.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>His essence as
the Supreme Being, this Deity-Personality of which we are all part, is growing
in experience, and evolving.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Human
life causality so often seems fantastic to you because you are mistaking the
real for your personal ideal, and vice-versa, yet your powerful individual
beliefs and creativity can bring things about in such a way you call a
self-fulfilling prophesy.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is
the power of belief, coupled with your own abilities to create what you believe,
and it is going on continuously, shaping both your view of yourself and your
world.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>As Mother Spirit pointed
out, even ego-illusions of power and grandeur do have a short life.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Some of the great monsters of history
did have their short run, and did cause untold real suffering in their grasping
for power and recognition.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN></FONT></FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face=Tahoma size=3>Lucifer
is an example of the ability of even such a high, humanly-ancient kind of
spiritual being to get caught up in his own self-generated notions and literally
throw away a magnificent possibility--his own future growth, his own triumph
eventually as a successful System Sovereign.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>He chose not to whole-heartedly try to
increase himself and grow his power, his influence, in a way consistent with the
rest of God’s creation.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It was only
by denying those greater spirit-realities could he convince himself he was doing
something cosmically valid: he was not intentionally suicidal. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We didn’t interfere within him; we left
him to is own devices.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>In such a
matter, my children, if you ignore or refuse to develop you own abilities to
contact spirit, both your own creative spirit and that of the Father Fragment
within you, Mother Spirit within you, myself beside you, you are throwing away
your greatest creativity.</FONT></P>
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face=Tahoma>(Ego--self-image)<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT size=3><FONT
face=Tahoma>There is nothing wrong with ego per se. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It’s a very useful self-reflection you
need to be a social being, to know how you are presenting yourself. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>But without the wonderful spiritual grace
of humility, without the perception/intuition of something enormous to stand in
humble awe of, that points you in the right direction to grow true to Reality,
toward that which is so much greater than yourself, even your own soul, you’re
lost in mere beliefs.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Through a
limited ego orientation you may begin to question whether the deep instinct of
yours to grow spiritually needs to be suppressed to allow you to be satisfied
with the status quo; i.e., deliberately numbing out.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>So let us reassure you the wonderful
feeling of growing more powerful can be a valid one, your ticket to eternal
life.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is not forced upon you;
you have to want to live forever.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>You have to trust, even glory in this feeling of growing inside,
expanding into more and more understanding of the limitless, transcendent
reality all about you.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Just be
careful where you put your emphasis.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN></FONT></FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT size=3><FONT
face=Tahoma>You can also have wonderful, valid feelings about the limitations of
your self-image, and of your evolving conscious self, a wonderful acceptance
that this is God’s way of creating personal beings capable of growth, capable of
having a hand in their own evolving future.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This self-acceptance of your moment to
moment full human nature allows you to feel real, to real-ize you absolutely
are.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is resting in my peace,
yet, given this orientation of you co-creating your own reality, you can see
there is a need too for something called conscious effort.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>(laughter)<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>From the viewpoint of the Supreme Being
your very status is something you earn.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>While your relationship to God the Father is one of child to loving
parent, your relationship to the Supreme Being is one of doing, one of
accomplishment, one of growing your response-ability to your
surroundings--especially to those other personal beings you will encounter.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></FONT></FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT size=3><FONT
face=Tahoma>This is your true growth, this ability to respond ever more subtly
and deeply, ever larger to an enlarging reality.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>So welcome this adventure as much as you
can, my children.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>When you get
exhausted with the effort, rest deeply in my peace, let yourself be temporarily
extinguished, for the more fearlessly you can do so, the more refreshed you come
back to take on a new day.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Just
feel: feel the strength, feel the tiredness and the exhaustion, feel the elation
and the drag; feel what this--effort--is.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>What exactly is it?<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And does
it help connect you to yourself within?<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Is it the struggle of your true self coming forth into the world--to
be--to grow?<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></FONT></FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT size=3><FONT
face=Tahoma>This is your great heart, akin to that Supreme effort that God makes
to sustain us all.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is the way
to grow to be more like Him--to feel all that is dependant upon you for its
existence.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Think of the dear
friends and family who depend upon you to be there for them.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is the effort; this is the
glory.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>They may still be very
dissimilar in your experience, but you can grow toward making them one.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>How do you do that?<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>There will always be the need for your
effort, my children, and if you can welcome and appreciate it, it can be
glorious.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></FONT></FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face=Tahoma size=3>Now if
you have any questions or comments, bring them forth!</FONT></P>
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size=3>Student:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Well, Michael, it’s
B, and I have a lot of questions here.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>It seems that when someone is overly-willful--each of us is grappling
with how to apply our will--some people seem to be overly-exerting themselves,
and some seem to be under-exerting themselves.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It always struck me overly-willful
people are also very prideful and overly confident.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>In addition there are simply different
types of people.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I think about
Buddha’s teaching about right effort, neither too much nor too little.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I wonder if you might address that and
weave it into something a little more coherent with what you just
taught?</FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face=Tahoma size=3>(Right
effort)</FONT></P>
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face=Tahoma>MICHAEL:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Yes, my
son.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I feel when you make a
statement like, folks being overly willful, this implies some negativity of
course--that “overly” part.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>(Yes)<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>They’re causing
some discomfort for those around them, perhaps themselves as well; bringing
about bad consequences.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I agree
very much with your analysis this is usually due to pride, to an over-inflation
of ego, to a partially--elevating this smaller part of oneself over and above a
spiritual perception of the enormity within which one lives.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>As you say, this is “puffing yourself
up.”<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></FONT></FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT size=3><FONT
face=Tahoma>This is possible; this is a human failing or flaw, just as it was
Lucifer’s, puffing himself up to the point of denying the existence of God the
Father, and considering me to be some petty tyrant laying down the law on
him.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>In doing so he cut himself off
from greater spirit, greater reality, for this is exactly what pride does for a
human being as well.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>An
over-inflated sense of ones self usually comes concomitantly with de-valuing
others.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Someone is putting their
self up on a pedestal, looking down on others, ignoring how their willfulness is
affecting others.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I do agree: this
is a human failing only because it is trying to grow in a wrong, ultimately
self-defeating way.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN></FONT></FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT size=3><FONT
face=Tahoma>Under-achievement is just the opposite, letting the other elements
of ones situation--the other folks perhaps--overwhelm you.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It could come from cultural conditioning
that has degraded you from the time you were a small child--allowing this to sap
your strength, your own unique initiative.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>You become like a wood chip in a stream, allowing events to carry you
here and there willy-nilly.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is
a kind of suffering, not only from the hard objects you run into, being carried
along like that, but that your creative spirit is being pinched, denied its true
growth, and crying out for being a helpless pawn to circumstance.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></FONT></FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face=Tahoma size=3>These
are both possibilities, and considering them can lead you to Buddha’s notion of
balance, an ideal, proportionate will to the situation.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And of course, being human, you usually
go back and forth over this point a bit, from over to under to find that
ideal.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>So be not dismayed when you
do find yourself carried away one way or another; take it in.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It’s a learning process.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>As you say: the life is short; the craft
so long to learn.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>But you do have
eternity to get the knack of it.</FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face=Tahoma
size=3>Student:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You mentioned
causality, and issues of evolution and time, and I just don’t know how to go at
the issue of time-travel, which I’ve been delving into.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>One aspect of that is, what is it all
about when humans from the future come back in time to the present, to warn us
of where we’re going?<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>If that is
the case, it must mean there are different possibilities, different time-lines
that coexist such that these folks from the future are on a good time-line, and
they’re trying to get us on that better time-line to them--I suppose.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Otherwise why would they come back to
alert us about our problems--the danger we’re in?<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I hope that makes sense.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I was just wondering how does that fit
into the divine plan, your loving plan for us?</FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT size=3><FONT
face=Tahoma>(Time traveling)<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN></FONT></FONT></P>
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face=Tahoma>MICHAEL:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Well, the
answer is very short, my son: it doesn’t.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>There is no such thing.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The
future does not exist.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>(Oh!)<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Let that soak in a few moments
here.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></FONT></FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face=Tahoma size=3>The
future does not exist.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It truly has
not happened yet.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>There is the
eternal now, and this eternal now contains--if you will--in a human sense--your
memories, and in a higher way too, your soul--the God-fragment co-authored story
of what’s happened to you.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You can
even think of the Supreme Being as having an absolutely perfect memory, the soul
of time and space, the fact that God contains all that ever was--perfectly.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>But everything exists, in completion,
now; it doesn’t--entirely--continue.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Each unique moment will never be again.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Or you can think of reality continually
arriving here and now, and in some of its grosser manifestations like the
movements of the celestial bodies, you can precisely predict where they will
be.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>But it’s still only prediction
in now, and once you introduce the fact of relatively free-willed, independent,
experiential beings, with all their interactions, then their future is riding
with them too moment by moment, and no one knows what will happen.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is not some kind of shadow-game God
is teasing himself with; He is truly riding along with all of us moment to
moment to see what will happen next.</FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT size=3><FONT face=Tahoma>In
one way, yes, there is a kind of predestination insofar as nothing in God’s
creation can exceed Him.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>He is
absolute and infinite, as is His will--the physical, cosmic mind, and spiritual
laws He promulgates along with, in a sense through, the Eternal Son and the
Infinite Spirit.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>As your Urantia
book puts it, there appears to be in the fact of God the Ultimate a
foreshadowing of the Supreme, but it is only that.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Otherwise all we’ve been telling you
about your free will would be an impossibility.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></FONT></FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT size=3><FONT
face=Tahoma>This seems complicated only because a little over a hundred years
ago someone invented the literary devise you call science-fiction.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>People began to imagine time traveling,
forwards and back, starting with H. G. Wells’ popular novel, and now it’s second
nature.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Yet even before this people
had fatalistic notions of the future being fixed as if it were already “up ahead
there” in some way, and they were just willy-nilly being carried along a
railroad track of fixed events.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>A
person could look around a bit, but no one could influence where that track was
going; it was already laid out.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>This is fatalism.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN></FONT></FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT size=3><FONT
face=Tahoma>But there is in reality no future up there from which someone can
come back.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It hasn’t happened
yet.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>All of time/space creation is
now.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>All that ever was is now, as
human memory and soul, as God’s perfect encompassing.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>In that sense the past is absolute and
unchangeable, and as you progress through your coming Morontia phases, this will
be part of your delight, discovering what really happened on Urantia from the
viewpoint of spiritual beings who have been around quite a long time.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You will still have your own viewpoint
of what happened; they will coexist.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>But everything will always be arriving at the living edge of now, tipping
on the point of your decisions.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN></FONT></FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face=Tahoma
size=3>Student:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Wow!<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>(much laughter)<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>OK, so these folks who claim to have
time-traveled, or have met extra-terrestrials who have come from the future, are
just wrong, really; they’re just wrong.</FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT size=3><FONT
face=Tahoma>(Insight and foresight)<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN></FONT></FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT size=3><FONT
face=Tahoma>MICHAEL:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Or their
attempts contain some valid projection, insofar as they are trying to plumb the
future with what you call foresight.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>This in turn is based on insight, your understanding of those immutable
laws of God’s will, some of which--the physical---are predictable within the
limits of your current discovery.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>You can see things coming, but they are not fixed in the fatalistic
sense.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You can extrapolate any
number of things on into the future with more or less degree of accuracy.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>One test of a new scientific theory is
how well it can predict what will happen under identical causes.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></FONT></FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT size=3><FONT
face=Tahoma>But no, there are no living beings coming back from a reality that
has not yet happened.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Still you
don’t want to throw out the baby with the bath water.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>These stories can be sincere
foresight-experiences that are expressing themselves this way.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>They can be cautions from a person’s
higher conscious reasoning/realization, even suggestions from their Father
Fragment, or Mother Spirit, or me--my Spirit of Truth, and they are simply being
put into a familiar scientific-fiction context to give them proportion and
meaning.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></FONT></FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face=Tahoma
size=3>Student:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Then the gift of
prophesy must be…or do you see that as a gift from you or Mother
Spirit?--certain prophets, John the Apostle, and many others--or is that just
the extrapolation you were speaking of?<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>One could enhance that ability through various means in order to draw
from the eternal past and project into the coming future.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Then how would you define prophesy and
prophets?</FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face=Tahoma
size=3>MICHAEL:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Very much along the
lines I just spoke of.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You have
your highly accurate foresight derived from your insight into natural law in the
physical realm, less exacting in the psychological realm--what someone is likely
to do based on their past behavior, still less so in the spiritual realm, for in
this you’ve had little experience in being face to face with spiritual beings in
all their variety of different orders and personalities.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Believe me, you will not dissemble your
surprise, my son, when you awake on your first Morontia world and begin to
perceive and interact with the lower forms of spiritual beings.</FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT size=3><FONT
face=Tahoma>Remember that Mother Spirit and I are also experiential beings.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We too are out here trying things
and learning, as are all our spiritual children.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Our foresight is not perfect, even given
the millions of worlds we’ve seen progress from their very beginnings into well
advanced stages of civilization, because within the regular patterns of
planetary development every single world is unique.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And Urantia, as you know, has been
hyper-unique.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Its development,
rather its lack of guided development, has been, fortunately, very rare.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And so even our input to our children is
not perfect in the sense that God’s is.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>But it is better than human.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>To the degree your prophets tuned in to our and our Father’s input, and
were able to be at least somewhat transparent in transmitting this to the folks
about them in the current usage, this is what prophesy has been.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></FONT></FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT size=3><FONT
face=Tahoma>Human foresight has never been an exact science.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Even God is out here riding along with
us.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>No one can say whether He
chooses to foresee every minute thing we do, but we believe not.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>(Really!)<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We believe God is totally committed; He
is sharing as much of himself as is Godly possible with all His subordinate
beings, clear down to you.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>He is
not holding back in any way, if you will.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>It gets difficult of human comprehension because His choices are
eternity-events that never, in the human sense, had a beginning.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>God has always been--is--this
self-distributive Being.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>His
sharing of himself is the essence of Deity, of that which is divine.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And can be for you as well.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is part of what He has put in your
hands, this divine ability to share your life with others.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></FONT></FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face=Tahoma
size=3>Student:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>So God has chosen
to self-limit His foresight, which is inherently perfect, and has foregone His
ability to know what we will do beforehand, in<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>order to self-distribute that aspect of
Himself, so we’re all riding together into this wonderful mystery.</FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face=Tahoma
size=3>MICHAEL:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Essentially,
yes--from a human standpoint.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It
always comes out paradoxical, or as we’ve used the expression before--the
200%-ness of Reality when put in sequential, logical language.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>For while He is self-distributive, He
has not relinquished anything of His absolute power; He hasn’t needed to; the
cosmic situation has never developed, nor can it.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The humanly-oriented notion of His
foresight, which contains implications of fatalism--He knows what you’re going
to do even before you do--is not--we believe--how He chooses to experience
things.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>In all your humanly
necessary trial-and-error life adventures, He is truly one with you, even, as
Mother Spirit taught, as you are to yourself--a real self--no illusion--however
limited and evolving, needing to sleep now and then. </FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT size=3><FONT
face=Tahoma>You’ve had inklings of this is in your monist philosophies declaring
that God is everything: Reality is One.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>I think this was what they were intuiting and intimating, God’s total
commitment, His non-separation with His creation, with you.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>But the other side of the paradox is
that the multiplicity of the creation--the un-oneness if you will, is also
equally real to you.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It’s a living
balance, but your theology has tended to emphasize the oneness, your science the
multiplicity.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></FONT></FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT size=3><FONT
face=Tahoma>Student, with heavy sighs:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>I’ll just have to digest this and get back to you.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This was fantastic.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Thank you so much.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></FONT></FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT size=3><FONT
face=Tahoma>MICHAEL:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Mother Spirit
and I have often teased you with the vision of human existence being like
standing on the edge of the Grand Canyon, the living edge of existing, and just
how open a chasm the future is; the very opposite of fatalism.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>All the while, you are just one tiny
speck--as am I--of a living universe in which all the parts do share the destiny
of the whole.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The whole is God’s
will and never in doubt, but the personal parts have choices in their
participation.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></FONT></FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT size=3><FONT
face=Tahoma>Thank you for your questions, my son.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We’ve really come face to face with what
I meant tonight by actual and potential, possibility and impossibility.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>(much laughter)<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Be in my peace.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></FONT></FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face=Tahoma
size=3>Student:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Well, thank you,
Michael, I don’t have any questions; I have more than enough answers to think
about.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I’m really appreciative of
everything you’re doing on Urantia, and in our lives together, I find at this
point in time to be very exciting.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>I see how the changes are coming about in this world, and it really is a
great spiritual adventure.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I still
struggle with feeling like I’m not adequate to it, but that gets less and less
every day.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Thank you.</FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT size=3><FONT
face=Tahoma>MICHAEL:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We do like to
refer you to those pages in your Urantia book that talk about the
inevitabilities of the human condition.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>(Ed: page 51 in the old blue book)<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>How, for example, the quality of loyalty only has meaning within the
possibility of default.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is
almost the meaning of meaning.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>So I
thank you, my daughter, for your appreciation that Mother Spirit and I too are
just riding along with you.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is
how we experience, how we learn, how we too stay humble as we gaze out from
Salvington into this gigantic universe.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>We never cease to marvel at it.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN></FONT></FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face=Tahoma size=3>It would
seem from a human viewpoint you could get lost in this marveling, but we
encourage you to risk it.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>(laughter)<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Just let yourself
go out there into the stars as much as you want, and fully accept, as graciously
as you can, the limits you feel within you.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You are an evolving self, and you do not
yet have total access to you own soul; you’re too busy struggling to live and
add to it in the present moment.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>And so we tell you how your soul is an active part of you, how all the
life you’ve lived is contributing to you here and now.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>For this is how Mother Spirit and I see
you: your self-complete, God-given unique personality, single in all reality, in
possession of an enormous soul that you’ve earned.</FONT></P>
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face=Tahoma>(The ineffability of the spiritual)<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></FONT></FONT></P>
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my daughter, this uncertainty you feel, this need to question even your own need
to question, this feeling you have from time to time of being caught up in an
endless spiral of the sheer ineffability and un-graspable-ness of the most
interesting part of life--the spiritual part; nevertheless, this is what feeds
you and does allow you to rest, truly, deeply rest in something so much greater
than any kind of smug satisfaction.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>As Mother Spirit said, curiosity is such a saving grace, even if it too
seems to have no limit, sometimes destroying things by questioning them.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It’s really the saving grace in the
actual discovery that humbles you, as you keep stumbling upon another infinity
your curiosity’s found.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is not
only your human estate, my daughter, but also that big toe you have in the
Morontia already.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The wonder only
gets larger to keep up with the expanding self you are evolving.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You will never run out; so fear
not.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Let your wonder go.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Rest in your awe of the creation.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And thank you for your
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face=Tahoma>Well, my children, I think tonight we kind-of crept up to the edge
of what is even expressible and peeked over, maybe even fell a little headlong
into the abyss of circular revelation.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>But we’re still here!<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Human
reality is so complex and seemingly contradictory and paradoxical; yet you have
an undeniable continuity of existence.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>It only seems to stutter in that each moment is complete, complete in
God, complete in His absoluteness of creativity, and so we can marvel that here
comes another now!--and another!<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>In
a funny kind of way, reality is not in motion; it’s always now.<SPAN
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face=Tahoma>These are handles on the ineffable.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And, like Mother Spirit, I too delight
in your curiosity, in your wonder that these musings of ours do have
reality.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We are truly exploring
that which is, in all its actuality and potential.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>So we thank our Father for creating us
able to become who we are with genuine powers to determine our own future.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>These powers we gained not by clinging
to ourselves and puffing ourselves up, but by letting ourselves go in
self-forgetful faith that His is the ground we are ultimately standing on to
reach for more.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></FONT></FONT></P>
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face=Tahoma>Thank you, dear Father, for these very dear children.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And thank you, my dear children, for
reaching to me.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I do love your
courage and your faith.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>So I extend
my peace.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Rest well in me.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Let yourselves be extinguished.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You will be reborn again, and again, and
again; and always you.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Good
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