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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="6"
Year="2008"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">October 6,
2008</SPAN></st1:date><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></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"><FONT size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">Marin T/M Group--Mill Valley,
</SPAN><st1:State><st1:place><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">California</SPAN></st1:place></st1:State><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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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>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>(Open your hearts to each
other)<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>(Stimulants and debt)
<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>(The irony of one of God’s greatest
gifts) <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>(Suddenly shifting efforts)
<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>(Ones total
health)<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>(The need to commune with
God)<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>(The mystery of fear)<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT
size=3>(Benediction)<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>Dear Michael and Mother Spirit,<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Since our last meeting two
weeks ago our society has come face to face with some rather scary financial
troubles, and so we are especially thankful in times like this for your
reassurance that we are spiritual beings. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We are endowed with a creativity with
which, if we choose, we can create our way forward.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>While paying due respect to what has
gone before now and brought us to this moment, we need not be utterly dependent
upon, nor bound by that. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You remind
us that all throughout human history people have faced crises like this and have
come together with a generosity of spirit, a triumph of creative spirit in the
face of adversity, that fills our souls.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>We thank you for these insights. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We are reassured with your presence
within us, with the way in which you respond most readily to our prayers for
guidance.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Amen.
<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>MICHAEL:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Good evening, my children, this is
Michael. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>With my whole heart I back
up your appeal. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I will never
forsake you. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I am here and I will
always be here. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You are my
children. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You have only to be still
and open your hearts and your minds to feel me, to rest in my peace, to seek
guidance from your Father Fragment, that presence of God in your minds that is
ever true.<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>(Open your hearts to each
other)<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>It is unfortunately ironic that it
sometimes takes a crisis for our children to open their minds and hearts to us
and to each other. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is the
critical thing here and now: you open yourselves to each other as never
before.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Those of you with even the
most humble means need to reach out and embrace your less fortunate fellows, and
this can be in the emotional and the spiritual realms everywhere as important as
in the financial.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>To those who need
an excuse to be good: this is the time. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is the opportunity to set aside
self-interest for the general social good, and the more concrete and direct you
can offer help, the better.<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>In trying times it is within families
and between friends where a generosity of spirit is so welcome and needed. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is literally the glue that has
always held societies together. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is the spiritual currency in the
realm of personal spiritual beings.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>You are members of a vast cosmic family and never alone by the very kinds
of beings that you are. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You are one
of us. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You are surrounded by a
spiritual family that is fully aware of what you are going through. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You have our Father’s assurance--His
presence right within you, as well as that of Mother Spirit and myself: no good
effort is ever lost or comes to nothing. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Everything is always in the mix, so to
speak, and becomes part of your soul. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Everything that happens is the result of
pre-existent forces plus--always plus--what you yourselves can contribute, what
you yourselves can create. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Your
creativity is always your greatest strength, for in that you are most like your
Father. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>In this you can try to be
even more like Him.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 12pt 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>As Mother Spirit said last time, it
often takes great effort to keep abreast of your own dynamic and sometimes scary
lives.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Let’s take that a notch
deeper and wonder what this word effort really means.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I’ll define it simply tonight as your
awareness of the expenditure of energy. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>For a human being of limited amounts of
energy, whether physical or mental or spiritual, your feeling of effort lets you
know that energy is being expended. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>There is a distinct difference though,
between how much this expenditure is conscious or unconscious.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>For many thousands of years now mankind
has discovered that with the use of certain substances he can avoid feeling
effort while still accomplishing certain tasks, both mental and physical. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You call these stimulants, a way of
getting something done without feeling the effort
involved.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 12pt 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>(Stimulants and debt)
<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 12pt 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>Tonight in your current circumstances I
want you to consider these stimulants very much like credit cards, the
hopefully-only-temporary debt you use to purchase things. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>In a way you are buying something today
and postponing the payment until tomorrow. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>For stimulants are not nutrition. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>They do not directly provide the strength
you use, the energy you burn.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>They
are like chemical catalysts. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>If
they had no negative consequences, all well and good--or should I say not so
bad, as there is a certain glory just in feeling the effort it takes to
accomplish things. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>As Mother Spirit
and I have been saying, it’s feeling the physical effort in your body that lets
you know what you’re moving; feeling mental difficulties that gives you some
appraisal of a problem; feeling a sense of loss sometimes which lets you know
you’re exhausting your spiritual energy. <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 12pt 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>And so we encourage you to feel. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Feel the full extent of what you are
doing.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>To those to whom this seems
absurd--why feel the work you are doing if you can avoid it--we must point out
that experience is what truly fills your soul.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It’s why we reassure you over and over
again about the meaning, the value of your conscious life, what you feel highly
consciously. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We’ve tried to debunk
those notions that true joy is somehow effortless, that the effort you feel is
somehow unnecessary, or a mistake. <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 12pt 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>Your Urantia book draws a distinction
between self-gratification, self-maintenance and, in the racial sense of
providing for your children in the coming generations, self-perpetuation.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The refusal to feel the effort involved
in living is a prime example of self-gratification at the expense of
self-maintenance, the very definition of a bad habit: trading today’s pleasure
for tomorrow’s bad health and lack of will-power.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>So this evaluation is not from some
abstract moral sense, but from taking into consideration the totality of your
being.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It’s like running up
financial debt by living beyond your means, selling your tomorrows of
maintaining yourself healthy and free for the moment’s gratification. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>All these are examples of refusing to
feel and denying the conscious experience of effort that lets you know the value
of things.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We would ask you to
consider these truths in your meditation, my children.
<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 12pt 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>Open your hearts and open your minds to
a deep moral re-evaluation of your lives and how you are--in a total
sense--paying for your daily bread and joy. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This guidance is available to you, my
children, if you be still enough. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is where your creativity comes in if
you but have the nerve, the courage to open yourself to your soul, your whole
life’s experience. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is the
value of character, that persisting growth of soul that enables you to stand not
only right within the moment, but to transcend it.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>One definition of character is that of
someone who is not just blown away, tossed here and there in the moment.
<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 12pt 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>Character comes from a center deep in
the middle of your whole life’s experience. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The creative abilities this provides are
so essential in trying times, not only for yourself but for all those who depend
upon you to be there for them, especially in a creative, spiritual capacity.
<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is how you turn trying times
into triumph, for this is the very meaning of rising above adversity. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>If you can creatively handle present
situations and learn from them, feel them, freely admit to yourself all your
successes and mistakes, this truly becomes that soul credit of what you have
already earned, not the selling out your tomorrows to deny feeling the ups and
downs of today.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 12pt 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>(The irony of one of God’s greatest
gifts) <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 12pt 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>This is the spiritual challenge before
you. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>As Mother Spirit said last
time, this is the challenge in seeking and finding genuine emotion--whatever it
is--and the enlightenment that brings to your day to day living. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is how you progress as individuals
and societies. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>So again we say, my
children, be of good cheer. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>There
is nothing you cannot accomplish working together. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Stay open.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Stay loose--be flexible.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Take each moment as it comes with that
acceptance we’ve been speaking of.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Let facts come in and register deeply.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Welcome them however they challenge your
preconceptions. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Times of great
challenge are times of great spiritual opportunities. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>So be unafraid to feel the effort it
takes.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Though it may be literally
dripping with irony, this is your saving grace.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The enormous effort it takes to progress
is God’s greatest gift to you. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Claim it. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Make it your own. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Be unafraid of it.
<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 12pt 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>You have our blessings; we are always
with you, pulling for you. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We are
always here with our guidance, our love and our peace.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Feel that effort.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Expend it willingly; and then rest
totally, extinguished in me so you can rise again, and again.
<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 12pt 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>If you have any questions or comments
this evening, I’m always happy to receive them and engage you
so.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 12pt 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>Student:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Thank you Father Michael for your words
of reassurance, and support, and the ideas of acceptance and feeling--which I’ve
spent most of my life avoiding.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Now
I can’t avoid them anymore, I thank you for reminding me once more that I’m a
human being and that things are going to be OK no matter what
happens.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 12pt 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>(Suddenly shifting efforts)
<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 12pt 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>MICHAEL:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I thank you, my son, for accepting what
I had to offer.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>For so many this
can be a great turn-about within their orientation to reality.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Your consciously felt effort is what
finally and most fundamentally gives you the measure--the value and the
worth--of things to you.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You can
see this clearly in fields of entertainment where, sometimes after a few short
years of intense effort, people can be rewarded so fantastically, and then
woefully find themselves in a kind of meaningless life, so contrasted is it to
what they’ve know before.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is
why so many seem to self-destruct with success.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 12pt 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>You see the same effect in those who,
after a whole lifetime of working hard, are financially able to retire.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>They’ve always enjoyed the relaxation of
their weekends, yet suddenly find themselves terribly adrift in a foggy miasma
of so much endless time to kill.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN><o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 12pt 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>So I thank you for your thanks, my
son.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We wish you well in your
newfound feeling.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Be in my
peace.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 12pt 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>Student:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Yes, Michael, I was pondering the Beatle
song called The Fool On The Hill.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I
think I live on that hill.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I see
what is going on in the community, in the lives of the people I work for; then
in the media, what is going on in the country and the world.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It’s like, either I can get all caught
up in fear and the panic of being homeless, and go that way, or I can understand
what is truly going on and not get caught up in all of that, all the drama of
crises; but just kind-of pay attention to spirit, to truth, to compassion, and
be myself--available; and to love, being really focused in this moment.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I can honor each moment and the
freshness of each moment.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I know a
coupe of my customers who are experiencing a lot of discomfort, a lot of fear in
what’s going on--their stocks and things.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>So it seems like the time for a lot of reevaluation and asking questions
like, is there another way to live?<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN><o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 12pt 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>To me there’s a really false economy
going on.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It’s not based in spirit,
in truth.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I was listening to a tape
by Alan Watts and he was pointing out that man created money, not God.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>How we measure life gets too abstract,
and there’s a deeper way to live.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>So that’s what I’m allowing myself to tap into, to live for
meaning.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 12pt 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>I’m not denying I feel a bit anxious
that everything seems like a house of cards--you take out one and everything
falls apart.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Then what are you left
with?--just yourself; your true economy.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>So I think people need to find another way to be in this
world.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 12pt 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>(Ones total health)<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 12pt 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>MICHAEL:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I want to thank you too, my son.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You express the spiritual opportunity
very well.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You can see the
distinction we’ve pointed out between the more superficial and limited sense of
yourself which you call ego, as contrasted to that really deep and soulful
awareness of your whole life.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It’s
become too much a cliché that when you have your health you have everything, and
so, so many folks dismiss this truth out of hand for its very familiarity.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>They need to have their whole physical
and psychic health--their feelings of panic, running unchecked, brought back to
the bedrock of truth that constitutes spiritual health.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 12pt 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>As I said, it seems a shame that people
have to be brought to this, but that is a function of life, a function of
confronting all that Other, that not-you, that is God’s creation; and humbly
accepting there is such a thing as God’s law, God’s ways of doing things.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You do have the capacity, if you choose,
to learn these, even to embrace these with a glad heart and an ever deepening
sense of spiritual security amidst the uncertainty.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>So I’m glad for you, my son, that you
have these spiritual dimensions in your consciousness.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You are sincerely asking yourself, what
is this better way?<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>May you
continue to be that steadfast presence for your friends--and your employers
too.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 12pt 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>Student:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Yes, I feel compassion for them because
they don’t have that understanding that I’ve become acquainted with.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I see their struggle and frustration and
their fear, and so I just honor them for what they’re going through, and I
support them in their soul-growth, because that’s what it’s all
about--really.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It’s about what’s
real and what is only illusion and will fall away; what is not really of
God.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It is so beautiful--as I’ve
mentioned--having my granddaughter.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>I mean, she’s oblivious to any of this.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>She doesn’t know a bank failure from
anything; she’s not Republican or Democrat.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It’s so beautiful seeing her, and
reminding me of what life’s all about--the trust she has in life.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>So thank
you.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 12pt 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>MICHAEL:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You’re very welcome, my son.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You have a little glimpse into what
Mother Spirit and I feel about all of you.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>You are our children, and we marvel at your courage as you too open with
curiosity to look around and wonder at it all.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Be in my
peace.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 12pt 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>Student:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Good evening, Michael.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I’m learning how--better--to take in
spiritual energy, and feel your spiritual presence--to be able to make the
effort and feel the spiritual connection that is really gratifying.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It helps me replace the need to find
energy in other things like coffee--or just go through the day without a lot of
energy.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I’m really gratified by the
discovery of the reward of that effort--to make that connection.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>But I still find that when I get to the
place of taking an action I get a really deep, uncomfortable fear. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It’s really hard to stay with the fear,
to get through it.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I get into
panic.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I sort-of like touch on it,
but it’s really uncomfortable to stay with it and move forward with it.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>So I find myself still backing away from
that; and I also find it hard to--even though I may have the energy--to find the
focus on where I need to take the next step.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I kind-of have an idea it may have
something to do with being so afraid and not knowing what to do.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>So I was wondering if you help
me.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 12pt 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>(The need to commune with God)
<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 12pt 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>MICHAEL:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Yes, my daughter, let me remind you,
because you’ve already read in your Urantia book the details of my life here
with you--as Jesus--let me gently remind you of how I myself, even after my
baptism and spending some time alone making my big decisions about what to do
with the rest of my human life--being fully aware I was this dual-being of a
hundreds-of-billions-of-years-old Creator Son of God, and yet still a human
being walking along--how often I found not only the wonder and the glory, but
even the need to commune with my Father.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>This was, if you will, the fully human side of my dual nature then, that
two-hundred-percent-ness of living that I’ve invited all of you, as spiritual
beings too, to share with me.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN><o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 12pt 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>There is no such thing as returning to
the Father too many times--a dozen times a day, if necessary; any time you hit a
blank wall of no response from your own mind, no answer where to go, what to
do.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Be unafraid to sit down and
humbly, lovingly open yourself to the Father within you and ask: Dear God, What
do I do next?<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Though you may not
fully credit it yet, my daughter, you’re really feeling more and more what is
involved in being a living creature.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>I feel you are doing your best to stay in touch with this.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And this is good.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You just need to remind yourself from
time to time that the answer is there; the initiative, the nudge, does come from
your spirit, and your spirit is both able and perhaps needs to call for
help.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 12pt 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>(The mystery of fear)<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 12pt 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>That’s why we’re here.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is what we are as your spiritual
parents.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We too feel your fear and
your uncertainty, and reassure you they are no illusions.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It is the full awareness of what you‘re
doing and the fact you have not only your own life but others too in your
hands.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>But there is that critical
difference, my daughter, between feeling fear and being afraid, between an
emotion and a rather fixed state of being.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>So be not afraid to ask for help.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Sit down in the middle of your fear and ride it out; even, as I advised C
once, approach it with curiosity.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Sometimes like a snowball in the middle of a raging fire, the answer of
what to do next is right in the middle of what you fear.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Your fear is a mistaken
self-preservation that keeps you from a deeper truth.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And so, ironically, my daughter, your
fear means well--(much laughter).<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Treat it with compassion and good humor.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Your spiritual self knows you can be
overly-cautious.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It’s good you
remember from time to time that no one gets out of life--as you know
it--alive.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN><o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 12pt 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>So my advice is to return to your
stillness as often as need be.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I’m
so happy you are finding strength there; you are finding me there--you are
beginning to feel me more and more.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>This is such a glory for Mother Spirit and me for it is true that the
more you can feel our presence, the more you are there for us.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is your freewill gift to us, of
your very soul.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>So thank you, my
daughter.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Keep finding my
peace.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 12pt 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT
size=3>(Benediction)<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA">Dear
children, I love you very much.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It
is not easy for me to say, be not afraid.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>I do so thankful for my own life as Jesus; even for the fear I knew--even
as Michael--the fear for my disciples and those I treasured so deeply.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>In these trying times our hearts go out
to you.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>So we ask you open your
hearts to each other.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>By all means
wonder deep within you: what is this potential I’ve been blessed with?<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>What is my own better way forward?<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>What is this evolution that is so much a
part of God’s will?<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You find it day
to day; sometime hour by hour; sometimes one breath at a time.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>So right now feel the life in this, my
children.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Feel the power in
this.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is God’s and our gift of
life to our children.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Mother Spirit
sends you her love, and I bid you be in my peace.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Good evening.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN
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