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align=center><FONT size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">Michael--</SPAN><st1:date Year="2009" Day="2"
Month="2"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">February 2,
2009</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 TM Group--Mil 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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<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>(The love of
spirit)<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>(Politics)<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>(Cross- and multi-cultural
pluralism)<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>(Worry) <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>(Love)<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>(Sharing)<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>Dear Michael and Mother Spirit,<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Welcome, welcome indeed.
<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Thank you both for being in our
lives, inside and right alongside.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>You are good companions. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We
especially want to thank you for your last few lessons on what to do in hard
times. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You point us at that true
saving grace in our human reality, the fact we are intrinsically creative by the
kind of spiritual beings we are. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We
are not bound fast by all that has led up to this moment, but we have within us
the potential to create something new, and a free will to choose it. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><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>Tonight we pray you help us realize
your presence, Mother Spirit, especially with your augmentation of courage.
<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Help us find the courage to be
creative. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Help us not be overcome
by fear when our livelihood is suddenly taken away. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is especially so for those of us who
have not only ourselves but many others depending upon us. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Help us find the courage to break out of
long established and deep ruts of habitual thinking and anxious needs,
surrounded as we are by so many mind-numbing advertisements for stuff we can ill
afford. <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>We all personally know how hard it can
be to break out of unhealthy habits--what an inner battle this can be. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And so we know how difficult it is to
suddenly start anew to re-examine and re-evaluate our ways of life.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You intimate there are some major
changes due in our whole society, so help us create the way forward.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>If society is none other than every
single individual one of us, and we are all part of this situation that got us
to here, we each need to be part of the way forward. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Thank you for pointing us at our own
response-ability, however difficult it may be. <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>Just relax and breathe
awhile and feel Mother Spirit’s and my presence all around you and deep within
you. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>She is that subtle background
of your consciousness, and I am this close and faithful friend right beside you
all through your days and all through your nights. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I am always here. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is the power of my spirit.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is my glory--that I can be this for
my children. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>My life is in you and
you, dear children, are very much in me.<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>(The love of
spirit)<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>We have tried in many lessons to tell
you what marvelous, marvelous creatures you are, being created by our mutual
Father. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Mother Spirit and I also
have a further glory of directly feeling our Father’s love for all of us. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>So however lonely you may feel at times,
however cut off from your own source of life, just find the courage to slow
down, come to a complete stop, and let all those worries and panic subside.
<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Just breathe deeply and feel the
energy coursing through your body. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Imagine and get a feeling of this life
you have being eternal. <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"><FONT size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">Remember and feel all the social steps you have
taken with your friends to get to here. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Feel with deep faith the very reality
your soul, your life captured by a fragment of God himself, of which this
present moment will be a small but utterly unbreakable link.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The </SPAN><st1:place><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">Grand Canyon</SPAN></st1:place><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"> chasm of the future stretches out before you and at
times you are fully aware you are standing on the precipice. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>But that is your human situation, and in
hard times like this you are simply more aware of it, simply more aware of the
courage it takes to take the next step, not knowing beforehand all that is
implied and what results will happen. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You are out here in time and space doing
the best you can with your own organic, time-conditioned sense of yourself, on a
grand adventure, experimenting to see what works.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>So feel your inner effort.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Feel the life force inside of you
reaching for the next moment’s discovery. <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>There is something positive that you
are that is continuing here. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This
personality that is your essence is indeed like a steel cable tying your moments
together, and you can feel this from time to time. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Yet you need to remind yourselves that
you are not keeping your own heart beating. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You have to remind yourself that you
possess life.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It was given to you
along with a universe in which to live it, and it is yours. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Your soul is yours too, but you have
earned it through living experience.<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>(Politics)<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 12pt 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>As you may have noticed, Mother Spirit
and I are very reluctant to give you specific advice on how to live your lives
in the political realm. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We’ve only
given lessons on where your society generally is in its present stage of
evolution, and something of where you’ve come from in the past.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>In addition we’ve repeated that
wonderful truth that a hallmark of your hard-earned wisdom is a sense of
proportion. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Now as you face a
number of political points of view as to what to do--what the projected results
might be, we can only advise you to be as open-minded as possible. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Your democracies depend upon each person
to be well informed and, even more basically, interested in what your
representatives are doing in your name.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>And as there has been a large amount of polarization taking place, the
only way you can get a comprehensive and highly detailed estimation--even of
what is happening, is to be open to the full political spectrum, if you will.
<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 12pt 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>Just as these transmissions are limited
by the personalities through which they come, so too the current social and
political situation is highly colored by your commentators.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It’s up to you to break out of any kind
of habitual, knee-jerk reaction and use your own creativity to come up with a
holistic view of what is needed. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Again I’ll repeat: a democracy is
dependent upon a well informed people. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Yet when there’s an unconscious
identification with a particular, limited point of view, leading to a corruption
of truth so deep it is cynically taken for granted as simply the current stage
of social/political evolution by both politician and commentator, it is up to
you to break out first and demand the most necessary of all
ingredients--transparency of and access to facts.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 12pt 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>Mother Spirit and I are encouraged that
concept is getting a wider usage now. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It’s up to you to see it is taken
seriously. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You must be informed.
<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>In this you must demand facts and
accept that you yourselves have to sort through all these viewpoints to find the
comprehensive truth that I help you realize. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>My Spirit of Truth is this orientation
towards wholeness, towards inclusiveness, towards comprehensiveness. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>True enough, only God in His absolute
omniscience literally is truth. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>But
you can aspire to head in that direction.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>You can aspire to be inclusive and knowledgeable, conversant with all
viewpoints--pro and con.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Then hold
your representatives responsible, able to respond to
you.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 12pt 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>We have enjoyed pointing you at one of
the most helpful aspects of a genuine, emerging world culture, and that is the
kind of free-wheeling mass media coming into existence that is beyond the
control of any particular political party, or now even nation/state. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We’ve mentioned how wonderful it is that,
for almost anywhere on the surface of the planet now, you can fire up your
little, portable generator, point your antenna at the sky, and bring in the rest
of the world.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 12pt 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>(Cross- and multi-cultural pluralism)
<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>We see as marvelous this growth of
cross- and multi-cultural pluralism that allows each individual to reach their
full potential of expression and realization. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It boils down to the freedom of each
living individual, not some abstraction of state or society or religion. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Mother Spirit mentioned the ironic
challenge of almost too much productivity, misdirected and wasted as it is.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We tease you to imagine where to go
towards making a true heaven on earth for everyone. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>For even though you live very economic
lives, dependent upon food and shelter and other material things, there is
enough for all--more than enough: and there always has been. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>But insofar as there’s always been a
world soul on a spiritual level, it has awaited the present day’s growing
physical links of electronics to tie the world together nigh instantaneously, to
truly make it one world available to all. <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 12pt 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>So don’t lose sight of this big
picture. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is what is happening
on a planetary scale, and your current economic difficulties now being so
worldwide are simply pointing out this fact of a unified social world coming
into existence.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Cultures and
sub-cultures that never were in intimate contact are being forced to be so.
<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And it’s wonderful that more and
more people now have the means to be open minded, to experience and embrace that
which is contrary or contradictory to their own way of life. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>All these points of view--social and
political and religious--are what you have to offer each other.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>So embrace them with joy. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Be tickled that those other folks over
there can believe in something seemingly so totally different to what you
believe in, and can very articulately express it. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>So listen. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Get to know them. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is your possible personal glory in
opening your soul to grow in these challenging
circumstances.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 12pt 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>(Worry) <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 12pt 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>Contrarily, as Mother Spirit said, a
certain kind of meditation--let’s call it worry--can be forced upon you.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Accept it as a sign you are a little bit
behind the curve. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You haven’t been
keeping up on your own voluntary and welcomed need for reflection.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Accept with deep humility the possible
enormity of what you are facing--to catch up to the present moment, to
understand what’s happening from so many different points of view. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Trust that all this reflection gives you
some real ground of understanding insight from which to launch yourself on your
own creative, individual path forward, and get ahead of the curve with
foresight. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Indeed the whole world,
my children, is on your shoulders. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Because what you know as the world is
inextricably partly you. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>So glory
in it.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Glory that in this way you
are truly made in the image of God. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You are a creative being just as is He,
creating the world in which you find yourself. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It’s just--shall we say--that the
proportions (Michael chuckles) are somewhat different. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>His creativity is absolute and infinite;
yours is changeable and finite by comparison to this eternal universe of His in
which you find yourself. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>But still:
you are creatively interpreting His universe for yourself. <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>This is the great truth that also calls
forth humility, acknowledging that you yourself are your own good but most
limited friend. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It suggests
prayer.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It suggests you open
yourself and honestly and sincerely seek our help. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Ask your Father: dear God, what do I do
next? <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Help me see what part I am
playing in my own life. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Help me
realize how I am limiting myself.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>And please, Mother Spirit, help me find the courage to try something new.
<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We are here for you. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We always will be. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You are our beloved
children.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 12pt 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>Tonight I just wanted to mention one
more way along those seemingly hard-edged political, social dimensions you need
to be open minded. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You are
inextricably in this adventure.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You
are part of the situation. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It is
possible to enjoy it, even to glory in the fact you were created this way
purposely by God, made in His image, given part of His creative power to
determine your own lives. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We wish
you well.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We promise to help you
feel His love for you pouring down on your heads like a driving rain.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>So we ask you take time out, from time
to time, to feel us. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>If you will,
let your souls stand out bare-headed and get soaked through and through with us
and Him. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Be in our peace and our
love, and feel His gift of life. <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, we look forward to them. <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>Student:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Father Michael, thank you for being here
with us. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I don’t quite know how to
ask this question. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>What does love
mean? <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>What does it mean when you
say you love us? <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>What does it mean
when you say the Heavenly Father loves us?<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 12pt 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>(Love)<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 son. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Imagine a light so bright and
scintillating, sending out so many thousands of piercing little beams, you can’t
look directly into it. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Then you
have some notion of God’s love for you. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>That bright light--His eternal outpouring
of energy--is literally life itself, not only the life He gave you
originally--the unique personality you are--but also the life He sustains moment
to moment to give you yourself. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This beaming of life itself to you, and
as you, piercing you--going right through you as you are utterly transparent to
Him, actually illuminates you from within.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>His knowing you, my son, through and through, as He shares your life and
weaves your soul: this too is His love. <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 12pt 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>This soul that you are creating
together is a product of love. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The
fact that He knows you better and can preserve for all eternity His knowledge of
your life: this is love. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is
His giving, sustaining, connection, and so it is with Mother Spirit and me.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is our power and our glory as your
immediate spiritual parents.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>God
loves you directly, and He loves you through us.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>In this we are just like you, my
son.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You too feel and experience
His love as you radiate it to others. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>He is the original source that you can
choose to be a conduit for, just as Mother Spirit and I are. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You can feel this most personally as
simply wishing another well. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Mother
Spirit and I wish you well; we wish the best for you. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We wish you to have the most full and
original, creative life you possibly can.<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 how love is articulated in
feeling a desire for the best, and you can just beam this. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You can be a source of this sparkling,
scintillating, life-giving power. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Just beam it at everyone you meet and be
immediately rewarded--with them--with being able to perceive and enjoy their
unique being. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The light of love has
this penetrating/illuminating power to enable you to see better and appreciate
the unique personalities and characters you run across.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And that, my children, is reward in
itself. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Since it is such a beamed
power that asks nothing but to shine, what it reveals is always sufficient.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It’s why love requires nothing. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>What it illuminates is glorious enough in
itself.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You can do this. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You can decide to do this and reap the
reward of beginning to see your fellows as we do. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Is this understandable, my son?<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I can tell, and I reassure you: you’ve
known this in varying degrees all your life. <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>Student: <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Thank you, Father Michael. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I don’t know yet.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I still have to make the decision and
I’m wondering, how do I go about beaming love at somebody
else?<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>First of all, when you notice a person,
really see them; let them into you.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>(Michael chuckles)<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Then with
well wishing in your heart you can think the thought: all my love for you. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is the feeling of love--a wanting
them to be all they can be, and then letting them be so--for you. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It helps you realize all that they
already are--their soul-character.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>If you actually get into some exchange with them, they will immediately
feel this intention of yours, whether it registers consciously or not. <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>Yet you might be surprised how
responsive they can be to this very indiscriminant (Michael chuckles again)
beaming of well-wishing towards them, for you’re consciously determining your
own attitude.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You’re becoming the
cheerful, well-intentioned person you’d like to meet yourself, for love lets you
see and register them, and it lets them see and register you.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Love is this connection, the Eros that’s
been recognized in your philosophies for thousands of years now; the connective
force in the universe bringing and holding personal beings together.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It’s contra-distinct from Logos, the
analytical function; or Thanatos, the principle of death, annihilation, and
separation.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Love connects.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Love enables.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Love rewards.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The only difficulty in talking about
love is that it’s endless.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It’s so
multi-faceted, so scintillating and sparkling.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>But is that enough for this
evening?<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 12pt 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>Student, laughing:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Yes--it’s a lot deeper than I
thought.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>But it’s one more step
toward getting a clear concept of it.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>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>(Sharing)<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>The one English word that most clearly
expresses the quality of deity, of the divine nature, is sharing.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Ultimately and originally, God chose to
share Himself by creating all these others that we are, and that is love.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Love is the power of that sharing, that
gift of oneself.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>There is no
separation from His side.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>His love
is the power that brought creation into existence, and holds it all together
through time, moment by moment.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Be
in my peace and love.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 12pt 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>Ed: the other questions and answers to
be continued.<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
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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