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size=3><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">Nebadonia--</SPAN><st1:date Year="2009"
Day="16" Month="2"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">February 16,
2009</SPAN></st1:date><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">Marin TM Group--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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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT
size=3>NEBADONIA--T/R-JL<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>(Attitude--willing and able)
<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>(The uses of
love)<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT
size=3>(Completion)<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>(Real consequences)
<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>(Literal and figurative; direct and
relative)<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>(Personal religion; shared
religion)<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>(Dealing with ideals)<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>(Enforced meditation--worry and
anxiety) <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>(Attitude again)
<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>(Saving
grace)<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 Mother Spirit and Michael,<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Tonight as we gather
together to hear your words of encouragement, and assurance, and insight, we ask
you to help us feel your presence here among us, and inside each one of us.
<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We give you full permission to make
yourselves known to us, tonight and all through our days to come. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Tonight we are very righteously humble in
the face of really great economic difficulties all through our society.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Even if we ourselves feel somewhat
secure, we can feel our hearts going out to those who are deeply troubled. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And so we ask you to help us pray--if you
will--help us find a way of asking for help, and then being open to that greater
wisdom you help us find--even the exact thoughts from the presence of God within
us, ever pointing the way to take our next step. <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 thank you for reminding us that this
is always an option, and a wonderful option--just to ask our Father what we need
to do next, and then listen, and then do it--however many times a day we feel
the need. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Help us find the courage
to break out of our old, deeply worn and mind-numbing habits to embrace this new
day ever upon us. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This we ask in
the name of both of you, our dear spiritual parents.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Amen. <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3><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>NEBADONIA:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Good evening, dear ones, this is your
mother, Nebadonia. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Tonight I hear
your calls for help, your heartfelt prayers, and I respond joyfully. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is your precious gift to me, this
coming to Michael and me and asking for our help, asking to feel our
companionship in these intrinsically lonely times of hard decisions to make.
<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You can feel us within you through
the strength and the power and even the glory of our spiritual presences
augmenting your own deep spiritual natures. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>For this is what you need to come back to
as often as it occurs to you, or as often as it is impressed upon you: come back
to your home base. <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>Be aware of your spiritual nature, your
creative nature, forming a partnership with all of creation itself.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Be aware of the creative decisions
you’ve made throughout your life, all those choices that helped you get to where
you are now. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Here at your home base
you can feel the living power of this absolute reality you are, in balance with
all of that out there.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Breathe
deeply and feel your heart beating all by itself.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Feel the life-force of God coursing
through your body.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Gain a deep
humility for the enormity of this gift that you are, both for yourself and for
Him. <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>You have a rather cynical saying that
nothing is free, yet, dear children, for each one of you, this whole universe is
free. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Your life is a gift. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You truly did not ask for it. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You were presented with an enormous
objective situation, much of which is unchangeable or not amenable to your will.
<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>So there is such a power of
realization and acceptance in your ability to recognize what’s there and then
choose to accept it deeply within where you can work with it.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Contrary-wise, there is such a terrible
loss of willpower and freedom in denial by stubbornly refusing to acknowledge or
accept something that’s right in front of your nose, or deep in your
heart.<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>(Attitude--willing and able)
<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>For quite a long time now you’ve
realized the importance of attitude, so once again let me give you the Urantia
book definition. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We talk about life
being not only what is inside of you--this living physical body you have that’s
so wonderfully minded--we also talk about life as being more between the
organism and its environment, your relationship to all that out there.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Think of attitude as your willingness
and your ability to relate to this other.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Most of your understanding of attitude focuses on the willingness part,
the freewill part, your choosing to relate with all your human fellows; to be as
Michael and I tease you to be--that cheerful, supportive person you yourself
would love to meet.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is putting
your will into your relationships, to welcome and to enjoy them, to know with a
deep faith that this is what fills your soul. <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>But what about the ability part, your
ability to relate to reality? <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We
refer to you often enough as beings of enormous, even eternal potential with
only a very few short years of actuality.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>But the realization of potential is ability, and this is definitely part
of your soul and your character. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Those things you have learned to do, you
can do again; you now have a discrete ability through living experience. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is such a critical part of your
attitude, not only your willingness and your desire, your longing to relate to
others, but your ability to do so.<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>I think you can see where I’m going
with this, how this is tied in to your ability to relate to your own soul, your
own life’s experience--especially as your Father Fragment enables you to see
yourself as He sees you.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>If through
meditation you can bring your soul more into consciousness, you can literally be
more soulful for others; you can demonstrate more character.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>With this ability to be more deeply your
enduring self, the willingness part can come into play. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>As Michael said last time, the beaming of
love--a willful and deliberate well-wishing towards others--this willingness
enables you to see their personality and character more clearly, and reflect it
back to them.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>What a gift for both
of you.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Beaming love enables you to
fearlessly be who you are and let your soul come forth.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The immediate reward of this marvelous
attitude towards others is that it gives you them--not just your idea of who
they are, or who you think they need to be for you, but who they are in and of
themselves--equally unique creations of God.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is a marvelous attitude when you
have this ability, when you realize this potential, when you actualize and bring
into concrete existence real, loving events which your heart longs to do and
your soul wishes to share.<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>This is especially important in these
hard times you are facing as a society. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is the origin, the dynamic
wellspring--if you will--of sharing and helping to take care of each other, of
meeting those needful eyes longing for love and acknowledgement; and being there
for them. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is where it comes
from and each of you has this wellspring within you. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It’s part of your personality. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It’s part of the creativity you share
with your Creator--this gift of God’s, this upwelling of creative power and love
within you.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Just as He gives of
himself to support your life, so you too can give of yourself to help support
others.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>In hard times this is the
glue that holds societies and communities together.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You do realize with a kind of tragic
irony that it often takes hard times to bring this out and give people an excuse
to be good to each other. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>But from
Michael’s and my viewpoint, there’s always more than enough hardship and
suffering to share.<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>Once before when the question of the
decimation of the human race came up, Michael and I could only answer: Look
around!--you’re in the middle of it! <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You don’t need things to get any worse in
order to feel the need to get better in your attitude and your relationship to
those who could use your help.<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>(The uses of
love)<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>Last time Michael spoke of love being
essentially a power, a divine force in the cosmos bringing and holding personal
beings together.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And as a living
power cannot be held still or captured, cannot be possessed, love only exists in
the very use of it. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It is true that
you can best realize God’s unfathomable love for you by feeling it and then
giving it away.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Use all you can by
passing it on.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>However tiny it
might seem by comparison to Him, it is what you can do. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It is a gift of your self, a
self-forgetting in the face of another person’s need.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>In a highly materialistic society, it is
oftentimes the emergencies of accidents with airplanes and cars which call
people to realize this essential human bond is the most precious of things.
<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 also spoke of getting behind
the curve, if you will, by needing to be prompted to be spiritual. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I suggest joyfully and consistently
returning to your home base in spirit and deeply resting there in stillness.
<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Open your mind and your soul to
take in the power of God’s love for you. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is how you get present. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is how your understanding insight
can give you some foresight, how you can plan and provide. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is how you can develop a generosity
of spirit that enables you to answer the call for help. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Over and over again you give yourself
away in self forgetfulness. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Then
once more you pop back up again, back in your home base, back with being with
yourself and your Father, happy and snug, aware that, however ungraspable you
may be to yourself, my dear children, you can know that you absolutely are.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You can have faith that, from our point
of view anyway, you are moment to moment absolutely complete just as you
are.<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>(Completion)<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>As we see you there is nothing
missing.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You are a personal being
created by God, growing a soul with His help, facing out on eternity in a nigh
infinite universe. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>What more could
you possibly need?--because here it comes.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>It’s all in motion, and so you dance with it.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You feel the love going through you from
its source, and you share this.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You
see it light up the eyes of those who look to you. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Now you know the two of you are
real.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The two of you are here for
each other, and God’s gift of this kind of sharing has no equal. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Eyes meeting the response of eyes: that’s
the reward of good attitude.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>That’s
the having that adds to your soul, and this is what is most needed now. <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>Now you can begin to understand what
Michael and I mean when we say that social/political evolution is inexorable.
<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>There’s no stopping for long
anywhere along the way. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Economic
necessity will bring about social change, yet only a deep spiritual
understanding can see the love in this necessity. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Only understanding can see this as God’s
gift that keeps you grounded in the real nitty-gritty of your lives. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It’s up to you to welcome this.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It’s up to you to exercise your wisdom
in the hard choices that come upon you. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>So welcome the moments that require you
to be creative, that demand you be response-able. They call to you to forget
yourself and be generous with all you have because your brothers’ and sisters’
need is greater. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It all leads to a
deep joy of sharing.<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>Do not misunderstand us.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We do not wish disasters to fall upon
our children so they may be more loving to each other. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Even in the next Morontia phases of your
lives, my children, there will always be a balance between what is required of
you, and what you choose to respond to. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This interplay between what is given and
what is chosen is what really creates your life. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It’s the fundamental condition that keeps
you going through eternity, and it’s Michael’s Spirit of Truth that orients you
to this endless discovery.<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>(Real consequences)
<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>You have the potential for free will,
and it’s God’s gift that there are real consequences to your choices--or
inability to choose. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is the
stuff of reality, the real stuff of your life, and it is captured forever in
your soul. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>So be not afraid. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Get ahead of the curve.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Reach out with love and happiness and
joy to embrace your fellows before you are pushed to it. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is your power and it can indeed be
your glory. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Michael and I wish you
well. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>So take the time out to feel
his peace. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Return to your home base
and be in his peace, and let it heal you. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Feel my love and my presence within you,
and take time out--from time to time--to say hello. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Just acknowledge me in your life and I
can be here for you--consciously. <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>Now if you have any comments or
questions this evening, Michael and I are right here.
<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>Student:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Mother, both you and Father Michael have
said every once in a while that our Heavenly Father keeps our heart beating.
<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Is that literally or
figuratively?<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>(Literal and figurative; direct and
relative)<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">NEBADONIA:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Yes, my son: it’s both. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It’s
literally true insofar as God is life.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>In an existential way, He was the essence of human life before it
existed.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>He is the essence that
precedes existence and everything that is.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Everything you can be aware of is created, right down to the taste of a
strawberry or the feeling of </SPAN><st1:time Minute="0" Hour="17"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">five o’clock</SPAN></st1:time><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"> in the morning. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>He created your personality and this is a
living, spiritual reality, a unique personhood that is given the means by which
to experience life, to relate with that which is other than her or him--a whole
physical universe teeming with other unique
individuals.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>It is also figuratively/symbolically
true in the sense of the meaning you can derive just from feeling your heart
beating. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It’s symbolical insofar as
your personality is not your heart; it’s beating is a possession of yours.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Feeling your heart beating can give you
this meaning of possessing life. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You can extend this further and imagine,
and get a feeling for, what it means that this life is eternal. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This present moment, this now with you in
it, need never end--ever, ever, ever. (Mother chuckles) <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I know this quite beyond your ability to
grasp fully yet, but the humility that this notion of an ungraspable eternity
brings about is a kind of symbolic reality that does point at something
transcendent and real. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>So resting
in your home base and feeling your heart beating, my son, can have this
transcendent figurative value and reassure you are God’s child.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You really are here; you’re no mere
projection, even His. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Does that
answer the question?<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>Student:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Pretty much so, Mother. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I just got an exciting and interesting
glimpse into our Heavenly Father--a tiny glimpse. <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>NEBADONIA:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>All of your experiences, my son, have
these qualities of being both literal and figurative.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You know things in and of themselves,
all by themselves, very literally, very directly, yet at the same time you know
them in relationship to everything else. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is the figurative/meaningful
relationship of things and your inner recognition of those relationships. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>These two modalities go playing leapfrog
over each other, each adding to the other.<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>Student:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I know I know things by comparison with
other things, differentiating one thing from
another.<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>NEBADONIA:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Also, my son, you have direct perception
and the inner intuition I augment.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>This is an innate ability of yours to recognize and relate to something
directly, because if you’ve been paying attention so far in your life, you’ve
noticed that no two things are exactly alike.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>(No, they’re not) <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>With this realization you can have such a
wonderful familiarity and companionship even with stuff, with those
things--those tools perhaps--you’ve used for years and years that seem to have
acquired their own personal character.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>That’s the direct relationship to the uniqueness of each thing you can
have. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>That’s the wonderful ability
to recognize the hallmark of God’s creativity in everything, not only
personalities, but in every grain of sand on a beach, every snowflake that is
somewhat unique and like no other.<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>So we tease you to imagine this heart
of yours beating forever, and make that part of your understanding.
<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>Student: <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I’ll go for that. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Thank you,
Mother.<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>NEBADONIA:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You are very welcome. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Keep feeling my love.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>(I will--I do) <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"><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>Student:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Hello, Mother. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I have a question about something I’ve
never asked about, but it’s still on my mind.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It has to do with organized religion and
the benefits of working in churches so you can have opportunities for ministry
and expressing yourself by loving others, versus not doing so and being out in
the world free and on your own, expressing your spirituality just spontaneously
as you pass by.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Can you update what
the Urantia book says about organized religion?<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It makes a lot of warnings, things that
might still apply but are probably getting out of date quite a bit.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>What are the benefits of the symbolism
you mentioned before? <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I mean in
churches you have symbols, you have rituals, you have rich sacred arts and
music, and you don’t get that if you go on your own--if you go it alone without
participating in traditions. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>So I
wonder if you have something to say for us on that, that’s kind of very up to
date in our postmodern era.<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>(Personal religion; shared
religion)<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>NEBADONIA: <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Yes, my son.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>My most direct advice is to experience
both.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You’ve found a nice
distinction between what you do on your own initiative out in the world, and
what you do when a number of persons to get together to, ideally, share their
spirituality.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Yet the real or
authentically divine nature of spiritual sharing can take place in both
realms.<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>The religious experience--the
relationship of the individual to God, is somewhat independent of the church
experience insofar as church experience can be everything from the deepest
spiritual exchange of ultimate values to, at the other end of the spectrum, a
mere social event that can even be quite un-spiritual in the sense of
promulgating fundamentalist beliefs that the group is the sole possessor of
truth.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And sometimes even the in
the same organization you can have both types of individuals represented.
<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>The most deadening effect of the
socialization of the religious experience is a kind of laziness and smug
satisfaction, a falling back from the sharp edge of the present moment, of
really being open to God’s liberating presence within you, wonderfully cutting
away false identifications.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It’s
falling back into identifying with dogma, the lazy attempt to encapsulate and
hold exclusive in philosophical and theological arguments, threats and
withholding oneself, His living power of love.<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>Dogma is a just another form of
psychological denial, denying the essential living natures of truth and love by
trying to capture them and hold them still and unchallenging.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It’s wholly unnecessary. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>When the challenge of progress seems too
great, you can take a break and rest in your God-given absolute existence, your
moment to moment completeness, for this is real and of inclusive spirit. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Dogma invariably leads to exclusiveness;
that’s its psychological purpose--to prop up shaky egos fearful of others.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>What every church, every truly spiritual
organization needs is for all of its members to have that other part of their
life, that going out there--as you mentioned--and spontaneously relating to
people who live outside their specific context.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Then when they get together again on
Sunday morning, this is what each has to offer the others, their whole week of
being out there confronting and dealing with the glory of God’s creation of
infinite personal variety. <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>So I see these two phases as very
complementary.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>As you point out,
the organization and socialization of religious experience has evolved over the
years enormous traditions. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is
that cultural conditioning we’ve given so many lessons on, that at the same time
these traditions give meaning and value to your life, they also condition your
free will.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>If they are not
consciously seen as being limited human creations, but are mistakenly taken for
the sole word of God: that is fundamentalism. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>That is taking human traditions and
saying they are so fundamentally God’s only word one needn’t go outside and
relate with all the others out there, and their different viewpoints.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And that is an attitude: the
unwillingness and inability to relate. <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>So consider a good, healthy and living
balance of these different, shall we say, phases or modes of religious
experience: what you share with God, alone, and what you share will all others.
<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You have your own unique
personality and therefore your own unique relationship to God.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>In this you can share that which you
cannot share with another human being just because you both are unique. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>There is that within you and your life
experience you cannot hope to express in thought or words, but you can share
directly with God, and with Michael and me.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You can also have all the shared
spiritual life with your fellows in organized communion. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>So I would say: enjoy a good balance of
both. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Those individuals out there
totally alone and by themselves can be missing all the rich traditions of
thousands of years of evolving world culture. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It’s good for your soul to have both.
<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>Student:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Thank you, Mother--very helpful.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Thank you.<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>Student:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Yes, Mother, tradition can be seen as
blinders to the here and now, like living in the past, because traditions
originate from the past and color our perceptions of what is here and now--our
own experience of God’s presence. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I’ve got a lot of poetry and writing on
this topic, and even though I love and embrace Judaism and Christianity, and
enjoy the Catholic liturgy, my favorite part of each service is when we say
hello to each other--that direct human contact. <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>What I’ve been kind-of experiencing and
grappling with over the past couple of weeks is how sometimes my description of
how I think things should be in my life, and the life of others, gets in the way
of settling into just allowing and opening up to whatever--whatever comes
forth.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>There is always this
fear--and I brought this up at another gathering I participate in--that because
I’m not living how I think I should live, I’m living erroneously.
<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>But obviously that’s not true, because
as you said earlier, you see us as absolutely complete and whole and
perfect.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>So if I allow myself just
to be still and to rest, and attach no story to my life, then it’s beyond
description how my life is to be--and is--as of this moment. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>So I was noticing how lately with the
circumstances in my life, I want to make decisions from this home base in the
sense of being self-forgetful, getting out of the way and seeing what comes
forth. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>At times my ego--for lack of
another word--gets really impatient and wants to know what I’m to do. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>There’s the fear of uncertainty. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I’m tired of uncertainty, but at the same
time I know that anything of real value originates from this home base of
authenticity, of oneness with this truth.<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>(Dealing with ideals)<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"><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>NEBADONIA:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Yes, my son, I seem to be confronted
tonight with a lot of…(Mother chuckles)…alternatives that I can only reflect
back to you as living balances of equally valid understandings. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Let me offer you this tool to deal with
your ideals, because that’s essentially what I see you wrestling with.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You have ideals of how you think your
life ought to be lived better, and so it might help to break these down in terms
of time.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Most of these ideals are
definitely directed towards the future--i.e. living better--and, from my point
of view, are wonderful.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>These
stories, these ideals you imagine are necessary and useful for you to get a
taste of, and kind-of feel your way along towards, growing more perfect, even as
God is perfect.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>But this is very
different from being complete, in the sense of nothing missing.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Growing more perfect relates more to
increasing inner unity and correspondingly enhanced personality/soul function.
<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>Yet in your meditation another ideal
raises its head, and that is your notion of being evermore present, what you
philosophically call imminence--being im-mediate--no intermediaries--not even
ideals--between you and the present moment.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is often considered to be
contra-distinct from transcendence, in your case your story/thinking of a more
ideal life--how you try to transcend your present condition by feeling these
ideals, to know which way to go.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>You’ve decided to let everything go so you can be evermore present,
evermore aware of what you already are as a creation of God’s, and just rest
content with that and make decisions from there.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Now can you see how, as you explained
your dilemma, you felt the need to throw away your ideals of how you think life
should be--those stories you mentioned that were making you feel in error--in
order to experience how great life already is?<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>I would say: make sure you keep
both.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>They are not mutually
exclusive--the immediate real and the transcendent ideal; maturity brings them
together.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>There is a resolution, if
you can feel-along what I have to say.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>As you become more immediate and present, you can feel yourself becoming
larger and larger inside; your free-will spiritual home base continues to grow.
<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It’s another way of saying that as
you become more highly conscious here and now, you are transcending those
limitations of conditioning out of the past; you are approaching a spontaneous
creativity that is not so rigidly bound by the past.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You can become aware that those
traditions and their ideals that you rightfully value so much are not an end-all
and be-all in themselves, but are temporary and provisional and will also be
transcended in time. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You can even
intuit with humility the enormity that you have yet to encounter, and embrace,
and learn in an endless future. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>So
the more immediate you become by relaxing, and being still and more highly
conscious, (Mother chuckles) this is in itself a kind of transcendence, a
realized ideal.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>Student:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Yeah!<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Thank you for that, because I feel like
I need to make choices, but not from what I made in the past.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It’s like you keep on asking, what do I
really want, and so it’s like paring me down to bare necessities, to bare
essence: what is driving me; what is making the choice? <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Is it like the need for money, the need
to pay bills, the need to do this or that? <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Or is it something deeper than that?<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I’m tired of the program that was
created by man. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I want it to be, in
a sense, created from God, from truth, from reality.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And so I’m just kind-of allowing that to
kind-of percolate and see where that goes, you know? <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>For all I know I could become homeless,
or I could have someone share my place with me; but nothing seems to have come
up. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>So I’m kind-of sitting with it
all. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>So.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>So thank you.
<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>NEBADONIA:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You are very welcome, my son.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I congratulate on finding that--just
sitting. (Mother chuckles) That’s what we’ve been teaching now for many years in
these particular sessions, and for many, many millennia to the human races.
(Mother chuckles again)<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>(Enforced meditation--worry and
anxiety) <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>Yet as I said last time, a lot of folks
only experience meditation when they are literally being held still consumed
with worry and anxiety--real pain and suffering. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>So they have that association.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>But to see and embrace the beauty and
the need for necessity, to understand what a gift of God’s this nitty-gritty
world of yours is that makes every moment in time unique.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Because there is something coming down
here that never happened before: and it will never happen again. <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>This is largely what you call the
physical or the material plane. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This whole universe is in motion and
actually growing in both material and personal beings, like a balloon that keeps
getting larger and more Supremely dense forever. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is what you are involved in.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It is a great comfort to keep in mind so
things like money do not totally capture you. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Keep in mind that money is a useful tool,
a means of exchange and measurement, but only a quantitative evaluation of real
qualities like the food you eat or the home you make of your house. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>That’s the real stuff.
<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>So congratulations, my son: keep
sitting. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I can only say that
because I do know (Mother chuckles) you will get up and go out into the world
refreshed, and enjoy doing things as well. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You certainly don’t want to grow solid
into one spot, and you never have. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Be in my
love.<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>Student:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Good evening, Mother, when you were
speaking earlier, you were talking about reaching out and loving one another,
that first requires an attitude--the willingness and then after that the
ability.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I have some sense of what
that means, and that’s the soul’s ability to go with what we’ve learned, and
also a sense that it’s the native ability of every person.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I wonder if you could expand on it so I
can get a better sense, a better feeling of what that is, so that I can go out
and really practice it.<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>(Attitude again)
<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>NEBADONIA:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Yes, my daughter, I was talking about
attitude as a willingness and an ability to relate--what we’ve talked about
before as an ability to respond to a situation, to another person--a
response-ability.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Now an ability is
something that you learn. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You might
say it’s soul-stuff. (Yes)<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You are
born with potential and even that varies enormously from person to person in
terms of heredity and innate talents and so forth. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>But you yourself--by living experience,
by trial and error, by understanding what you are doing--you grow your ability
to respond adequately. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Ability is
something you acquire.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It becomes
part of your soul, part of what you have done. <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>Michael and I have talked about genuine
accomplishment. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It is not just some
ego-centered, self-infatuation with--you know--Look what I’ve done! <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>But there is something there (Mother
chuckles) that wasn’t there before.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>It might be a building, or machinery.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It could be a living plant.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It could be a living child. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is what we mean by ability, this
facility that you earn by genuine accomplishment. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Does that help you understand what we
mean by ability and how this portion of attitude is not just given?<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>You have to watch you don’t get too
impatient, for you weren’t born with this ability to relate to others.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Your Urantia book gives some great
stories about how with very primitive peoples, their ability to relate is only
with respect to a very small family or tribe.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Their attitude toward all the rest of
the human beings out there in the other, surrounding tribes; they considered
them simply either predator or prey to be feared or
conquered.<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>Student:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>So in a sense it’s the willing attitude
when one chooses to act on a desire to relate--by using one’s will and one’s
past abilities to reach out and do something in relationship with another
person.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>NEBADONIA:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Exactly.<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>Student:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And that can be any way you would choose
to do it.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>But it’s what you talked
about before: you make the choice to make the
effort.<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>NEBADONIA:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Yes, this is the willingness part. (Yes)
<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Because you can have had an ability
to relate with others, yet as the result of some tragedy or deep scarring of
your soul, you lose the willingness to do so. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>People withdraw.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>They lose their willingness to relate to
others and sometimes, when they are forced into close proximity with each other,
they respond with anger, cruelty, belligerence, and violence. <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>So part of a good attitude is your free
will choice, and part is an acquirement, something you have to learn, you
weren’t born with, either as an individual or as a race. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is the growth of culture and
civilization, of how people learn to have this good attitude towards each other
and share the delight. <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>Student:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>So part of it is based on our natural
endowment and having our personality.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Today we were reading about Jesus’ final admonitions to the Apostles, in
the Urantia book.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>He was counseling
them on their ability. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>He was
asking them to be mindful of the way in which they related to other people, and
telling them how to make that effort.<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>NEBADONIA:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Exactly: potential varies from person to
person.<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>Student:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Right: and then with whatever
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>NEBADONIA:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>… and both heredity and
upbringing…<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>Student:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Right: and then the willingness comes in
as the willingness to work with that.<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>NEBADONIA:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It’s the desire in you to get this
ability to respond to others, rather than, shall we say, shutting them out, or
trying to annihilate them so you don’t have to deal with them. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You can go too far.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You can say, as some folks do, that
attitude is everything. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It’s not
quite that. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Nothing is
everything--if you will. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>There is a
whole objective universe outside your attitude.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>But it’s a big thing. (Mother chuckles)
<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We often talk about open mindedness
and this is another one of those abilities you learn--how to meet folks and take
them in. (Right) I think one of the first lessons I gave was to consider not
holding a screen out there to let only certain types in, or projecting some very
narrow attitude of how you want to be taken. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>If you get the spiritual courage and
ability to drop that, because these are only slightly sophisticated instinctive
animal reactions, then you get the reward.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>You get to fill your soul with all these marvelous, marvelous beings
about you. (Right) <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>Michael last time pointed out the real
essence here is one of individual freedom, not getting lost and terribly
aggressive with notions of society, or political party, or even religion.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It’s the individual person there, that
living person, and what personal freedom and responsibility their society and
politics and religion encourage them to develop. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>That’s that marvelous thing where the
teacher looks forward to his student outgrowing him. <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"><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>So keep nourishing that good attitude,
my daughter. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Keep feeding it like
the wonderful living thing it is.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>And then that’s the reward, is it not? <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>That’s the wonderful attitude (Mother
chuckles) --if you have it--you can tease others
into.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>Student: Thank you.
<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>NEBADONIA:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>One of your kind-of make-do philosophers
said that, if you love someone you’ll tease. (student chuckles) You’re kind-of
dangling possibilities out in front of each other--you know--calling to the best
in each other.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Michael’s
description of love last time was just same as God’s for you, just wishing the
best for another and teasing them into being a partner in their own perfection.
<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Carry on, and be in my
love.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>(Saving
grace)<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>Tonight, my children, I hope I was
somewhat successful in pointing out a certain saving grace in hard times, this
notion of growing beyond the necessity for hard times to give you an excuse to
be good to each other.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>See the
necessity of the hard physical needs in human life as a gift that keeps you
grounded, that invites you to have some appreciation for each unique moment’s
situation.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Realize what part of the
situation you are, and what you need to do for both yourself and others.
<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>It is our delight as well as yours, my
dear children, the way you do reach out to each other in all times, the way you
do heal and comfort and sustain each other. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is the very stuff of soul and
spirit. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is getting the ability
to realize your God-given potential for goodness. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We have no fear for you, so call to
us.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Exercise your faith so you may
have no fear for yourself. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Imagine,
then get a feeling for, this life of yours being eternal.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And be in my love. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Good evening.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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