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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3><FONT
face="Times New Roman"><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">DATE:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>First Sunday, November 1,
2009</FONT></FONT></P>
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face="Times New Roman"><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">LOCATION:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Rio Rancho, NM, USA</FONT></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3><FONT
face="Times New Roman"><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">T/R:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Gerdean </FONT></FONT></P>
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face="Times New Roman"><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">TEACHER:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>MERIUM</FONT></FONT></P>
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face="Times New Roman"><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">TOPIC:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Cardboard Box</FONT></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3><FONT
face="Times New Roman"><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Q&A:</B>
<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Esmeralda’s Transition
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face="Times New Roman"><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">MERIUM:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I am here, Merium, your friend from
yesteryear.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It is good to greet
you, my darling daughters.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You know
what to expect from me.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You know
what to expect from all your teachers.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>This can be a good thing and a bad thing.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It can be a good thing because the
familiarity of my personality is something you can rely on and yet it can be a
bad thing because you think you know me well and there is nothing new to
anticipate, but I tell you, our sessions are as fresh and new as each new
day.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The circumstances are never
the same – from week to week, from day to day, from minute to minute – and if we
keep our attitude fresh, it is always a new opportunity to fall in love, learn
something new, celebrate or convey.</FONT></FONT></P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3><FONT
face="Times New Roman">I have no formal lesson prepared for today. These days,
this group seems to be “winging it” without much structure and so we conjoin
with you in that free-flow, open expression, ready to act when we are called
upon.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I will suggest then that if
there are questions from you that you have saved for me, I or we will entertain
them, and in order to stimulate that (in spite of the fact that you have already
visited) it would be, perhaps, of benefit if we were to visit a bit in a context
of learning and sharing our … that is to say <B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><I
style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">your</I></B> … religious life -- your life
as it has meaning and value in its experiential expression.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I’m sure you understand me as I
understand you – in faith of each other’s being.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></FONT></FONT></P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3><FONT
face="Times New Roman"><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Renault:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It reminds me, Merium, of the book I’m
reading about “Spiritual Activism” and I heard that author speak recently.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>He spoke <I
style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">with <B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">passion</B></I> and he wants us to find a
cause we believe in that activates our hearts and go after that, while
maintaining our spiritual value.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Is
that along the lines of where you are coming from, in terms of discussing our
religious life and our everyday life?</FONT></FONT></P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3><FONT
face="Times New Roman"><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">MERIUM:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Yes, although it didn’t really need to
rise to such a peak of drama as activism; just living the life, for some, is
active enough!<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Gerdean wants to
share something.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Speak,
Gerdean.</FONT></FONT></P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3><FONT
face="Times New Roman"><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Gerdean:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I wanted to share that I’ve been feeling
like a cardboard box lately, that there is just a box there but nothing going on
inside.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I feel empty.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It’s not a lonely empty, not a “without”
like something that needs to be filled up – and I don’t want to say ‘vacuum’
either, because that sounds like a negative space.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Maybe it’s serenity!<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I don’t know.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>But I just don’t feel full.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I feel, with the body I’m in, I feel
like a cardboard box.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And I’m not
going to make judgment on that feeling; it’s just a thought that crossed my mind
and it seemed to fit as something that I might want to seek counsel about and so
I thought maybe I would bring that to the group.</FONT></FONT></P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3><FONT
face="Times New Roman"><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">MERIUM:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Okay, so we have spiritual activism and
a cardboard box.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Are there other
focuses we can throw into the mix?</FONT></FONT></P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3><FONT
face="Times New Roman"><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Miriam:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Merium, I just appreciate being here
today and I appreciated your beginning words about keeping the fresh
outlook.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I know what my faith is in
and what it has brought me to, and I’m getting in shape now to grow it anew
because I’m walking through something right now that I have not walked through
before.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And I’m finding that the
old way still works, of talking to myself, thinking, praying, trying to connect
with you, and I’m finding that bringing it to you in place of awareness that you
really do exist.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></FONT></FONT></P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3
face="Times New Roman">At each point I know it, but I’m taking it as feeling
fresh because I’m not falling apart right now.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I’m very sad.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And my heart is full of missing my
mother, but I really do feel like she is engaging in the adventure as she wanted
to and I’m feeling that that’s real, and so all of this is fresh and I’m very
grateful.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>If I keep looking at it
as fresh, that’s a good thing.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It
doesn’t have to be scary.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It’s just
new.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>That’s what I’m going through.
</FONT></P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3><FONT
face="Times New Roman"><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">MERIUM:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It’s a wonderful thought, and it weaves
in well what we might consider our configuration of the day.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>What about you, Elena?</FONT></FONT></P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3><FONT
face="Times New Roman"><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Elena:</B> <SPAN
style="TEXT-TRANSFORM: uppercase"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I
</SPAN>think what I feel is that I’m brailing it right now, and finally have the
courage in my life to brail it and not know what’s going to come up and not be
afraid about it but to the point that I’m not putting up expectations but I’m
going to allow myself to lean into God and have Him guide me to the next
step.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And I don’t know where that
is, but I have more faith that that will be a good thing.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I’ve had enough things happen in my life
to know that everything is going to be okay.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></FONT></FONT></P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3
face="Times New Roman">To go through mother’s … there’s so many times when I’d
feel fragile, or breaking … and she would say, “No, it’s okay.” And I think
everything <B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><I
style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">is</I></B> okay.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I really do think everything’s
okay.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And I have faith that
everything is okay <I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">with her,</I> and that
is helpful to me and I have a lot of comfort in that.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And I have a lot of faith that I’ll get
the guidance and the help that I need as I need it, so I will go forward and
find out what that is. I don’t know what’s in my future, but I am not going to
try to do everything.<SPAN style="TEXT-TRANSFORM: uppercase"><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></SPAN>I’m not going to <I
style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">expect</I> myself to do everything, as I
always have.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>So we’ll just
see what that looks like, as it comes, I guess.</FONT></P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3><FONT
face="Times New Roman"><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">MERIUM:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Bless you, daughter -- in particular you
two who have recently lost your mother.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>This is indeed a tender time for you, as if you have been born again and
need to learn to draw upon the strength and energy of a new environment, a
greater force that that which you have known under her care. We have talked
before about the fact that you are not only parent and child but that you are
sisters, siblings, and so you are.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>In the ascent you are all on the same path, one is just a bit ahead of
you. And when you catch up with each other, you will certainly know one another
from your experience as parent and child, but increasingly will your
relationship be one of sorority and you will all look to the Divine Minister as
your guide for material strength and succor.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></FONT></FONT></P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3><FONT
face="Times New Roman">The faith path that you both testify to is on the order
of the cardboard box Gerdean discussed.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>It is an emptiness that only Deity can fill.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And the faith is in knowing that when
there is a need for something to come through or be present, it will manifest or
be uttered because it is available and uncluttered with pre-supposed plans,
anticipations or expectations.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It
is another form of a faith walk.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Now the fellow who has impressed Renault, the fellow with the spiritual
activism in his genes, is the call of the wild, the youthful exuberant, the
compassionate passion to be about the Father’s business, to do His will, to
serve, to feed the sheep.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN></FONT></FONT></P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3
face="Times New Roman">This pattern is inherent in sonship; it is inborn in you
who have been born of the spirit, for it is of the spirit.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>So even though when you may not feel you
yourself have it, you have it even so through having the Spirit within you.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And you can depend upon this; you can
rely upon this: it has not gone away; it will not fade; you will not forget
it.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It will be a part of you
forevermore.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Remember, it is said
that once you start out on your path, you need not question, worry or wonder how
you are doing, how fast you are making progress or how slow you are lagging
behind.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Rather, be who you are, in
company with that which you are, which includes your spirit, and there can be
nothing but good come from it.</FONT></P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3><FONT
face="Times New Roman">Those who become enthusiastic and expressive about their
own growing are those who become spiritual activists.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>They are not inhibited by convention or
protocol, but are motivated to inspire as they feel inspired, to encourage as
they feel encouraged, and to serve where they have been served.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is a part of the process of passing
it on, of handing down what gifts you have been given and what lessons you have
learned.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It is a part of the
advancement of civilization and of individuals who pass the torch onto the next
generation or the next cultural level.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN></FONT></FONT></P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3
face="Times New Roman">And so it is true:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>all is well.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>All is
unfolding as it should … in the overall.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>For when it is discovered that when things are not unfolding as they
should, then you make another choice.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>You adapt.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You modify.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You reconsider.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You reconfigure.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You recalculate, remodel or redesign
until you are back on track and it is a new day, a new time, a new moment and lo
and behold you are filled – filled with the Creator which creates even in and
through you those things which would do well to be experienced as a means of
teaching, even preaching, as you pass by.</FONT></P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3><FONT
face="Times New Roman">It is the living of it that is probably more effective
than the teaching or the preaching, but as they say, those who don’t know how to
do it talk about it, and so we have a lot of talking about it, and even the
talking about it is music to our ears.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN></FONT></FONT></P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3><FONT
face="Times New Roman">We rejoice in these precious times we get to share with
you.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We are able, in these moments,
to seize the spirit of truth such that enables us to harmonize -- our harmony
being heard all the way to Paradise.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Getting out of the cacophony of noise of the spheres enables us to
perceive the clarity that Paradise beckons, gives us a sample of the worshipful
state and stimulates us to go out into the arena again and again in the
advancing experiential journey we call life.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></FONT></FONT></P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3
face="Times New Roman">The questions you ask of your soul, that you ask of the
universe, are all answered.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>They
may not be a focal point in our gatherings, but we are extensions of each
other’s reality, and where we advance the others advance.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Where we are held back, the others are
held back.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And as this sense of
connection prevails as a spirit reality, the more the fruits of the spirit are
activated.</FONT></P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3><FONT
face="Times New Roman">Yes, I know, some of you lament that you cannot do what
you would like to do.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You cannot
climb to the heights you would aspire to climb to or plunge to the depth you
would find advantageous to your explorations.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>But God knows of your desire.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It is accounted for.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You cannot expect to experience every
possible adventure in this one short lifetime.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And so look forward to the next plateau
where new adventures avail themselves, where even now those who have gone before
you are rejoicing in the many mansions in the Father’s house … all of us at home
in His universe.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></FONT></FONT></P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3
face="Times New Roman">Yes, sometimes the English language fails me.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And when that happens we punt; or we get
clever; or we - like Nalda - change the subject.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Is there anything you would like to
discuss today or are we running out of time already?<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>[<B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Group:</B> No, we have time.]</FONT></P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3><FONT
face="Times New Roman"><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Miriam:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Could I ask you a question about – I’ll
just ask it and if you think you can answer it, great; if not, that’s cool, too,
but the process--<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Abraham
referenced mother’s housing of the spirit, and Celene [personal teacher] and Ham
talked about mother’s transitioning <I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">while
she was still here</I> -- in her last days, hours moments -- and she was so
agitated, and she was so busy with whatever she was doing and I can’t even begin
to surmise what that is.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I can
guess, but … she was talking to her father and she said to her ex-husband, “this
is the truth,” and I was wondering, without getting too snoopy about someone
else’s personal business, what – can you describe in general what that process
is and what’s possible in that process?<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Is it -- you know, the Urantia Book doesn’t really talk about people who
died before, coming back and talking to people, and I’m not trying to get
answers ahead of the game, but if you could just give me some guidance about
that, something in general, just to help me understand what she went through,
that would be helpful.</FONT></FONT></P>
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face="Times New Roman"><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">MERIUM:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>She was in the process of making the
transition. At first, she was not sure it was time, but as the days went by it
became clear she would be leaving so much of her agitation was electro-chemical
reactions to the fact of her passing.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>She had fear that she had to quell, pain she had to combat, business she
had to conduct, good-byes she had to say, and hellos she needed to prepare
for.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It is a testimony to her
spiritual capacity that she was able to do this in such a relatively quick
period of time.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></FONT></FONT></P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3><FONT
face="Times New Roman">She left with a clear conscience and met her Maker with
straight eyes.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>She was met by those
who love her and sent off by those who love her still, and accompanied by those
who have loved her eternally.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It is
sometimes unnerving to be surrounded by so much affection and attention.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>She was a very busy woman there for a
few days, adjusting, adapting, preparing and going through all the things that
she went through.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It’s not the case
for everyone.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Some are ready
already.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Some never do grapple with
these things. They wait until on the other side.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></FONT></FONT></P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3><FONT
face="Times New Roman">You have a saying that before you die your entire life is
unfolded before you.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Well, her life
unfolded and she dealt with that which she had not dealt with previously, such
that she was able to embrace the occasion with open arms.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And yet, imagine her consternation at
having to leave you behind.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Giving
up life is not easy.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Especially if
it is the only life you have ever known!<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>The next time you make transitions you will already have proved to your
satisfaction the font of your faith that life is eternal, but this is the big
step, and she really did it with her eyes open. She saw what was coming and she
met it.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></FONT></FONT></P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3
face="Times New Roman">We share with you your feelings -- every one.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>They are noble and worthy feelings.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>So you had better not be feeling
anything “less than,” such as guilty or unworthy or any of that nonsense because
that is totally unnecessary.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You
were wonderful daughters.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You are
wonderful girls.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Wonderful
women.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Wonderful friends.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And you will continue to be friends when
you have passed over.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>So just as
Esmeralda seemed to have one foot in this world and one foot in the other there
for a few days, you might begin to put your own affairs in order so that when
your time comes you needn’t dally.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>You’ll be ready.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>All your
conversations will have been held.</FONT></P>
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face="Times New Roman">It is still difficult for those passing to extricate
themselves from those who will not let go.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>But eventually the pull to move beyond is overwhelming.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The light is so compelling.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The spirit embrace is so great.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And that is what must be
recognized.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is why they say,
“She has gone on to a better place.”<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>It is really not any better than you have here.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It’s just where you pick up when you
leave here.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>What you have here is
really rather wonderful.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It is
really worthy of worship, just being in your day to day moments.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The miracle of life is all around
you.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The beauty surrounds you.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>There is truth and goodness in every
chirp of the bird, in every drop of rain.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>The divine presence is indeed the full contents of the cardboard
box.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Your cups runneth over.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You indeed have enough harbored up to
spill out in spiritual activism of some sort or another, even if it is a simple
“Hallelujah! Pass the biscuits.” </FONT></P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3
face="Times New Roman">I will cut you loose for the afternoon, although I too
grieve to leave you.</FONT></P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3><FONT
face="Times New Roman"><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Miriam:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Could I just say thank you?<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>That answer was just wonderful.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I’ll dwell with it and review it again
in the transcript.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Thank you so
much for helping us.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Thank
you.</FONT></FONT></P>
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face="Times New Roman"><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Elena:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>That was very helpful.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Very comforting and giving us
information that we needed to hear, apparently, and I’m very grateful for what
you said.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></FONT></FONT></P>
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face="Times New Roman"><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">MERIUM:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The words are within you, the words you
need.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And when it is time for the
words to come spilling forth, they will spill forth as they should.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You have everything you need within you
already.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Anything I could add would
be simply reiterating what you know already.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Your motivations speak for
themselves.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You seek to serve.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You seek to do his will.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You aim to please and be pleasing in His
eyes.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>These are the qualities that
assure your effectiveness.</FONT></FONT></P>
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face="Times New Roman">It is also noteworthy that while I am the deliverer of
today’s message, I am not alone in these sentiments.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Celene joins me, as do all of the
Teachers that have come to know Esmeralda as a friend and daughter through our
teaching mission efforts, and the great ones who may not check in as often but
who are aware of every hair on every head.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>It is a loving universe, a friendly environment.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Even though there are some things that
seem to hurt or are seen as unwelcomed, overall it is all for your good and for
the good of the Universal Father who knows all, sees all, and is all.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></FONT></FONT></P>
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face="Times New Roman">It’s time to party!<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Let’s have cake!<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Bye-bye!</FONT></P>
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