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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; tab-stops: 1.25in" class=MsoNormal><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">DATE:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN
style="mso-tab-count: 1">
</SPAN>August 19, 2010<SPAN style="mso-tab-count: 1">
</SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; tab-stops: 1.25in" class=MsoNormal><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">LOCATION:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN
style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN>Light Line</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; tab-stops: 1.25in" class=MsoNormal><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">T/R:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN
style="mso-tab-count: 1">
</SPAN>Gerdean</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; tab-stops: 1.25in" class=MsoNormal><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">TEACHERS:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN
style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN>Tomas; Jesus</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; tab-stops: 1.25in" class=MsoNormal><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">TOPIC:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN
style="mso-tab-count: 1">
</SPAN>Service</P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Gerdean:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I want to say a little focusing prayer
here:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><I
style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Michael, I come to you in the Stillness and
in the company of these wonderful people. We’d like to hear from our mentors on
high who want to teach us and nurture us in the ways that you would have us go.
Encourage us and set us straight where necessary. Send us the words, the
teachers, the concepts that would best serve us, and thank you for all your
blessings. And Happy Birthday.*<o:p></o:p></I></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">TOMAS:</B><SPAN
style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN>Good
evening, faithful friends, I am Tomas. I will come in and companion you this
evening, along with others who are apprised of your focus. We see the light go
on and are encouraged, activated, as you are when you see something that appeals
to you happening. It is not difficult to learn to focus on that which is
engaging, but it is a cultivated taste, a learned pattern that once learned is
hard to unlearn, difficult to forget, like you say, riding a bicycle; once you
know how you can pick it up easily enough under any new circumstance or
environment. It has been my privilege these many years to help you navigate the
bike trails, to encourage you to stop and rest when you have worn yourself out
with your efforts, and to encourage you to continue when you have lingered long
enough.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>I am also going to commend the
efforts of the Monjoronson team for their studious approach to these lessons
with the questions submitted by a mediator, for that gives the T/R the peace of
mind of knowing that the need is being met without their having to provide any
sort of stimulation or promotion from their own superconsciousness.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You know this is a co-creative effort,
and we do use the minds and faculties of the transmitters, that when there is
not much to work with it is beneficial to have the direction that questions
provide.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We have been fortunate
with this one, Gerdean, who has, over the years, been able to pick up the ball
and run with it with the slightest of hints and indications of what we were
going to discuss.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>I have no foreordained lecture
for this evening but I will further these remarks a little bit in terms of
service before I open the floor for your questions and your involvement.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The reason I focus on service as a theme
for our discussions this evening, is because service is the natural offshoot of
your attitude of gratitude.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>When
you feel the abundance of God’s gifts, when you feel the plentitude and the
magnitude of the Divine in your life, you well up with a sense of wanting to
give back that which you have received, if not in fact at least in spirit, and
so you seek to serve.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>It is true that many people like
to think that they serve and then feel the reward of having been of service, and
certainly there is an amount of gratification that comes from being of service
and dong a job well done, but the most spontaneous and productive kind of
service is that which comes from your cup running over, just simply because your
heart is filled with love for your existence and the Source of your
existence.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>There is no drying up of
this Source; it is endless. Whereas, when you seek to serve from an intellectual
or a social point of view, you grow weary and need encouragement from others and
from on high to continue your efforts.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>This kind of service will certainly never be denied or decried, but it
does burn out, unlike the effects of the gifts of the spirit that keep giving,
that keep pouring forth even when you have relinquished all claim to fame and
power.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is truly when the
Spirit speaks best.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>But it is also
endearing to see how you all are striving to serve in your own right, through
your own choices, in your own manner, as you perceive is your duty and your joy,
according to your inclinations, your talents, your skills, and your temperament.
</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>“Life is but a day’s work; do it
well.” And that includes the service opportunities that are presented to you
either through your consciousness or through those channels of living water that
are like waves washing over you, carrying you along with the others to the
distant shores.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>It is virtually impossible not to
be of service.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>One would have to
isolate themselves completely from humanity and close off their
consciousness.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Those of you who
live dynamic lives, who encounter others in your work place or your
neighborhood, in the marketplace, over the internet, are all in the process of
serving some way somehow the needs of others.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is like the currency of the
universe.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>As you give to others,
they feel enriched and they want to give to others as well. Some of the service
projects you get into are admittedly doomed to fail and some are comical to
observe but this is all a part of the learning process.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Eventually and gradually you learn what
feels successful, what feels productive, and what feels right for you regardless
of the feedback from others, although feedback from others is a very important
quality. Just as the character of children is formed by the encouragement of
their parents, so is the social character of you formed by the acknowledgement
and appreciation by your peers.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Criticism also is a quality that will help forge your service paths.
Criticism is not nearly as pleasant or as endearing but it is also a necessary
part of your rising to the occasion of serving as you feel called to do.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>And yes, of course, there are
those who say that in doing service works the right hand ought not know what the
left hand is doing, and I tell you in truth this is the case for all of you
because you cannot perceive how you are being received by others -- not fully,
not completely -- and yet each one of you does indeed effect everyone as you
pass by. This is true sometimes when you act in a certain way but your attitude
belies your action and the perceptive individual may be confused as to which is
the truer – your actions or your attitudes, but they will take what they need in
order to feed their own growth.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>So
even if you are wrong, even if you are confused, even if you are mis-directed,
if a person who is seeking to grow, is seeking to grow in the spirit, is looking
for God to manifest, it will come to pass.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>If you did not function such, even the trees, the flowers and the rocks
on the side of the road rejoice in the experience of being all they can be as
creations in this living paradigm of reality that you know here on Urantia as
life.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>The gift of life is a greater
gift than most people realize. It certainly goes beyond your life and reaches
into the far reaches -- not just of other people but into the atmosphere, into
all that goes into making up a world of time and space. What a marvel it is!
What a tremendous opportunity you have been given! You almost cannot go wrong.
You almost cannot lose.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You would
have to deliberately go out of your way to make a real mess in order to make a
dent in the wonder and glory that is your world.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>[Pause] </P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>I speak to you as sons and
daughters of god.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I speak to you as
conscious and intelligent children of Michael and his consort. I speak to you as
believers because you hear me. We know there are those who are lost, who are
unaware of the wonders of existence, who indeed find life a vale of tears, who
regret having been born, who are filled with anger and hatred at their
circumstances. This is the chaos out of which emerges the sun [sic]. Bask in the
light of the sun [sic], those of you who have sought the light, and in your
gratitude be open to let your light shine on others as you pass by and serve in
this capacity of being a light unto their feet, a smile on a dreary day, a
helping hand in the face of their burdens, a twinkle of the eye that confers
upon them encourage-ment and assurance that they are not alone and that <I
style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">they can do this</I>. They can do it.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You have faith in them.</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>How people respond to this simple
assurance! <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Their Adjusters thrill
to the challenge that is set before them. This is our challenge – turning on the
light and walking in the light. This is the service we perform innately,
inherently, intuitively. In this attitude of service I greet you and welcome you
to share your light with me and with others in this forum.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>[Pause]<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Fear not the opportunity now to express
yourself, to bring forth your concerns, your struggles, your challenges, your
questions, your quandaries and your victories. You know how we love to hear from
you in this personal ministry aspect of our association. If my co-worker Merium
were to speak up she would say “Stretch!”<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>“Open the windows of your mind; let the air blow through,” and “Fluff up
the pillows so you are ready to engage with others.”<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Are there questions?</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Ron:</B><SPAN
style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN><SPAN
style="mso-tab-count: 1">
</SPAN>I have a question</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">TOMAS:</B><SPAN
style="mso-tab-count: 1">
</SPAN>Good.</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Ron:</B><SPAN
style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN><SPAN
style="mso-tab-count: 1">
</SPAN>This is Ron from Florida. First time.</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">TOMAS:</B><SPAN
style="mso-tab-count: 1">
</SPAN>Hello, Ron.</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Ron:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN style="mso-tab-count: 1">
</SPAN>Hi Tomas. I would like to say “Happy Birthday” to Michael.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And my question has to do with the
currency of service that you spoke of earlier.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Will we possibly get credits for the
things that we do for our brothers and sisters, that we do throughout the day to
make their day a little brighter, that we do with love for Michael and Nebadonia
and everyone in the universe.</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">TOMAS:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN
style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN>Yes.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>They are similar.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>They are assets, you see.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>They are riches, similar to mercy
credits.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You must not think of them
in terms of shekels or coins.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It is
not a matter of tit for tat: you serve me and then I will serve you. That is not
the spirit of service that I would promulgate. It is really more of a tapping
into the Source that is the Source of service, the endless supply of the
Universal Father, the living water that pours forth constantly from Paradise,
and, by proxy, through you or His sons and daughters into the fields. This
living water that flows forth, refreshing the soil and stimulating growth, is a
service. It cannot help but serve; it is innate in its nature. And as you serve
in this same way by pouring forth your living water into your fields -- your
workplace, your home life, etc., -- you are simultaneously nurtured and fed by
that same spring through the services of others and through their Universal
Source of endless supply.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Ron:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN style="mso-tab-count: 1">
</SPAN>Thank you, Tomas, and Gerdean, both of you for your service tonight.</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><o:p> </o:p></B></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">TOMAS:</B><SPAN
style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN>You
are surely welcome. It is and has been my pleasure to be a part of this Teacher
Corps at this time in Urantia’s unfolding.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Michael is here and would like to greet you in response to your many
greetings and well wishes.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>One
moment.</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">JESUS:</B> <SPAN
style="mso-tab-count: 1">
</SPAN>Greetings, my children.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I am
coming to you as your fellow, your peer, as Jesus rather than as the Master
Son.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It is my birth, after all,
that you celebrate. The acknowledgement of my existence on this world -- your
world, our world -- is something we share, that we enjoy, that bonds us in a
special way. We understand the customs and conditions of this world. 2,000 years
ago was not that long ago. The holidays and festivities have not that much
changed. The need to celebrate is still with us and the gift of life is
something that loved ones bestow upon each other. </P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>We had birthday acknowledgements
in my home – and there were many! We didn’t necessarily have the presents and
gifts and festivities you have today.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>We did not go to Chucky Cheese Pizza or the Golden Corral for dinner, but
we did acknowledge the anniversary of each other’s birth and we loved one
another. We were glad we existed.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Even though there were squabbles and fights among us, particularly the
more belligerent among us, there was the opportunity to resolve the problem and
make up, become friends, resolve the situation and go on, and this endeared us
to each other as can only be had in a family setting. And this is what I share
with you, those of you who have brothers and sisters in the flesh, and parents
who pass on not only the tradition but the sentiment of being glad for your
birth, of being glad you are alive, of testifying that your life has enriched
them.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is an example of service
that Tomas spoke about.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>When you
wish someone a “happy birthday” you are being of service to them because you are
acknowledging their existence and your joy in their being a part in your life.
</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>I acknowledge your
acknowledgement of my presence in your life today as Michael. But this
conversation here, this chat we’re having, I thank you for your birthday wishes,
as your friend, as a comrade who walked the walk you walk and felt the same
things you feel.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I am glad to be
your friend. I consider you my friends, as you know.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And I rejoice in the fact that you
remember me after all these many years. Not just the 2,000 years since I lived
here, but the many years of your life that you return to an appreciation of my
experience here with you as a fellow mortal of the realm, a man among men, a
believer amidst the heathen and the non-believers, eager to feel the refreshing
touch of the Father’s living water flow through the hearts and minds of others
to the refreshment of my soul.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>Thank you for this gift, my
friends.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I cherish it as I cherish
you and I celebrate with you this gift of Sonship that makes us brothers.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Carry on.</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Ron:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN
style="mso-tab-count: 2">
</SPAN>Thank you, Michael. We would never forget you because we love you with
all our heart and we wish you the happiest and joyous birthday and you know that
I have been working on a song for the last year and we are almost near the
completion of it and so I honor you and love you and just having a wonderful
time speaking with you.</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">JESUS:</B> <SPAN
style="mso-tab-count: 1">
</SPAN>Your praise and affection is like the cake that we eat to give us
strength; the song you sing is like the [candle, the] Spirit of Truth that
points the way.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You are beloved
friends.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Enjoy the party! It will
no doubt go on for some days and the effects of this annual celebration always
reap results in your lives.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Like
you, I look forward to seeing the effects of the causes that are set into motion
as you open your hearts to the Father’s divine love -- and my own -- and how
that will be revealed through you in your divine love for your fellows … my
children, Father’s children.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I
return you to your Teacher.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Thank
you.</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Ron:<SPAN
style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN></B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN
style="mso-tab-count: 1">
</SPAN>Thank you.</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">TOMAS:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN
style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN>What a charming
personality he has!<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I so enjoy this
work, this opportunity to share such a broad spectrum of reality.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>To be able to attend a briefing in the
morning with so many celestial personalities, to observe and work throughout the
day in those situations that I am able to or assigned to, and to commingle with
mortals in their struggles to advance.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Such an expanse!<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You might
say it is like the fortunate mortal who is able to be equally at home with the
professional and the blue collar worker. It lends such an interesting
perspective and enhancement to what could otherwise become selective and
focused.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It’s just a tremendous
adventure, this opportunity I enjoy.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>It would do you well to also see
what a tremendous advantage you have in the tremendous perspectives available to
you, but I am sure I need not remind you what to be grateful for.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Your gratitude is obvious in the
enduring peace that I feel in your midst and your delightful countenance as I
look out over you in this sea of tranquility.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>[Pause] Are there other questions or
concerns or comments, since we have this opportunity?<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>[Pause]<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The quietude lifts up as a fragrance and
honors the Divine Upholder; in Stillness we sit in humble joy of His kingdom,
His power and glory.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It is blessed
to be able to sustain ourselves in this atmosphere of peace and love, harmony
and mutual service.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It is also true
that the time will come when the Father Himself will say, “Enough! I have been
worshipped enough.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You have obeyed
and honored enough.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Go now into the
fields and be about the business of planting seeds in the hearts and minds of
those who have not yet seen Me. Speak to those who have not yet heard My Voice.
Represent me as you go about your business, the Father’s business, in the
kingdoms of men.”</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>“Let us go then, you and I,” as
the poet has set forth.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>But before
you go, I would like to see you open the windows of your mind, fluff up your
pillows of contentment, and assure me that you are ready to go back into the
world, into the blessed routines of life, the securities and insecurities
encountered, the adventures and challenges of the daily life, knowing you can
return to this spot any time. You can create this spot and dwell with the Father
anytime.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It has been such a joy for
me this evening, friends, students, children, to be your mentor.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I regret you have not opened up to me
with your Pandora’s box of problems but perhaps, it being the season for
acknowledging Michael’s birth as a babe, we are in a moment of reverence and I
cannot discourage or disdain such.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>I will thus leave you here in this state of repose, knowing that you are
well in hand. </P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>Amen and farewell.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></P>
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style="mso-spacerun: yes"></SPAN> </P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>*The Urantia Book reveals
that Jesus of Nazareth was born at noon on August 21 in the same manner as
all babies before that day and since have come into the world.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>He was wrapped in the clothes which Mary
had brought along for such a contingency and laid in a near-by manger. For a
full disclosure, read Urantia Paper 122, Birth and Infancy of Jesus.</P>
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