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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><font size="3">Arcadia Teaching Mission Group<span style=""> </span>PR</font></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><font size="3"> Arcadia , California , U.S.A.</font></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><font size="3">Monday, November <span style=""> </span>22, 2010</font></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><font size="3">Topics: Thanksgiving messages to ponder</font></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><font size="3"><span style=""> </span><span style="border-bottom: 2px dotted rgb(54, 99, 136); cursor: pointer;" class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1291164065_0">Thankfulness</span> is another word for worship</font></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><font size="3"><span style=""> </span>At every juncture in our lifelong career there is a level of gratitude…</font></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><font size="3"><span style=""> </span>Most grow more thankful and appreciative as they mature</font></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><font size="3">Questions:<span style=""> </span>Joe asked if you had any message for him to help him heal?<span style=""> </span></font></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><font size="3">TR: George Benavides </font></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><font size="3">Prayer:<span style=""> </span>Larry:<span style=""> </span><span style="border-bottom: 2px dotted rgb(54, 99, 136); cursor: pointer;" class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1291164065_1">Dear Father</span> thank you for this day and for this group.<span style=""> </span>We are very thankful for the blessings you have bestowed on each one of us.<span style=""> </span>Help us to be good stewards of these blessings.<span style=""> </span>We pray for peace in the world and we pray for the healing of our planet and its people.<span style=""> </span>Show us the way that you would have us do your will Father – we want to serve you.<span style=""> </span>And we also pray for Joe.<span style=""> </span>In Michael’s name,</font></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><font size="3">JarEl:<span style=""> </span>TR, George:<span style=""> </span>Good evening.<span style=""> </span>It is I, your teacher JarEl, (Welcome).<span style=""> </span>It is good to be back again.<span style=""> </span></font></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><font size="3">As you
near the time of gathering with your loved ones and families, so do we
gather in similar fashion on more than a regular basis with associates
and people that we love to mark certain milestones in our lives as we
look forward to a more fruitful and progressive future.<span style=""> </span>And to give each other strength in this long enduring adventure we call life.<span style=""> </span>And, yes, we have much to be thankful for, we have a whole lifelong career behind us.<span style=""> </span>It is evidence of a loving God who has graced us with this life and this opportunity to experience his wonderful universe.<span style=""> </span>Though
our thankfulness is perhaps a little bit more complex than what you are
accustomed to thanking God for, for you do not have this lifelong
experience that we
have – you have not lived hundreds of thousands of years</font></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><font size="3">with a myriad of experiences under your belt. </font></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><font size="3"><span style=""> </span>Your
life is somewhat limited to the experiences that most people have on
this planet, but even so, your experiences are valuable nonetheless.<span style=""> </span>And
when you gather with your families, ponder this – all the more
opportunities that life will give you to not only experience joy and
happiness, but to experience the grace of God in everything that you do –
to know that He is there with you, step by step, as you struggle along
this lifelong career, as you meet every challenge with vigor and with
poise and as you climb another hill of certainty because God is with
you.<span style=""> </span>Ponder all those things when you are thankful for He will always be with you no matter what you do and no matter where you are. </font></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><font size="3"><span style=""> </span>And thankfulness is just another word for worshiping for we all do worship the one true <span style=""> </span>center of us all.<span style=""> </span>He is within us and He is without and He carries us through in all occasions, in all struggles and all conflicts.<span style=""> </span>And we put our trust in Him for we know that he is a sure anchor that is steady and stable and shall never leave us adrift.<span style=""> </span>And
even though you meet the struggles of this life and deal with its
vicissitudes, there are a lot of things that you should be thankful for –
for perhaps you do not realize all the gifts that you have and you
might not even be aware of these gifts until you’ve crossed over.</font></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><font size="3"><span style=""> </span>There perhaps is a level of gratitude that must be reached at every juncture in your lifelong career.<span style=""> </span>As
you mature and grow you realize that there are certain things that have
always been there for you and then you become appreciative of those
things.<span style=""> </span>You will be like a child who grows up and
becomes a parent as well and then becomes thankful for their own
parents and for the way they were raised.<span style=""> </span>For now they know why they did the things they did.<span style=""> </span>And so shall you grow up in the grace of God and realize that there was a certain wisdom behind all that happened to you.<span style=""> </span>And now you are just realizing it.</font></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><font size="3">But all
these things that do happen to us, they are there to mold us, to shape
us, to help us grow and mature - and to what end, you may ask.<span style=""> </span>Well that is for you to discover for the end is never in sight, the adventure continues forever.<span style=""> </span>And you shall grow and grow beyond anything you can imagine.<span style=""> </span>I do not presume to tell you what to be thankful for.<span style=""> </span>But
I will tell you that I am thankful for that, for this grand opportunity
to experience this enormous universe and to be a part of it – to be
part of God, for He is part of me.</font></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><font size="3">Are there any questions here tonight?</font></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><font size="3">Larry:<span style=""> </span>Joe, who has been here before, wanted me to relay a personal message to you JarEl.<span style=""> </span>His message was that he is sorry for everything.<span style=""> </span>Joe
is going through a stressful period in his life right now and he just
wondered if you had any message for him to help him to heal himself, to
get better?</font></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><font size="3">JarEl:<span style=""> </span>TR, George:<span style=""> </span>Tell
him he has nothing to be sorry about for neither has he ever insulted
me or crossed me in such a way that I would be angry at him.<span style=""> </span>I understand what he has to go through and there is nothing that he can say or do that would make me think less of him. </font></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><font size="3"><span style=""> </span>This life that he has is a struggle for him and he must overcome all these struggles with sheer determination.<span style=""> </span>But know that God is always with you in your struggles and lean on Him when you find yourself weak and helpless.<span style=""> </span>He is always there for anything that you need.<span style=""> </span>But you must be open to Him and accept His gifts as they come.</font></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><font size="3"><span style=""> </span>Life will not always be this difficult.<span style=""> </span>But
the problems that you have will seem less as you grow and then you will
come up against new problems to deal with which may seem overwhelming.<span style=""> </span>But as you mature, those problems too will become less and less, will be diminished.<span style=""> </span>This will be the pattern of your life, problem after problem.</font></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><font size="3"><span style=""> </span>But
the experiences that you will gather from all this problem-solving will
be invaluable for your life and for the lives to come.<span style=""> </span>Do not fret for the challenges that you have are there to shape and mold you and to help you become who you are meant to be.<span style=""> </span>That is all.</font></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><font size="3">Larry:<span style=""> </span>Thank you.</font></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><font size="3">JarEl:<span style=""> </span>TR, George:<span style=""> </span>Are there any other questions?<span style=""> </span></font></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><font size="3">Very well,<span style=""> </span>I
do enjoy coming down to greet all of you and I do appreciate the fact
that you take the time and effort to transcribe this meeting for the
benefit of others who are not fortunate enough to be here.<span style=""> </span>Your effort is invaluable to them whether they know it or not.<span style=""> </span>But I suppose it helps that I say it – either way, thank you and goodnight.</font></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><font size="3">All:<span style=""> </span>Thank you JarEl, goodnight.</font></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><font size="3"> </font></p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt;">Transcribed and Edited by Donna Whelan<span style=""> </span><span style=""> </span><span style=""> <br></span></span></div></div></div>
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