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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">DATE:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>June 2, 2011</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">LOCATION:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Light Line</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">T/R:</B> Gerdean </P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">TEACHER:</B> <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Midwayer JACK; Material Son ADAM</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">TOPIC:</B> Love; Local concerns</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>First I want to say a little centering
prayer.</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><I
style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Christ Michael, thank you for allowing me to
be a part of this wonderful family.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Thank you for introducing yourself to me and to all my brothers and
sisters, all the mortal and divine playmates.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Thank you for giving me work to do in
the Kingdom. Thank you for being here with us this evening and for orchestrating
our affairs.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Guide and direct my
motives, my thoughts and my intentions so that they are all aligned with
Father’s will.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Stay with us, now
and forever. Amen. <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">0802-AB Jack here.</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I am only going to play temporary
host.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We have a visitor this
evening.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Let me just loosen you up
a little bit before we bring in our guest.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>It helps, I find, to orient you somewhat to the moment at hand.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It’s rather improbable that you can
change environments so quickly and I do realize that changing the environment
from the regular mortal work-a-day world to the Stillness and this construct
that we create when we commune this way, is a process and takes a minute or two
to get adjusted to the rarified air that we enjoy in this atmosphere.<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>Welcome to all of you and to
those yet to come. Also, good evening to those of you who will be hearing this
on tape at some future time.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>How
accelerated our work has been since technology has come into play.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We were quite happy, we midwayers, when
the printing press was invented and excited about the radio and the television
but you are really on a roll now with all this technology at your fingertips. It
should make peace on earth a piece of cake.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Just as soon as we figure out how to
implement that, we will all be better off.</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>I am really very honored to
present our guest this evening as it is my ancestor – and yours – Adam, who is
making one of his infrequent visits and I will tell you that he is not here in
person. He is coming, as you might call it, by way of <I
style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">reflectivation</I>. Adam remains in Jerusem,
but he is fully apprised of our activities here on Urantia as, of course, is the
entire Council and for some reason he asked to participate in the Light Line
this evening so I am very happy to serve and make that possible.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Let me then move over so as to make room
for the energy and the personality of that of our Material Son.</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal
align=center><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">I<o:p></o:p></B></P>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal
align=center><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Guest Speaker, Material Son
Adam, speaks on Love<o:p></o:p></B></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">ADAM:</B><SPAN
style="mso-tab-count: 1">
</SPAN>Good evening, my children -- literally my children. Many great
grandchildren have I on this world and I retain an affectionate connection to
all that transpires here. I am grateful to our Father for the opportunity to
serve on the Council in the affairs of this world on which I served and, I will
add, which I failed.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>How wonderful
it is that we are given – all of us are given – opportunities to correct our
errors and atone for our indiscretions.<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 did not come this evening to
berate our standing in any way or to focus on our errors at all.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Because we are all engaged now in the
onward and upward process of rehabilitation and reclamation and recovery of our
beloved planet.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I wanted to talk to
you this evening a bit about love. </P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>Every one of you knows something
about love.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Every one of you has
been touched by love.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You have
known love in many ways.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I will not
go into the many kinds of love there are, except to acknowledge that in some
perspectives that’s all there is, is love.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Sometimes distorted, often imperfect, but since all of life is a creation
of the Divine, which is Love Itself, it can be said that all things reflect Love
in at least some degree, even when it is less than Perfect.</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>I wanted to talk about my Love
for Eve.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You could say that our
Love was-- our Marriage was one of those which was made in heaven.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Indeed, even I were made to serve as
Material and Daughter of a world, an evolving world, it was our birthright, our
destiny.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We were trained at length
at what to anticipate, how to handle situations, what to expect, what to work
toward. We were taught in the schools we attended on high what we would do and
how the entire future of the new young world we were assigned to would reflect
our guidance and so just as you, when you and your beloved partner set out to
create your life together, through a commitment to nurture and foster the state
of holy matrimony and family living, hold within your heart all the hearts and
dreams that are your birthright.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>The right to anticipate children and grandchildren, a cultural legacy,
accomplishments, goals met and exceeded.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Indeed, we share those humble and yet noble ambitions.</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>When you work with someone over a
period of time, you see their flaws, their faults, their weaknesses as well as
their strengths, their gifts, their abilities. Experience brings out your
potential such that who you were during your courtship gives way to who you are
becoming in maturity through experience, through hardship and adventure. The
kind of love that is discovered from having spent years and decades with a
partner is a deeper and different kind of love than that which is first there in
the first blush of young love and in the ideals and ideas of future dreams and
goals. Even I had those dreams and goals.</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>And we were challenged by the
situation we encountered when we arrived. At first, it was exciting and
challenging. We had a new world. We had a new house that was the first Garden.
There were loyal workers. They awaited our arrival and rejoiced when we appeared
in their midst. Indeed, they wanted to worship us, such was their adulation, and
while this could not be, it was even so noted that the desire to honor, exalt,
obey and serve sere qualities alive and well and in this we rejoiced.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We rolled up our sleeves and side by
side went to work on the projects that lay ahead of us. </P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>Yes, there were difficulties
because of the … how shall I say … the “circumstances of the rebellion” -- the
racial composition. There were hostilities. The infrastructure that we had been
trained to work with and under was virtually non-existent. In our idealism and
our enthusiasm we applied ourselves creatively to the task and began the work
and the work was great. Over time, as you know, we encountered what all mortals
encounter:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>stumbling blocks,
frustrations, difficulties, impatience. Many times we had to take our plan back
to the drawing board and start fresh. Much more than we would ever have imagined
we had to spend time in consultation with the children of Eden working out the
differences, squabbles, diseases, challenges that we met with at every
turn.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Even so, we held our task
high and rejoiced in the possibilities.</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>I admit that many times in
consult with my partner I let it be known how I grow weary of it, just as I am
sure you have professed to your partner.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>You grow weary of things in life that wear you down.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It is only human. It is part of the
human condition to grow weary, to stop, to rest, come back refreshed, and begin
again.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It seems sometimes in
retrospect I complained, perhaps, too much and that my partner, perhaps, was too
eager to ease my burden.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>At any
rate, you know the story.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I will
not review the details herein for they do not reflect upon the purpose of my
visit which is to talk about Love.<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>My point is that after Eve
defaulted, and I went away for some time to reflect on the circumstances I now
found myself in, after I pondered long and hard about the inevitable result of
her action, how they would impact on our plan –not just our plan but our
mandate! I reflected, too, on how distraught she herself was to have made such a
blunder. We know how merciful Our Father is. Christ Michael would no doubt have
received us and retrained us, perhaps even returned us to Urantia after a period
of rehabilitation to resume our work as Material Son and Daughter. All this and
more I speculated on what might happen, but the more I thought about what might
happen, the more I thought about the partnership that I had entered into with
the Material Daughter whom I love.</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>Yes, love, even now -- even now
that everything had changed, or everything would change. I did not write her
off; I did not condemn her; I did not even resent her foolishness.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>But I did ponder long and hard what
choices I could make for myself and my destiny and the destiny of those who look
to me and us on the world of our assignment, understanding the work that I had
undertaken to do, the oath that is inherent in being who I am, even so, I chose
to default so that I could share my eternal destiny with my partner.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And this is Love: to give up everything
you are, everything you have been, everything you hope to be, so as not to lose
that most cherished connection.<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>If friendship is an end in
itself, the spousal relationship is a universe unto itself. Michael and
Nebadonia certainly enjoy their universe together. They planned it, they
designed it, they created it; they have brought it into being and upheld it.
They have dealt with its problem areas and the only real difference is they have
not been isolated. Had we not been isolated, we would no doubt have acted
differently.</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>But the deed is done. The die is
cast. And the gracious, merciful Creator has seen to it, has seen fit to
recognize our frailty and not hold it against us.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We still serve. We are still able to
participate in the divine plan. We are, as councilors able to administer Urantia
almost as intimately as if we were still there in person and we are able to do
it together. Would I have enjoyed the unfolding of destiny as much without Eve?
I cannot begin to know the answer to that question, but I am not sorry that I
chose to stay by her side.</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>Love endures. Hopes all things,
sees all things, prevails all things.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>We now are in a better position to be your parental guides. We understand
you better. We know more about what it is to despair of the human condition to
feel the sting of isolation; we have been humbled by our experience and wizened
because of it. You cannot go wrong in loving one another. There is always
something to be learned from loving others, one of which is how remarkable is
that well-spring of love which comes from our divine Source and Center of all
that is.</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>Love is the most wonderful thing
in the universe. God is Love. And love is the desire to do good to others.
Knowing you have this within you each and that you come together in these
gatherings in your group or on the phone, however it is that you find ways to
tear down the walls of isolation and reinforce each other’s spiritual reality,
is commendable.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>However it is that
you find ways to encourage each other and uphold each other’s faith and hope is
something that gives Eve and I a sense of parental pride –not that we have done
so much to help, but that you are indeed our children and this kind of divine
affection is inherent. It’s a gift.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>It’s a gift from our Eternal Parents on high. </P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>I will go now and give you back
to Jack who is an amiable companion.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Rest easy and know that all things are in God’s hands and in the hands of
those He selects to serve Him.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Avail yourself now to serve Him and surely He will find you something
worthy to do, something that will deepen your appreciation for Love as you work
with and for those who Love in your world of time and space.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Farewell. </P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal
align=center><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">II<o:p></o:p></B></P>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal
align=center><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Secondary Midwayer Jack,
Fielding Questions<o:p></o:p></B></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">0802-AB Jack:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>All right.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I’m back.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I hope you don’t mind my coming back so
soon. It sometimes seems abrasive to return after having been held aloft by the
personality presence or the lofty words of one of our beloved mentors. But just
as we need to engage certain disciplines to reach up, we must also assume
certain disciplines as we resume our vigil and proceed with the tasks at
hand.<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>How shall we proceed then?<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I will continue to play host. If perhaps
there are others in the wings who would like to participate they will let us
know. In the meanwhile, let us see what kind of discussions we can drum up among
ourselves. Are there questions or comments from you? The star six instruction
will open the door.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Come on in.
[Long pause]<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Does anyone have any
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">Eva:</B><SPAN
style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN>Gerdean?<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Hi Gerdean, this is Eva.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Hi Jack.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Nice to hear you again.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Yes, I do have a question, if you have a
moment.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I’ll go … then we have a
lot of participants.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I’ve been very
touched to hear Adam speak. His intentions were the very best and very noble.
And they love us as they administer and that’s what matters.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Now, about what’s happening here.<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>We see famine, floods and other
catastrophes in other parts of the world, and we now we have Internet and we
know about 150 mile-per-hour tornado, twisters, and everyone has the worst form
of cancer and these phenomena are coming with warnings that our specialists can
see.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We are told it’s about El
Nino, it’s about change, but it does seem that a lot of the things do come up,
and there are a lot of ways we can help through prayer and meditation, but is
there anything else we can do to harness that energy? <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>How can we show our love, as Adam was
talking about, if anything?</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">JACK:</B> <SPAN
style="mso-tab-count: 1">
</SPAN>Are you speaking specifically about earth changes and disasters?</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">Eva:</B><SPAN
style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN>Yes. They seem to be coming
inordinately – one after the other – quickly.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And I liken that to the fact we’ve got
all this coming at us and at other times people didn’t really know but our scope
has been expanded so we’ve got it all coming at—it seems like so much, one after
another.<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">JACK:<SPAN
style="mso-tab-count: 1">
</SPAN></B>We do, indeed, have a lot going on, on this planet.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And it’s true the advent of the Internet
has expanded communications tremendously.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>There are things going on all over the world that we are privy to on a
moment’s notice that you can call up on the weather channel or find readily --
amazing, wondrous acts of nature – storms, floods and so forth.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Not amusing at all but quite
destructive.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Even so, these have
always been happening … some seasons more so than others.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>What can you do to help?</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">Eva:</B><SPAN
style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN>Well, yes.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>What can we-- How do we harness—Do we
just “God is in there; He’s doing his godly thing and we just worry for nothing”
or is there something we could try to do.</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">JACK:<SPAN
style="mso-tab-count: 1">
</SPAN></B>Well, look at your own life, for starters.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Where do you live?<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I’m not asking for particulars, but ask
yourself, “Do I live in the corridor where storms are inclined to come? Do I
live on the delta where floods are prone to come? Do I live on a fault line
where earthquakes are prone to come?<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Ask yourself what is the situation in your own life over which you can
have more immediate control.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>That,
for starters, is a help because you can begin to plan accordingly and that gives
you something to do. You can also inform and educate and communicate with others
in your community, have places to go, have back-up resources.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Many communities have bonded in this
way, as people will do in times of disaster, even though most of the time they
will choose to stay there and rebuild because they’ve always been there and
that’s where they like it. </P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>If events are occurring somewhere
you don’t live, there is not much you can do except to pray and/or send money or
energy in material goods, food, clothing.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Sometimes it is severe enough that people need to find temporary shelter.
You could avail your spare room to those who need a place to stay until they get
back on their feet. These are possibilities, depending on how much you can do,
what you are willing and able to do.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Unless and until people learn to avoid these natural disasters, they will
keep experiencing them. </P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>Now when I say “avoid natural
disasters,” that’s kind of funny because if it’s a natural disaster, you have no
say over it -- but in a way you do.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Why build your house on a cliff that is bound to go in a mudslide?<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It doesn’t make sense.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Some people really don’t make
sense.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And yet if it’s a wealthy
neighborhood, that’s where the cameras are going to go and look and say, “Oh,
dear! These poor people! Their house has gone into the sea!”<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Well, of course it did.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>But they have insurance and they will
build another house, probably on the same hillside.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is the life they have chosen for
themselves.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>In fact, there is so
much personal choice involved in your life here, even though so much of it is
lived primally, you do have free will and you could make changes but most folks
just do the same thing year after year because that’s the way they’ve always
done it, and so people continue to get swept away or struck by lightning or
whatever it is that happens. </P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>It’s not really – I hate to say
this but it’s not really as bad as it seems. The news people are very good at
highlighting the trauma, the disaster, the horrific, the horrible. “How could it
be this way?<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is – Oh! Oh! This
is so dreadful!”<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">Eva:</B><SPAN
style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN>“The world is coming to an
end!”</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">JACK:</B><SPAN
style="mso-tab-count: 1">
</SPAN>Yes, it is dreadful, but it doesn’t need to be publicized to that extent.
Not to say that it isn’t dreadful, but it’s like the news has become the new
adrenalin addiction. Where’s the next storm, where’s the next earthquake, what’s
the next thing to worry about? </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">Eva:</B><SPAN
style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN>Yeah.</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">JACK:<SPAN
style="mso-tab-count: 1">
</SPAN></B>We would spend all of our days and nights finding things to worry
about if that was our agenda but we can’t do that we can’t spend all our time
and energy chasing storms or mudslides or earthquakes when there are certain
things that we can do something about.</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">Eva:<SPAN
style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN></B>Right.</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">JACK:<SPAN
style="mso-tab-count: 1">
</SPAN></B>We could probably fight more vigilantly against nuclear power plants
or sex slave trafficking. There are things that you can get up in arms about,
picket against, and make an impact over, but natural disasters – if you’re going
to live in the wake of a natural disaster, you just have to endure.<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">Eva:</B><SPAN
style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN>Okay.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Absolutely.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Awesome.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Concentrate on what we can do something
about and stop back-pedaling by looking behind us at what happened when it was
sometimes almost inevitable.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Okay!<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Thank you, very much,
Jack.</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">JACK:<SPAN
style="mso-tab-count: 1">
</SPAN></B>Okay, Eva. Nice to hear from you again.</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Eva:</B><SPAN
style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN>Same here, dear.</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">JACK:<SPAN
style="mso-tab-count: 1">
</SPAN></B>[Long pause.]<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We have
time for one more.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>[Long
pause.]<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Well, it seems there’s no
one going to come forward.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I don’t
know why.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>None of you are really
shy.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>But I won’t stir up
trouble.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>[Another very long
pause.]<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>So if there is
nothing else, I guess I’ll close down the equipment here, … but before I do
that, I think I will spend another minute just hanging out for friendship’s
sake. Adam did make reference to that thing about “friendship is an end in
itself” so I consider you all to be my friends.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>If not me personally, then some one of
my associates has spent time with you, reflecting with you, helping you out one
way or another and just as the United Midwayers are committed to getting certain
things accomplished, I know that you are committed to getting certain things
accomplished that will help lead us toward light and life. </P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>In time, there will be more
order, more organization; in time there will be more commitment, there will be
more people willing to make mistakes; there will be more joy in
assignments.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I have found it to be
so for myself.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I was quite
irresponsible for many centuries, until I beheld the Master and like you, he
changed my life. It took then some time for me to -- how is they say? -- “gird
up the loins of your mind” to learn to be cooperative, responsive, effective,
and have a good time doing His will.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>It took some time, I admit it, and I don’t even have the first five
adjutants to contend with as you do. It just goes to show you we have our
challenges no matter what level we are on and we do the best we can with what
we’ve got to work with.</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">Dave:</B><SPAN
style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN><SPAN
style="mso-tab-count: 1">
</SPAN>Hello?</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">JACK:<SPAN
style="mso-tab-count: 1">
</SPAN></B>Who is this?</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">Dave:<SPAN style="mso-tab-count: 1">
</SPAN></B><SPAN
style="mso-tab-count: 1">
</SPAN>This is Dave in Oregon.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I
didn’t get on earlier because I couldn’t find my note, what thing to press.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I found it just now. </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">JACK:<SPAN
style="mso-tab-count: 1">
</SPAN></B>I’m sorry.</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">Dave:</B><SPAN
style="mso-tab-count: 2">
</SPAN>I have one question in response to all the discussion about the natural
disasters.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">JACK:<SPAN
style="mso-tab-count: 1">
</SPAN></B>Yes. </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">Dave:<SPAN style="mso-tab-count: 1">
</SPAN></B><SPAN
style="mso-tab-count: 1">
</SPAN>And it does seem they are a symptom of something deeper and I don’t know
what the connection is but we are dealing with the world – in large measure,
what’s happening.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And in particular
the nuclear stuff.</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">JACK:<SPAN
style="mso-tab-count: 1">
</SPAN></B>Yes, well, that was sheer foolishness.</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">Dave:<SPAN style="mso-tab-count: 1">
</SPAN><SPAN
style="mso-tab-count: 1">
</SPAN></B>What I’m thinking about though is that whole question of … there
could be much worse disasters than these natural disasters, you know, in terms
of societal stuff …</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">JACK:<SPAN
style="mso-tab-count: 1">
</SPAN></B>Yes.</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Dave: </B><SPAN
style="mso-tab-count: 2">
</SPAN>… such as what is happening in the Middle East.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">JACK:<SPAN
style="mso-tab-count: 1">
</SPAN></B>Yes. </P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Dave:</B><SPAN
style="mso-tab-count: 2">
</SPAN>Things like that could happen here. </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">JACK:<SPAN
style="mso-tab-count: 1">
</SPAN></B>Yes!<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The things you can
do something about, you are encouraged to do something about.</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">Dave:</B><SPAN
style="mso-tab-count: 2">
</SPAN>Yes.</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">JACK:</B><SPAN
style="mso-tab-count: 1">
</SPAN>Yes. </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">Dave:<SPAN style="mso-tab-count: 1">
</SPAN></B><SPAN
style="mso-tab-count: 1">
</SPAN>We need to be thinking about it and preparing for it because we can’t
stop in the disasters, or whatever they call it, but we can think about whether
it was caused by social inequities and that sort of thing.<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">JACK:<SPAN
style="mso-tab-count: 1">
</SPAN></B>Yes.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is what is
really very exciting.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It’s
exciting. It’s what I am involved in.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>It’s what we are trying to rodeo rope [lasso] you into, some kind of
format, motivated format.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The
Monjoronson Mission is mightily moved to motivate you into action and you’ll get
no objection from me.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The more we
can get accomplished through whatever means, the better off we all will be.</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">Dave:</B><SPAN
style="mso-tab-count: 2">
</SPAN>Yes.</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">JACK:<SPAN
style="mso-tab-count: 1">
</SPAN></B>The problem is, in many ways people have not wanted to look at these
things, these problems, and have also wanted to blame it on someone else rather
than being pragmatic about the situation.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>It doesn’t require blame; it requires knowledge and an ability to do
something about whatever the situation is that can improve the circumstances--
for the whole globe, really.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>These
countries that squabble and fight are just like irascible children that need to
be put in a corner … in a corner across the room from each other … and kept away
from each other until they have a chance to think about their behavior, until
they learn how to interact like human beings instead of rug rats. </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">Dave:</B><SPAN
style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN><SPAN
style="mso-tab-count: 1">
</SPAN>One response I would have, I think, is much of what’s going on, much of
the trouble lies with us, with our country and our policies.</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">JACK:<SPAN
style="mso-tab-count: 1">
</SPAN></B>Well, I can’t say “us” because I am not a citizen here, but I can
certainly say the U.S. has more of its share of negative qualities that it
brings to bear on the situation, yes.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>It’s a bully.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It’s entirely
too wealthy.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It is power mad,
addicted to energy.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It has a lot of
problems. All of the countries have their own problems, some more than
others.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And the United States is
quite loud, and so it is <I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">seen</I>.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Would that it were seen to be more
mature but, you know, it’s only a couple hundred years old so it’s still acting
like a juvenile delinquent.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>“Self
will run riot.”<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Still, it has great
potential!<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It’s not to say it’s a
loss, but it certainly has …</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">Dave:<SPAN style="mso-tab-count: 1">
</SPAN><SPAN
style="mso-tab-count: 1">
</SPAN></B>The people themselves … many, many people are not … the problem is
some of the leaders.</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">JACK:<SPAN
style="mso-tab-count: 1">
</SPAN></B>Well, the leaders are a problem but the main problem is people don’t
think for themselves. They let others do their thinking for them and so they
can’t think and they cannot tell their leaders how to lead.<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 entire topic here is very
exciting and I would like to engage in discourse for another hour, but we have
used our time at the podium this evening, and with our appetites whetted for
more, let us put this on pause until the next time.</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">Dave:<SPAN style="mso-tab-count: 1">
</SPAN></B><SPAN
style="mso-tab-count: 1">
</SPAN>When will be the next time, do you know?</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">JACK:<SPAN
style="mso-tab-count: 1">
</SPAN></B>Gerdean will be transmitting on the first Thursday of next
month.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>There will be other T/R’s
serving on other Thursdays but I cannot speak to the other T/Rs or their
itinerary.</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">Dave:<SPAN style="mso-tab-count: 1">
</SPAN><SPAN
style="mso-tab-count: 1">
</SPAN></B>That’s very good for me.</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">JACK:</B><SPAN
style="mso-tab-count: 1">
</SPAN>Thank you for coming out to visit with us this evening.</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Dave:</B><SPAN
style="mso-tab-count: 2">
</SPAN>Thank you.<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">JACK<SPAN style="mso-tab-count: 1">
</SPAN>:</B><SPAN
style="mso-tab-count: 1">
</SPAN>And thank you, all of you, for making this another supernal adventure in
our advancing career.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Thanks, Adam,
for your visit, and … that’s all she wrote.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Later!</P>
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