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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=4><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">DATE:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>September 1, 2011</FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=4><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">LOCATION:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Light Line</FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=4><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">T/R:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Gerdean</FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><FONT size=4>TEACHERS:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>TOMAS, ATHENA & JACK<?xml:namespace
prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office"
/><o:p></o:p></FONT></B></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><FONT size=4>TOPIC:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>ARTISTRY<o:p></o:p></FONT></B></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p><FONT
size=4> </FONT></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=4><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Gerdean:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><I
style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">God the Father, God the Mother, Christ
Michael, Nebadonia, and whoever is listening.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We reach up to You, across to You and in
to You this evening to get to know You better and enjoy Your presence more and
more.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It is a delight to get to
know You, Father God, and to learn of your attributes and qualities and try to
adopt them and emulate them in our own lives.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Far-fetched as that may seem, we do
aspire to be like you!<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>That is,
naturally, a long way home but at least we’re started out and so as we’ve
started out, let’s enjoy the journey. Thank you so much for giving it to
us.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Amen.<o:p></o:p></I></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p><FONT
size=4> </FONT></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=4><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">TOMAS:</B> <SPAN
style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN>Good
evening, my friends, I am Tomas of the Teacher Corps.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It is, as always, a pleasure to be in
your presence.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I am not going to be
your primary instructor this evening but I am going to be your host and touch
base with you momentarily.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>There
are so many things going on in your sociology, let’s call it, not to mention
your planet and your own minds. There are so many levels on which to operate and
so many consciousnesses you dabble with: of course we want to reach as many as
possible and so we must be somewhat generic, we group teachers, but there are
certainly certain truths that everyone resonates to and that’s where we are
rather constrained to stay.</FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p><FONT
size=4> </FONT></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=4>However, let me add
that any of you who have ever been in a committed relationship knows that
although there are constraints and restraints inherent in the monogamous or
structured, limited construct of your making, there is great freedom and
happiness within those prescribed boundaries. You no longer have to worry about
what the other guy is up to, or the other girl.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You no longer have to worry about who is
dating someone, or who’s inventing someone, or who’s killing someone in another
neighborhood, in another construct.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>It gives you the opportunity to live within your own domain with
reverence, respect, frivolity, security and ministry all rolled into one.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>When then you have an opportunity to rub
shoulders with your peers, you have something to talk about.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It is no longer the same-o same-o that
becomes monotonous and wears you down.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p><FONT
size=4> </FONT></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=4>And, inspired by
these thoughts, I will introduce our guest this evening, Athena, who is
Gerdean’s mentor in her creativity.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Enjoy yourselves, children. </FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p><FONT
size=4> </FONT></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=4><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">ATHENA:</B><SPAN
style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN>Thank you, Uncle
Tomas. This is Athena, the celestial artisan that has indeed been working with
your protégé for some time. She has been my protégé also and -- not to fight
over Gerdean and who has known her longer or more intimately – I am here to talk
about creativity because I know that she and I are not the only ones that enjoy
the creative nature.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I heard
Gerdean say there was a music maker in the audience this evening, and so there
are others in league with celestial artisanry one way or another.</FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p><FONT
size=4> </FONT></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=4>This visit is
stimulated by several things.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I’m
not sure they are necessary to iterate, but the thought came today, set forth in
The Urantia Book, “Are you becoming increasingly more artistic in your technique
of leading hungry souls into the spiritual kingdom?”<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Are you becoming increasingly more
artistic? What delicious phraseology, for I thrive on “artistic” from A to
Z.</FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p><FONT
size=4> </FONT></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=4>Artistry is
something that many soldiers of the circles neglect to utilize, or they utilize
their creative nature in extremely functional ways -- which certainly helps get
the job done, but it is missing something. It’s missing something from that
dimension that we could call the divine feminine, the right side of the brain,
the creative nature as compared to the rational, reasonable, mature, sensible,
male side of the brain, the left brain, which, of course, is the primary
foundation for civilizations on evolving worlds.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>But truly one cannot function fully and
well without the other, and so there is an integration of energies that come to
pass, the polarities emerge, the dichotomies blend and contrast in complemental
ways, such that there is rhythm created, there is an orchestration of life
itself that allows you to dance or fly as well as march or stride.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p><FONT
size=4> </FONT></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=4>Are you becoming
increasingly more creative, more artistic?<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Let me expound for a moment on how artistic I feel you have been, I see
you have been, and propose that the very creation of the Teaching Mission itself
is artistic.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Whether it was drafted
<I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">on high</I> by those like myself, or
whether it was drafted through the personality circuits of the Universal Father,
through his Adjusters, into your minds that allowed you then to give rise, to
give birth to this concept which has blossomed and flowered into a paradigm of
reality we know as the teaching mission. This same delightful expulsion/bursting
into life also came about with George Barnard’s 11:11 progress group. Within a
very short time, in fact, it had international acclaim. He has woven his
character, his personality, his very life with anecdotes that, yes, weave him to
his story. He gives testimony through is very life that what he teaches and
believes in is true, beautiful and good to the best of his knowledge and he has
integrity standing behind him, therefore he is believable and his subject matter
is delightful for who is not intrigued to find out that Tinkerbelle is real and
fairies are angels who are busy about us night and day, making sure that we are
safe, warm, happy, exercised and secure in our faith path. </FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p><FONT
size=4> </FONT></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=4>Artistic.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Are you being more artistic?<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Well, each new epochal decade brings
about a new insurgence, a new infusion of some kind of creative artistry.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Just to recap, look at the 20’s, the
Roaring Twenties.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It had
character.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Everyone who lived
through the Roaring 20’s had a frame of reference that was iconic for the level
of evolution that existed in that day and time.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The wars, they certainly have taken
their bites out of history, interspersed through virtually every decade.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>There was the 60’s, which awakened
consciousness through chemistry, another appropriate era for evolving life.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And of late we have seen the Teaching
Mission, the Monjoronson Mission, the 11:11 Mission and many, many other
missions that are in existence to see to it that this planet evolves toward
light and life.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p><FONT
size=4> </FONT></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=4>There is a major
movement afoot to bring about peace. Planetary peace will indeed open the
opportunity for a magisterial son to work with the stuff he’s been given to work
with.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>That’s a worthy manuscript to
be written.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Eventually you will
each and all be able to cultivate, enjoy and benefit from your encircuitment to
divinity, which is in not only your mind but in every ultimaton of existence,
and so you are literally swathed in deity reality.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Let yourself soar. Give up your
constricting restraints that tether you so tightly to the tried and true, that
you neglect to contribute to the progress of destiny.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And all of these efforts to progress
destiny are creative.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=4>Are they also
artistic? Well, that depends upon your dedication, your perseverance, your
program.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>What is your destiny
calling? What do you do? What can you do? What are you moved to do? What do you
enjoy doing? What do you like to do?<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>What do you to think about?<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>When your mind is wandering, where does it like to go? Does it have any
liberty at all? Do you give it permission to enjoy life and see where it will
take you?<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p><FONT
size=4> </FONT></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=4>By my inviting you
to investigate artistry in your life, and how you live your life, and how you
approach your life, I am not at all recommending that you become reckless or
irresponsible, not at all.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I am
approaching you as sons of God and daughters of Divinity … certainly aware
enough to have made your decisions to be perfect in your sphere as God is
perfect in His.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And so if you want
to be all that<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>you can be, the best
that you can be in you’re here and now, you have all the wherewithal necessary
to tap into the Creator within you, in order to find out how best to
demonstrate, illustrate, fashion, create, proselytize, promote, build your
passion, that which you feel is your calling. That will, of course, involve from
A to Z, everything from soup to nuts, from mechanics to clergymen.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p><FONT
size=4> </FONT></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=4>Problem is, you see
something that is outside the lines of convention and fear interjects its
cautionary yellow flags. This is not a bad thing. This is part of counting the
cost. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Do you really want to take on
that challenge?<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Do you really want
to open that up?<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Is it something
you can’t stand it unless you have done something about it now? Or is it
something you can do some other time throughout eternity … if there’s still a
need for it.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You can’t do
everything in one short lifetime here in the flesh. But there is so much you can
do. Even living one day at a time, in one day there is so much that can be done,
so much artistry that can be seen valued appreciated expressed, given out into
your atmosphere, your environment. </FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p><FONT
size=4> </FONT></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=4>It’s like music,
heavenly music, the music of the spheres when this kind of energy goes out into
the airwaves. It helps to counterbalance the horrors of war of poverty, of
malnutrition, domestic violence, human slavery and so forth. There is so much
anguish. Chords of joy and true worship, thanksgiving, helps counterbalance that
energy, that weight of what you are growing out of, evolving away from, as you
latch onto the apron strings of your Creator, as you beg to sit in the lap of
God and be comforted, as you insist on being a part of the solution.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>When your zeal rises up such that it
will not be stilled, it would be appropriate to say the moment was pregnant with
artistry.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p><FONT
size=4> </FONT></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=4>And so I am here
this evening to encourage you to give birth.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>To give it up for life.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Life is magnificent indeed, but it is
also simplistic.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It is just as
important that you sing your happy song as to run for office or drive heavy
equipment or discover the cure for disease, so don’t be humiliated by your
smallness; rather, be strong in your humility.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>For the truth is, we are creators, and
the opportunities to create throughout our eternal career are before us and with
us without end.</FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p><FONT
size=4> </FONT></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=4>I’ll give you back
to Tomas for open discussion. I’ll be in the wings if you have questions.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>There are others here visiting this
evening and so … well, Tomas, thank you for the opportunity to share your
podium, and thank you for your ear.</FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p><FONT
size=4> </FONT></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=4><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">TOMAS:</B><SPAN
style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN>This
is Tomas back again with a big smile on my face, recognizing the artistry that
is in evidence this hour – this specific hour, as one of the light line
broadcasts. You are indeed inspired by the angels of progress when you take this
newfound technology and make it work for you to further the kingdom. All these
conference calls now that are springing up like mushrooms in a fertile
woods.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>[Not toadstools,
Gerdean.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Mushrooms.]<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN
style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p><FONT
size=4> </FONT></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=4>Well, all these
creative things that are popping up left and right are interesting, if nothing
else, so let’s talk about what’s going on out there and in your life, as well,
in order for y out access the floor, you need to press star six (*6). That will
allow you to interact with the forum.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Please! Come forward. Let’s talk. [Long silence]</FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p><FONT
size=4> </FONT></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=4><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Gerdean:</B> <SPAN
style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN>Is the
phone off the hook? Are we dead in the water? What’s going on?<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Is there anybody there?<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>“Oh, my God, am I here all
alone?”</FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p><FONT
size=4> </FONT></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=4><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Student:</B><SPAN
style="mso-tab-count: 1">
</SPAN>We’re here.</FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=4><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Gerdean:</B><SPAN
style="mso-tab-count: 1">
</SPAN>Okay.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Thank you.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>[Another long silence]</FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p><FONT
size=4> </FONT></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=4><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">TOMAS:</B><SPAN
style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN>Tomas
here. Perhaps you would like to just continue.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Shall we have another speaker?<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p><FONT
size=4> </FONT></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=4><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Student:</B><SPAN
style="mso-tab-count: 1">
</SPAN>Yes. That would be great.</FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=4><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">TOMAS:<SPAN
style="mso-tab-count: 1">
</SPAN></B>Gerdean is challenged, as you can imagine.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p><FONT
size=4> </FONT></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=4><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">0802-AB:<SPAN
style="mso-tab-count: 1">
</SPAN></B>Jack here.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Secondary
midwayer Jack, that is. Some of you remember me from before. I am always happy
to intercept for Gerdean, whom I have known for over 40 years, earth time.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I can’t always get to her because I am
often on assignment in other parts of the world but since there was time on the
program for another visitor this evening and I was available, I volunteered to
come forth.</FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p><FONT
size=4> </FONT></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=4>Yes, I can see you
asking me: <I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">what kind of assignment was I
on recently?</I> Well, you do ask the hard questions, don’t you? I will try to
tell you about it. You might not think of us as heavy laborers, but we really do
help in times of trouble.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And
there’s been a lot of trouble on Urantia lately. The storm Irene caused a great
deal of havoc and there were many souls to comfort. The angels of seraphic
planetary oversight had us hopping, mostly in the field of health because there
were many whose health was at risk, whose very lives were at risk and so a great
deal of focus was placed there, on watching out for people and helping them out
of difficult circumstances whenever possible.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p><FONT
size=4> </FONT></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=4>I have a tendency,
an inclination, a pattern, to enjoy a wide variety of assignments.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I had an extended assignment in … I
guess you call it the Far East.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It
was Thailand, and India, and Singapore and that area, especially Thailand, for
some time.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I was released after
many years of very difficult, challenging and poignant circumstances.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I like to think I did some good.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I certainly have some memories that I
will take with me into my future, maybe all the way to Paradise.</FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p><FONT
size=4> </FONT></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=4><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Gerdean:</B><SPAN
style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN>Does
anyone hear anything beeping?<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It’s
very distracting (No) I’m sorry, Jack.</FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p><FONT
size=4> </FONT></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=4><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">JACK:<SPAN
style="mso-tab-count: 1">
</SPAN></B>That’s alright.<B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></B>I know what it’s like to drop
everything and run to take care of something out of the blue.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Anyway, I was saying, I enjoy doing
short assignments between long assignments.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>That seems to help what you would call
“break the monotony” of “such a life on such a planet” upon which I have already
served for many years and it looks like I’ll be around for quite a while longer.
I am not as bitter as that as I used to be, but I do tend to slide into – not
exactly cynicism, but something similar -- sometimes, especially when I am tired
or burned out.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You didn’t think
that happened here, did you?<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Well
it does.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We do get tired, and when
that happens we are given some leave of absence or a new assignment.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p><FONT
size=4> </FONT></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=4>It helps us have
renewed perspective, and it also keeps us abreast of what’s going on in the
evolution of this world, in the lives of the mortals who live in 2011, how they
go about their problems, facing their problems, living their lives, dealing with
their relationships, discovering wonder, releasing joy.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It’s always been fascinating.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>No matter how tiresome it can get, it is
still endlessly fascinating.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I’m
sure you can understand that.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It’s
like going to a job that you go to every day for 35 years: it gets boring. But
if you love your work, and you love the people you work with, there’s always an
adventure, always something to talk about at the water cooler.</FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p><FONT
size=4> </FONT></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=4>Are you on the alert
for our energy in your vicinity?<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I
don’t mean to say you should run around following disasters to find us, picking
up things, although you will.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I
mean rather to say that we do other kinds of work. There are other kinds of
assignments and, of course, they depend on many things – mainly you.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>What you are open to.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>What you are capable of.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>What you’re willing to.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>What you can perceive.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p><FONT
size=4> </FONT></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=4>There are always
messages coming at you.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>There are
hundreds, thousands, legions of angels projecting, projecting, projecting
values, inviting situations, just like a massive circuit board with energy just
clicking, clicking, clicking, giving you opportunities constantly to go this way
or that, this way or that, forward or back, aggressive/submissive,
forward/backward, up down, just constantly.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And I mean your thoughts.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Your thoughts are being bounced
around.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Your mind is bounced
around.</FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p><FONT
size=4> </FONT></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=4>This is what was
interesting about Athena’s chat with you.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>She was talking about this bouncing around but in a delightful, cherubic
way, a way that implies order and symmetry and pattern, and that’s certainly
true, as compared to chaos, confusion, disaster, mayhem.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>That goes on, too.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And that is a lack of order.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>That’s not to say it’s all bad.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It’s a primitive world you live on!<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And it was much, much more primitive
200,000, 300,000, 400,000 years ago!<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>It’s getting pretty soft here!<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Oh, I’m joking, of course.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I
wasn’t here back then.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>But it’s
gotten a lot softer since I showed up a little more than 37,000 years ago.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It was rather barbaric back then,
certainly before medieval times.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Anyway, I’ve seen a lot of water under the bridge, done a lot of work and
am frankly delighted to sit here in this fashion and chat like we were neighbors
and friends – which we are! – But how often do we get to do that?</FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p><FONT
size=4> </FONT></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=4>I’m going to invite
you to invite me in.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>If not me, one
of my peers, one of my midwayer friends, who – when they are not dealing with
another assignment – might have a few minutes and would be willing to stop by,
keep you company.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You have to be
sensitive to our presence, though, or you’ll miss it.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And frankly it helps if you send the
message out saying, “I’d like some company over here. I have 15 minutes, would
someone come keep me company?<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Could
I have a celestial of some sort come over here and mentor me or companion me or
comfort me for a few minutes?<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I’ve
got some cosmic problem-solving I would like to go over.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Would you send somebody over here to
work with me on this problem I’ve got to figure out?” <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Chances are somebody will show up.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The universe would have to be awfully
busy – awfully distracted to not respond to your plea. </FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p><FONT
size=4> </FONT></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=4>I know those of you,
your housewives for example, who cook dinner ever day (old-school wives still
cook dinner every day) and they go to the kitchen and many times they operate as
if they were on automatic.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>They
know the recipe.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>They know the
steps you go through.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>They know
where the pans are.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>They know how
to do it.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It’s artistry to
them.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>But, if they are not in synch
with the creator, the artistry of life itself, it will just not taste quite the
way it should.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>A distraction
perhaps would keep you from putting in just enough salt; or perhaps you did not
have the particular brand you like that gives it just the right flavor.
</FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p><FONT
size=4> </FONT></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=4>You wonder why I am
talking about fixing dinner so close to dinnertime.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Because I want to point out to you how
intimate it is, this God-consciousness, that is not just in your mind where you
think, not just in your spirit where you pray, but in your very essence, in your
cells, in your molecules, in your blood.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>And when you are with artistry, you are with the divine, divine order,
and it makes life so rich!<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I know
there are people like this because I visit with them. I visit with them at their
work bench, in the back when they are milking, on the assembly line, in their
classroom.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>There are precious
moments going on all the time and I enjoy sharing them.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It reminds me of what we’re working for,
why we work so long and so hard. It’s for that repose, that occasion when the
human being has become the pinnacle of human existence: civilized, gracious,
moderate, productive, ordinary.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p><FONT
size=4> </FONT></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=4>And so that will be
my little message from the mighty midwayers this evening. What we undertake, we
do, and so it has been done.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Later!</FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p><FONT
size=4> </FONT></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=4><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Student:</B><SPAN
style="mso-tab-count: 1">
</SPAN>Thank you, Jack.</FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p><FONT
size=4> </FONT></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=4><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">TOMAS:</B><SPAN
style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN>And
this is Tomas again, returning if your host wondering if indeed there are any
questions while we still have scant minutes to share.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Star six (*6) will open your circuit.
[Long silence]<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Well ….</FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p><FONT
size=4> </FONT></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=4><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Student:</B><SPAN
style="mso-tab-count: 1">
</SPAN>It was just a very inspiring talk.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I don’t personally
have any questions.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I just want to
go out and try it!</FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p><FONT
size=4> </FONT></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=4><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">TOMAS:</B><SPAN
style="mso-tab-count: 1">
</SPAN>That’s good.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>That’s
good.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>That’s what you call an apple
for the teacher. Thank you.</FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p><FONT
size=4> </FONT></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=4><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Student:</B><SPAN
style="mso-tab-count: 1">
</SPAN>Beautiful.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Thank
you!</FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p><FONT
size=4> </FONT></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=4><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">TOMAS:</B><SPAN
style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN>I am
glad to inspire you, and our guest speakers are also glad that you enjoyed their
message and feel moved to act on your light of truth.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Be mindful of the ways in which you
serve as you pass by, and the ways in which you seek to be artistic in bringing
people into the Kingdom.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Amen and
farewell.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN></FONT></P></DIV></BODY></HTML>