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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">1/12/2021<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">*<span> </span>Daniel: As you go into your stillness, allow the
embrace of eternity to displace the concerns of time and seep into those quiet
places of mind.<span> </span>Let your physical being
merge with the energy of the universes of which you are a part.<span> </span>Find peace in the quiet, that love may emerge
as your primary awareness.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Greetings,
my friends, I am Daniel, guide and teacher, here with you this evening to share
a few thoughts regarding the situation facing your nation at this time.<span> </span>My friends, although you did not speak of
these things, we are fully aware of your anxieties as you watch the unfolding
of events, the entrenchment, the sense of vindication on both sides, the
potential for more violence and for your very institutions to be shaken and
challenged.<span> </span>My friends, I am not here to
provide forecasts, but I am here to encourage you to take those steps that help
you to find peace, to find hope, and, in so doing, to be lighthouses, beacons
of light to others struggling in the stormy seas and in the dark of night.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">It
is the sense of being a victim that needs address.<span> </span>Too many times in all walks of life, across
many activities, people do not recognize their potential and their power of
perception.<span> </span>We have attempted to share
with you over the years that you have the power within you to change your
perspective of a situation, to experience gratitude in the face of adversity,
to see opportunity in a setback, to find multiple opportunities to be of
service in any calamity.<span> </span><span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Part
of the situation you find yourselves in as a nation and as a people of Urantia,
is a desire to be smaller than you are, to take the easy road of shifting a challenging
situation to another, to pass on a growth experience and say, “Oh, I’ll catch it
the next time it comes around,” to want it to be the fault of another, and this
is rampant at this time.<span> </span><span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">My
friends, my dear students for whom I have great admiration, respect, and in
whom I delight, I wish to offer you a sturdy hand, that you may be willing to
look inward and understand how your attitudes and your belief structures and
your intolerances contribute to the social fabric.<span> </span>I commend you for those many successful
moments that each of you have when you recognize an attitude that would benefit
from adjustment, when you mentally change an area of growly discouragement into
an opportunity to practice one of the fruits of the spirit, whichever fruit is
needed most at a particular time.<span> </span><span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">All
of this, my friends, is predicated on your connection to spirit and your
willingness to spend that time sincerely seeking the Other, that you may
manifest to your fellow brothers and sisters what a love-dominated life is
like, that they may see in you, a person of good cheer, who sees the positive,
not from the perspective of denying reality, but in choosing to embrace those
opportunities provided by that reality.<span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Thank
you for your willingness to listen to me this evening.<span> </span>There is one other who desires an opportunity to address you.<span> </span><span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">*<span> Abraham: </span>When people are afraid or uncertain, it
is at this point that things are most volatile, for suspicions can arise and
perceptions often are clouded by the shadows of what you think is happening or
may happen instead of what is actually occurring or instead of thinking about what
you can bring to a situation.<span> </span>When you
are uncertain, what is most needed is connection to your spiritual center, or
the recognition of that love for you.<span>
</span>Often, the predilections, however, are to push away, attack, or to focus
on what is wrong, rather than to become connected to what is right, or to seek
that connection.<span> </span><span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">As
you engage within your own minds with your brothers and sisters, family,
friends, and strangers, recognize that what each most needs to hear, see, or feel,
is love - that they are loved, that you are loving, that you care, that you
embrace them, or acknowledge them as valuable.<span>
</span>It is too easy <a name="_GoBack"></a>to point out what is wrong as a
first measure, what is wrong with another or with another’s thought instead of
embracing your spirit coreand to engage from that place, to enlighten in a
different way, that seeks first to assure someone that you care before
providing correction.<span> </span><span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Many
on your world, our world, are experts at seeing what is wrong from their
perspective.<span> </span>Our encouragement to you is
to look at how you can engage first from a desire to connect rather than
divide, to perhaps ask someone you are having a difficult time with to pray
with you about these matters rather than exploring how they may be incorrect in
their thinking.<span> </span>If you can see it as a
defense mechanism to disagree first, then perhaps it will allow you to flip the
switch, so to speak, to seek engaging in another way, perhaps seeking the
deeper question that a person really wants to ask, wants to hear, or wants to
explore, rather than the disagreement.<span> </span><span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">It’s
easy to use mantras like "pro-life" and "pro-choice" and never truly discuss the
fine realities of valuing human life at all stages and valuing that ability to
allow people to make their decisions for themselves.<span> </span>Whether it is gun control, healthcare, social
security, or any number of issues, if there is no core of commonality or connection
to recognize that you value each other first, then it is too easy to
disagree.<span> </span><span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Utilize
this time period before you meet again to, perhaps, seek within and ponder these
questions and thoughts with our Father and then look at the opportunities
throughout your week - whether you are talking with someone, watching the news,
thinking about a subject - to think about what question might be more important
to ask or to talk about if you are seeking true understanding with one
another.<span> </span>Maybe it is not the surface
platitudes or mantras or rallying cries that are important nearly as much as
looking to the core of how true communication can occur when connected to
spirit and allowing that presence to cooperate with you in your efforts.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">I am Abraham. I want to thank you for the opportunity to
share with you, my friends, and look forward to your dissemination of the
thoughts from Daniel and myself as you go forward in the week to come. <span></span></span></p>
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