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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> </span>My children, I am
Michael.<span> </span>From the human perspective,
these are tumultuous times, and from the spiritual perspective, we see these
times as being significant to the potential further progress of your
world.<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"">What I ask you each to consider, is how you can serve.<span> </span>True service is led by motivation, a desire
to do good to others.<span> </span>How you do things
in your lives and the reasons you do them are as important as the actions
themselves.<span> </span>The core of your
relationship to me, to my Father, and my consort, is paramount.<span> </span>Developing your sensitivity to the spiritual energy
that is surrounding you and within you will allow those manifestations of
spirit driven action that can influence the lives of more individuals than you
can count, for each time you endeavor to share unselfishly and in a love
centered manner, know that the influence of one has the potential to expand
exponentially.<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"">So as I share with you, recognize this, that you do not lose sight of
each opportunity in your effort to try and influence the whole.<span> </span>Regardless of your status, your position, your
circumstances, your age, you are able to spread the love of God with another in
brief moments, in extended circumstances of dialogue and sharing, and in ways
yet to be imagined, both individually and collectively.<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"">There is no thing so important out there to be accomplished that should
take you away from the realization that the kingdom of heaven is within and is
shared each time you do a kindness for another and show care, concern, and a
loving nature.<span> </span>I appreciate the opportunity
to share with you at this time and will turn it over to your teacher.<span> </span>Good evening.</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> </span>My dear friends, this
is Daniel.<span> </span>We would like to consider
tonight’s presentations to be a continuation of last week’s meeting and
theme.<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"">Tomorrow is a momentous day on Urantia, for there will be a peaceful
transition of power in a nation that has expressed, although not always live
by, yes, the sanctity of human lives and the necessity of global solutions, and
while the implementation and struggles of this nation are factual, the values
which underpin this democracy are essential to a progressing planet.<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"">My lesson for you this week is to seek commonality in the great
diversity of your nation, that it may be the bedrock.<span> </span>See the commonality across all peoples.<span> </span>Employ the fruits of the spirit: tolerance,
patience, kindness, generosity, graciousness, and gratitude.<span> </span>In each situation that arises, find the
opportunity to implement these fruits.<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"">Thank you for the opportunity to bring full circle my opening remarks
from last week.<span> </span>I encourage you to share
the love.<span> </span>Farewell.</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"">1/12/21 Meeting Revisited:</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"">* 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. Let your physical being merge with
the energy of the universes of which you are a part. Find peace in the
quiet, that love may emerge as your primary awareness.</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"">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. 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. 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.</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"">It is the sense of being a victim that needs address. Too many
times in all walks of life, across many activities, people do not recognize
their potential and their power of perception. 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. </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"">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. </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"">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. 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. </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"">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.</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"">Thank you for your willingness to listen to me this evening.
There is one other who desires an opportunity to address you. </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"">* Abraham: 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. When you
are uncertain, what is most needed is connection to your spiritual center, or
the recognition of that love for you. 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. </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"">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. It is too
easy <a name="m_-3498115512993953049__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 core and to engage from that place, to enlighten in a
different way, that seeks first to assure someone that you care before
providing correction. </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"">Many on your world, our world, are experts at seeing what is wrong from
their perspective. 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. 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. </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"">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. 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. </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"">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. 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.</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"">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.</p>
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