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===Lesson===

===Lesson===

===='''''[[Flexibility]]''''', '''''[[Flow]]'''''====

===='''''[[Flexibility]]''''', '''''[[Flow]]'''''====

And so on this [[occasion]] of a new beginning year-wise and as a time of marking my [[presence]] among you, let me again remind you of our first lesson in which I asked you to be like the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willow willow] that is able to bend with the [[wind]].  If you had been a tree that refused to bend then the [[storm]] of self-[[doubt]], the storms of being able to allow [[growth]] to take place would have surely cracked and you would have been broken in many ways.  Instead, you have chosen to bend with the [[flow]], always knowing that with the [[First Source and Center]] as the [[Love]] that encloses and nourishes all, that when the storms had passed you again could rise up and stand tall.   

And so on this [[occasion]] of a new beginning year-wise and as a time of marking my [[presence]] among you, let me again remind you of our first lesson in which I asked you to be like the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willow willow] that is able to bend with the [[wind]].  If you had been a tree that refused to bend then the [[storm]] of self-[[doubt]], the storms of being able to allow [[growth]] to take place would have surely cracked and you would have been broken in many ways.  Instead, you have chosen to bend with the [[flow]], always knowing that with the [[First Source and Center]] as the [[Love]] that encloses and nourishes all, that when the storms had passed you again could rise up and stand tall.   

You have been asked in many ways to go with the [[flow]], follow the current, yet be apart from it in the [[fact]] that you would [[perceive]] that the flow of [[life]] has a definite [[purpose]].  You have been asked to allow the flow of life to carry you along; but at the same time you have been [encouraged] to realize that undercurrents and the various [[tides]] and [[ebbs and flow]] of the water of life's current are subject to great [[turmoil]], of times when [[decisions]] and choices must be made.  By [[tuning]] in to that greater [[presence]] within, you have been able to withstand the [[whirlpools]] and you have come out again going with the [[flow]].

You have been asked in many ways to go with the [[flow]], follow the current, yet be apart from it in the [[fact]] that you would [[perceive]] that the flow of [[life]] has a definite [[purpose]].  You have been asked to allow the flow of life to carry you along; but at the same time you have been [encouraged] to realize that undercurrents and the various [[tides]] and [[ebbs and flow]] of the water of life's current are subject to great [[turmoil]], of times when [[decisions]] and choices must be made.  By [[tuning]] in to that greater [[presence]] within, you have been able to withstand the [[whirlpools]] and you have come out again going with the [[flow]].