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Student:          Typical spring.

Student:          Typical spring.

===Dialogue===

===Dialogue===

MONJORONSON:  Sometimes [[change]] is [[difficult]] and sometimes lack of change is difficult.  When you are ready to see [[things]] happen and they don’t happen, it can be as frustrating as when things happen and you are not ready for them to happen, hence the [[desirability]] of [[adaptability]].  I will not insult your [[intelligence]] by suggesting you not have [[expectations]], for you have every right to expect certain [[things]] to come to pass because it is [[written]] that in the spring you will have [[renewal]], in the summer you will have [[fullness]], in fall you will have decline and in the winter you will have dormancy.  And so here in early springtime you have [[change]], just as in the springtime of a new [[dispensation]] you have [[change]], and sometimes it is not as speedy as you would [[hope]] and sometimes it is quicker than you would like.  

MONJORONSON:  Sometimes [[change]] is [[difficult]] and sometimes lack of change is difficult.  When you are ready to see [[things]] happen and they don’t happen, it can be as frustrating as when things happen and you are not ready for them to happen, hence the [[desirability]] of [[adaptability]].  I will not insult your [[intelligence]] by suggesting you not have [[expectations]], for you have every right to expect certain [[things]] to come to pass because it is [[written]] that in the spring you will have [[renewal]], in the summer you will have [[fullness]], in fall you will have decline and in the winter you will have dormancy.  And so here in early springtime you have [[change]], just as in the springtime of a new [[dispensation]] you have [[change]], and sometimes it is not as speedy as you would [[hope]] and sometimes it is quicker than you would like.  

   

   

   

   

MONJORONSON:  Obviously a part of your [[fears]] is that when disaster strikes there will be those who take undue advantage.  Your concern that the [[powers]] and principalities that rule in your world will renew their [[efforts]] with gusto to take over and rule the world for their own selfish gain … this too is nothing new.  This has been going on since time began.  [[Caligastia]] started it -- and it [[probably]] happened well before Caligastia arrived.  It has happened in every [[generation]] since.  

MONJORONSON:  Obviously a part of your [[fears]] is that when disaster strikes there will be those who take undue advantage.  Your concern that the [[powers]] and principalities that rule in your world will renew their [[efforts]] with gusto to take over and rule the world for their own selfish gain … this too is nothing new.  This has been going on since time began.  [[Caligastia]] started it -- and it [[probably]] happened well before Caligastia arrived.  It has happened in every [[generation]] since.  

Since [[Christ]], there have indeed been [[powers]] that have arisen. [[Rome]], of course, was in command when he lived here but since then there has been many [[changes]] in [[government]], there have been new [[powers]] and they have taken turns at being the [[power]] to [[fear]] at any given time.  This is the [[nature]] of the beast -- the one which seeks to take over, that seeks [[power]], that seeks to rule over [[everything]] and everyone.  Some of these are [[beneficent]] powers.  Some are [[evil]] and they too come and go.  They come into [[being]] and they die out, if for no other reason than because they are [[finite]], they are [[temporal]] and they cannot last forever.  So yes, there are certain [[families]], beginning with the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medici_Family Medici’s] in the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_Ages middle ages], and other [[families]] more recent.  There is the elite that you equate to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skull_and_Bones skull and crossbones], the upper 400, those who have the bulk of the [[wealth]], who think they own the world and they do indeed make life miserable for many, but so do [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mosquitoes mosquitoes].  You can [[transcend]] their [[influence]].

Since [[Christ]], there have indeed been [[powers]] that have arisen. [[Rome]], of course, was in command when he lived here but since then there has been many [[changes]] in [[government]], there have been new [[powers]] and they have taken turns at being the [[power]] to [[fear]] at any given time.  This is the [[nature]] of the beast -- the one which seeks to take over, that seeks [[power]], that seeks to rule over [[everything]] and everyone.  Some of these are [[beneficent]] powers.  Some are [[evil]] and they too come and go.  They come into [[being]] and they die out, if for no other reason than because they are [[finite]], they are [[temporal]] and they cannot last forever.  So yes, there are certain [[families]], beginning with the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medici_Family Medici’s] in the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_Ages middle ages], and other [[families]] more recent.  There is the elite that you equate to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skull_and_Bones skull and crossbones], the upper 400, those who have the bulk of the [[wealth]], who think they own the world and they do indeed make life miserable for many, but so do [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mosquitoes mosquitoes].  You can [[transcend]] their [[influence]].

   

   

   

   

MERIUM:    This is Merium.  May I fluff up your pillow?  (Thank you)  

MERIUM:    This is Merium.  May I fluff up your pillow?  (Thank you)  

Gerdean:        I have a question, Merium.  Sometimes I hear you saying – and by “you” I mean you and all the other [[supernals]] -- “You just have to [[believe]]; we’ll do all the [[work]].”  And other times I hear you say “You’re the arms and legs in this outfit.  YOU have to do all the work.”  I also hear discrepancies as to … I hear sometimes “It’s our job to see to it that it gets done,” and sometimes it is, “If we would just follow the [[spirit]] and be [[obedient]] to the [[spirit]], it will lead the way and we don’t have to [[worry]] about how it gets done.”  So when the rubber meets the road, I get a little [[confused]] as to when [[human]] [[Free will|will]] is required and when it isn’t.  Obviously we don’t always know that our will is in [[synch]] with [[divine]] will, but in [[faith]] we [[assume]] that it is and in that [[context]] I’d like a little [[clarification]], if it’s possible, as to how to undertake some of these projects that seem to be suggested.  “This is the [[challenge]],” they say. “This is the project.  This is the deal.  This is the [[work]].  This is the task.” So where do we say, “Okay, I’m going to do something about it”? And how do we know that is not our self will interjecting?  So … can you give some [[clarification]] as to that, if you [[understand]] my question?

Gerdean:        I have a question, Merium.  Sometimes I hear you saying – and by “you” I mean you and all the other [[supernals]] -- “You just have to [[believe]]; we’ll do all the [[work]].”  And other times I hear you say “You’re the arms and legs in this outfit.  YOU have to do all the work.”  I also hear discrepancies as to … I hear sometimes “It’s our job to see to it that it gets done,” and sometimes it is, “If we would just follow the [[spirit]] and be [[obedient]] to the [[spirit]], it will lead the way and we don’t have to [[worry]] about how it gets done.”  So when the rubber meets the road, I get a little [[confused]] as to when [[human]] [[Free will|will]] is required and when it isn’t.  Obviously we don’t always know that our will is in [[synch]] with [[divine]] will, but in [[faith]] we [[assume]] that it is and in that [[context]] I’d like a little [[clarification]], if it’s possible, as to how to undertake some of these projects that seem to be suggested.  “This is the [[challenge]],” they say. “This is the project.  This is the deal.  This is the [[work]].  This is the task.” So where do we say, “Okay, I’m going to do something about it”? And how do we know that is not our self will interjecting?  So … can you give some [[clarification]] as to that, if you [[understand]] my question?

   

   

This ties in with the saying that “it is the striving that counts.” [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_48#48:7._MORONTIA_MOTA It is not so much what you do as what you are striving to do that matters. (48:7.24)]  As long as you are striving, you are pushing the rock up the hill; as long as you are striving, you have your eye on the prize.  But when you stop striving, you are like that cat that has become complacent, as well as content.  It knows a mouse is walking by and doesn’t care.  As compared to the cat that allows the mouse to walk by but is completely cognizant of every move it makes.  We want you to be cognizant of the movements taking place so that you can be ready to [[act]] on a [[moment]]’s notice, because if you can act on a moment’s notice, you are ready to [[speak]] for [[the Master]] when he wants you to speak through.  

This ties in with the saying that “it is the striving that counts.” [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_48#48:7._MORONTIA_MOTA It is not so much what you do as what you are striving to do that matters. (48:7.24)]  As long as you are striving, you are pushing the rock up the hill; as long as you are striving, you have your eye on the prize.  But when you stop striving, you are like that cat that has become complacent, as well as content.  It knows a mouse is walking by and doesn’t care.  As compared to the cat that allows the mouse to walk by but is completely cognizant of every move it makes.  We want you to be cognizant of the movements taking place so that you can be ready to [[act]] on a [[moment]]’s notice, because if you can act on a moment’s notice, you are ready to [[speak]] for [[the Master]] when he wants you to speak through.  

   

   

You are there as a willing worker in the field, ready to move a large clump of [[earth]] out of the way so that a [[seed]] can grow.  Being [[ready]], being willing, is more than half the battle.  Many times, however, when you seek to take the entire undertaking on by yourself, you undermine your own [[good]] [[intentions]].  In addition, you deprive your [[peers]] of the [[opportunity]] to help.  Oddly enough, these life [[opportunities]] provide you with little lessons in [[harmony]] -- harmony with your [[God]], harmony with yourself, and harmony with your [[environment]], including your fellows -- and if there is one [[thing]] we all [[enjoy]] it is [[harmony]].  

You are there as a willing worker in the field, ready to move a large clump of [[earth]] out of the way so that a [[seed]] can grow.  Being [[ready]], being willing, is more than half the battle.  Many times, however, when you seek to take the entire undertaking on by yourself, you undermine your own [[good]] [[intentions]].  In addition, you deprive your [[peers]] of the [[opportunity]] to help.  Oddly enough, these life [[opportunities]] provide you with little lessons in [[harmony]] -- harmony with your [[God]], harmony with yourself, and harmony with your [[environment]], including your fellows -- and if there is one [[thing]] we all [[enjoy]] it is [[harmony]].

 

===Closing===

===Closing===

How nice it is, now that the storm has passed.  The air is clear and clean.  The birds are [[happy]].  The dust has settled.  We can [[proceed]] now with another day in the life of springtime [[unfolding]].  And your life unfolding as it should.  How it warms my [[heart]] to be your [[friend]] and to have these respites with you, these [[quiet]] [[moments]] of [[friendship]] between the realms of our [[being]].  What a [[wonder]] that we have come so far in such a short time, to be so at [[home]] in this [[paradigm]] of [[reality]] which we have created by our [[desire]] to lower the veil between your world and mine.

How nice it is, now that the storm has passed.  The air is clear and clean.  The birds are [[happy]].  The dust has settled.  We can [[proceed]] now with another day in the life of springtime [[unfolding]].  And your life unfolding as it should.  How it warms my [[heart]] to be your [[friend]] and to have these respites with you, these [[quiet]] [[moments]] of [[friendship]] between the realms of our [[being]].  What a [[wonder]] that we have come so far in such a short time, to be so at [[home]] in this [[paradigm]] of [[reality]] which we have created by our [[desire]] to lower the veil between your world and mine.