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===Topic: ''Sense of Proportion''===

 

(A sense of proportion)

Dear Mother Spirit and Michael,    After a short break we return, refreshed and extra-mindful of just how great it is to have the Teaching Mission in our lives.  We get a positive reassurance when we think of how the T/R groups, and all those who will come to read the transmissions, form a spiritual community who have their faith and hope inspired by the power and truth of your words.  Help us, we pray, inspire our friends and our acquaintances as you have inspired us.  Amen.

Dear Mother Spirit and Michael,    After a short break we return, refreshed and extra-mindful of just how great it is to have the Teaching Mission in our lives.  We get a positive reassurance when we think of how the T/R groups, and all those who will come to read the transmissions, form a spiritual community who have their faith and hope inspired by the power and truth of your words.  Help us, we pray, inspire our friends and our acquaintances as you have inspired us.  Amen.

NEBADONIA:  Good evening, my sons, this is your spirit mother, Nebadonia.  Tonight I feel I will be trying to communicate through all the shock that has gone through your society today because of the horrific event that very quickly filled all the news media, not only in your own country, but around the world.  This is now a world community, at least in the more technologically advanced countries where single events are very quickly shared by a great number of people, and this is a historically unique and ongoing development with both positive and negative effects.  It points at the great truth of how much human society on Urantia is becoming evermore single knit, evermore tied together by your mass communications.

NEBADONIA:  Good evening, my sons, this is your spirit mother, Nebadonia.  Tonight I feel I will be trying to communicate through all the shock that has gone through your society today because of the horrific event that very quickly filled all the news media, not only in your own country, but around the world.  This is now a world community, at least in the more technologically advanced countries where single events are very quickly shared by a great number of people, and this is a historically unique and ongoing development with both positive and negative effects.  It points at the great truth of how much human society on Urantia is becoming evermore single knit, evermore tied together by your mass communications.

 

(A sense of proportion)  

(A sense of proportion)  

(Melodrama vs. real meaning and value)   

(Melodrama vs. real meaning and value)   

NEBADONIA:  Yes, my son, I think I will repeat my lesson tonight about a sense of proportion, and caution you not to buy into the sensationalistic media, nor let it in any way distort your deeper feelings and experiences of your own day to day life.  There is an essence of human drama that is drawn to meaning in the sense of something irrevocable.  This might sound a bit abstract, but consider that you are all, perhaps not cynically, but nevertheless doubtful that everyone lives happily ever after.  Even great wealth, or happiness, have very definite temporal limits and can all be lost, whereas those terrible injuries in life—loosing a loved one, having your body maimed in some irreparable way—this is unquestionably meaningful because it is permanent.  Happiness is fleeting, but if you loose an arm or a leg, that’s forever—human-wise.   

NEBADONIA:  Yes, my son, I think I will repeat my lesson tonight about a sense of proportion, and caution you not to buy into the sensationalistic media, nor let it in any way distort your deeper feelings and experiences of your own day to day life.  There is an essence of human drama that is drawn to meaning in the sense of something irrevocable.  This might sound a bit abstract, but consider that you are all, perhaps not cynically, but nevertheless doubtful that everyone lives happily ever after.  Even great wealth, or happiness, have very definite temporal limits and can all be lost, whereas those terrible injuries in life—loosing a loved one, having your body maimed in some irreparable way—this is unquestionably meaningful because it is permanent.  Happiness is fleeting, but if you loose an arm or a leg, that’s forever—human-wise.   

This leads to the tendency of the news to be drawn toward that part of life to focus on loss and suffering.  But my whole point this evening was, surrounding that one evil individual were the millions showing a genuine concern and love for those affected.  It is because of this melodramatic slant of the news, you have to disregard it and stay with your own life and all the good people you know, all the creativity that makes a puzzle of why social evolution is not happening even more quickly than it seems.  We can only assure you that from a spiritual standpoint, it is.  So don’t be beguiled by this melo-drama.  Stay close to the real drama of own life and those you know.  Realize the enormous amount of love and sharing, and caring, that occurs in every human society.   

This leads to the tendency of the news to be drawn toward that part of life to focus on loss and suffering.  But my whole point this evening was, surrounding that one evil individual were the millions showing a genuine concern and love for those affected.  It is because of this melodramatic slant of the news, you have to disregard it and stay with your own life and all the good people you know, all the creativity that makes a puzzle of why social evolution is not happening even more quickly than it seems.  We can only assure you that from a spiritual standpoint, it is.  So don’t be beguiled by this melo-drama.  Stay close to the real drama of own life and those you know.  Realize the enormous amount of love and sharing, and caring, that occurs in every human society.   

NEBADONIA:  You are certainly welcome, my son.  Be in my love.

NEBADONIA:  You are certainly welcome, my son.  Be in my love.

It takes time, my children, time to regain your sense of proportion—at times.  So don’t be in a hurry.  Seek out your stillness, just to let your spirit and soul expand to encompass even these horrific events.  It helps you avoid any overly-facile generalizations, and retain the uniqueness of the individuals involved.  That complexity is the true understanding, and you can expand to encompass and embrace it.  It invites you to grow, and use your own creativity to capture—for yourself—the meaning and the value you can hold.  This is the challenge before you, and before everyone: how to totally accept, even appreciate, everything that is happening, and still go forward, still meet your neighbor with good cheer and be that person—as you remind us—be that complete person standing there for the both of you.  Be in my love.  Good evening.

It takes time, my children, time to regain your sense of proportion—at times.  So don’t be in a hurry.  Seek out your stillness, just to let your spirit and soul expand to encompass even these horrific events.  It helps you avoid any overly-facile generalizations, and retain the uniqueness of the individuals involved.  That complexity is the true understanding, and you can expand to encompass and embrace it.  It invites you to grow, and use your own creativity to capture—for yourself—the meaning and the value you can hold.  This is the challenge before you, and before everyone: how to totally accept, even appreciate, everything that is happening, and still go forward, still meet your neighbor with good cheer and be that person—as you remind us—be that complete person standing there for the both of you.  Be in my love.  Good evening.