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Group: Nashville, Tennessee
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===Topic: ''Upsetting Times''===
===Group: [[Nashville TeaM]]===
==Facilitators==
===Teacher: [[Ham]]===
===TR: [[Rebecca]]===
==Session==
===Opening===
Ham: Greetings my [[friends]], I am Ham and I greet you each this evening. This [[time]] is one of great opportunity. It is important that you each take this opportunity to grow in the [[spirit]]. This time of being unsettled and vulnerable reverberates in the [[soul]] and creates openings and opportunities for [[progress]] in the spirit. This terrible [[act]] has caused most of the world to step back and [[reflect]] on your [[individual]] lives and the [[meaning]] of life in general. It is [[good]] that this is so.
===Lesson===
When your life is threatened, your way of life is attacked, it is important to take the [[value]] in your life and to elevate it. It is important to examine what means the most to you, and it is important to cherish these [[things]]. Yes, life will resume. You will go back to living your lives as usual. But, also, let there be something changed in you. Allow yourselves to [[love]] one another a little more openly, allow yourselves to cherish the [[moment]] and to live more strongly in the present. Allow yourselves to renew old friendships and strengthen [[relationship]]s. Allow yourselves to feel vulnerable and to feel the comfort of the Father’s love. Take this time to strengthen your relationship with the Master and with the [[Mother spirit]]. Ask for help. Become as little children, vulnerable and open.
It is, of course, true that you don’t [[realize]] what it is you value until it is taken away. So let the [[thought]] of what is precious to you being take away, let that suffice for you to recognize its value. Comfort each other and love each other across boundaries. Let those boundaries dissolve. Let yourselves love all people and to be understanding, if not completely sympathetic, with the poor misguided souls who have done this terrible thing.
Many unspeakable [[acts]] have been committed in the name of [[God]]. Let now the world over be brought to this [[realization]] so that the best in all your [[religion]]s can come to the surface. What is most true within each creed and [[belief]] [[system]] is [[universal]] in its application. God is [[love]]. This is your highest conception of him, your highest [[experience]] of him, and this is universal. It is also true that God loves his children, not one more than another, but each one infinitely, even those who [[embrace]] [[evil]] for his sake.
[[Urantia]] has inherited many confused conceptions of God. [[Christianity]] has splintered into hundreds of sects and religion must [[progress]], religion must come to an understanding with all other religions. Let them all agree that God is love and release the God of vengeance, the God of [[war]] to the past. The idea that God the Father would want or sanction his children to kill one another is repugnant in the [[universe]]. God does not will that there should be war on [[earth]]. God is also [[peace]]. Islam means peace and surrender to peace. This is something all Christians can recognize and understand.
Perhaps this terrible [[tragedy]] will bring a recognition that will end wars between Protestants and Catholics, wars that have ravaged Europe for centuries and still continue on a low level in various places. Let the two halves of the original church, the Eastern and the Western, reconcile.
We pray that your world will have [[wisdom]] and that your leadership will be enlightened as you move into this new century. The world will continue to have preferred religious [[practices]] and differing theological ideas throughout future time. But there can be a [[faith]] which [[transcend]]s these things, a basic recognition that all [[human being]]s are the sons and daughters of God and that each human being is responsible for the others as brothers and sisters on one world.
We pray that your world will have wisdom and that your leadership will be enlightened as you move into this new century. The world will continue to have preferred religious practices and differing theological ideas throughout future time. But there can be a faith which transcends these things, a basic recognition that all human beings are the sons and daughters of God and that each human being is responsible for the others as brothers and sisters on one world.
This is an opportunity to hold those high [[values]] aloft, to live by them in your lives, and to cherish each other for in this dreadful time all peoples are New Yorkers, all peoples are brethren. Are there questions at this time?
===Dialogue===
Q: Ham I have a question, you just said God Abhors war on this earth and we would all agree and understand that, but last week you did say we have to defend ourselves. Do you have any suggestions or advice on that?
Q: Ham I have a question, you just said God Abhors war on this earth and we would all agree and understand that, but last week you did say we have to defend ourselves. Do you have any suggestions or advice on that?
Ham: Of course my son. You also hold yourself to extremely high standards and you can tend to be obsessively perfectionist. Ease up on yourself. Yes, you have responsibilities, yes others look to you for guidance, but at the same time you are a human being. You are a person who lives as others live, makes mistakes as others do and this should be a comfort rather than a problem. Find comfort in being imperfect. This will be a help.
Ham: Of course my son. You also hold yourself to extremely high standards and you can tend to be obsessively perfectionist. Ease up on yourself. Yes, you have responsibilities, yes others look to you for guidance, but at the same time you are a human being. You are a person who lives as others live, makes mistakes as others do and this should be a comfort rather than a problem. Find comfort in being imperfect. This will be a help.
===Closing===
Are there any further questions? Very well then, as always, my love and my prayers are with you each. You are all doing well and in this time of heightened anxiety you have all acquitted yourselves with courage and with an increased understanding. Be at peace my children, farewell.
Are there any further questions? Very well then, as always, my love and my prayers are with you each. You are all doing well and in this time of heightened anxiety you have all acquitted yourselves with courage and with an increased understanding. Be at peace my children, farewell.
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