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Choice and Choosing
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Marin TM Group
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===Topic: ''Choice and Choosing''===
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===Group: [[Marin TeaM]]===
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==Facilitators==
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===Teacher: [[Michael]]===
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===TR: [[JL]]===
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==Session==
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===Opening===
 
Dear Michael and Nebadonia, There’s a big wind outside tonight, coming in off the ocean, gusting through the trees and combing out all the branches. Then we have Your spirits inside us blowing through our souls: creating, freeing, empowering. Thank You for Your invitation for us to renew ourselves, to feel You coming to us from every direction and dimension. Welcome to our lives and thank You again. Amen.
 
Dear Michael and Nebadonia, There’s a big wind outside tonight, coming in off the ocean, gusting through the trees and combing out all the branches. Then we have Your spirits inside us blowing through our souls: creating, freeing, empowering. Thank You for Your invitation for us to renew ourselves, to feel You coming to us from every direction and dimension. Welcome to our lives and thank You again. Amen.
    
Michael: Good evening, My faithful sons and daughter. What a joy it is to be with you again and to feel your love for each other. This is Michael. Yes, yes indeed, what a season, what a time of renewal. What a miracle it seems for these new buds to be bursting out of…where? What is this beauty bursting forth seemingly out of just a pin-point? What is this, bursting into time and space all around us, right within us? Where is it coming from? Why is it doing this? Is there any plan to all of this or is there just some enormous, intrinsically creative Being who can’t contain himself? Or could it be both? Could it be this is the nature of God? And He’s so absolute, so infinite, so dependable that we, who are His sons and daughters, understand it for ourselves as an unfathomable plan, a divine intention which will never be exhausted in all of eternity?
 
Michael: Good evening, My faithful sons and daughter. What a joy it is to be with you again and to feel your love for each other. This is Michael. Yes, yes indeed, what a season, what a time of renewal. What a miracle it seems for these new buds to be bursting out of…where? What is this beauty bursting forth seemingly out of just a pin-point? What is this, bursting into time and space all around us, right within us? Where is it coming from? Why is it doing this? Is there any plan to all of this or is there just some enormous, intrinsically creative Being who can’t contain himself? Or could it be both? Could it be this is the nature of God? And He’s so absolute, so infinite, so dependable that we, who are His sons and daughters, understand it for ourselves as an unfathomable plan, a divine intention which will never be exhausted in all of eternity?
 
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===Lesson===
 
Recently, your Mother and I have been addressing what sometimes appears to you as two seemingly irreconcilable differences in your human lives you feel you are forced to choose between - one or the other. We have been assuring you that in many cases this choice is not necessary. You do not have to feel yourselves as incomplete beings of God’s handiwork in order to enjoy, at the same time, a great potential you have for endless growth. Conversely you do not need to shut down or deny this hunger within you for experience in order to feel complete moment by moment - an actual living existence.
 
Recently, your Mother and I have been addressing what sometimes appears to you as two seemingly irreconcilable differences in your human lives you feel you are forced to choose between - one or the other. We have been assuring you that in many cases this choice is not necessary. You do not have to feel yourselves as incomplete beings of God’s handiwork in order to enjoy, at the same time, a great potential you have for endless growth. Conversely you do not need to shut down or deny this hunger within you for experience in order to feel complete moment by moment - an actual living existence.
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(And again many minutes passed before anyone felt like disturbing the peace)
 
(And again many minutes passed before anyone felt like disturbing the peace)
 
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===Dialogue===
 
Student: Michael, I just want to say tonight…sometimes it’s overwhelming –feeling my gratitude for Your divine plan and what You and Mother have given to us – having actively been co-creators with us - to awaken us from the spiritual slumber we’ve been in out here in time and space. It is truly nothing short of miraculous. There’s nothing greater than Your true soul’s love, creating these little miracles of the Father in our everyday lives, and destroying our unspeakable transgressions. I appreciate all those things with every fiber of my being.
 
Student: Michael, I just want to say tonight…sometimes it’s overwhelming –feeling my gratitude for Your divine plan and what You and Mother have given to us – having actively been co-creators with us - to awaken us from the spiritual slumber we’ve been in out here in time and space. It is truly nothing short of miraculous. There’s nothing greater than Your true soul’s love, creating these little miracles of the Father in our everyday lives, and destroying our unspeakable transgressions. I appreciate all those things with every fiber of my being.
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Michael: Yes, My son, I believe this is the theme We have been elaborating on for many months. This is why We have been trying to help you feel so many living aspects of your nature – your being extra-ordinarily human. This is why Mother Nebadonia has run the risk of seeming to try to encapsulate in a few dozen sentences thousands of years of your sincere efforts at philosophy to express the almost paradoxical double nature of being here and now. We have pointed at the potential for your freedom by way of your own individual creativity. This is what I meant tonight by saying that in addition to everything pouring into now – this living present moment – from the previous moment, there is equally within now a new creation going on that you can participate in. This, if you will, is the power of now. This is why fully experiencing yourselves being here and now is an achievement - an accomplishment of getting the faith to let go and forget about yourself in the full and highly conscious use of the present moment – whatever it is. And simply, profoundly trusting you will pop up again, look around in surprise, and find yourself self-consciously home once more. Now don’t you think our Father has a sense of humor? Enjoy this power of His, anytime. And be in My peace.
 
Michael: Yes, My son, I believe this is the theme We have been elaborating on for many months. This is why We have been trying to help you feel so many living aspects of your nature – your being extra-ordinarily human. This is why Mother Nebadonia has run the risk of seeming to try to encapsulate in a few dozen sentences thousands of years of your sincere efforts at philosophy to express the almost paradoxical double nature of being here and now. We have pointed at the potential for your freedom by way of your own individual creativity. This is what I meant tonight by saying that in addition to everything pouring into now – this living present moment – from the previous moment, there is equally within now a new creation going on that you can participate in. This, if you will, is the power of now. This is why fully experiencing yourselves being here and now is an achievement - an accomplishment of getting the faith to let go and forget about yourself in the full and highly conscious use of the present moment – whatever it is. And simply, profoundly trusting you will pop up again, look around in surprise, and find yourself self-consciously home once more. Now don’t you think our Father has a sense of humor? Enjoy this power of His, anytime. And be in My peace.
 
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===Closing===
 
Student: Thank You – that was wonderful.
 
Student: Thank You – that was wonderful.
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Students: Thank You… Thank you, Michael…
 
Students: Thank You… Thank you, Michael…
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