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Southeast Idaho, June 24, 2007
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Topics:     You are important because you are
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                Stillness/Relationship to God and others
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==Heading==
                Stillness assignment
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===Topic: ''You Are Important Because You Are''===
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===Group: [[SE Idaho TeaM]]===
Teacher(s): Michael, Daniel
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==Facilitators==
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===Teacher: [[Michael]], [[Daniel]]===
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===TR: [[Unknown]]===
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==Session==
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===Opening===
 
Prayer:    Our Father, Mother, Michael, we thank you for all the consistent love and wisdom you provide to us.  We desire to know you and become more like you.  We desire to relinquish our judgment, to love, to be bridges, to extend ourselves.  We know that your children, our teachers, are here to assist us in that task, to help us understand why we find it so difficult to achieve our desires, and what we can do to be closer to you.  We know that stillness is the key, and yet we avoid it; we avoid you; we avoid our guides, our teachers; we seek distraction…and so forth.
 
Prayer:    Our Father, Mother, Michael, we thank you for all the consistent love and wisdom you provide to us.  We desire to know you and become more like you.  We desire to relinquish our judgment, to love, to be bridges, to extend ourselves.  We know that your children, our teachers, are here to assist us in that task, to help us understand why we find it so difficult to achieve our desires, and what we can do to be closer to you.  We know that stillness is the key, and yet we avoid it; we avoid you; we avoid our guides, our teachers; we seek distraction…and so forth.
 
We do stand on a cusp, with the potential to embrace perfection now… to stop avoiding… to allow ourselves to be truly loved and to share that love.  Your love at times seems so frightening.  Some of us feel unworthy.  We ask tonight that we will open our hearts, open our minds, that we will listen, that we will allow love in.  And at this time we take a minute to share our love with others. We think of past members of our group who are no longer with us, and we ask to share our love with them, your love with them that they may feel our love and feel your love.  We ask for love for members of our own families that struggle with health issues, emotional issues.  We ask that our love be a support, and we thank you for the love that supports us.  Amen
 
We do stand on a cusp, with the potential to embrace perfection now… to stop avoiding… to allow ourselves to be truly loved and to share that love.  Your love at times seems so frightening.  Some of us feel unworthy.  We ask tonight that we will open our hearts, open our minds, that we will listen, that we will allow love in.  And at this time we take a minute to share our love with others. We think of past members of our group who are no longer with us, and we ask to share our love with them, your love with them that they may feel our love and feel your love.  We ask for love for members of our own families that struggle with health issues, emotional issues.  We ask that our love be a support, and we thank you for the love that supports us.  Amen
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MICHAEL:    Greetings, children.  I am your Father/Brother Michael, here among you in this manner to share your Mother’s and My pleasure in your beings and to express our delight in the desires of your hearts.  You do well my children…  
 
MICHAEL:    Greetings, children.  I am your Father/Brother Michael, here among you in this manner to share your Mother’s and My pleasure in your beings and to express our delight in the desires of your hearts.  You do well my children…  
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===Lesson===
 
The earth life is not easy.  You are not expected to achieve perfection tomorrow, this week, or even next year.  It is a long developmental process.  Just as you would not expect a four-year-old child to perform calculus, we do not expect from you that which you cannot achieve.  What we desire from you is your willingness, willingness to allow us into your moment-by-moment decision-making, willingness to allow our ever-present love for you into your consciousness, willingness to believe that you are an integral and significant component of the Universe of Universes.  
 
The earth life is not easy.  You are not expected to achieve perfection tomorrow, this week, or even next year.  It is a long developmental process.  Just as you would not expect a four-year-old child to perform calculus, we do not expect from you that which you cannot achieve.  What we desire from you is your willingness, willingness to allow us into your moment-by-moment decision-making, willingness to allow our ever-present love for you into your consciousness, willingness to believe that you are an integral and significant component of the Universe of Universes.  
 
   
 
   
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Are there questions about the assignment, or the intent of the assignment?  [The group is quiet.]  Would anyone like to share an emotional reaction to the assignment?
 
Are there questions about the assignment, or the intent of the assignment?  [The group is quiet.]  Would anyone like to share an emotional reaction to the assignment?
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===Dialogue===
 
Student #1:    I think it is great.  Instead of going into the bedroom and turning the TV on, it will help me find out why I am going in and turning the TV on.  
 
Student #1:    I think it is great.  Instead of going into the bedroom and turning the TV on, it will help me find out why I am going in and turning the TV on.  
 
   
 
   
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Student #2:    Daniel, I just had a thought as you said that you would treasure it for all of eternity.  The thought that came into my mind is the only reason that I can think that you would treasure that assignment is that it might help us all come closer to the Father.
 
Student #2:    Daniel, I just had a thought as you said that you would treasure it for all of eternity.  The thought that came into my mind is the only reason that I can think that you would treasure that assignment is that it might help us all come closer to the Father.
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===Closing===
 
DANIEL:    Indeed, my dear.  And, I value each of you.  You are most charming.  I value our friendships and my time with you.  
 
DANIEL:    Indeed, my dear.  And, I value each of you.  You are most charming.  I value our friendships and my time with you.  
 
   
 
   
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Prayer:    God, may our lives reflect the nine spirits, fruits of the spirit.  May this assignment provide humor, yes, to see our foolish reasons and excuses for [not] spending time with you.  May we come away laughing at ourselves and truly finding great joy in spending those moments with You.  Amen
 
Prayer:    God, may our lives reflect the nine spirits, fruits of the spirit.  May this assignment provide humor, yes, to see our foolish reasons and excuses for [not] spending time with you.  May we come away laughing at ourselves and truly finding great joy in spending those moments with You.  Amen
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[[Category: The Teaching Mission: Dialogues]]
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[[Category: SE Idaho TeaM]]
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[[Category: Michael]]
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[[Category: Daniel]]
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[[Category: Unknown]]
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[[Category: Value]]
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[[Category: Stillness]]
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[[Category: Discipline]]
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[[Category: 2007]]

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