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Group: Nashville, Tennessee
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Teacher: Ham
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Topic: STEADFASTNESS
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October 27, 1996
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===Topic: ''Steadfastness''===
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===Group: [[Nashville TeaM]]===
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==Facilitators==
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===Teacher: [[Ham]]===
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===TR: [[Rebecca]]===
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==Session==
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===Opening===
 
Ham: Greetings, children, friends, I am Ham and I am happy to greet you all again tonight. We welcome you who are new to our meeting and also he who is returned. We are grateful and, especially I am thankful to have you all here tonight and will try to answer questions after our lesson.
 
Ham: Greetings, children, friends, I am Ham and I am happy to greet you all again tonight. We welcome you who are new to our meeting and also he who is returned. We are grateful and, especially I am thankful to have you all here tonight and will try to answer questions after our lesson.
 
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===Lesson===
 
Tonight's lesson will be a discussion of steadfastness. All of you are steadfast in some things and are vacillatory in others. Which is important, which is unimportant? You all tend to cling with great steadfastness to unimportant or inconsequential habits likes or dislikes while other things which may hold greater importance for you, you vacillate and cannot hold fast to it.
 
Tonight's lesson will be a discussion of steadfastness. All of you are steadfast in some things and are vacillatory in others. Which is important, which is unimportant? You all tend to cling with great steadfastness to unimportant or inconsequential habits likes or dislikes while other things which may hold greater importance for you, you vacillate and cannot hold fast to it.
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Are you all following my words? Do you have any questions?
 
Are you all following my words? Do you have any questions?
 
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===Dialogue===
 
Q: Our values are not so much what we say they are, but they are reflected in the choices we make in every day life and that is where we need to focus in order to have spiritual growth.
 
Q: Our values are not so much what we say they are, but they are reflected in the choices we make in every day life and that is where we need to focus in order to have spiritual growth.
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Q: Do you have any feedback for me tonight?
 
Q: Do you have any feedback for me tonight?
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Ham: Son, you are growing in leaps and bounds. You are accepting responsibilities that you once could not. These responsibilities are to love and accept and forgive yourself and in accepting this small responsibility, you are finding, finally, the true joy of sonship and the beginning of the joy of life. Gradually, you are growing in your ability to experience God and to recognize reality. The truth will always pull you, son, you needn't worry that you will mistake the path for you are clearly and solidly upon it and you will not stray from it. If I would say one thing to you, it is that you must grow to really experience love for yourself, not intellectual acceptance or the surface understanding of this reality, but the visceral truth. The reality of loving yourself has been somewhat elusive. So, I prescribe for you the following exercise. Address yourself in the mirror, saying "I forgive you, and I love you", with sincerity, once a day. That is all. If there are no further questions, I will retire until next week. Good evening and farewell.
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Ham: Son, you are growing in leaps and bounds. You are accepting responsibilities that you once could not. These responsibilities are to love and accept and forgive yourself and in accepting this small responsibility, you are finding, finally, the true joy of sonship and the beginning of the joy of life. Gradually, you are growing in your ability to experience God and to recognize reality. The truth will always pull you, son, you needn't worry that you will mistake the path for you are clearly and solidly upon it and you will not stray from it. If I would say one thing to you, it is that you must grow to really experience love for yourself, not intellectual acceptance or the surface understanding of this reality, but the visceral truth. The reality of loving yourself has been somewhat elusive. So, I prescribe for you the following exercise. Address yourself in the mirror, saying "I forgive you, and I love you", with sincerity, once a day.  
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===Closing===
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That is all. If there are no further questions, I will retire until next week. Good evening and farewell.
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END
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[[Category: The Teaching Mission: Dialogues]]
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[[Category: Nashville TeaM]]
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[[Category: Ham]]
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[[Category: Rebecca]]
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[[Category: Steadfastness]]
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[[Category: 1996]]

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