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When you are in a place of goo such as I [[described]], it is not a bad idea to ask your personal teacher to come on board and help you clean house, for remember you are not [[alone]] any longer. You do not need to sweep the floor and dust the [[hearth]] all by yourself, Cinderella, but you may call in your fairy Godmother to help you with your chores. Alas, I will not wave a [[magic]] [[wand]], but I will help put a twinkle back into your [[life]] that you may then proceed to [[harmonize]] your [[home]], your [[surroundings]], your heart and your hearth, so that you will feel prepared to then admit [[the Master]].

When you are in a place of goo such as I [[described]], it is not a bad idea to ask your personal teacher to come on board and help you clean house, for remember you are not [[alone]] any longer. You do not need to sweep the floor and dust the [[hearth]] all by yourself, Cinderella, but you may call in your fairy Godmother to help you with your chores. Alas, I will not wave a [[magic]] [[wand]], but I will help put a twinkle back into your [[life]] that you may then proceed to [[harmonize]] your [[home]], your [[surroundings]], your heart and your hearth, so that you will feel prepared to then admit [[the Master]].

I have spent some time in an [[emotional]] [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marsh morass]. It is not an unpleasant morass I daresay, but Gerdean has been in the [[emotional]] realms up to her knees and, therefore, we have not practiced [[stillness]] "religiously" and I appreciate the [[opportunity]] this evening to help her walk through some of the sticky stuff that she has collected by her recent emotional [[exposures]]. By the same token, I am [[advised]] that the lesson holds well for you also, Ruth and Hunnah. Indeed, Wanda was [[wondering]] why I used the [[analogy]] of the engine when you, Ruth, have been having car trouble. We are [[comrades]], you see, and we can [[discuss]] these things in a general way and harmonize our [[experience]].

I have spent some time in an [[emotional]] [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marsh morass]. It is not an unpleasant morass I daresay, but Gerdean has been in the [[emotional]] realms up to her knees and, therefore, we have not practiced [[stillness]] "religiously" and I appreciate the [[opportunity]] this evening to help her walk through some of the sticky stuff that she has collected by her recent emotional [[exposures]]. By the same token, I am [[advised]] that the lesson holds well for you also, Ruth and Hunnah. Indeed, Wanda was [[wondering]] why I used the [[analogy]] of the engine when you, Ruth, have been having car trouble. We are [[comrades]], you see, and we can [[discuss]] these things in a general way and harmonize our [[experience]].

I have prattled on and I have not [[attained]] [[sublime]] heights but I am [[happy]] to feel that this [[practice]] has somewhat lubricated the gears of Gerdean and I am willing to step aside to hear from Jasmine, if Hunnah would be amenable to allowing her to present herself. I will therefore hush . ..

I have prattled on and I have not [[attained]] [[sublime]] heights but I am [[happy]] to feel that this [[practice]] has somewhat lubricated the gears of Gerdean and I am willing to step aside to hear from Jasmine, if Hunnah would be amenable to allowing her to present herself. I will therefore hush . ..

If you don't mind, I will carry the ball here and cover an area that affects Hunnah, and I [[feel]] that it is going to include Ruth's areas, too. Even though you have very [[different]] [[lifestyles]], and lives in general, you -- all three of you -- are facing something similar. It is that your [[values]] have changed, that you deal with people on a [[different]] level now, and it is taking some doing to bow where you would not bow, apologize where before you would never have apologized, and hold your ground in areas where you would normally be walked on and taken for granted.

If you don't mind, I will carry the ball here and cover an area that affects Hunnah, and I [[feel]] that it is going to include Ruth's areas, too. Even though you have very [[different]] [[lifestyles]], and lives in general, you -- all three of you -- are facing something similar. It is that your [[values]] have changed, that you deal with people on a [[different]] level now, and it is taking some doing to bow where you would not bow, apologize where before you would never have apologized, and hold your ground in areas where you would normally be walked on and taken for granted.

Let me [[lead]] you further on the [[journey]] as we [[focus]] with a single eye. It is almost of [[paramount]] importance that you continuously remember who you serve. There are so many faces and so many places and so many demands. When you serve the [[Christ]] you are not [[exhausted]]. You are not trying to please. You are impotent. This is very [[liberating]]. And as you allow yourself to [[embrace]] this idea that smacks of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mother_Theresa Mother Theresa] in helping all the helpless [[souls]] that she attends, there are many Mother Theresas needed to go incognito, who are [[unselfish]] enough to give up being [[obsessed]] in how one should be looked after, how the conditions should be met and how their [[social]] needs should be met.

Let me [[lead]] you further on the [[journey]] as we [[focus]] with a single eye. It is almost of [[paramount]] importance that you continuously remember who you serve. There are so many faces and so many places and so many demands. When you serve the [[Christ]] you are not [[exhausted]]. You are not trying to please. You are impotent. This is very [[liberating]]. And as you allow yourself to [[embrace]] this idea that smacks of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mother_Theresa Mother Theresa] in helping all the helpless [[souls]] that she attends, there are many Mother Theresas needed to go incognito, who are [[unselfish]] enough to give up being [[obsessed]] in how one should be looked after, how the conditions should be met and how their [[social]] needs should be met.

It is a [[simple]] life that you are [[leading]], ahead of you. All these folds, these ridges, are like rough roads when you try to wear so many hats, but when you seek the middle road, you might say, among yourselves — I've heard this: "the middle road" or "straight and narrow." What we are saying is, it's sort of like what you call a Conrail. We want you to develop almost a -- I see a picture of a streetcar, with the attachment, an electrical line. I [[encourage]] you to think of yourself as a vehicle with a very light tether that will allow you to float along, in and out of all these [[obstacles]], because you are developing and mastering, and your [[ego]] will try so hard to reestablish and [[define]] itself. It has always been that way. It will not leave you [[alone]] because the [[group]] [[consciousness]] keeps feeding it. Many of the things that you do today are not of you, but there is an [[invisible]] supply coming into you and you are a new [[creature]] in [[Christ]].

It is a [[simple]] life that you are [[leading]], ahead of you. All these folds, these ridges, are like rough roads when you try to wear so many hats, but when you seek the middle road, you might say, among yourselves — I've heard this: "the middle road" or "straight and narrow." What we are saying is, it's sort of like what you call a Conrail. We want you to develop almost a -- I see a picture of a streetcar, with the attachment, an electrical line. I [[encourage]] you to think of yourself as a vehicle with a very light tether that will allow you to float along, in and out of all these [[obstacles]], because you are developing and mastering, and your [[ego]] will try so hard to reestablish and [[define]] itself. It has always been that way. It will not leave you [[alone]] because the [[group]] [[consciousness]] keeps feeding it. Many of the things that you do today are not of you, but there is an [[invisible]] supply coming into you and you are a new [[creature]] in [[Christ]].

JASMINE: Ask [[Christ Michael]] to help you. It is very perplexing here. There are many who have come to depend on you, and are [[content]] for you to live for them, but there is a higher [[path]] for you, for all of you, because there is great [[thirst]] and you are way-showers. It seems to be a very slow [[process]]. It is as [[seeding]]. Every time we come together, we are allowing the cultivation, and we hear the lesson in our head, it sounds familiar.

JASMINE: Ask [[Christ Michael]] to help you. It is very perplexing here. There are many who have come to depend on you, and are [[content]] for you to live for them, but there is a higher [[path]] for you, for all of you, because there is great [[thirst]] and you are way-showers. It seems to be a very slow [[process]]. It is as [[seeding]]. Every time we come together, we are allowing the cultivation, and we hear the lesson in our head, it sounds familiar.

Do not be too hard on yourselves. It sounds like [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pie_in_the_sky pie in the sky] to think, "Do not [[worry]] about what you shall eat or what you shall drink."[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Gospel_of_matthew#Chapter_6 6:25] We say it glibly, but in [[truth]], when you are at [[peace]], it is very [[difficult]] to become torn. You have many things on your plate, but it doesn't mean that they all have to be tended to at once, and if you look at what's on your plate and find out how many things that are there belong to someone else, it will indeed lighten up your [[burden]].

Do not be too hard on yourselves. It sounds like [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pie_in_the_sky pie in the sky] to think, "Do not [[worry]] about what you shall eat or what you shall drink."[https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Gospel_of_matthew#Chapter_6 6:25] We say it glibly, but in [[truth]], when you are at [[peace]], it is very [[difficult]] to become torn. You have many things on your plate, but it doesn't mean that they all have to be tended to at once, and if you look at what's on your plate and find out how many things that are there belong to someone else, it will indeed lighten up your [[burden]].

===='''''[[Comfort]]'''''====

===='''''[[Comfort]]'''''====

Let us talk about the role of [[comfort]]. Recently -- and this is from Hunnah's bank -- she had been having [[difficulty]] with [[judging]] and [[fearing]] someone's choice of hurt. She knows in her [[heart]], but is troubled by her dual role: [[relationship]] with that person and giving credit to that person; and she knows it concerns the best. We give up our old [[roles]] of what we think [[friend]] should be, or [[parent]], or sister, or brother. We wear so many hats. And she knows she can offer it up and let go of it, and indeed all is well, but that need to [[worry]], to please everyone at their level, is indeed a [[burden]].

Let us talk about the role of [[comfort]]. Recently -- and this is from Hunnah's bank -- she had been having [[difficulty]] with [[judging]] and [[fearing]] someone's choice of hurt. She knows in her [[heart]], but is troubled by her dual role: [[relationship]] with that person and giving credit to that person; and she knows it concerns the best. We give up our old [[roles]] of what we think [[friend]] should be, or [[parent]], or sister, or brother. We wear so many hats. And she knows she can offer it up and let go of it, and indeed all is well, but that need to [[worry]], to please everyone at their level, is indeed a [[burden]].

JASMINE: . .. bubbly things, without an "I told you so" (because we know where those words come from). This is an art form! -- to be [[timely]] and appropriate.

JASMINE: . .. bubbly things, without an "I told you so" (because we know where those words come from). This is an art form! -- to be [[timely]] and appropriate.

I'm going to tell another story on Hunnah because I'm rather [[proud]] of it. I think I may have helped her with this. She has been [[burdened]] because she has felt that there are so many people to help. She found herself using [[visualization]] that -- I am sure there are two other people here who have so many people to help, in their [[mind]], also, and they have their own [[picture]], but in her case, she took these people that she could not find time for and [[imagined]] that [[Christ Michael]] was there and she kept piling them on his lap. And this lap is getting very full. She had a [[flashback]] of something her sister had made from clay. It's called the [[storyteller]] doll, like the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/There_was_an_Old_Woman_Who_Lived_in_a_Shoe old woman and the shoe], and there are children all over the storyteller [[mother]], and Hunnah was making [[Christ Michael]] into the storyteller mother, the old woman and the shoe. "Christ Michael, fix this; Christ Michael, fix that. This one has this; this one has that." And she saw, suddenly, that she did not have to do that anymore. That Christ Michael had too many children already, and that she was being relegated to reach those and feed those who were sent to her for him.

I'm going to tell another story on Hunnah because I'm rather [[proud]] of it. I think I may have helped her with this. She has been [[burdened]] because she has felt that there are so many people to help. She found herself using [[visualization]] that -- I am sure there are two other people here who have so many people to help, in their [[mind]], also, and they have their own [[picture]], but in her case, she took these people that she could not find time for and [[imagined]] that [[Christ Michael]] was there and she kept piling them on his lap. And this lap is getting very full. She had a [[flashback]] of something her sister had made from clay. It's called the [[storyteller]] doll, like the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/There_was_an_Old_Woman_Who_Lived_in_a_Shoe old woman and the shoe], and there are children all over the storyteller [[mother]], and Hunnah was making [[Christ Michael]] into the storyteller mother, the old woman and the shoe. "Christ Michael, fix this; Christ Michael, fix that. This one has this; this one has that." And she saw, suddenly, that she did not have to do that anymore. That Christ Michael had too many children already, and that she was being relegated to reach those and feed those who were sent to her for him.

You do not have to pass on those who have been sent. Their very coming to you is a sufficiency. This is the beginning of an [[understanding]] that can develop. When people come to you in need, even though you may not know how to raise your hands, open your mouth, open your wallet, whatever, it is truly easy to meet the level of need. For when they have come to you and spoken their needs, remind yourself that that very release has tripped and helped them to [[receive]] what gives [[meaning]], and that you do not have to hold up or come running with your [[worry]]. He will give you the [[strength]], because you have become the [[storyteller]].

You do not have to pass on those who have been sent. Their very coming to you is a sufficiency. This is the beginning of an [[understanding]] that can develop. When people come to you in need, even though you may not know how to raise your hands, open your mouth, open your wallet, whatever, it is truly easy to meet the level of need. For when they have come to you and spoken their needs, remind yourself that that very release has tripped and helped them to [[receive]] what gives [[meaning]], and that you do not have to hold up or come running with your [[worry]]. He will give you the [[strength]], because you have become the [[storyteller]].

TOMAS: Hunnah is reeling in the background. She is not sure who I am.

TOMAS: Hunnah is reeling in the background. She is not sure who I am.

Gerdean: Yes. Well, we've had a ladies night here, rather. Not that it's been [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexism sexist], but we've had a number of [[feminine]] teachers and some really [[good]] lessons, though I think that Jasmine is just really doing well, that Hunnah is doing excellently well. I really feel lightened by her contribution, by the [[growth]] there. I have complete [[faith]] in their integrity and I am very comfortable with the addition that they bring, by their involvement in this [[process]], and it's just wonderful to be able to relate to you, Tomas, outside of myself, through another [[T/R]]. I haven't experienced that in quite a while. That's [[confirmation]] for me, you know, that you're real, when I can [[recognize]] you outside of myself.

Gerdean: Yes. Well, we've had a ladies night here, rather. Not that it's been [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexism sexist], but we've had a number of [[feminine]] teachers and some really [[good]] lessons, though I think that Jasmine is just really doing well, that Hunnah is doing excellently well. I really feel lightened by her contribution, by the [[growth]] there. I have complete [[faith]] in their integrity and I am very comfortable with the addition that they bring, by their involvement in this [[process]], and it's just wonderful to be able to relate to you, Tomas, outside of myself, through another [[T/R]]. I haven't experienced that in quite a while. That's [[confirmation]] for me, you know, that you're real, when I can [[recognize]] you outside of myself.

TOMAS: Gerdean, we are very [[proud]] of you. You have been [[steadfast]]. Do not [[judge]] yourself. You have been a [[soldier]] of first class.

TOMAS: Gerdean, we are very [[proud]] of you. You have been [[steadfast]]. Do not [[judge]] yourself. You have been a [[soldier]] of first class.

Gerdean: Yes, it is.

Gerdean: Yes, it is.

JASMINE: Was this a [[problem]] when you lived in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pocatello TeaM|Pocatello]]?

JASMINE: Was this a [[problem]] when you lived in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pocatello TeaM|Pocatello]]?

Gerdean: No, it has never really been a serious [[problem]], but I tell you, as I get [[older]] and closer to infirmity and social security, the [[clan]] [[values]] do creep up on me! But I have to say this about that: my [[eternal]] parents will take better [[care]] of me than my [[temporal]] parents, like my beloved [[Michael]] will [[embrace]] me deeper than my sweethearts.

Gerdean: No, it has never really been a serious [[problem]], but I tell you, as I get [[older]] and closer to infirmity and social security, the [[clan]] [[values]] do creep up on me! But I have to say this about that: my [[eternal]] parents will take better [[care]] of me than my [[temporal]] parents, like my beloved [[Michael]] will [[embrace]] me deeper than my sweethearts.

JASMINE: . .. for [[self]] [[protection]]. And this, of course, is the skin of the [[human being]]. And when you get uncomfortable, you can seek the [[shelter]] of the [[culture]], the [[religion]], and [[marriage]]! So what happens here is a call to you to come into the [[center]], into the [[stillness]], where you receive your [[beauty]] treatment because you are [[ambassadors]] of a new and living way. You do not have to make [[war]], or [[love]], or any [[profound]] [[statement]].

JASMINE: . .. for [[self]] [[protection]]. And this, of course, is the skin of the [[human being]]. And when you get uncomfortable, you can seek the [[shelter]] of the [[culture]], the [[religion]], and [[marriage]]! So what happens here is a call to you to come into the [[center]], into the [[stillness]], where you receive your [[beauty]] treatment because you are [[ambassadors]] of a new and living way. You do not have to make [[war]], or [[love]], or any [[profound]] [[statement]].

Gerdean: I got that out of a lesson that Tomas gave not long ago about [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=1997-02-06-Perception_of_His_Will#Difference.2C_Growth differences, and about religious war], that it's basically an [[ego]] kind of a thing; it's a [[defense]] kind of a thing.

Gerdean: I got that out of a lesson that Tomas gave not long ago about [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=1997-02-06-Perception_of_His_Will#Difference.2C_Growth differences, and about religious war], that it's basically an [[ego]] kind of a thing; it's a [[defense]] kind of a thing.

JASMINE: It's a division.

JASMINE: It's a division.

JASMINE: Many have been here this evening.

JASMINE: Many have been here this evening.

Gerdean: Good. Nice to have a little spiritual boost in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butler,_Pennsylvania Butler].

Gerdean: Good. Nice to have a little spiritual boost in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butler,_Pennsylvania Butler].

===Closing===

===Closing===

JASMINE: They are [[grateful]]. Butler doesn't know what it's missing. Television was very good this evening, but it was very good here, too. (Giggles) Good night.

JASMINE: They are [[grateful]]. Butler doesn't know what it's missing. Television was very good this evening, but it was very good here, too. (Giggles) Good night.