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==Session 4==
==Session 4==
June 11, 2000
*June 11, 2000
*Open Group Meeting With Stillness
===Lesson===
===Lesson===
11. Open the meeting softly, with welcome, to those who attend for the first time, to us [[eagerly]] waiting, [[listening]]. Take time to listen for yourselves, for the [[group]], for each individual to search into their own [[heart]] and [[mind]] within the [[stillness]] provided by the group stillness. Yes, it is good to commit to the [[goal]]: to love and growing into love via the regular [[practice]] of stillness. We will be there with you every time. It does not matter if [[words]] are heard or spoken, what matters is the [[intention]] to listen for the word of God’s [[love]] to pass through you toward others.
My love is with you S. I was pleased to be with Legion in your [[morning]] lesson of [[obedience]] to God’s will that you mend your [[body]]. Legion is quite a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master_Sergeant sergeant master], is he not? [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boot_camp Boot camp] with love. He noticed your [[attention]] [[wandering]] away from the tight constrictions which he would have you learn by [[choice]], and so he willingly stepped aside and lovingly watched your [[detour]] into my lane of activity, the stretch and the longer [[breath]] reaching with your body’s stretch. He welcomed you back, did he not? When you remembered him. Both modes of body building are required; we [[dance]] together, call us the army of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoga yoga], the yoga army. The [[discipline]] of the [[military]] is to be strong. The discipline of yoga is for the [[body]] to be strong while [[breathing]] [[love]]. Alana
You must be able to tolerate being misunderstood in order to carry on with [[love]]. [[Understanding]] is so vast an enterprise, that even I do not pretend to understand All. Yet it is a [[consolation]] to you that I understand more than your [[mind]], which [[accepts]] what I have to say with [[faith]].
[[Faith]] alone will take you through the [[turbulence]] of misunderstanding that is the white water of harm’s way. Every mind must [[surrender]] to the [[unknown]]. This can be done with fury and [[rage]], the attempt to [[control]] that which can not be controlled, or with [[love]]. We advise love, of course, but that is every individual’s human [[choice]].
The inability to [[tolerate]] being misunderstood tightens and strengthens the [[barriers]] to [[understanding]]. It builds the walls of [[accusation]] and [[ridicule]]. It turns [[intelligent]] [[thought]] into rigid [[judgement]] and [[condemnation]]. Even the [[truth]] becomes suspect and subject to denials. Every friend you know suffers this malady, the intolerance of misunderstanding. Have [[compassion]] and [[patience]] toward them and toward yourself.
The only solution to this malady is [[love]]. Allow yourself to love. Allow your heart to be filled with our love. Soon the misunderstandings become minor, then minuscule, then they disappear into the tapestry of love. That is not to say that misunderstandings never need to be cleaned up, for sometimes this is a good lesson, a rich source of material for growth, and even, sometimes, the final opening of the door to love; but rather that understanding is an eternal thing, a matter of eternal mastery, and you do not have that kind of time in your lifetime on the planet Urantia, earth. But you can grasp at this understanding with your faith. Faith always opens the heart to allow love to flow through, be that our love or yours is not the difference that matters, only that it is love. Whether we are the motivators of that love, or you, is not a matter of concern when the primary act of necessity is to love. We, however, will always be there to soothe your fears that to love without being understood is foolish, or dangerous, or not your due. Love carries the understanding that transcends everything you know or fail to know, and, I think you have already had this experience, it is often the only bridge available to you. Love brings joy, into your heart and into the hearts of those who receive your love even as they have failed to understand you, or the source of your love. Stand tall, strong and firm in your present understanding. The rest is God’s to give, yours to learn, ours to encourage. That is all. A collaboration of Alana and Legion
The only solution to this malady is love. Allow yourself to love. Allow your heart to be filled with our love. Soon the misunderstandings become minor, then minuscule, then they disappear into the tapestry of love. That is not to say that misunderstandings never need to be cleaned up, for sometimes this is a good lesson, a rich source of material for growth, and even, sometimes, the final opening of the door to love; but rather that understanding is an eternal thing, a matter of eternal mastery, and you do not have that kind of time in your lifetime on the planet Urantia, earth. But you can grasp at this understanding with your faith. Faith always opens the heart to allow love to flow through, be that our love or yours is not the difference that matters, only that it is love. Whether we are the motivators of that love, or you, is not a matter of concern when the primary act of necessity is to love. We, however, will always be there to soothe your fears that to love without being understood is foolish, or dangerous, or not your due. Love carries the understanding that transcends everything you know or fail to know, and, I think you have already had this experience, it is often the only bridge available to you. Love brings joy, into your heart and into the hearts of those who receive your love even as they have failed to understand you, or the source of your love. Stand tall, strong and firm in your present understanding. The rest is God’s to give, yours to learn, ours to encourage. That is all. A collaboration of Alana and Legion
TAKE One Step At A TIME
TAKE One Step At A TIME