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October 18, 2004
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===Topic: ''The Nature of Resistance To Change''===
 
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===Group: [[Marin TeaM]]===
[Note: Dear Folks, Here to help us welcome change in our lives is Mother Spirit from October 18. Let Her gracious love and encouragement warm your hearts as She has already warmed ours. Jerry ]
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==Facilitators==
 
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===Teacher: [[Nebadonia]]===
Nebadonia
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===TR: [[JL]]===
 
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==Session==
The Nature of Resistance To Change
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===Opening===
 
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[Note: Dear Folks, Here to help us welcome change in our lives is Mother Spirit from October 18. Let Her gracious love and encouragement warm your hearts as She has already warmed ours.}
Marin TM Group
      
Dear Michael and Mother Nebadonia, We wish to acknowledge You as our spiritual parents - Creator Son and Daughter, born of the Eternal Trinity, and representing Them out here in the wilds of space and time. We feel Your divinity in our hearts as a single stream of love. We ask for Your help so we too can be undivided in our loyalty to You. Amen.
 
Dear Michael and Mother Nebadonia, We wish to acknowledge You as our spiritual parents - Creator Son and Daughter, born of the Eternal Trinity, and representing Them out here in the wilds of space and time. We feel Your divinity in our hearts as a single stream of love. We ask for Your help so we too can be undivided in our loyalty to You. Amen.
    
Mother: Good evening, My children. This is your Mother, Nebadonia. I send you My love. Let it warm you, now that the nights are getting cooler on your part of Urantia. Fall is in the air, and it is a wonderful example of how change can invigorate you. Your body shivers naturally. Your mind perks up to look around to see what to gather in for the winter to come. Your spirit rejoices that these aspects of yourself respond so readily to meet the change. Think of the naturalness of this, how, without conscious decision, different aspects of yourself automatically respond as if welcoming the change. Could there be a deep wisdom here, a wisdom that knows that it is in movement you can find reassurance of an innate ability not only to meet change, but to greet it, to welcome it, to thrive because of it?
 
Mother: Good evening, My children. This is your Mother, Nebadonia. I send you My love. Let it warm you, now that the nights are getting cooler on your part of Urantia. Fall is in the air, and it is a wonderful example of how change can invigorate you. Your body shivers naturally. Your mind perks up to look around to see what to gather in for the winter to come. Your spirit rejoices that these aspects of yourself respond so readily to meet the change. Think of the naturalness of this, how, without conscious decision, different aspects of yourself automatically respond as if welcoming the change. Could there be a deep wisdom here, a wisdom that knows that it is in movement you can find reassurance of an innate ability not only to meet change, but to greet it, to welcome it, to thrive because of it?
 
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===Lesson===
 
What then, is the nature of resistance to change? Ask yourself, what is this? I mentioned before that part of this is an attempt to hold time still, to have something to hold onto in this rushing river of time of a whole universe of events, gigantic events. Your modern minds are full, now, of marvels you have never personally experienced. First through motion pictures, and now through many decades of television, your minds are full of images of slow motion photography where you have seen onrushing events slowed to nearly stopping, and then progressing one-thousandth of a second at a time. There are even motion picture techniques of a kind of paradox where, to artistically simulate things happening very quickly, they go to slow motion photography; and yet you understand this.
 
What then, is the nature of resistance to change? Ask yourself, what is this? I mentioned before that part of this is an attempt to hold time still, to have something to hold onto in this rushing river of time of a whole universe of events, gigantic events. Your modern minds are full, now, of marvels you have never personally experienced. First through motion pictures, and now through many decades of television, your minds are full of images of slow motion photography where you have seen onrushing events slowed to nearly stopping, and then progressing one-thousandth of a second at a time. There are even motion picture techniques of a kind of paradox where, to artistically simulate things happening very quickly, they go to slow motion photography; and yet you understand this.
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If you have any questions or comments, or even a bit of teasing to get back at Me, (laughter) I would be welcome to hear it.
 
If you have any questions or comments, or even a bit of teasing to get back at Me, (laughter) I would be welcome to hear it.
 
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===Dialogue===
 
Student: Mother, I don’t have a question, but I appreciate Your humor. I appreciate Welmek and his instructions too. So thank you very, very much.
 
Student: Mother, I don’t have a question, but I appreciate Your humor. I appreciate Welmek and his instructions too. So thank you very, very much.
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Student: Thank You, a very good lesson.
 
Student: Thank You, a very good lesson.
 
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===Closing===
 
Mother: Well, My sons, if I could offer you a final observation: you don’t seem to know how much you are growing, and this is understandable. The growth of the Supreme Being on the scale of just one personality can seem so miniscule, and you are so caught up in it, as you gain your sensitivity to feel it, moment by moment, tipping back and forth along a little thread of time; often you can only see your progress and your growth in retrospect. This is why I encourage you to truly remember previous times in your life - what it felt like to be you when you were, say, sixteen, or twenty-five. Just remember moments, and this will give you some insight into how far you’ve come, and some real appreciation of the effort involved. This should be especially helpful for you parents in realizing where your younger children are, and being able to see them with fresh eyes. So take heart! Take it from Me the assurance you are growing, indeed. And be in My peace, and My love. Good evening.
 
Mother: Well, My sons, if I could offer you a final observation: you don’t seem to know how much you are growing, and this is understandable. The growth of the Supreme Being on the scale of just one personality can seem so miniscule, and you are so caught up in it, as you gain your sensitivity to feel it, moment by moment, tipping back and forth along a little thread of time; often you can only see your progress and your growth in retrospect. This is why I encourage you to truly remember previous times in your life - what it felt like to be you when you were, say, sixteen, or twenty-five. Just remember moments, and this will give you some insight into how far you’ve come, and some real appreciation of the effort involved. This should be especially helpful for you parents in realizing where your younger children are, and being able to see them with fresh eyes. So take heart! Take it from Me the assurance you are growing, indeed. And be in My peace, and My love. Good evening.
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