Changes

==Session==

==Session==

===Opening===

===Opening===

Dear Michael and Mother Spirit,    I’ve been trying to get some grasp on what is the [[essence]] of the coming holidays--or holy-days--at this [[time]] of year.  I recalled the [[words]] of the carol celebrating the little town of [[Bethlehem]], the assertion that “the [[hopes]] and [[fears]] of all the years are met in thee tonight” with your birth as [[Jesus]].  It always puzzled me: what had fear to do with it?  What could it mean by a meeting of hope and fear?  But the more I [[thought]] of it, the more it seemed they are inextricably tied together.

Dear Michael and Mother Spirit,    I’ve been trying to get some grasp on what is the [[essence]] of the coming holidays--or holy-days--at this [[time]] of year.  I recalled the [[words]] of the carol celebrating the little town of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bethlehem Bethlehem], the assertion that “the [[hopes]] and [[fears]] of all the years are met in thee tonight” with your birth as [[Jesus]].  It always puzzled me: what had fear to do with it?  What could it mean by a meeting of hope and fear?  But the more I [[thought]] of it, the more it seemed they are inextricably tied together.

   

   

It’s fear that [[challenges]] the innate hope of a living [[human]] [[being]], yet by the same token it’s hope that allows us to conquer our fears.  So your coming was the meeting of these two [[things]].  The hope that you embodied then, and now in our ways of contacting you and [[Mother Spirit]], do give birth, do bring into [[consciousness]] those very fears and limitations that are holding us back.  It’s by having [[faith]] and hope in the two of you, and in our loving connection, that we are able to meet those fears.  That is the triumph of hope.

It’s fear that [[challenges]] the innate hope of a living [[human]] [[being]], yet by the same token it’s hope that allows us to conquer our fears.  So your coming was the meeting of these two [[things]].  The hope that you embodied then, and now in our ways of contacting you and [[Mother Spirit]], do give birth, do bring into [[consciousness]] those very fears and limitations that are holding us back.  It’s by having [[faith]] and hope in the two of you, and in our loving connection, that we are able to meet those fears.  That is the triumph of hope.

   

   

Then there’s that other essential element of the holidays--the getting together and sharing our lives.  You’ve taught us the essence of [[divinity]], of God’s intrinsic [[nature]], is His ability to share living [[reality]] with others--the [[purpose]] for the whole [[creation]] and all the [[personal]] [[beings]] in it.  This is another way we triumph over fear, by getting together and [[sharing]] our lives with each other.  This too is the hallmark of the holidays that we treasure so deeply.  So thank you, dear parents, for allowing us to share this time with you tonight.  [[Amen]].

Then there’s that other essential element of the holidays--the getting together and sharing our lives.  You’ve taught us the essence of [[divinity]], of God’s intrinsic [[nature]], is His ability to share living [[reality]] with others--the [[purpose]] for the whole [[creation]] and all the [[personal]] [[beings]] in it.  This is another way we triumph over fear, by getting together and [[sharing]] our lives with each other.  This too is the hallmark of the holidays that we treasure so deeply.  So thank you, dear parents, for allowing us to share this time with you tonight.  [[Amen]].

 

===Lesson===  

===Lesson===  

MICHAEL:  Good evening my children, this is Michael.  I am very happy, very pleased to share this time with you.  Mother Spirit and I once teased you with the notion that this is how one and one make three, that when two people get together and really enjoy each other, it seems there is some third thing that comes into [[existence]].  And this is real, this emerging surround of enjoying the [[spiritual]] [[dimension]] of [[human]] reality.  It’s always here; you are always connected through your [[Thought Adjusters]], through the pure spirits of [[God]]’s [[presence]] within you, but when you get together--and this might be by telephone or email or your delightful Christmas cards--however it is you get together and [[share]] your lives with each other--this is making [[manifest]] and bringing into being, acknowledging and delighting in this spiritual [[dimension]] that so often goes unnoticed.

MICHAEL:  Good evening my children, this is Michael.  I am very happy, very pleased to share this time with you.  Mother Spirit and I once teased you with the notion that this is how one and one make three, that when two people get together and really enjoy each other, it seems there is some third thing that comes into [[existence]].  And this is real, this emerging surround of enjoying the [[spiritual]] [[dimension]] of [[human]] reality.  It’s always here; you are always connected through your [[Thought Adjusters]], through the pure spirits of [[God]]’s [[presence]] within you, but when you get together--and this might be by telephone or email or your delightful Christmas cards--however it is you get together and [[share]] your lives with each other--this is making [[manifest]] and bringing into being, acknowledging and delighting in this spiritual [[dimension]] that so often goes unnoticed.