Changes

Daniel: "Greetings, my friends, I am Daniel, your guide and teacher. I am rejoicing tonight in being amongst you and feeling your comraderie and love for one another. It has been a short reprieve from my teaching for you but I have gleaned a lot from my visitation away.[Ed note: Daniel has been away attending a teacher's conference for two weeks.]

Daniel: "Greetings, my friends, I am Daniel, your guide and teacher. I am rejoicing tonight in being amongst you and feeling your comraderie and love for one another. It has been a short reprieve from my teaching for you but I have gleaned a lot from my visitation away.[Ed note: Daniel has been away attending a teacher's conference for two weeks.]

===Lesson===

===Lesson===

This evening I will be saying goodbye to my friend and co-teacher here, Tomas, but the goodbye is not permanent and is only temporary, as you all know, in the ascension scheme. Many things, many occurrences take place, yet those who are spiritually bonded are never separated in spiritual connectedness. And so while it has been a delight having Tomas here as an added teacher for this great group it will be wonderful for Tomas and other students to grow from his wise wisdom and loving presence. Indeed, Tomas is embedded in all of your hearts, a part of all of your experience, and his teachings will resonate for many aeons as you work to displace the peas you have all been speaking so freely about.

This evening I will be saying goodbye to my friend and co-teacher here, Tomas, but the goodbye is not permanent and is only temporary, as you all know, in the [[ascension]] scheme. Many things, many occurrences take place, yet those who are spiritually bonded are never separated in [[spiritual]] connectedness. And so while it has been a delight having Tomas here as an added teacher for this great [[group]] it will be wonderful for Tomas and other students to grow from his wise [[wisdom]] and loving [[presence]]. Indeed, Tomas is embedded in all of your hearts, a part of all of your experience, and his teachings will resonate for many [[aeon]]s as you work to displace the peas you have all been speaking so freely about.

We teachers fully understand the human quality of sorrow at the departure of a loved one. You will undoubtedly feel this sorrow but we encourage you to look upon this departure as that which will generate greater good, that which will perpetuate greater thought. So rather than feeling sorrow, understand and feel the joy that this departure holds for the greater good of Urantia and the unfolding of Michael's plan.

We teachers fully understand the [[human]] [[quality]] of sorrow at the departure of a loved one. You will undoubtedly feel this sorrow but we encourage you to look upon this departure as that which will generate greater [[goodness|good]], that which will perpetuate greater [[thought]]. So rather than feeling sorrow, understand and feel the joy that this departure holds for the greater good of [[Urantia]] and the unfolding of Michael's plan.

To you, Tomas, my sincere love and gratitude for your companionship. While it will be temporarily disjointed we have, and shall continue to be of great closeness. I will now turn this forum over to Tomas for his words to you this evening."

To you, Tomas, my sincere love and gratitude for your companionship. While it will be temporarily disjointed we have, and shall continue to be of great closeness. I will now turn this forum over to Tomas for his words to you this evening."

Tomas: "Good evening faithful flock and loyal students. Indeed, we are radiant in our joy this evening in many ways, for many reasons, and on many counts. It is with happiness that we receive the renewed Daniel into this community prior to my departure for the continuity provided by your association with your teachers is part of that which enables us all to bond as a living community. It would grieve me to have been whisked away without this opportunity to cement again the rapport which we have developed in these past many productive and fruitful months as co-teachers of you, and, indeed, of each other and the greater community.

Tomas: "Good evening faithful flock and loyal students. Indeed, we are radiant in our joy this evening in many ways, for many reasons, and on many counts. It is with happiness that we receive the renewed Daniel into this [[community]] prior to my departure for the continuity provided by your association with your teachers is part of that which enables us all to bond as a living community. It would grieve me to have been whisked away without this opportunity to cement again the rapport which we have developed in these past many productive and fruitful months as co-teachers of you, and, indeed, of each other and the greater community.

I initially want to thank Daniel for his graciousness in allowing me the honor and privilege of sharing his teacher base platform, for enabling my transmitter/receiver and I to develop the working of teamwork concepts, of being a willing participant of the plan of Michael in instigating this teacher corps and inaugurating this Correcting Time. In no uncertain terms I am indebted to Daniel and to you here assembled for my hands on experience as a teacher in this great mission. I am addressing now the subject which I have chosen to represent my 'swan song'. I have, as you well know, worked hard with you on numbers of matters requiring deep seated effort to uncover and discover deeper realms within yourselves, within your potentials. Many of these have brought about distress and subsequent progress. But I have not spent overmuch time on focusing on what surely for all of us is a favorite subject. I have saved the best for last, if you will, so that I would like to discuss briefly love.

I initially want to thank Daniel for his graciousness in allowing me the honor and privilege of sharing his teacher base platform, for enabling my transmitter/receiver and I to develop the working of teamwork concepts, of being a willing participant of the plan of [[Michael]] in instigating this [[teacher corps]] and inaugurating this [[Correcting Time]]. In no uncertain terms I am indebted to Daniel and to you here assembled for my hands on experience as a teacher in this great mission. I am addressing now the subject which I have chosen to represent my 'swan song'. I have, as you well know, worked hard with you on numbers of matters requiring deep seated effort to uncover and discover deeper realms within yourselves, within your potentials. Many of these have brought about distress and subsequent progress. But I have not spent overmuch time on focusing on what surely for all of us is a favorite subject. I have saved the best for last, if you will, so that I would like to discuss briefly love.

Fear not love. Love is a mustard seed and fear is a pea. Do not confuse these two. For love, although humbler than fear, is far greater and will multiply much farther than the pea plant. When you love in the triumphant spirit of the Creator, when you embrace this living reality and experience the glowing, growing reality from within yourself and out, through, toward, around and with your brothers and sisters in this living flower, you are enriched and made real. Your hopes are made real and your disappointments are lessened.

Fear not love. Love is a mustard seed and fear is a pea. Do not confuse these two. For love, although humbler than fear, is far greater and will multiply much farther than the pea plant. When you love in the triumphant [[spirit]] of the Creator, when you embrace this living [[reality]] and [[experience]] the glowing, growing reality from within yourself and out, through, toward, around and with your brothers and sisters in this living flower, you are enriched and made real. Your hopes are made real and your disappointments are lessened.

There is no recipe as great as love for cooking up a good life, yet the fear of love has constrained love in its own existence. In this instance of the departure of your friend, Gerdean, from this group you will know sadness as will she. Yet had you not opened your hearts in love and learned to love one another what legacy would you have of each other? The temporary sorrow which exists when love changes is a small shadow in comparison to the radiance, the illumination, and the triumph of the love that you know, remember, and anticipate. And so of all the fears that you grapple with in your learning to become your greater reality the fear of love is the most heinous sin, unworthy of believers in the love of God.

There is no recipe as great as love for cooking up a [[goodness|good]] life, yet the fear of love has constrained love in its own existence. In this instance of the departure of your friend, [[Gerdean]], from this group you will know sadness as will she. Yet had you not opened your hearts in love and learned to love one another what legacy would you have of each other? The temporary sorrow which exists when love changes is a small shadow in comparison to the radiance, the illumination, and the triumph of the love that you know, remember, and anticipate. And so of all the fears that you grapple with in your learning to become your greater reality the fear of love is the most heinous sin, unworthy of believers in the love of God.

With courage and gusto I leave you, my loyal friends, for I am filled with the love which we have shared. I am enriched as a result of my experience here with you and you are greater because of knowing me. We are family and our source is the Source of light, life, and love. God is love. I love you. That is all."

With courage and gusto I leave you, my loyal friends, for I am filled with the love which we have shared. I am enriched as a result of my experience here with you and you are greater because of knowing me. We are family and our source is the Source of light, life, and love. God is love. I love you. That is all."

Daniel: "Thank you, my friend. This forum is open for questions."

Daniel: "Thank you, my friend. This forum is open for questions."

===Dialogue===

===Dialogue===

Virginia: "Tomas, thank you. I would just like to say I wish you well in Butler. I know you will be travelling along with Karen on her trip. Thank you for being here and thank you for the excellent modeling you did as you said that we were better off because you had been here. I would certainly agree with that and thank you because it is so difficult for me to acknowledge a job well done by me. We appreciate the modeling of the teachers and what we can be as we extend our love to others."

Virginia: "Tomas, thank you. I would just like to say I wish you well in Butler. I know you will be travelling along with Karen on her trip. Thank you for being here and thank you for the excellent modeling you did as you said that we were better off because you had been here. I would certainly agree with that and thank you because it is so difficult for me to acknowledge a job well done by me. We appreciate the modeling of the teachers and what we can be as we extend our love to others."