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For all this [[insight]] and encouragement, this downright soulful [[assurance]] from you and the whole [[spiritual]] [[community]], we do thank you so much.  We look forward to more contact, more joyous [[communication]] with the two of you to make up some more very happy new years to come.  [[Amen]].   

For all this [[insight]] and encouragement, this downright soulful [[assurance]] from you and the whole [[spiritual]] [[community]], we do thank you so much.  We look forward to more contact, more joyous [[communication]] with the two of you to make up some more very happy new years to come.  [[Amen]].   

===Lesson===

===Lesson===

NEBADONIA:  Good evening, my children, this is Mother Spirit.  Yes indeed, it is an exciting time for you to be living through.  Michael last spoke on the meaning of that Christmas carol about the hopes and fears of all the years that were met in Bethlehem the night Jesus was born.  And now I’m sure so many of you have taken his message to heart and found its response deep within you.  You’ve come to realize that in many ways, my dear ones, this is the same path you yourselves are taking.  You can recognize how, when you dare to hope, when you dare to open yourself to possibility, when you dare to take responsibility for your own creativity out in all the world surrounding you, then you relax in the assurance, the deep rest you find in Michael’s peace and in my love; it does open you to all those deep fears and anxieties you may have been denying or suppressing, sometimes for years.

NEBADONIA:  Good evening, my children, this is [[Mother Spirit]].  Yes indeed, it is an exciting time for you to be living through.  Michael last spoke on the [[meaning]] of that [[Christmas]] carol about the [[hopes]] and [[fears]] of all the years that were met in [[Bethlehem]] the night [[Jesus]] was born.  And now I’m sure so many of you have taken his message to [[heart]] and found its [[response]] deep within you.  You’ve come to [[realize]] that in many ways, my dear ones, this is the same path you yourselves are taking.  You can recognize how, when you dare to hope, when you dare to open yourself to [[possibility]], when you dare to take [[responsibility]] for your own [[creativity]] out in all the world [[Encompassing|surrounding]] you, then you relax in the assurance, the deep rest you find in Michael’s [[peace]] and in my [[love]]; it does open you to all those deep [[fears]] and [[Anxiety|anxieties]] you may have been denying or suppressing, sometimes for years.

===='''''[[Fear]]'''''====

===='''''[[Fear]]'''''====

(The fears that arise with hope)

(The fears that arise with hope)

   

   

So your first early attempts at meditation and prayer and worship might seem to be bringing on disaster.  What are all these fears springing up, all these mistakes you’ve made in your whole life, coming up once again to plague your soul?  But ask yourself if you would rather have these deep fears stay underground and affect you in unconscious ways in all your relationships with the others in your life.  Wouldn’t you rather have these past events be reviewed in full consciousness, now in a more mature you?  Through meditation in the present moment you are more in touch with your own soul which contains the completeness of God’s view of your life.  It’s with this completeness you can once again revisit your mistakes, your fears, and your shortcomings--however you want to call these things that you do genuinely regret.  Now you can look at them afresh with new eyes and in this wholeness, in this completeness of your being, truly forgive yourselves.  Now, in your conscious mind, you can have the completeness of your past with no dark and hidden events nagging you, driving you.  Now you can see and accept all that you’ve done, and in doing so, my children, you can begin to see others as well, not in black and white terms of all good or all evil, all driven or all lazy.  You can begin to see their completeness in all that they are too.

So your first early attempts at [[meditation]] and [[prayer]] and [[worship]] might seem to be bringing on disaster.  What are all these [[fears]] springing up, all these mistakes you’ve made in your whole life, coming up once again to plague your [[soul]]?  But ask yourself if you would rather have these deep fears stay underground and affect you in [[unconscious]] ways in all your [[relationships]] with the others in your life.  Wouldn’t you rather have these past [[events]] be reviewed in full [[consciousness]], now in a more [[mature]] you?  Through meditation in the present [[moment]] you are more in [[touch]] with your own soul which contains the completeness of God’s view of your life.  It’s with this completeness you can once again revisit your mistakes, your fears, and your [[Limitation|shortcomings]]--however you want to call these [[things]] that you do genuinely regret.  Now you can look at them afresh with new eyes and in this wholeness, in this completeness of your [[being]], truly [[forgive]] yourselves.  Now, in your conscious [[mind]], you can have the completeness of your past with no [[dark]] and hidden events nagging you, driving you.  Now you can see and accept all that you’ve done, and in doing so, my [[children]], you can begin to see others as well, not in black and white terms of all [[good]] or all [[evil]], all driven or all lazy.  You can begin to see their completeness in all that they are too.

===='''''[[Healing]]''''', '''''[[Hope]]'''''====

===='''''[[Healing]]''''', '''''[[Hope]]'''''====

(Genuine healing)

(Genuine healing)

   

   

This is the genuine healing.  This is the acceptance.  This becomes the complete story of your life and a secure spiritual base for renewed hope.  So face all the fear and anxiety; face all the mistakes you’ve made so you can learn from them.  This is what gives you the truest estimate of your enormous soul, for this is the true and complete story of your life and all that it contains.  There is no triumph but that you triumph over some thing.  There is no hope but that it conquers some thing.  For as hope is an intrinsic part of your human desire to expand and live a full life, the very obstacles you encounter--whether material or personal--other things, other people--they too are what give meaning to your life.

This is the genuine healing.  This is the [[acceptance]].  This becomes the complete story of your life and a secure [[spiritual]] [[Foundation|base]] for renewed hope.  So face all the [[fear]] and [[anxiety]]; face all the mistakes you’ve made so you can learn from them.  This is what gives you the truest estimate of your enormous [[soul]], for this is the true and complete story of your life and all that it contains.  There is no triumph but that you triumph over some thing.  There is no [[hope]] but that it conquers some thing.  For as hope is an intrinsic part of your [[human]] [[desire]] to expand and live a full life, the very obstacles you encounter--whether [[material]] or [[personal]]--other [[things]], other people--they too are what give [[meaning]] to your life.

   

   

One of the most terrifying things a human being can know is the experience of meaninglessness where nothing or no one means anything anymore.  It’s where you panic to be losing the very fabric of life itself, unraveling in your mind.  But in meeting your fears and bringing them into consciousness, you finally have your past.  You really have the life you’ve already earned.  There’re no blank spots.  There’s nothing missing.  Your present moments become so much richer with the true continuity of who you have been all along.  Now, what a relief!--even, ironically, because seldom mentioned in a spiritual context--what an efficiency of living!  You’re not spending half your energy trying to prop up some ego notion of yourself based on little other than denial.

One of the most [[Terror|terrifying]] [[things]] a [[human being]] can know is the [[experience]] of meaninglessness where nothing or no one means anything anymore.  It’s where you panic to be losing the very [[fabric]] of life itself, unraveling in your [[mind]].  But in meeting your fears and bringing them into [[consciousness]], you finally have your past.  You really have the life you’ve already earned.  There’re no blank spots.  There’s nothing missing.  Your present [[moments]] become so much richer with the true [[continuity]] of who you have been all along.  Now, what a relief!--even, [[ironically]], because seldom mentioned in a spiritual [[context]]--what an efficiency of living!  You’re not spending half your [[energy]] trying to prop up some [[ego]] notion of yourself based on little other than denial.

   

   

Now you can truly rest in an open mind.  You’ve met all your fears and all your anxieties.  You’ve learned from all your mistakes.  You’re open-minded so you can welcome learning from the mistakes you’ll make tomorrow.  So you try things unafraid.  You know for certain the joyous, if ironic, fact that the only bad experiment is the rare one that teaches you nothing.  This is how you sit loose to life.  This is how you enjoy the flexibility of a living being--enjoying your own body and mind united in dynamic health, and not just living for some fixed abstraction of mind alone at the expense of your poor, suffering, mistreated and ignored body.

Now you can truly [[rest]] in an open mind.  You’ve met all your fears and all your anxieties.  You’ve learned from all your mistakes.  You’re open-minded so you can welcome learning from the mistakes you’ll make tomorrow.  So you try [[things]] unafraid.  You know for certain the [[joyous]], if ironic, [[fact]] that the only bad [[experiment]] is the rare one that teaches you nothing.  This is how you sit loose to life.  This is how you enjoy the [[flexibility]] of a living being--enjoying your own [[body]] and [[mind]] united in [[dynamic]] [[health]], and not just living for some fixed [[abstraction]] of mind alone at the expense of your poor, suffering, mistreated and ignored [[body]].

   

   

This is using your creative spirit, my children.  This is inclusiveness--all inclusiveness.  This is living without denial, without trying to bend everything coming your way to some self-satisfying prejudice.  This is seeing and delighting in events and people in their temporal and individual uniqueness.  You’re not worried about maintaining the continuity of your life through all this enhanced appreciation of the particular: you are that continuity!  Your potentially eternal personality is the living connecting link!  Your world is partly you!--and so each event that comes to you is seen not only in the continuity of time, the assured cause and effect of Natural Law.  You begin to perceive that dimension of God’s creativity--shared with all personal beings--that is new and unique every moment.  If you can meet the challenge, what a delight it is to see how the universe and everyone in it--including you--is not just endlessly, tiresomely repeating.

This is using your [[creative]] [[spirit]], my children.  This is inclusiveness--all inclusiveness.  This is living without [[denial]], without trying to bend [[everything]] coming your way to some self-satisfying [[prejudice]].  This is seeing and delighting in [[events]] and people in their [[temporal]] and [[individual]] uniqueness.  You’re not worried about maintaining the continuity of your life through all this enhanced appreciation of the particular: you are that continuity!  Your [[potentially]] eternal [[personality]] is the living [[connecting]] link!  Your world is partly you!--and so each event that comes to you is seen not only in the continuity of [[time]], the assured [[cause]] and effect of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_Law Natural Law].  You begin to [[perceive]] that [[dimension]] of God’s creativity--shared with all personal beings--that is new and unique every [[moment]].  If you can meet the [[challenge]], what a delight it is to see how the [[universe]] and everyone in it--including you--is not just endlessly, tiresomely repeating.

   

   

What is there to hang on to?  Everything changes, even your self-conscious you, growing and maturing, yet your unchanging personality continues as the connecting link that realizes--makes real--all else.  It is you, along with a presence of God himself, growing a soul.  And this, my children, is the purpose for all of this--if you will, God’s desire to share His creativity, His power, His enjoyment with you, along with an utterly innumerable host of others.

What is there to hang on to?  [[Everything]] [[changes]], even your self-conscious you, [[growing]] and maturing, yet your unchanging [[personality]] continues as the connecting link that realizes--makes real--all else.  It is you, along with a [[presence]] of [[God]] himself, growing a [[soul]].  And this, my children, is the [[purpose]] for all of this--if you will, God’s [[desire]] to [[share]] His creativity, His [[power]], His enjoyment with you, along with an utterly innumerable host of others.

   

   

This is hope realized.  This is hope in action. This is the function of hope, to open you to more experience.  It’s almost a definition of the wrong thing to do, the wrong way to live, if it leads to a closing down of your ability to experience--especially to experience that new, never-before-happened, never-happening-again part of your life.  So be gone dull habit!  Be gone clinging to some notion of unchanging security.  Rest assured in Michael, and me, and in our Father.  Know with assurance Who it was who created you, and created you as the very kind of being you are.

This is [[hope]] [[realized]].  This is hope in [[action]]. This is the [[function]] of hope, to open you to more [[experience]].  It’s almost a definition of the wrong thing to do, the wrong way to live, if it leads to a closing down of your ability to experience--especially to experience that new, never-before-happened, never-happening-again part of your life.  So be gone dull [[habit]]!  Be gone clinging to some notion of unchanging [[security]].  Rest assured in Michael, and me, and in [[our Father]].  Know with [[assurance]] Who it was who created you, and created you as the very kind of being you are.

   

   

You are the connecting link in an eternal present.  You are the center of your universe.  You have a home base right in your own spirit.  This is the glory of a human being--that you can know an intimacy with a material living body that, although it’s quite infinite to you from the inside-out, still all the same gives you a touch with material reality and an appreciation of time in this first life of yours like no other order of being.

You are the [[connecting]] link in an [[eternal]] [[present]].  You are the [[center]] of your [[universe]].  You have a [[home]] base right in your own [[spirit]].  This is the [[glory]] of a [[human being]]--that you can know an [[intimacy]] with a [[material]] living [[body]] that, although it’s quite infinite to you from the inside-out, still all the same gives you a [[touch]] with material [[reality]] and an appreciation of [[time]] in this first life of yours like no other order of being.

   

   

Each of you, my children, will transverse a whole Superuniverse of amazing worlds and different orders of personal beings before you end up in Paradise someday, a Finaliter, yet discover that final day is only another beginning.  You are a creative spirit in possession of a whole realm of physical, and mental, and spiritual reality like no other.  Feel this in yourself.  See it in each other and see if it doesn’t bring a rather spontaneous smile.  See if you can see the soul in another’s eyes.  Know with assurance that you and another make up a universe just between the two of you--two infinities enjoying each other.

Each of you, my children, will transverse a whole [[Superuniverse]] of amazing worlds and different orders of [[personal]] [[beings]] before you end up in [[Paradise]] someday, a [[Finaliter]], yet discover that final day is only another beginning.  You are a [[creative]] spirit in possession of a whole realm of [[physical]], and [[mental]], and [[spiritual]] reality like no other.  Feel this in yourself.  See it in each other and see if it doesn’t bring a rather [[spontaneous]] smile.  See if you can see the soul in another’s eyes.  Know with [[assurance]] that you and another make up a universe just between the two of you--two infinities enjoying each other.

===='''''[[Blessing]]'''''====

===='''''[[Blessing]]'''''====

(Mother Spirit’s blessings)

(Mother Spirit’s blessings)

   

   

This is Michael’s and my blessings on these last few days before a new year, as you count the time.  Yet midnight on the thirty-first will still be the same as a minute before and a minute after.  You are the continuity.  You are literally the living cord tying everything together.  It’s almost as if, my children, strictly from the point of your personality, you are not moving at all.  It is all happening all around both within and outside you, and still, here comes something new from your own spirit’s co-creation, moment by moment.  You are most like God in this sense, in something coming out of your very own unique essence, realizing and determining that entire world out there for you.  So rest in this ultimate assurance, my children, that you are!  You are existence itself, for you and for those others that you love and are loved by.  This is what makes it a happy new year beginning every day.

This is Michael’s and my [[blessings]] on these last few days before a new year, as you count the time.  Yet midnight on the thirty-first will still be the same as a minute before and a minute after.  You are the [[continuity]].  You are [[literally]] the living cord tying [[everything]] together.  It’s almost as if, my [[children]], strictly from the point of your [[personality]], you are not [[moving]] at all.  It is all happening all around both within and outside you, and still, here comes something new from your own spirit’s [[co-creation]], moment by [[moment]].  You are most like God in this sense, in something coming out of your very own unique [[essence]], [[realizing]] and determining that entire world out there for you.  So rest in this [[ultimate]] assurance, my children, that you are!  You are [[existence]] itself, for you and for those others that you [[love]] and are loved by.  This is what makes it a [[happy]] new year beginning every day.

   

   

Now if you have any questions or comments, I’m most happy to receive them.  

Now if you have any questions or comments, I’m most happy to receive them.

 

===Dialogue===

===Dialogue===

Student:  Thank you, Mother, for your constant love and support without cease in our lives.  I truly appreciate your being here, and being here with you.  

Student:  Thank you, Mother, for your constant love and support without cease in our lives.  I truly appreciate your being here, and being here with you.