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===Topic: ''Sharing All''===

===Topic: ''Sharing All''===

===Group: [[Lightline TeaM]]===

===Group: [[Lightline TeaM]]===

==Facilitators==

==Facilitators==

Michael:  Good evening, this is Michael, your universe parent, your dear friend. I’d like to emphasize what Mother Spirit already mentioned, that we are all alike in that we are all children of our Father.  This makes that special bond between and among all personal beings in his creation. So too Mother Spirit and I are blessed with humility. It’s that wonderful, wonderful spiritual awareness of something enormous, and then too, to know that we are a part of that. We were deliberately created to be a part of all of that. We thank our Father for our very ability to perceive what we can, especially when it is so much greater than ourselves.  So: thank you, dear Father, for this blessing.

Michael:  Good evening, this is Michael, your universe parent, your dear friend. I’d like to emphasize what Mother Spirit already mentioned, that we are all alike in that we are all children of our Father.  This makes that special bond between and among all personal beings in his creation. So too Mother Spirit and I are blessed with humility. It’s that wonderful, wonderful spiritual awareness of something enormous, and then too, to know that we are a part of that. We were deliberately created to be a part of all of that. We thank our Father for our very ability to perceive what we can, especially when it is so much greater than ourselves.  So: thank you, dear Father, for this blessing.

===='''''[[Sharing]]'''''====

====''[[Sharing]]''====

*Sharing all

*Sharing all

I would like to keep my direct lesson a little shorter tonight, to engage in some more lively conversation with you all.  With respect to our offerings--the suggestions that Mother Spirit and myself have given about some of the limitations that we hold ourselves to: in this we are doing our own best to be like our Father and, quite literally, share as much as we possibly can with each one of you and with every being we have an association with. So don’t think it strange that we have this relationship with both subordinate beings, with those that you might say are considered to be on a par with us, and with superordinate beings.  We are all doing our best to be co-ordinate beings and feel for that coordination, that larger context within which we are so closely related.  

I would like to keep my direct lesson a little shorter tonight, to engage in some more lively conversation with you all.  With respect to our offerings--the suggestions that Mother Spirit and myself have given about some of the limitations that we hold ourselves to: in this we are doing our own best to be like our Father and, quite literally, share as much as we possibly can with each one of you and with every being we have an association with. So don’t think it strange that we have this relationship with both subordinate beings, with those that you might say are considered to be on a par with us, and with superordinate beings.  We are all doing our best to be co-ordinate beings and feel for that coordination, that larger context within which we are so closely related.  

As we’ve taught before, it’s better than to, say, forgive and forget; it’s much better to think more in terms of forgive and remember.  Everything you do, especially your lively interchanges between each other, becomes part of your soul. You learn to appreciate each other. You learn to appreciate the exact same words as I’m speaking them or as you read them because although they have a kind of undeniable physical reality, so many people can take them in so many different ways. And who is to say another’s way is invalid?  This is what Mother Spirit said about daring to stand naked, bereft of all your rhetorical flourishes, and all your exaggerations just to make a point, and simply offer, yourself: This is how I understand it. For it is by giving your own subjective reality some kind of supposed or asserted objective reality, that leads to so much warfare, even on this level.

As we’ve taught before, it’s better than to, say, forgive and forget; it’s much better to think more in terms of forgive and remember.  Everything you do, especially your lively interchanges between each other, becomes part of your soul. You learn to appreciate each other. You learn to appreciate the exact same words as I’m speaking them or as you read them because although they have a kind of undeniable physical reality, so many people can take them in so many different ways. And who is to say another’s way is invalid?  This is what Mother Spirit said about daring to stand naked, bereft of all your rhetorical flourishes, and all your exaggerations just to make a point, and simply offer, yourself: This is how I understand it. For it is by giving your own subjective reality some kind of supposed or asserted objective reality, that leads to so much warfare, even on this level.

===='''''[[Confidence]]'''''====

====''[[Confidence]]''====

*Confidence in one’s own innermost spiritual experience

*Confidence in one’s own innermost spiritual experience

This I perhaps failed to do with my recommendation, my offering: Just do the best you can; do what you “think” best. For here again: even your Father’s input, his thoughts are just offered and your mind is that wonderful, flexible dimension of your being.  So do what you think best. Entertain that “best.” Be as honest with yourself as you can about what is the best thing to do next--whether you can do it or not. Entertain it. Let it move you. It’s the doing, the existential “doing,” that is the hard part, is it not?

This I perhaps failed to do with my recommendation, my offering: Just do the best you can; do what you “think” best. For here again: even your Father’s input, his thoughts are just offered and your mind is that wonderful, flexible dimension of your being.  So do what you think best. Entertain that “best.” Be as honest with yourself as you can about what is the best thing to do next--whether you can do it or not. Entertain it. Let it move you. It’s the doing, the existential “doing,” that is the hard part, is it not?

===='''''[[Ideal]]'''''====

====''[[Ideal]]''====

*Thinking, the best, and doing it

*Thinking, the best, and doing it

===Dialogue===

===Dialogue===

Student: Good evening, dear Father, this is Philip. I have a question, a composed one. I would like to know what it means to be an agondonter.  What qualifies a mortal as an agondonter? I would like to know a little bit about what kind of notions (?) are entrusted with an ascending career. Mainly we are more and more excited about these times for, you know, these are very important times. We are excited about performing as such--if we can be catalogued as agondonters ourselves? So I would just like to know a little bit about this.

Student: Good evening, dear Father, this is Philip. I have a question, a composed one. I would like to know what it means to be an agondonter.  What qualifies a mortal as an agondonter? I would like to know a little bit about what kind of notions (?) are entrusted with an ascending career. Mainly we are more and more excited about these times for, you know, these are very important times. We are excited about performing as such--if we can be catalogued as agondonters ourselves? So I would just like to know a little bit about this.

===='''''[[Agondonters]]'''''====

====''[[Agondonters]]''====

*Agondonter-hood

*Agondonter-hood

It’s amazing--the result. It’s almost as if there is a renewed respect, as if that was lacking. I wonder sometimes if they are walking around half asleep because there isn’t this connection, like nobody makes them feel really appreciated; and I’m talking about a lot of folks. So I just wanted to throw that out there. It has worked such wonders that this might be in the right direction next. They might even say, “Hey, how come you’re always happy and nice?” This is an opportunity for me to find my joy. Everything is so much lighter when the work is the Lord’s. It’s a wonderful tool I’ve discovered--praise God that I’ve been given that opportunity!

It’s amazing--the result. It’s almost as if there is a renewed respect, as if that was lacking. I wonder sometimes if they are walking around half asleep because there isn’t this connection, like nobody makes them feel really appreciated; and I’m talking about a lot of folks. So I just wanted to throw that out there. It has worked such wonders that this might be in the right direction next. They might even say, “Hey, how come you’re always happy and nice?” This is an opportunity for me to find my joy. Everything is so much lighter when the work is the Lord’s. It’s a wonderful tool I’ve discovered--praise God that I’ve been given that opportunity!

===='''''[[Love]]'''''====

====''[[Love]]''====

*Beaming love at everybody

*Beaming love at everybody

Another thing I noticed is when I forgave someone, (Student’s aside: in the Urantia texts one of the miracles concerned forgiveness of the paralytic that was brought in thru the roof), I noticed the change that was instantaneously on their face. There was a softness that came to their face. It was almost a tenderness, and I didn’t even say much, just a few words. It was just my energy directed at them that had changed.

Another thing I noticed is when I forgave someone, (Student’s aside: in the Urantia texts one of the miracles concerned forgiveness of the paralytic that was brought in thru the roof), I noticed the change that was instantaneously on their face. There was a softness that came to their face. It was almost a tenderness, and I didn’t even say much, just a few words. It was just my energy directed at them that had changed.

===='''''[[Generosity]]'''''====

====''[[Generosity]]''====

*Truly giving of oneself

*Truly giving of oneself