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You all have had hope of some [[thing]], some attainment, some acquisition, some radiant manifestation of your worth, or your effort, or your vanity. Oftentimes these hopes are not met. Your expectations are flattened. What went wrong? Are you not taught to have undying hope? Do you not believe that you maintain within your [[soul]] a God-given right to have undying hope?

You all have had hope of some [[thing]], some attainment, some acquisition, some radiant manifestation of your worth, or your effort, or your vanity. Oftentimes these hopes are not met. Your expectations are flattened. What went wrong? Are you not taught to have undying hope? Do you not believe that you maintain within your [[soul]] a God-given right to have undying hope?

Let us look at undying hope in a pure and spiritual light. It comes to my mind the adage, the mota, that the disappointments hardest to bear are those which never come. (Urantia Book, pg. 557, #19) "The disappointments hardest to bear are those which never come." Perhaps that disappointment, then, is that which you have hoped for but which is not of the spirit, but which is of your own mind, your own desires, and thus you experience disappointment for that which is truly of the spirit, that which is His will, will never disappoint you. It will always be provided. It is always forthcoming.

Let us look at undying hope in a pure and spiritual light. It comes to my mind the adage, the mota, that the disappointments hardest to bear are those which never come. ([[48:7|Urantia Book, pg. 557, #19]]) "The disappointments hardest to bear are those which never come." Perhaps that disappointment, then, is that which you have hoped for but which is not of the spirit, but which is of your own mind, your own desires, and thus you experience disappointment for that which is truly of the spirit, that which is His will, will never disappoint you. It will always be provided. It is always forthcoming.

Ponder undying hope and realize that it is not the same as chronic yearning. Many of you chronically yearn for things, for relationships, for riches, for luck, for automobiles, for good health, for peace on earth, for Republican victory, but these fall short of the fruit of the spirit undying hope which is born of that which can never die.

Ponder undying hope and realize that it is not the same as chronic yearning. Many of you chronically yearn for things, for relationships, for riches, for luck, for automobiles, for good health, for peace on earth, for Republican victory, but these fall short of the fruit of the spirit undying hope which is born of that which can never die.

My friends, how may I serve you this evening?

My friends, how may I serve you this evening?

===Dialogue===

===Dialogue===

Ruth: Tomas. This is Ruth. Thank you for my name.

Ruth: Tomas. This is Ruth. Thank you for my name.