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== Session==

== Session==

===Opening===

===Opening===

Evanson (Jonathan TR): As opening speaker today, I greet you for all of us; we are happy to be in attendance, as I am very assured that you are as welcoming and as pleased to be with us. This is Evanson.

Evanson (Jonathan TR): As opening speaker today, I greet you for all of us; we are [[happy]] to be in attendance, as I am very [[assured]] that you are as welcoming and as pleased to be with us. This is Evanson.

===Lesson===

===Lesson===

I would like to play with your word "influence". You are all honing your understanding in regard to how you can best be effective ministers to those in your life who seek new levels of experience for broader understanding of spiritual truths. If we consider the word influence, we can derive a few thoughts such as, to in-fluence another, one need not bear upon the other from the outside, but rather let that flow of the Father within you rise out and present itself. This will create the same reaction within the other.

I would like to play with your word "[[influence]]". You are all honing your [[understanding]] in regard to how you can best be effective ministers to those in your life who seek new levels of [[experience]] for broader understanding of spiritual [[truths]]. If we consider the word influence, we can derive a few thoughts such as, to in-fluence another, one need not bear upon the other from the outside, but rather let that [[flow]] of [[the Father]] within you rise out and present itself. This will create the same [[reaction]] within the other.

You have a phrase for social conditions, "breaking the ice." Most of you have experienced clashes in religious thought with other people wherein breaking the ice results only in shattering; it does not contribute to the flow of the Water of Life. Sometimes you must let this fluent of truth melt away that hard, dense rigidity. This requires patience, for, as you know, even ice in a glass of water requires time to fully melt. Michael has referred to himself as the water of life. You are his flue through which he may bring this life, the vitality of spiritual reality, to others. It is not something you grasp in your hand and pass along; it is something you take in and let rise and flow to the without.

You have a phrase for [[social]] conditions, "[[breaking the ice]]." Most of you have experienced clashes in religious thought with other people wherein breaking the ice results only in shattering; it does not contribute to the flow of the Water of Life. Sometimes you must let this fluent of truth melt away that hard, dense rigidity. This requires patience, for, as you know, even ice in a glass of water requires time to fully melt. Michael has referred to himself as the water of life. You are his flue through which he may bring this life, the vitality of spiritual reality, to others. It is not something you grasp in your hand and pass along; it is something you take in and let rise and flow to the without.

I will now pause in my comments to let my friends continue exchanging thoughts with you.

I will now pause in my comments to let my friends continue exchanging thoughts with you.