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Group: Nashville, Tennessee
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September 30, 2001
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===Topic: ''Starting Over''===
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===Group: [[Nashville TeaM]]===
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==Facilitators==
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===Teacher: [[Ham]]===
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===TR: [[Rebecca]]===
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==Session==
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===Opening===
 
Ham: Greetings, children, I am Ham and I am glad that you have come this evening. Tonight, we shall discuss starting over. Life is filled with those tragedies, impediments, and disappointments which require stepping back, a period of reassessment and regrouping, and then the gradual resolution to begin again. Sometimes, you can have the overwhelming desire to give up, to lay down and quit, to even stop living. And, my advice when you come to this point is to simply wait and rest.
 
Ham: Greetings, children, I am Ham and I am glad that you have come this evening. Tonight, we shall discuss starting over. Life is filled with those tragedies, impediments, and disappointments which require stepping back, a period of reassessment and regrouping, and then the gradual resolution to begin again. Sometimes, you can have the overwhelming desire to give up, to lay down and quit, to even stop living. And, my advice when you come to this point is to simply wait and rest.
 
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===Lesson===
 
It is not necessary to be constantly active. Often times, the mind is exhausted, and requires a period of rest which may eventually incorporate reflection, but this is a necessary process which will eventually enable you to face the harsh realities of starting over. And, really, you do not start at the same place you were. You are wiser, you are more softened and at the same time steeled by your pain. You may have been through that valley of the shadow of death very much alone, very frightened, and yet, look ahead and there is sun upon the horizon. A new life is waiting. It takes only the will to reach out to grasp it.
 
It is not necessary to be constantly active. Often times, the mind is exhausted, and requires a period of rest which may eventually incorporate reflection, but this is a necessary process which will eventually enable you to face the harsh realities of starting over. And, really, you do not start at the same place you were. You are wiser, you are more softened and at the same time steeled by your pain. You may have been through that valley of the shadow of death very much alone, very frightened, and yet, look ahead and there is sun upon the horizon. A new life is waiting. It takes only the will to reach out to grasp it.
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It is said that love bears all things and endures all things. When things are so difficult that you cannot bear them, let the love of the Father bear them for you. You do not live your lives as autonomous little minds in fragile little bodies. You are connected to all the power in the universe. Never are you alone. Learn to receive his comfort. Learn to start over how ever many times it is required. Learn to be patient with yourselves and to allow yourselves rest and healing and comfort. Learn to be a help to each other, to let the Father's love flow from your heart to another and to give comfort and healing in your love.
 
It is said that love bears all things and endures all things. When things are so difficult that you cannot bear them, let the love of the Father bear them for you. You do not live your lives as autonomous little minds in fragile little bodies. You are connected to all the power in the universe. Never are you alone. Learn to receive his comfort. Learn to start over how ever many times it is required. Learn to be patient with yourselves and to allow yourselves rest and healing and comfort. Learn to be a help to each other, to let the Father's love flow from your heart to another and to give comfort and healing in your love.
 
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===Closing===
 
The apostles were not super men. They were simply men who learned to love. This is required again of you in this life. Acquire that habit of love and then bear all things and endure all things with this love. . . . .
 
The apostles were not super men. They were simply men who learned to love. This is required again of you in this life. Acquire that habit of love and then bear all things and endure all things with this love. . . . .
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[[Category: The Teaching Mission: Dialogues]]
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[[Category: Nashville TeaM]]
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[[Category: Ham]]
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[[Category: Rebecca]]
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[[Category: Renewal]]
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[[Category: 2001]]