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Group: Nashville, Tennessee

 

Teacher: HAM

===Group: [[Nashville TeaM]]===

 

Topic: Soul Expectations

===Teacher: [[Ham]]===

 

===TR: [[Rebecca]]===

 

Ham: Greetings, children, I am Ham and I welcome you each here this evening. Tonight, we shall discuss levels of expectation. Every human has ideas concerning their own abilities and the ability of the world to grant or award rewards and punishments which are expected. Every human being in some sense creates a future based upon these assumptions. But of course, this is all very arbitrary and relative.

Ham: Greetings, children, I am Ham and I welcome you each here this evening. Tonight, we shall discuss levels of expectation.  

Every human has ideas concerning their own abilities and the ability of the world to grant or award rewards and punishments which are expected. Every human being in some sense creates a future based upon these assumptions. But of course, this is all very arbitrary and relative.

One's earliest expectations are concerned with existence. You exist and expect to exist. This is raised in accordance with one's own enlightenment. At some point comes the questioning of existence. One questions one's own expectations, "Do I have the right to exist?" And, with the realization of the inevitability of death, one questions the length of one's existence. These two developments in the maturing personality create a kind of crisis and begin consciously or unconsciously a life long search for values and existence beyond one's self, beyond one's own level of being.

One's earliest expectations are concerned with existence. You exist and expect to exist. This is raised in accordance with one's own enlightenment. At some point comes the questioning of existence. One questions one's own expectations, "Do I have the right to exist?" And, with the realization of the inevitability of death, one questions the length of one's existence. These two developments in the maturing personality create a kind of crisis and begin consciously or unconsciously a life long search for values and existence beyond one's self, beyond one's own level of being.

When the believer contemplates a flower, its beauty, the wonder of its creation, its reflection of love in the world, he or she knows that the wonder of this little flower is worth more than all the gold in the world and the believer accepts its mystery and wonder with the expectation that it is knowable , that it is knowable on a level of experience and in that sense God himself is the flower, he experiences it all.

When the believer contemplates a flower, its beauty, the wonder of its creation, its reflection of love in the world, he or she knows that the wonder of this little flower is worth more than all the gold in the world and the believer accepts its mystery and wonder with the expectation that it is knowable , that it is knowable on a level of experience and in that sense God himself is the flower, he experiences it all.

 

I hope this lesson is helpful. Sometimes life is so difficult and you are all so brave and strong and true to your beliefs that often my desire is to relieve some tensions of the mind, to open your hearts to spiritual acceptance very simply.

I hope this lesson is helpful. Sometimes life is so difficult and you are all so brave and strong and true to your beliefs that often my desire is to relieve some tensions of the mind, to open your hearts to spiritual acceptance very simply.