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Daniel (Bill): Life is [[eternal]]! Life is always [[unfolding]] new opportunities and [[surprises]]. Yes, many of the surprises are surprises of [[joy]], rather than surprises of [[terror]]. At the risk of sounding like a Polly Anna and repeating what has become, in some people's ears, a monotonous theme, I will again say, "life is what you make of it". Life is not what comes to you. Life is what you make of it.

Daniel (Bill): Life is [[eternal]]! Life is always [[unfolding]] new opportunities and [[surprises]]. Yes, many of the surprises are surprises of [[joy]], rather than surprises of [[terror]]. At the risk of sounding like a Polly Anna and repeating what has become, in some people's ears, a monotonous theme, I will again say, "life is what you make of it". Life is not what comes to you. Life is what you make of it.

If you could only realize how much [[control]] you have over your own [[happiness]], it would astound you! It would amaze you! You are moving beyond the level of [[understanding]] of what life is like based upon outward circumstances. You can rise in the morning and greet the day, saying, "This is the day that the Lord has made. I will rejoice and be glad in it." That is a choice you can make. Or you can greet the day as the unrepentant [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ebeneezer_Scrooge Ebeneezer Scrooge] would, and you can say "Good day-what's good about it? What has it ever done for you but bring you [[pain]] and [[sorrow]] and more bills to pay?" [Laughter.] Once you have grasped that [[your soul]] is eternally secure in the hands of [[the Father]], the Giver of Life, [[the Source]] of this universe, and that nothing in this life, including [[death]], can harm that security and trust, when this truth soaks through all layers of your being into the very core, there is nothing that truly can harm you!! Of course, you can be physically harmed, but even if you should wind up in a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_concentration_camps Nazi concentration camp], as did some people, you would not have to die in agony and despair. You could be like those who [[survived]] the concentration camp because they knew that life itself is the most precious of gifts. Rather than say "Why do the [[righteous]] suffer?" and ask that question as though you are addressing an unjust God, ask yourselves "Why do the righteous allow themselves to suffer? Why do they allow their [[minds]] to spoil the [[experience]] of life?"

If you could only realize how much [[control]] you have over your own [[happiness]], it would astound you! It would amaze you! You are moving beyond the level of [[understanding]] of what life is like based upon outward circumstances. You can rise in the morning and greet the day, saying, "This is the day that the Lord has made. I will rejoice and be glad in it." That is a choice you can make. Or you can greet the day as the unrepentant [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ebeneezer_Scrooge Ebeneezer Scrooge] would, and you can say "Good day-what's good about it? What has it ever done for you but bring you [[pain]] and [[sorrow]] and more bills to pay?" [Laughter.] Once you have grasped that [[your soul]] is eternally secure in the hands of [[the Father]], the Giver of Life, [[the Source]] of this universe, and that nothing in this life, including [[death]], can harm that security and trust, when this truth soaks through all layers of your being into the very core, there is nothing that truly can harm you!! Of course, you can be physically harmed, but even if you should wind up in a [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_concentration_camps Nazi concentration camp], as did some people, you would not have to die in agony and despair. You could be like those who [[survived]] the concentration camp because they knew that life itself is the most precious of gifts. Rather than say "Why do the [[righteous]] suffer?" and ask that question as though you are addressing an unjust God, ask yourselves "Why do the righteous allow themselves to suffer? Why do they allow their [[minds]] to spoil the [[experience]] of life?"

I [[realize]] that you are of [[dual]] nature, for I have been [[mortal]] as well. I know that in the [[animal nature]] and in the structure of the brain there is evolutionary programming where threatening situations override [[conscious]] [[thought]]. We have talked of this several times. Yes, you are receiving [[Morontia]] education. That is correct. We are teaching you to [[transcend]] your animal nature while yet in [[mortal]] form. And it won't happen tomorrow. It is also a [[process]] for the rest of your lives.

I [[realize]] that you are of [[dual]] nature, for I have been [[mortal]] as well. I know that in the [[animal nature]] and in the structure of the brain there is evolutionary programming where threatening situations override [[conscious]] [[thought]]. We have talked of this several times. Yes, you are receiving [[Morontia]] education. That is correct. We are teaching you to [[transcend]] your animal nature while yet in [[mortal]] form. And it won't happen tomorrow. It is also a [[process]] for the rest of your lives.