Changes

==Session==

==Session==

===Opening===

===Opening===

Dear Michael and Mother Spirit,    I’ve been trying to get some grasp on what is the [[essence]] of the coming holidays--or holy-days--at this [[time]] of year.  I recalled the [[words]] of the carol celebrating the little town of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bethlehem Bethlehem], the assertion that “the [[hopes]] and [[fears]] of all the years are met in thee tonight” with your birth as [[Jesus]].  It always puzzled me: what had fear to do with it?  What could it mean by a meeting of hope and fear?  But the more I [[thought]] of it, the more it seemed they are inextricably tied together.

Dear Michael and Mother Spirit,    I’ve been trying to get some grasp on what is the [[essence]] of the coming holidays--or holy-days--at this [[time]] of year.  I recalled the [[words]] of the carol celebrating the little town of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bethlehem Bethlehem], the assertion that “the [[hopes]] and [[fears]] of all the years are met in thee tonight” with your birth as [[Jesus]].  It always puzzled me: what had fear to do with it?  What could it mean by a meeting of hope and fear?  But the more I [[thought]] of it, the more it seemed they are inextricably tied together.

   

   

It’s fear that [[challenges]] the innate hope of a living [[human]] [[being]], yet by the same token it’s hope that allows us to conquer our fears.  So your coming was the meeting of these two [[things]].  The hope that you embodied then, and now in our ways of contacting you and [[Mother Spirit]], do give birth, do bring into [[consciousness]] those very fears and limitations that are holding us back.  It’s by having [[faith]] and hope in the two of you, and in our loving connection, that we are able to meet those fears.  That is the triumph of hope.

It’s fear that [[challenges]] the innate hope of a living [[human]] [[being]], yet by the same token it’s hope that allows us to conquer our fears.  So your coming was the meeting of these two [[things]].  The hope that you embodied then, and now in our ways of contacting you and [[Mother Spirit]], do give birth, do bring into [[consciousness]] those very fears and limitations that are holding us back.  It’s by having [[faith]] and hope in the two of you, and in our loving connection, that we are able to meet those fears.  That is the triumph of hope.

   

   

Student:  Pretty much so.  I can see how there is a strong tendency to nail it all down--so to speak--and make it all just so, and get people to respond in a certain way.  But it would be nice to allow people to be free--to choose to come and go in whatever they believe; it would really make a [[difference]].  

Student:  Pretty much so.  I can see how there is a strong tendency to nail it all down--so to speak--and make it all just so, and get people to respond in a certain way.  But it would be nice to allow people to be free--to choose to come and go in whatever they believe; it would really make a [[difference]].  

===='''''[[Ecstasy]]'''''====

===='''''[[Ecstasy]]''''', '''''[[Creativity]]'''''====

MICHAEL:  Well, once you socialize your religious [[feelings]], there is some deliberate planning involved in getting together.  Since you are in such a mobile [[society]] these days, it means you are scattered around so much more now than in the past.  But by the same token, you can utilize all your modern modes of transportation and [[communication]] to get together again.  You begin to glimpse the [[meaning]] of meaning.  But all the planning, all the shopping and buying presents for each other, all the decorations and [[music]], all this is to lead to that [[moment]] of [[literally]] being outside yourself in the sharing, the--ex--in [[ecstasy]], is it not?  This is the [[laughter]] and the tears of [[joy]], the [[profound]] [[worship]], the profound [[Gratitude|thankfulness]] that we are!  And that we are [[unique]] [[beings]] given each other--all these other unique beings [[Encompassing|surrounding]] us.  

MICHAEL:  Well, once you socialize your religious [[feelings]], there is some deliberate planning involved in getting together.  Since you are in such a mobile [[society]] these days, it means you are scattered around so much more now than in the past.  But by the same token, you can utilize all your modern modes of transportation and [[communication]] to get together again.  You begin to glimpse the [[meaning]] of meaning.  But all the planning, all the shopping and buying presents for each other, all the decorations and [[music]], all this is to lead to that [[moment]] of [[literally]] being outside yourself in the sharing, the--ex--in [[ecstasy]], is it not?  This is the [[laughter]] and the tears of [[joy]], the [[profound]] [[worship]], the profound [[Gratitude|thankfulness]] that we are!  And that we are [[unique]] [[beings]] given each other--all these other unique beings [[Encompassing|surrounding]] us.  

   

   

   

   

MICHAEL:  Yes, my daughter, just as it is with you.  Once you are aware of your own spiritual nature, you can more readily perceive this in others, and how they, as unique individuals, are [[manifesting]]--or crippled in manifesting--that hallmark of [[spirit]]--[[creativity]].  You are intuiting that the lack of inner spiritual development, which I could perceive directly, this lack of creativity was what handicapped them, and made them merely fearfully reactive.  If you will, they did not have the [[grace]] of humility to open themselves to something greater than themselves, which was right within them too--their own spiritual nature.  This rendered them incapable of recognizing mine--or each others’.  These are the poor-in-spirit individuals who live in [[Negativity|cynicism]] and see all [[humanity]] either as victors or victims, powerful users of others, or mere chumps to be used.  That is their only [[frame of reference]].

MICHAEL:  Yes, my daughter, just as it is with you.  Once you are aware of your own spiritual nature, you can more readily perceive this in others, and how they, as unique individuals, are [[manifesting]]--or crippled in manifesting--that hallmark of [[spirit]]--[[creativity]].  You are intuiting that the lack of inner spiritual development, which I could perceive directly, this lack of creativity was what handicapped them, and made them merely fearfully reactive.  If you will, they did not have the [[grace]] of humility to open themselves to something greater than themselves, which was right within them too--their own spiritual nature.  This rendered them incapable of recognizing mine--or each others’.  These are the poor-in-spirit individuals who live in [[Negativity|cynicism]] and see all [[humanity]] either as victors or victims, powerful users of others, or mere chumps to be used.  That is their only [[frame of reference]].

===='''''[[Free will]]'''''====

===='''''[[Free will]]'''''====

(Personal choice)  

(Personal choice)  

[[Category: Inner Life]]

[[Category: Inner Life]]

[[Category: Ecstasy]]

[[Category: Ecstasy]]

[[Category: Free will]]

[[Category: Free will]]

[[Category: Sharing]]

[[Category: Sharing]]

[[Category: Ritual]]

[[Category: Ritual]]

[[Category: 2009]]

[[Category: 2009]]