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===Topic: '''''God's Emcompassing Truth'''''===

===Topic: ''God's Emcompassing Truth''===

===Group: [[Lightline TeaM]]===

===Group: [[Lightline TeaM]]===

==Facilitators==

==Facilitators==

Dear Michael and Mother Spirit: here we are! Here we are again, gathered in to hear your cheerful message. We don’t know how you do it; I guess that’s why we’re here; but it is always so uplifting. It’s a kind of pure positivity that we cannot generate ourselves that we do appreciate--especially the conversations, the questions and comments we get to share with you, and your delightful answers and response. So once again we thank you very, very much for being who and what you are--Creator Son of God, and a delightful companion to a Creator Daughter of God. We do love and appreciate you both. Amen.

Dear Michael and Mother Spirit: here we are! Here we are again, gathered in to hear your cheerful message. We don’t know how you do it; I guess that’s why we’re here; but it is always so uplifting. It’s a kind of pure positivity that we cannot generate ourselves that we do appreciate--especially the conversations, the questions and comments we get to share with you, and your delightful answers and response. So once again we thank you very, very much for being who and what you are--Creator Son of God, and a delightful companion to a Creator Daughter of God. We do love and appreciate you both. Amen.

===Lesson===

===Lesson===

===='''''[[Truth]]'''''====

====''[[Truth]]''====

Michael: Good evening everybody. This is Michael and, as always, we can’t say it enough: Mother Spirit and I are delighted to be with you this way and always. That “always” goes two ways, yet both “always” mean forever. You will forever be our children and, some time in the infinite future when you return from Paradise as full-fledged eternal beings yourself, we’re always glad to see you; and we will be with you all in the interim. But also “always” means all ways—by all means. Always keep in mind, my dear ones, that our spirit is part of you. My Spirit of Truth is that orientation that points you at something that, in all ways, is always and forever larger than you. It’s God’s truth, God’s way of doing things. And it’s his very presence within you.

Michael: Good evening everybody. This is Michael and, as always, we can’t say it enough: Mother Spirit and I are delighted to be with you this way and always. That “always” goes two ways, yet both “always” mean forever. You will forever be our children and, some time in the infinite future when you return from Paradise as full-fledged eternal beings yourself, we’re always glad to see you; and we will be with you all in the interim. But also “always” means all ways—by all means. Always keep in mind, my dear ones, that our spirit is part of you. My Spirit of Truth is that orientation that points you at something that, in all ways, is always and forever larger than you. It’s God’s truth, God’s way of doing things. And it’s his very presence within you.

*God’s encompassing truth

*God’s encompassing truth

   

   

This is our home. This was created for every single one of us as an individual. God doesn’t leave anyone out. And as he’s no respecter of persons in this sense--we are all equal--we are all equally just small parts of his enormous totality. We hope that, through our lessons and just being with Mother Spirit and me, you can have a feeling of being comfortable in this enormous home.

This is our home. This was created for every single one of us as an individual. God doesn’t leave anyone out. And as he’s no respecter of persons in this sense--we are all equal--we are all equally just small parts of his enormous totality. We hope that, through our lessons and just being with Mother Spirit and me, you can have a feeling of being comfortable in this enormous home.

===='''''[[Human Condition]]''''', '''''[[Pain]]'''''====

====''[[Human Condition]]'', ''[[Pain]]''====

This may take some doing for you, for we do acknowledge that, because you are in this present early beginning stage--you are so physical--that this fact itself holds a great threat to you. Your physical body can endure or even be wiped out by other physical events around you. You’ve not yet reached that stage where such things are in your past. It’s very much a part of you--this physicalness.

This may take some doing for you, for we do acknowledge that, because you are in this present early beginning stage--you are so physical--that this fact itself holds a great threat to you. Your physical body can endure or even be wiped out by other physical events around you. You’ve not yet reached that stage where such things are in your past. It’s very much a part of you--this physicalness.

   

   

   

   

But this is part and parcel of who and what you are now, this physicalness. Yet there are folks who try to run away from this, who try to deny it to the best of their personality’s ability, first of all in others. This is where, out of an ego sense of power and control, they do the most obscene things to each other--other people, physically.

But this is part and parcel of who and what you are now, this physicalness. Yet there are folks who try to run away from this, who try to deny it to the best of their personality’s ability, first of all in others. This is where, out of an ego sense of power and control, they do the most obscene things to each other--other people, physically.

===='''''[[Cruelty]]'''''====

====''[[Cruelty]]''====

You notice that Mother Spirit and I do reserve that word “obscene” for true violence; and it can be spiritual; it can be mental. As I’m discussing this evening, it can also be physical. You’ve only to look around your world, and perhaps even in your own nearby community, and your nightly news, to be aware of what folks are doing to each other physically. This is truly obscene, especially those things that are done that cannot be remedied, where someone is permanently maimed or loses their life because of the willful, conscious, deliberate actions of another.

You notice that Mother Spirit and I do reserve that word “obscene” for true violence; and it can be spiritual; it can be mental. As I’m discussing this evening, it can also be physical. You’ve only to look around your world, and perhaps even in your own nearby community, and your nightly news, to be aware of what folks are doing to each other physically. This is truly obscene, especially those things that are done that cannot be remedied, where someone is permanently maimed or loses their life because of the willful, conscious, deliberate actions of another.

   

   

   

   

In mental realms it’s what you call cynicism. It’s being brutal with the inner excuse, “Well, everyone else is doing it,” or “Everyone else would--if they could.” It’s where somebody looks upon a more gentle, delicate soul as weak. This is where the criminal element comes in, where people can do the most terrible things to each other criminally and feel that, “Well, everyone would do this if they could. If they don’t it’s just because they’re weak.” They literally cannot recognize the enormously greater spiritual strength of being open, of being sensitive.

In mental realms it’s what you call cynicism. It’s being brutal with the inner excuse, “Well, everyone else is doing it,” or “Everyone else would--if they could.” It’s where somebody looks upon a more gentle, delicate soul as weak. This is where the criminal element comes in, where people can do the most terrible things to each other criminally and feel that, “Well, everyone would do this if they could. If they don’t it’s just because they’re weak.” They literally cannot recognize the enormously greater spiritual strength of being open, of being sensitive.

===='''''[[Demonstration]]'''''====

====''[[Demonstration]]''====

Yet how do you do this? How do you go about through a sometimes brutal world, especially if you live in a neighborhood where this is commonplace? How do you go out and live in such a reality, being open and sensitive yourself?

Yet how do you do this? How do you go about through a sometimes brutal world, especially if you live in a neighborhood where this is commonplace? How do you go out and live in such a reality, being open and sensitive yourself?

   

   

   

   

This is what I did so much in my human life--over and over again--use this kind of judo, this real spiritual strength to turn things around to not let folks hurt me; and then not re-act, but handle their reaction to me with a new, spontaneous, fresh response. This is what truly wins the day because it is truly new and creative. It’s not just a knee-jerk re-action.

This is what I did so much in my human life--over and over again--use this kind of judo, this real spiritual strength to turn things around to not let folks hurt me; and then not re-act, but handle their reaction to me with a new, spontaneous, fresh response. This is what truly wins the day because it is truly new and creative. It’s not just a knee-jerk re-action.

 

====''[[Teaching Mission]]''====

===='''''[[Teaching Mission]]'''''====

*The Teaching Mission

*The Teaching Mission

I especially encourage you to have this attitude towards those who are approaching you as teachers. Mother Spirit and I truly appreciate what you call the Teaching Mission, the way you use our lessons and the lessons of all of our others, both spiritual beings and ascendant mortals, who are giving you lessons now. Above all, my dear ones, you must show newcomers to the Teaching Mission that you yourself have absorbed the teaching; that you yourself have been a good student and that you have absorbed deep into your soul, and have opened your heart, to all those who come to you with all their different belief systems. Each has their own way of grasping as best they can this Encompassing of truth that surrounds us all. This is what we call being open-minded, open-spirited, open-hearted to really welcome them in their very diversity.

I especially encourage you to have this attitude towards those who are approaching you as teachers. Mother Spirit and I truly appreciate what you call the Teaching Mission, the way you use our lessons and the lessons of all of our others, both spiritual beings and ascendant mortals, who are giving you lessons now. Above all, my dear ones, you must show newcomers to the Teaching Mission that you yourself have absorbed the teaching; that you yourself have been a good student and that you have absorbed deep into your soul, and have opened your heart, to all those who come to you with all their different belief systems. Each has their own way of grasping as best they can this Encompassing of truth that surrounds us all. This is what we call being open-minded, open-spirited, open-hearted to really welcome them in their very diversity.

I’ll end this part of our lesson here, and ask you to let me enjoy some of you with your questions and comments.

I’ll end this part of our lesson here, and ask you to let me enjoy some of you with your questions and comments.

===Dialogue===

===Dialogue===

===='''''[[Agondonters]]''''', '''''[[Pain]]'''''====

====''[[Agondonters]]'', ''[[Pain]]''====

Student: Yes, Michael, I just wanted to say it’s been a great lesson, and so it’s a whole lot to think about for sure, especially about the pain of a lot of people. I suffer a lot. I broke my back. It’s been almost thirty years ago. It paralyzed me for a little while, but I was able to walk again after a couple of years. I’ve still gone through a lot of pain the last thirty years or so, but I’ve learned to deal with it just in order to make it. I try to relate to a lot of other people and their problems too, and the pain that they go through. So it’s just to be more open, I guess, and try to understand it, and maybe the thing I’m getting out of it is: not to think so much about the pain that I have, but the pain that everybody else is going through. It doesn’t have to be only physical because on this planet there seems to be enough pain that happens that doesn’t have to be physical. So, I appreciate your words.

Student: Yes, Michael, I just wanted to say it’s been a great lesson, and so it’s a whole lot to think about for sure, especially about the pain of a lot of people. I suffer a lot. I broke my back. It’s been almost thirty years ago. It paralyzed me for a little while, but I was able to walk again after a couple of years. I’ve still gone through a lot of pain the last thirty years or so, but I’ve learned to deal with it just in order to make it. I try to relate to a lot of other people and their problems too, and the pain that they go through. So it’s just to be more open, I guess, and try to understand it, and maybe the thing I’m getting out of it is: not to think so much about the pain that I have, but the pain that everybody else is going through. It doesn’t have to be only physical because on this planet there seems to be enough pain that happens that doesn’t have to be physical. So, I appreciate your words.

   

   

   

   

Student: Oh yes. There’re challenges everywhere.

Student: Oh yes. There’re challenges everywhere.

===='''''[[Ageing]]'''''====

====''[[Ageing]]''====

Michael: Even physically. It’s something that, as folks get older too, it’s such a blessing when, when your joints and your muscles just naturally get more stiff and painful, just to work with that. You take whatever you have in what we call this Eternal Now, totally irrespective of how you got to where you are. It’s the fact that you are, and in this Eternal Now you are determined within yourself to work with what you have. That’s the real glory, is it not?

Michael: Even physically. It’s something that, as folks get older too, it’s such a blessing when, when your joints and your muscles just naturally get more stiff and painful, just to work with that. You take whatever you have in what we call this Eternal Now, totally irrespective of how you got to where you are. It’s the fact that you are, and in this Eternal Now you are determined within yourself to work with what you have. That’s the real glory, is it not?

   

   

   

   

Student: There’s reminders every once in a while.

Student: There’s reminders every once in a while.

===='''''[[Forgiveness]]'''''====

====''[[Forgiveness]]''====

*Mental, spiritual wounds

*Mental, spiritual wounds

Michael: There are terribly, terribly mentally crippled folks because they did have genuinely mean and sadistic parents. But all of a sudden—it seems--they’re in their seventies or eighties and they’ve lived their whole lives never ever forgiving, never ever putting that behind them. They can become emotionally crippled their whole life because they will constantly bring it up with anybody who’ll stop for five minutes and listen to them. Here it comes up again about the evil father or the evil mother, and although that was sixty years ago, it’s still crippling them. So it’s also real that some folks are so injured they can never forgive the person who injured them. They carry that terrible mental wound and it has destroyed their whole life. That is also another kind of wounding that can only be cured by forgiveness and acceptance.

Michael: There are terribly, terribly mentally crippled folks because they did have genuinely mean and sadistic parents. But all of a sudden—it seems--they’re in their seventies or eighties and they’ve lived their whole lives never ever forgiving, never ever putting that behind them. They can become emotionally crippled their whole life because they will constantly bring it up with anybody who’ll stop for five minutes and listen to them. Here it comes up again about the evil father or the evil mother, and although that was sixty years ago, it’s still crippling them. So it’s also real that some folks are so injured they can never forgive the person who injured them. They carry that terrible mental wound and it has destroyed their whole life. That is also another kind of wounding that can only be cured by forgiveness and acceptance.

Michael: Well, it’s deeply appreciated.

Michael: Well, it’s deeply appreciated.

   

   

Student: I don’t have near the pain that you went through, that’s for sure, while you spent your time here, so . . .

Student: I don’t have near the pain that you went through, that’s for sure, while you spent your time here, so .  

   

   

Michael: And yet it was a glory that I can never even begin to thank my Father, that he gave me that opportunity. So: we live in his grace, do we not?

Michael: And yet it was a glory that I can never even begin to thank my Father, that he gave me that opportunity. So: we live in his grace, do we not?

between expressing yourself and communication.

between expressing yourself and communication.

===Closing===

===Closing===

===='''''[[Communication]]'''''====

====''[[Communication]]''====

*Expressing oneself VS. real communication

*Expressing oneself VS. real communication

Mother Spirit and I have taught a couple times in the past that expressing yourself does not necessarily involve another personality. You can go out and express yourself on a mountain road in your sports car--being one with the machine, as you say. You can be out in the middle of the desert just yelling at the stars or singing a great song.

Mother Spirit and I have taught a couple times in the past that expressing yourself does not necessarily involve another personality. You can go out and express yourself on a mountain road in your sports car--being one with the machine, as you say. You can be out in the middle of the desert just yelling at the stars or singing a great song.