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===Topic: ''Sharing Personal Experience''===
===Group: [[Lightline TeaM]]===
==Facilitators==
===Teacher: [[Michael]]===
===TR: [[JL]]===
==Session==
===Opening===
Dear [[Michael]] and [[Mother Spirit]], well, here we are again, gathered around to sit at your knees with [[happy]], expectant faces and hearts as we open ourselves to [[receive]] this wonderful gift you have for us--literally, you and Mother Spirit live. It also gives us great [[joy]] to know that you are both right within us, as close as our very next [[thought]]. Here you are, along with [[our Father]]’s contribution to our ideas as well--our beloved [[Thought Adjuster]] doing his best to orient us towards God’s enormous [[encompassing]] in which we live our lives, his [[presence]] both within and surrounding us. So with humble and happy [[hearts]], we open ourselves to spirit, that [[creative]], [[spontaneous]] dimension abroad in [[the universe]] which is part of us as well. For all of these gifts, we are most thankful and appreciative. [[Amen]].
===Lesson===
Michael: Good evening, this is Michael, and I definitely welcome you to be with me this evening. This is the joy that [[Mother Spirit]] augments right inside you with her Mind/Spirit Adjutant of Counsel, the way you can support each other and give each other the benefit of your [[experience]], your [[counsel]] and advice. This is just the wonderful gregariousness of getting together and [[sharing]] your time. It also reinforces your deep, instinctual [[knowledge]] that we can relate directly, [[personality]] to personality, human being to Creator Son and Daughter of God, and even to God himself, his presence within you and all around you. This person-to-person [[contact]], giving and receiving; this is the joy of life, a reward of living.
*Sharing personal experience
This is what you have most [[abundantly]] and wonderfully in your [[souls]]. You have each other as a great multiplier of personally experienced [[reality]]. For while this emphasizes the [[difference]] of each personality, and can lead to a kind of [[aloneness]] with, at times, only your Father for felt company, your very uniqueness is the gift that you can give each other. Your very different [[points of view]] and experience are what you have to share. They are what you can appreciate, especially in the human realm, this other person with whom you are [[sharing]] some time and space together. You can appreciate and realize [[value]] in what they have experienced when it is, perhaps so much, or even totally different from what you have known. You can acknowledge this; you can [[respect]] this; and you can welcome them. For this then becomes the 200% of life, the deep sharing which is the great possibility that God gives us all.
You can [[share]] your lot with others by way of another great aspect of your life that [[Mother Spirit]] does her best to augment within your breast--that of [[courage]] in both your willingness, and your ability to engage. These determine your [[attitude]], and your desire to extend yourself out into the [[unknown]], whether it is meeting another person, or just on your lonesome--as you say. It’s going out into your [[adventures]] in the world knowing fully well, at times, or being reminded at times, that you don’t always know what’s coming next. This is the very nature of the adventure you are involved in.
Yet you can have the great strength of faith, knowing deep within yourself that this is the Big Plan. This is [[our Father]]’s deliberate way of raising his universe children. Your [[Urantia Book]] refers to it as [[sublime]] [[uncertainty]], truly not always being able to know what’s coming next. What is over the next hill? What is around the next corner? What is tomorrow going to bring? Considering your order of being, being so physical with marvelous bodies which are, however, subject to all “the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune”--as your poet once put it: what is so sublime about all of this uncertainty?
*Sublime uncertainty with security
The celestial [[viewpoint]] is in the full phase, sublime uncertainty with [[security]], because you are in God’s hands. Your very [[personality]] is his creation, and he is the [[encompassing]] you find yourself in, in a physical universe full of trillions of trillions of his personal beings, extending all the way down from the [[Paradise Trinity]] to your human order, with hundreds and hundreds of different orders of spiritual beings in between.
Another part of that [[security]] can be your [[faith]] in what the [[Urantia Book]] gives you in enormous detail about your life to come. You’ll be meeting all these orders of spiritual beings, and understanding through them all their additional [[dimensions]] of mind, and spirit, and [[existence]], to have in [[your soul]]. There’s even security in the [[promise that]] one day your own understanding, your own consciousness will grow to encompass and become one with the individualized presence of God in your [[soul]].
*Attitude—willingness and ability to relate
The [[Urantia Book]] talks about an enormous expansion of not only who, but what you are, the very kind of personal being that you are. You’re already blessed with such potential--such possibility for such an expansion; and it’s all yours for the [[earning]], for you will earn this day by day. This is why your [[soul]] is truly yours. You’re earning it by your willingness and ability to experience more and more. This is the personal [[growth]] that your Urantia Book talks about, the [[relationship]] between you and the presence of God within you, the living, dynamic relationship that creates your soul.
So, my children: Be of good heart. Be of strong determination to keep growing. [[Appreciate]] what my Mind/Spirit Adjutant of Courage can help you [[embrace]]--that which is still beyond you; and will always be--still--beyond you, because it is God’s Creation--with a capitol “C”. It’s that [[totality]] out there that you will earn one little bit at a time, forever. This is what you have in prospect, yet this is what you already have right now, in [[potential]]. With all [[humility]], with all awareness of the enormity surrounding you, and right within you--your own [[soul]]--you can [[perceive]] this. You can have some [[feeling]] of this, and be truly thankful.
*Thank you
We thank you, dear Father, for your initial notion of the very kinds of [[beings]] that we are, endowed with our own [[potential]] to keep growing, keep meeting more and more other personal beings, and having them too in our [[souls]]. We can come to experience how each and every single, unique, one of their [[personalities]] was created by your hand. We thank you, most humbly and wonderfully appreciative of your [[creativity]]. Amen.
===Note===
(Ed: there were no questions or comments this evening
[[Category: The Teaching Mission: Dialogues]]
[[Category: Lightline TeaM]]
[[Category: Michael]]
[[Category: JL]]
[[Category: 2014]]
[[File:Teaching_buddha_small.jpg|right|frame]]
==Heading==
===Topic: ''Sharing Personal Experience''===
===Group: [[Lightline TeaM]]===
==Facilitators==
===Teacher: [[Michael]]===
===TR: [[JL]]===
==Session==
===Opening===
Dear [[Michael]] and [[Mother Spirit]], well, here we are again, gathered around to sit at your knees with [[happy]], expectant faces and hearts as we open ourselves to [[receive]] this wonderful gift you have for us--literally, you and Mother Spirit live. It also gives us great [[joy]] to know that you are both right within us, as close as our very next [[thought]]. Here you are, along with [[our Father]]’s contribution to our ideas as well--our beloved [[Thought Adjuster]] doing his best to orient us towards God’s enormous [[encompassing]] in which we live our lives, his [[presence]] both within and surrounding us. So with humble and happy [[hearts]], we open ourselves to spirit, that [[creative]], [[spontaneous]] dimension abroad in [[the universe]] which is part of us as well. For all of these gifts, we are most thankful and appreciative. [[Amen]].
===Lesson===
Michael: Good evening, this is Michael, and I definitely welcome you to be with me this evening. This is the joy that [[Mother Spirit]] augments right inside you with her Mind/Spirit Adjutant of Counsel, the way you can support each other and give each other the benefit of your [[experience]], your [[counsel]] and advice. This is just the wonderful gregariousness of getting together and [[sharing]] your time. It also reinforces your deep, instinctual [[knowledge]] that we can relate directly, [[personality]] to personality, human being to Creator Son and Daughter of God, and even to God himself, his presence within you and all around you. This person-to-person [[contact]], giving and receiving; this is the joy of life, a reward of living.
*Sharing personal experience
This is what you have most [[abundantly]] and wonderfully in your [[souls]]. You have each other as a great multiplier of personally experienced [[reality]]. For while this emphasizes the [[difference]] of each personality, and can lead to a kind of [[aloneness]] with, at times, only your Father for felt company, your very uniqueness is the gift that you can give each other. Your very different [[points of view]] and experience are what you have to share. They are what you can appreciate, especially in the human realm, this other person with whom you are [[sharing]] some time and space together. You can appreciate and realize [[value]] in what they have experienced when it is, perhaps so much, or even totally different from what you have known. You can acknowledge this; you can [[respect]] this; and you can welcome them. For this then becomes the 200% of life, the deep sharing which is the great possibility that God gives us all.
You can [[share]] your lot with others by way of another great aspect of your life that [[Mother Spirit]] does her best to augment within your breast--that of [[courage]] in both your willingness, and your ability to engage. These determine your [[attitude]], and your desire to extend yourself out into the [[unknown]], whether it is meeting another person, or just on your lonesome--as you say. It’s going out into your [[adventures]] in the world knowing fully well, at times, or being reminded at times, that you don’t always know what’s coming next. This is the very nature of the adventure you are involved in.
Yet you can have the great strength of faith, knowing deep within yourself that this is the Big Plan. This is [[our Father]]’s deliberate way of raising his universe children. Your [[Urantia Book]] refers to it as [[sublime]] [[uncertainty]], truly not always being able to know what’s coming next. What is over the next hill? What is around the next corner? What is tomorrow going to bring? Considering your order of being, being so physical with marvelous bodies which are, however, subject to all “the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune”--as your poet once put it: what is so sublime about all of this uncertainty?
*Sublime uncertainty with security
The celestial [[viewpoint]] is in the full phase, sublime uncertainty with [[security]], because you are in God’s hands. Your very [[personality]] is his creation, and he is the [[encompassing]] you find yourself in, in a physical universe full of trillions of trillions of his personal beings, extending all the way down from the [[Paradise Trinity]] to your human order, with hundreds and hundreds of different orders of spiritual beings in between.
Another part of that [[security]] can be your [[faith]] in what the [[Urantia Book]] gives you in enormous detail about your life to come. You’ll be meeting all these orders of spiritual beings, and understanding through them all their additional [[dimensions]] of mind, and spirit, and [[existence]], to have in [[your soul]]. There’s even security in the [[promise that]] one day your own understanding, your own consciousness will grow to encompass and become one with the individualized presence of God in your [[soul]].
*Attitude—willingness and ability to relate
The [[Urantia Book]] talks about an enormous expansion of not only who, but what you are, the very kind of personal being that you are. You’re already blessed with such potential--such possibility for such an expansion; and it’s all yours for the [[earning]], for you will earn this day by day. This is why your [[soul]] is truly yours. You’re earning it by your willingness and ability to experience more and more. This is the personal [[growth]] that your Urantia Book talks about, the [[relationship]] between you and the presence of God within you, the living, dynamic relationship that creates your soul.
So, my children: Be of good heart. Be of strong determination to keep growing. [[Appreciate]] what my Mind/Spirit Adjutant of Courage can help you [[embrace]]--that which is still beyond you; and will always be--still--beyond you, because it is God’s Creation--with a capitol “C”. It’s that [[totality]] out there that you will earn one little bit at a time, forever. This is what you have in prospect, yet this is what you already have right now, in [[potential]]. With all [[humility]], with all awareness of the enormity surrounding you, and right within you--your own [[soul]]--you can [[perceive]] this. You can have some [[feeling]] of this, and be truly thankful.
*Thank you
We thank you, dear Father, for your initial notion of the very kinds of [[beings]] that we are, endowed with our own [[potential]] to keep growing, keep meeting more and more other personal beings, and having them too in our [[souls]]. We can come to experience how each and every single, unique, one of their [[personalities]] was created by your hand. We thank you, most humbly and wonderfully appreciative of your [[creativity]]. Amen.
===Note===
(Ed: there were no questions or comments this evening
[[Category: The Teaching Mission: Dialogues]]
[[Category: Lightline TeaM]]
[[Category: Michael]]
[[Category: JL]]
[[Category: 2014]]
