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Group: Nashville, Tennessee

 

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

Teacher: HAM

 

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

Topic: Being Open To Growth

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

 

 

Ham: Greetings, children, I am Ham and I greet each of you warmly with an open heart. This evening, we shall discuss the creation of defining boundaries that make for later difficulties in growth.

Ham: Greetings, children, I am Ham and I greet each of you warmly with an open heart. This evening, we shall discuss the creation of defining boundaries that make for later difficulties in growth.

 

One of our students once declared "I need my enemy for my enemy defines me". Many of you have grown in a culture that emphasizes definitions and you define yourselves more through what you perceive yourselves not to be than what you are or are striving for. Each person has a long list of dislikes or opinions in the negative that help you feel comfortably defined. These negative definitions grow constricting and confining as you continue to add new negative definitions on top of the old ones.

One of our students once declared "I need my enemy for my enemy defines me". Many of you have grown in a culture that emphasizes definitions and you define yourselves more through what you perceive yourselves not to be than what you are or are striving for. Each person has a long list of dislikes or opinions in the negative that help you feel comfortably defined. These negative definitions grow constricting and confining as you continue to add new negative definitions on top of the old ones.

Therefore, grasp true strength of character, open your minds and your hearts to all experiences that come. When you are tempted to reach for the shield of opinion, think twice. Live in the now, grow in the now, and leave the past with its old experiences and definitions behind you. In this way, you will live fully and completely and you will grow as the Father would have you to grow, by and through the experiences he sends you. Are there any questions at this time.

Therefore, grasp true strength of character, open your minds and your hearts to all experiences that come. When you are tempted to reach for the shield of opinion, think twice. Live in the now, grow in the now, and leave the past with its old experiences and definitions behind you. In this way, you will live fully and completely and you will grow as the Father would have you to grow, by and through the experiences he sends you. Are there any questions at this time.

 

Q: I sometimes need to be concrete. I was thinking of three examples of when people close themselves off: religious fundamentalism really closes people off to new truths and experiences, when I keep up with world events I find myself falling back on old ideas and opinions to try to understand what is happening, and sometimes in relationships you develop expectations of how a person will be and then these old expectations keep you from seeing how people have changed and are now different than they were in the past. Are these three good examples of what you were talking about?

Q: I sometimes need to be concrete. I was thinking of three examples of when people close themselves off: religious fundamentalism really closes people off to new truths and experiences, when I keep up with world events I find myself falling back on old ideas and opinions to try to understand what is happening, and sometimes in relationships you develop expectations of how a person will be and then these old expectations keep you from seeing how people have changed and are now different than they were in the past. Are these three good examples of what you were talking about?

Ham: I would prefer that you think about it for a week then we will discuss it next week.

Ham: I would prefer that you think about it for a week then we will discuss it next week.