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Prayer: Dear Michael and Mother Spirit, Tonight we offer our prayers for Your help, not for ourselves but for our brothers and sisters who are suffering and living in pain. This may be the physical pain of injuries or disease; it may be the mental anguish of suffering some terrible loss of someone very near and deeply loved, or some natural catastrophe that wiped out their home or whole community. And for some it may be a spiritual pain--the sense of meaninglessness, as if nothing means anything any more, and there’s no value to what they do or what they see in life. We ask You to minister to them. Be in their hearts. Offer them hope and the courage to face another day. For ourselves, we ask You to help us be generous of our resources and our time to help those who so desperately need it. Amen.

Prayer: Dear Michael and Mother Spirit, Tonight we offer our prayers for Your help, not for ourselves but for our brothers and sisters who are suffering and living in pain. This may be the physical pain of injuries or disease; it may be the mental anguish of suffering some terrible loss of someone very near and deeply loved, or some natural catastrophe that wiped out their home or whole community. And for some it may be a spiritual pain--the sense of meaninglessness, as if nothing means anything any more, and there’s no value to what they do or what they see in life. We ask You to minister to them. Be in their hearts. Offer them hope and the courage to face another day. For ourselves, we ask You to help us be generous of our resources and our time to help those who so desperately need it. Amen.

(The reality of pain)

*(The reality of pain)

 

===Lesson===

===Lesson===

Pain is one of the great and deep mysteries of life, not only for you human beings with respect to your fellows, for your suffering affects the whole spiritual community. It is not an exaggeration or any play on words to say that the angels weep when they see the suffering that so many go through on Urantia. This is especially so when caused not by some natural catastrophe of time and space--due simply to being on an as yet unsettled evolutionary planet, but that very egregious kind of pain and suffering that is a result of the deliberate acts of your fellow human beings.

Pain is one of the great and deep mysteries of life, not only for you human beings with respect to your fellows, for your suffering affects the whole spiritual community. It is not an exaggeration or any play on words to say that the angels weep when they see the suffering that so many go through on Urantia. This is especially so when caused not by some natural catastrophe of time and space--due simply to being on an as yet unsettled evolutionary planet, but that very egregious kind of pain and suffering that is a result of the deliberate acts of your fellow human beings.