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DATE: January 15, 2006

 

 

 

Elena on Piano: "I Will Arise And Go To Jesus"

 

 

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Reneau: Someday we will be able to put these on CD so people will be able to hear the lesson as well as the music that goes with it! Will wonders never cease?

Reneau: Someday we will be able to put these on CD so people will be able to hear the lesson as well as the music that goes with it! Will wonders never cease?

MERIUM: I have been holding on to the Master’s hand, enjoying my daughterly affections, and I am glad to lure him into this circle of friends – my charges. How wonderful to see you again, children. How great it is to have you as friends and companions on these Sunday sessions we enjoy. Always it feels like an age goes by between visits but every time we come together, it feels as if we have not been apart. I know this has something to do with the dimension of love, which cuts across all barriers and dissolves all time restrictions. This is what it will be like when you wake up in the Resurrection Hall after you have recovered from your transition; you will take up over there where you leave off down here, as if nothing had interfered with the trek toward destiny.

MERIUM: I have been holding on to the Master’s hand, enjoying my daughterly affections, and I am glad to lure him into this circle of friends – my charges. How wonderful to see you again, children. How great it is to have you as friends and companions on these Sunday sessions we enjoy. Always it feels like an age goes by between visits but every time we come together, it feels as if we have not been apart. I know this has something to do with the dimension of love, which cuts across all barriers and dissolves all time restrictions. This is what it will be like when you wake up in the Resurrection Hall after you have recovered from your transition; you will take up over there where you leave off down here, as if nothing had interfered with the trek toward destiny.

 

Reneau: Question.

Reneau: Question.

Reneau: So not that much different.

Reneau: So not that much different.

 

MERIUM: Not so much different except for the knowledge of having survived. And that is something you experience here. You see a driver cut across in front of you by two lanes and you feel you have missed him by a hair’s breadth, yet you survived. That is not something you normally lose sleep over. These kinds of things happen all the time on a world such as this where disorder, chaos and impulse are behind many actions.

MERIUM: Not so much different except for the knowledge of having survived. And that is something you experience here. You see a driver cut across in front of you by two lanes and you feel you have missed him by a hair’s breadth, yet you survived. That is not something you normally lose sleep over. These kinds of things happen all the time on a world such as this where disorder, chaos and impulse are behind many actions.

I had thought today to address you a little bit about the other reason we come together, besides the fact that we enjoy each other’s company and we know how to conduct ourselves in our cultural base, and that is because we all are drawn to the spirit dimension in one way or another, and in our case, it is a dimension that leads into the possibilities of worship. I would like to hear from you all today. I would like to hear what you think worship is. Any volunteers?

I had thought today to address you a little bit about the other reason we come together, besides the fact that we enjoy each other’s company and we know how to conduct ourselves in our cultural base, and that is because we all are drawn to the spirit dimension in one way or another, and in our case, it is a dimension that leads into the possibilities of worship. I would like to hear from you all today. I would like to hear what you think worship is. Any volunteers?

 

Men-O-Pah: Yes, it’s putting aside all the cares of this world and problems that you’re facing, and trying to let your mind go blank, and pray to God that He will speak to you, that you will hear His voice, perhaps in the wind, but it’s emptying yourself so that your mind center is upon God, nothing else.

Men-O-Pah: Yes, it’s putting aside all the cares of this world and problems that you’re facing, and trying to let your mind go blank, and pray to God that He will speak to you, that you will hear His voice, perhaps in the wind, but it’s emptying yourself so that your mind center is upon God, nothing else.

Reneau: Well, worship, too, can be putting out that helping hand, to help the less fortunate or the more needy or the person who needs help. That way our paths cross in our daily work.

Reneau: Well, worship, too, can be putting out that helping hand, to help the less fortunate or the more needy or the person who needs help. That way our paths cross in our daily work.

 

MERIUM: Service is a result of worship. It is cause and effect. You receive divine love in your worshipful relationship with Deity and it fills you with a desire to bestow that same love on others. Thus, when you see service being performed, you are seeing effects of the First Cause. Beauty, nature, certainly, are reflections of the perfection of the Perfect One, and the perfect world that is created, even while many times it is difficult to see the relative perfection of chaos or difficulty.

MERIUM: Service is a result of worship. It is cause and effect. You receive divine love in your worshipful relationship with Deity and it fills you with a desire to bestow that same love on others. Thus, when you see service being performed, you are seeing effects of the First Cause. Beauty, nature, certainly, are reflections of the perfection of the Perfect One, and the perfect world that is created, even while many times it is difficult to see the relative perfection of chaos or difficulty.

Rejoice in the fact of your relationship with something you can worship that will give you the sense of divine affection, that will infuse you and us with the desire to do good to others. It was the mark of worship that we choose to do good. Good little boys and girls, how are you? How have you been? And what would you like to talk about today, if anything?

Rejoice in the fact of your relationship with something you can worship that will give you the sense of divine affection, that will infuse you and us with the desire to do good to others. It was the mark of worship that we choose to do good. Good little boys and girls, how are you? How have you been? And what would you like to talk about today, if anything?

 

Men-O-Pah: I thought it was interesting in your early remarks about the transition of our lives from this one to the next, that it wasn't really such a quantum leap as we had imagined. I've always looked forward -- especially when I was younger -- with great anxiety about that transition, but our language has something to do with conditioning the way we view that, I think.

Men-O-Pah: I thought it was interesting in your early remarks about the transition of our lives from this one to the next, that it wasn't really such a quantum leap as we had imagined. I've always looked forward -- especially when I was younger -- with great anxiety about that transition, but our language has something to do with conditioning the way we view that, I think.

These stories of people's transition can be so powerfully moving. The stories of those who have been sick, flat on their back for weeks, who suddenly sit bolt upright with a beatific smile on their face, or those who open their eyes and say, "Mildred, I'm coming!" or whatever it is that reflects that individual's inner life, that is alive and well and ongoing, even in the process of this transition from being a creature of time and space to a morontia being.

These stories of people's transition can be so powerfully moving. The stories of those who have been sick, flat on their back for weeks, who suddenly sit bolt upright with a beatific smile on their face, or those who open their eyes and say, "Mildred, I'm coming!" or whatever it is that reflects that individual's inner life, that is alive and well and ongoing, even in the process of this transition from being a creature of time and space to a morontia being.

 

Well, this has been a great afternoon. I feel I have done my duty and you have been most charming, as usual. You are such a lovely bunch of children. How did I get so fortunate (group giggles) to have such good kids.

Well, this has been a great afternoon. I feel I have done my duty and you have been most charming, as usual. You are such a lovely bunch of children. How did I get so fortunate (group giggles) to have such good kids.

Group: Bye, Merium. You're beautiful! Thank you.

Group: Bye, Merium. You're beautiful! Thank you.