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===Topic: ''Life of Service''===
HAM
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===Group: [[Nashville TeaM]]===
 
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==Facilitators==
Nashville, TN
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===Teacher: [[Ham]]===
 
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===TR: [[Rebecca]]===
A Life Of Service
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==Session==
 
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===Lesson===
10/03/2004
      
Ham: Greetings, children, I am Ham and I am very happy having you here this evening. You each are making consistent and fairly steady progress in your spiritual lives. Each of you consistently engages in spiritual self-examination and spiritual self-reflection. You are also growing in your individual ability to effectively pray because your spiritual priorities are growing in importance in your lives. Prayer then becomes an effective tool in orienting the mind and the will toward the spiritual rather than allowing the physical stresses of life the upper hand. When you have true spiritual priorities they orient all of your thinking and all of your life’s decisions toward the spiritual priorities.
 
Ham: Greetings, children, I am Ham and I am very happy having you here this evening. You each are making consistent and fairly steady progress in your spiritual lives. Each of you consistently engages in spiritual self-examination and spiritual self-reflection. You are also growing in your individual ability to effectively pray because your spiritual priorities are growing in importance in your lives. Prayer then becomes an effective tool in orienting the mind and the will toward the spiritual rather than allowing the physical stresses of life the upper hand. When you have true spiritual priorities they orient all of your thinking and all of your life’s decisions toward the spiritual priorities.
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Each of you is always going through a process of moral decision making both in your personal conduct as well as other broader issues and orientations. This moral decision making must continually be fine tuned because the decisions you made yesterday have to be made again in a slightly different way today and made yet again in an even more different way tomorrow. All of this moral decision making brings you closer to the Master’s ultimate will for you. If you forgive someone today, you may still have to forgive that person tomorrow and still another the day following. There is never a point when all decisions have been made for the progress of eternal life consists in progressive decision making and continual adjustment of one’s self to God and to God’s creation. All of mankind’s progress comes from the gradual adjustment of society to ever advancing ideals.
 
Each of you is always going through a process of moral decision making both in your personal conduct as well as other broader issues and orientations. This moral decision making must continually be fine tuned because the decisions you made yesterday have to be made again in a slightly different way today and made yet again in an even more different way tomorrow. All of this moral decision making brings you closer to the Master’s ultimate will for you. If you forgive someone today, you may still have to forgive that person tomorrow and still another the day following. There is never a point when all decisions have been made for the progress of eternal life consists in progressive decision making and continual adjustment of one’s self to God and to God’s creation. All of mankind’s progress comes from the gradual adjustment of society to ever advancing ideals.
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Each generation must rediscover Jesus and his life. You must reorient your society to an ever expanding conception of God’s will for mankind. This constant process is the steady advancement of each individual mortal. The Father loves mankind as a whole, yes, but he loves each individual completely and the Father values each human being equally. The choice of eternal life is in your own hands for the Father to trust his children with their own ultimate destiny decision is testament to the profound love the Father gives to each individual personality.
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Each generation must rediscover Jesus and his life. You must reorient your society to an ever expanding conception of God’s will for mankind. This constant process is the steady advancement of each individual mortal. The Father loves mankind as a whole, yes, but he loves each individual completely and the Father values each human being equally. The choice of [[eternal]] life is in your own hands for the Father to trust his children with their own ultimate [[destiny]] decision is testament to the profound love the Father gives to each individual [[personality]].
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Each individual gradually comes to exalt every more true and lasting values. Each human life progresses in this way and so the glittering fools gold of youth is gradually and painfully replaces with true spirit value and a gradual deepening and appreciation of value in others.
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Each individual gradually comes to exalt every more true and lasting [[values]]. Each human life progresses in this way and so the glittering fools gold of youth is gradually and painfully replaces with true spirit value and a gradual deepening and appreciation of value in others.
    
Let us go now to addressing each of you this evening.
 
Let us go now to addressing each of you this evening.
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===Dialogue===
    
Rebecca, you are doing very well my daughter. Do not be concerned or worried about yourself. Continually fling off the old insecurities which are a false refuge. Cling instead to truth and the Master’s hand and allow him to guide your way rather than ever thinking that you must plan for your future rather you must be open to your future instead.
 
Rebecca, you are doing very well my daughter. Do not be concerned or worried about yourself. Continually fling off the old insecurities which are a false refuge. Cling instead to truth and the Master’s hand and allow him to guide your way rather than ever thinking that you must plan for your future rather you must be open to your future instead.
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The Father holds all things in his awareness. Each of you influence the future in innumerable ways you will never comprehend. Part of maturity is the gradual acknowledgment of all that you cannot know. It is also the gradual acceptance of things you cannot control. Human beings have a hard time accepting they are not gods and each of you is going through this gradual acceptance. Release then your attachment to specific outcomes. You may have goals, of course, but you should not be so attached to specific goals that when the Father tries to give you something greater, you do not understand and cannot accept it. Progress in the spirit is made by the progressive acceptance of God. Coming along with that it the progressing acknowledgment that you are not God. And though this seems to be self-evident and simple, human beings are so constituted as to be capable of great internal self-deception so that they can believe themselves to have god-like wisdom. This is the trap that each generation must avoid. Making human beings into God helps nothing and causes untold suffering needlessly. Constantly keep sure of the fact of God’s sovereignty over all things human and you will find life much sweeter and easier to bear as it is. Love each other my children and do not tire of loving. Love when it is hard. Love when it is impossible and you will find God.
 
The Father holds all things in his awareness. Each of you influence the future in innumerable ways you will never comprehend. Part of maturity is the gradual acknowledgment of all that you cannot know. It is also the gradual acceptance of things you cannot control. Human beings have a hard time accepting they are not gods and each of you is going through this gradual acceptance. Release then your attachment to specific outcomes. You may have goals, of course, but you should not be so attached to specific goals that when the Father tries to give you something greater, you do not understand and cannot accept it. Progress in the spirit is made by the progressive acceptance of God. Coming along with that it the progressing acknowledgment that you are not God. And though this seems to be self-evident and simple, human beings are so constituted as to be capable of great internal self-deception so that they can believe themselves to have god-like wisdom. This is the trap that each generation must avoid. Making human beings into God helps nothing and causes untold suffering needlessly. Constantly keep sure of the fact of God’s sovereignty over all things human and you will find life much sweeter and easier to bear as it is. Love each other my children and do not tire of loving. Love when it is hard. Love when it is impossible and you will find God.
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At times when Rebecca grows weary the words seem to lean toward conclusion, sometimes prematurely.
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At times when Rebecca grows weary, the words seem to lean toward conclusion, sometimes prematurely.
    
Yes my son, this lesson you are undergoing is one of releasing control. For you have also taken on too much of the sins of the world to your shoulders and you have also walked in the valley of guilt and shame at length during your lifetime. But, you are now growing into a realm of greater balance and greater inner peace. You have reached now a new level of feeling at home in the universe and of knowing yourself to have been a purposeful creation of God. Human beings in the modern world have grown up thinking of themselves as accidents in time, as though your existence is just a chance event without purpose or planning or reason. You have even looked upon those who claim to be purposefully created sons of God as having to feel this way out of emotion despair. But this is not so. One comes to understand the greater dimension of life not from weakness and despair but from the robust decision making of the spiritual life. Accepting truth is never easy when the old concepts were comforting in the past. When they are being replace by greater spiritual concepts and awareness, there is always some pain associated with letting go of the old. But you, my son, are doing this and you are ever reaching for the greater and more profound spiritual concept and orientation in life. Never shrink from this and do not be tempted to turn backwards. The spiritual life is like the brass ring that must be stretched for and reached for. It is never simply given. Is this helping?
 
Yes my son, this lesson you are undergoing is one of releasing control. For you have also taken on too much of the sins of the world to your shoulders and you have also walked in the valley of guilt and shame at length during your lifetime. But, you are now growing into a realm of greater balance and greater inner peace. You have reached now a new level of feeling at home in the universe and of knowing yourself to have been a purposeful creation of God. Human beings in the modern world have grown up thinking of themselves as accidents in time, as though your existence is just a chance event without purpose or planning or reason. You have even looked upon those who claim to be purposefully created sons of God as having to feel this way out of emotion despair. But this is not so. One comes to understand the greater dimension of life not from weakness and despair but from the robust decision making of the spiritual life. Accepting truth is never easy when the old concepts were comforting in the past. When they are being replace by greater spiritual concepts and awareness, there is always some pain associated with letting go of the old. But you, my son, are doing this and you are ever reaching for the greater and more profound spiritual concept and orientation in life. Never shrink from this and do not be tempted to turn backwards. The spiritual life is like the brass ring that must be stretched for and reached for. It is never simply given. Is this helping?
    
Q: Yes, thank you so much for everything.
 
Q: Yes, thank you so much for everything.
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===Closing===
    
Ham: You are welcome my son. Are there any further questions? Very well my children, all is well. Be at peace.
 
Ham: You are welcome my son. Are there any further questions? Very well my children, all is well. Be at peace.
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