[tmtranscripts] New CDA Class session #11

[Daniel]

New Class - Session #11
Friday   3-3-2000 

***Mother Spirit-Nebadonia (TR/Jill):  My children, this is your mother, 
Nebadonia.  One of the greatest challenges you face as human beings in 
your world is coming to understand how you have been taught to be on the 
defensive, to protect yourself.  That is the underlying theme:  judge 
those who hurt you, and get angry at them.  You are taught to have an 
emotional button for almost every conceivable human offense that may come 
at you; always feeling victimized and responding with anger for the hurt 
that has been inflicted upon you.  What your father and I, your Eternal 
Parent—as Thought Adjuster/Thought Controller within you—and your 
teachers in the spirit realm are trying to do is to erase these incorrect 
responses that you have learned.  

Think back to the main theme that has run through all of the different 
teachers’ transmissions to you.  Think back to descriptions of how Jesus 
related to his brothers and sisters.  The two words that represent the 
emotions you need to respond with in place of hurt and anger are:  Love 
and Compassion.  Think of the descriptions of Jesus in the “Life and 
Teachings of Jesus” in the Urantia Book.  What did Jesus demonstrate?  
Was it not always Love and Compassion for your fellow man?  It has been 
put different ways in different books, such as “Turn the other cheek.”  
That does not mean to turn the other cheek but hold bitterness and hurt 
and pain inside.  It means to listen to the Pain within the brother or 
sister that would make them act hurtfully toward you.  Give love and 
compassion in return for mean words, cruel words, hurtful behaviors.  You 
do not want to hurt back.  That is not the spiritual way.  That was never 
the way of Jesus.  

Practice in your own mind hearing someone’s words that hurt you in the 
past, and then making a conscious choice to respond to that in a way that 
you believe a person filled with love and compassion would respond.  
Remember the saying most of you heard growing up:  “Sticks and stones may 
break my bones, but words will never hurt me.”  And that is true, but it 
takes great spiritual training and growth to manifest it.  If someone 
says to you, “I hate you.  You’re selfish and thoughtless.”  Imagine 
yourself being Jesus, and ask yourself, “What would Jesus say to this 
person?  What would a loving and compassionate response be to someone who 
is filled with that much darkness?”  

That is what I would like you to try and practice this week.  Sit down 
with a piece of paper and jot down at least three different times when 
someone has said things that have hurt you.  Write down what you remember 
them saying.  Then write down what you remember saying back to that 
person.  And then, change that response, and write the loving and 
compassion words that you know Jesus might have given to this brother or 
sister in distress.  You each must find your own way to this 
compassionate and loving state of beingness.  That is why I have not 
expressed ways you might rephrase your responses.  You must do this 
personal search yourself.  

Ask for guidance and it will be given.  Your Thought Adjuster is eager to 
show you the way.  I hope you will share your results of this exercise 
with each other.  It could give you wonderful dialogue for growth.  I 
love you all so very much, and I am so proud of you all for being the 
seekers of truth, wisdom, and beauty that you are.  Find your center of 
love and compassion within and begin practicing that response.  You can 
do it.  Don’t be impatient or judgmental toward yourself in this 
exercise, just as the goal is to not be judgmental of others.  I am with 
you always and will give you guidance whenever you ask.  Good night, my 
beloved children.