[tmtranscripts] Michael 10.29.07

[JERRY LANE]

Dear Folks,    Special thanks to Michael DiMattia for his transcribing this lesson in time for Thanksgiving.  Michael--our Creator Son--reminds us that in the eyes of God, and himself and Mother Spirit, in their greater reality, we are already and always whole and complete.  This is something for which we can certainly give thanks.  So in the joy of their presence within us: Jerry.



  
Michael-October 29, 2007

 

Marin TM Group-Mill Valley, California-U.S.A.

 

MICHAEL-T/R-JL

 

(On walking and talking; and roller-coasters {again})
(To whom do you belong)

(Deep calls to deep)
(Keep growing)



Dear Michael and Mother spirit,    As we gather together tonight to feel your presence and hear your cheerful words of inspiration and hope, we gladly remember all the hours and hours we've shared with you, and all the tears of joy we've known, all the times when our sincerest and most genuine response was,  "Wow!  What was that?"  And then we'd all break up laughing, shake our heads, and wonder.


So we thank you for all those happy, happy moments we've know, all the inspiration and the guidance we have received, and how our lives have changed both within us and without--especially in our relationships with all of our dear friends and even all those others out there we might only have chanced to meet.  We thank you for giving us all of them too.  Amen.

MICHAEL:  Good evening, my dear children, my brothers and sisters, my very dear friends.  This is Michael, and while I am very literally your father and your brother, most of all from my own heart, I am your very dear friend.  I want you to take that super-literally without any kind of condescension from a superior being--none of that whatsoever, but just your dear friend with whom you can relate most informally.  As I put it once before, I wish we could go fishing together, or just take a walk.

 

(On walking and talking; and roller-coasters {again})



I think you've noticed--some of you who have considered how Mother Spirit and I have been parents to worlds millions and millions of years more advanced than your own-how still I chose to serve out my human incarnation on a world such as Urantia was two thousand years ago, where I spent most of my time just walking and talking with my apostles and disciples and all the others who would come and visit with us for a while.  But this is something that you yourselves can cherish most dearly; that it is the simple visiting time you can spend with each other that fills your souls.



I'm sure so many of you delight in what you might call "visiting  dreams," those times when you dream of simply sitting down and visiting with old friends or acquaintances you haven't seen for many many years, and are wondering what they're about.  It's interesting that sometimes when all the high points and the low points have dissolved into each other, just the everyday getting together and living our lives is what remains closest to our hearts.



We once mentioned that human wondering if perhaps our Universal Father--God doesn't have some innate love of roller-coasters; or if it's simply closer to your own human nature--all the ups and downs you go through: indeed, whether or not this is just a facet of youth and adolescence before you have yet acquired the experience and the wisdom necessary for a greater balance as you go along, often buffeted by circumstances beyond your control.



Mother Nature herself is another force to be reckoned with as you live on an as yet somewhat geologically unstable planet with earthquakes and the resulting landslides and tsunamis; and then also your floods and, recently in your United States here, the great firestorms that are just part and partial of a certain kind of landscape where they can come quite regularly.  These are all circumstances far beyond any human control.  They do remind you, from another angle that I mentioned in my last lesson, how much the future that seems so solid to you at times is so much a social construct, susceptible to all the varieties of Mother Nature's catastrophes, small and large.



When the social contract breaks down between you, not only on a nation/state level of warfare, but even personally in your own lives, all those well-laid plans you shared with your loved ones can all of a sudden change, not only through circumstances but just simple human emotion, and be thrown totally awry.  What was once such a positively welcomed future can become full of such fearful wonderings and apprehensions.  In all these times, my children, both in the ups and the downs, to find your balance as you go along it is good to take a break from this ongoing sense of time rushing along, the future coming at you helter-skelter, and in a way remind yourself, from your spiritual level, just how much you always are.

 

(To whom do you belong)

 

A very wise poet of yours put it once, ".to keep in mind and not forget: it is not he, nor she, nor them, nor it--that you belong to."  You belong to yourself and your Father: you belong to yourself and God.  In God and in yourself you are whole and complete.  In the most profound sense that you may not yet grasp fully, but only intellectually and with the spirit of faith, there is no need for time.  There is no need even for a future.  It is all God's will, and God, and His total creation are complete moment to moment--just as are you, also His creation.



Along (with this concept of completeness) comes the concept of replete-ness, of how you can add to what is already 100%.  And so we tease you with the notion that the only way out, ever, is to grow, to simply add to what you already are.   
And this is possible because you are God's creation.  In this most profound sense you are made in His image.  Though you are whole and complete from His standpoint and the standpoint of your soul--the summation of all your experience; and there is a kind of eternity right within now, still: here comes the next moment by God's will.  

 

Out here in time and space this whole cosmos of His is in motion, quite contra-distinct from Paradise, His home.  Out here it's all in motion, even-especially--right inside you.  You cannot even know your exact thoughts some few minutes from now.  You can focus on a subject; you can concentrate; you can decide that the next five minutes will be spent thinking of whatever you choose.  But the exact thoughts themselves almost happen to you as much as do day and night, as much as the earth is moving around the sun to create the seasons, and your whole solar system is swinging about the center of our Local Universe.

 

All this is in motion by God's will; but he doesn't need it.  He chooses it.  It is His free will.  And it can be yours too, my children.  Right within all this motion--inside and outside--you can know calmness and an even more perfect balance by becoming ever more one with it.  We've alluded to this as "swimming perfectly along within the stream of life."  It's kind-of dog-paddling along with it, along with the flow, even sometimes--just for the shear fun of it--turning around and heading back upstream, getting into some really vigorous activity just to glory in your own power.



This is our glory too.  This is how Mother Spirit delights to be within you and, even more correctly, it's how you can delight in realizing you are always within her.  We call this human mentality you have the Spirit/Adjutant kind of mentality of the Local Universe Mother Spirit.  And I am always by your side, your spiritual father, your human brother and friend.  Together the three of us make another kind of completeness, for just as Mother Spirit and I together represent the Trinity--the Universal Father, the Eternal Son, and Infinite Spirit--so you too, together with Mother Spirit and me, we three also make a different kind (of completeness).  With your God-given (unique) personality, it is a unique kind of wholeness and completeness.  

 

But you are an experiential being; so come to us when you wish to feel this, when you wish to experience this.  Take time out from all your other human connections and activities and visit with your spiritual parents.

 

(Deep calls to deep)



You have a wonderful expression that "deep calls to deep."  This is how you rest, how you sink down into us, and into yourself, while the walls fly away and "now" begins to expand.  You come to feel us and yourself more and more--a very real presence, a really strong connection.  This is where you feel Mother Spirit's love nurturing and healing and loving you.  This is where you feel my peace in your soul, giving you back to yourself, giving you this assurance: My dear sons and my dear daughters: this is your life.  Do what you think best.



This is how you expand, my dear children.  This is how you become at one and the same time both decisive and yet ever more open.  If you think in terms of a zero sum game of life, being decisive is constantly closing off alternatives: it has to be either this or that.  And here we come saying that you can decide, you can commit yourself to a coarse of action, to an understanding, to a realization, yet be open the very next moment to a greater future, a fuller growth of possibility and potential.  And so if this sounds like a contradiction, you are not taking your ability to grow into consideration, of how you grow by that decision, by that momentary acceptance/definition of who you are.  That very quality can put you in touch with a spiritual dimension.



And so you grow, and in that growth more is possible--more decisions are possible.  You don't worry about being determined moment by moment.  For also, moment to moment, you are becoming more free to exercise your will, more open to see the true and more complete results of your decisions.  You slowly emerge from denial and inner dishonesty to embrace this being determined--self-determined and defined moment by moment, realizing this very thing is adding to your soul.  This being who and what you are moment by moment-consciously--sets you free.  Soon you no longer avoid but you begin to discover who you are.  You are a child of God.  You are a unique being taking his or her first few steps into eternity.



And so you come not to fear but to rejoice that there was such a roller-coaster back in your youth and adolescence.  You cherish all those narrow escapes from near disasters.  You come to trust in our Father's will for you.  For as you discover what it is, you will grow in your ability to choose it for your own.

 

(Keep growing)



So keep growing my children.  Do not fear to feel how each moment does define and determine you.  Embrace it.  Embrace all that you are--as much as you can feel and realize that you are.  For in feeling this definition and determination of who you are, however paradoxically it might strike you, this is the way to your freedom.  This is that "true discovery" I mentioned before, and how the quality of it grows as well.  This is the way to go.  Lean into it.  Embrace it.  Thrill with glory in it.  This is the life that is His will for you, joyously expanding.  This is the organic life of your soul-if you will. 



If you have any questions or comments this evening, I certainly welcome them.

QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS TO COME LATER
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