Spokane Teacher Meeting 4/22/97

[Rick P. Giles]

April 22, 1997
Spokane group
*       Rantarason  (Sheila):  I am Rantarason and I send greetings. 
I am most proud to be with a group that feels great closeness,
companionship, and love for one another.  I admire the great
courage that has been displayed through this group, for you have
all taken one step beyond the norm and have not feared but feel
the great love that surrounds you with each step that you take. 
This is what is truly real.  
        I would think, little sister, that trying to carry the uni-
verse upon your shoulders would feel heavy.  Let me assist you in
removing this burden of what to do, what not to do.  As you walk
in the Father's path such a burden would not be put upon you. 
There is much for the world to know and understand and each
person is only able to digest that which would be their next step
on their path.  You have not been placed here to give them total
understanding of the universe, but merely to perhaps guide them
toward their next step of understanding, love, compassion, joy. 
This you do with ease.  Allow each one of your brothers and sis-
ters to take responsibility for their own understanding.  You are
only responsible for your own.  Let this ease your mind.  Your
fellowship, your concern, is honorable, but there is little to do
other than love one another throughout your time here.  Be at
peace, be of joy, stick with that which you have experienced. 
Set your example.  Be true to yourself and the Father.  
        We are always here to assist.  A deep breath, a moment of
silence, this is our cue for adding assistance.  It is our joy to
be a part of your great ideals.  We partake of this joyfully just
as you can.  Each one of you has your own individual gift to
share in your own individual way.  This is the blessing; this is
the gift.  Be of your own greatness.  Do this with joy.  All will
be well.  I look forward to great gatherings to share the great
light which is the fruit you produce.  I bid you farewell.  
*       Lantarnek  (Jonathan):  One purpose we teachers share in
being among you and teaching you is the goal to transform what
you on this world call faith.  Much of the teaching on this world
involves faith as an element of trust, as a hope that what is
believed is true, some of which contains the elements of mystery;
some beliefs contain the elements of fact.  This is desirable,
for this is the faith that draws one toward experience.
        Our work with you is to cultivate the faith that is
conviction, assurance, and certainty, one that is derived from
actual contact with the realities that belief attempts to de-
scribe.  In a sense our effort is to train you to be the very
presence which stimulates the faith of another, which encourages
hope and trust, which draws another into assurance.  
        As you observe the world around you, many have their island
of faith that they dwell upon; all sincerely expect the support
this faith rests upon.  Again I say that this is good, but let me
likewise encourage you to be ministers who expand the expectation
of support into the experience of this support.  It is a
transformed faith much like the traveler who embarks upon his
journey of discovery.  That traveler has faith in expectation. 
Upon return this faith has been transformed.  This is what we
hope to instill within your being.  
        I am Lantarnek.  
        Such a transformed faith is one that can forgive.  You know
that the Father forgives before you think to ask.  It is a
"fore", beforehand giving.  It is one that knows ahead of time. 
Your certitude is the wellspring from which such forgiveness
emerges.  It isn't a setting aside of events; it is a conviction
of the reality of truth and a willingness to act in that light,
knowing full well that correction will inevitably bring harmony,
restoration, and understanding.  
        Many of the character traits you aspire to are brought to
flower through the simple changeover of faith into the life of
which I have spoken this evening.  I have observed great progress
in each of you in this manner.  It is wonderful to note the
transformations that have transpired in just two years.  Your
retrospective of this time can be projected into the uncertainty
of the future.  If you have grown, as you have, certainly you
will continue to do so with equal success.  The nature of growth
is that this success becomes more expedient.  Growth is of the
nature and pattern of your monetary formula of compounded
interest.  You do not slow in growth the higher you climb; you
accelerate.  
        I will now relinquish the podium, and I do thank you.
*       Elyon:  Greetings, friends.  This is Elyon, and I have a
short reflection for you.  
        You understand the dual nature of spirit work, that is, the
inner work and the service ministry.  I would illustrate that
this is much like your practice at a musical instrument; much of
your drills involve what is the inner work.  It is in the recital
that you come to know your attained abilities.  This is the
service ministry.  It is of benefit to your fellows to receive,
and it is a witness to your own being of your accomplishments.  
        This is all I care to share, and I hope to inspire you to
continue both these efforts as they are one in harmony, each
contributing to the success and furtherance of the other.

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Rick Giles

1 Cor. 13:4-6
Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful; 
it is not arrogant or rude. Love does not insist on its own way; it is not
irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrong, but rejoices in the
right.