[tmtranscripts] A pep talk from What-About-Bob?

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STUDENT:  Our assignment from last week was to look back at where we've been 
and how far we've come.  I guess that's sort of like cramming before we pass 
the test (but) I feel like I took the test and flunked it.
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BOB: What About Bob?
STUDENT: Hi Bob.

BOB:  Let's take a minute here and get oriented.  It looks like you fell off 
the rock and are pretty mangled.  (Long pause)  

What did you do?  Take a look at how far you've come and decide you were 
running around in circles, or going backwards?  You obviously weren't 
focusing on how adept you've become at observing a glimpse of reality and 
thwarting off the effects of unreality.  You aren't giving yourself credit 
for how much you've learned in terms of your emotional responses.  You 
haven't given yourself credit for accomplishing that which you've set out to 
do time and time again.  You are not learning how to give yourself comfort, 
however, by avoiding your responsibility in your own growth.

I guess it was a good idea for me to ask you to look at/ reflect on how far 
you've come, for now I can see that, yes, having flunked the quiz, you 
haven't garnered adequate self-confidence to recognize how it is that you 
have grown and how it is that you have been making things happen, not only 
for yourself but for other people.

I appreciate a certain humility in ministry but you ring out like the bell 
toll when you ring out your chimes, and I want you to focus on that facet of 
your development until such time as you are comfortable with yourself such 
that your genuine self-respect is appropriate to the task at hand.

Eavesdropping on you, as we do sometimes, or checking the records/ archives 
on your growth, it was heard you to say you felt downtrodden, put upon, 
failing and not good enough.  How wrong you are!  I don't mean to underscore 
your opinion of yourself by such a remark but only to put some wind in your 
sails and help buoy you up to where you rightfully belong.  

You work very hard in your fields and to your capacities, given the 
limitations and constraints of the human condition. You are truly bright 
lights – loved, cherished, enjoyed and appreciated.  When you feel 
downtrodden, we recognize you as being disheartened and it is apparent to us 
that you are in need of an infusion of divine energy, faith in yourself, and 
in what you do for Michael and his many children.

If you don't feel you are meeting the mark, it is a reflection of your 
perfection hunger and your deep desire to be a meaningful minister of great 
works.  Often you aren't aware of your great works because they have become 
second nature to you.  This reminds me of when someone referred to Jesus as 
"good" and he said "Why do you call me good?"  He had no idea what they made 
reference to.  It was second nature to him.

Goodness is also a part of your nature now.  The more you have given yourself 
over to a more morontial frame of mind, the better your goodness can and does 
function.  This is an accomplishment.  This is genuine spiritual development 
- learning to respond rather than react, learning to speak rather than lash 
out, rather than talking at people you speak with them. These are degrees of 
accomplishment.  You see, they are so subtle and so much a part of you, you 
aren't aware if them.  

There is a deference to genuine Christ-consciousness that defers credit to 
Father or other forces of life and light beyond you.  Your humble origins are 
not accustomed to acknowledging your divine rights.  Human nature confers no 
rights, and yet in the spiritual kingdom there are indeed 
sonship/daughtership rights of inheritance.  

Acknowledging those gifts and accomplishments in yourself and in others is 
entirely appropriate, and yet many of you still feel reluctant to give praise 
or apply credit to your human contemporaries for fear that they will exalt 
themselves through your recognition of their good works.  When you see 
goodness, truth and beauty, you do well to acknowledge its presence, and how 
that is taken by the mortal is the mortal's development and concern, not 
yours.   It's a part of learning about love and how to receive love, how to 
give and receive divine acknowledgment.  

When you have learned to accept your divine sonship and daughtership, you 
then are more compassionate for the human condition, the level of functioning 
that naturally falls short of spirit because it is a part of the lower 
spheres, a natural and good element of human life.  Without the divine 
vantage point, however, it becomes difficult to see and appreciate the value 
of human failings, short-comings.  It requires the divine eye to see, with 
love, immaturity and accept it lovingly as mere immaturity, something which 
will come to pass in the fullness of time.  

And this goes to yourself as well.  In the fullness of time your lesser 
qualities will be repaired and brought into alignment such that you will love 
yourself even for your immaturities.  You will be able to see yourself with a 
fatherly affection and love yourself even as the Father loves you.  

(Long pause)  Would you like to say something?

STUDENT: I'm enjoying listening.

BOB: This in itself, my friend, is an accomplishment.   It is true that there 
was a time when you would not have had the patience to sit and listen and 
cherish the atmosphere of the love-saturated souls of your mentors.  There 
was a time when you had enough answers, enough sources, enough 
self-sufficiency to cope and now you allow yourself to act as if you were a 
sponge, a mere sponge, dry, thirsty, yearning for the living water to enter 
into your arid areas and bring the softening relief of moisture, like dew.  

There is a moment now, in consciousness, wherein you will have time to rest, 
time to adjust from the driving pressures of your summer season, the failing 
health of your pet, the visitors and controversies and excessive stimuli.  
The period ahead is a period of renewal and rejuvenation, a time to become 
one with yourself in your divine simplicity.  Allow yourself now to enjoy 
being.  Rest, eat well.  Think quiet, calm thoughts that allow your mind to 
reveal to you the simple ways of thinking, doing, behaving, planning, acting 
as a loyal tadpole will do in swimming in the clear pool of living water, 
summer side up.  

In this way when your hour comes, it will be a natural step for you, having 
again become a frog, to leap across the water to the next lily pad in your 
faith walk, seeing clearly, sensing quietly, knowing firmly in your essential 
self, how to go about doing good and being effective in the work at hand.  

I'll not keep you long this evening.  I can see you are in a receptive mood 
and your construct awaits.  Allow something good to rise up in your elevator 
and cherish the instant, respond in friendship, enjoy the moment, savor the 
intimacy, strengthen the association, overlook the short-comings, depend on 
divine guidance, forgive imperfection, rejoice in the union, allow the 
communion.  Rest in peace. 

We'll see you next week.  Have a good evening.
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