[tmtranscripts] Ham on forbearance and Understanding

[David Schlundt]

11/16/2003

Ham: Greetings, children, I am Ham and I am glad to have you here this 
evening. Tonight, let us discuss your ever widening spheres of 
forbearance and understanding. Many times we have discussed tolerance 
and forbearance. Let us discuss this as a growing attitude, for when you 
exercise faith, you can be unmoved whatever the surrounding chaos. This 
attitude of calm and peace lends the reaction of forbearance.

Let your faith be as un unmovable stone, a firm center, a point of 
gravity. In this place, you can be tolerant of those things which once 
frightened you, which once threw you off balance. Faith gives you that 
certitude, that unshakable confidence in God's protection and mercy 
which allows freedom from fear.

We have spoken of forbearance in terms of intensity, how many times 
should my brother sin against me and I forgive him. But this forbearing 
attitude, must stretch wide as well. It must give you the confidence to 
always to return good for evil, to return courtesy for rudeness, to 
return a smile for a frown. Those whose minds are staid on God are at 
peace within and the world may buffet about them outwardly, but inwardly 
is profound peace and this peace is the key to forbearance.

When a human being goes in partnership with the Master, when you allow 
him entry into your heart and complete sovereignty there, then are you 
given more strength than you ever could have realized. The spiritual 
peace is something very strong and unshakable. It is not something which 
is easily swayed, or a dreamy imagination of nirvana. No, spiritual 
peace encompasses the whole personality. It lends gravity, weight, and 
permanence to your character. For those who are certain about one's 
relationship to God, nothing that happens in this world can shake that 
or change it.

My friends, you are doing very well. You are developing a relationship 
with God. This achievement of the spirit cannot be overstated for then 
this relationship will bestow upon you all that is needful in your 
lives. But more than that, your relationship with Michael will also give 
you wisdom and wisdom is something very rare among human beings.

As you continue to receive his love and his blessings in your lives, you 
will become ever more naturally courageous, naturally confident and sure 
of yourselves. You will have spiritual drawing power which will bring 
you that which is necessary in your journey. And all these things will 
be easy, natural, and quite effortless.

Each of you has a path before you. Bring the Master along for each step 
of the way and all will be plain and clear. No longer will you be frozen 
by the fear of perhaps you have been in error, you have done something 
completely selfish. For if you start heading in that direction, the 
master will pull you back, he will help you, and he will show you the 
better way.

As you move forward upon your path, allow the master to comfort your 
mind and steady your hearts. Remember always that the work is important, 
but you yourselves should not take on the importance. Get yourselves out 
of the way and your fears will go with it. Follow the Master's leading 
and you will not be in error. This is not to say that you may not make 
small mistakes, or you will suddenly become perfect, of course not. But 
you will begin to think of your lives as service to him and this will 
lighten your burden not increase it.

Let your faith be unmovable and let the ripples of loving kindness 
spread out from there. Approach each fellow human being with love and 
doors will open.


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David G. Schlundt, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Psychology
Department of Psychology
Vanderbilt University
301 Wilson Hall
Nashville, TN  37203

Phone: (615)322-7800
Fax: (615) 343-8449
Email: David.Schlundt at Vanderbilt.edu
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Beauty is that which attracts the soul,
and that which loves to give and not
to receive

Kahlil Gibran
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