[tmtranscripts] N. Idaho TeaM 12/02/07

[rickgiles]

North Idaho Teaching Mission Group
Topics: Take Action Together, "Washed In Spirit", Imagery And Allegory, Be Refreshed.
Teachers: Unidentified, Lantarnek, Elyon, Michael.

December 2, 2007

*	unidentified (Kathy TR):  Begin to take action together, even if it is opening your 
mind to the idea of working together with separate projects; coordination of your efforts 
will lead to new ideas and expanded opportunities for interaction with those around you.  
Your sphere of action will increase as you have the intention to expand your activities.  
Help is always available to you when you consciously give permission for action.  You can 
step outside your current area of comfort knowing that support will be there when needed.

*	Lantarnek (Jonathan):  This is Lantarnek, I greet you.
	You have phrases such as being “washed in spirit”, and you have a tradition of 
baptism that has grown up around such an experience.  The presence of Michael is 
continuous, and it flows in his Spirit of Truth just as a river is ever-present and 
constantly moving.  When you seek that submergence you are often like a low-lying branch 
on the bank of a river when, as spirit undulates, it grabs your leaf and pulls you in and 
you are wetted by the presence.  But your terrestrial nature is like the tension in the 
branch which springs you back out of the water.  You are refreshed but soon seek moisture 
again.  So as you mature in your spiritual standing you learn that these occasional 
bathings by spirit need not be haphazard, to your perspective.  It need not rely on the 
downreach of spirit into you, but you may set the conditions for the experience to occur, 
and you learn to willingly dip in the river for refreshment.
	This dipping is going to the Father, and the effect received is often provided by 
the many ministering spirits that are stationed on your world and throughout the 
universe.  Soon within you grows the desire to be of effective service to one’s fellows.  
It is the balance of being in the presence of God.
	Today you have asked about coordination and harmony among one another, and I would 
extend my visualization of the river by adding to it a waterwheel.  Each one of you is a 
bucket on that wheel.  Individually you each take a dip and are filled with spirit and 
the energy, the flow, of spirit moves you along.  As you rise from that river another 
takes a dip and around turns the wheel.
	In your personal life you are engaged in that circular travel.  At the hub however 
is the axle that transmutes that energy from your individual spiritual contacts into a 
collective force to be used in numerous ways by the administration running your world, in 
the celestial sense.  So, much of your effort in seeking God and becoming like Him is 
gathered with others’ to create developments around your world which you are unaware of 
but much a participant in.
	But the human soul longs to feel integrated and abreast of these activities.  The 
mind is curious and wants to know how it is effective and helpful to spirit.  Now add to 
this waterwheel a trough.  As you rise from your stillness, your communion with spirit, 
you spilled your water, not back into the stream, but into this trough and off it flows.  
This is the tangible ministry you observe in your own life as you help the little child, 
as you hold a class, as you manufacture a product with the best of your abilities.  So 
you are reminded each time that you do have a personal direct effect in ministry as well 
as a collective synergistic force.
	I remind you that it is stillness that fills you up and allows the power to be 
applied.  I have spoken of the experience of stillness and also of service, but you are 
aware of the triangle: stillness, study, and service.  That axle of the wheel does work 
whether it grinds grain, generates electricity for light.  Your curiosity in things 
spiritual has led you to research the nature of reality, to develop a greater sense in 
the discernment of truth and the concomitant sense of the accuracy of your discernment.  
You have enlarged your cosmic perspective and have added to it great detail of the 
workings of the universe, and you have been much benefited by your text of the Urantia 
Papers, for therein is described how these forces that you have contributed by way of 
your collective spiritual engagement are put to use even beyond your own applications to 
the greater harmonious interweaving of activities, for in our analogy today, a powerhouse 
set on the banks of a river is part of a larger farm.  There are activities supported by 
the presence of that powerhouse that are remote in some sense, just as those who are 
ascending Havona today feel remote from your activities on Urantia.
	You have been taught in the past that stillness is also a form of service, and 
today I hope that this illustration clarifies how stillness can be of service.

*	Elyon:  Greetings to you, this is Elyon.
	I find our melchizedek friend to be masterful in his translation of morontia 
perspective into material form and imagery.  You know that I am often attempting to do 
likewise, for I find that the human mind grasps abstract notions more clearly with 
concrete image.  But you know that, while it is helpful to outline a deeper perspective, 
all visualizations have their shortcomings, for the finite aspect of the imagery will 
disallow a greater grasp by its nature and that the story must end for the attention of 
the listener to be able to wrap it up into something meaningful.  But the morontia 
perspective could tell the story endlessly and enlarge the perspective until you are 
overwhelmed.  So the visual process falls short.  But we use such parable-like contexts 
to stimulate your creative thinking and in so doing create the stage wherein you may 
continue to tell the story and to amplify the additional meaningful relationships unsaid 
by your teachers, even to translate them into your own living contexts and make them your 
continuing personal story.
	Jesus taught not to put new wine into old wineskins.  In that expression was 
conveyed the truth about an enlarged universe understanding that cannot be contained 
within an older framework of religious description of that universe understanding, that 
the wineskins must be refreshed as well to contain that truth.  This is the rightful 
understanding of that metaphor.  In no way does that mean that you cannot refill a 
wineskin with new wine; in the physical sense you may still be able to.  So, all that we 
present to you in imagery and allegory is likewise to be regarded.
	In the passing moments of your daily life you are offered opportunities to assist 
others in enlarging their perspectives to incorporate greater spirit contexts and to give 
their working world activities a loftier perspective, one integrated with spirit.  Few 
are the opportunities to quote from a scripture or to lay out a philosophic, logical 
process, but you can derive from the moment a translatable human experience and extract 
the spiritual profundity that is contained within it if you are alert and mindful and 
creative.  These will be often quite short, the shorter often the better, for the 
receivers can then supplement as they are moved by spirit presence within them.  You 
don’t know all of the psychological aspects that play upon the mind of another, but 
spirit within does.  So you seed and spirit will then cultivate.

*	Michael:  I am Michael, I embrace you all.  It is the love we share that is most 
special, and it is the focal point, the access of all the other elements of our 
relationship.
	The teachers with you today have spoken of coming to me to the river to drink.  I 
am the water of life.  But there are times when you are feeling weakened by way of a 
sense of unworthiness, perhaps you are ashamed of behavior and you shy away from me.  But 
I will come to you as the dew in the morning rests upon all things, for never do I 
condemn you.  You are simply my human children, and you do things as you do by your very 
nature and in that you grow.
	So, as I moisten you with my spirit presence take me in.  Be refreshed.  Displace 
that parchedness and grow vigorously.
	You know that the afternoon of a day is drier; that is the time when the moisture 
of my presence within you is put to use to sustain you.  Then, as you are wearied by such 
work, I come again in your meditative evening to bring you more refreshment for the work 
of the following day.  But to change again to the river, when you are in the heat of your 
day, when the trials are upon you and the vicissitudes seem strong, head to the river for 
a drink and take me in in your way.  Take me in when you need me.  I will always come to 
you, but I ask you to remember to come to me.
	You know of the property, the principle, of gravity.  You walk about your life 
aware that if you leave an item in the air without support it will fall.  But as you 
stand you feel stability, but you are actually falling, only there is a support structure 
that gives you a sense of static placement.  My presence is always about you.  When you 
are stable in my presence you can stand strong.  It is when you are weakened that you 
feel like you are falling.  I tell you, you are not falling away; I am drawing you toward 
me that you and I may touch and be stabilized in our relationship and that you may stand 
and move about freely in your life with my strength.
	You have much presented to you today.  I blanket you with my love.  I ask you to 
give that love wherever and whenever you can.  Offer it even if it be rejected, for I am 
within others as well, and I can assist them in opening to receptivity to take in that 
love from without and thereby recognize it is within them already.
	Be a blessing.  Farewell.
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