[tmtranscripts] SE Idaho April 27, 2008

[The Andersons]

Southeast Idaho
April 27, 2008


OPENING PRAYER: Father of families, this family, believers in Your existence
and in your love and in Your comfort and in Your guidance, once again comes
humbly to ask that You would provide the lessons that will encourage us both
seen and unseen, to serve You and help this planet to reach the unity of the
family of man, the family of human kind, the family of God.  Amen.

This is Daniel

Student:            Greetings Daniel.

Daniel:               Greetings to you **** and to all of those gathered
here under my tutelage.  I take immense pride in my group.  You all have in
your own ways made your humble teacher happy.

Tonight it is my pleasure and responsibility to introduce the individual who
will be presenting the lesson.  Each of you, I trust, will open your hearts,
your minds, your very brains to transmit the words you hear or to study them
with thoughtfulness, with steadfastness and courage, because you know in
order to grow, one must change; one must reach out into that dark unknown.
Each of you, my students, I know have that courage.  I now turn the lesson
time over to our guest speaker for the evening.

Greetings, my dear friends.  I am Minearsia, instructor in residence here at
this Southeast Idaho teaching base.  It is my privilege and honor to share
with you this evening, to sit with you, to converse.  It is my delight to
welcome back this particular configuration of individuals.  ****, it is good
to have you here amongst these others.  Again, welcome!  (Thank you.) And my
warm welcome to all of you.

Tonight I am going to pull an Aaron.  Aaron is here and could in fact have
conducted this conversation and exploration.  However, this TR is more
comfortable with my energy than with Aaron’s.  And so, you have been given
me.  I enjoy, very much, the opportunity to approach you more closely in
this manner.

Several months ago I assigned the lesson on family and asked you to begin
contemplating family.  You have had a good discussion here this evening, and
we are very pleased.  I do however request that you converse with me.  In a
previous meeting my TR shared one attribute that she had considered in
thinking about family.  Momentarily I will release her to again share that
insight.  I would then ask that each of you provide one other attribute of a
family.  You may provide more certainly.  But the idea is to collectively
bring forward components of family as you consider family.  I will release
this TR and then ask her to come back to stillness.  One minute please.

Student #1        I’d forgotten about this until Minearsia began the lesson.
A long time back—I think I’ve shared this—I was meditating on family, and
the component of family that I thought of was support and that our universal
parents provide support.  The Father upholds us, but in the nuclear family
too, that’s one of the things we do for one another.

And then I had this image of the Milky Way.  And I saw the support structure
that was in place with our teachers and our angels and all the extended
beings that are there to support us, and all beings that support them, and
all the beings which support them, right on up to the Trinity, in this
infinity of dense layers of support.  And yet our experience, here on
Urantia, that is so partial, that density is there, yet we don’t fully
experience it.  And in our own experience of family the support is partial,
and I saw stars blocked out with just a couple shining through.

And I saw this contrast between the Milk Way being the ideal and this
. just
scattered stars being our reality.  Part of the challenge in healing is to
become aware of the support and to extend the support to one another, so
that we would have that density that we experience in the Milky Way.  So the
attribute that I would offer that comes from family is support.

Student #2        The thing that hit me when I was trying to do that was the
immensity of family—when you start with your own kids, and if you’ve got
grand kids, and then their families and then their extended families, and
you get out further to this spiritual, morontial families that go on.  You
can find them all in the Urantia book.

But even closer you see them  At a reunion back more than ten years ago,
back in Iowa, I hadn’t seen some of the cousins in years, and they talked
about their families—but not just the families, but the friends of the
families.  So the whole system is immense, and yet it seems to be connected
somehow, that each of us is connected to an immense system, for lack of a
better word, for the reason I think **** has suggested, and that is support.
It is that immense family that we are connected to that ultimately is our
support.  So the word I’m adding is immensity.

Minearsia         Thank you ****
.

Student #3        I think that when I think of family, the ideal family, one
would be acceptance of diversity even within the small nuclear family.  And
of course from there you can go to the tribe or you can go anywhere.  But I
think acceptance is really very difficult because it requires honesty of who
you are.  Which means trust.  And so then you wonder if you really trust
others to know all about you and expect that or know that you’ll have that
support.  So I don’t know whether it’s going to be acceptance or trust or
honesty, that would come first.  But that’s all wrapped up in the fact that
you’ve got to be non-judgmental
. And then you have to be
 well, I’ll stop,
that’s enough attributes.  I had quite a list when I wrote them down.  One
led to another to another to another.

Student #4        When we were all sitting in stillness, Abraham gave me
three pillars talking about family which was integrity, respect, and trust,
which was what you just said, that those three are like pillars of were
family.

Student #5        Well, my thought “lack of judgment” was really one, and
“patience” certainly.  Somehow “joy” is coming into my mind that if you can
have all of these attributes maybe that’s where the joy comes in.  But I
feel like I have been very narrow in my thinking about what family really
is.  And I appreciate all of the comments for how immense and expansive that
it all is, which I think I have known on some level.  Basically my level has
been quite narrow.

Student #6        I enjoyed those stead fastnesses.  An example I think is
the Midwayers staying on this planet until we finally get it, which may be
never
..( group comments and laughter )  ya but they are still here.  I
think of our immediate family, which is extensive.  My father has eight
siblings and my mother has eight siblings, and then each sibling has a
partner and at least five kids.  I know all my cousins and stuff, but the
steadfastness, no matter when someone steps out of line, or goes awry, there
may be a little riff for a short time, but the steadfastness of coming back
and giving the support and all the other attributes.  That’s my word.

Student #7        My word is humor because that gets you over a lot of
bumps, a lot of being able to overlook things that if you didn’t have humor,
I think you would be stuck.  And I remember—this is sort of off the
subject—but before I started reading the Urantia book, I remember thinking
in terms of “us and them,” or “we and they,” you know, from local “us and
them” to global “us and them,” “us and the Russians.”  You know these
conflicts “they are the bad guys” and “we are the good guys.”  And when I
started reading the Urantia Book everything just sort of melted.  It was
like
Oh! God likes all of His children!  Really?  So why do I think I am
right?  Cause our tribe told us I guess.  And I believed it.  Humor really
goes a long way.

Student #8        The word that comes to my mind is nurturance, being
nurtured.  Those of you that know me know that I like to give hugs.  When we
talk of this massive support system that we have, all I see is a lot of hugs
coming up.  It’s going to be fun, what a better way to spread the love of
the Father, through a hug.  So I thank you for that question Minearsia and
greetings this evening.

Minearsia:       Greetings ****.  And I am smiling at you all.  We are a
very pleased staff this evening.  We have been observing your mulling of
this assignment at various times over the past several months and we are not
finished, oh no!  But we are very pleased with the progress that you are
making as you think about family, the ideal family, and note these
attributes.  It will help you to become them in your own living, in your own
relationships.  Whether you are a sibling, a child, a parent, cousin,
friend, observer, acquaintance, or whatever level of relationship you have
with another, you can become these attributes that you envision.

And, I would like to point out to you the parallel and interconnected lesson
series that I began with you many years ago regarding relationship.  As you
contemplate relationship, as you contemplate family, I believe you will
discover the unified whole.

I have no new assignment to give.  I ask you to continue in your pondering
of the ideal family, its attributes, what it is, how far it extends, how you
fit in, etcetera, etcetera, etcetera.  Again my desire is to leave this
assignment wide open so that you each may be led to those ponderings that
will most benefit your own development and growth.  And then we will again
reconnect and bring those pieces into a new page for the book of family we
are building.

Are there any questions this evening on any subject before we disband until
next time?  ( group is quiet )  Well then, my love to each of you, my
pleasure in each of you.  Please close in your usual manner.  Another will
guide you in prayer.

Closing prayer

I am Lynda, I have been given this opportunity.
 Healer, Lover, Father, Mother, Michael, beloved Friend, great Trinity,
these beautiful children stand before you today, hand in hand, seeking
knowledge, seeking comfort, seeking encouragement, seeking camaraderie,
seeking friendship, seeking truth, beauty and goodness, seeking You.  Their
needs are diverse, their situations are diverse, but what is common is their
desire and the need of you.  Be with them over the next time frame that they
may be sustained, that they may experience successes as they try to become
that that they most want.  We as their teachers offer our gratitude to You
for this tremendous experience in loving and nurturing and providing
service.  Thank You Father/Mother.

And now, we the teaching staff, with these our charges say thank you, we
worship You, we love You, and we bid You adieu together as we leave one
another.  Amen



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