MICHAEL – March
10, 2003
Peace be unto you. This is Michael. And I greet you with
tenderness in my heart; my love for you and my devotion
to you. Come into my presence. Let me give your mind rest.
Take the weariness of life off of your shoulders, and place
it in my hands. And I will comfort you and strengthen you.
Think not of these burdens as yours alone to carry. Always
walk with me, and we will share the experiences together.
Let your minds more and more create those cherished moments
of being with me, as we walk hand in hand toward our Father
in Paradise.
The human evolutionary struggle is not meant for you to
walk in isolation. Yes, it is true, your planet has been
quarantined; and many knew not the love of the Father nor
the ways of the Spirit, which ministered constantly into
the minds of humans. But that time is over, my sons. And
now my Spirit of Truth rings strong and true in you, and
calls you into the ever-expanding awareness of life, eternal
life, in sonship, in full communion with your Divine origin
and source.
You
are embarked on the long journey toward perfection in
aligning your will to that of the Father’s. Tonight,
I will address your questions pertaining to the incumbent
difficulties in the evolutionary overcoming of the human
will in favor of doing the divine will. For this is essentially
once faith has been activated, where most of your struggles
lie. Think about where you still have confusion, doubt,
fear, or any sense of resistance to following our Father’s
plan for you. And feel free to share that with me, so I
may add my perspective, not only as Michael of Nebadon,
but as the one who faced the same challenges you now do,
in my persona as Joshua ben Joseph. Please respond when
you feel so compelled.
Student:
Well, Michael, I’ve been working for quite
a long, long time on the question of the will of God. So
the question I have is not that I wonder if I can do the
will of God, or that I am resistant to the will of God.
It’s more being unclear as to what is truly the will
of God for me, in the sense that I can immediately and
intuitively grasp what the message of divinity is, as compared
to anything less that comes through some other levels:
intellect, emotional, ego, cultural, or other people’s
impositions on me, which I’ve seen has been a pattern
in my life.
I’ve
also recently understood that my mind is the bestowal
through the Mother, and recently Mother has been
speaking to us, and has asked us to tune in, because she
wants us to know her better, especially the masculine gender.
So,
here I am wondering: How does the clarity that I need
relate to the willingness of Mother to help us? How might
I avail myself most effectively of that? So, that’s
my question: I’m wanting the certainty of divine
communication connection.
Michael:
My son, in your sincere desire to hear the word of God
within your mind, you do. The faint voice grows
stronger as your desire to follow the Father’s will
grows. You will increasingly expand this conscious recognition
within your body of the Father’s influence, and how
He lovingly and steadfastly guides you in the direction
for your personality to manifest all of the fine and lovely
qualities that you have within you.
Do
not think that because you have not achieved this exquisite,
sustained level of communication that it is not occurring
within you. For I say to you: that desire that you show
is evidence that the Father’s presence is indeed
alive within you. For the very hunger that you have is
activated by the Spirit, So you must not question that
it is working within you. But I have in the past asked
you to be patient. As your teachers have spoken to you
about this very quality, this is where I would ask you
to spend more of your communion time in being holding patient,
watchful demeanor in your thinking.
Your
desire will surely keep you well motivated to achieve
that which you seek. However, there is a tendency to be
anticipatory of a greater capacity than you have yet to
experience. And this is all part of the motivational influence
of your Thought Adjuster, who is actively aligning your
thinking to that of the Father’s. And so you are
experiencing a heightened sense of wanting, of wantfulness.
And this is fine. This is as it should be. For it will
keep you interested, curious, hungry. And the spiritual
life is adventurous. It is rugged.
What
you can do now in your daily moment to moment life is
to ask for what the Father would like to think about
the situation to prevail: ‘Not my thoughts, Father,
but yours. Not my ideas, Father, but yours.’ And
this comes through patient practice of stilling your mind
and allowing your thought streams quiet to the degree that
the inner spirit can imprint onto the conscious mind the
voice of the Father in saying, ‘This is my will,
this is my desire for you, my son.’
The
teachers that we have sent to you have instructed you
about stillness practice. And it was important to begin
to do this, for it sets apart a time of day when you would
be more attuned to allowing the spirit to work within your
mind. And this is good, and is necessary for growth. But
when the desire and the interest and the ability to think
more along spiritual lines has grown to the degree that
you can be consciously and actively seeking to do the Father’s
will, then it is incumbent upon the individual to begin
to practice spiritized thinking throughout the course of
the day. And that is to be consciously aware that it is
not just your thoughts that you wish to think, but it is
the Father’s thoughts that you are seeking to blend
with yours, to meld with yours, and to uplift yours to
a realm where you are doing, thinking, feeling and responding
the way the Father would have you respond as His child.
Be
patient, my son. You are growing, you are responding.
In your thinking, recognize when it is those times of mental
activity that seem to diminish your own sense of connection
or energy, and ask for the Father’s thoughts to supersede
yours. And as you grow more comfortable in doing this,
you will find that indeed the will of God is not just a
thought. It becomes the very essence of who you are. Have
you any comments or questions on this answer?
Student:
Yes. First of all I appreciate very deeply and wonderfully
what you have said. And I know that part of
the time lately, more and more, I have been functioning
in that kind of a way. Because I’m consciously aware
that as I check out this, that or another thing, and I
may come to some sort of a dead end, then I can relax and
say ‘Oh, okay, well, the will of the Father is...’,
and something comes up that’s in line with what’s
left to do. So I’m feeling some noticeable patience
in that realm.
Then
there’s another part of me, that says, ‘but
less than six months from now I’m going to be 60
years old! And that’s old! And I don't look old,
feel old, think old, or anything. But I’m kind of
like, sort of, maybe over the hill. Nothing good’s
going to happen, because, well, it’s downhill from
here on in.’ And I know that’s kind of weird
and nutty to say, but what could you say to that?
Michael: It is a perceptual observation. And here again,
do you wish to see yourself with the eyes of the material
world who says that living a life of 60 or 70 or 80 years
or more is old, and you should be decrepit and worn down?
Or will you look at yourself through the eyes of the Father,
who sees your years of experience as still a very small,
tiny step on the road to a lifelong eternal career that
you have waiting for you? And so, what is 60 years? What
is 1,000 years? It is all a matter of observation.
But if you feel attached to this idea, then you can certainly
ask the Father to help you correct your thinking, and be
desirous of losing your attachment to seeing yourself from
this perspective; and thereby allowing a new attachment
as a small, eternal child to begin to activate your self-perception.
Which would you rather be, young or old?
Student:
The only way I wouldn’t mind being old
is if I happened to be in a category of elder in some particular
context. And I’m not necessarily in that context
right now. So, young in terms of a long, eternal career
sounds really good. I don’t feel I’m attached
to the perspective I mentioned. It’s just something
that comes up a little bit, from time to time; and it does
have some effect, but not an awful lot. So I don’t
think that’s going to be a big obstacle. And I appreciate
the opportunity to ask the Father to help me with replacing
a little bit of that that I do have, with His perspective.
Michael:
The wonderful thing about coming to our Father is that
all of the perceptions of the material world will
be given a new identity when you see yourself through the
Father’s eyes. Things of the material world are fleeting,
and are false in your world at this time. Create a new
reality, not only for yourself, but for the energy on your
planet, by identifying only with that which the Father
wills for you and wants for you. And when you carry that
proudly within you, as an expression of yourself, you will
begin to help this planet overcome their attachment of
things material, in favor of the more spiritual substance
that is the true composition of reality, and thereby helping
your planet to become more spiritized in and of itself.
This is the responsibility that you have as a cosmic citizen.
It is a matter of perspective, and it is always your choice.
Has this helped you in your outlook?
Student:
Yes it has, and particularly the part where you just
said helping to spiritize the perspective on the part
of my fellow planetary citizens. I sensed for a long, long
time that my destiny was involved in some way [end of side
one of tape] that my job, so to speak, in this life, is
to develop myself in such a way, patiently, in conjunction
with the spiritual guides who are there, and develop the
capacity to assist people in truly spiritizing their perspective
and their functionality. So I sense that that is a real
major hint for what my destiny in this life is. And I’m
wondering if you could confirm that any further or more
specifically?
Michael: My son, would that I could tell you your destiny.
But that would be depriving you of the exhilarating experience
of finding it for yourself. You have my love, you have
my support. What further confirmation could you possibly
have need of?
Student:
Touche. I understand. It’s the doing, for
example, of that spiritizing process in helping people
other people. It’s the same. I can’t tell them
or do for them. I am merely somebody who would be able
to assist them in coming to that for themselves. So, you
just expressed what is a perfect example of being a good
example that I’m drawing on in terms of my functioning
in life. So I am doubly appreciative of your last comments.
Michael: We would never wish to deprive you of one iota
of achievement and satisfaction therein. Think how a young
child gains self-confidence and pride by doing something
well and learning a new fact, or making something new.
You are so young, so enthusiastic in your desire for growth.
We are here to support you and to love you and to encourage
you. But never would we want to anticipate the things you
would experience by telling you what you must do or what
you should do. This is your choice.
Some
choices will be better than others. And you will gain
more confidence in making better choices the more
you ask the Father for his perspective and opinion about
your life. But never, never would we deprive you of the
satisfaction of your achievement that comes with making
the right choices that are consistent with the Father’s
will. It is our joy to see you achieve and to do well.
Student:
I have one last comment to make in reference to that.
I’m recalling in my early childhood, around
the ages of two, three and four, that that was a very severe
time for me. And as I perceived it as being deprived of
the nurturing to be able to experience for myself the joy
of discovery, the joy of satisfaction in ways like you
were just describing.
But
even though there were times in my life when I’ve
experienced some pretty major breakthroughs in learning
and growing, there’s been a lot where I felt very
squashed and squelched and so on. So I’ve become
very sensitive to that and to avoid causing other people
to be squelched, and therefore your comments are triply
valuable for me now when I recall that. And how very, very
willing I am of being supportive of but not imposing on
others. Again, thank you.
Michael:
Never hesitate to call on me for my support and my encouragement.
I will be always in your corner, upholding
you. We are all cheering you, our children here on this
world, your Mother and I. You can only succeed if you continue
to follow the Father’s will. Be in my peace, my child.
Student:
Oh, Michael, just hearing you speak fills my heart, so
it is hard for me to talk. Thank you for visiting
with us like this. I don’t know almost any human
being who was aware of what are would not be overcome with
joy to be with you, to actually hear you speaking through
a living, human being, our beloved D.
I would
like to share one thing with you. From time to time,
the other day I was reading something where our scientists
now have dated the age of the universe to exactly 13.6
billion years old, and I was thinking how you, yourself,
are over 400 billion years old. And it occurred to me that
once you read The Urantia Book and fall in love with it,
it puts you in two worlds. All of a sudden you’re
in a world where there are trillions of inhabited planets
in the master universe, and on and on and on.
And
meanwhile you’re in a society that wonders if
there’s another inhabited planet out there somewhere.
And all of something, Michael, I had a wonderful feeling
that in a tiny, tiny minuscule way we are now living your
life, a son of God, with a memory of leaving Paradise,
wants to survive into a galaxy. And yet being around people
in your day maybe wondered if the Earth was flat, or whatever
they believed then. What you did for this revelation, that
no matter how it tears us in two or forces us to live our
lives, I think that’s a wonderful stretch for us,
like keeping one foot on the dock and one foot in the boat.
But that could be the best way to be. Thank you.
Michael: Some day, my son, when you are more advanced
in your spirit career, both in thought forms and substance,
the evolutionary struggle will take on a particular sweetness
and delight, because you will see the poetry in living
and growing and achieving. Unfortunately, too many of your
fellows are lost in the drudgery of daily life to see the
myriad opportunities available to them, the sheer grandeur
of taking this raw human form and making it into this incredibly
brilliant and exquisitely beautiful treasure. You who have
a larger perspective that is offered through your Urantia
text, are now appreciative of the tension that is caused
between the evolutionary nature and the divine influences
as they become strengthened and prominent within you.
And
so you can look forward to feeling this divine call to
increasingly motivate you and cause you more wonder
and more awe in how the Father works within your mind,
urging you, beckoning you, enticing you, to ‘follow
Me’, ‘come with Me’, ‘be with Me’,
and how so doing and seeing the joy and beauty that comes
along with growing in spirit. How could you possibly look
at life as anything but an adventure of : how will I take
this raw quality that I have and turn it into this priceless
treasure that I can give to my Father Creator? How could
you possibly look at it from any other perspective?
And
yet we understand the difficulty inherent in seeing it
from this way. But you have greater awareness and knowledge
of this. And so I encourage you to spend your time in contemplation
of the wonderful gift of life and growth you have been
given. And to increasingly see the raw qualities that you
have becoming increasingly more refined – as a fine
sculpture becomes increasingly more brilliant and lustrous
in the light, in the hands of the master craftsman. And
this is your destiny. Become as beautiful as you can, my
son. Your crowning achievement is a gift to all of the
universe. Have you anything to add at this time?
Student:
No, I think that is almost too full to bear. I feel full
of joy, mainly with your help and with Welmek
the last few years I’m inheriting more and more all
the time. Just the beauty of other folks, every human face
bears the full stamp of the human condition. And it’s
just the uniqueness of one.
I had
a wonderful realization the other day. We have an expression ‘you can’t see the forest for the
trees’. Because of all the individual trees you can’t
see the whole forest. I think for so much of us, Michael,
it’s the other way around. We can’t see the
trees for the forest. We’re so caught up in our own
ideas of other people. Those ideas and concepts we had
to struggle so hard for as children, that we get to the
point where we cling so tightly to our own ideas of other
people – the forest – that we can’t see
the trees, we can’t see the individuals standing
right in front of it. And I just feel lately those individuals
are emerging. It’s a glorious thing.
Michael: There will come a time when you will not only
see the trees, but each leaf and all of the components
of the leaf, as your vision becomes more refined and well-honed.
You will see all the lovely qualities that not only you
but other people are becoming, and all the ways that the
Father works within the individual, to make them so breathless
and beautiful. Oh, what joy it is to be alive! (Amen) And
be in my peace, my son. (Thank you, Michael.)
Student:
Yes, Michael, over the past few days I feel like I’m being stretched beyond my own perceived limitations
in this material world I live in. It seems like the other
day where situations have arisen that the only place I
could go was to God, and to relinquish myself totally into
His will and agenda for me. And I lay down on the floor,
and spread my arms out and said ‘stretch me as far
as I can go’, because I do want to live as you lived
upon this earth – to see things clearly and truthfully,
and to see myself in others.
And
I noticed a peace come over me that had clarity, purpose
and vision. And everything I’ve been reading points
to the same direction and vision, whether it be the Course
in Miracles or Conversations with God or a beautiful prayer
book I have, How Prayer Can Change your Life. It says God
only.
And this is how I want and desire to live. I want to break
through these material limitations that I feel oppressed
by. I want to be financially free, be free of debt, so
I can help and give to others, and share with them who
I am.
Michael:
There is an attitude of freedom that comes in the spirit
that supersedes the material environment. Always
is this conditioned by your perception. It is a matter
of perspective. And in choosing to experience that freedom
in the midst of increasingly oppressive material challenges
is a measure of high spiritual achievement. And if you
have asked to be stretched, my son, then you are going
to be very uncomfortable for a time, when you feel the
weight of the material life as you are being expanded to
look at things with the increasingly liberating and perspective-altering
vision of the Father’s will for you.
If
you have sincerely undertaken this challenge, and I know
in your heart you have, then you must be willing to
undergo what this entails. You will be uncomfortable for
a time, as you feel the burden of material living. The
question to hold in your mind is ‘how will I respond
to this?
In the matter of your financial debt, spend some time
in feeling in that place where you feel the weight of that.
And you know how that feels to you. But would it be any
different if you had the money to pay off your debts? That
would be addressing it at the material level. But if it
is your desire to live in the spirit, then you still may
have the debt, but how will you in your mind approach your
thinking about this debt? Realizing that in time it will
be gone, and the Father is helping you to achieve this.
And you feel a sense of lightness and support, while you
are undertaking working yourself out of this from a material
perspective.
These
are your choices now. It is not that you meet the obligations
from the material perspective. It is that you
conspire with the Father to overcome this and the weight
and the attachment they have to you through the ministry
of the combined resources of the spirit within you. Remember,
my son, there is nothing that we will not help you achieve.
All of your challenges, every one of them, you can effectively
relinquish yourself from now – in the spirit – so
that even though your material life circumstances do not
change, how you approach life liberates you to do the service
that you want to do.
Then
you will see how your outward life begins to change.
It is a matter of perspective. And the more you grow
in
your trust that we are here to help you overcome the handicaps
of material life – through your thinking and approach
to life in your attitude – then the more liberty
and the more light and the more you will enjoy life. It
will be yours to cherish. Have you any comments on this?
(Tape ended at this point).
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