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TEACHER: Christ MICHAEL
TOPIC: Christmas Message
Prayer: Dear Michael and Mother Spirit. Greetings! We welcome you with open minds and open, humble hearts. We invite
you to come be with us – especially tonight. We thank you for the power that you and our mutual Father have given us:
the power of self awareness, the power to create and choose our own destiny, the power to know this dignity of being a free
will creature of yours, and even the power to disregard you, to totally ignore you. And so tonight we open our hearts and
minds and ask you to help us, help us be self forgetful, help us feel your presence. We love you very much and it is a bit
overwhelming to feel your love for us. Thank you for everything. Amen.
MICHAEL: Good evening, my children. This is Michael. Mother and I do wish you a joyous Merry Christmas. This is a
special time of year and special time throughout the Local Universe. Yet, my children, Christmas is not about Christianity,
or Islam, or Buddhism, or Judaism, or Hinduism--just to name a few of so many. Christmas is not even about me, or about my
life I lived among you as Jesus. Christmas is about you. Christmas is about your life and all the lives that you know and
treasure so dearly. This is the true meaning of Christmas, this thankfulness and love that we can share together, this uniting,
this coming together of our souls to rejoice that we are! Here we are -- God’s creations, creatures of His infinite
creativity.
Christmas is about you. Christmas is about
this spirit of yours, these unique personalities you have, endowed with spirit, endowed with creativity, endowed with this
power you mentioned that gives you choice, gives you freedom. For even though Mother
Spirit and I call you children -- and in a way you are, truly – the two of us along with our Life Carrier sons, along
with the whole development of our Local Universe now these billions of years, all this has gone up into the pattern beings
you are, graced and united with God’s pure creation of your personalities. And
yet in a way you are not ours at all. You belong to yourselves, yourselves and God.
You have the presence of God right within
you, part of you. It is how God experiences life with you, my children, and that creates
your soul, and so your soul is counter-parted by this presence that is absolute and infinite. You belong to your selves and
to God. It’s his presence within you that was the essence of my teaching as Jesus.
This was my religion; this is what I practiced; this is what I gloried and delighted in--my contact, my communication with
my Father. And this was my religion. Not the
religion about me, but the religion that each of you knows inside – your relationship with God -- for it is this relationship,
my children, that gives you yourself, even as your Creator created you – unique and individual.
There is something inside you, part of
you that supersedes all ecclesiastical authority of whatever, all social authority, all political authority, even perhaps
the coercive authority of your well-meaning, loving friends. This is what gives you
freedom. This is what gives you the ability to create and choose and decide and become
the co-creator along with the whole rest of the universe, the whole world around you and the people in it, and still you are
the co-creator of your own reality. And this could be the basis of the most profound
loneliness an individual creature could know, this realization that you are unique.
For all the while you are universally a
human being, there is that which is in you known only to you and to God. True enough
Mother Spirit and I, Creator Son/Creator Daughter of Nebadon, we too experience you in all fullness: your personality, your
spirit, your soul, even as much of your faults you care to share with us; but even we are not God. There is that special relationship
of God to each and every one of the personal beings he creates. And so my dear ones,
you have the finest company so far yet beyond your imagination, and what you experience
in these lives of yours, these lives that you share with each other, it is the presence of God sharing it with you that makes
it his own.
God vouchsafes this cosmic reality, this new
birth of an eternal soul. This is what I would invite you to share, not only at Christmastime,
which does honor my birth among you, but this is what I would invite you to perceive in each other -- feel each other, fully
experience each other as spiritual beings, unique beings. For then you can marvel all the more fully that you can relate,
you can share so much between you, among you. This is that beautiful co-creation which
you and your beloved ones create and sustain in each other. You literally give each other life, even as Mother Spirit, the
Holy Spirit of Urantia, gives life to you. This is how you share her, and me, among
you.
This is my Spirit of Truth orienting you to
an endless, literally endless, discovery of more truth, more individual personal beings, on and on, with your whole universe
out there with hundreds of orders of beings to encounter, to cherish, and to make their reality your own. But back here on
earth we invite you to cherish and acknowledge each other, even on a busy city sidewalk. Here
they come! Every one unique. Every face bearing the full stamp of the human condition.
Thrill in this, delight in this uniqueness, my children, and marvel all the more that you can share so much with each other.
There is that quality of not only physical and mental but even spiritual recognition … and so glorious, so delightful,
so intrinsically joyful.
Let that lively, dancing, spirit tickle
you until you can hardly stand it. Forget yourselves. Forget yourselves and fill your
souls with another. Forget yourselves and be the helping hand of our Father, reaching out.
Reaching out to touch and be touched. Don’t be afraid of this, my children.
There is that within you that is imperishable. You need not be afraid to touch and
be touched, for this sharing is what truly fills your souls. And to realize each one of you belongs to himself or herself
alone, with God. As one of your poets put it so succinctly, to keep it in your mind
and not forget, it is not he, nor she, nor them, nor It--that you belong to. This is
the essence of holidays and holy days in whatever religion. This joy is to set everything else aside for awhile and get together
and laugh and rejoice simply that we are.
It’s a marvel of existence itself that
God so beloved all of us that he created us, unique and individual, and able to share His ability to enjoy another and then
another. So this Christmas, be gone dull fear! Be
gone loneliness! Be gone self-centeredness and worry.
Give your poor bedraggled egos a rest. Forget yourselves to be there for another. Let their spirit, let their soul fill yours. This
was my religion. This was my glory here. All
these people here, all these sons and daughters I came to know, all those I loved and who loved me so dearly. This became as it will for you, that totally irreducible glory of a human life.
Merry Christmas, my dear ones! Each moment let us just step off together, welcoming that enormous unknown our Father lays before us, with hope
and the certain assurance of his love, this glorious spiritual light suffusing all of creation we take time out from time
to time to acknowledge and enjoy. Mother Spirit sends her love and I bid you: be in
my peace.
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* Peace on Earth *
God is always bringing us closer to Him. |
Heavenletter #4413 Change That Tune God said:
Even as time does not exist, now is time for you to cease being disappointed in yourself. You know exactly what I mean.
You are hard to please. There is no end to the fault you find in yourself. Often you ask yourself: "Why did I do that? Why
did I say that? Why didn't I this and why didn't I that?" Your list is endless. It may begin with: "Why is my nose shaped
this way?" to "Where has the love in my heart gone?"
Or you may project your plaints with yourself upon others: "What is the matter with those people? Look what so and so said."
You may not like the sound of someone's voice, and you hold it against him or her.
Like yourself more. Be content more with yourself, and you will perceive life, and your life, quite differently.
What you really complain about, what your axe is to grind, stems from your attitude toward yourself.
You have picked on yourself enough. You have picked on the world enough. Desist piling on your plaints on yourself and
on others. It has been so easy for you to find fault. You can pick at anything.
You do know the cure, beloveds. Count your blessings. Make a different kind of assessment.
You may like to think that you are being noble to acknowledge what you would like to change about yourself. Stop acknowledging,
and change then.
You are not a terrible person. You are a good person only you cast dispersions too much, on yourself and all around you.
Turn in all your complaints. Like your looks. Like, for like breeds like. Fault-finders breed fault. Love yourself. Love the
Universe. Love even those you like to think you don't like. The truth is that you are fond of them. They may drive you up
the wall. The truth is that you drive yourself up the wall of yourself you have fabricated.
Build yourself up instead of pulling yourself down. Become a friend to yourself. Be your own best booster. And when you
have a complaint about another (yourself,) you don't have to voice it.
When you want to criticize your child, substitute what you like about your child. Reinforce your child. Beloveds, this
is the only way to make your way in the world. Become a rose who bursts forth and forget the thorns, the sharp thorns of your
own thoughts. Choose the round edges of life. Choose the blessings to see and the blessings to grow. What you want yourself
to be more of is something to like in yourself. How wonderful that you aspire to be greater. Yes, that is good. And now be
it.
If you want to be less critical, then be less critical. If you want to be more open-hearted, then be more open-hearted.
If you want to know a great love, then be love. Love is opposed to criticism. Love says to another: "You are wonderful right
now. This is what I like about you." Love says the same to yourself. Love lifts you up. It certainly doesn't pull you down.
Beloveds, what if you were I? What if you were God? Would you then sit around bemoaning the past? If you were I, would
you yell error?
If you were I, how you would love. Your attention would be so turned to love that you wouldn't even have the notion to
think of anything less. Love thyself. And if you are an imperfect human being, still love yourself. You have come far. You
are a stellar being. Now, enlighten yourself to your own worth, and you enlighten the world. |
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John - Cleveland Ohio USA
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