11.11 List 48

Illawarra District, Australia, February 11, 2004.

Primary Midwayer, Andrea.
Subject: "The Most Vital Factor."

Received by George Barnard.

Andrea: "We thank you, Almighty Father, for giving us life on this unique and important planet. We thank you, Brother/Father Michael for creating this wonderful world.

"And I especially thank you, Mother Spirit, for providing me with your esteemed daughters, my learned taskmasters, and the mind endowment that allows me to be a teacher to my beloved human kin so dear to my heart. This is Primary Midwayer, Andrea, bringing my greetings to you, my dear brother, and thrilled to be invited to bring a lesson for someone in need, and a few words that may well go out to many.

"A heartening lesson is needed, and I hope you will find me well prepared and that somehow, for now and into the future, my words will allow changes into the mindedness of many students. This is for those who feel tormented, and are plaguing themselves in the process of masticating over their regrets and outright guilt about their past behaviors.

"We are here on a most wonderful and picturesque planet, a tiny brilliant isle with a tremendous amount of space all around. It is a tiny jewel, lost for ages in a black velvet expanse. Extraordinary in its design, it is however a long way from becoming a normal world. Long isolated, myriad are the aspects that need correction in people’s mindsets and behaviors.

"No, we cannot cover it all, but I may at least deliberate about the most vital factor that needs lots of thought and understanding. In striving for perfection, beauty, truth and what is right, you mortals on this planet have a brilliant start to your careers, because there is so much that needs to be healed.

"You are so deeply troubled, and it is in your progress to become better persons, in your striving to improve yourselves, that you will often, suddenly, and at seemingly inappropriate moments recall your failings of the past-something said or done, words unspoken or a task neglected. These little "blinks" of history, often of a long, long-ago time, will surface in your mind, yet the object of these exercises of them being brought back to memory are for the purpose of healing.

"They are there to consider, and then to be done away with for good and with the realization that one has progressed well beyond these stages, to close the episode and forgive oneself. So often, however, your responses on this world are inappropriate in the sense that you will become annoyed by remembering these things, and by allowing yourself to further build on the guilt that is already carried.

"These tiny fragments of the past that may surface in your minds are not meant to put more weight on your shoulders. To the contrary, they are meant to be looked at, analyzed, turned upside down and inside out, seen as a learning experience, and then fully forgiven.

"So many of you find it easy to forgive others that are supposedly imperfect, so hard to forgive yourself as if you were flawless in your every way. With a defunct understanding of your selves being rather the regimen on this planet, it is most vital for you to learn to wipe your slates clean, a little at the time, and as these thoughts are known to, and are meant to surface as you progress in age.

"Indeed it is the Father, who in loving and caring for you all makes it so. Fear of retribution, hellfire and damnation, by a vengeful Creator is so wrongly and deeply imbedded in your collective psyche, you find it hard to consider that if He required for you to be perfect from birth, He would have made you that way.

"This is Andrea. Pass on my love to all who will hear."

It’s all Relative

As was Ruth from a strange land
Abandoned by widowhood but not by a Relative
So I have come with destitution
Into Your land of plenty,
Your love, Your peace.
And I have everything.
In You I have all...
And am All.

Posted February 24, 2004
US of A, February 12, 2004

Christ Michael (Jesus).
Subject: "Give Us This Day Our Daily Bread."

Received by Jim Young.

Jesus: "Jim, your utter dependence on Me completely shows your rational understanding of true independence has matured significantly and is being perfected by selfless service.

"Perhaps your fellow humans, who scrape, scamper and scurry in trying to make a living any way they can, cannot or refuse to grasp this. But you have felt the destitution, as your poem suggests, of not being fulfilled without your true Relative, the Kinsman Redeemer spoken of in the Hebrew text you allude to.

"‘Give us this day our daily bread’ also echoes this thought in that the very truest, the most complete nourishment and need-meeting is done by the Father’s love and grace. I am a part of that grace, that favor that feeds your deepest hunger. Bread was also a very common need in My human lifetime, just as it is in yours. But let bread here signify any true need for the Father. It can include restorative phenomena such as forgiveness and belonging as well as mental, spiritual or physical healing.

"What need do you have, Jim? [For] Any need you have [there] is bread to satisfy that need, which is My delight and joy to supply. Everyone comes to Me empty, only to be filled to the extent that I spill over out of their lives into the lives of others.

"Thus do I multiply Myself."

Posted February 29, 2004
US of A, February 13, 2004

Christ Michael (Jesus).
Subject: "One Day At A Time."

Contributing Receiver.

Michael: "There is no need to hurry on the path, and I want you to put out of mind any sense of urgency you may feel about completing the curriculum. Our Father’s Plan for steady human advancement is a perfect plan, and therefore there is no need for a sentiment of failure because you do not quickly learn all the lessons He presents you with.

"So frequently have you cried out, "How often must I fail?" Be patient, for you know that in reality one learns more permanently by countless trials and many errors. You often hear Me tell you that you do well on the journey, so trust in Me for it is the truth. You are advancing step by step towards the goal of peace on earth, which begins with you as you love one another and practice forgiveness. Leave the battles of life to our Father, for there is never a need for warfare.

"Let us simply take each day, one day at a time. There is enough to do each day without you ever taking along the burden of unforgiveness from what is past and gone. If you have been wounded on the battleground of your yesterdays, I ask you to heal yourself. Recover from your wounds with the healing balm of forgiveness. And, yes, you wound yourself so often, too.

"Forgive yourself for your impatience, for the Path is slow but perfect. I will remind you often of that truth.

"Enjoy today, the now, and become familiar with the principle of living each day in the present. The past is but like a dream, and you would surely not repeat a bad dream over and over again.

"Let us press on together to receive all that is good in the present, and let us appreciate this unblemished day, while we do all we can to further peace and love in our Father’s Universe."

Posted March 2, 2004
Illawarra District, Australia, February 29, 2004.

Teacher Samuel.
Subject: "The Better of Two Options."
(Or the Least of Two Evils.)

Received by George Barnard.

Samuel: "I’m with you my dear friend and student. My love and respect for you dwells in my heart, my mind and my soul. It is a blessing for me to be with you through good times and bad in this ‘marker’ of the twelfth year of our association, even though for the greater time of our liaison you remained oblivious to the source of this regular input.

"Be assured that for us both all our time together has been of great value, as we each managed to progress in our age-long endeavor to eventually reach a state of total perfection. One could hardly imagine a greater contrast between our home worlds. For the likes of me, having grown up in an environment in the middle stages of Light and Life, it an amazing learning experience to dwell in your neighborhood and to perceive the goings on in a world still chaotic in its ways.

"To have lived in an environment where goods, services, ideas and intellectual property were freely shared, it has been an eye-opener for me to visit a civilization where little is shared without it requiring payment of some kind. I have found a culture where patents are awarded for discoveries dealing with essential, survival commodities such as food and medicine, and where even common language needs to be trademarked and copyrighted.

"We witness your modes of operation, your ways of doing things, and in almost all instances you must chose the better of two or more options, and, or, often the lesser of two or more evils, to survive in this world. And it is the fear of non-survival, and the need to jealously protect self, by individuals and corporations alike that have set the tone for abundance for each to be siphoned off into the overflowing ‘portfolios’ of the few.

"These circumstances make it difficult to live an ideal life, yet against the rather ideal model that is my world, I point out the enormous advantages of yours. In almost all you do there are choices, decisions to be made about the best ways or the lesser evils, and these decisions build character and strength, which is much less likely to be invested in on more regulated spheres.

"Countless, countless are the universe creatures that feel for you when you lose. Vast is the number of Our Father’s progeny that rejoice, and cheer you on when you win. Myriad are your siblings that envy you your status on this world, that so cultivates the leaders, the decision-makers, yes, the politicians for His ever-expanding universes.

"Your opportunities for progression, for learning, for the further development of character brings to my mind the expression "fabulous. Few worlds in the local system will allow an individual to gain such a major head start in the process of ascension as is available to you on your world.

"You might surely visualize the near ideal workings on the planet from which I hail. And still, there is every reason for your citizens to fare well on your world, where one must so frequently weigh up the greater good, to find the nearest, although often-still blemished best way to go about any project.

Be assured that in your rejoicing over a victory, and your despair about a failure, there are always the likes of me who will ‘look over’ your lives, your wins and losses and wish that for their career starts such a trying, learning time could have been had.

"Do stay with the battle. There are countless beings that are monitoring the progress, the dedication, and the sizeable results of your cooperative endeavors that will help bring your world into Love and Light.

Charmed to be here, and pleased to add my contribution to Andrea’s recent lesson, this is Samuel. I send my love to all."