06/23/2002

Ham: Greetings, children, I am Ham and I am grateful to
have you all together again this evening. We have much
to speak about. You are all growing and making
progress in your lives. You are each moving forward
with your commitment to your struggle to be more and
more God-like in your humanness. You are all working
to create lives that are an expression of your values. It is
a joy to work with such honest and courageous people.

There is also within you each a struggle for balance and
for inner peace. I say a struggle for inner peace
because so much of your lives are engaged in the battle
of living that peace can be elusive. Each of you is also
going through inner change, transition, in your lives.

All of you have been relatively wild in your youths. You
have been people that rebelled, that charted out a
course of individualism. None of you are the docile
types who follow the beaten path. You have all been
thought of as somewhat crazy by your peers and family
at one time or another. And this very rebelliousness, this
refusal to be simply accepting of life as you find it, this is
what makes you part of that precious few who do in fact
change the world just a little bit.

People tend not to question the reality that is taught, the
world view that is passed from one generation to the
next. But every so often, there is a generation of original
thinkers born into this world and these people are
instrumental in changing the course of history in actual
fact. You, my friends, are so absorbed in your
immediate problems and your immediate struggles that
you fail to see that you are truly part of something much
larger and much more important, far reaching, and
noble. For as you work and worry and struggle with life,
you are actualizing higher values than those who have
gone before you. You are bringing forth the fruit of a
growing tree, a tree with roots deep in the human soil,
but with branches reaching up to heaven receiving life
from the greater spiritual realms.

This generation has a very important role to play in the
future of your world. The values which you bring to bear
in your daily lives are greater and more profound than
most generations before you had to tackle. The
progress of humanity depends on this very thing, this
very ability of you children to reach high for spiritual
strength, value, and purpose and to pull this into your
every day lives.

Progress of a nation, or a civilization is not found in the
speeches of its leaders. It is not found in its political
organization, in its justice system, in its philosophy, nor
in its art, though all those things reflect what I speak of.
Progress is truly made when you grapple with the
problems of the day and grasp for the highest response,
the highest valued understanding you can achieve and
bring this down to the level of the small daily trouble.
You do not make progress by espousing one set of
values in church on Sunday or in synagogue, or at a
mosque, and then using the common value, the
everyday coinage of how people treat one another in
your daily lives. Civilization does not progress by
reverting to magic, superstition, nor idolatry, though
these things are rampant in all society throughout the
world. They are simply unacknowledged.

When you live by a higher value system, others do not
mistake it in your lives, it is plain to everyone. When you
live on a higher spiritual plain, you give light to those
who sit in darkness. It does not help them to talk about
light, you must be light.

Again, do not be surprised to find that you are human.
Have sympathy with your human failings as you would
that of a child. Don't try to hide your shortcomings from
your selves. Acknowledge them, embrace them and
transform them. It takes true courage to see yourselves,
to admit your failings to God and yourselves. This is the
root of humility. Humility is honesty.

When you have tried something, tried and failed, that is
when you can glimpse your true self. It is also when you
can remove your fear of failure. It is also when you can
understand that withing failure, there is really the truth
of victory. When you have tried and failed, there is
nothing left to do but try again and then the fear of
failure is not so strong and eventually the understanding
grows that there is no failure. You each grow in your
inner truth through all your experiences. It is this inner
truth which glows in the darkness of ignorance. It is this
inner truth which draws others to you.

The world is made up of darkness and light. The more
you incorporate the values of the spirit, the more you
grow toward that light, the more you become that light.
Make no mistake, you are like candles that the Father
places to give light to his children. The Father will place
you where you need to be. Think only of growing in the
light and shining more and more and thus you will be
placed higher and higher.

You are all doing wonderfully well. I know you question
yourselves, I know you doubt yourselves, and you doubt
your purpose at times. But let me reassure you each
that the light within you is just beginning to burn and you
absolutely must shine your light for all to see. That is
your purpose. Are there any questions at this time?

Q: Yes Ham, may I have a personal message please?

Ham: Certainly my son. You are doing better every day.
Gradually, you are being healed by the power of the
spirit. Emotionally, I perceive a great amount of healing
and a balance being found that has eluded you. I also
see old fears gradually dying as love replaces these
things in your heart. Be at ease my son. Though growth
is painful, not growing is even more so. You are finding
your way day by day and in this there is peace. You are
doing well.

Q: Ham do you have any counsel for me today?

Ham: Certainly, my son you are doing well. You are
growing greatly in the spirit. You have found your way
by trusting in the Father. You are growing robustly and
are also healing many old wounds. Your health has
greatly improved and your life circumstances, little by
little, step by step, improves as you learn the lessons of
following in the Master's footsteps humbly and willingly
applying yourself to a trade which is a service to others.
Those who walk the way of the Master have him beside
them and his refreshing spirit will give strength and the
ability to carry on when you are weary and even
discouraged. Drink deeply of the cup he offers you.
Continue to follow him. Yes you do well.

Q: Do you have anything for Rebecca?

Ham: My daughter, you do well. You are finding your
way, slowly and surely, along the path before you. You
are certainly courageous and daring in your efforts. You
also are growing through increasing trust in the Father's
good graces. Never forget that all is supplied by the
Father's will. As you cleave ever more closely to his
hand, he will supply you with guidance you require.
Sometimes when you become fearful you also become
withdrawn and headstrong. But this is understood and
as you continue to grow

you will relax more and more in the Father's arms and
allow his blessings into your life. And especially, you will
allow fear to gradually dissolve and be washed away in
your baptism of the spirit.

Q: Jarad?

Ham: Yes indeed. My son, you also do well. But also
you allow fear to intrude and even to dominate much too
much. Gradually you must learn to relax your grip on the
world and to allow the Father to carry you once in a
while. Your fear of letting go is manifest in many ways
and yet complete control of anything is impossible. The
mind cannot dominate and control the body. The mind
must gradually release its dominance and allow the
body to be controlled by the higher mind, even the spirit.
The more you try to control the body, the more out of
control its reactions and demands will become.

Q: May I have a personal message Ham please tonight?

Ham: Of course my daughter. My dear, you do well. You
are also relaxing in your life. You are trusting the Father
more and, as in everyone, this is achieved in small
steps. You are moving from one spiritual level to
another and this is unsettling and difficult. But this is
how progress is achieved. If spiritual progress was an
easy thing, this world would be a place of light and life.
But, spiritual progress is difficult and thus progress is
highly valued. When something is hard won, it is highly
prized. There are many well meaning souls who write
prescriptions for spiritual progress as though it was the
easy rode, a simple pill to swallow. But these illusions
quickly fall and the hard work of spiritual progress
resumes. Never feel that you are behind or failing
somehow in spiritual effort for this is not so. You are just
where you need to be. You are learning that which you
need to know and you are giving others that which they
need as well. All of this is growth and none of it is easy.
Be at peace my children, you all do well.

Q: Marije. Do you have any advice for me about a
person close to me who uses drugs?

Ham: Certainly. My daughter, be at ease. This person
must find for himself in his own way the emptiness and
illusory nature of this path. We do not ever blanketly
condemn the practices that are common upon this
world. It is not my place to judge the path of another nor
is it your path to do so. Your path my dear is your own.
You can be an example but you cannot be a judge.
Each person must find the way for themselves. There is
no right way leading to enlightenment. Everyone finds
what they need to learn in their own way and in their
own time. You cannot worry or try to change another's
path through your worry. I would say to all of you, and
this you know yourselves, drugs are not an answer.
They are simply endowed with the illusions you give
them. The real path lies in temperance, and cleanliness
in every way. Polluting the body with poisons in order to
create an illusion takes you off the path for a time.
Sometimes, the struggle of life requires a break, an
escape if you will, but this can certainly be found in
other ways. Usually the pressure of life are not as great
as you make them out to be and human beings tend to
multiply their pressures by using these very substances
that are supposed to relieve these pressures. Turn to
the Father for your relaxation. Turn to him for peace and
for comfort. His is the water of life, not the poisons that
lead to death.

Q: Norbert would like a personal message.

Ham: Certainly my son. You do well and you are making
progress in all areas of you life. Grow in patience my
son. Patience is required as you grow in the spirit. Don't
allow yourself to condemn yourself or to be impatient
with yourself. You are not making the mistakes you may
think you are. Trust increasingly in the Father's
benevolent love. Rest in the assurance of his Divine
ministry. Be at peace with yourself and with others.

Q: Do you have a personal message for Charlie B?

Ham: Certainly. My son, be at peace. You do well in all
things. Know that much of your distress in life comes
from simple fatigue and weariness. Don't push yourself
so hard. Allow for rest and renewal of the spirit.

Q: Do you have any feedback for me this week?

Ham: Certainly my son. You are doing very well. Your
life is very full and your progress is steady and sure.
Reach out to the Father with love and gratitude. Allow
him to heal that which needs to be healed and allow him
to give you that which you need. Sometimes you also
tend to be strong willed and you tend to reject help in
favor of self-sufficiency. But the Father stands ever
ready to provide his help and guidance. It is your job to
learn to reach for it.

You all do well my children. Until next week, my love
and my prayers are with you. That is all, farewell.