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Michael 12.20.04

Marin TM Group

Dear Michael and Mother Spirit, Merry Christmas! And for You especially,
Michael, Happy Birthday! Though it seems, Michael, that Your real birthday
was sometime in August of the year, perhaps it is very appropriate that a
large part of the world - people of all religions and beliefs - celebrate
Your birth and Your coming to us at this time of year, which is the end of
one year and the beginning of another. For this, it seems, is one of your
greatest gifts to us, this message that after we go through a kind of
personal winter of death and hibernation, there comes then a glorious spring
of rebirth. We look forward to meeting You face to face some day in that
glorious spring. Amen.

Michael: Good evening, My children, this is Michael. I thank you for your
heartfelt welcome and your celebration. What a joy it is for Me to feel the
peoples of Urantia using this occasion to renew their relationships with
each other. This is a wonderful occasion indeed when folks allow themselves
to suspend their disbelief in things of a spiritual nature, let their hair
down, so to speak, and greet each other as the true brothers and sisters of
God?s family that they really are.

This allows a certain profound truth of human being to be perceived and
joyfully exchanged. It warms the heart and thrills the soul and whispers
ever so lovelingly, ?This is what is possible. This is real? - this simple
and profound joy of just being together. Taking time to simply enjoy each
others? company is really at the heart of the season.

Don?t worry or concern yourselves, My children, with all of the so-called
material trappings. They can fade away and, in fact, between real friends,
and parents and children, they really do fade away for much of this season.
They?re merely gaudy, but often heart-felt tokens of affection - hollow
enough without the affection, and yet rich beyond expression with affection.
So see if you can glimpse through all the hustle and bustle of shopping,
all the feelings, sometimes, of duty that people take on as a requirement,
see through all of this the struggle of one heart trying to communicate its
love for another. For even that search for the perfect gift is mainly to
see the delight of surprise in another?s eyes on Christmas morning.

There is some well-meaning worry that Christ will be lost in Christmas. But
I assure you I am beating in every heart. I am there to be felt and
experienced. This is truly a holiday, a holy day, if sometimes only a very
slight vacation from the economic necessities of life. But even the hard
facts of food and shelter and warmth, when these are shared with a joyful
thanksgiving for life itself, can be indeed a holy occasion. So don?t worry
or fret about how your neighbor may be celebrating this time. Feel your own
heart beating with My love and share My joy freely. Don?t assume to know
what is in another?s heart, but give generously of your own, even, or I
might say - especially - in your perceptions.

This complete acceptance, one of another, is the true spirit of My birthday.
For it was to deliver this message to all My realms that I was born on
Urantia. It was to announce the loving fatherhood of God and the joyful
brotherhood and sisterhood of all races on all My worlds that I so dearly
loved and enjoyed the life I spent with you. So much joy, so much happiness
did I know. For, after a while, once I too was able to grow and find a
deeper communion with our Father, then I could see Him in everyone, even my
most bitter enemies. So what you celebrate and are capable of enjoying so
deeply at this holiday season, remember, My children, I was able to perceive
constantly.

Quite regularly - just as I have invited you to do - I found it helpful to
commune with our Father. This was very much a part of, and not in any way
separate from, My perception of all my brothers and sisters in the flesh as
My children. So take heart in this season. Let My Spirit of Truth shine
like a beacon in your heart and reveal a year-long reality to those about
you, for this can be something that endures beyond the season. There will
always be ups and downs in your ability to experience this so directly. It
is, for so many, still more an ideal than a reality. But here, My children,
is where the ideal and real are one in faith. There is no separation here
in My sight - to see your brothers and sisters as real spirit beings,
precious beyond measure in My eyes. These are living beings, who, with our
Father, are growing souls of eternal potential. These are the precious
beings surrounding you.

What a season this is! Each of the worlds religions or systems of beliefs
has this magical moment within it, this recognition of the miracle of birth,
the beginning of something of infinite potential in a small human child,
becoming, seemingly out of nothing, the pure creativity of an absolutely
unique personality with self-awareness, growing into this real, ideal
spiritual awareness that all the past is but the beginning of the next
moment. So now at this season especially we worship the miracle of our
Father?s creativity in each and every single child born. For look! -
another little nodule of God Himself has come into being and someday, ages
and ages, eons upon eons from now, this child of God will have traversed a
universe to stand face to face with his or her Creator and be embraced on
the threshold to eternity.

As it is My joy and delight for you to see Me and feel Me in your heart as
your Father, so too see Me as a little child looking about in unknowing,
incomprehensible wonder and awe, just as you once did. And so I bid you, My
children, Happy Birthday also. I ask you, please, share this one with Me.
Celebrate your life with Me. See the little child you once were, taking
those first awkward, uncertain steps into the future. Our Father has a big
universe out there, My sons and daughters. You will always be a little bit
like children in the face of that. And in the awesome face of that, it does
us so well to share our lives with each other. We learn - in some wonderful
way - it makes all that universe manageable - as if it were made for each of
us alone. So join with Me in thanking our Father for this life we can
share.

Do you have any questions you wish to share with Me, or just any comments?
I am always happy to be here for you.

Student: Dear Michael, I would like to get more insight on what it means to
make a dec?ah, as like when You were - after Your baptism - you made
decisions of record which, I would assume, would be the Personalized Thought
Adjuster. Could You help us make firmer decisions with our Thought
Adjusters?

Michael: Yes, V, it may be helpful to consider what the fragment of God,
that shares your life with you, does in this way. The record that is being
kept of your life, including decisions you make, is, from a human
standpoint, seemingly automatic. I say seemingly because nothing that God
does is automatic. Everything flows from His perfect will and is
absolutely realized - what you would perceive as - instantaneously. A
record is being kept of your life for both Him and you. And this is your
soul, this is your eternal possession and wealth.

Your Father Fragment, along with other spiritual influences such as Myself
and your Mother Nebadonia, your guardian seraphim, and now other celestial
personalities that you are tuning into; all of these impinge upon you by
personally trying to help you achieve - for it is an achievement - those
decisions by which you are free to choose who you will become. You can best
perceive this by something I touched on this evening - the reality of the
ideal. Devote the time and the effort to exercise your spiritual sense of
values in making these decisions. You only need to record these decisions,
for yourself, in terms of openness as to what these decisions incur, and the
willpower or determination it takes to exercise these decisions as you go
forward.

This memory/recording is for you alone - to help you remember these
decisions, and how these decisions affect you and others. The other record
being made is strictly for your soul, and this is God?s will and perfect
ability with respect to this part of your life. Think of some of the
suggestions We have offered in the past on how to tune into your soul, one
of which, I suggested many weeks ago, was to relive moments of your life as
purely as they happened to you originally. In this way you can revisit past
decisions in the pristine innocence with which you made them the very first
time. For here you will be touching your Father Fragment?s record. Does
this help answer your question, My son?

(To be continued)