[tmtranscripts] N. Idaho TeaM 1/25/04

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North Idaho Teaching Mission Group
Topics: Blessed are the Peacemeakers
Teachers: Darid

January 25, 2004

*	Darid (Jonathan TR):  Said Jesus, ”Blessed are the 
peacemakers.”  I ask, What about peacemaking brings such divine 
recognition?  I am Darid.  I wish to bring thoughts to your 
minds that may encourage you to be peacemakers in the kingdom of 
heaven.
	Obviously making peace implies that there is conflict out of 
which peace is the sought solution, the end result, and it goes 
without saying that in life there will always be some degree of 
conflict, some friction, viewpoints that agitate another.  It is 
an ideal that all experience peace, that each one experiences 
camaraderie, affection, similarity of viewpoint.  Yet owing to 
the fact that God has given each one of us personality unlike 
any other’s, we will never experience identical perspectives, 
nor will we value any ideal or any goal with the same 
importance.  Each one will invest in a stand, a perspective, 
according to the appropriateness of the time period in which one 
functions.
	Making peace, while not successful as applied in an attempt 
to smooth over differences, is powerful when applied with the 
intention of integrating differences.  Every effort made to 
clarify the reasons behind conflicting views expedites the 
arrival of the experience of peace among the parties.  And the 
blessings to one who seeks peace are the development in oneself 
of honor and respect, of worth, value of oneself, of heightened 
appreciation of that which drives and motivates others and 
oneself, and the development of the skill of interweaving 
conflicts into a network that is coordinated.
	Any encounter of friction, of agitation, exists only for a 
short period of time and is often resolved.  It may not be 
resolved rightfully; conflict may cease through dominance,  with 
one more powerful than another and therefore that viewpoint 
reigns.  Or it may be resolved through peacemaking, the 
diplomacy of mutual understanding and resolve and coordinated 
accommodation.  The event will come and pass, but that which 
remains becomes the possession of those who pursue peace: 
character traits, behavioral modifications, and attainments that 
will apply across your life in many ways, peaceful or not.  
While peacemaking brings harmony and joy and fellowship, the 
peacemaker is blessed beyond the making of peace.  It is the 
accumulation of these skills I have spoken of that becomes your 
reward.
	As you grow you deepen your relationship with God.  While 
you grow you accumulate many spiritual fruit.  It is often the 
fruit that is sought and used as the benchmark of growth.  If 
you can see that you are more patient, kinder, more peaceful, it 
is assumed you have grown.  While this is true, for these 
acquirements are the result of your growth, seeking them alone 
is not growth.  They are the results.  Growth is deepening your 
relationship with God and, resultant from that, the deepening of 
your fellow relationship, in understanding your position in the 
family of God.  Your perspective of every one of your fellows 
becomes integrated into an enlarged picture of multi-purposes.   
Each purpose is the driving force behind everyone else’s growth.  
As you view this you are better positioned to accommodate those 
actions and pursuits of others that appear to result in 
conflict.
	Eventually in spiritual maturity acceptance replaces the 
tendency to correct or to dominate another’s pursuit of truth.
	You understand that each one of you is not to be identical 
to one another, that diversity is the beautiful manifestation of 
personality bestowed by the Father of all, and that to 
homogenize yourselves would run counter to the will of the 
Father who desires the experience of all the variety that each 
represents.  While peacemaking implies conflict, it also 
acknowledges and honors difference and seeks to coordinate.  
Rather than erase difference, it ventures to interweave these 
differences into a stronger connectivity.  I have in the past 
expressed the value of a braided rope, for it is stronger than 
single strands.  Each strand may be seen as a different 
viewpoint.  The peacemaker can weave, can braid, these strands 
into a rope far stronger than any element.
	How can the melchizedeks who are self governing continue to 
function as one body while they govern themselves under the rule 
that each must take care of their own supervision and not fall 
to pieces either through the tendency of one to correct the 
others or for each to scatter into their own pursuits, 
independent of and abandoning each other?  It is due to this 
peace ability, of weaving together the distinctions that make 
each individual into a unified, strong body -- not blended, not 
melted, but distinct and, as I have said, braided.
	All through your life you will be required to hone your 
skills at making peace.  Each episode will come and go, and 
again will come a time when you will be engaged in making peace.  
The importance of each event can be crucial to any party 
involved, but the long-lasting result is your development of 
character and the acquirement of skill, your increase in spirit 
fruit.  These acquisitions of spirit personality carry over into 
other aspects of your life besides making peace.  It will carry 
into developing meekness and purity of heart.
	I am happy to express myself today, to make an attempt to 
increase your appreciation of that which you acquire throughout 
your growth.  Growth is solely toward God and for God, for Him 
as much as for you.  All else that’s acquired in the process is 
the reward of growth and not growth itself.  Whether you make 
peace or pursue other results from activities in your life, 
blessings follow, accumulations that become your possessions.  
They become the trophies of your growth experience.
	In love I thank you.

	Evelyn:  Thank you and it’s good to hear from you.
	Peacemaking is one of those things that can be done in the 
smallest, relatively petty incidents between people or in huge 
calamities affecting countries and millions of people.

*	Darid:  Quite right.  What must be applied to the minuscule 
is applied likewise to the enormous.  The transition toward 
peace in both extremes is the same.  Yet you may never be 
required to undertake large-scale peacemaking in this life.  
Every undertaking of a smaller scale yields personality far more 
capable than prior to the event to engage in peacemaking 
activities of which in this life you have yet to conceive of 
that will transpire in the complex social undertakings in the 
worlds beyond.

	Evelyn:  I hope those aren’t as ghastly as our wars.

*	Darid:  I assure you they are not, but your wars exemplify 
the lack of development of peacemaking skills.  Your wars are 
not conflicts but outbursts of frustration from the inability to 
cope with the conflict associated with narrowness of 
perspective, self-oriented endeavors.  But these reasons for 
your wars are still petty compared with the complex 
interassociations that you will find on higher worlds.  Your 
wars will become laughable from the amount of energy and 
investment placed in them over such relatively inconsequential 
conflicts.  As you ascend you will engage in even greater 
differences of opinion.  Now you have cultures that clash.  
Imagine when you encounter entirely different worlds that are 
different.
	The blessings of peacemaking will reward you over and over 
again in your ascent.  There aren’t the wars, however, there is 
an increased need and a requirement for establishing harmony, 
valuing differences, and accommodating one another for the 
benefit of each and peace among the whole.

	Evelyn:  We were discussing choosing among the thousands of 
things one can do in life.  You have brought up peacemaking, 
which helps thin down the choices.  When you think of what 
skills are worth developing, they are the ones we can take with 
us.  Lots of choices don’t contribute to personal growth or 
anyone else’s growth.

	Tom:  One doesn’t think of peacemaking as a project, 
necessarily,  like feeding the poor.  It’s a more subtle job to 
be considered.  It’s work.

*	Darid:  Peacemaking often is engaged in after a critical 
point ensues wherein conflict begins to become increasingly 
violent, when in reality peacemaking is an as-you-pass-by 
activity at all points of time in your life.  “Peace 
maintaining” is perhaps a better phrase, as long as one does not 
let maintenance tempt one to ignore differences.  It is fine in 
the nature of Supremacy for you to encounter tensions, for your 
voices to be raised as you express what is important.  That is 
not the loss of peace, if one is able to infuse that value with 
actions that accelerate harmonizing differences rather than 
eliminating the opponent.

	Tom:  We read a memorandum about a proclamation to take 
place this Thursday at 7:00 PM.  Is there anything you can add 
to this?  Is this something we can do on our own or would you 
recommend us getting together?  Would a telephone conference be 
in order?

*	Darid:  This proclamation is for anyone who desires to 
increase your involvement in the Correcting Time Mission.  It 
will be forthcoming regardless of your attendance.  If your 
heart is pure in intention you will receive the information at 
that moment or subsequently as a matter of record.  However, it 
is worthwhile to the individual to make an effort to be present 
at the slated time.  Naturally you do not need to accumulate in 
the same geographic location to be present in spirit, present in 
mental attention.
	You have mentioned conferencing.  This is effective now that 
your technology accommodates it.  We do such conferencing often 
as there are far greater distances between groups, and 
coordination still remains necessary.
	Two factors will bear upon those who bend their ears to 
hear.  First and foremost will be that you each reassess and 
more deeply commit yourselves to spiritual pursuit, taking a 
moment to recognize selfless sincerity and to abandon the self-
propagated interests, goals, and undertakings that are wishes of 
your own and not for the betterment of the planet.
	Secondly, you will be asked to deepen your commitment to the 
planetary project, to make yourself available, willing, and 
ready to engage in dissemination of knowledge of a spiritual 
nature and the service of your brothers and sisters, even to the 
extent of ministry in crisis.
	This is all I can be forthcoming about, as the day has not 
arrived.

	Tom:  Sounds like the long awaited project is finally on the 
table.

*	Darid:  My response is that things are astir.

*	Tom:  Thank you for your comments.

*	Darid:  I will close our meeting.  It has been thoroughly 
enjoyable.  I will not lengthen it that the pages become too 
long or your tape runs out.  It is a pleasure to be in your 
company in this form.  Keep up your good work, my friends.  It 
is noted on high and supported.  I will be back.