5/11/22

*            I am Aaron, here with you tonight to share with you and to hear from you.  This is not a one way dialogue, for we are in a growth process just as you are. 

These can seem like hurried times.  So much is occurring and reported upon, and your access to information can make it seem like things are speeding up out of control.  When you feel disconcerted by the pace of life, harried, and not sure what to focus on, perhaps breaking things down to a smaller, more manageable level, would be an effective way to keep yourself in the flow of what you can do, not what you can’t do.  “What can I do now, this moment,” and then ask yourself the question in the next moment and the next, rather than looking globally and finding yourself stalled, unsure of where to go and what you can accomplish to the point where nothing gets done.  There are times to look at things globally and there are times to take what’s right in front of you and focus on that. 

Right now, in this moment, you are all unified in a purpose to be in communication, to listen, to put out your energy with and toward one another to create a bonding process and information sharing.  As you go through other aspects of your day, recognize this same effort at being in communication can occur in other areas of your life, allowing you to become an agent of a unified communicative process where you are the mouthpiece of that combined entity, you and your Adjuster, and the receptor to allow the stimuli to be received so that you may let the Spirit within aid you in synthesizing the information in a way that you can act, react, and interact with your environment. 

There are problems in the world globally and locally, but you each realize, when you think about it, that it is not as bad as it seems at times.  People everywhere are trying to live good lives and to have good interactions.  The challenge is to allow yourself to engage in a way that doesn’t alienate, that seeks to build clarity, and bring about a sort of union of your entity combination with others, to understand, to provide insight when needed, to acknowledge differences, but ultimately to recognize that you are part of this give and take process of life and your effect is determined by your ability to take things as they come and find how you can interact with that in a way that allows yourself to grow and provide a level of impact on your environment. 

I hope this didn’t get too obtuse, but this is the substance of my sharing with you this evening.  I would be glad to hear from you if you have questions or thoughts tonight.

Q1: I was just thinking Aaron, the whole climate of competition and struggle between good and evil, sometimes it seems like the addiction to drama is partly the problem. People have appetites for anger or revenge or make things worse and it’s almost like habit.  Can you shed light?  I know you look for us to be bigger sometimes, but sometimes it seems you just have to be shallow to get through things.  You can’t really meet people at spiritual levels that aren’t willing to go there.

*            The art of spiritual living is to take the inspired and to apply it to the mundane in a way that makes the inspired accessible and the mundane lifted to a higher space of awareness.  So your challenge in any situation is, “What would Jesus do," so to speak - what would a highly enlightened being do in this circumstance?  Sometimes it is to call out negativity.  Sometimes it is to throw an arm around your brother or sister and beckon them to come along, to see a different way. 

Negativity in this current cultural environment seems to be a sport, and so many do not realize how destructive their behavior really is, to look for the worst in each other, to point out what’s wrong.  This is your mission if you choose to accept it, to make known dually, that no, this is not acceptable behavior, but to replace that with what it acceptable behavior, to shine a higher light on what can be said, what things can be shared that are productive instead of destructive.

Q2: I recall in the Urantia book when Michael started being harassed by the Pharisees and the Sadducees following him around before he went to Jerusalem for the Passover.  That’s when he started speaking in parables because he would have such a range of audience to address. That blew my mind, how he could stand there with lovers and haters and all sorts of people and speak.  That was profound to me.  It’s kind of like that.  I can’t tell people what they are doing is wrong when to them their wrong is their right and my right is their wrong.  It doesn’t work to do the full frontal conversation that gets us nowhere.  So it’s not about who’s right or wrong.  Everyone has some strand of credibility.  Even if they’re brainwashed a person can still have a pure heart.  That’s what I come up against. The value systems are not aligned.

*            Aaron: In your sharing here, thank you by the way for your expression, you have in some ways provided yourself an answer to an approach you can take, for just about every personality loves a story.  Telling someone they are wrong is too easy, but to tell a tale or give an example or to share something that makes a point is more easily accepted.  Thus, Michael’s recognition that the need for parables existed so he could reach multiple levels without being too threatening - at least for the time being.

Q2: That freaks me out because how can I be that smart?  It doesn’t have to be me, I guess. You guys and spirit are there and can help us.

*            Aaron: Being creative is sometimes more important than being smart, learning to know that you have this partnership within that can look at circumstances in a higher minded way and use that creative relationship to address it for what is needed in the moment.  Recognize there is no one thing that will work every time.  You must, with your inner seeking, learn to recognize what is needed in each moment rather than finding one trick and using it every time.

Q3: Sometimes it takes so much energy to maintain positivity.  In these times, we’re having to think of what we can do when there seems to be so many areas that need help, and yet we don’t have the resources to reach out in all those areas.  It’s very difficult with the amount of negativity we must deal with.  I realize every generation has to deal with these things.  There’s always both going on, the goodness and the evil.  We’re so aware of it. It’s not just right where we are. It’s everywhere around the globe which means we’re called even more. It’s exhausting at times to feel so helpless.  How do we keep ourselves perky about it?

*            Aaron: Many years ago, I told my students that when the predominance of what you are hearing is about all that is wrong with the world and what is negative and who killed who and who shot at who, then they needed to ask themselves whether it was important to keep allowing themselves to be assaulted by this information.  I challenged them to turn it off.  I challenged them to become their own media rather than letting the negative media be the predominant factor in their lives, to seek how they could become a broadcaster of one who believes that goodness and kindness and truth are more important values to witness than all that is wrong with the world.