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Faith
"…faith will expand the mind, ennoble the soul, reinforce the personality, augment the happiness, deepen the spirit perception, and enhance the power to love and be loved." Jesus, 159:3.12 | https://mm.spiritualfamily.net/Urantia_Book-Online_Reader-2019/Paper_159.html#159:3.12

111:4.8&9&10 You cannot completely control the external world – environment. It is the creativity of the inner world that is most subject to your direction because there your personality is so largely liberated from the fetters of the laws of antecedent causation. There is associated with personality a limited sovereignty of will.

Since this inner life of man is truly creative, there rests upon each person the responsibility of choosing as to whether this creativity shall be spontaneous and wholly haphazard or controlled, directed, and constructive. How can a creative imagination produce worthy children when the stage whereon it functions is already preoccupied by prejudice, hate, fears, resentments, revenge, and bigotries?

Ideas may take origin in the stimuli of the outer world, but ideals are born only in the creative realms of the inner world. Today the nations of the world are directed by men who have a superabundance of ideas, but they are poverty-stricken in ideals. That is the explanation of poverty, divorce, war, and racial hatreds.

Today

I got eight hours and now I’m up.

I’m thankful, for, God fills my cup.

There’s much that I am thankful for.

Through life I’ve opened many doors.

As an older guy, now I

Have less to do, but still I try

To be useful in this life.

I look for ways to do what’s right.

Judgment has matured with me.

I’m different than I used to be.

I’m not as quick, I have more patience.

I try to find what makes a difference.

Our vision widens, as we age.

When I was young, I used to rage

Over trifles with no meaning.

I know I was more self-defeating.

No perfection in this life,

But my motives do survive.

My direction now is set.

Reminders there, when I forget.

Anticipation builds within.

There’s Good to do, the day begins.

Always choices to be made.

They’re always ways one can upgrade.

Thank You, Mother/Father/Son.

by the time this day is done,

I’ll have done, and, found some Good.

And for Your Wil, I will have stood.

Paul Anderson

How did Jesus act?
There was so little of the professional, the well-planned, or the premeditated in the Master's earthly ministry. He dispensed health and scattered happiness naturally and gracefully as he journeyed through life. It was literally true, "He went about doing good." 171:7.9 https://mm.spiritualfamily.net/Urantia_Book-Online_Reader-2019/Paper_171.html#171:7.9