1:0.4 This magnificent and universal injunction to strive for the attainment of the perfection of divinity is the first duty, and should be the highest ambition, of all the struggling creature creation of the God of perfection. This possibility of the attainment of divine perfection is the final and certain destiny of all man’s eternal spiritual progress.

Directions
An early start to this fine day.
It’s nice to just wake up this way.
My cobwebs must be cleared at first
Make right decisions, don’t be adverse.

Just start the day, do what is right.
Don’t let fear destroy your plights.
Stand your ground, do not take flight.
Decide to do with all your might.

Your best is all that you can do.
It’s good enough to pull you through.
Faith will give you loves direction.
Follow that, you’ll gain perfection.

That’s the way that I will go.
Interpret things until I know.
Faith will lead me to the Truth
The road itself provides me proof.

The road is good, it’s paved with hearts.
Each one loves, and plays a part.
Love cements the rode together.
It’s heart filled and lasts forever.

What a road, and what a journey.
Potentials change, so act superbly.
Your best is worth it to your soul.
To be perfect is the goal.

Thank You, Father, for all the Love.
My share of it’s helped me evolve.
Words can’t express my gratitude
As Faith unlocks my aptitude.

48:6.5&6 On the mansion worlds the seraphic evangels will help you to choose wisely among the optional routes to Edentia, Salvington, Uversa, and Havona. If there are a number of equally advisable routes, these will be put before you, and you will be permitted to select the one that most appeals to you. These seraphim then make recommendations to the four and twenty advisers on Jerusem concerning that course which would be most advantageous for each ascending soul.
You are not given unrestricted choice as to your future course; but you may choose within the limits of that which the transition ministers and their superiors wisely determine to be most suitable for your future spirit attainment. The spirit world is governed on the principle of respecting your freewill choice provided the course you may choose is not detrimental to you or injurious to your fellows.

A Wiser Plant

No rain today, we’ll have bright sun.
Still,Fall weather has begun.
Cooler weather overall.
That’s how we know it’s truly Fall.

Experience shows us that is true.
It helps us know just what to do.
Prepare for weather that is coming.
Protect our flowers, weather’s changing.

Some perennials need attention.
Protect their roots from cold’s intention.
Newly planted ones will need
Water, so their roots can feed.

Tender care when the seasons change
Promote things living on our range.
That includes all people, too.
Take care of them in what you do.

Doing what is best for all.
God wants us all to hear His call.
Do your best to make decisions
That help promote Truth and God’s Wisdom.

Wiser as we gain experience.
God knows us all with His omniscience.
Try to do your best to be
In touch with true reality.

Thank You, Father, wisdom gains.
Our history shows we’ve had some pain.
But overall, we do advance.
We find new ways so life’s enhanced.

195:6.1 Scientists have unintentionally precipitated mankind into a materialistic panic; they have started an unthinking run on the moral bank of the ages, but this bank of human experience has vast spiritual resources; it can stand the demands being made upon it. Only unthinking men become panicky about the spiritual assets of the human race. When the materialistic-secular panic is over, the religion of Jesus will not be found bankrupt. The spiritual bank of the kingdom of heaven will be paying out faith, hope, and moral security to all who draw upon it “in His name.”

Peace Panic
Has 911 changed what we,
Do and see in 23?
We know it’s changed security
But has it change the way we see?

Events erupt from our past times.
We have parades by our design.
Parades can mark our victories,
But sometimes we are on our knees.

Bad things that happened in our past
Can have effects that last and last.
We had more joy in times gone by,
Or were we blind and did not try?

What have we learned from 911?
What did we do, what have we done?
More peace is what I wish to ask
Is that not truly our main task?

We didn’t turn the other cheek!
No we didn’t, we weren’t meek.
We tried to force our will on others.
It did not work, they are our brothers.

So much war gave others license
To invade despite defiance.
We’re consumed by wars destruction.
A pyrrhic victory’s in discussion.

Thank You, Father, You’re in charge.
So far, this war is not too large.
I pray for peace upon this planet
Before destruction makes us panic.

147:5.8 “This transformed woman whom some of you saw at Simon’s house today is, at this moment, living on a level which is vastly below that of Simon and his well-meaning associates; but while these Pharisees are occupied with the false progress of the illusion of traversing deceptive circles of meaningless ceremonial services, this woman has, in dead earnest, started out on the long and eventful search for God, and her path toward heaven is not blocked by spiritual pride and moral self-satisfaction. The woman is, humanly speaking, much farther away from God than Simon, but her soul is in progressive motion; she is on the way toward an eternal goal. There are present in this woman tremendous spiritual possibilities for the future. Some of you may not stand high in actual levels of soul and spirit, but you are making daily progress on the living way opened up, through faith, to God. There are tremendous possibilities in each of you for the future. Better by far to have a small but living and growing faith than to be possessed of a great intellect with its dead stores of worldly wisdom and spiritual unbelief.”

Spirit Paths
Perfect weather is on tap.
Look forward to a positive rap.
The day begins, it’s cool and bright.
We all wake up with the morning light.

Gradual change when change we must
Is easier than when change’s robust.
But real change must have its way.
We can improve our day-to-day.

Improving in the things we do.
Develop Faith in what is Truth.
Find a better path today.
The “Light of Truth” shows better ways.

You’ve got to use all you’ve been given,
And then improve on how you’re livin’!
You must improve your insides too,
As aging does develop you.

The body ages, we get old.
But Spirit helps us find new roles.
Our Spirits truly tend to grow.
Experience does this as time flows.

The flow of time never stands still.
Constant change must be God’s Will.
We learn to love as through life we live.
We learn the love that we can give!

Thank You, Father, to learn to love
Is how we learn to problem solve.
We know this when we look inside
And view the world through Spirit eyes.

114:7.6 Urantia mortals should not allow the comparative spiritual isolation of their world from certain of the local universe circuits to produce a feeling of cosmic desertion or planetary orphanage. There is operative on the planet a very definite and effective superhuman supervision of world affairs and human destinies.
Cope
Another hot one, and it’s dry.
Some plants will wilt before they die.
Wilting plants may still have flowers.
They give themselves to all that follows.

Sunflowers with seeds, a harvest crop
They flower indeed, with all they’ve got.
Combines will harvest all their seed.
Seed gets stored to suit our needs.

Growing crops, a farmer’s wish
But weather change can cause anguish.
A change in patterns can cause dry.
Weather can cause plants to die.

A plant that dies of drought can still
Produce some seed, in fact, most will.
Seeds produced outlast the drought.
When times are right, then most will sprout.

Outlasting bedtimes that beset us.
Endurance through the halls of crisis.
The seeds of faith create our hopes.
They sprout within, whene’re we cope.

So, cope with what you must today.
Find faith upon all your byways.
It exists within your mind.
It comes from something that’s Divine.

Thank You, Father, hopes won’t die!
Hope is a dream we wish to try!
I have faith that with our hope
We travel on a path that copes.

54:4.7 The mercy delays of time are by the mandate of the free will of the Creators. There is good to be derived in the universe from this technique of patience in dealing with sinful rebels. While it is all too true that good cannot come of evil to the one who contemplates and performs evil, it is equally true that all things (including evil, potential and manifest) work together for good to all beings who know God, love to do his will, and are ascending Paradiseward according to his eternal plan and divine purpose.

Patience
More than beauty this day holds.
There’s progress in the ways of old.
Wisdom gained by those before
Can have a place within our lore.

Learning’s what we do in school.
Books are written without rules.
Ideas flow from every mind.
A flow of thought that’s God‘s design.

So, who’s to say a book is wrong?
Ideas of things can be so strong.
Just because you don’t agree
Should you censor what you see?

Let others make their own decisions
Or what you will gain is their derision.
Do not force your own opinion!
God’s the one who has dominion.

Trust that God’s plan, based on love
Is what eventually evolves!
The plan Divine will come in time.
Keep the faith, it’s His design.

Only we can follow through.
It’s part of God’s design tis true.
God wants for all, the very best!
To get to Heaven, do not rest!

Thank You, Father, for all time.
It unfolds as You design.
Patience with the way things are
Will light a path to things afar

126:3.8 While turning all these problems over in his mind, he found in the synagogue library at Nazareth, among the apocalyptic books which he had been studying, this manuscript called “The Book of Enoch”; and though he was certain that it had not been written by Enoch of old, it proved very intriguing to him, and he read and reread it many times. There was one passage which particularly impressed him, a passage in which this term “Son of Man” appeared. The writer of this so-called Book of Enoch went on to tell about this Son of Man, describing the work he would do on earth and explaining that this Son of Man, before coming down on this earth to bring salvation to mankind, had walked through the courts of heavenly glory with his Father, the Father of all; and that he had turned his back upon all this grandeur and glory to come down on earth to proclaim salvation to needy mortals. As Jesus would read these passages (well understanding that much of the Eastern mysticism which had become admixed with these teachings was erroneous), he responded in his heart and recognized in his mind that of all the Messianic predictions of the Hebrew scriptures and of all the theories about the Jewish deliverer, none was so near the truth as this story tucked away in this only partially accredited Book of Enoch; and he then and there decided to adopt as his inaugural title “the Son of Man.” And this he did when he subsequently began his public work. Jesus had an unerring ability for the recognition of truth, and truth he never hesitated to embrace, no matter from what source it appeared to emanate.

Passages
Fall is coming, it’s in the air.
The weather’s nice, it is so fair.
The beauty of this day’s enhanced
By thoughts of love, our life’s romance.

Follow love tracks while you live.
Present the best that you can give.
Love’s a force, so use it well.
God is Love, and He indwells.

Use your courage, and fear not.
Through what’s ahead, you’re going to trot.
There will be Good there, if we look.
Sometimes the Good’s the time it took.

As things work out, we will see why.
At times the best can make us cry.
But with the spice of time, we see
With wiser eyes— philosophy.

Time makes wiser eyes see far.
Impatience makes our eyes subpar.
So take your time on your life path.
No need to struggle to go fast!

That doesn’t mean you do not try.
Do your best before you die.
Find the path that God wants you
To walk upon before you’re through.

Thank You, Father, once again.
You saved me from where I have been.
Your love is there because I know
From where I speak, I’ve seen it grow.

28:6.18 The universal economy is based on intake and output; throughout the eternal career you will never encounter monotony of inaction or stagnation of personality. Progress is made possible by inherent motion, advancement grows out of the divine capacity for action, and achievement is the child of imaginative adventure. But inherent in this capacity for achievement is the responsibility of ethics, the necessity for recognizing that the world and the universe are filled with a multitude of differing types of beings. All of this magnificent creation, including yourself, was not made just for you. This is not an egocentric universe. The Gods have decreed, “It is more blessed to give than to receive,” and said your Master Son, “He who would be greatest among you let him be server of all.”

Searching
It’s cooler now, but heat’s a comin’.
We live the now as it’s becomin’.
On the crest of our existence.
We find good paths when we’re persistent.

Persistent in our search for Truth.
The ways of Love are never rude.
Look for things that need be done.
Then work until the setting sun.

Once the Truth within is found,
Then it can spread to those around.
It has a ring that is Truth’s timbre.
It is the Truth not propaganda.

The Truth will stand the test of time.
Your inner Truth is what’s Divine.
Temporal truths sometimes will fade.
But inner Truth will always stay.

In your inner life you ask
What’s the best way through this task?
Sincerely looking for best ways.
Use your courage when dismayed.

Yes, sometimes we must use courage.
Faith in good we must encourage.
Faith does get me through my day.
It lights a pathway through dismay.

Thank You, Father, for this path.
Please forgive me for my past.
With sincerity of Spirit
I will speak with all who hear it.

71:4.17 Idealism can never survive on an evolving planet if the idealists in each generation permit themselves to be exterminated by the baser orders of humanity. And here is the great test of idealism: Can an advanced society maintain that military preparedness which renders it secure from all attack by its war-loving neighbors without yielding to the temptation to employ this military strength in offensive operations against other peoples for purposes of selfish gain or national aggrandizement? National survival demands preparedness, and religious idealism alone can prevent the prostitution of preparedness into aggression. Only love, brotherhood, can prevent the strong from oppressing the weak.

Love & War
A little warmer, yes, today
But very pleasant anyway.
A day to do most anything
And be prepared for what life brings.

A day to increase beauty’s grace.
Find beauty in the things you face.
Don’t deface, please just enhance.
Keep up your pace, and do God’s dance.

What’s the best thing you can do?
Do it today with follow-through!
Innately you know when you’re on
And dancing to our Father’s song.

Fan the flames of Faith with fervor!
Faith is what will take you further!
Faith in goodness being right
Gives direction to God’s light!

What be right, and what be wrong?
That’s a very human song.
Yet most know within their hearts
How love there had its first start.

When love’s first upon the scene,
It doesn’t take long before it’s seen
There is a way through war’s deceit.
Love’s the answer! – War’s defeat!

Thank You, Father, I know You
Have a plan with follow-through.
Though there’s war, we will achieve.
World lasting peace, hard to believe!

130:4.4 A one-eyed person can never hope to visualize depth of perspective. Neither can single-eyed material scientists nor single-eyed spiritual mystics and allegorists correctly visualize and adequately comprehend the true depths of universe reality. All true values of creature experience are concealed in depth of recognition.

Relation/Rumination
Once again, I wake to beauty.
Today we’re going to Boogie-Woogie.
Many things to do on tap.
We’ll fit in today, we will adapt.

Adapting to new ways of life.
Getting older causes strife.
Slowly, slowly, aging bones
Do their job, but with more groans.

Accept the fact that we won’t last.
Time is slow, we don’t fade fast.
Relentlessly, we age and slow.
It’s just the way our bodies go.

That perspective, it is not youth.
Youth develops till grown is truth.
But once grown, we go downhill.
Some are prolonged with cosmic pills.

Sooner or later, we all face
An end to how we use Your grace.
How it ends for each of us
Shows how we believe, and how we trust.

I believe we do go on.
We have a purpose in God’s song.
We can avoid, and take control
Of how we die, and become our souls.

But if we take the aging way
We find that life is but a play.
We’re on the stage with lines to speak
And then we find the lives we seek.

Thank You, Father, I’m aware
Of Your presence in me there.
There I live, and You can see.
I pray I am refined in Ye.

49:3.3 Millions upon millions of meteorites enter the atmosphere of Urantia daily, coming in at the rate of almost two hundred miles a second. On the nonbreathing worlds the advanced races must do much to protect themselves from meteor damage by making electrical installations which operate to consume or shunt the meteors. Great danger confronts them when they venture beyond these protected zones. These worlds are also subject to disastrous electrical storms of a nature unknown on Urantia. During such times of tremendous energy fluctuation the inhabitants must take refuge in their special structures of protective insulation.

Big Storms
Cooler weather for this summer
Has been a gift, it has been warmer.
The weather lately has been perfect.
Things may change, that is my verdict!

This string of perfect days can’t last.
Big storms will come, someday’s forecast.
When they come, we must be
Prepared, for there’s no mystery.

Strong winds of storms will have their way.
We must build well and also pray.
I predict we will invent.
New ways that are more wind resistant

Sloping curves against wind’s force.
No surfaces to bend its course.
Allow its winds to blow unhindered.
Allow its forces to be expended.

Storms are something we must weather.
Their existence truly matters.
Increasing force and frequency.
We must build resiliency.

Slowly, slowly, customs change.
Building codes, improvement brings.
We know, in fact, eventually
Big storms will come, are we ready?

Thank You, Father, for this day.
We improve as we find ways
To love each other more and more.
The way through storms is through Your door.

36:2.5 Planetary life, therefore, while similar in some respects, differs in many ways on each evolutionary world. Even in a uniform life series in a single family of worlds, life is not exactly the same on any two planets; there is always a planetary type, for the Life Carriers work constantly in an effort to improve the vital formulas committed to their keeping.

The Plan
Today we start to wend our way
Towards the best we can display.
We want the best for everyone.
Your best is what we want be done.

To do your best, you must be here.
In the now’s where we appear.
Do the next best thing you know.
Good results will always flow.

“Sincerely doing” is your best.
Sincerity gives truth it’s test.
When you’re sincere in what you do
The Loving Spirit comes to you.

Love has always got a focus.
We all serve as a focus – locus.
If we do the Will of God,
Improvement comes, this world evolves.

Every single one on earth
Plays a part, and writes a verse.
If every soul would look for good
Peace evolves, togetherhood.

The Brother/Sisterhood of Man
Must evolve before we stand.
But our direction’s well-established.
We just need a bit more practice.

Thank You, Father, someday we
Will unite in victory.
One world united with One Father
You are our gift, You are our author.

38:1.2 These angelic orders are projected at the time of planning for the evolution of mortal will creatures. The creation of seraphim dates from the attainment of relative personality by the Universe Mother Spirit, not as the later co-ordinate of the Master Son, but as the early creative helper of the Creator Son. Previous to this event the seraphim on duty in Nebadon were temporarily loaned by a neighboring universe.

Plans
An early start, the sun shines bright.
Approach this day with all your might!
Do the next best thing you can.
Show the world and make your stand.

There’s good out there that you can do.
Find your path, walk towards the Truth.
Be a bulwark, hold the fort.
The facts will be in your report.

The facts will leave their tracks in time.
The Truth stands out, it is Divine.
God wills action, it occurs.
The plan of God is what endures.

Faith in future progress made.
As life is lived, is there a grade?
Sincerity of what’s perceived.
Live the Faith that you believe!

The Truth does ring, and have a light.
It may glow dimly, but it’s right.
What you perceive, you can’t dismiss.
The truth displays attractiveness!

Easier as you do what’s right.
The light within, it gets much more bright.
When you look you’ve gained insight.
In this life avoid all fights.

Thank You, Father, to find Your way
is the goal of every day.
The plan You have is set in motion.
I’ll follow through with my devotion!

38:1.2 These angelic orders are projected at the time of planning for the evolution of mortal will creatures. The creation of seraphim dates from the attainment of relative personality by the Universe Mother Spirit, not as the later co-ordinate of the Master Son, but as the early creative helper of the Creator Son. Previous to this event the seraphim on duty in Nebadon were temporarily loaned by a neighboring universe.

Plans
An early start, the sun shines bright.
Approach this day with all your might!
Do the next best thing you can.
Show the world and make your stand.

There’s good out there that you can do.
Find your path, walk towards the Truth.
Be a bulwark, hold the fort.
The facts will be in your report.

The facts will leave their tracks in time.
The Truth stands out, it is Divine.
God wills action, it occurs.
The plan of God is what endures.

Faith in future progress made.
As life is lived, is there a grade?
Sincerity of what’s perceived.
Live the Faith that you believe!

The Truth does ring, and have a light.
It may glow dimly, but it’s right.
What you perceive, you can’t dismiss.
The truth displays attractiveness!

Easier as you do what’s right.
The light within, it gets much more bright.
When you look you’ve gained insight.
In this life avoid all fights.

Thank You, Father, to find Your way
is the goal of every day.
The plan You have is set in motion.
I’ll follow through with my devotion!

51:5.5&6 The violet race is a monogamous people, and every evolutionary man or woman uniting with the Adamic sons and daughters pledges not to take other mates and to instruct his or her children in single-matedness. The children of each of these unions are educated and trained in the schools of the Planetary Prince and then are permitted to go forth to the race of their evolutionary parent, there to marry among the selected groups of superior mortals.
When this strain of the Material Sons is added to the evolving races of the worlds, a new and greater era of evolutionary progress is initiated. Following this procreative outpouring of imported ability and superevolutionary traits there ensues a succession of rapid strides in civilization and racial development; in one hundred thousand years more progress is made than in a million years of former struggle. On your world, even in the face of the miscarriage of the ordained plans, great progress has been made since the gift to your peoples of Adam’s life plasm.

Spirit Flow
Today the weather’s like a picture.
I wish this weather were a fixture.
If every day could be like this,
The weather patterns would be bliss.

I hope today to celebrate,
And make this day another great
Day and time to live on earth.
A day that’s truly filled with mirth.

Sundays are a time for peace.
A Spirit focus helps us see
The fact that we can all improve
In the ways we think and move.

Practice is perfection’s path.
It’s a rhythm that can last.
A rhythm that we all create
As we live towards what is fate.

We have a chance with what we do
To flow in rhythm towards what’s true.
It rings within – perhaps that’s You
Helping us discern the truth.

In any case, we tend to know
When we’re within the Spirit flow.
And yes, there’s something that’s within.
It seems to grow as flow begins.

Thank You, Father, as we live
We all find ways in which to give,
And as we practice life on earth,
I pray we all have a rebirth.

70:1.12 5. Revenge was the motive for war when one tribe believed that a neighboring tribe had caused the death of a fellow tribesman. Mourning was continued until a head was brought home. The war for vengeance was in good standing right on down to comparatively modern times.

Revenge?
Revenge is nothing we should play.
It’s a game that does delay
Progress in the name of love.
Revenge will never help you solve.

Does it truly help your heart?
To take revenge may turn it dark.
A darkened heart may turn away
From the light of brand new days.

To look beyond, and then inside
Provides perspectives never tried.
We are more, please just believe.
There’s more to do than save the trees.

What we think is true and good,
Depends upon what’s understood.
Love and Faith in your Belief,
Reflect your soul when in defeat.

That’s when we best know ourselves.
When in defeat, our depths we delve.
We must find our new direction
When thwarted in our plans for action.

Accept the path that God presents.
It’s there for you, use common sense.
There’s nothing left for you to do.
The path of God will show you Truth.

Thank You, Father, Your direction
Will lead this world to its perfection.
Many years, perhaps eons
Before our imperfection’s gone.

101:7.3 Presently new systems of values come into existence; new formulations of principles and standards are achieved; habits and ideals are reshaped; some idea of a personal God is attained, followed by enlarging concepts of relationship thereto.
The Trail
The Holiday has come today.
The sound of fireworks last night played.
Loud booming late last night.
To sleep through that, was quite the fight.

Might as well give in tonight.
Go outside and see the sights.
Smell the fumes left in the air
And talk to all who gather there.

Try to live the here and now.
Fix yourself with good morale.
Then do what you can do the best.
Serve this world, don’t be its guest.

Service one can do for others.
As you serve, you find we’re brothers.
That experience is unmatched.
The plan of God has been unhatched.

I think you probably get my drift,
If through my words you truly sift.
The way ahead where we survive,
Is found inside where God resides.

The God inside Christ did reveal.
Commune inside with your appeals.
Father Communion for a season
Can improve the way we reason.

Thank You, Father, where You reside,
Is a place where I can’t hide.
I must honestly look in,
And, see myself, and where I’ve been.

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101:7.3 Presently new systems of values come into existence; new formulations of principles and standards are achieved; habits and ideals are reshaped; some idea of a personal God is attained, followed by enlarging concepts of relationship thereto.
The Trail
The Holiday has come today.
The sound of fireworks last night played.
Loud booming late last night.
To sleep through that, was quite the fight.

Might as well give in tonight.
Go outside and see the sights.
Smell the fumes left in the air
And talk to all who gather there.

Try to live the here and now.
Fix yourself with good morale.
Then do what you can do the best.
Serve this world, don’t be its guest.

Service one can do for others.
As you serve, you find we’re brothers.
That experience is unmatched.
The plan of God has been unhatched.

I think you probably get my drift,
If through my words you truly sift.
The way ahead where we survive,
Is found inside where God resides.

The God inside Christ did reveal.
Commune inside with your appeals.
Father Communion for a season
Can improve the way we reason.

Thank You, Father, where You reside,
Is a place where I can’t hide.
I must honestly look in,
And, see myself, and where I’ve been.