3:5.3 In the affairs of men’s hearts the Universal Father may not always have his way; but in the conduct and destiny of a planet the divine planprevails; the eternal purpose of wisdom and love triumphs.

Love’s Plan

Choir day has come again.

An early start, as I begin.

This day holds promise, though there’s rain.

Life requires, you use your brain.

Brain engagement, there is more to learn.

My Spirit inside, truly yearns.

This day will show itself to be,

As life shows us reality.

Reality is in the now.

Time continues, shows us how.

We're learning as our life unfolds.

Learning ways to play our roles.

Everybody plays a part.

God’s plan for us does use our hearts.

He uses Love, and Loves us all.

He tries to help us hear His call.

His call rings out throughout our land.

To every tongue, He lends His hand.

Someday this world will be so grand.

We all have parts within His plan.

Love is the answer to our needs.

Love seals the wounds when our hearts bleed.

Loving kindness brings together

All the people, we all matter.

Thank You, Mother/Father/Son.

Someday this world will all be one.

That will be when Love has won.

Love improvements never done.

Paul Anderson

144:6.3 Andrew and Abner alternated in presiding over these joint meetings of the two apostolic groups. These men had many difficulties to discuss and numerous problems to solve. Again and again would they take their troubles to Jesus, only to hear him say: “I am concerned only with your personal and purely religious problems. I am the representative of the Father to the individual, not to the group. If you are in personal difficulty in your relations with God, come to me, and I will hear you and counsel you in the solution of your problem. But when you enter upon the co-ordination of divergent human interpretations of religious questions and upon the socialization of religion, you are destined to solve all such problems by your own decisions. Albeit, I am ever sympathetic and always interested, and when you arrive at your conclusions touching these matters of nonspiritual import, provided you are all agreed, then I pledge in advance my full approval and hearty co-operation. And now, in order to leave you unhampered in your deliberations, I am leaving you for two weeks. Be not anxious about me, for I will return to you. I will be about my Father’s business, for we have other realms besides this one.”

Meetings/Discussions/Conversations

Zoom meetings take up time today.

Outside, it’s raining, anyway.

I hope we have productive talks,

And our discussions help our flocks.

We represent the will of others,

And they are all our sisters/brothers.

We want what’s best for all concerned—

A process which we all will learn.

We will try to be involved,

So that issues get resolved.

If everybody wants what’s best,

Good ideas should pass this test.

Listening skills need be invoked,

And then with minds, we do devote,

Our energies in harmony.

Solutions then come, probably.

Sometimes a search is necessary.

There’re more questions we need query.

Time’s involved, to comprehend

All the details that impend.

I, with confidence, predict,

That our meeting will depict,

All the issues that portend,

Before our meeting comes to end.

Thank You, Mother/Father/Son.

The day has now more than begun.

Lots to do on this fine day,

And with Your help, we’ll find our way.

Paul Anderson

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102:2.3 It is difficult to identify and analyze the factors of a religious experience, but it is not difficult to observe that such religious practitioners live and carry on as if already in the presence of the Eternal. Believers react to this temporal life as if immortality already were within their grasp. In the lives of such mortals there is a valid originality and a spontaneity of expression that forever segregate them from those of their fellows who have imbibed only the wisdom of the world. Religionists seem to live in effective emancipation from harrying haste and the painful stress of the vicissitudes inherent in the temporal currents of time; they exhibit a stabilization of personality and a tranquillity of character not explained by the laws of physiology, psychology, and sociology.

No Need To Leap

An early, early start today.

A busy morning lights my way.

So, with an early start I can,

Fulfill all of my life’s demands.

Goals/demands in life occur.

We try to live, not just endure.

To accomplish things while living,

Gives our lives a truer meaning.

Finding meaning in your life,

Helps to conquer, not just strive.

Meaning gives your life rewards.

We have something we work towards.

Finding what God wills for you,

Gives perspective, called what’s True.

Finding Truth, helps you perceive

More of what you can believe.

By little steps, we do advance.

We’re learning how to do life’s dance.

More and more, we come to show,

The Love of God in how we flow.

An equanimity of mind

With God’s Spirit’s what we find.

A way of living that defines

The Love that is of God’s design.

Thank You, Mother/Father/Son.

The day has truly now begun.

We have appointments, yet to keep,

But time we have, no need to leap!

Paul Anderson

Urantiapoet.com

101:6.8 The teachings of Jesus constituted the first Urantian religion which so fully embraced a harmonious co-ordination of knowledge, wisdom, faith, truth, and love as completely and simultaneously to provide temporal tranquillity, intellectual certainty, moral enlightenment, philosophic stability, ethical sensitivity, God-consciousness, and the positive assurance of personal survival. The faith of Jesus pointed the way to finality of human salvation, to the ultimate of mortal universe attainment, since it provided for:

1. Salvation from material fetters in the personal realization of sonship with God, who is spirit.

2. Salvation from intellectual bondage: man shall know the truth, and the truth shall set him free.

3. Salvation from spiritual blindness, the human realization of the fraternity of mortal beings and the morontian awareness of the brotherhood of all universe creatures; the service-discovery of spiritual reality and the ministry-revelation of the goodness of spirit values.

4. Salvation from incompleteness of self through the attainment of the spirit levels of the universe and through the eventual realization of the harmony of Havona and the perfection of Paradise.

5. Salvation from self, deliverance from the limitations of self-consciousness through the attainment of the cosmic levels of the Supreme Mind and by co-ordination with the attainments of all other self-conscious beings.

6. Salvation from time, the achievement of an eternal life of unending progression in God-recognition and God-service.

7. Salvation from the finite, the perfected oneness with Deity in and through the Supreme by which the creature attempts the transcendental discovery of the Ultimate on the postfinaliter levels of the absonite.

Love’s Direction

Lots to do this early morn.

Many years, since I’ve been born.

Which means, I’m getting older now.

With Doctor pills, I am endowed.

Finger pricks do start my day.

And then my body, I do weigh.

Morning rituals to keep track

Of how I age, so many facts

Later on today, there’s more.

I see some docs who treat my core.

They want to see my many facts.

They try to keep my core intact.

This evening will be with my friends.

With study group, the day will end.

Lots of travel in between

All these events, it truly seems.

I need to keep on track with time

And keep all these events in line.

Schedule for the day becomes

Real, as this day goes on.

The now is where we all experience

What we do in this existence.

Can we be more self-aware?

I know that Love will take me there.

Thank You, Mother/Father/Son.

I have Faith, as this day goes on

Lessons will be there to learn.

For Your Love, is what I yearn.

Paul Anderson

102:6.4 Faith transforms the philosophic God of probability into the saving God of certainty in the personal religious experience. Skepticism may challenge the theories of theology, but confidence in the dependability of personal experience affirms the truth of that belief which has grown into faith.

Love The Day

An early start to this fine day.

A get together is on the way.

It’s time to plant some flowers ‘round.

It’s time to plant seeds in the ground.

A perfect day presents itself.

A day that’s filled with Spirit wealth.

It’s always there if we just look.

It even helps me when I cook.

An early start will help me do

All the things that help me to

Be caught up, and makes the day

The best it can in every way.

Anticipate the very best!

Look for God upon your quest.

God is love and wants for you

To do your best in what you do.

The day unfolds, so let God’s power

Help your inner self to flower.

Look to find what’s Spirit real.

God’s within, that’s a true deal.

Thank You, Mother/Father/Son.

You always help make living fun.

Life with love’s, what You’re about.

Love is how we make life count!

Paul Anderson

140:3.6 “Your Father in heaven makes the sun to shine on the evil as well as upon the good; likewise he sends rain on the just and the unjust. You are the sons of God; even more, you are now the ambassadors of my Father’s kingdom. Be merciful, even as God is merciful, and in the eternal future of the kingdom you shall be perfect, even as your heavenly Father is perfect.

Rainy Days

Rain is supposed to come today,

But it doesn’t start that way.

Slowly clouds are drifting in.

Later on, rain will begin.

Rain helps nourish all the plants.

Grass turns green with the rain dance.

Already some mowers have begun

To cut the grass, I hear them run.

Spring chores all are in full swing—

Planting flowers, crops, and things.

Working in the soil brings cheer.

We’ll see things grow as summer nears.

The Spirit seeds of new ideas,

Grow within as they appeal

To our growing, maturing minds.

Sometimes our tears, help make us kind.

God has a plan where He designs

The way we’re made, and it takes time.

We evolved as time goes by,

Especially when we truly try.

God attracts us with His Love.

It motivates, as we evolve.

Like I said, He knows us well.

He tries to help us all excel.

Thank You, Mother/Father/Son.

You know I truly love the sun.

I also know that rain must come

To balance all that must be done.

Paul Anderson

Urantia Poet

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194:4.7 Unmistakably, a new fellowship was arising in the world. “The multitude who believed continued steadfastly in the apostles’ teaching and fellowship, in the breaking of bread, and in prayers.” They called each other brother and sister; they greeted one another with a holy kiss; they ministered to the poor. It was a fellowship of living as well as of worship. They were not communal by decree but by the desire to share their goods with their fellow believers. They confidently expected that Jesus would return to complete the establishment of the Father’s kingdom during their generation. This spontaneous sharing of earthly possessions was not a direct feature of Jesus’ teaching; it came about because these men and women so sincerely and so confidently believed that he was to return any day to finish his work and to consummate the kingdom. But the final results of this well-meant experiment in thoughtless brotherly love were disastrous and sorrow-breeding. Thousands of earnest believers sold their property and disposed of all their capital goods and other productive assets. With the passing of time, the dwindling resources of Christian “equal-sharing” came to an end – but the world did not. Very soon the believers at Antioch were taking up a collection to keep their fellow believers at Jerusalem from starving.

New Day Rising

A brand-new day, with much surprise.

We must look to find our Guide.

Cooler out, throughout the day,

But, still the Spring is on the way.

In a week the 80s rise,

But for today, there’s freeze surprise.

Spring is kind of put on hold.

The North wind blows, and it is cold.

Faith that God is who’s in charge.

It is His world, His plans are large.

Social change is on the way.

Love will change the light of day.

We all must make some new decisions.

We all must face things, that’s our mission.

In order for this world to change,

Love must come and rearrange.

This world must rearrange its focus.

Love must be its center locus.

Money must go down in flames.

Love is what we must exchange.

It will take us time to learn.

Always, knowledge must be earned.

We’re being forced to see the Truth.

God is working with our youth.

Thank You, Mother/Father/Son.

Your plan of Love is what’s begun.

We must face the way of Truth.

Love’s the answer to our youth.

Paul Anderson

Urantia Poet

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

Urantia Poet

181:2.15 Jesus then stepped over to James Zebedee, who stood in silence as the Master addressed him, saying: “James, when you and your younger brother once came to me seeking preferment in the honors of the kingdom, and I told you such honors were for the Father to bestow, I asked if you were able to drink my cup, and both of you answered that you were. Even if you were not then able, and if you are not now able, you will soon be prepared for such a service by the experience you are about to pass through. By such behavior you angered your brethren at that time. If they have not already fully forgiven you, they will when they see you drink my cup. Whether your ministry be long or short, possess your soul in patience. When the new teacher comes, let him teach you the poise of compassion and that sympathetic tolerance which is born of sublime confidence in me and of perfect submission to the Father’s will. Dedicate your life to the demonstration of that combined human affection and divine dignity of the God-knowing and Son-believing disciple. And all who thus live will reveal the gospel even in the manner of their death. You and your brother John will go different ways, and one of you may sit down with me in the eternal kingdom long before the other. It would help you much if you would learn that true wisdom embraces discretion as well as courage. You should learn sagacity to go along with your aggressiveness. There will come those supreme moments wherein my disciples will not hesitate to lay down their lives for this gospel, but in all ordinary circumstances it would be far better to placate the wrath of unbelievers that you might live and continue to preach the glad tidings. As far as lies in your power, live long on the earth that your life of many years may be fruitful in souls won for the heavenly kingdom.”

Wisdom’s Ways
Truly much to do today.
Early starts help us make hay.
More time today to do our tasks.
More time to do some Godly acts.

Try to make some better choices.
The Spirit within you then rejoices.
Look and act as an adult.
Anticipate your past made faults.

Make sure you don’t repeat mistakes.
To learn from them is what it takes.
Advancing helps your wisdom be
Increasing with your destiny.

To learn means that we’ve had defeats.
We do not learn on winning streaks.
We only learn when we must change,
And sometimes just extend our range.

We do best when we improve
Our past events, the way we move.
Introspection must be made
To help us all, improve our grades.

Self-awareness, where we’re at.
Respect all others as we act.
Accomplishments with what’s called tact
Helps all mankind, and that’s a fact!

Thank You, Mother/Father/Son.
Wisdom within’s what’s begun.
A wiser way to lead my life.
Become the way You lead through strife.
Paul Anderson

101:10.7 Religion effectually cures man’s sense of idealistic isolation or spiritual 
loneliness; it enfranchises the believer as a son of God, a citizen of a new and 
meaningful universe. Religion assures man that, in following the gleam of righteousness
discernible in his soul, he is thereby identifying himself with the plan of the Infinite and the 
purpose of the Eternal. Such a liberated soul immediately begins to feel at home in this new 
universe, his universe.

It truly didn’t freeze last night,
But now it does, with morning light.
On the cusp of freezing weather.
The sun will warm us, so whatever.

Soon the morning starts to warm.
Freezing air at night’s the norm.
The darkest hour’s before the dawn.
It’s like that on this world we’re on.

A sunny day is what’s predicted.
With warmer weather, we’re infected.
Spring is here, and it’s relentless.
With time’s advancement, we’re defenseless.

No one can control times flow.
God’s in charge, that’s what I know.
His timing is what we perceive.
Faith in His plan’s what I believe.

Faith and Patience must be used.
Long suffering means we’re not abused.
Spirit growth is how we’re paid.
Evolving is how we are made.

Evolving happens every day.
As we evolve, we see God’s way.
Loving kindness gives us flavor.
That should show us, God’s our Savior.

Thank You, Mother/Father/Son.
God’s plans have always just begun.
At just the right time they’re revealed.
It always has been what is real!
Paul Anderson
Urantiapoet.com

01:2.14 Your deepest nature – the divine Adjuster – creates within you a hunger and thirst for righteousness, a certain craving for divine perfection. Religion is the faith act of the recognition of this inner urge to divine attainment; and thus is brought about that soul trust and assurance of which you become conscious as the way of salvation, the technique of the survival of personality and all those values which you have come to look upon as being true and good.

Good

Very early, it’s still dark.

There is a way to hit the mark.

Inside I listen to Your hark.

I make my way, an early start.

An early start to this fine day.

Though it’s still dark, I see my way.

There’s Good to do within my path.

Good is something that can last.

All the Good in any act,

Has potential to enact

A process where the Love contained

Becomes a fact and is retained.

Someday there’ll be so much Good,

This world will be the way it should.

Slowly, yes, the wave will come.

I hear the ripples, it’s begun.

The rising tide of Good’s deluge,

Will submerge evil ice cubes.

They will melt away in shame.

They broke the rules of Goodness games.

The game of Good will someday rule

The way we swim within the pool.

Our laws will keep evil in check.

Divine law will be in effect.

There is Good within me Lord.

And it is there within the hoard.

Someday Faith in Good will show

And help in every way we know!

Paul Anderson

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66:6.2 When Christian missionaries go into the heart of Africa, where sons and daughters are supposed to remain under the control and direction of their parents throughout the lifetime of the parents, they only bring about confusion and the breakdown of all authority when they seek, in a single generation, to supplant this practice by teaching that these children should be free from all parental restraint after they have attained the age of twenty-one.

Powers

Wonder springs before my eyes.

This day is young, there’ll be surprise.

Good will spread on this fine day

As I decide to be that way!

Decisions that are made inside

Mistakes are there, one cannot hide.

Attitude’s the prime directive!

Our main decision is elective.

But advertising lies and cheats

To gain some power, truly stinks!

If your lead to go astray

Relentless courage you must display!

Acceptance of whom you have been.

Acceptance of a change within.

Direction of where one can go

Love’s the answer, blow by blow.

A change in what one thinks about

Can cause confusion, thoughts reroute.

New perspectives change what we

Truly, truly did believe.

Advancing in our social mores.

History shows our many forays.

Fighting, fighting, always wars

Are remembered, pretty poor!

Democratic states remembered.

Greece was there, but’s been dismembered.

Democracy’s under attack!

The powers that be want their powers back!

This world’s leaders do not want.

Democracy’s too eloquent.

Their vision has been warped by power.

Everyone of them’s gone sour.

A longer poem, yes today

But there was really much to say.

I hope and hope, but also pray

The world’s direction goes up today!

Thank You, Father, help me be

A force for Love within with Ye!

A focus for Your eloquence

And help me be intelligent.

Paul Anderson

Urantiapoet.Com

136:2.4 When Jesus of Nazareth went down into the Jordan to be baptized, he was a mortal of the realm who had attained the pinnacle of human evolutionary ascension in all matters related to the conquest of mind and to self-identification with the spirit. He stood in the Jordan that day a perfected mortal of the evolutionary worlds of time and space. Perfect synchrony and full communication had become established between the mortal mind of Jesus and the indwelling spirit Adjuster, the divine gift of his Father in Paradise. And just such an Adjuster indwells all normal beings living on Urantia since the ascension of Michael to the headship of his universe, except that Jesus’ Adjuster had been previously prepared for this special mission by similarly indwelling another superhuman incarnated in the likeness of mortal flesh, Machiventa Melchizedek.

NOW

Summer starts tonight at nine

There may be storms before that time.

But we will sing through any storm.

Springtime storms are just the norm.

The day is young, it’s yet to be.

It will progress incrementally.

The now progresses on its own.

Are we aware of what is shown?

So you’re aware, but do you care?

Are you affected anywhere?

Can there be a better Good?

Do those things you know you should!

Attitude makes all the difference.

Look for Good, look for resplendence!

Imagine what can be the best

Then expect it, nothing less!

Improvement, that’s all we need do.

Progress on the Trail of Truth.

We can ride, or push, or drive.

We have our parts, we all derive.

Do your part the best you can.

When you’re stuck, ask for God’s Hand.

If your goals align with God’s

The sight inside you will enlarge.

Thank You, Father, it’s nice to be

Aware of Love, and how things will be.

But till then, we must expect

That progress made is circumspect.

Paul Anderson

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  ^67:0.1 THE problems associated with human existence on Urantia are impossible of understanding without a knowledge of certain great epochs of the past, notably the occurrence and consequences of the planetary rebellion. Although this upheaval did not seriously interfere with the progress of organic evolution, it did markedly modify the course of social evolution and of spiritual development. The entire superphysical history of the planet was profoundly influenced by this devastating calamity.

Storms

Beauty before storms come in.
Late today they will begin.
Will be nice weather until then.
Before the storms we must defend.

Right now, it’s truly very nice.
To start big projects, I’m enticed.
But I know they must be done
Before the storms, I know, will come.

So be prepared is where I stand.
I’ll gather things that I demand.
Perhaps not start what can’t be done
Before the setting of the sun.

The day progresses, the sun climbs.
We all have a course through time.
I pray your day truly goes fine.
I pray you find a course Divine.

I continue with my day.
Learning, learning, different ways.
Truly trying to understand
What the ways of life demand.

Becoming better in someways.
Mistakes you make are mere delays.
In the progress that one makes
Everyday ripples in time we make.

Thank You, Father, we shall see
A few more years till Destiny
Surprise exists for all of us.
Your mission towards Love is robust.

Paul Anderson

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