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Dear friend in Christ Michael,

As we come to the start of another year 2025, I want to have a look at the journey we had in 2024. 2024 has been a year of learning from each other , problems and triumphs that we have experienced. 2024 has been a year of memories and lessons with joy and perseverance. You have really added something that is unique in many aspects and I am really grateful.

As for gratitude and renewal, I wish to share an inspiring thought from the Urantia Book, which sounds awesome as we move into the new year 2025
"Love is the desire to do good to others." (The Urantia Book, 56:10.21). It reminds me of the boundless strength of love and how it can turn lives. Lets carry on the spirit of togetherness filled with trust and honesty and also spreading kindness and bringing up those that surround us.

Keeping our heart and forgiving each other's time is timeless as we reflect on the new year ahead. My wish for you is for your lives to be filled with good health, success, happiness, love . May you find peace in both happiness and uncertainty. May your earnings be multiplied and God bless the works of your hands.

With each other, entering 2025. with hope and commitment to make urantia a better place to live by kindness, compassion and understanding. We wish you and your loved ones a happy, joyous and prosperous new year 2025.

The more closely man approaches God through love, the greater the reality actuality of than man, 117:4.14.
Thank you for being an important part of my life, I look forward to continuing our journey too in the new year 2025

Regards, Julius Gumisiriza. Author Great Adventures In Uganda's Fifth Epochal Revelation and Food Forest Program .
Regional Coordinator Food Forest Program - Western Uganda & Revelational leader

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Dear friends

Greetings to you and everyone around you, including your family and friends.

Today, being Thanksgiving Day, I wanted to take a moment to wish you a Happy Thanksgiving. Be blessed.

As we celebrate this special occasion, I encourage you to honor it by planting a tree. This small yet impactful gesture contributes to conserving and protecting our environment, and it is a gift I humbly offer to you in spirit. Those without access to land kindly advise those people or friends to do so.

Uganda's climate is increasingly facing adverse changes. Human activities like encroachment on wetlands, swamps, and forests have disrupted our natural ecosystems. The consequences are evident in the devastating floods that have destroyed roads, homes, and livelihoods while tragically claiming lives and causing significant property loss. Planting a tree today could be a step toward reversing this troubling trend.

On the reflection from the Urantia book: ~TRUTH, BEAUTY & GOODNESS

1. …Divinity is creature comprehensible as truth, beauty, and goodness; correlated in personality as love, mercy, and ministry; disclosed on impersonal levels as justice, power, and sovereignty…. (3.4) 0:1.17

2. …The God of universal love unfailingly manifests himself to every one of his creatures up to the fullness of that creature’s capacity to spiritually grasp the qualities of divine truth, beauty, and goodness…. (26.7) 1:4.5

3. …God is much more than a personality as personality is understood by the human mind; he is even far more than any possible concept of a superpersonality. But it is utterly futile to discuss such incomprehensible concepts of divine personality with the minds of material creatures whose maximum concept of the reality of being consists in the idea and ideal of personality. The material creature’s highest possible concept of the Universal Creator is embraced within the spiritual ideals of the exalted idea of divine personality. Therefore, although you may know that God must be much more than the human conception of personality, you equally well know that the Universal Father cannot possibly be anything less than an eternal, infinite, true, good, and beautiful personality…. (27.4) 1:5.2

4. …The concept of truth might possibly be entertained apart from personality, the concept of beauty may exist without personality, but the concept of divine goodness is understandable only in relation to personality. Only a person can love and be loved. Even beauty and truth would be divorced from survival hope if they were not attributes of a personal God, a loving Father…. (31.3)1:7.3

5. …In the physical universe we may see the divine beauty, in the intellectual world we may discern eternal truth, but the goodness of God is found only in the spiritual world of personal religious experience. In its true essence, religion is a faith-trust in the goodness of God. God could be great and absolute, somehow even intelligent and personal, in philosophy, but in religion God must also be moral; he must be good. Man might fear a great God, but he trusts and loves only a good God. This goodness of God is a part of the personality of God, and its full revelation appears only in the personal religious experience of the believing sons of God…. (40.5) 2:6.1

From the UB "Divinity is creature comprehensible as truth, beauty, and goodness.This highlights the importance of recognizing the divine in our natural world and respecting the delicate balance of our ecosystems.

The "truth is coherent, beauty attractive, goodness stabilizing" This encourages us to seek truth in our understanding of the environment, appreciate the beauty of nature, and recognize the goodness of preserving it for future generations.

Happy Thanks Giving day

Blessings,
Gumisiriza Julius

My PHONE RESET IS DONE and email recovery is now complete! I can now receive and send emails

Hello everyone
My email malfunctioned and it failed to open the app. It's coming close to two weeks without access to it.
You can however reach out to me SFN inbox, Whatsapp and telegram for any information you may need me to know.Keep the indwelling spirit and remember to conserve your environment

Blessings

Why should you eat local foods? Did you know most of the food we eat are poisonous? As the UB reader what is your take on this? What is your encouragement?cite quotes if any!

How did Jesus fund the 4th Epochal Revelation? Could the same method of funding be applied to the 5th Epochal Revelation?

Paper 138

Training the Kingdom's Messengers
138:0.1 (1538.1)AFTER preaching the sermon on "The Kingdom," Jesus called the six apostles together that afternoon and began to disclose his plans for visiting the cities around and about the Sea of Galilee. His brothers James and Jude were very much hurt because they were not called to this conference. Up to this time they had regarded themselves as belonging to Jesus' inner circle of associates. But Jesus planned to have no close relatives as members of this corps of apostolic directors of the kingdom. This failure to include James and Jude among the chosen few, together with his apparent aloofness from his mother ever since the experience at Cana, was the starting point of an ever-widening gulf between Jesus and his family. This situation continued throughout his public ministry—they very nearly rejected him—and these differences were not fully removed until after his death and resurrection. His mother constantly wavered between attitudes of fluctuating faith and hope, and increasing emotions of disappointment, humiliation, and despair. Only Ruth, the youngest, remained unswervingly loyal to her father-brother.

138:0.2 (1538.2)Until after the resurrection, Jesus' entire family had very little to do with his ministry. If a prophet is not without honor save in his own country, he is not without understanding appreciation save in his own family.

1. Final Instructions
138:1.1 (1538.3)The next day, Sunday, June 23, a.d. 26, Jesus imparted his final instructions to the six. He directed them to go forth, two and two, to teach the glad tidings of the kingdom. He forbade them to baptize and advised against public preaching. He went on to explain that later he would permit them to preach in public, but that for a season, and for many reasons, he desired them to acquire practical experience in dealing personally with their fellow men. Jesus purposed to make their first tour entirely one of personal work. Although this announcement was something of a disappointment to the apostles, still they saw, at least in part, Jesus' reason for thus beginning the proclamation of the kingdom, and they started out in good heart and with confident enthusiasm. He sent them forth by twos, James and John going to Kheresa, Andrew and Peter to Capernaum, while Philip and Nathaniel went to Tarichea.

138:1.2 (1538.4)Before they began this first two weeks of service, Jesus announced to them that he desired to ordain twelve apostles to continue the work of the kingdom after his departure and authorized each of them to choose one man from among his early converts for membership in the projected corps of apostles. John spoke up, asking: "But, Master, will these six men come into our midst and share all things equally with us who have been with you since the Jordan and have heard all your teaching in preparation for this, our first labor for the kingdom?" And Jesus replied: "Yes, John, the men you choose shall become one with us, and you will teach them all that pertains to the kingdom, even as I have taught you." After thus speaking, Jesus left them.

138:1.3 (1539.1)The six did not separate to go to their work until they had exchanged many words in discussion of Jesus' instruction that each of them should choose a new apostle. Andrew's counsel finally prevailed, and they went forth to their labors. In substance Andrew said: "The Master is right; we are too few to encompass this work. There is need for more teachers, and the Master has manifested great confidence in us inasmuch as he has intrusted us with the choosing of these six new apostles." This morning, as they separated to go to their work, there was a bit of concealed depression in each heart. They knew they were going to miss Jesus, and besides their fear and timidity, this was not the way they had pictured the kingdom of heaven being inaugurated.

138:1.4 (1539.2)It had been arranged that the six were to labor for two weeks, after which they were to return to the home of Zebedee for a conference. Meantime Jesus went over to Nazareth to visit with Joseph and Simon and other members of his family living in that vicinity. Jesus did everything humanly possible, consistent with his dedication to the doing of his Father's will, to retain the confidence and affection of his family. In this matter he did his full duty and more.

138:1.5 (1539.3)While the apostles were out on this mission, Jesus thought much about John, now in prison. It was a great temptation to use his potential powers to release him, but once more he resigned himself to "wait upon the Father's will."
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