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113:1.1 The teaching about guardian angels is not a myth; certain groups of human beings do actually have personal angels. It was in recognition of this that Jesus, in speaking of the children of the heavenly kingdom, said: “Take heed that you despise not one of these little ones, for I say to you, their angels do always behold the presence of the spirit of my Father.”

Guardian Angels
To be upset is not the course.
Heaven hopes we’ll show remorse.
Frustrations, if allowed to build
Present a block to do what’s willed.

Don’t let your anger have its way.
Twill only lead you to dismay.
Anger leads to more mistakes.
Don’t let it have the power to break.

Respond with caution to frustration.
It implies a redirection.
A time and place need more inspection.
Choose to follow God‘s perfection.

One can’t know how cards are played.
The Angels choose, direct your ways.
Know they love you, but must do
As God’s will directs them to.

They anticipate your best.
They want your choice to reduce stress.
So anger cannot have its way.
Your search for Truth is what’s at play.

Angels can be your best friend.
Cooperate with what They’ve planned.
As you wish yourself to be,
They’ll help God’s plan be what you see.

Thank You, Father, You know best.
And to your Angels I’m Their guest.
They guard my soul towards Your direction
So in the end, All gain perfection.

48:6.8+ Even on Urantia they counsel the human teachers of truth and righteousness to adhere to the preaching of “the goodness of God, which leads to repentance,” to proclaim “the love of God, which casts out all fear.” Even so have these truths been declared on your world:
The Gods are my caretakers; I shall not stray;
Side by side they lead me in the beautiful paths and glorious refreshing of life everlasting.
I shall not, in this Divine Presence, want for food nor thirst for water.
Though I go down into the valley of uncertainty or ascend up into the worlds of doubt,
Though I move in loneliness or with the fellows of my kind,
Though I triumph in the choirs of light or falter in the solitary places of the spheres,
Your good spirit shall minister to me, and your glorious angel will comfort me.
Though I descend into the depths of darkness and death itself,
I shall not doubt you nor fear you,
For I know that in the fullness of time and the glory of your name
You will raise me up to sit with you on the battlements on high.

World Wishes
I wish this world were really cool.
With global warming I’m no fool.
Science wins the physics world.
The Spirit is what God controls.

Cool in spirit, a thinking world
A place where God’s Will is unfurled.
Angry politics has no place.
It can’t depict a loving face.

How they wake with morning light
And go to work prepared to fight?
Do they pray before they start
And find God’s plan within their hearts?

To fight is not the way of love.
Above our fights we must evolve.
We want what’s best for everyone.
The fight inside is Spirit won.

A Spiritual world someday will be.
God’s Will unites humanity.
Look within, you’ll find Him there.
To love Him makes you more aware.

If we would truly strive for peace
Love would show the way, believe!
Make love of others be what you
Accomplish in the things you do.

The way ahead will slowly be
As God rolls out our destiny.
Thank the Lord, His Love exists.
The way with Him can then persist.

Thank You, Father, Love pursues.
A love with kindness I will use.
Your Will gives Faith that what I do
Helps this world pursue the Truth.

12:7.0 There is operative throughout all time and space and with regard to all reality of whatever nature an inexorable and impersonal law which is equivalent to the function of a cosmic providence. Mercy characterizes God’s attitude of love for the individual; impartiality motivates God’s attitude toward the total. The will of God does not necessarily prevail in the part – the heart of any one personality – but his will does actually rule the whole, the universe of universes.

A Better World
A perfect weather day’s on tap.
Open windows’ breeze a fact.
Freshened air with morning dew.
A day of promise here for you

Much can happen, the day is good.
We will be rappin’ ‘bout Your Book.
Study groups around the world
Show that Your Book’s gained footholds.

Advancement occurs every day
As more of us do find Your Way.
Inner hate can’t motivate
As it does slow you’re thinking rate.

One has to think to find what’s best.
And hate will never give one rest.
Bellicosity must be controlled.
Don’t let its countenance unfold.

Keep your cool inside and out.
Unite yourself within, don’t pout.
Accept that perfect is not yet.
And do your best before you rest.

Thinking is what’s most important.
Don’t be shy, show good deportment.
Courage blooms when best is done.
Be patient with yourself, don’t run.

Dearest Father, I pray for peace.
One man rule has got to cease.
Democracies aren’t all the same,
But more of Love they do contain.

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.

A thought from the Urantia Book this beautiful Sunday morning.
196:3.1 Personal, spiritual religious experience is an efficient solvent for most mortal difficulties; it is an effective sorter, evaluator, and adjuster of all human problems. Religion does not remove or destroy human troubles, but it does dissolve, absorb, illuminate, and transcend them.

1:5.15 The absolute perfection of the infinite God would cause him to suffer the awful limitations of unqualified finality of perfectness were it not a fact that the Universal Father directly participates in the personality struggle of every imperfect soul in the wide universe who seeks, by divine aid, to ascend to the spiritually perfect worlds on high. This progressive experience of every spirit being and every mortal creature throughout the universe of universes is a part of the Father’s ever-expanding Deity-consciousness of the never-ending divine circle of ceaseless self-realization.

Your Choice
Cool for summer, that’s for sure.
There’s beauty here, most do concur.
Luxuriant growth with recent rains
Will help us harvest much for grain.

The beauty that we see today
Invigorates in many ways.
Problems seem to fade away
When our best we do display.

Try your best, see what occurs.
To fail’s a gift, a lesson learned.
Don’t give up, just redirect.
The best for you has not been yet.

The path ahead we cannot know
But we can follow beauty’s glow.
The ring we hear’s the ring of truth.
Listen closely, that’s your proof.

Faith will show where you can go.
Faith unlocks God’s loving flow.
At times He digs around your roots
He knows what’s best, do not dispute.

He helps you grow the fruits of Heaven.
When needed, He provides you leaven.
A catalyst, a push to grow
He’ll throw a line, take you in tow.

Thank You, Father’s not enough.
The path I’ve taken has been rough.
But through it all, You helped me bear
The burdens that I chose to dare.

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.

Poignant last words of Steve Jobs, billionaire, dead at 56:
"I have reached the pinnacle of success in business." In other people's eyes my life is a success.
However, aside from work, I’ve had little joy.
At the end of the day, wealth is just a fact I’ve gotten used to.
Right now, lying on my hospital bed, reminiscing all my life, I realize that all the recognition and wealth I took so much pride in, has faded and become meaningless in the face of imminent death.
You can hire someone to drive your car or make money for you, but you can't hire someone to stand sick and die for you.
Material things lost can be found again. But there is one thing that can never be found when it is lost: Life.
Whatever stage of life we are currently at, in time we will face the day the curtain closes.
Love your family, spouse, children and friends... Treat them right .
Cherish them.
As we get older, and wiser, we slowly realize that wearing a $300 or $30 watch both give the same time
Whether we have a $300 or $30 wallet or purse, the amount inside is the same.
Whether we drive a $150,000 car or a $30,000 car, the road and the distance are the same, and we reach the same destination.
Whether we drink a $1000 or $10 bottle of wine, the hangover is the same.
Whether the house in which we live is 100 or 1000 square meters, loneliness is the same.
You will realize that your true inner happiness does not come from material things of this world.
Whether you travel first class or economy class, if the plane crashes, you go down with it...
Therefore, I hope you realize, when you have friends, brothers and sisters, with whom you discuss, laugh, talk, sing, talk about north-south-east or heaven and earth,... this is the real happiness!!
An indisputable fact of life:
Don't raise your children to be rich.
Educate them to be happy.
When they grow up, they will know the value of things and not the price. "

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.

70:1.2
Andon taught his children to settle disputes by each beating a tree with a stick, meanwhile cursing the tree; the one whose stick broke first was the victor. The later Andonites used to settle disputes by holding a public show at which the disputants made fun of and ridiculed each other, while the audience decided the winner by its applause.

War&Peace
Coolness as the front goes through.
Today the sun will shine, ‘tis true.
A perfect day to get things done.
Look to where your best comes from.

The best will happen if we try.
There’s a learning curve, I can’t deny.
But if you truly try your best,
God’s intent will do the rest.

First alignment must be made.
For the Will of God, you must make trade.
When you align yourself with that
What God does becomes a fact.

A simple thing, but not so easy.
It can’t be done when you’re martinied.
Clear your head so you can make
Decisions that are truly great!

I have faith that we can do
Enough of what God wants us to.
And when in fact we do achieve
Life improves as God decrees!

God requires that our efforts
Must be made to give us comforts.
Then as we do our very best
We’ve done our part, God does the rest.

The best upon this world will be.
But time dictates — eventually.
Patience with the way that is
Will open doors to do God’s biz.

Thank You, Father, as You decree
We wait and promote harmony.
Though there’s war upon this world
Someday Your flag of peace unfurls.