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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.

the book discusses the origin and meaning of life, mankind's place in the universe, the history of the planet, the relationship between God and people, and the life of Jesus.

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!

103:1.1 The unity of religious experience among a social or racial group derives from the identical nature of the God fragment indwelling the individual. It is this divine in man that gives origin to his unselfish interest in the welfare of other men. But since personality is unique – no two mortals being alike – it inevitably follows that no two human beings can similarly interpret the leadings and urges of the spirit of divinity which lives within their minds. A group of mortals can experience spiritual unity, but they can never attain philosophic uniformity. And this diversity of the interpretation of religious thought and experience is shown by the fact that twentieth-century theologians and philosophers have formulated upward of five hundred different definitions of religion. In reality, every human being defines religion in the terms of his own experiential interpretation of the divine impulses emanating from the God spirit that indwells him, and therefore must such an interpretation be unique and wholly different from the religious philosophy of all other human beings.

Unity
Another perfect day on tap.
Another day where we can rap.
A day when we exchange ideas
And help each other through our fears.

Together we are more and more.
Alone, we lose what we’re here for.
So go and find and meet your brothers.
But don’t forget to help your mother.

We advance from stable homes.
We bring home tech from where we roam.
A rhythm beat, a Spirit flow,
Helps us all become and grow.

As we live, our minds discover.
Through toil and torments, we recover.
By going through life‘s tribulations
Our souls learn love and adulation.

Respect on every single level.
We have laws, but there’s no Devil.
Can we learn the rungs of life?
Perspectives change, become more alike.

A unity of what’s desired.
Variety in what’s acquired.
This results in progress made.
Best when all of us make the grade.

Thank You, Father, we await.
With patience, we work on our fate.
Living is an art of love.
An art that works best when we all solve.

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.

100:7.18 Jesus was the perfectly unified human personality. And today, as in Galilee, he continues to unify mortal experience and to co-ordinate human endeavors. He unifies life, ennobles character, and simplifies experience. He enters the human mind to elevate, transform, and transfigure it. It is literally true: “If any man has Christ Jesus within him, he is a new creature; old things are passing away; behold, all things are becoming new.”

Now Again
A Saturday to start the month.
An upward path, a numbers crunch.
What do expectations mean,
When you achieve what’s been a dream?

Surprise is never e’er expected.
It can’t be, unless directed.
How to know about surprise?
If you know, then you are wise.

Surprise is always going to be
A part of life, to some degree.
Learning too, will never cease
Until the plan of God completes.

Eternity, infinity, where God lives conceptually.
How, and what, are both obscured
But the why is love, with faith observed!

Don’t try to second-guess what is.
There’re reasons for God’s formulas.
Observe the now and tend to facts.
Find God’s way and then enact.

Be the best that you know how.
Find how God within endows.
Use the gifts you have received
In the ways God has conceived.

Thank You, Father, for Your plan.
Love will spread throughout this land.
Yes, it’s going to take some time,
But with Your Book, I see Design.

113:5.4 In the life of the flesh the intelligence of angels is not directly available to mortal men. They are not overlords or directors; they are simply guardians. The seraphim guard you; they do not seek directly to influence you; you must chart your own course, but these angels then act to make the best possible use of the course you have chosen. They do not (ordinarily) arbitrarily intervene in the routine affairs of human life. But when they receive instructions from their superiors to perform some unusual exploit, you may rest assured that these guardians will find some means of carrying out these mandates. They do not, therefore, intrude into the picture of human drama except in emergencies and then usually on the direct orders of their superiors. They are the beings who are going to follow you for many an age, and they are thus receiving an introduction to their future work and personality association.

Do
Rain has come, refreshing rain
Relieving drought, we were in pain.
Nothing like the air refreshed.
The falling rain is by Your grace.

A cooler day has also come.
Sunday can be lots of fun.
Meetings, friends, and family.
Devote yourself, so the best can be.

It’s a calling every day
Because it is the best of ways.
To stand up for the very best
Results in what is Spirit rest.

A peace surrounds you as you act.
Love does that, and that’s a fact.
A rest that is assured of love
Is given, as we do evolve.

An understanding helps give peace
To your spirit, you have release.
Knowledge of the here and now.
Experience is what gives know how.

So as we age, we know what we
Should have done, our history.
But first all lessons must be learned
Before discretions are not spurned.

Thank You, Father, though I stumble
And many times, I’ve truly fumbled
My direction is towards You.
Improving is what I will do.

92:1.4 Mystery and power have always stimulated religious feelings and fears, while emotion has ever functioned as a powerful conditioning factor in their development. Fear has always been the basic religious stimulus. Fear fashions the gods of evolutionary religion and motivates the religious ritual of the primitive believers. As civilization advances, fear becomes modified by reverence, admiration, respect, and sympathy and is then further conditioned by remorse and repentance.

Remorse
What’s in a brand, or in a name?
In many ways, we are the same.
Motivation splits us all.
Various ways we can stand tall.

To look inside, and understand
The makings of what makes a man,
Can be revealing to your soul.
Experiencing all things is the goal.

God is with you high or low.
He’s with you everywhere you go.
When you fail, God fails with you.
He knows what’s best for you to do!

He always lets your spirit choose.
That way, your wisdom can improve.
To reap rewards of what you plant
You must attend the gifts he grants.

When together with your friends
What message do you truly send?
Not by notes, or words, of course.
What’s inside you has God’s force.

You reflect what you believe.
And truly shine, when faith is weaved
Into the fabric of your life.
Your fiber glows as you survive.

Thank You, Father, today will be.
I will choose the way I see.
I pray for wisdom with my choice.
I pray to live without remorse.