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5:2.5.2 As the soul of joint mind and Adjuster creation becomes increasingly existent, there also evolves a new phase of soul consciousness which is capable of experiencing the presence, and of recognizing the spirit leadings and other supermaterial activities, of the Mystery Monitor

Greener Grass
The grass has turned another shade.
It’s greener now than yesterday.
It’s getting longer, growing fast.
Soon, it’s cutting will be our task

Why do we grow grass to cut?
Yards look the same, no weeds erupt.
Some flowers may grow at the edges.
A path may cut through border hedges.

In any case, our grass keeps growing.
It gets so long, we see it blowing.
If it’s not cut, it goes to seed.
And then new sowing does its deed.

Seeds, under right conditions
Sprout and grow, that is their mission.
In the past, we all were seeds.
Now we’re growing through some weeds.

What are the weeds that live among us?
TV shows that shift our compass?
Where we do intend to go
Truly matters in life’s show.

Listen to the Guy inside.
He’s with you when you do decide.
Standby what you think is right.
Be guided by what’s called insight.

Thank You, Father, for this path.
I like to watch the growing grass.
I love the Spring, and all it brings.
Today, in Choir, I’m going to sing.

117:4.1 As we view the ceaseless struggles of the creature creation for perfection of status and divinity of being, we cannot but believe that these unending efforts bespeak the unceasing struggle of the Supreme for divine self-realization. God the Supreme is the finite Deity, and he must cope with the problems of the finite in the total sense of that word. Our struggles with the vicissitudes of time in the evolutions of space are reflections of his efforts to achieve reality of self and completion of sovereignty within the sphere of action which his evolving nature is expanding to the outermost limits of possibility.

“Good Reflections are Good Vibes”
A cloudy day that may hit 50.
I’m on my way to see what’s nifty.
Everyone I meet today
Is a part of God, their way.

With that in mind, I’ll look for it
Within the folks with whom I sit.
All the folks we see in life
Are reflections of Your light.

If we are good in any way
We reflect it in our day.
And I believe there’s good in all.
Some can’t walk yet, but they crawl.

In the long run, we’ll get there.
And everybody’ll be aware
Of the fact that God subsists
Upon us all where He exists.

Let Him be a partner in
The struggle we all have within.
He’ll show you pathways to your goals
And in this process, build your soul.

He values all the things you do.
And in this life, He’s there with you.
He knows you from the inside out.
He backs the things you do that count.

I’m glad You’re with me through my day.
You’ve helped me in so many ways.
If I look to find the truth,
I see the seeds at times their roots.

124:1.10 Even during the warmest summer months a cool sea breeze usually blew from the west from 10:00 AM until about 10:00 PM. But every now and then terrific hot winds from the eastern desert would blow across all Palestine. These hot blasts usually came in February and March, near the end of the rainy season. In those days the rain fell in refreshing showers from November to April, but it did not rain steadily. There were only two seasons in Palestine, summer and winter, the dry and rainy seasons. In January the flowers began to bloom, and by the end of April the whole land was one vast flower garden.

Blooms
Daffodils are going to bloom
In my backyard, so very soon.
Their stems are swollen at their tops
And when they burst, their blooms erupt.

Yellows, whites, some show both.
They smell like beauty as they grow.
When they bloom, Spring’s truly here.
Blooms in Winter don’t appear!

Today we’re truly on the cusp.
Soon the blooms will be robust.
Today’s moisture will be soaked
Into their stems, which then will bloat.

One could watch them as they bloom.
A patient camera placed on Zoom.
Watching as this garden grows.
A patient viewer then would know.

We’re the garden God has planted.
As we learn this, we are granted
Wisdom’s insight—shows what’s real.
Look inside! What do you feel?

You need to give at least one try!
Explore yourself as life goes by.
What do you hold true and dear?
What are your goals? What do you fear?

Thank You, Father, for direction.
Towards perfection’s my selection!
To do what’s right is my election.
The Will of God spreads like infection!

148:5.5.1 “But, Nathaniel, there is much in the Scriptures which would have instructed you if you had only read with discernment. Do you not remember that it is written: ‘My son, despise not the chastening of the Lord; neither be weary of his correction, for whom the Lord loves he corrects, even as the father corrects the son in whom he takes delight.’

Internal/Eternal Spring
In the Spring, one can’t be sure
That current weather will endure.
Sudden change, a storm blows up.
Mother Nature can erupt.

Weather radar helps us all.
It tells when storms might come to call.
It tells when we should take shelter.
Radar reflects the current weather.

God has got more than radar.
He knows exactly where you are.
He knows your heart, helps build your soul.
He knows within you, all your goals.

Belief in Him is the first step.
And then to see what happens next.
You can’t invent an unbelief
But can decide to not believe.

Such a small internal thing.
Do we believe in anything?
How does our belief effect
And change the way in which we act?

Belief affects our attitude.
In our actions, are we rude?
Patience with the souls around us
Helps us all to see God’s justice.

Thank You, Father, today will be
Another step towards victory!
Every day does bring us closer.
Eternity is never over!

118:10.1 Providence does not mean that God has decided all things for us and in advance. God loves us too much to do that, for that would be nothing short of cosmic tyranny. Man does have relative powers of choice. Neither is the divine love that shortsighted affection which would pamper and spoil the children of men.

Pathways
A rainy spring day is on tap.
There won’t be snow, further north for that.
A cold rain though can be unpleasant.
Make sure you plan for dry refreshment.

Plan for rain, wear a raincoat.
Make sure your shoes will not get soaked.
If you’re prepared you won’t get cold.
Be prepared to play your role.

What e’er that role may be today,
Do your homework, know you’re play.
Do the best job you can do.
Remember, God’s inside of you!

Reflect the love of God within.
Flow with love, go with life’s bends.
The bends in life are where you learn.
Directions change when our hearts churn.

Learn to look, go within and flow.
Love will show how you should go.
Let love win within your soul.
Reflect that pathway to your goal.

Accumulate the seeds of love.
Then cast, and sow with tender gloves
Tend them when they start to sprout.
Then you’ll see what God’s Love’s about.

Thank You, Father, the day’s still young.
Potentials always are far-flung.
I’ll look for love as day unfolds
Direct myself unto Your fold.

92:7.11 Religious meanings progress in self-consciousness when the child transfers his ideas of omnipotence from his parents to God. And the entire religious experience of such a child is largely dependent on whether fear or love has dominated the parent-child relationship. Slaves have always experienced great difficulty in transferring their master-fear into concepts of God-love. Civilization, science, and advanced religions must deliver mankind from those fears born of the dread of natural phenomena. And so should greater enlightenment deliver educated mortals from all dependence on intermediaries in communion with Deity.

Ready Set
Here we go again today.
If I’m wrong, I’ll say touché.
I’ll yield to the ring of truth
Even if it means reboot.

Flexible, I will remain.
You never know when days turn strange.
Intermittent showers for now.
There is no snow, no need for plows.

Adventure’s in the day ahead.
I’ll skate towards where I think I’m led.
My spirit skates I’m going to wear.
The Spirit helps me be aware.

The Spirit inside me calms my heart.
It lights my path through caverns dark.
The echoes of material mind
Can reflect Divine design.

When that happens, there occurs
A brighter light that does endure.
It’s within what’s called your soul.
It lights a pathway to your goal

As we walk along this path
There’s treasure found that does surpass
All past treasures we have found.
The ring of truth inside resounds.

You know when what you do is right.
Does your spirit dance or fight?
Within a Spirit truth does ring.
But you must look to see some things.

Thank You, Father, I can’t ignore
The plan of Love, You’ve sent before
All of us on planet earth.
Your love within us must come first.

102:3.4 Religious desire is the hunger quest for divine reality. Religious experience is the realization of the consciousness of having found God. And when a human being does find God, there is experienced within the soul of that being such an indescribable restlessness of triumph in discovery that he is impelled to seek loving service-contact with his less illuminated fellows, not to disclose that he has found God, but rather to allow the overflow of the welling-up of eternal goodness within his own soul to refresh and ennoble his fellows. Real religion leads to increased social service.

Discovery
Frost and fog to start the day.
Spring is coming, no delay.
It may hit 50 later on.
Already all the snow is gone.

Green shoots sprouting everywhere.
They promise flowers beyond compare.
If they are in the proper place,
Their nourishment stays right on pace.

Rapid growth, and then a freeze
Might bring green foliage to its knees.
The freeze leaves scars upon green shoots.
But still there’s energy in their roots.

I pray for plants to be well tended
So they develop as God intended.
I pray our weather does not kill
The plants upon the soil we till.

But more than that, I pray for peace.
From war I pray we be released.
If our souls we elevate,
Then wars we’ll never contemplate.

That won’t be right now, for sure.
But towards that goal we must endure.
Encourage inner health compassion
And then the search for God in action.

Thank You, Father, though progress be
Difficult and hard to see,
I know each day does bring us closer.
We’re on the brink where more discover.

97:7.5 This Isaiah conducted a far-flung propaganda of the gospel of the enlarging concept of a supreme Yahweh. He vied with Moses in the eloquence with which he portrayed the Lord God of Israel as the Universal Creator. He was poetic in his portrayal of the infinite attributes of the Universal Father. No more beautiful pronouncements about the heavenly Father have ever been made. Like the Psalms, the writings of Isaiah are among the most sublime and true presentations of the spiritual concept of God ever to greet the ears of mortal man prior to the arrival of Michael on Urantia. Listen to his portrayal of Deity: “I am the high and lofty one who inhabits eternity.” “I am the first and the last, and beside me there is no other God.” “And the Lord’s hand is not shortened that it cannot save, neither his ear heavy that it cannot hear.” And it was a new doctrine in Jewry when this benign but commanding prophet persisted in the preachment of divine constancy, God’s faithfulness. He declared that “God would not forget, would not forsake.”

Weather Change
Spring continues unabated.
The upper 40s are dictated.
A string of them – the weather warms.
Are we beset with stronger storms?

Not today, for beauty reigns.
We won’t get snow, if moisture, rain.
Too warm to snow, but not to storm.
Tomorrow’s weather’s not yet formed.

The warming weather has more power.
The rains that come to every flower
Can be gentle, slowly fall,
Or be brutal like a wall.

Whatever come’s been seen before.
But don’t we seem to be getting more?
Snow in southern Cal, gee whiz!
To be snowed in there’s a brand new risk.

Potential risk’s for everyone.
The need for change can make us glum.
No need to see the world that way.
Look to see how love’s displayed.

Always silver linings where
You least expect. Most people care!
Challenge those around you to
Do the best in what they do.

Thank You, Father, there will be
A time when spirituality
Will manifest in all our souls.
To do Your Will, will change our goals.

47:3.1 On the mansion worlds the resurrected mortal survivors resume their lives just where they left off when overtaken by death. When you go from Urantia to the first mansion world, you will notice considerable change, but if you had come from a more normal and progressive sphere of time, you would hardly notice the difference except for the fact that you were in possession of a different body; the tabernacle of flesh and blood has been left behind on the world of nativity.

Saving Time
The change in time, the Daylight savings,
Makes it dark for mourning readings.
But now our evenings will be lit.
More light for work, we do not sit.

Does it really make a difference?
Does an hour of light have much significance?
How can just one hour of light
Create much difference in our plights?

All of a sudden, our world is shaken.
We’re up before we do awaken.
Darkness shrouds the morning light.
When evening comes, the lights too bright.

We are just as time goes by
Until the fall when change applies.
And we go through this all again
Reversing what we did begin.

In my opinion stable time
Makes more sense, it’s God’s design.
If this time change’s truly smart,
And I desire it with all my heart!

Thank You Father, the flow of time
Is very steady, by Your design.
Why should we disrupt the flow
Twice a year? I’d like to know.

103:5.6 The attempt to secure equal good for the self and for the greatest number of other selves presents a problem which cannot always be satisfactorily resolved in a time-space frame. Given an eternal life, such antagonisms can be worked out, but in one short human life they are incapable of solution. Jesus referred to such a paradox when he said: “Whosoever shall save his life shall lose it, but whosoever shall lose his life for the sake of the kingdom, shall find it.”

The Good Loser
The skies are gray, but they are dry.
They may get wet when the day goes by.
Tonight a snowy mix predicted.
Will the roads then all get wicked?

Slippery as the roads might be,
We must deal realistically,
with the work that must be done.
Decisions made by everyone.

Some folks have to drive at night.
Delivering goods for our delight.
They keep the lights on for all of us.
To them our night we do entrust.

I’m glad I do not work at night.
But if I did, I’d find delight.
The moon shines with the whitest light.
When it is full, our night is bright.

There’s always something good in life
When even in the toughest strife.
Look for all the hows and whys.
Find the reasons that underlie.

Wisdom comes especially well
To those who lose and those who fell.
Learning how to stay on top
Successful ways we must adapt.

When you lose, you really see
The true course of reality.
It’s apparent to your eyes.
Think, please think, and then apprise.

Thank You, Father, life points to You.
Especially if we try to do
The best in life we can conceive.
In You, I truly do believe!