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118:8.10 As man shakes off the shackles of fear, as he bridges continents and oceans with his machines, generations and centuries with his records, he must substitute for each transcended restraint a new and voluntarily assumed restraint in accordance with the moral dictates of expanding human wisdom. These self-imposed restraints are at once the most powerful and the most tenuous of all the factors of human civilization – concepts of justice and ideals of brotherhood. Man even qualifies himself for the restraining garments of mercy when he dares to love his fellow men, while he achieves the beginnings of spiritual brotherhood when he elects to mete out to them that treatment which he himself would be accorded, even that treatment which he conceives that God would accord them.

Ways & Meanings
Too far south to get much snow.
But with the rain, I’ll still go slow.
A rainy day with green sprouts growing.
I smell the spring as life is flowing.

That’s a good start to this day.
Outside’s not the place to play.
Far too wet with a cold rain.
When it’s in your face, you feel the pain

Going on no matter what,
Adapting to one’s budget cuts.
Finding ways, and finding meanings,
Every day through life we’re gleaning.

Gleaning every day experience.
We all choose what has significance.
Our decisions are reflected
In the way our life’s impacted.

Is this good, or is this bad?
By your actions, are you glad?
What direction do you choose?
Wisdom comes to those who lose.

Don’t be discouraged, rise above.
Your beauty shines because you love.
Never fear to let it shine.
You’ll see the truth if given time.

Father, thank You, for this day.
I know surprise is on it’s way.
Every day, there’s something new
And we get wiser as we do.

71:4.17 Idealism can never survive on an evolving planet if the idealists in each generation permit themselves to be exterminated by the baser orders of humanity. And here is the great test of idealism: Can an advanced society maintain that military preparedness which renders it secure from all attack by its war-loving neighbors without yielding to the temptation to employ this military strength in offensive operations against other peoples for purposes of selfish gain or national aggrandizement? National survival demands preparedness, and religious idealism alone can prevent the prostitution of preparedness into aggression. Only love, brotherhood, can prevent the strong from oppressing the weak.

Be Prepared
Overcast, the day begins.
The warmer weather brings us Spring.
Green shoots sprouting everywhere.
But snow will come, they best beware.

Transitions from the colder weather
Mean Summer’s coming but, however,
Before it proceed many storms.
Do they exceed what’s been the norm?

Can 2 degrees since 1880
Cause changes that do seem so weighty?
Faster and faster yes it’s rising.
We see our weather. We’re appraising.

One short lifetime to be for certain?
Is not enough. It needs researching.
It always helps to be prepared.
Life won’t change, it’s never fair!

So where I live, I best prepare
For stronger storms. They’re everywhere!
Mostly though they’re to the South.
Procrastination reflects doubt.

I should not be upstairs at home
When wind and storms around us roam.
Tornadoes, whirl winds of any sort
Might take the roof from my resort.

Thank You, Father, for what is.
The life I lead helps me to give.
And when I’m stuck in outer space
I know Your Love achieves with Grace.

101:4.2 Mankind should understand that we who participate in the revelation of truth are very rigorously limited by the instructions of our superiors. We are not at liberty to anticipate the scientific discoveries of a thousand years. Revelators must act in accordance with the instructions which form a part of the revelation mandate. We see no way of overcoming this difficulty, either now or at any future time. We full well know that, while the historic facts and religious truths of this series of revelatory presentations will stand on the records of the ages to come, within a few short years many of our statements regarding the physical sciences will stand in need of revision in consequence of additional scientific developments and new discoveries. These new developments we even now foresee, but we are forbidden to include such humanly undiscovered facts in the revelatory records. Let it be made clear that revelations are not necessarily inspired. The cosmology of these revelations is not inspired. It is limited by our permission for the co-ordination and sorting of present-dayknowledge. While divine or spiritual insight is a gift, human wisdom must evolve.

Future Days
Today it truly feels like Spring!
Surprise, I know, this day will bring.
The weather outside’s truly wet.
Rain is what we’re going to get.

Plans today? We’ll see what gives.
I’ll find the best way I can live.
I’ll try to be of help to others.
After all we’re sisters/brothers.

It’s a Monday! Time to work.
An early start for my rebirth.
Every day an open mind
Gives new perspectives – Your design!

I anticipate good things.
But bad things happen, though we sing.
Doesn’t mean we have done wrong.
We need to sing a longer song.

Adopt a longer point of view.
Time won’t matter if it’s true.
Our truth, yes, can be time delayed.
But in the end, truth is conveyed!

Patience with the course of time.
Leads us where, by Your design,
We are able to achieve
Exactly what we can believe!

Thank You, Father, things go well.
You have a plan and You indwell
Every soul that You create.
We’re linked forever in our fate.

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.

100:6.4 The self has surrendered to the intriguing drive of an all-encompassing motivation which imposes heightened self-discipline, lessens emotional conflict, and makes mortal life truly worth living. The morbid recognition of human limitations is changed to the natural consciousness of mortal shortcomings, associated with moral determination and spiritual aspiration to attain the highest universe and superuniverse goals. And this intense striving for the attainment of supermortal ideals is always characterized by increasing patience, forbearance, fortitude, and tolerance.

Experience Is The Goal
They say the snow is on the way.
But a quiet spell will rule today.
The calm before the coming storm.
Tomorrow, Winter’ll be the norm.

To know what’s coming— a recent change.
The way the world lives— progress came.
The weather always is the news—
To plan ahead if you so choose.

You smell it in the morning air.
It lifts your spirit, and takes you where
You know that Spring is on its way.
You know it though the skies are gray.

The morning gases fill our lungs.
We see more of the world we’re from.
Bustling here, and bustling there.
Does where we’re going take us there?

Early planning is the best
Way to go. It is wisest!
But as awareness grows and spreads,
Plans change often as were led.

That’s experience nothing else.
Experience, is a brand of wealth.
God wants it all, and you’re a part.
The love within you leaves its mark!

Thank You, Father, for all things.
A way of life is what love brings.
To try to follow in Your shoes,
Depends each day on how we choose!

0:5.1 The soul of man is an experiential acquirement. As a mortal creature chooses to “do the will of the Father in heaven,” so the indwelling spirit becomes the father of a new reality in human experience. The mortal and material mind is the mother of this same emerging reality. The substance of this new reality is neither material nor spiritual – it is morontial. This is the emerging and immortal soul which is destined to survive mortal death and begin the Paradise ascension.

The Soul of Man
Today the path of Time goes on.
The march of Time is never gone.
We live upon this crest of time.
Ever-changing, It’s Divine.

By learning to live in the Now,
The land within our souls is plowed.
Seeds of love can then sprout roots.
A life of love springs from a book?

Devotion to a Higher cause,
It’s a path that leads to God.
To do a perfect job for Him,
Can only be had deep within.

If your basic things are right
Gradually you see the light.
Love has power, and shines bright
Upon this world, both day and night.

Let the lovely light of love,
Shine where/when e’er it does evolve.
Don’t direct, just “let it be.”
Things work out most definitely!

Wherever there is love, it grows.
It blossoms then when unopposed.
Only by your choice can you
Decide upon the things you do.

Thank You, Father, please help us
Evolve, so that with love we trust
The goodness of the Soul of Man.
Help us all to understand.

55:3.21&22 The great handicap confronting Urantia in the matter of attaining the high planetary destiny of light and life is embraced in the problems of disease, degeneracy, war, multicolored races, and multilingualism.
No evolutionary world can hope to progress beyond the first stage of settledness in light until it has achieved one language, one religion, and one philosophy. Being of one race greatly facilitates such achievement, but the many peoples of Urantia do not preclude the attainment of higher stages.

Direction
The snow has crusted with the cold.
Frozen slush puts us on hold.
Very slick, cars must go slow
Or they will slide to the unknown.

Sliding gives us no control
Except with circles in the snow.
Some go out, and cut these corners.
Open fields home this disorder.

As long as we don’t have a care
About where we go, we’re not aware.
We must show an interest in
The world around us and within.

To throw all caution to the wind—
Be not a fool! Please, look within!
Do only things to make this place
A better spot for the human race.

If we would all agree on that,
This world improves as we do act.
Together we can redirect.
When united we effect!

We effect when choice is made.
With every choice, our plans are laid.
We have direction with a plan.
Mine’s to spread love through this land.

Thank You, Father, for Your plan.
Your direction, eons span.
Patience here as Your love spreads,
Trust and faith in where we’re led.

15:1.3 Urantia is situated in a local universe and a superuniverse not fully organized, and your local universe is in immediate proximity to numerous partially completed physical creations. You belong to one of the relatively recent universes. But you are not, today, plunging on wildly into uncharted space nor swinging out blindly into unknown regions. You are following the orderly and predetermined path of the superuniverse space level. You are now passing through the very same space that your planetary system, or its predecessors, traversed ages ago; and some day in the remote future your system, or its successors, will again traverse the identical space through which you are now so swiftly plunging.

Today
The search for signal still goes on.
Direct TV sings not it’s song.
It can’t work without a signal
It certainly is being fickle.

Oh well, the day will still be great.
We’re going to love our destined fate.
God’s in charge, so do not fear.
He has a plan to take us there.

We must have an open mind
Then it resonates with the Divine.
To look for good when in a mess,
Provides a Spirit with which we’re blessed.

God anticipates your needs.
He’s there when e’er your Spirit bleeds.
He tends your soul and plants some seeds.
His seeds will grow even with some weeds.

To grow to be upon this world
We must follow where we’re hurled.
We’re on track to spin and whirl
And learn from God so many pearls.

That’s the way our lives can be
If we choose to search for Ye.
Try to be as we perceive
Our best, and as we do, believe.

Thank You Father, for Your plan.
It will diffuse throughout this land.
Someday our lives will truly be
Perfected in eternity.

120:3.4 “3. In your relations to the social order we advise that you confine your efforts largely to spiritual regeneration and intellectual emancipation. Avoid all entanglements with the economic structure and the political commitments of your day. More especially devote yourself to living the ideal religious life on Urantia.

Commitment
Very cold the morning air.
Much to do though, if we care.
Care about some other souls.
Everybody braves the cold.

Warm the car, make sure it starts.
Do a check of all its parts.
Plan your trip to help a friend.
Then every Tuesday do again.

Anticipate the day ahead.
Try to see where you are led.
Do the best job you can do.
Accept whate’er comes back to you.

Learn how you can have effect.
Polish up your self-respect
Do the work – it must be done.
You’re finding out how God has fun!

Every moment of every day
God’s love pours through to show the way.
If you receive this Holy call
You can’t help but be enthralled!

It’s amazing what God does.
My faith in His Good has no pause.
He knows what is going to be
And shapes the love I find in me!

I love God and He loves me.
He shapes all reality.
So thank You for the way things are.
I’ll follow You and find the stars!

15:1.3 Urantia is situated in a local universe and a superuniverse not fully organized, and your local universe is in immediate proximity to numerous partially completed physical creations. You belong to one of the relatively recent universes. But you are not, today, plunging on wildly into uncharted space nor swinging out blindly into unknown regions. You are following the orderly and predetermined path of the superuniverse space level. You are now passing through the very same space that your planetary system, or its predecessors, traversed ages ago; and some day in the remote future your system, or its successors, will again traverse the identical space through which you are now so swiftly plunging.

Today
The search for signal still goes on.
Direct TV sings not it’s song.
It can’t work without a signal
It certainly is being fickle.

Oh well, the day will still be great.
We’re going to love our destined fate.
God’s in charge, so do not fear.
He has a plan to take us there.

We must have an open mind
Then it resonates with the Divine.
To look for good when in a mess,
Provides a Spirit with which we’re blessed.

God anticipates your needs.
He’s there when e’er your Spirit bleeds.
He tends your soul and plants some seeds.
His seeds will grow even with some weeds.

To grow to be upon this world
We must follow where we’re hurled.
We’re on track to spin and whirl
And learn from God so many pearls.

That’s the way our lives can be
If we choose to search for Ye.
Try to be as we perceive
Our best and as we do believe.

Thank You Father, for your plan.
It will diffuse throughout this land.
Someday our lives will truly be
Perfected in eternity.