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140:8.3 Jesus made clear to the three the difference between the requirements of apostleship and discipleship. And even then he did not forbid the exercise of prudence and foresight by the twelve. What he preached against was not forethought but anxiety, worry. He taught the active and alert submission to God’s will. In answer to many of their questions regarding frugality and thriftiness, he simply called attention to his life as carpenter, boatmaker, and fisherman, and to his careful organization of the twelve. He sought to make it clear that the world is not to be regarded as an enemy; that the circumstances of life constitute a divine dispensation working along with the children of God.

Future Faith
Faith that things will all work out.
Helps me see what life’s about.
To sit and worry and do nothing.
Doesn’t help my path for walking!

To sit with worry is disturbing.
It robs you of the things you’re doing.
Worry wastes both time and effort.
It destroys all sense of comfort!

Use that Spirit found within.
Trust and faith dissolve your sins.
God forgives before you ask.
He’ll help you with your hardest tasks!

Look for God, then you’ve been found.
And then your sight is not earthbound.
Your vision for the future clears.
And worry is what disappears!

The peaceful feelings, faith begets
Will fill this world with God effects!
Faith in goodness, kindness, love.
Will help world problems all be solved.

Steadfast faith is what we need.
In times of trouble, we need love seeds.
The will of God will grow with grace.
Love will rule the human race!

Thank You Father, You’re in charge.
And I have faith You will enlarge
The love we all contain within.
Love will conquer the world we’re in!

85:2.4&5 Ideas about tree spirits varied greatly among different tribes and races. Some trees were indwelt by kindly spirits; others harbored the deceptive and cruel. The Finns believed that most trees were occupied by kind spirits. The Swiss long mistrusted the trees, believing they contained tricky spirits. The inhabitants of India and eastern Russia regard the tree spirits as being cruel. The Patagonians still worship trees, as did the early Semites. Long after the Hebrews ceased tree worship, they continued to venerate their various deities in the groves. Except in China, there once existed a universal cult of the tree of life.
The belief that water or precious metals beneath the earth’s surface can be detected by a wooden divining rod is a relic of the ancient tree cults. The Maypole, the Christmas tree, and the superstitious practice of rapping on wood perpetuate certain of the ancient customs of tree worship and the later-day tree cults.

Christmas
Special days bring holidays
The time of year when we all play.
The gift of giving brings us cheer.
Giving lifts our spirits here!

A day when no one e’er should fight.
Peace should flow from morn till night.
The birthday of our Prince of Peace.
Someday all wars on earth will cease!

Until that day, we must improve.
The prides of nations we must lose.
All for one and one for all.
Democracies must be installed!

One world united’s not a dream.
We can do this, though it seems.
The pace of progress is so slow.
Love will win! That’s what I know!

Love’s the force of God in action—
His Will the source of satisfaction.
Love fights for what’s best for all
And writes a story that enthralls!

Love can never make mistakes.
And it exists, though time it takes
To manifest and show what’s best.
Time reveals what’s been a guess.

Thanks You Father for Your Will.
Your plan of action – Love instills.
Love is how this world will be.
Love will rule democracies!

70:5.6 At first the war chiefs were chosen only for military service, and they would relinquish some of their authority during peacetimes, when their duties were of a more social nature. But gradually they began to encroach upon the peace intervals, tending to continue to rule from one war on through to the next. They often saw to it that one war was not too long in following another. These early war lords were not fond of peace.

Peace Be Among Us
Frozen snow upon the ground.
The morning’s quiet. There’s no sound.
One can contemplate and think.
One can see we’re on the brink!

There’s dissension in our ranks.
There’s good on both sides of these banks.
We need to learn to compromise.
And not wage wars we all despise!

We need cool heads to lead us on.
To win this world, wars must be gone!
Leaders who want war not peace
Must be exposed, and then impeached!

Of course, there’s some who’d trick us all.
What they heed is power’s call.
They want for us to fight until
The art of war has filled their tills!

The power to send us into war
Is what warmongers do strive for.
They arouse the fight within us.
But they are gone when wars are finished.

Leaders who promote our peace.
Help us all control our beast.
Solutions that are good for all
Create within us something tall!

Thank You Father, You’ll help us find
Leaders who, though not Divine,
Can help to lead us into light.
I vote for peace, and not to fight!

140:8.13 He made it clear that indiscriminate kindness may be blamed for many social evils. The following day Jesus definitely instructed Judas that no apostolic funds were to be given out as alms except upon his request or upon the joint petition of two of the apostles. In all these matters it was the practice of Jesus always to say, “Be as wise as serpents but as harmless as doves.” It seemed to be his purpose in all social situations to teach patience, tolerance, and forgiveness.

Kindness
A blanket white begins the day.
It’s colder too, no melt today.
Still, there things that need be done.
To brave the cold, our day’s begun!

Out the door with keys in hand.
Out to live upon this land.
Do those things one does to live.
Shop for groceries, shop to give!

Surprise, surprise, snow from the sky.
It’s falling as I go outside.
Beauty, but there’s also danger.
Roads get slick as the snow lingers.

But still, there’s things that I must do.
Find good things on the path to truth!
Living with an open mind
One can choose then to be kind.

Kindness can lead one to love.
Love helps kindness find and solve.
Solve the art of what’s called living.
Love returns what you are giving!

Kindness is a giving act.
To truly give, you must learn tact.
To give when someone doesn’t know
Helps you find new ways to grow!

With holidays here, how kind am I?
I lack tact! I can’t deny!
To learn new habits does take time.
Mistakes are made on my timeline!

Thank You Father, I will learn.
Change is something that is earned!
Everyday progress can be made
Plans for Kindness can be laid.

21:5.7 The elevation of a sevenfold bestowal Son to the unquestioned sovereignty of his universe means the beginning of the end of agelong uncertainty and relative confusion. Subsequent to this event, that which cannot be sometime spiritualized will eventually be disorganized; that which cannot be sometime co-ordinated with cosmic reality will eventually be destroyed. When the provisions of endless mercy and nameless patience have been exhausted in an effort to win the loyalty and devotion of the will creatures of the realms, justice and righteousness will prevail. That which mercy cannot rehabilitate justice will eventually annihilate.

Patience
Today we see blue skies above.
Sunlight comes. Our world revolves.
This is the day that we’ve been given.
Another day on our road to Heaven.

To try to do a better job.
Makes you special in the mob.
Doing this helps you evolve.
More complex things are then involved.

Something happens to your life.
No longer do you go through strife.
As you evolve in your direction,
There’s more time for your reflection.

Spend this time in a wise manner.
Find a cause. Become it’s banner!
This world needs peace and love not war.
The God of love lives at your core!

For that reason, I do trust.
There’s reasons why we have been thrust
Into fires that seem robust.
Our inner lives, we must discuss.

Compromise must be!
That’s throughout our history.
Right and left must be centered.
To give-and-take has been our standard!

Thank You Father I do trust.
Your will is what we must discuss!
Within, without, Your will be done.
Patience with our leaders comes.

139:4.10
John had a cool and daring courage which few of the other apostles possessed. He was the one apostle who followed right along with Jesus the night of his arrest and dared to accompany his Master into the very jaws of death. He was present and near at hand right up to the last earthly hour and was found faithfully carrying out his trust with regard to Jesus’ mother and ready to receive such additional instructions as might be given during the last moments of the Master’s mortal existence. One thing is certain, John was thoroughly dependable. John usually sat on Jesus’ right hand when the twelve were at meat. He was the first of the twelve really and fully to believe in the resurrection, and he was the first to recognize the Master when he came to them on the seashore after his resurrection.

Time it Takes
The grays of Winter rule today.
Wispy whites and blacks displayed
Intermixed to finest grays.
Good spirits brighten up these days!

Open hearts and open minds
Promote a world that is Divine!
The Kennedys were too good for us.
Were they the last ones we could trust?

To lead us in the Divine way
All we can do is vote and pray?
Can’t we see who’s good among us?
They must lead us, or we’ll plummet.

To promote the status quo.
We must increase our Spirit flow!
Or we will lose the goals we seek.
Everyone on earth’s unique!

If everybody tried to help –
Contribute to the common wealth,
Wars would be no more, no more
And God, not self, we would adore!

That appears a long way off.
But time will pay whatever the cost.
And then this world will rock ‘n’ roll.
Peace will reign and fill our souls.

One can live this peace right now.
Devote yourself to pull God’s plow.
Look inside to see what you
Are being called to truly do.

Find a way to reflect that.
And try to make that role your act.
Visualize what could be best
It’s realization is your quest!

Thank You Father, much to do.
My inner life I share with You.
Help me be much more like You
And learn from You when You give clues.

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39:5.4 2. the spirits of brotherhood. it should be apparent that, when an adam and eve arrive on an evolutionary world, the task of achieving racial harmony and social co-operation among its diverse races is one of considerable proportions. seldom do these races of different colors and varied natures take kindly to the plan of human brotherhood. these primitive men only come to realize the wisdom of peaceful interassociation as a result of ripened human experience and through the faithful ministry of the seraphic spirits of brotherhood. without the work of these seraphim the efforts of the material sons to harmonize and advance the races of an evolving world would be greatly delayed. and had your adam adhered to the original plan for the advancement of urantia, by this time these spirits of brotherhood would have worked unbelievable transformations in the human race. in view of the adamic default, it is indeed remarkable that these seraphic orders have been able to foster and bring to realization even as much of brotherhood as you now have on urantia.
peace
as the temp approaches zero
we’re in need of superheroes!
a hero helps to save the day.
and change what could be to god’s way!

i pray for peace among the tribes.
we need unite to best survive.
unite for what is best for all—
united or we all will fall.

the map of war’s in constant change.
no winners now, we are estranged.
to make the peace we all strive for
the nations must stop keeping score!

we must agree upon our purpose
like different voices in a chorus.
everybody has their role.
the world united is the goal!

all the peoples of this earth
have gone through something that’s adverse.
to fight or find a different path.
let love direct us from our past!

it may be simple, but it’s hard.
the ways of earth we can’t discard.
yet slowly, slowly, i see change.
at first new ways are always strange!

thank you father, this world’s on track.
i know it’s love that we all lack.
you have a plan for light and life
and love’s the way you rule with might!

The Word was then born incarnate as Jesus. They believe that name "Michael" signifies "One Who Is Like God" and that as the "Archangel" or "chief or head of the angels" he led the angels and thus the statement in Revelation 12:7–9 identifies Jesus as Michael.