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146:2.15 Jesus warned his followers against thinking that their prayers would be rendered more efficacious by ornate repetitions, eloquent phraseology, fasting, penance, or sacrifices. But he did exhort his believers to employ prayer as a means of leading up through thanksgiving to true worship. Jesus deplored that so little of the spirit of thanksgiving was to be found in the prayers and worship of his followers. He quoted from the Scriptures on this occasion, saying: “It is a good thing to give thanks to the Lord and to sing praises to the name of the Most High, to acknowledge his loving-kindness every morning and his faithfulness every night, for God has made me glad through his work. In everything I will give thanks according to the will of God.”

Thanksgiving

Another day where 60’s rule.

Tomorrow’s weather will be cool.

Heading towards Thanksgiving Day.

It is just a week away.

It’s been spectacular, this Fall season.

Temps have been much more than decent.

Not too many storms are here.

They didn’t touch us much this year.

As we march towards Holiday cheer,

We contact all those we hold dear.

We plan to see them very soon.

Relationships on hold, resume.

Families come from far away.

They come together for Holidays.

We resume where we left off.

We find our families are not lost.

Every day we should give thanks.

As we live, we may have angst.

But we’re alive, and we enjoy

All the things that life employs.

So yes, I give my thanks to God.

I look to Him, to help me solve

All the problems of our days.

Love’s construction paves our way.

Thank You, Lord, please help me be

A focus of reality.

And help us all to understand

The wisdom of Your loving plan.

Paul Anderson

Urantiapoet.com

107:5.2 Since Adjusters can plan, work, and love, they must have powers of selfhood which are commensurate with mind. They are possessed of unlimited ability to communicate with each other, that is, all forms of Monitors above the first or virgin groups. As to the nature and purport of their intercommunications, we can reveal very little, for we do not know. And we further know that they must be minded in some manner else they could never be personalized.
Go With God
A cooler day, but not a freeze.
A day to rake some golden leaves.
Pile them up in mounds and hills.
Them bag them up so they don’t spill.

Uncover ground, uncover green,
Then seed the ground with summer dreams.
Flowers grow from tiny seeds.
Give them a chance against the weeds.

Plan ahead, then do the work.
If you don’t know, then read a book.
Experts can be found with wisdom.
Believe with Faith, and use good reason.

Thinking does require some effort.
As you think, become more expert.
Your mind’s a tool, so use it well.
Remember, God there does indwell.

Let God adjust what e’er you see.
Use Faith and Trust, and you will be
A tool for God’s reality.
You will gain more, as God decrees.

We all must face our given plights.
We all are given certain rights.
Life’s a battle, it’s a fight.
Let God be with you on this hike.

Thank You, Father, for being there.
The path ahead I’m going to share.
Life becomes much more a joy
As all Your Love I do deploy.
Paul Anderson
Urantiapoet.com

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61:7.11 100,000 years ago, during the retreat of the last glacier, the vast polar ice sheets began to form, and the center of ice accumulation moved considerably northward. And as long as the polar regions continue to be covered with ice, it is hardly possible for another glacial age to occur, regardless of future land elevations or modification of ocean currents.

World Change
The warmest year we’ve ever had.
With less winter, it’s not bad.
Stronger storms, I guess there’ll be.
A warming trend is what we see.

Naysayers helped us all deny
When there were ways that we could try.
When all the ice melts on this earth
We’ll see how much we are immersed.

If all the ice melts at the poles
Another ice age may unfold.
The world will balance what’s been done.
If ice comes back, will that be fun?

The future is not known by me
And yet it comes relentlessly.
Every day that I wake up
Another chance, my Faith erupts.

Gods in charge, thank God for that.
He’ll help us all face all the facts.
If you think you know it all
Prepare to change, please hear God’s call.

Constant change we all must face.
Resilient, yes, this human race.
Altogether we can win.
We will combine, it’s in the wind.

Thank You, Father, future times
Will come as You have Truth designed.
I pray all souls look deep inside
And find Your Love, it won’t divide!
Paul Anderson
Urantiapoet.com

2:6.3 The "richness of the goodness of God leads erring man to repentance." "Every good gift and every perfect gift comes down from the Father of lights." "God is good; he is the eternal refuge of the souls of men." "The Lord God is merciful and gracious. He is long-suffering and abundant in goodness and truth." "Taste and see that the Lord is good! Blessed is the man who trusts him." "The Lord is gracious and full of compassion. He is the God of salvation." "He heals the brokenhearted and binds up the wounds of the soul. He is man's all-powerful benefactor."

God is Good
Late to write, I am today.
But lots I’ve done upon my way.
Laundry and some boiled eggs
Organized the things I’ve spread.

Variety of many days
Routines exist so we can play.
Much is done, yet much to do.
Each day is different, Your love comes through.

Have Faith in acts that you are doing.
Inside your soul keeps on renewing.
God is building with His Hand.
God builds souls up out of sand.

He makes them tough like granite rock.
He fills them up, He fills all cups.
He designs the way you are.
He plans to make a shining star.

Cooperate, use all your Faith.
Someday you’re going to see God’s Face.
His Spirit you contain within.
He wants to help you become Him.

He’ll help you each and every step.
He’s going to plumb your very depths.
He builds and strengthens up our cores.
Someday He’ll end all of these wars.

Thank You, Father, deep within.
What You build is genuine.
Help this world be as it should.
I’ll spread the news that God is Good!
Paul Anderson
Urantiapoet.com

92:5.16 The future of Urantia will doubtless be characterized by the appearance of teachers of religious truth – the Fatherhood of God and the fraternity of all creatures. But it is to be hoped that the ardent and sincere efforts of these future prophets will be directed less toward the strengthening of interreligious barriers and more toward the augmentation of the religious brotherhood of spiritual worship among the many followers of the differing intellectual theologies which so characterize Urantia of Satania.

One God

Snow is on the ground today.

It will melt and go away.

This month contains a holiday.

Thanksgiving colors we’ll display.

The holiday season is approaching.

Winter weather is encroaching.

It happens this way every year.

The holidays should bring good cheer!

We all have different holidays.

We celebrate in different ways.

Pagan rituals of the harvest

Still remain, we’re of the forest.

We all went our separate paths

With different leaders from the past.

One God unites us in the end.

The God of Love, His Arms extend.

We’re on one World, we have one God.

He plays no favorites with our mobs.

Wars reflect what we believe.

No wars at all, Love does decree!

No matter what, all war is wrong.

To smite your brother, your weak not strong.

You show your weakness in war’s song.

Believe in Love, Faith makes you strong.

Thank You, Father, we must choose

How we live on this life cruise.

To live for war and seek revenge

Will not advance us in the end.

Paul Anderson

Urantiapoet.com

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.

Unite Us
Rainy, gloomy days don’t shake,
Faith I have, this day I’ll make
Warm and rosy, and I’ll stake
All I have, Love’s no mistake!

I hope you catch the drift above.
No matter what, we have to solve
Social problems that exist.
While everybody shakes their fists.

Everybody thinks they know
All the facts – the way to go.
And yet, we do not look inside.
Our inside’s blocked by too much pride.

On our knees, please every day.
And when we’re there, we need to pray!
We need to find new ways to heal!
Disparities we need not wield!

Can we agree on life and light?
We truly know we should not fight.
To get to where we need to go
Love’s the answer, God’s no show!

If we would motivate ourselves
And truly be God’s chosen elves,
Only do what Love dictates,
A Spirit World, God would remake!

Thank You, Father, someday we will
Unite this world as Love instills
Harmonies within our souls.
We truly have united goals.
Paul Anderson
Urantiapoet.com

141:5.1 One of the most eventful of all the evening conferences at Amathus was the session having to do with the discussion of spiritual unity. James Zebedee had asked, “Master, how shall we learn to see alike and thereby enjoy more harmony among ourselves?” When Jesus heard this question, he was stirred within his spirit, so much so that he replied: “James, James, when did I teach you that you should all see alike? I have come into the world to proclaim spiritual liberty to the end that mortals may be empowered to live individual lives of originality and freedom before God. I do not desire that social harmony and fraternal peace shall be purchased by the sacrifice of free personality and spiritual originality. What I require of you, my apostles, is spirit unity – and that you can experience in the joy of your united dedication to the wholehearted doing of the will of my Father in heaven. You do not have to see alike or feel alike or even think alike in order spiritually to be alike. Spiritual unity is derived from the consciousness that each of you is indwelt, and increasingly dominated, by the spirit gift of the heavenly Father. Your apostolic harmony must grow out of the fact that the spirit hope of each of you is identical in origin, nature, and destiny.

United Unity

Longer nights and shorter days

Until the solstice does display.

We’ve yet to truly get first freeze.

I feel more thankful on my knees.

When on my knees, I must look up.

Pray to the One who fills my cup.

The day exists for me to live.

And bring me home when I’m adrift.

When on your knees, a thankful pose

Find your beauty, perhaps a rose.

See your smells, and smell the beauty.

Spread awareness, it’s your duty.

The Spirit of the life you live

Will lift you up to do His biz.

Love the fact that you’re aware.

Love uplifts, and takes you there.

Love has always been the answer!

Bellicosity leads to disaster!

Hateful words dissolve with love.

Love with kindness must evolve!

Someday, and it won’t be long

This world unites with “One God’s Song”.

We must see, and then accept

The God of Love, does not have sects.

Buddhist, Hindu, Muslim all

Christian, Jew, one God stands tall!

We must unite, and live in peace.

Accept that fact, One God’s replete!

Thank You, Father, of all worlds.

This speck of dust in space still whirls

On its journey through creation.

We will unite all of the nations!

Paul Anderson

Urantiapoet.com

39:4.14 The keys of the kingdom of heaven are: sincerity, more sincerity, and more sincerity. All men have these keys. Men use them – advance in spirit status – by decisions, by more decisions, and by more decisions. The highest moral choice is the choice of the highest possible value, and always – in any sphere, in all of them – this is to choose to do the will of God. If man thus chooses, he is great, though he be the humblest citizen of Jerusem or even the least of mortals on Urantia.

Sincerity

Autumn rains on this fine day.

Gloomy weather won’t dismay.

Many chores and things to do.

Inside I know God loves me too.

We’ll find ways to do what’s needed.

On this day, I’ll go where leaded.

I will look inside myself

And deal with the cards I’m dealt.

The way of life upon this day

Presents itself in different ways.

Different levels of pursuit

The way I choose gives me my route.

I have appointments to attend.

I’ll try to work all of them in

To be dependable in choice

Helps me hear the inner voice.

We all must see within our actions

How God’s will gives satisfactions.

Our motivations then will be

Based upon reality.

The inside look is paramount.

An honest look inside can daunt.

But when you look you have been found.

God will free where you’ve been bound.

Thank You, Father, for the day.

I know my best I need display!

At times I know I’ve fallen short

But I’m sincere I do report.

Paul Anderson

Urantiapoet.com

16:9.5 Civilizations are unstable because they are not cosmic; they are not innate in the individuals of the races. They must be nurtured by the combined contributions of the constitutive factors of man – science, morality, and religion. Civilizations come and go, but science, morality, and religion always survive the crash.

Our Inner War
The chill of rain demarks the season.
The chilliness gives us a reason
To prepare for what is coming.
Winter wakens, it is yawning.

Winter stretches as it wakes.
It changes things within its wake.
The flow of winter air comes close
And freezes us without our coats.

Turn on the heat, that is a must.
We don’t want our pipes to bust.
Fire was our first invention.
Controlling it gives comprehension.

What do we really truly know?
We’re still searching how to go.
Combustion with its CO2
Yields global warming, that is true.

Combustion of another substance?
Hydrogen yields water sustenance.
But industry is not set up.
Money structures do disrupt.

Can we see ourselves to change?
Or are we victims on this train?
Speeding onward, blindly seeking
Solutions while the time is ticking.

Thank You, Father, for Your Love.
On earth we need more, so we solve
Global warming and wars too.
With Trust and Faith we call on You!
Paul Anderson
Urantiapoet.com