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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.
74:4.5&6 It was a momentous day, and just before noon, about the time of the arrival of the seraphic messenger bearing the Jerusem acknowledgment of the installation of the world’s rulers, Adam and Eve, moving apart from the throng, pointed to the Father’s temple and said: “Go you now to the material emblem of the Father’s invisible presence and bow down in worship of him who made us all and who keeps us living. And let this act be the sincere pledge that you never will again be tempted to worship anyone but God.” They all did as Adam directed. The Material Son and Daughter stood alone on the mount with bowed heads while the people prostrated themselves about the temple.
And this was the origin of the Sabbath-day tradition. Always in Eden the seventh day was devoted to the noontide assembly at the temple; long it was the custom to devote this day to self-culture. The forenoon was devoted to physical improvement, the noontime to spiritual worship, the afternoon to mind culture, while the evening was spent in social rejoicing. This was never the law in Eden, but it was the custom as long as the Adamic administration held sway on earth.

The Sabbath
Now the rain has done its job.
A cooler sun to walk your dog.
Humidity’s dried up a bit.
The air is clean, we feel more fit.

A good day comes to worship God.
Our worship days are not forgot.
Too many do, however, view
One day a week as follow through.

To be skillful one must do
Once a day with follow through.
Practice, practice is the key.
Improvement comes eventually.

Patience with yourself will help
As your skills you do develop.
Do your best, and keep your focus.
What you become’s not hocus-pocus.

Plan the outcome, follow through.
Fulfill the hopes of what you do!
Surprise will come most every day.
Evolvement seems to come that way.

Shifting sands as faces change.
Be prepared, things may get strange.
Faith in love will change your soul.
Can you achieve that as your goal?

Thank You, Father, things occur.
It helps to know life does endure.
Closure never truly comes.
As we go on, we’re never done.

34:6.13 he consciousness of the spirit domination of a human life is presently attended by an increasing exhibition of the characteristics of the Spirit in the life reactions of such a spirit-led mortal, “for the fruits of the spirit are love, joy, peace, long-suffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, and temperance.” Such spirit-guided and divinely illuminated mortals, while they yet tread the lowly paths of toil and in human faithfulness perform the duties of their earthly assignments, have already begun to discern the lights of eternal life as they glimmer on the faraway shores of another world; already have they begun to comprehend the reality of that inspiring and comforting truth, “The kingdom of God is not meat and drink but righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit.” And throughout every trial and in the presence of every hardship, spirit-born souls are sustained by that hope which transcends all fear because the love of God is shed abroad in all hearts by the presence of the divine Spirit.

Beauty Paths
Flowers blooming everywhere.
Their fragrance graces all the air.
We breathe in the life of earth.
We tend to garner what we’re worth.

We are worth what we intend.
By our decisions, life does bend.
We can achieve, and can improve
The ways of life, and how we move.

We’re either growing, or we’re dying.
A stagnant life is not surviving.
Every day we do decide
How we live, how well we try.

What’s your goal? Do you have one?
Or do you live from sun to sun?
Are you asleep upon your walk?
You are known by how you talk.

Is there something you have sought?
By your efforts, what have you caught?
What direction have you taken?
How old were you when you awakened?

Every life is so unique.
To try to get through life’s a feat.
We all have different things to battle.
God knows you well, and tests your mettle.

Thank You, Father, You know what’s best.
There’s beauty here upon our quest.
I’ll smell the flowers that bloom today
And walk Your path, Love is the way!

101:2.1 The fact of religion consists wholly in the religious experience of rational and average human beings. And this is the only sense in which religion can ever be regarded as scientific or even psychological. The proof that revelation is revelation is this same fact of human experience: the fact that revelation does synthesize the apparently divergent sciences of nature and the theology of religion into a consistent and logical universe philosophy, a co-ordinated and unbroken explanation of both science and religion, thus creating a harmony of mind and satisfaction of spirit which answers in human experience those questionings of the mortal mind which craves to know how the Infinite works out his will and plans in matter, with minds, and on spirit.

Know How
A string of hot days in a row
Promote a lack of water flow.
Desert like, the ground becomes
And only worse till the rain comes.

But sunny days help to promote
Good times of social plans of note.
So many things done in the sun.
That’s why the summer’s so much fun.

Balance, balance will be achieved.
But wide fluctuations are now received.
I hope these wide swings settle down.
We need some rain within our ground!

But though catastrophe may be,
We will exist, and we will see
Wiser ways to help us all.
The swings of progress, sometimes stall.

But swings of progress never stop.
Time goes forward, the now’s on top.
The now is where the shifts in weather
Provide those numbers we can measure.

We now have years of many records.
We have set so many standards.
When deviations do occur,
They stand out brightly, not demure.

Thank You, Father, we must learn.
From the data that we discern.
Change is something in the now.
I have faith in our know how!

“Verily, verily, I say to you, he who rules his own self is greater than he who captures a city. Self-mastery is the measure of man’s moral nature and the indicator of his spiritual development. In the old order you fasted and prayed; as the new creature of the rebirth of the spirit, you are taught to believe and rejoice. In the Father’s kingdom you are to become new creatures; old things are to pass away; behold I show you how all things are to become new. And by your love for one another you are to convince the world that you have passed from bondage to liberty, from death into life everlasting.

Love Rules in Time
Sunday’s come, our Sabbath day.
In Christendom, that is our way.
But life exists within the now
So everyday, to You we bow.

To know for sure that You exist
Know Love rules ‘less we resist
Is a leap of faith for most.
The way we live becomes exposed.

God is here for all of us.
To spread His Love makes one robust.
Filled with Spirit to do what’s right.
Is your life filled with all your might?

You can’t change what has gone past.
Decide to try your best to cast
His Love as far as best you can.
Attract! Give Love to every man!

Love will rule the Earth someday.
Until then progress will be made.
Everyday we’re closer to
A time when Love will rule with truth.

I can see the way ahead
Is beset with times misled.
But in the long run, lesson’s learned.
Progress through time sometime’s well earned.

Thank You, Father, yes I pray
For Your Love to have its way
On our planet and throughout
The Universes on our route.

73:2.0 From their highland headquarters and from sixty-one far-scattered settlements, Van and Amadon recruited a corps of over three thousand willing and enthusiastic workers who, in solemn assembly, dedicated themselves to this mission of preparing for the promised – at least expected – Son.

Garden Planning
A gloomy, above freezing day.
We’ve passed into the month of May.
Memorial Day by this month’s end.
Mothers Day’s around the bend.

Very cool now for the Spring
But grass grows through most anything.
Everywhere we see new green.
Life is thriving, Spring is king.

Spring flowers adapt to this cool weather.
They truly give the Spring it’s color.
Daffodils can turn some heads
And purple violets grow in beds.

If you’ve planned your garden well
As things grow, fulfillment swells.
Deep within your soul you see
Beauty done creatively.

You and God work hand-in-hand.
You labor as He does demand.
Things work out as He dictates.
His love envelops what you make.

You create by what you do.
Do your best! Make that be you!
God will help if you just look.
Take the time to read His book!

Thank You, Father, for Your gifts.
When looking for You, Spirits lift.
You gave a book, told me to read.
I didn’t know it was a seed!

118:8.2 Mortal man is a machine, a living mechanism; his roots are truly in the physical world of energy. Many human reactions are mechanical in nature; much of life is machinelike. But man, a mechanism, is much more than a machine; he is mind endowed and spirit indwelt; and though he can never throughout his material life escape the chemical and electrical mechanics of his existence, he can increasingly learn how to subordinate this physical-life machine to the directive wisdom of experience by the process of consecrating the human mind to the execution of the spiritual urges of the indwelling Thought Adjuster.

Patience
The rain today will turn things green.
Plants grow an inch a day, it seems.
As we live and work today, realize that love’s displayed
In many brilliant, hidden ways.

Look for it, and you will see.
The way God does His ministry.
Look beyond the page of books
And you will see the time it took.

The Human Race has been around
For so many years, that it’s profound.
Life evolved, or was it planted?
Is life something that’s invented?

Once Life starts, it tends to grow.
Before we were, it’s hard to know.
Perhaps we’re evolutions end.
Man evolved, or were we sent?

I think life on this world was planted.
And we’re the product that’s intended.
It took much time for life to grow
In the ways now that we know.

Eons, ages, time it took
To mold this sphere on which we work.
We have a destiny unfulfilled.
Twill be exactly as You’ve willed.

Thank You, Father, things occur
Terrible things, but life endures.
Learning how to do Your will
Helps Your love to be instilled.