2002-01-25-Beyond Your Own Expectations

Session

Opening

Alana : This is Alana.

David : Welcome, Alana. Everybody can say hello to Alana, if they wish.

Alana : I am very pleased with each one of you. So pleased to be here with you. Not, my beloveds, that I have been far away. No, I have been with you, loving you, guiding you, shaping your thoughts and your words. I am delighted with your responses. You have, beyond your own expectations, carried forth. The seed is planted, and with the co-operation of your love and your will to do God’s will, the flower grows. Yes?

Dialogue

David : It appears that way. If you could see the smile on Sandy’s and Neena’s face, you would think they are flowers growing, yes.

Sandy : We are so grateful, Alana, thank you.

Alana : Yes, and how are you, my beloved, Sandy.

Sandy : I am just bubbling with joy, thank you very much.

Alana : And you have lessened your fear of love. Yes?

Sandy : Yes.

Alana : We are so pleased to give you a gold star. (laughter) Your report card signed by your beloved parents in their secret closet hearts is filled with praise. You, my beloved, you no longer need to hear that praise, or see it written.

Sandy : You are right. I don’t. I feel it inside.

Alana : Yes, to give love to those who, even as they did their best failed miserably, that is the greatest gift. Yes?

Sandy : I had a wonderful experience, Alana, when I realized when I was with my family, that the more love I gave, the more I felt. I just felt this neverending stream of love flowing out of me and back into me. It was a wonderful lesson, thank you.

Alana : Thank you, my beloved, for your gold star rises up, up, up into my heart and beyond. Raising me ever closer to the one I love above all, our Michael of Nebadon. Thank you. And our little one, over there…

Neena : I am here, my friend.

Alana : Do not fret. Do not fear. You, little one, your feet are following correctly. Stay upon the path of your heart, breathing, breathing, breathing. Your world looks only half-made. Yes? (Neena agrees.) And this, my beloved, you consider with your accustomed concern. You have so beautifully let go, and yet, still it is your custom still to imagine, perhaps finer things should have come to you by now. But this is the thinking of your birth right, your birth family, your conditioning. It shall be so, still to polish the ancient piece of gold is to scrape off the antiquity that is merely the coatings of years of standing in the same place. But you, beloved, your ancient soul cries out for new expression, and it is only through this shaking up for the gloss to be returned to the gold piece. It is by this shake up that your preciously beautiful old wisdom soul shall speak. You will stand tall, beloved. You will be among those of Legion’s disciples of the discipline of love, which is the discipline of joy. You have much more to give than you presently imagine. Thank you.

Dialogue

Neena : Thank you.

Alana : And so, my beloved, Sir David.

David : Yes, my beloved, Alana, speak to me. It has been a wonderful journey, I must say, in front of this group. It has been a wonderful journey of learning. I am very thankful for the handrail named Alana, and Legion, and all of our teachers.

Alana : Yes, my friend. Allow Michael’s love to pour down through the top of your head deep into your heart. My beloved, your growth, your steps in growth, your willingness to follow his call, to do his will, to love those whose love had been witheld, to give when no givingness was offered in return, this, my beloved, we acknowledge in you, now. Allow. Allow. Allow. Allow Michael’s hand to touch your lips. Your faith has been heard. You have followed your instructions. You have wrapped love around your tongue. Blessings upon you.

David : Thank you. I do miss my old ascerbic tongue, I must say. (Sandy : We don’t, David.) Oliver is usually the recipient of it, however. He looks so wonderful, I don’t know what you’ve been doing with him, Alana, but he looks ten years younger, he is smiling all of the time, a much more relaxed wayfarer, so thank you for looking after our brothers and sisters , they have been in our hearts all the time we’ve been gone. It is a marvelous circle of love you have created here. So let’s give our attention to Oliver. I understand he has been crying a bit, while we were gone, would you like to say hello, Oliver?

Oliver : Thank you for putting us together, David. I have felt Alana, and Legion, and maybe even Daniel.

Alana : Perhaps, beloved, you would that I give him another name?

David : Well, I thought of one this morning. Maybe we can collaborate on this Alana. I was reading a lesson from the past in which Legion was commiserating with Oliver because he was an only child and raised with all these expectations to be unusual and so on, and after awhile Legion very cleverly referred to him as Mr. Ordinary. Maybe we could call him Mr. Ordinary, now. But I would like to hear your contribution. (laughter)

Alana : Yes. He remains boisterous, does he not? (laughter)

Sandy : But lovingly so, Alana. There is a different tone to it.

Alana : Yes, he has allowed love to filter through his play. Yes? There is no need for him to fear the shame that has followed his footsteps every day of his life. Yes? No more shame for our beloved Sir David.

Sandy : What a liberation that must be, David.

Alana : But I do not think ordinary will do.

David : That’s too ordinary, isn’t it. (laughter)

Sandy : Mr. Serene, maybe.

David : We’ll let you pet Oliver in a little bit, but one of the things I wanted to share with you was that in reading all of the lessons that Oliver put together so beautifully, I was struck by a certain quality of interaction between the teachers and ourselves, I don’t find in other groups…like the repartee that we are enjoying now, I don’t find in other transcripts. I find that your lovingness makes us be this casual and this playful, and I thank you for that. I consider it a gift that this group has.

Alana : Yes. One might say that without joy there is no play, and your play reflects the love that you have learned to allow, so as to allow the joy of play. We enjoy playing with you. And so, my friend, Mr. Practice, you have a desire to speak with me, and with your friend, Daniel. Yes?

Oliver : Yes, I have a desire to speak. I would like to say, first of all, thank you for being with me so frequently. I think it is as frequent as I experience it. I think there are times that I do not notice this, but I know that I am making progress and enhancing my ability to listen. I thank you for being so patient.

Alana : Patience is the fabric of faith. We give you our patience. You give us your faith. Together we create the love tapestry, the tapestry of love. A flag to be fluttered in the wind for all to see. Yes, you make progress, as you say. Yes, you are learning to listen, as you say. Do not think that you must be humble, that is to say, that you must grovel before the altar of our patience. You are well worthy, my son, to hear my words, to receive Daniel’s guidance. Humility, that natural state of gratitude, that is for you to wear upon your personality with the pride of joy. Humility, the natural state of loving joy, that is to be worn by you as you stand tall. And so, my friend, yes, you will learn more. You have yet to refine your pattern of communication, yet we rejoice in the growth you have demonstrated, even today, in your ability to exercise the patience I have given to you. Still, again, I say to you, combine your patience with the certainty of your faith and allow your tongue to speak with greater clarity. Not the clarity of self-satisfaction, but the clarity of love tempered by hard won growth. I would not, however, take away from you such satisfaction as you presently enjoy, for, yes, that has been well earned. Yes?

Oliver : Yes.

Alana : It is the…one moment please…it is the fear of being small that resides within the word she used, the word “grovelling.” Do you understand? It is the fear of being unworthy, too little, not enough. This, my friend, drives you, drives your little engine of insecurity. You do not need to compensate for others. Yes, we will keep your Mr. Practice for awhile. For I wish that you understand thoroughly that the stillness practice is for you, for you, my friend, for your growth, my friend. We wish that you pay attention. Focus your feeling energy upon your self. You have made several stairways full of growth, yet we would have you reach the top, where Daniel awaits your embrace. Thank you.

Oliver : How sweet. I have come to the stillness practice by being told by one of the teachers that this is the best and nicest thing one can do to make contact with God, and I have found that. And then I had trepidations that I was revering the teachers more than God and Michael, and now I have found Christ Michael in the stillness as well, and I am grateful.

Alana : Yes. And in that still pool his light shines forth from you. Yes. But I would interrupt you, although I did no such thing, for your gratitude was most beautiful to enjoy. However, if I had, indeed, interrupted, it would have been upon the words of your reverence. Reverence, my friend. Yes, reverence for God, reverence for Father, Mother, Michael. Yes. Reverence, yes, even for me. But my beloved, Sir Reverence, I have reverence for you. This, my friend, is the lesson I give to you today. In the stillness practice, as you discover your reverence for the glory of God’s love poured down upon you, know also God’s reverence for you is real, and thus should you each one of you, my beloveds, always know that you are loved and so should you bow down, if you will, in reverence to you as well.

Oliver : Absolutely.

Alana : Thank you. This is a lesson so difficult to learn, the human tendency is to flop down in misery, or jump high in arrogant self delight. Humility is not to be understood as little, or small, but as the greatest understanding of the mutual gratitude that exists between God and all God’s children, like you.

Oliver : Yes. That is also my understanding. I thank you for this lesson. I just wanted to clarify that we do have on this planet, a belief system that has evolved from revering many gods to the one god. Then you techers came into my life, I started revering you. I just wanted to make sure that I am coming from my own doubt, that I should not revere any other being but Michael, the creator of our universe.

Sandy : May I interrupt.

Alana : Please, you are always welcome.

Sandy : My understanding of reverence, Alana, is nothing more than loving gratitude. It isn’t adoration of something separate from us, it is part of us, God is part of us, we are part of God. You, our teacher, are part of us, we are part of you. It is an acknowledgement, this reverence of which we are speaking, is simply an acknowledgement of that fact. Am I correct.

Alana : Yes, he refers to the ancient practice, the separation once believed between the human being and the powers not fully understood.

Sandy : So there was much fear in that too, reverence out of fear.

Alana : Yes. The reverence of love permeates every one and every thing. So, knowing this love, one does not fear, does not fear anything, does not fear no thing.

Sandy : It is so simple. Fear and love, they are so mutually exclusive. That has become so clear to me in this last year.

Alana : Yes, mutually exclusive to the human mind. Yes? From my point of view, my beloved Sandy, my no-fear point of view, fear can not exclude my love, even when fear grips your mind and shakes your bones to the devil, shall we say. My love is with you even then.

Sandy : Oh I know, and when I am tempted to feel fear, I turn to you. I remember love, and that chases the fear right out.

Alana : And when you turn to me I am so filled with joy.

Sandy : As you fill all of us, beloved Alana.

David : Alana, you spoke earlier about the pride of joy. That intrigues me. And also you have spoken of the essence of Father’s love as joy. The pride of joy. Joy as the essence of God’s love. Those are intriguing to me. I am also reminded that you have spoken to each one at this table, except our transmitter, and I wonder if you would like to say something to her.

Alana : Legion will bring to you the words you seek of pride and joy. And yes, we drape your friend in the cloak of our love and gratitude. She allows us to speak so easily. Yes?

David : Seems that way.

Alana : She monitors with so little fear. We are glad. Her anxiety that she might be a fraudulent pudding puffed up with pride has melted in the heat of her willingness this past journey of challenges to meet every test with faith, grace, gratitude, and abundant love. Yes, I thank you for allowing me the time to acknowledge her.

David : Thank you.

Closing

Alana : Devina would flutter a moment. And so, I say to you, my beloved friends, we shall work together to welcome others into your one cocoon of love. Thank you for welcoming me back into your midst.

Devina : This is Devina.

David : Welcome, Devina.

Devina : Ahh! The top of her forehead filled with my butterfly blue light. I am so very happy. You must know I have been given the great courtesy of your acceptance of my.....?