2009-01-15-Distance Between Us Grows Less

Session

Opening

Mark: Perhaps tonight we'll segway into feeling spirit presence with the prayer of St. Francis: Oh Lord, make me an instrument of your peace. Where there is hated let me bring love, where there is injury let me pardon, where there is doubt may I bring faith, where there is despair may I bring love. Oh Divine Master, grant that I may not seek to be consoled as to console, to be understood as to understand or to be loved as to love for it is in giving that we receive, it is in pardoning that we are pardoned and it is in dying to our higher selves that we live. Oh Lord, make me an instrument of your peace, oh Lord, make us instruments of your peace.

Lesson

The Voice: I greet you all this evening with the warm embrace of spirit. I echo your sentiment, may it be our sentiment that we are in fact instruments of the Father's peace, instruments of our Divine Parents grace, manifestations of love, examples of joy. May we honor our Divine Parents in becoming more like them. I am this ones inner voice and I as such know a great deal about my loyal comrade and companion just as your inner voices are well aware of your nature. Nothing may be hidden from two such close partners.

And so it is that we are truly intimate in our association. It is with great joy that we undertake this material experience with you and are there to see each step of the way and to join with you in celebration of every achievement. We are also keenly aware of every misstep or failed attempt that is made and all of this awareness and understanding makes us love you all the more. You are exactly as you should be, a human in experience learning and growing step by step and achieving great results a result of your efforts.

It is also well understood that there is a gap between us. You might see it at times as a gulf but this space between us diminishes day by day and as we go through this process together, we grow through this process together, closer and closer. You are coming more to rely on me and to look to me when you are uncertain and I am pleased to accept your invitation to bring you conviction and assurance, even direction when you ask.

We began this journey together as strangers and are growing to be more than partners, more than associates. We are growing into true association, even friendship and we will eventually crown this relationship with our needs, where our wills will indeed function as one. But there is no hurry, no specific timetable established for us to traverse this journey before us; rather we should stop and smell the flowers, enjoy the views and take in the environment for it is so very true that you only pass this way in life once. It is only this moment in time once, it is only this experience of uncertainty once. Truly this material experience is rich in its potential to provide meaningful experience.

I would pick up a thread offered in curiosity earlier in the discussion and the question was posed: Is there necessarily any part played in the collective inner voices of those involved in a significant moment in time? I will promote the idea that Michael promoted when He illustrated that whenever there are two or more gathered in His name, there is His Spirit. Whenever there are two or more individuals gathered at all there are your attendant inner voices and these fragments of divinity have the capacity to communicate with each other via their own circuitry.

And so it is that there is rather routine communication between these divine fragments whenever there is association of their mortal counterparts. This may be more profoundly illustrated or observed when a group of individuals come to a common purpose, a common focus much as what transpired here moments ago when a thought pattern of prayer and worship was offered and this provided a means to collect around this thought pattern. When this occurs there is the collective functioning of all the attendant Thought Adjusters as well.

It is true that you can have a collective consciousness both of your mortal individual personalities, your souls and as well an additional layer of consciousness which is manifested by the collection of your individual Father Fragments. You are growing in awareness that you are connected in a number of ways and these are merely illustrations of such patterns. Right now, for instance, you are focused on these word symbols and the interpretation of them into your own context.

As you are busy collectively focusing your intention on the translation of these sounds into meaning, likewise there is great interaction between all the attendant Divine Fragments. I invite you to include in your daily stillness a petition to grow more sensitive to these different connections so that you may bring them into your experience more fully. Repeated requests will not be denied. This is truly a key to your success in bridging this gap between us; repeated requests and attempts on your part.

It is not enough to rely on an earlier petition because each moment is a new and different moment. Each moment is pregnant with potential and so each moment provides you the opportunity to reaffirm your commitment, to re-offer your petition and to reposition yourself to receive that which you petition. Remember, this can be done in each and every new moment afresh and by repeatedly attempting success comes guaranteed.

I witness that you all have experienced the success and harvested the fruits of your labors. Your efforts at bringing yourself greater spiritual experience are indeed paying off as I witness to you in this very moment. Once again, Father help us to be instruments of your peace, may we be instruments of your grace, may we be examples of your love. I thank you deeply for the opportunity you provide for us to share in this way. I understand the significance this has in stretching your boundaries and I honor your choice to make this so in your lives. I now would retreat to allow this platform to be used by others, thank you.

Michael: Hello my dear ones, this Is Michael, your Father, I am Michael your brother and I am Michael your friend and partner to the extent that you invite me to share your life experience with you. When you make a petition to be an instrument of peace, I am drawn to you to offer you an intimate partnership to function as an instrument of my peace as well, to be a manifestation of my grace with me, to offer yourselves as I have offered myself to manifest these traits of the Father, the traits of the Son and the traits of the Son's sons and daughters.

That is you, that is the extension of me that is us. I live and have my being in you. You are the material extension of my love. I would have you manifest my grace and my peace to all my other children, all your other brothers and sisters, indeed to our entire family. It is truly a gift we have in each other, the one to the other for a family thrives in its members. We live through and in each other. When one manifests peace and grace all are lifted up, all can partake of the offering, all can get on the same page as in prayer.

And if you will but think of me and invite me in, I remain ever ready to accept your invitation but my dear ones I will never interfere or act with any force to direct my will in front of yours. No, it is my will that your will be fully exercised however I will be more than happy to collaborate with you, to offer my peace in your decision making process and even bring you my manifestation of the divine characteristics. But in the end you must lead, it must be your foot that takes the next step and then, once in motion, if you are inclined to petition my assistance we may discuss what route to take and how best to achieve our joint will and then it will fall again to you to lead.

I will ever be there to assist but I will never be the one at the head of the assembly, never be the one to direct what others should choose but when they have chosen I am ever ready to assist their choice and to uphold their intention. When you look to me in this process, in this moment that you look to me, once again we make connection and once again there is the opportunity to re-offer our commitment and re-choose among the options before us.

Be not overly concerned about making an improper choice or a faulty decision. There will be choices that bring you unwanted results, there will be decisions that fall short of your desires but these are as gifts to you as well, even more so at times than your successes. So be unafraid to choose and then to act, be bold in your proceeding forward and realize that this process is a long and continuous one in which there remains unlimited opportunities to re-choose, refocus, recommit and proceed again.

Forgive yourselves as I surely do forgive you for not fully manifesting your highest ideals at this point in your growth. You are sincerely beginners at this whole ascension career program and therefore are not expected to know anything that you do not know or be anything that you are not. You are simply allowed to grow and unfold and become in whatever time condition you require. I hope you will accept my invitation to extend me your invitation whenever you can remember to do so.

This opens great doors for me, it opens great doors for us. If you would simply show me your commitment in the moment, then I am free to act and others are free to act on your behalf because your intention has been made evident and your action indicates your sincerity of intention. With these factors in alignment, great things may come as a result. My dear ones, know you are loved beyond your ability to perceive.

You are cherished each one for exactly for who you are even at these moments when you may consider yourselves immature, you are cherished just as the infant in the family is cherished for being at their state of evolution. All are cherished in this family of which we are both members. Thank you for gathering in this way this evening. To do so honors this process and provides the necessary alignment for that which we all seek in this process to be found. I witness with you that we all who come to this place leave here having been satisfied that we are successful in our seeking and in our finding.

Closing

I join you in appreciation for our success and in acknowledgement of the grace that this portrays to us, through us and among us. I leave you now with the words farewell but I pray that one day you will know of a certainty that I never leave you. I am always there available by your side, even with my hand on your shoulder. Thank you and farewell.