2025-09-15-Shining Your Light on the Hill

Session

Lesson

My blessed children — this is your mother again.

Let us carry on with the image Rick gave us in his prayer: Be lights to the world. Remember what Jesus said — don’t hide your light under a bushel; put your light on a hill. What this world needs now are people willing to become more visible and share their lights. Many are visible politically or on social media as influencers, but our Urantia TR groups are often more hesitant. You may feel your energy runs lower than in your younger years, but you are not old yet. I encourage you to find ways to shine more brightly on a hill so you are seen.

Figure out what types of service attract you. Some of you have been in Toastmasters and have become skilled public speakers — how can you use that skill in service of Michael’s mission to reclaim this world to its rightful place in the universe? Life may already feel busy, even for retirees. So, how do you add one more thing to do? It’s a matter of priority. Busy or not, even shining your light person-to-person counts as service.

Having meetings and sharing transcripts is wonderful, but I ask you to do more. Your world needs to hear and experience spirit-enriched lives — to know what it is to be loved and to love in a spiritual capacity. Many people, even those who go to church and cherish their religious values, have yet to be flooded by the volcanic eruption of our Paradise Father’s love. If more could have that experience, they would desire everyone to have it, no matter how different those people are.

Try the little activity Deborah has been learning to focus on: summon the experience of that love within yourself, call upon the Father, make the connection, then turn your focus to someone in the world — perhaps a rogue world leader. Direct the divine love you feel onto that person. Hold that love for as long as you can. When it dims, renew your desire that this person experience the power of love coming directly from our Father. When we project outward the very thing we want for ourselves, we reap those benefits even if the other person resists. You will become more love-saturated through your sustained desire to share it. There are many ways of sharing your light and this is one that you can do without leaving home.

You are nowhere near ready for senior Olympics! You may laugh now at this thought, but the time will come when you cherish the activities you can do today. So, act now and reap as much as you can from this human life through acts of service. What you give, will come back to you, so make sure you cultivate the thoughts you want returning.

When we get angry at world leaders or influencers whose attitudes appall us, the common human response may be to project ill will. But remember how Jesus would act. What we put into the world affects the growth of souls — yours and others’. Make your efforts holy, something you will be proud of when you finally emerge into the morontia life. Shine your light on the hill, bright enough for all to see but not so bright that it blinds anyone; always honor people’s freedom to choose.

We desire very much for the rebellious ones to accept our mercy and rehabilitation. Like the father of the prodigal son, we wait and hope for their return. Many of them continue to spurn us. But love keeps waiting and directing itself outward to its loved ones, hoping for their return. We do not stop — even if they seem totally hardened against us. I ask you to be the same: continue to project divine love toward anyone who has hardened themselves against you.

Closing

This is what our world needs most — love — and it takes time to work its magic in people’s lives. I ask this of you, and I thank you, for I know in your heart this is what you desire to do.

Know that you are very precious to us, and we are proud of you. Until another time — farewell.