[tmtranscripts] N. Idaho TeaM 5/16/04

[rickgiles]

North Idaho Teaching Mission Group
Topics: Spiritual Refreshment from the Wellspring of Spirit
Teachers: Elyon, Jessona, Michael

May 16, 2004

*	Elyon (Mark TR):  I greet you on this plane, this is Elyon.  
Once again I am impressed at your motivation to assemble 
whenever and however you are able in order to come to the well 
of spiritual sharing.  We welcome each other on this level.  
This is where we meet, and it is not my soul arena and it is not 
your familiar arena, but we agreed to meet at this time under 
these circumstances to share this spiritual refreshment from the 
wellspring of spirit.
	As you know, our master spoke of this water of life and its 
refreshing qualities, its nourishment for the soul.  It is what 
we seek when we come to gather around this well, to each one dip 
our container in and drink deeply of this well that we may be 
refreshed, that we may be energized, that we may be sustained in 
our spiritual journey.
	We have spoken to you of a spiritual pressure mounting upon 
this world.  One of the manifestations of this spiritual 
pressure will be the increased thirst, the increased hunger, for 
the sustenance of spiritual rejuvenation.  You will encounter 
more and more of your fellows seeking this refreshment of life 
and looking for this well wherein they may become refreshed.  
Many are uncertain as to how to access these wells of spiritual 
refreshment and will require some gentle guidance as to how to 
access these eternally fruitful sources of spiritual 
refreshment.  Likewise each one of you may be seen as a 
spiritual well of refreshment for your fellows.  When they come 
into your presence they will seek the refreshment that you 
manifest.  They will look for the source of your peace, of your 
refreshment of your sustenance, of your security.  You will in 
your own ways express to them wherein you find your sustenance, 
wherein you are reenergized for your journey forward.  They will 
be as those who have crossed a great desert and are in search of 
the nourishing qualities of water to rejuvenate their tired 
souls.  You will be prepared with your canteen, as you now have 
the ability to draw deeply from a well such as we all gather 
around at this moment.
	Take with you into your journey a supply of this 
refreshment, of this nourishment, to share with your brothers 
and sisters.  At first this may seem as though a burden to laden 
yourself with heavy canteens of nourishment for those around 
you, but you will determine that the load is light and the 
burden is in reality a privilege.
	As you make your way through your journey carrying your 
canteens, many will approach you for a sip of what you carry.  
After they have experienced the refreshment and the satisfaction 
involved in partaking of your canteen, they will desire to know 
wherewith you drew this sustenance.  You are then privileged 
enough to guide them back to your source of regeneration, your 
source of refreshment, your replenishment of your weary selves, 
so that you may be about these tasks having been replenished and 
refreshed.
	All those who have experienced the satisfaction of drawing 
from this wellspring of spirit yearn to return and yearn to 
share this refreshment with others.  While you may carry an 
ample supply with you on your side journeys, you desire on a 
regular basis to return to the well as we do now.  Indeed, our 
master was so correct in saying that he who drinks of regular 
water will thirst again, but he who drinks of the spirit may 
have sustenance everlasting.  You who have experience drawing 
from this well even now have sustenance everlasting.  You know 
of a spiritual certainty of the existence of this well.  Those 
around you who do not yet experience this phenomenon will need 
guidance from ones such as yourselves to bring them into the 
understanding and to lead them to the well you have discovered.
	These wells are located in many different places and have 
many different characteristics, as they are provided [brief 
interruption]....  The nature of these spiritual wells varies 
greatly, and you will come to discover that they are cropping up 
everywhere.  You will find that you need not make specific 
journeys to specific wells but rather be open to the gift of 
many different sources of this spiritual comfort.  Therefore 
will we all come to benefit from the increase of these avenues 
available to the mortals of the realm as they develop and as 
they are discovered.  We enjoy the familiarity of this well, 
although I will point out to you, that the nature of this one 
that we now stand around and enjoy has changed from the physical 
environment to the telephone environment.  Nevertheless, we all 
will concede that the fruits of this well are available to us 
just as they are as we assemble in the comfort of our private 
homes.  That same difference will be experienced in the many 
different sources of spiritual nourishment we come to discover.
	We must not close our spiritual eyes to the presence of 
other wells of spirit, wherever we may discover them.  We must 
be prepared for them to crop up anywhere and everywhere as we 
are on our journeys.  We will discover increasingly that it is 
not necessary to retrace our steps back to our long time 
familiar well, but we will discover that there are many such 
wells along our journey, each one with the capacity to provide 
the spiritual refreshment we enjoy even now.  So, I will fill my 
canteen, and you will fill your canteens around this well we 
have come to enjoy.  This particular one will be here for us to 
enjoy whenever we decide to assemble.  We will discover on our 
journeys that there are many other wells which we may have 
reason to stop and pause and enjoy and receive the same 
refreshment we receive even now.
	That is my imagery for today.  Once again I thank you for 
joining me in hearts around this well as we enjoy the 
refreshment we find in each others’ company and in the avenue of 
expression of the divine that we encircle by our will choice.  
Those are my words for today.  I now allow time for others.  
Thank you.

	Jonathan:  I appreciate your lesson.  It puts in perspective 
that all religious forms, philosophical expressions, are like 
the variety of wells we have.  Whether stone cylinders with a 
bucket or a modern capped well with an electric pump, it’s still 
the same water being delivered; it’s the living water, not the 
shape of the well.
	I often pass on opportunities to offer the water of life to 
someone out of hesitancy.  From your lesson I see it’s like, 
because I drank from the canteen, I slobbered on it; they won’t 
want to drink from it.  Do you have any comment on how to be 
more self-assured and bold in offering a drink?

*	Elyon:  The keys to your effective manipulation of your 
hesitancy are found in your own statement, when you are aware of 
the nature of the fact that all this spiritual water comes from 
one source, and that every living creature requires this living 
water for their very survival.  If in fact you were to use the 
analogy of real water and carrying a canteen, you would be less 
hesitant to offer your fellows a drink if you could readily 
discern the need on their parts, their parched lips, their dry 
scratchy voices, that they were in fact in need of water of 
life.  You would unhesitatingly offer them your canteen, and 
they would unhesitatingly accept your canteen because of the 
nature of this need for the human animal.  Likewise does this 
human spirit require for its growth this spiritual water.
	If you are possessed of a canteen which has your personal 
spirit satiated, then when others around you present themselves 
likewise, you will find yourself with the urge to offer to share 
this water of life, and at that point your job is done.  It is 
not up to you what your brothers and sisters do after you have 
made your offer to share your spiritual water.  That is their 
freewill choice and subsequent decision.  Your role is simply to 
offer this refreshment.  If someone came into your house and you 
had a glass of water, you would offer them a glass of water.  
When someone comes into your presence and you have spiritual 
fulfillment, naturally it will come that you will offer this 
cup.  Whether or not they choose to take this cup and how deeply 
they choose to drink from this cup remains their choice and 
their decision.  If you do not offer this up to them, then you 
do not provide them with the opportunity to make this freewill 
choice.  So, if you can see yourselves as playing the roles of 
making the choice possible and being unattached to the decision 
that is made beyond your control as to how much of this living 
water another will take, you will find that your burden of 
decision in this process is much lighter.  If you see yourself 
as only the one with the canteen offering drinks around and 
unattached to who accepts your offer, then will you be content 
that your role has been played satisfactorily.
	It is human nature to take personally the decisions of 
another, particularly in regards to an offer made by yourself.  
In terms of spirit realities, we all need to develop a refined 
sense of obligation in this case.  My obligation to you is to 
present you with the truths I deem appropriate at the time.  
Therein my obligation ends.  Your privilege begins there and 
goes forward; whether or not you accept these truths into your 
lives, whether or not you embrace these truths as part of your 
life style, how much these truths impact your lives, are all up 
to you.  I do not have control over the degree to which you are 
affected by the teachings.  My obligation ends at the 
presentation of the lessons.  Your obligation ends at the 
presentation of the drink from your canteens.  Should another 
desire to engage you beyond that point -- as you do this very 
moment by your question engage me beyond the point of my lesson  
-- then am I free to go deeper, to provide more, to have greater 
latitude in the expression of this truth.  Therein do you give 
me permission to move forward and I do.  Likewise, if you offer 
another a drink of this spiritual water and they desire more, 
you then have their permission to give them more; indeed, you 
may find you give them your canteen!  Indeed, you may find that 
after they drink your canteen you lead them back to your well 
where they may fill it.  But all of that is strictly up to them, 
not up to you.  Your role is to be prepared, be ready for the 
questions, be ready to take the next step should they need 
another drink.
	But initially you can do no wrong by offering your brothers 
and sisters a drink.  It is friendly, hospitable; it shows a 
desire to share, and all those are altruistic motives wherein 
you cannot fail.  Your only failure perceived by you is that 
somehow your offer might be rejected or might not be accepted.  
The two are distinctly different.  Either way, it should not be 
seen as a personal reflection on the one who offers the water.  
Indeed, we know from your text that it was no reflection on our 
master when those around him decided not to embrace his 
teachings but rather went their own journeys.  Still, the desire 
to offer up is noble and good and right.  Therefore you cannot 
fail in doing that.  If you make sure that you are unattached to 
the result of your offer, then you have nothing at all 
whatsoever to fear in your gesture of friendship.
	Thank you for your question.

	Jonathan: I shouldn’t cave into being self-judgmental about 
what form of container I am offering.  My container is just as 
worthy as anyone’s of offering the refreshing water.  A truly 
thirsty person will look past the container and beeline for that 
water.

*	Elyon:  A truly desperate person will not even use a 
container but their own hands if necessary to receive the 
necessary sustenance.  Therefore no container is necessary in 
the strictest  analysis, just the willingness to share this 
water of life.

*	Jessona (Jonathan):  Greetings, this is Jessona.  I make my 
contact today to offer encouragement to all who find themselves 
away from the well, burdened by struggle and conflict or 
confusion.
	It is of great value to the soul to experience such thirst, 
for it impresses upon you the beauty of refreshment.  When one 
is in an oasis it is easy to forget the blessings, to take them 
for granted.  Take note that you are all quite at home around 
the well, and that when you are filled full with spirit you are 
encouraged by those like myself to venture forward into the dry 
deserts seeking those in need.  I consider the many of you as 
skilled in digging your own wells through stillness, through 
intense, sincere dedication to God.  That sincerity and 
dedication is the sharp drill bit that plunges into the dry 
sands and finds that water when it appears unavailable.  Each 
one of you is being trained to go forth to place within the 
possession of your fellows a new source of refreshment.
	Urantia is turning the corner.  The new tide is sweeping 
across this planet of spiritual transformation, of 
dispensational adjustment.  Everyone of you is a refilling 
station for those on the journey toward God.  Each one of you is 
an indicator when those in confusion pass you by; you have 
traveled the roads they seek, and you can counsel how far to the 
next resting point.  You can alert them to perils along the way 
that they may avoid entanglement and distractions and the 
weighing down of worldly things.  It will become more apparent 
to you how valuable your own resources are to your fellows.  
While that which you have attained is of eternal value to you, 
it is also of great worth to anyone who comes into your 
presence.  Be ready to go forth at any time at our urging, at 
the urging of the inner presence.  We will support you.  We are 
a part of your caravan.  No one of you goes alone; always do you 
travel in company.
	 Thank you for receiving my words.

	Ginny:  How do we reflect that certainty we have about the 
water in our canteen without arrogance while we are willing to 
and wanting to share?

*	Jessona:  It is in the approach that the switch of track is 
made wherein another rejects or receives your expression.  You 
come to another in humility to offer your source of truth, and 
when you are rejected it is projected upon you arrogance, which 
is really only a reflexive response from another who has yet to 
discern the difference between the water and the container.  
Also, great success is made by not so much describing the 
contents of your canteen but to jump into the well and become so 
thoroughly wet that they see that radiating, dripping from you.  
It is then undebatable what you reveal.  It is that love 
saturation which is unmistakable, beyond words.
	Do not be afraid to ooze the divine spirit; that will be 
detected.  As Elyon has said, it is freewill that determines 
receptivity; it is their free will that gauges whether you have 
given a gift of upliftment or appear to be full of yourself and 
arrogant.  Offer in prayer at those moments in time when you are 
in such an assignment, giving light and love, that it be spirit 
that moves.  Then it will be the other’s choice whether to 
receive or reject ... no longer faulted for interfering with the 
transfer of energy, of spiritual enlightenment.  It is through 
your humble passing of the cup that you are certain of not being 
one who is taking personal control of spirit wishes.  If you 
have given the cup in gentleness and kindness you are not 
arrogant when it is thrown back at you.  It is only a sign to 
you that another is not yet thirsty.
	I hope this aids you in your question.

	Ginny:  Thank you.  There are so many hurt feelings when 
people’s offerings are not accepted.

*	Jessona:  That is the time to go back to the well yourself 
to drink deep of spirit healing and soothing power.

	Mark:  We aren’t offended when we offer someone a literal 
drink of water and they reject our offer.  They’re not thirsty.  
When we offer spiritual water we are somehow attached to it.  If 
we could see it more like a literal drink of water, no personal 
attachment, it might be easier.

*	Jessona:  This is true, for it is far easier to possess 
personally the value of such a refreshment on a spiritual level, 
for it is so transforming in your own lives that how could it 
not be of desire to another  when it is offered?  To think of it 
as you have expressed, that it is simply offered to be taken or 
left with no personal evaluation of your worth, that you may be 
free to offer and offer again, seeking those who desire.  As the 
master said, those with ears to hear, in this case, for those 
with tongues that thirst.

*	Michael:  This is Michael.  I come before you today to 
embrace you, to give love, the love our Father bestows so freely 
upon all throughout His creation.  I promise you ever and always 
to be the cloudburst of spirit refreshment, to rain upon you 
constantly, to give that life invigorating love.  Nebadonia, my 
divine partner, is also your support, the wellspring of spirit 
energy that rises out of the hardness of earth to soften your 
troubles, to ease your pain, and to support you in all 
challenges.  We pledge to be ever and always the water of life 
for each of you.