[tmtranscripts] Arcadia, November 22, 2010

[Laurence Whelan]

Arcadia Teaching Mission 
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Arcadia , California , U.S.A.
Monday, November  22, 2010
 
Topics: Thanksgiving messages to ponder
              Thankfulness is another word for worship
              At every juncture in our lifelong career there is a level of 
gratitude…
              Most grow more thankful and appreciative as they mature
 
Questions:  Joe asked if you had any message for him to help him heal?  
 
TR: George Benavides 
 
Prayer:  Larry:  Dear Father thank you for this day and for this group.  We are 
very thankful for the blessings you have bestowed on each one of us.  Help us to 
be good stewards of these blessings.  We pray for peace in the world and we pray 
for the healing of our planet and its people.  Show us the way that you would 
have us do your will Father – we want to serve you.  And we also pray for Joe.  
In Michael’s name,
Amen.
 
JarEl:  TR, George:  Good evening.  It is I, your teacher JarEl, (Welcome).  It 
is good to be back again.  

 
As you  near the time of gathering with your loved ones and families, so do we  
gather in similar fashion on more than a regular basis with associates  and 
people that we love to mark certain milestones in our lives as we  look forward 
to a more fruitful and progressive future.  And to give each other strength in 
this long enduring adventure we call life.  And, yes, we have much to be 
thankful for, we have a whole lifelong career behind us.  It is evidence of a 
loving God who has graced us with this life and this opportunity to experience 
his wonderful universe.  Though  our thankfulness is perhaps a little bit more 
complex than what you are  accustomed to thanking God for, for you do not have 
this lifelong  experience that we  have – you have not lived hundreds of 
thousands of years
with a myriad of experiences under your belt. 
 
 Your  life is somewhat limited to the experiences that most people have on  
this planet, but even so, your experiences are valuable nonetheless.  And  when 
you gather with your families, ponder this – all the more  opportunities that 
life will give you to not only experience joy and  happiness, but to experience 
the grace of God in everything that you do –  to know that He is there with you, 
step by step, as you struggle along  this lifelong career, as you meet every 
challenge with vigor and with  poise and as you climb another hill of certainty 
because God is with  you.  Ponder all those things when you are thankful for He 
will always be with you no matter what you do and no matter where you are. 

 
 And thankfulness is just another word for worshiping for we all do worship the 
one true  center of us all.  He is within us and He is without and He carries us 
through in all occasions, in all struggles and all conflicts.  And we put our 
trust in Him for we know that he is a sure anchor that is steady and stable and 
shall never leave us adrift.  And  even though you meet the struggles of this 
life and deal with its  vicissitudes, there are a lot of things that you should 
be thankful for –  for perhaps you do not realize all the gifts that you have 
and you  might not even be aware of these gifts until you’ve crossed over.
 
  There perhaps is a level of gratitude that must be reached at every juncture 
in your lifelong career.  As  you mature and grow you realize that there are 
certain things that have  always been there for you and then you become 
appreciative of those  things.  You will be like a child who grows up and  
becomes a parent as well and then becomes thankful for their own  parents and 
for the way they were raised.  For now they know why they did the things they 
did.  And so shall you grow up in the grace of God and realize that there was a 
certain wisdom behind all that happened to you.  And now you are just realizing 
it.
 
But all  these things that do happen to us, they are there to mold us, to shape  
us, to help us grow and mature - and to what end, you may ask.  Well that is for 
you to discover for the end is never in sight, the adventure continues forever.  
And you shall grow and grow beyond anything you can imagine.  I do not presume 
to tell you what to be thankful for.  But  I will tell you that I am thankful 
for that, for this grand opportunity  to experience this enormous universe and 
to be a part of it – to be  part of God, for He is part of me.
 
Are there any questions here tonight?
 
Larry:  Joe, who has been here before, wanted me to relay a personal message to 
you JarEl.  His message was that he is sorry for everything.  Joe  is going 
through a stressful period in his life right now and he just  wondered if you 
had any message for him to help him to heal himself, to  get better?
 
JarEl:  TR, George:  Tell  him he has nothing to be sorry about for neither has 
he ever insulted  me or crossed me in such a way that I would be angry at him.  
I understand what he has to go through and there is nothing that he can say or 
do that would make me think less of him. 

 
 This life that he has is a struggle for him and he must overcome all these 
struggles with sheer determination.  But know that God is always with you in 
your struggles and lean on Him when you find yourself weak and helpless.  He is 
always there for anything that you need.  But you must be open to Him and accept 
His gifts as they come.
 
  Life will not always be this difficult.  But  the problems that you have will 
seem less as you grow and then you will  come up against new problems to deal 
with which may seem overwhelming.  But as you mature, those problems too will 
become less and less, will be diminished.  This will be the pattern of your 
life, problem after problem.
 
  But  the experiences that you will gather from all this problem-solving will  
be invaluable for your life and for the lives to come.  Do not fret for the 
challenges that you have are there to shape and mold you and to help you become 
who you are meant to be.  That is all.
 
Larry:  Thank you.
 
JarEl:  TR, George:  Are there any other questions?  
 
Very well,  I  do enjoy coming down to greet all of you and I do appreciate the 
fact  that you take the time and effort to transcribe this meeting for the  
benefit of others who are not fortunate enough to be here.  Your effort is 
invaluable to them whether they know it or not.  But I suppose it helps that I 
say it – either way, thank you and goodnight.
 
All:  Thank you JarEl, goodnight.
 Transcribed and Edited by Donna Whelan     
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