Communicating About Spirit

SATURDAY, JULY 18, 1981, 7:25 AM
FARM, STUDY

This is a strange morning, o son, for you knew you were to do this meditation with Me, the Holy Spirit, but you couldn’t seem to get yourself up… nor could you center on the title. True, I did not urge you in any extra way, but just left it to your own motivations, desires, and needs. So here you are, finally, and Our meditation will focus on these two upcoming opportunities to communicate about spirit… even to share something about this Partnership of Ours.

Tomorrow morning there will be a small group, and you must soon decide how you should approach that opportunity. Yes, you should talk about how this came about, as your story, read a teaching that includes your commission to this task, and then one with some content… perhaps the Unifying Dimension. You can then read them some titles, and tell them about Ruminations… and then seek some response as to what approach you should take.

In one sense this will not be very important… just a small group, most of whom will be open to hearing of this manifestation of Myself. Yet in another sense it is another step in the direction of making these teachings more public. Each step is an important one. Mistakes are to be expected, but don’t make them unnecessarily. The key admonition is: Let your spirit feel what should be said and done. Let it dominate, which means that it shall bring about the best balance with mine… and with the minds and spirits of those who are present. Tell it as a story… that is important… for I want you to use the story increasingly as the stimulus to learning from you.

The opportunity next Saturday should be a crucial one. Let your spirit direct what you say and do, again, but I would urge you to speak forth, in story form, about these meditations as part of the research process. Use the research project of the sabbatical as your referent, but include this as part of the process… in just a natural and easy way… as the spirit directs. (And I shall be there, too, within and without).

This will serve to identify you more publicly as a strange person of spirit, which increases the challenge for you to live and exhibit a balanced life, personally and professionally. You are to be one who speaks of spirit easily and comfortably, but not constantly. You are close to having a group of students together. It is time for that to develop, if you are willing. And all of this is pushing you to actually begin the writing of the sabbatical study. The report must precede it, and that you should finish this week. Put it off no longer. I say that the time is now.

Use the scenarios format for your Workshop as a means of communicating about spirit. Develop one in which the spirit is the coordinator and facilitator supreme. Let this be the introduction, and yet a complement to other introductions and references during the first two weeks.