Urantia Association Los Angeles

When men search for God, they are searching for everything. When they find God, they have found everything. The search for God is the unstinted bestowal of love attended by amazing discoveries of new and greater love to be bestowed. ~ UB

Seraphim (guardian angels) function as teachers of men by guiding the footsteps of the human personality into paths of new and progressive experiences. To accept the guidance of a seraphim rarely means attaining a life of ease. In following this leading you are sure to encounter, and if you have the courage, to traverse, the rugged hills of moral choosing and spiritual progress. ~ UB

Spirit jest is never tinged with the accentuation of the misfortunes of the weak and erring. Neither is it ever blasphemous of the righteousness and glory of d...ivinity. Our humor embraces three general levels of appreciation: 1. Reminiscent jests. Quips growing out of the memories of past episodes in one’s experience of combat, struggle, and sometimes fearfulness, and ofttimes foolish and childish anxiety. To us, this phase of humor derives from the deep-seated and abiding ability to draw upon the past for memory material with which pleasantly to flavor and otherwise lighten the heavy loads of the present. 2. Current humor. The senselessness of much that so often causes us serious concern, the joy at discovering the unimportance of much of our serious personal anxiety. We are most appreciative of this phase of humor when we are best able to discount the anxieties of the present in favor of the certainties of the future. 3. Prophetic joy. It will perhaps be difficult for mortals to envisage this phase of humor, but we do get a peculiar satisfaction out of the assurance that all things work together for goodfor spirits and morontians as well as for mortals. This aspect of celestial humor grows out of our faith in the loving overcare of our superiors and in the divine stability of our Supreme Directors. UB

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But be not discouraged; some day a real musician may appear on [our planet], and whole peoples will be enthralled by the magnificent strains of his melodies. O...ne such human being could forever change the course of a whole nation, even the entire civilized world. It is literally true, melody has power a whole world to transform. UB See more

"Insects are born fully educated and equipped for lifeindeed, a very narrow and purely instinctive existence. The human baby is born without an education; therefore man possesses the power, by controlling the educational training of the younger generation, greatly to modify the evolutionary course of civilization." https://bit.ly/3iZ0jbk

Hope you all are having a good Sunday. Everyone is invited to join us for friendly fellowship in our Urantia Book Skype Study tonight at 5 pm, PST. We will be studying paper 60, Urantia During The Early Land-life Era. Our Skype address is tom.vasile1 If you are connecting for the first time, please send a Skype contact request, so you may be added to the group study session. You can download Skype for free. Pray you are experiencing some spiritual peace and joy. Since God is our loving Parent, we are all in the same family, so be kind and loving to everyonedo your part to improve relationships.

"A compassionate father is freely forgiving; fathers do not hold vengeful memories against their children. Fathers are not like judges, enemies, or creditors. Real families are built upon tolerance, patience, and forgiveness." ~ https://bit.ly/2YPu2Lm

"Fear and shame are unworthy motivations for religious living. Religion is valid only when it reveals the fatherhood of God and enhances the brotherhood of men." ~ https://bit.ly/3hrsQq4

"Although men owe a duty to themselves to make the best of their lives on earth, having thus sincerely exerted themselves, they should cheerfully accept their lot and exercise ingenuity in making the most of that which has fallen to their hands." ~ https://bit.ly/3h4oPaU

"There truly exists within you a conspiracy of spiritual forces, a confederation of divine powers, whose exclusive purpose is to effect your final deliverance from material bondage and finite handicaps." ~ https://bit.ly/3dGe1gY

"God is your Father, and religion my gospel is nothing more nor less than the believing recognition of the truth that you are his son" [or daughter]. ~ https://bit.ly/2TXgsnt

"[Jesus] was not a militant revolutionist; he was a progressive evolutionist. He engaged in the destruction of that which was only when he simultaneously offered his fellows the superior thing which ought to be." ~ https://bit.ly/2WEQjf6

But true religion is a living love, a life of service. The religionist's detachment from much that is purely temporal and trivial never leads to social isolation, and it should not destroy the sense of humor. Genuine religion takes nothing away from human existence, but it does add new meanings to all of life; it generates new types of enthusiasm, zeal, and courage. It may even engender the spirit of the crusader, which is more than dangerous if not controlled by spiritual insight and loyal devotion to the commonplace social obligations of human loyalties. 100:6.5 http://www.urantiabook.org/newbook/papers/p100.htm