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Sunday Service #797

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1-29-2012 Sunday Service of the Church Within #797
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Today's Service is offered by: Pastor Daniel J. Megow

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Humor of the Week
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 (The Washington Post's Mensa Invitational once again invited readers to take any word from the dictionary, alter it by adding, subtracting, or changing one letter, and supply a new definition. Here's a couple'a few of the winners:)

Beelzebug (n.): Satan in the form of a mosquito, that gets into your bedroom at three in the morning and cannot be cast out.

Intaxicaton: Euphoria at getting a tax refund, which lasts until you realize it was your money to start with.

Sarchasm: The gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the person who doesn't get it.

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Welcome by: Pastor Daniel
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Greetings my Beloved Sisters and Brothers, and welcome once again to the Church that is Within. You are the Temple. You are the Congregation. Any and All Truth is the Gospel. The Divine Spirit within you is your True Minister.

There is nothing so vital to humanity, nor more difficult to master than…

The topic of today's Sunday Service, #797, is Communication…

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The Sermon
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Communication…

We Communicate with our ego, and with our Soul.

Unfortunately when we Communicate with one another, it is the ego that gets most of the use. It speaks more than it listens… misinterprets more than it understands… defends more than it supports. The ego rehearses what it wants to say next because it fears it will say the wrong thing, it fears looking foolish, and it tends to be easily distracted. Because of this inherent tendency, it is usually playing catch up… never quite fully understanding. When egos try to Communicate, it tends to be more about winning than about sharing… more a battle than a dance. And yet we should not disparage the ego for it is just as the little child in the room that merely wants to be heard… to be seen… to be appreciated.

When there is a true shared understanding in Communication between individuals, it is evidence of Souls in play and At play. They do not rehearse or review… they interact. It is not a skirmish… but rather a Song to be sung together. Soul listens and then speaks and then listens again. When Souls communicate it is for sharing the excitement of personal discovery… for finding greater understanding… for sharing Love and Compassion and Friendship.

There are many obstacles to satisfactory Communication that tend to keep ego in the forefront of most conversational attempts. Fear, pain and exhaustion can override ones ability to focus adequately and frequently lead to some level of misunderstanding or misinterpretation. Personality differences can confuse and perplex at times as well… not to mention differences in upbringing and family idiosyncrasies. Add to that the fact that male and female brains work so entirely differently, it is rather surprising that human beings are able to really Communicate at All! And yet we still try, and sometimes we actually succeed because of the One thing we All have in Common whether we know it or not… whether we believe it or not … whether we acknowledge it or not.

I don't really have to tell you what that One thing is… Do I. Do I?

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Quotes
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(From: The Urantia Book - Paper-160 Section-2)
        There are just two ways in which mortals may live together: the material or animal way and the spiritual or human way. By the use of signals and sounds animals are able to communicate with each other in a limited way. But such forms of communication do not convey meanings, values, or ideas. The one distinction between man and the animal is that man can communicate with his fellows by means of symbols which most certainly designate and identify meanings, values, ideas, and even ideals.

(From: Lynn Johnston (1947 -)
We are all born with wonderful gifts. We use these gifts to express ourselves, to amuse, to strengthen, and to communicate. We begin as children to explore and develop our talents, often unaware that we are unique, that not everyone can do what we're doing!

 (From: Donella Meadows, The Global Citizen)
Your paradigm is so intrinsic to your mental process that you are hardly aware of its existence, until you try to communicate with someone with a different paradigm.

(From: Robert Greenleaf)
Many attempts to communicate are nullified by saying too much.

(From: Charlie Kaufman, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind)
Constantly talking isn't necessarily communicating.

(From: Leo Rosten (1908 -)
Extremists think "communication" means agreeing with them.

 (From: The Urantia Book - Paper-196 Section-3)
        The great challenge to modern man is to achieve better communication with the divine Monitor that dwells within the human mind. Man's greatest adventure in the flesh consists in the well-balanced and sane effort to advance the borders of self-consciousness out through the dim realms of embryonic soul-consciousness in a wholehearted effort to reach the borderland of spirit-consciousness — contact with the divine presence. Such an experience constitutes God-consciousness, an experience mightily confirmative of the pre-existent truth of the religious experience of knowing God.

(From: Leonard Bernstein (1918 - 1990)
Music . . . can name the un-nameable and communicate the unknowable.

(From: Ayn Rand (1905 - 1982)
Art is the indispensable medium for the communication of a moral idea.

(From: The Urantia Book - Paper-133 Section-4)
“My brother, I perceive you are seeking for truth, and I suggest that the spirit of the Father of all truth may chance to dwell within you. Did you ever sincerely endeavor to talk with the spirit of your own soul? Such a thing is indeed difficult and seldom yields consciousness of success; but every honest attempt of the material mind to communicate with its indwelling spirit meets with certain success, notwithstanding that the majority of all such magnificent human experiences must long remain as superconscious registrations in the souls of such God-knowing mortals.”

 (From: The Urantia Book - Paper-91 Section-8)
        To some individuals prayer is the calm expression of gratitude; to others, a group expression of praise, social devotions; sometimes it is the imitation of another's religion, while in true praying it is the sincere and trusting communication of the spiritual nature of the creature with the anywhere presence of the spirit of the Creator.

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The Prayer
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Dear God,
        
Thanks for all Your help!
You ALL are Within the Infinitely Loving Embrace of our Universal
Parent,

The Creator's Infinite Love to all of You,
Pastor Daniel

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