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9-5-2010 Sunday Service of the Church Within #724
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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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When they discover the center of the universe, a lot of people will be disappointed to discover they are not it.
(Bernard Bailey)

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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.

So my initial thought was to do today's service on the topic of Making Plans, but there were so Few applicable quotes that I just couldn't get anywhere with it. One quote from the process did survive however to make it into Today's Service. It's the last quote before the prayer…

The topic of today's Sunday Service, #724, is Disappointment…

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The Sermon
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I cannot imagine a human life lived without the encounter of at least a few, perhaps many, more likely countless experiences of disappointment. Can you? I mean… think of a normal childhood for example (if even there is such a thing as normal in regards to childhood). Childhood is a breeding ground, if not an incubator for all manner of disappointments. A child expects so much of life that, disappointment is potential in every living experience of it.

Disappointment does not lessen with age, does it? The disappointments of adolescence seem to far outweigh those of childhood… at least to an adolescent they do. Though disappointments may be slightly less numerous during the adolescent stage of life, thanks to experience and being able to avoid many of childhoods previous disappointments, they have a tendency to be far more intense (due perhaps to the associated hormonal imbalance that so characterizes this period). But life goes on and hopefully the disappointments of adolescence have been survived and learned from, right?

You would think that by the time we reach adulthood, having already passed through the rigors of childhood and adolescent disappointments, we would be well neigh immune to whatever few additional disappointments life could throw at us, wouldn't you? It wasn't the case though… Was it? Why it is almost as if they actually Multiplied if you can believe that. How can that be Possible?

Disappointment seems to be such an integral part of life, perhaps it even might has some incomprehensible form of value to it… do you think? What could that Be though? Disappointment is just so Disappointing! What could be good about That?

Well… disappointment could be a form of Stimulus, couldn't it? Maybe it could even be a Motivation or an Incentive of sorts… even an Inspiration to attempt something else, something previously unconsidered or unimagined. Disappointment could even guide a person onto new and fruitful pathways, unless they have allowed themselves to become immobilized by it.

Disappointment is inevitable. No one is immune to it.
How a person reacts to disappointment is a choice. It IS possible to acquire immunity to the negative effects of disappointment…

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Quotes
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(From: The Urantia Book - Paper-149 Section-6)
        "Much of man's sorrow is born of the disappointment of his ambitions and the wounding of his pride. 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. All too many of man's troubles take origin in the fear soil of his own natural heart.

(From: Janis Joplin (1943 - 1970)
I must be an optimist, because a pessimist is never disappointed.

(From: The Urantia Book - Paper-160 Section-4)
There is an art in defeat which noble souls always acquire; you must know how to lose cheerfully; you must be fearless of disappointment.

(From: The ASB Bible - Romans 5:3-5)
And not only this, but we also exult in our tribulations, knowing that tribulation brings about perseverance; and perseverance, proven character; and proven character, hope; and hope does not disappoint, because the love of God has been poured out within our hearts through the Holy Spirit who was given to us.

(From: Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Mansfield Park)
There will be little rubs and disappointments everywhere, and we are all apt to expect too much; but then, if one scheme of happiness fails, human nature turns to another; if the first calculation is wrong, we make a second better: we find comfort somewhere.

(From: The Urantia Book - Paper-3 Section-5)
Is courage--strength of character--desirable? Then must man be reared in an environment which necessitates grappling with hardships and reacting to disappointments.

 (From: Robert Anthony, Great American Poets 2002)
If we could only share our hopes, our dreams, our disappointments, our fears, our achievements, and our discoveries.... the world would be a little kinder and a lot more forgiving.

(From: The Urantia Book - Paper-160 Section-2)
Personality association and mutual affection is an efficient insurance against evil. Difficulties, sorrow, disappointment, and defeat are more painful and disheartening when borne alone. Association does not transmute evil into righteousness, but it does aid in greatly lessening the sting.

(From: Martin Luther King Jr. (1929 - 1968)
We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.

(From: The Urantia Book - Paper-156 Section-5)
        God-knowing individuals are not discouraged by misfortune or downcast by disappointment. Believers are immune to the depression consequent upon purely material upheavals; spirit livers are not perturbed by the episodes of the material world.

(From: Beverly Sills)
You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.

(From: The Urantia Book - Paper-100 Section-6)
        One of the most amazing earmarks of religious living is that dynamic and sublime peace, that peace which passes all human understanding, that cosmic poise which betokens the absence of all doubt and turmoil. Such levels of spiritual stability are immune to disappointment.

(From: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do then by the ones you did. So, throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

(From: The Urantia Book - Paper-48 Section-6)
        Even as mortals, so have these angels been father to many disappointments, and they will point out that sometimes your most disappointing disappointments have become your greatest blessings. Sometimes the planting of a seed necessitates its death, the death of your fondest hopes, before it can be reborn to bear the fruits of new life and new opportunity. And from them you will learn to suffer less through sorrow and disappointment, first, by making fewer personal plans concerning other personalities, and then, by accepting your lot when you have faithfully performed your duty.

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The Prayer
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Dear God,
        You Never disappoint me.

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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