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A PERSONAL COMMENTARY ON LIVING LIFE. AND SUGGESTIONS ON POSSIBLE CHANGES TO IMPROVE AMERICA.     A message from: Verne Joseph Finucane-Urantia A PERSONAL COMMENTARY ON LIVING LIFE. AND SUGGESTIONS ON POSSIBLE CHANGES TO IMPROVE AMERICA. First, always tell the truth, try to say what you mean and mean what you say. Try and say what you’re going to do, then do what you say and if you can't for whatever legitimate reason, let the other affected parties know. Try never to leave others hanging. Always try to speak from the heart and learn from your errors, grow and evolve. We are experiential creatures, we learn, grow and evolve by doing, making daily decisions, by seeking the truth and taking effective action. Think logically and not emotionally. Try and see the whole picture. Example, excerpt from The Urantia Book: " In the mind’s eye conjure up a picture of one of your primitive ancestors of cave-dwelling times — a short, misshapen filthy, snarling hulk of a man standing, legs spread, club upraised, breathing hate and animosity as he looks fiercely just ahead. Such a picture hardly depicts the divine dignity of man. But allow us to enlarge the picture. In front of this animated human crouches a saber-toothed tiger. Behind him, a woman and two children. Immediately you recognize that such a picture stands for the beginnings of much that is fine and noble in humans, but the man is the same in both pictures. Only, in the second sketch, you are favored with a widened horizon. You therein discern the motivation of this evolving mortal. His attitude becomes praiseworthy because you understand him. If you could only fathom the motives of your associates, how much better you would understand them. If you could only know your fellows, you would eventually fall in love with them. *   100:4.5 (1098.2) http://www.urantia.org You cannot truly love your fellows by a mere act of the will. Love is only born of thoroughgoing understanding of your neighbor’s motives and sentiments. It is not so important to love all men today as it is that each day you learn to love one more human being. If each day or each week you achieve an understanding of one more of your fellows, and if this is the limit of your ability, then you are certainly socializing and truly spiritualizing your personality. Love is infectious, and when human devotion is intelligent and wise, love is more catching than hate. But only genuine and unselfish love is truly contagious. If each mortal could only become a focus of dynamic affection, this benign virus of love would soon pervade the sentimental emotion-stream of humanity to such an extent that all civilization would be encompassed by love, and that would be the realization of the brotherhood of man."  100:4.6 (1098.3) PERSONAL COMMENTARY CONT'D Somethings are out of our direct control or you may have to think outside the box to surmount them. Sometimes we suffer the consequences of other people's actions. Spiritual Growth is the most important. Doing God's will, need not be complicated. 1: Simply Love our Father, the First Source and Center of all creation, The Grand Creator of all the grand universe material and spiritual, the Infinite Upholder of all that is, was and ever will be. Love him not out of fear of going to hell or being punished as some would have you believe, this is a false kind of love. Love him for giving you your life, free will and the possibility of the grand adventure of eternal life. 2: Strive to live by the Golden Rule taught by Jesus. " Do onto others as you would have done to you". Love your fellow man. Try to help others whenever possible but do so within your means. Get involved in your community. Know what’s going on around you Locally, Nationally and in the world. Check the facts, do your own research, don't take things at face value. Seek the truth and the truth will set you free. What we fail to learn in this short life we will be taught in the next. We are in God's Kindergarten when it comes to knowledge and experience on a universal cosmic and spiritual levels. The wonders of the universe are ours to seek and be shown to the God Seeking, God Loving Mortals of time and space. We are at but the beginning of God's eternal plan, Act 1, what an adventure he has planned for his children. And armed with this knowledge and having faith this can give man now a kind of eternal peace of mind. Give him the strength and courage to endure, adapt and to overcome any obstacles that he may face in this eternal journey. Never stop learning, Anthony Robbins the Motivational coach teaches the Theory of C.A.N.I. Can I. Constant and Never-ending Improvement. Learn something new each day and if something doesn't work for you, forget it and let the negative flow downstream. Stagnation is death. Life is fluid, moving and changing. I recently created this formula as an example to live by T+V+FT=K K+TEA=SUCCESS add this to an accurate knowledge of our living God, then have peace of mind. Read (Suggested reading paper 130 of the Urantia Book, ON THE WAY TO ROME, section 6 THE YOUNG MAN WHO WAS AFRAID pages 1437,1438 @ http://www.urantia.org)

Breaking down the formula: T=Trust you have to trust your fellow man. Give him the benefit of the doubt. Living cynical is no way to live. However you need to V=Verify. You must verify that this person you allow in your circle of life, your sphere of influence, be it personal or business is who he says he is and does what he says he will do. An example you hire a person to be your CFO of your Company. It would be in your best interest to occasionally, to go check the books after all it's your company your responsible for how it runs. Just like it’s your life and you are responsible for how you run it or do allow life to run you? You allow people into your sphere of influence you just need to make sure they are a positive influence. Next is FT=Follow Through. Always follow through with what you say you’re going to do and If you can't let the affected parties know. If you fail to follow through or to notify the affected parties of the change you lose credibility. If you do all this that equals K. K=Knowledge. You have to be aware of your surroundings. Now Knowledge is great however you must then go to the next step TEA=Take Effective Action.

You can have all the Knowledge in the world but if you don't use it in an effective way what good is it. Don't Be Selfish Pass the Knowledge on. Start a new project or set new Goals. If you find someone in your direct sphere of influence who is negatively affecting you try to turn him around if that fails then you must cut him loose. Don't let other problems become yours unless you’re able to help. So many times, we allow the problems of others to become ours and we are not in a solid position to help and all that happens is the other people problems weight us down, hinder us from obtaining our goals and they eventually go down anyway.

Once you are in a solid position then you can offer assistance with no negative consequences on yourself or family or friends. (Story by VJF): let's say we are on a cruise ship heading to the Virgin Islands. With us is us are family and friends. Where in the middle of the Atlantic and suddenly there is a disaster at sea? The ship is going to sink, and the Captain orders abandon ship. So, you, of course, gather your family and friends and head to the lifeboats. You are all put in one boat, lowered down. You push off and start to row. Just over the horizon, there is an Island and safety. You start for the island however you notice a small hole in your lifeboat and water is coming in. But it's not a big problem. You assign some people to bail out the water as others row. Everyone is working together to get to safety. Suddenly you hear a cry for help there is another passenger from the ship alone in the water. You do the Christian thing and row over and pull him into to boat You give him food and water. Now this person is able-bodied. You ask this person to help row or bail, but this person continues to sit there, he is not helping row or bail or doing anything helpful. But he is eating and drinking from your supplies. Now you may choose to let this go on for a time that's up to you and the group. But now this person pulls out a gun and proceeds to shoot several more holes in your boat. Now, what do you do?

• 1: Allow him to continue shooting more holes eventually causing the boat to sink and you, your family and friends all go to the bottom and drown.
• 2: You attack and kill him. Throwing the body overboard.
• 3: You Capture Him. Tell him you gave him a chance and he did nothing to contribute to the safety of the boat or wellbeing of the group, that he willfully refused to become a helpful contributing member of the group and then with malice and forethought he rejected that help and tried to kill or cause injury to innocent people. So, you give him a life vest, a little food, and water and place him back in the ocean and tell him to fend for himself. Now, this able-bodied man is what my father called a leach on society.

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