2005-01-05. The Making of Resolutions
Lightline #43
Topic: The Making of Resolutions
Group: Lightline TeaM
Teacher: Solonia
TR: Daniel Megow
Opening
Solonia: Greetings fellow workers for the manifestation of our Father’s will. It is once again your sister Solonia greeting you tonight. You are just beginning a new calendar year on our world of Urantia and if you are as most who celebrate the New Year at this time, then you most likely already have done for yourself a review of the year that has just passed and most likely you have begun to project for yourself how you would like the coming year to proceed for you.
Lesson
Perhaps you have even gone so far to make resolutions for how you will go about accomplishing your ideals of how this coming calendar year will unfold in your life. Resolutions are something that many here on this world only think about once a year and yet in the higher realms of the morontia and spirit personalities, we find that we make resolutions almost daily. Resolutions help one to focus their attention in a particular area of focus and help us to move forward in our growth.
Truly the daily resolutions are seldom considered to be long term resolutions. Most here in their resolutions, here on Urantia that is, make the error of only defining their long term resolutions and then when they stray from their resolutions from time to time, they have a tendency to give up and this is unfortunate that your civilizations have learned to give up after one or two or even one hundred apparent failures.
When you fail, often you neglect to recognize the gifts or accomplishments that have been achieved up until that single momentary failure. In your morontia existences, you will be more apt to learn from your little missteps and therefore you rarely have the opportunity to ever consider that you have failed. Truly, there is no failure other than the unfortunate choice to give up. That, my dear friends is truly the only failure. Giving up. When you make your resolutions, continue each day to emphasize your determination. The highest resolution any of us may make, and indeed this is one of our daily resolutions, is to the best of our ability, be examples of our Father’s will unfolding in his universe. As we all know, our Father is love. Our Father is truth, and beauty, and goodness. Our Father is compassion and caring. These very things that our Father is, are the very things which we may bring into our own individual lives, and by so doing, you are in fact, doing our Father’ s will.
If you can remember to do so, make small accomplishable resolutions each day. If you forget sometimes, or even for a time, do not chastise yourself, rather, recognize that you have been reminded it is time to do them again. Eventually, this making of daily resolutions becomes far more difficult to forget than to remember. There are accomplishable goals each day of your life. Take a few moments with Father each day and ask for guidance and truly for his help in discovering what they are and in accomplishing them.
I would take a few one part questions this evening, Any asked multiple part questions, I will answer the one part that I feel most applicable.
Q: Do you have any pointers on how to be more like Jesus in engaging people by asking questions like he used to do while on earth?
Solonia: Jesus had a way about him. When he was in the presence of another, he was so very interested in that person and who they are and desired for them to share themselves with him. The greatest thing that any mortal can do to be more like our Master Jesus, Our Father Michael, is to be truly interested in the others we are with. To realize that they are our family. Many are so wrapped up in their own internal dialogue that often they miss the opportunity to be there in the present with their fellows and indeed with that fragment of God that indwells them.
As you each become more and more in love with your fellow men and women, in a brotherly or even a fatherly manner, I assure you that the words that you utter will be profound, for in those times of genuine soul and spirit contact, our Father will show you what to say. Jesus was an exceptional listener. In most cases he did not use his pre-knowledge of individuals. He much preferred to use only the human tools he had available to him and this is exactly what each of you have available to you. Never be afraid to look one another in the eye, for there is where your souls make contact. There is where you quite naturally become more and more like our Master on earth. Are there other questions this evening?
Q: Sister Solonia, you spoke earlier about pursuing our resolutions and asking our Father for guidance and help in discovering and accomplishing our resolutions and I recently had a resolution to be more patient and loving and kind in dealing with my children. What is the proper balance between relying on the Father and relying on ourselves in terms of developing virtuous character traits or overcoming character deficiencies? I sort of feel, why should I ask the Father to help me be more patient? Isn’t it my responsibility to acquire that character trait through actual experience and practice and make the choices?
Solonia: True, and yet none of these things do we do alone without our Fathers help. By actively asking for help, I assure you that the Father will not do it for you. You will still be required to earn each and every accomplishment in this area that you make, but by asking the Father, you will perhaps at times be more aware of His guidance in the moment. It is easy to recognize what one perhaps should have done in retrospect, and this happens very often when one tries to do it alone, and indeed there is learning and growth from this way as well, but truly when you sincerely ask for and watch for the Fathers guidance in these times, you will be surprised by the great number of positive responses you will find.
You mentioned that you prayed for patience. We all chuckle at this particular prayer for we all make it and we have come to know without a doubt, that the way to gain patience is more and more and more opportunities to practice patience. These are not always comfortable, but we chuckle when we remember back to the time when we first prayed for it. You would do well to practice this previous lesson of the Master’s way of interacting with people, even with your children and other family members. Often mortals are asked to treat their family in one way and their friends and acquaintances in another. If you can emulate the Master’s way with all people, you will be greatly rewarded with the outcome. I hope this has answered your question to some extent.
Q: Yes, it helps a lot. Thank you very much.
Closing
Solonia: Are there any other questions this evening?…. It appears that we have concluded tonight’s lesson. I truly enjoy these times that I am allowed to be with you and to share a bit of my larger knowledge and understanding with you. I truly love this world and enjoy working with you all in the upliftment of it. Keep love in your hearts. Keep our Father in your minds and let your souls flow outward to all of your brothers and sisters. Goodnight dear hearts and I will speak with you again.
