Grace

 Now we must talk more about grace.  Grace is all of the
 things that you have attributed to it.  It is an aspect of your
triangle. It is a force to deliver a gift. It is a gift from
 the Father. It is all these things combined. It is your
 cooperation, your engagement, with this grace which brings into
 reality the gift of grace. The gift of grace is there on the
 table for each and every one of you to pick up at any time. It
 is correct that it is your growth that both allows you to see
 this potential of grace and also to access it. By the act of
 involving yourself with this grace, growth is inherent. By the
 act of choosing to involve yourself with this grace, growth has
 been present. It is more than an ideal, and by describing it as
a potential I would not minimize its effect on your lives.

Grace comes to you as you are able to accept it. As you
 recognize it, it arrives on the scene. As you use it, it
manifests in reality. It requires your action to complete the
 circle -or the triangle- and requires your recognition and
 growth, as well. But it is indeed never withheld, always
 available to you as you already and can be viewed as the reaching
 down of the Father to complement the reaching up of the mortal. 

It takes both to reach together to join hands and complete the
 circuit. The Father is ever willing to reach down in His gift of
 grace to you. As you are able and willing to reach up to the
 Father, you actualize this grace, you realize this grace. You
 make this grace real in your life and in those lives around you
 when you take active part with the Father.

Grace does not shower gifts down upon you which you have not
 earned. It is not divine providence upon which you can lean. It
 is active between you and the Father. It must be fluid between
 you and the Father.  When an opportunity arises, presents itself,
 that is grace. When you present yourself within this oppor-
tunity,opportunity, that is your growth. Together you make this grace real;
 you manifest this grace.  
  Would anyone else care to share any perspective?

Jonathan: Grace seems to come in the middle of an
 experience. It is neither a reward nor are we deprived of an
 experience. It is a commingling of our experience and God's,
 that active participation, the point of impact where grace is
 realized.

Elyon: Grace may be seen in that scenario as the experience
 and what you chose to do with the experience.  The experience
 exposed itself to you; this is the gift from the Father. Then
 you present yourself to the experience; this is your gift to the
 Father. Together you both make the most out of the potentials
 inherent in the experience.

Mary: When you first gave us this assignment you said that
 you were giving it so that we might be better able to acknowledge
 the way that God is at work in our lives. The more we discuss it
 the more I come to believe that grace is an overall presence.
Our awareness is the activation. When we talk about
 synchronicity in our lives, angel bumps, feeling guided, all of
 these could be described as grace. Grace is another word to
describe God in our lives. The more we acknowledge God, the more
 we become real, tuned in, and graceful.  
*       Elyon: Very well said. The grace is, indeed, in the form
 of many different experiences in your lives, and you remain the
 facilitators to actualize the grace potential. If you were to
 only be aware of the opportunities of grace and not act on these,
 you would not be completing the full cycle; you would not be
 reaching and grasping the hand of the Father as He extends it
 towards you. You would simply acknowledging that the hand of the
 Father was there. Your step to follow up the gift of grace is to
 take the hand of the Father and fully materialize and realize the
 potentials inherent in the gift He has given you.  
        I perceive that you are all coming to some realization of
grace, and this is very pleasing.  It is always pleasing to work
with you, each one, as you are so responsive.  I speak of
reaching back to those who reach out.  Indeed, each one of you in
this classroom today has a gold star on the chart for effort for
reaching back to us as teachers, to God as He presents you with
His gifts.  This is truly a noble characteristic you each have
here today, and I am humbled to witness it and to work with you. 

        I have no more comments today.  I will remain in attendance
as always, and I will make room for more teachers or for your
individual comments.  
*       Evanson  (Jonathan):Evanson: You have been instructed and
 understand the idea that to recognize God in the lives of others
 and for God to be recognized by others in your life you must bear
 or witness the fruits of the spirit. In a manner of speaking
 grace is the garment of God that reveals Himself directly. It is
 the fruit of God. Sometimes He comes to you in overcoat, hat,
 and boots that you may better bear the adversities in your life.

Sometimes He comes in festive adornment that you may worship,
 commune, and celebrate with one another.  He will bring His cane;
 He will bring His hankie. These are the ways that the Father
 touches you. At your level of perception and abilities to
 perceive, as well as mine, we are only able to perceive God
 through His revelations. The fruit of the spirit you bear in
 your lives is one more ramification of the action of God in the
 world.

Grace can have a secondary application. That is, it can be
 received by you from another of your kind and likewise received
 from another by you. I would turn your triangle into a square by
adding the previously mentioned word "guide".  As a servant to
 the Father you can be a guide for conveying the gift of grace for
 another's growth. You can be diligent in recognizing guidance of
 a brotherly nature from others and thereby receive God's grace. 
The Father reveals through His grace, and you reveal the Father
 through your fruits.  
       I am happy to be here today.  I am Evanson.  I thank you.  
        Daniel: I pick up that fruits of the spirit are a
 revelation of God. So, as far as we are revealing God, we are
producing fruits. Are they synonymous or are fruits applicable
 to something else also?

Evanson: The teaching of the fruits of the spirit has been
 derived from the master's teaching that you know a tree by the
 fruit it bears. But to the untrained eye a tree is a tree. When
 it bears its fruit the kind of tree is recognizable; the inner
 qualities are revealed, spiritually speaking. The fruit, in a
 spiritual sense, is the outworking of grace in your life
 intermingled with your reactions and your decisions. They,
 combined, become a revelation for another.  

It may not be a revelation to you to recognize the fruit you
 bear. It can be an enhanced awareness and appreciation of your
 current growth level. Bearing the fruit of the spirit is
 something that, in the manner of a tree, you must do through
 simply providing the fruit on your own limbs. A tree does not
 give its fruit to you; you must take the fruit from it. Ther-
efore,Therefore, the bearing of the fruit of the spirit in your lives is a
 revelation only when another takes this display of spirit reality
 into themselves.  

Daniel: So, it is a contribution to the Supreme?
*

Evanson: Good. Yes. 

Daniel: In order to contribute to the Supreme does there
 have to be a recipient other than yourself?
*

Evanson: No. Simply to bear the fruits is the
 contribution, but the recognition of these fruits by another is
how you reveal. Much like grace and growth, bearing of fruit has
 the complementary element of receptivity by another. You may
 bear the fruit of spirit in complete isolation, but you reveal
 spirit in your life by socialization.  

Daniel: So you discover God as fruit in your personal, and
 you share or reveal God when someone can benefit from it?
*

Evanson: Yes, the receptivity must be present much as you
 have discussed grace being a potential that is realizable at the
 moment of receptivity.

Jill: Would it be correct to say that the bearing of fruit
 is a daily conscious action as we choose to be the Father's will,
 regardless of whether there is a recipient at each moment?  It's
 continuous as we seek to be the Father's will?
*

Evanson: Yes. May I put it this way: Imagine you are an
 orange tree, and you bear fruit season after season, much of
 which falls to the ground and moistens the soil. When another
 plucks the fruit and peels it then revelation is taking place.

Mark: It's like if a tree bears fruit in the woods and
 nobody sees it, does it still bear fruit? The answer is yes
whether or not it has been revealed to others.

Daniel: Is it still an experiential attainment of the
 Supreme?
*

Evanson: It is within the orchard of the Supreme. 

Daniel: But not necessarily for sharing with the overall
 consciousness of other beings?
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Evanson: Bearing fruit spiritually is in itself an end,
 for it is a revelation of the inner state of one's being. It is
not a way of masking one's interior through artificial ap-
pearances.appearances. Grace is the garment of God which reveals who He is. 
He does not dress in costume. Your bearing of fruit is a result
 of your life, not a bag of tricks in order to entice another into
 spirit living. Such being the case, your contribution to the
 Supreme is the result of the added benefit, is when another
 receives nourishment from your bearing. They must then
internally bear their own fruit. They do not adopt yours; you
 stimulate their own production. Each individually within
 themselves produces another revelation of the Supreme.
 

Tom:  Daniel:  We are what we eat.
        Mark:  And what we do.  Thank you, Evanson, that was a
beautiful lesson.  
        Tom:  (asking Jessona, tape flipped) ...theThe qualities of
 grace that one might cultivate in order to be a more effective
 healer?  Also is the healing mission connected to the mission of
 nature and grace? 
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Jessona: I,Healing Jessona, am present and greet you.  Healing
ministry through spiritual means, contact of personality to
 personality, soul to soul, is compensatory of the incomplete
 evolutionary development of physical life. Through the Life
 Carriers, nature provides you with a physical mechanism in which
 to live, your body. You know each world is conditioned by events
 which have contributed to or detracted from the biologic
 development of this life vehicle. In a larger perspective, even
 the developments of life on differing worlds condition what type
 of vehicle you inhabit on this planet. In order for the Father
 and Michael and Nebadonia to allow for the growth of even the
 Life Carriers, we find ourselves in a position where we must live
 in an environment with inadequacies. Herein enters the grace of
 healing ministry. In understanding the scope, the conditions
 which bear upon a specific event of illness, you are better able
 to be a conduit for healing; you are better able to understand
 who receives the credit for healing, and you are better able to
 cope with the apparent failure of healing, for even tragedy
 itself may be working great miracles in the advancement of a
 larger arena of beings.  This is where the element of faith must
 be applied, for the compassion of one's heart that longs to be of
 service in this form of ministry is good and ought to be bestowed
 for another's benefit. But therein ends your task, for you must
 in detachment defer your desires to the overcare of the Father.  

When you have heard the phrase that all things work to the
 good, I would underline the word "all", for there are times when
 singular specifics do not appear to work for the good.
Eventually healing will disappear when the universe is settled in
 Light and Life, for all things will function appropriately. In
 the mean time, as you are motivated through compassion, you can
 be the Father's means for providing the grace of healing another,
 if it be His will.

In the overall presence of God in our
 lives we can discern patterns of love, grace, that manifest as
 opportunities, growth, beauty, goodness. It is our awareness of
 these presences that grows. Our ability to recognize these
 influences increases with experience. The ability to draw on
 these experiences and direct them toward an understanding of God
 will develop more fully with the passing of time. Within your
 hearts and your minds and your actions you must develop a
 coordination. You must strive for unity within these aspects of
 your being. The influences and graces of God bear down upon you
 to assist you in the unification of these contrasting aspects of
 your lives, the activities of your minds, the desires of your
 hearts, and the actions that you take.

Try to remember to call on God and the many influences He
 has provided to assist you. You are not alone in your struggle. 
You are watched.  There are those waiting for your reach.  There
are beings who are bearing fruit which they desire you to pick. 
Avail yourselves consciously and with effort to the reception of
 these many gifts and graces.