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WEEKEND BULLETIN:
April
13, 2008
May
15th Deadline for IC08 Early Bird Registration
The May 15 deadline for early bird IC08 Registration discounts is fast
approaching! You can save substantially on your family's costs for attending
IC08 by registering now. Prices go up on May 16! $125.00 will secure your
registration. Please go to the IC08 website to register and we'll see you there:
http://www.ic08.org/
New
Life Expo Will Be Held in Santa Cruz ...
Sal Turano and Dolores want to know if anyone in GGC would like to help out in a
Urantia Book Readers' booth. He has volunteered to help out. What do you all
think? Please write back to the list (GGC Bulletin) or contact Sal or
Dolores if you are interested.
From
Last Night's Study Group (Orinda) We read ...
"The recognition of true relations implies a mind competent to discriminate
between truth and error. The bestowal Spirit of Truth which invests the human
minds of Urantia is unerringly responsive to truth-the living spirit
relationship of all things and all beings as they are co-ordinated in the
eternal ascent Godward.
"Every impulse of every electron, thought, or spirit is an
acting unit in the whole universe. Only sin is isolated and evil gravity
resisting on the mental and spiritual levels. The universe is a whole; no thing
or being exists or lives in isolation. Self-realization is potentially evil if
it is antisocial. It is literally true: " No man lives by himself. "
Cosmic socialization constitutes the highest form of personality unification.
Said Jesus: "He who would be greatest among you, let him become server of
all."
"Even truth, beauty, and goodness-man's intellectual approach to the
universe of mind, matter, and spirit-must be combined into one unified concept
of a divine and supreme ideal. As mortal personality unifies the human
experience with matter, mind, and spirit, so does this divine and supreme ideal
become power-unified in Supremacy and then personalized as a God of fatherly
love. (UB p. 647, 56:10.13-15)
(Courtesy
Doug Ross, www.dougross.com/)
"We cannot separate ourselves from the use of power--either as individuals
or as a society or as a church. It is a fact of life. Power is the ability to
achieve purpose--the capability for action. Power is a gift from God. God does
not intend a world where powerful suppress and oppress the powerless. Power is
not meant to be the possession of a few while the majority are impoverished.
Power, given by God, is meant to be shared by all. All creation is intended to
participate and benefit from the use of power that has the best interest of the
neighbor as its goal."
(Helen Bruch Pearson, from Do What You Have the Power to Do)
Helen Bruch Pearson is a retreat, workshop, and seminar leader, spiritual
formation director, designer and leader of worship and liturgical events. Helen
served on the faculty of Candler School of Theology at Emory University
(1981-99) and is an ordained minister in the United Church of Christ.
From the Mailbox ...
"Hi Dave, I had occasion to meet and speak directly with
Deepak Chopra at a weekend workshop he gave in the Bay Area some years ago. I
asked him if he had the UB and if he had read same. He said he had the book and
had read some of it." Cristina Hutchins (Cristina wrote to answer our
question about Deepak's possession of a UB)
Thanks
for Listening. Please Stay tuned! Dave Holt, Editor and GGC VP