Transcribed from Lemuel’s audio transmissionGreat Expectations
Lemuel : Good morning everyone. I am moved this morning to talk about ‘Great Expectations’ and I am not really refering to a very famous book by Charles Dickens of the same title ‘Great Expectations’. No, I am referring to the normal human expectations that we have. Mostly on a daily basis, we expect certain things to happen, we expect certain people, we expect to do certain things and we expect to go to certain places.
It is, I beleive, an endearing human quality that as the saying goes : hope springs eternal in the human breast, and we always dispose to think of a better to-morrow, we expect a better to-morrow and I am just been reminded of all the troubles teenagers go through and we have all been a teenager and we expect to have good notes at school and we expect to obtain a good employment, we expect to find the right boy or girl to fall in love with, etc…
So, we become accustom to go through our lives, as they say, almost on a daily basis, expecting something to happen. As we all know, it does not work out that way, does it ? Also it is said, a man who has not got his dreams, what has it got ? Yes, we can all identify with that as well, but is it not ironic that of all the great expectations that man throughout the ages has always looked for and hoped for and worked for and in many cases even died for, already has had within his/her own being the Great Expectancy that anyone can have and hold. I am sure you all know what I am referring to, that’s right your Indwelling Thought Adjuster.
It is so ironic that people’s expectations, in whatever form or guise, are always something outside of themselves or someone outside of themselves. They look for happiness, they look for security in the form of someone or something and they expect to find this. As I mentioned before, people are reaching out for the moon when they already own a Star, it is so ironic and it is also such a tragedy that people are so ignorant and this truth has been denied them simply because of lack of education and the system we are slave to, from the moment we are borned until the moment we die.
Yet, how very fortunate we are, especially people like us who are members of the forum and we have read and studied the Urantia Book and we have gained this most wonderful of knowledge, that in fact it is the achievement of all or any expectation that any human being could aspire to. So, my message this morning is it is not wrong to expect and to have great expectations, but at the same time to realize that now at the very moment, to-day and everyday and every moment, you already have everything and anything that you could possibly expect in your lives.
So, it is not necessary to keep looking outside of yourselves and expecting certain things to happen from him or her. If you are able, and you will be able to accustom yourselves, to be satisfied with what you already have and have had from earliest years, you will find that your expectations grow less and less until finally the day arrives when in fact you don’t have any expectations, you don’t need to expect anything because you already have everything.
Now, you may say and I understand why you may say it that it is much easier said than done or said than experienced, but I can only tell you that what you expect to happen, as you very well know yourself, may or may not come to pass and I suggest to you it would be better to put your faith in something that you already have. Well I think we have said everything that we want to say about great expectations, really I am sure you understand what we are trying to say to you.
I know it is extremely difficult, based on all the problems that you all have on a daily basis, with all the responsibilities, pressures of life, etc…, but we would just like to impart this simple knowledge really that to live in expectancy all the time of something or someone or whatever it is, is bound to leave you terribly disappointed. There is no need to go to everyday experience disappointment. If you are able to be thankful everyday for what you have, then as I say, your expectancy will grow less and less.
So, dear brothers and sisters, I know you all want the same thing, everybody wants to be happy, everyone wants to be successful, everyone needs to be loved, but you must realize you are already loved beyond your comprehension by your Beloved Indwelling Father Fragment. You know that and perhaps you still not really experience it but you will if you trust and faith in Him, it is suffucient and if you stop looking outside of yourselves for what you think you want or need when you already have everything you could possibly need inside you.
So, I would suggest the greatest expectation that you could imagine for yourself would be to walk hand in hand with Him who created you in the first place and be happy with Him. That’s the greatest expectation of all and it is within the grasp of each and everyone of you : the greatest of all expectations. This is Lemuel and I thank you all for listening, I bid you all a good day and talk to you again soon, bye-bye for now. Domtia
