THE TIGHTROPE WALK BETWEEN COMPROMISE AND CONSEQUENCE

CM through Eve,

4th May 2010

CM, can you comment on compromise and consequence, please?

Hi Eve, CM here. So you want comments not on „pride and prejudice", but on compromise and consequence? Interesting topic to discuss. Besides, I know why you are asking. Nice issues. With which one should we start?

Dunno. I suggest, with what actually comes first into your mind.

Ok, so let me start with painting a picture, a metaphore. Imagine a road, which is the road of your life, the road of situations. You are travelling on this road, and every now an then it happens that you meet something on that road which is demanding action from you before you may travel on. Like e.g. in areas which are living areas with a lot of kids, and the streets are made more narrow there, so that the traffic must slow down and calm to protect the kids. These situations make you slow down your speed to have a discerning look on how to act best. It's a bit like a „just take a break and enter one of the „Inn's" at both sides of your road. Now, regarding your question, there are different types of Inn's along the street. One side of the street has the „Inns of being consequent" and the other side has the „Inns of the compromise" And the decision which one to enter at a specific situation, is the decision of the traveller.

In every situation you meet, there is one Inn which is the better choice of both.

Let's have a closer look on them, starting with COMPROMISE. Now, what is the definition of compromise? A compromise is the result from cooperation, where two different parties find a way to transform the winner/looser game. Both have a different idea of how to handle a situation, but are advanced enough to keep communication alive, to keep being constructive. If a team leader has a certain idea but the team members do not feel comfortable with it, for various reasons, the need for compromising arises. .

The wise team leader hears the concerns, thinks about them and looks for different solutions which might lead to the same result. The correction time is, for example, a period of compromising, between heaven and humanity. I suggest, I am the team leader and I'm wise (anybody laughing?) and I'm aware about my strength and responsibility for my creation and I don't need to demonstrate my strength by suppressing the people on this planet below my will. I prefer to work it out, so that you do understand the why's. Whithout blaming anybody I want to point out that we had many, many sessions of brainstorming about what to do with this quarantined planet.

And there have been participants in the team and advisors, who suggested not to make compromises but to be consequent. What would have meant that in this case? It would have meant to allow a turnover by pole shift and a new seeding of Urantia, to make sure that the rotton crops would have been eliminated. Unfortunately, this being consequent would also have eliminated some of the nice and promising crops, as everything has several sides to be observed from. There were sessions in which I was the only one pleading for a new path and for making a compromise. This opinion was a single outpost, as single and lonely as many of you feel while they are standing in as the lighthouses of Christ. But I am strong enough to plead for this compromise and I don't care how many were disappointed that I wanted this compromise and decided to be like this girl in your tale, which has to separate the good lens from the bad ones - which is indeed time consuming - with the assistance of the doves which finally speeded the process up. . The doves in this tale are standing for Nebadonia, the celestial mother spirit, and with her assistance, which I definitely have, everything can be successful.

So, CM, one could say that you have been consequently pleading for a compromise?

LOL! Somehow, yes. The good thing on a compromise is that it burns less bridges behind you. The compromise of the correction time could be implemented, because I succeeded in convincing the others that it was the correct way to go, and my final and main argument was my divine love for my creation. There was none in the team which had not realized the importance of love in the big show, and so we finally decided to make the compromise of the correction time, also as an experiment for handling further situations in the future. See, Eve, I was simply unable to leave my faithful ones down there, stuck in the mud and density, finally beamed out with the message that the project failed. Every single one of you went being incarnate on Urantia with so much hope and with a heart fully committed in service. Which father would not try every possibility to change a situation of loss into a situation of success for his children. Even the eternal father might have been many times be astonished about my extraordinary ideas, but finally he is still convinced that I am a „good boy".

Now that you have mentionned consequence, let's go on with that.Generally speaking, consequence can be an attribute of a strong character but it can also be very harmful, if it's the only headline of someone's path of life. Consequence is often like an icebreaker ship making it's way against all resistance. If consequence is being acted out without loving communication and the preparedness for eventual compromising, it is likely to burn bridges behind, making a path of no return. There are people with a strong character, going their way by consequently entering the Inn's of consequence, and not spending a single look at the Inn of compromise on the other side. If this philosophy of life - called consequence - is missing the preparedness to compromise - for example in order to strengthen a geater mission prioritized higher than the needs of the lower ego incarnate - consequence changes to stubbornness and is no longer an attribute of a divine and strong character.

I have - as the creator son and your father - heard many times that you ones down in the density asked me for being consequent - for pressing the button, finally, to send the disturbers out to face their bills to pay.

Yes, dear ones, this is what is going to happen, and what already does happen, as when offers are being rejected and compromising - just like in case of the dark ones - finally fails - consequence is the only way left.

Being in a position of leadership you will never succeed to make all being happy with what you decide. If you are consequent others will blame you that you are not compromising, and if you are compromising you will be blamed for not being consequent. So the point is to make a decision about how to handle a situation and to stand in for it, and although having pondered about it in detail already - to still remain open for new views.

Back to the team sessions discussing the correction time - I had many times pondered about the consequences of being consequent - what finally made me insist consequently on a compromise is nothing else than love, great love, and mercy, for my dear children and this beloved planet. Some may call it weakness, but from my point of view it's strength, to seek a compromise, to go and try new ways to go. As longe as there is still one loving soul on Urantia, it's absolutely worth compromising.

But I will also tell you about a situation in which being consequent is the only acceptable way to act: As long as you are moving within a field of serving the Divine with a pure heart you may always allow compromises, but the BIG QUESTION is: WHOM DO YOU SERVE? Do you serve the Evil or the Divine? If sombody tries to convince you to serve the Evil, consequence and NOT SURRENDERING TO THE EVIL is the only choice, a short and compact comment and I hope you get what I mean.

All in all as well consequence and compromises are needed on your path of life, but you must make sure that you do not become the slave of either the one or the other. Too much compromising can be as harmful as being too consequent. When somebody stops playing in a team - just to match his ideal of being consequent - he is not a team player any more.

May I point out that the future belongs to the ones who are able to play in a team.

Communication must always work. There are people who are feeling superior to have a better way to go, they are cutting off communication and separate themselves off - and they call it being consequent. But what is of greater worth for the mission - a lot of separated and „consequent" individuals" - or team players who connect under a common denominator, while they are still respecting different views, but indeed have the same ideas about the higher goal?

Lucifer was - in his individual way to act out his rebellion - consequent. He was even consequent in his last decision to reject the compromise of coming home. Compromising could well have been the cure for his failure of being consequent in his rebellion, as well as my being consequent in cleaning up the mess he caused is the cure finally for this planet and civilization which had to be compromising for so long. I would call Lucifer stubborn, if he had just agreed to come home, he could have made a mighty contribution of balancing the mess he created. Now he is gone from creation, but his memory is not. Indeed he now serves in a different way - by being a master example in many ways. He was my dear son although he created this big mess, and it was very hard to let him go.

Deciding what to play out in which situation will always be an individual tightropewalk. There is a time to compromise and there is a time to be consequent. Even in my job of running a universe.

It is surely difficult to make the right decisions in the density of a material ex-quarantine planet, but becoming successful on this difficult terrain makes you well trained for running the universes of your life.

Coming back to the definition of what is a strong character. I will not sign the statement that being consequent is always a sign for a strong character. It also demands a strong character to be compromising.( On Urantia people say that strong men do not cry. But I tell you: Only strong men do have the heart to show their tears and to look at their emotions. ) And as well it might just be a reason to escape from a situation of homework if one withdraws, telling the others he was simply consequent.

Equal which problems do arise in your life: LEAVE THE DOOR OPEN FOR COMMUNICATION!

I would define a strong character as one who is able to smile about himself and to serve the mission before serving his personal issues, and as one who is able to handle consequence and compromise for the benefit of the divine plan and unity.

Ok, CM, I will work on that.

GRIN. I hope that this statements adds to clarify things to people. No further comment.

Feel free, besides, to add a smiley!

But you bet! Bye, CM.

Salu, dear.