There is always one moment in childhood, when the door opens and lets in the future. When Jesus Christ is here, everything is good and nothing is hard. However, when He is gone, everything seems to lumber. When we do not hear His voice, we quickly grow numb. However, when we Hear His voice in the next room, we are atingle again. Remember that passage in the Gospel of John (11.28) where Mary Magdalene was crying? When Martha said o her, “The Master’s here and asking for you,” did she not leave her tears behind and rush out to greet Him? It is a happy moment when Jesus calls us from tears of joy! Without Him it is amazing how everything goes awry! And to long for someone, something, instead of Jesus—this is a loss, a greater loss than if you would have destroyed the World. Jesus alone excepted, what can the World confer on you, and why would you want it? To be without Jesus is harsh, even hellish, but to be with Him, according to Romans (8.31), is paradise, sweet paradise. When He is with you, he makes your enemies think twice. Finding Jesus is a little like stumbling onto hidden treasure; that is to say, the Good beyond all good. Losing Jesus is a lot like misplacing all that treasure; that is to say, forgetting where you found God in the first place. Surely there is a moral in here somewhere. Pitifully poor is the person who lives without Jesus Christ, and extravagantly rich is the one who is well with Jesus. It takes a lot of practice to carry on a conversation with Jesus Christ, and a fair amount of knowledge to keep up with Him. However, do look Him in the eye, yet be respectful. Listen closely, and He will have no trouble talking with you. #RandolphHarris 1 of 18

The one thing, though, that will make Jesus yawn, then excuse Himself, is your sitting Him down to tell Him all about the wonderfulness of each and every one of your seemingly endless material possessions. Your chitter-chatter will simply drive Him away; then you will be friendless. Without friends no one can survive, and if Jesus is not first among your friends, you will be, if I may paraphrase John (6.68), a desolate duck. The moral? When you can have Jesus as your friend, to confine in and enjoy the company of some other person—that is a very foolish thing. The choice is yours, of course, and no matter whom you choose, you are going to make someone hopping mad. So who is it going to be, the World or Jesus? Of all the things you hold dear, let Jesus be your choice, your One True Friend. Jesus should be loved for who He is—everyone knows that. And because He is who He is, everyone else should also be loved. Only Jesus Christ is in this singular position of being loved and yet letting others love each other. He alone, Good and Faithful Fellow that He is, is found to be preeminent among friends. Because of Him and in Him you associate with a variety of people, friends as well as enemies. In behalf of all these He must be beseeched that they may come to know and love Him. As for yourself, never desire to be singled out for praise or love. That, according to Jeremiah (10.60), is for God alone, who has no one like Himself. Two mistakes your heart makes. Do not wish that someone like yourself should monopolize your thought and conversations; and do not occupy yourself with the care and attention of a friend like yourself. #RandolphHarris 2 of 18

One recommendation your heart should follow. Jus let Jesus come visit you and every other good human being. Dust up and empty out that place within, and do not leave behind any fur balls. Strip bare your soul, and purify your heart first; then you will have some time to see how sweet the Lord is. Truth to tell, you will not arrive at this blessed state until, atiptoe and akimbo, you are drawn to it by Prevenient Grace. “Do not work for the food that perishes but for the food that endures for eternal life, which the Son of Man will give you. For it is on him that God the Father has set His seal,” reports John 6.27. Everything having been cleared out and freed up, you are finally alone with the Alone. When the grace of God comes, then Humanity has the potency, as the Schoolmen would say, to do all things. When it goes, Humanity is left limp as a lash. In any instance like this, you should not become dejected or desperate. Rather, you should stand up straight for the will of God and suffer all the slings and arrows for the praise of Jesus Christ. The moral? After winter, the spring. After night, the day. After storm, the calm. Even with the first feelings of this peace-brining awareness, one should be careful, first, not to ignore them but on the contrary recognize that their importance exists in what they lead up to and, second, to let oneself be carried away gently by them. The first one must do quickly but the second slowly. In this experience, the more one can let oneself be lost in the feeling of ecstatic peace and egoless understanding, opening one’s total personality to it, the more will it become a milestone on one’s road. As such one will look for its inspiration again and again in memory. #RandolphHarris 3 of 18

Sometimes it is necessary to rest a little while to take in more fully the sacred Presence one becomes aware of. Sometimes sleep must be sacrificed to let the glimpse become more than a flash, to let it expand and settle a while in all its healing serenity. This is important, for it is a special opportunity although seldom understood at its true value. Acknowledge the inner call when it comes by simply dropping whatever you are doing and relaxing, be it for a minute, or a half-hour. Let consciousness turn away from the World to Consciousness, attend to Attention, but do it all passively, receptively. The glimpse may open delicately, quietly, even faintly; but if we give it the full patient attention which it deserves, it can grow and grow into a great vision. These glimpses do not come often enough to be treated casually. Their importance is easily missed in their subtle outset, but the intuitive mind will begin to learn to recognize the signs of those beginnings, to consider them sacred, and to let them do their work unhindered. This work is something like a magician’s throwing of a spell over the mind. The beginnings of a glimpse may be vauge, dreamlike, faintly suggestive; but if we let it work and remain passive it will grow into a vivid consciousness, peaceful or joyful, wise and strengthening. Surrender to it as a piece of music. Let it take possession of you while it last, for it will not last. The music reaches its finale and so does the glimpse. The oscillation that is life in the body, the movement to-and-fro between the pairs of opposites, cannot be kept still, inoperative, for more than a fraction of time. When the glimpse starts, it is best to remain still, and in the same bodily position whether sitting or standing, with eyes fixed at the same point. #RandolphHarris 4 of 18

The feeling may be so slight at first that it may easily remain unrecognized for what it is. However, if one pauses in whatever one is doing at the time, and gives heed, it will become stronger and stronger. Anyone who is just beginning to feel this presence, however, briefly and intermittently, needs to learn how to guard one’s feeling against large dangers and small encroachments, or it will quickly be killed. Socrates had entered a battlefield along with his friends when suddenly and unexpectedly he caught his breath because he found himself falling into a spiritual Glimpse. It was so wonderful an experience the he denied all others calls on his time and so sunk deeper and deeper into the glimpse. It was not until twenty-four hours later that the glimpse came to an end of itself. There is a lesson here. Such a chance may not repeat itself, it may not be possible to get it again. Advantage should be taken of it because of its all-importance. No one knows how deep the absorption of a glimpse will carry one nor how long a time there will be before it comes to an end. The moment one feels this inner hush, the possibility of developing it is presented to one. However, will one use it? Or will one ignore it and thus remain unmindful of one’s divine source? The glimpse is too delicate and too elusive to be held by force. Those first delicate feelings which betoken the Glimpse must be accepted at once or they may quickly retire and vanish altogether. Be passive and let in the Glimpse. For a while one loses one’s self-identity but the event happens as if it were quite natural. When this mood comes upon one, one ought to chain oneself to it. #RandolphHarris 5 of 18

One should appreciate the worth of these moments and not let them slip by without giving oneself up wholly to them. Much is being said of deep crime which darkens Heaven’s windows. We shudder at immoralities which terrify us. “But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret; and they Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly,” reports Matthew 6.6. You may sometimes feel invisible as you serve and sacrifice behind the scenes, but our Father in Heaven knows and loves you for what you are doing with great faith within the walls of your own home. You can depend on His promise that what you do in secret will be rewarded openly. When such moments of grace come to one, one should appraise them at their real worth and not turn away to the next activity. Rather should one pause from all activities and wait with hushed thoughts, watchfully, patiently, reverently. If the signals show the probability of an impending glimpse, it is an error to neglect them just because one is preoccupied with something. Better to lay aside the immediate activity and wait, relaxed and receptive, to welcome the likely visitation. One should catch such moments just when they are there and not let them vanish into nothing through inattention or failure to recognize their importance. One should pause at the first faint impression that something unusual and lofty is happening to one, should stay just where one is, stilled into inaction like Socrates standing motionless in the battlefield. #RandolphHarris 6 of 18

In other words, all one has to do at such a moment is receive passively: no other action is needed. Thoughts of any other topic, however elevated in character, would get in the way of such reception: so one should ignore them. The glimpse or Grace bestowed on one, whether by a teacher or by God, must be fully utilized and fully recognized for the opportunity, guidance, help, and inspiration that it is. Otherwise, it will remain only transient emotional experience, which has left behind a tantalizing saddening memory of a joy one is unable to catch again. The espionage agent is one of the most powerful metaphors of our time. No other figure has so successfully captured the contemporary imagination. Films by the hundred glorify 007 and his brash counterparts. Television and paperbacks churn out endless images of the spy as daring, romantic, amoral, larger (or smaller) than life. Governments, meanwhile, spend billions on espionage. Agents of the KGB, the CIA, and a score of other intelligence agencies trip over one another from Berlin to Beirut, from Macao to Mexico City. In Moscow, western correspondents are accused of spying. In Bonn, chancellors fall because spies infest their ministries. In Washington, congressional investigators simultaneously expose the misdeeds of secret agents, American and Korean, while above, the sky itself is filled with spy satellites apparently photographing every inch of the Earth. #RandolphHarris 7 of 18

The spy is hardly new to history. It is worth asking, therefore, why at this particular moment the theme of espionage has come to dominate the popular imagination, throwing even private eyes, cops, and cowboys into the shadow. When we do ask, we immediately notice one important difference between the spy and these other culture heroes: While fictional policemen and cowboys rely on mere pistols or their bare fists, the fictional spy comes equipped with the latest, most exotic technology—electronic bugs, banks of computers, infrared cameras, cars that fly or swim, helicopters, one-man submarines, death rays, and the like. There is, however, a deeper reason for the rise of the spy. Cowboys, cops, private eyes, adventurers, and explorers—the traditional heroes of print and celluloid—typically pursue the tangible: hey want land for cattle, they want money, they want to capture the crook or gain the girl. Not so the spy. For the spy’s basic business is information—and information has become perhaps the World’s fastest growing and most important business. The spy is a living symbol of the revolution now sweeping the info-sphere. As for paternal authority, from which several have derived absolute government and all society, it is enough, without having recourse to contrary proofs of Locke and Sidney, to note that nothing in the World is father from the ferocious spirit of despotism than the gentleness of that authority which looks more to the advantage of the one who obeys than to the utility of the one who commands; that by the law of nature, the father is master of the child as long as his help is necessary; that beyond this point they become equals, and the son, completely independent of the father, then owes him merely respect and not obedience; for gratitude is clearly a duty that must be rendered, but not a right that can be demanded. #RandolphHarris 8 of 18

Instead of saying that civil society derives from paternal power, on the contrary it must be said that it is from civil society that this power draws its principal force. An individual was not recognized as the father of several children until the children remained gathered about him. The goods of the father, of which he is truly that master, are the goods that keep his children in a sate of dependence toward him, and he can cause their receiving a share in his estate to be consequent upon the extent to which they will have well merited it from him by continuous deference to his wishes. Now, far from having some similar favour to expect from their despot (since they belong to him as personal possession—they and all they possess—or at least he claims this to be the case), subjects are reduced to receiving as a favour what one leaves them of their goods. He does what is just when he despoils them; he does them a favour when he allows them to live. When it comes to many suburban communities, they are still not very diverse. Many non-European Americans still remain invisible. Like in Tuxedo Park, New York USA. Nevertheless, in spite of considerable research over the past three decades on the suburbanization or non-European Americans, the popular assumption remains that all suburbs are segregated, and that suburbanites, by definition are very fair-skinned. Asians, Hispanics, and African Americans are expected to be city dwellers. The common assumption sees to be that African American suburbanites are exceptions to the urban norm and, in any case, few in number. The media, whether through news magazines or television, involuntarily contribute to this stereotype by almost invariably presenting African Americans as living in the inner city. #RandolphHarris 9 of 18

It is often forgotten how large and diverse is the African American population. As of 2019, African Americans totaled some 42 million people (12.5 percent of the population). The American African American population is larger than all the entire population of Canada. Of the 42 million African Americans in the United States of America, 17 million (40 percent) live in the suburbs, 9.2 million (or 22 percent) live in the central city. African American suburbanization is substantial and widespread. Today, African American suburbanism is a social reality; it is not simply a footnote to European America suburbanization. In general, African American population growth is occurring where European American growth is occurring. Regionally, this means the fastest growing African American suburbs are in the sunbelt. The four most populous states for African Americans are (California, New York, Texas, and Florida) are the same as the top for European Americans. As followers of Christ, we should live peacefully with others who do not share our values or accept the teachings upon which they are based. Why is it so difficult to have Christlike love for one another? It is difficult because we must live among those who do not share our beliefs and values and covenant obligations. In His great Intercessory Prayer, offered just before His Crucifixion, Jesus Christ prayed for His followers: “I have given them thy word; and the World hath hated them, because they are not of the World, even as I am not of the World,” reports John 17.14. We are to live in the World but not be of the World. We must live in the World because, as Jesus taught in a parable, His Kingdom is “like leaven,” whose function is to raise the whole mass by its influence. #RandolphHarris 10 of 18

Of all the gifts his maker has bestowed upon man, none is more precious than his ability to love another. Jesus taught that there should be no disputations among His people, as there have hitherto been; neither shall there be disputations among us concerning the points of His doctrine, as here have hitherto been. How might people with different personality-structures differ in the response to life? When messages come to the more loosely-organized person, they are likely to be incorporated in the immediately relevant region in an appropriate way. However, the messages would have to be relatively strong and exciting to reach the more remote regions, those which are linked only rather tenuously with the region where they were first received. Their effect is localized. Such people can “shrug things off.” By contrast, when messages come to the more tightly-integrated person, they will eventually reach all the self-regions since there are fewer tenuous splits or tenuous links. The strength of loosely-organized people lies in their ability to concentrate on one thing at a time, undistracted by considerations they consider irrelevant—headaches, fears, sorrows, whatever. On the other hand, the strength of tightly-integrated people lies in the wholeness of the response of their entire personality to the totality of the situation—they have no cut-off regions. While a loosely-organized person is, therefore, likely to be quicker off the mark in a more focused way, and to respond more quickly and more definitely—often regarded as a mark of high intelligence—the response might not be as solidly based as that of a person in whose experience everything ties in with everything else. #RandolphHarris 11 of 18

What an experience means to us depends on the context in which it happens, the context being the regions which surround the one where it is happening. This is the more true in an in an integrated structure. In a tightly-integrated personality, a distressed region is closely connected. If a painful thing happens to a tightly-integrated and on the whole happy person, the pain will be absorbed to some extent by the relative well-being of the surrounding regions. Tightly-integrated and on the whole unhappy people will be very vulnerable. When a painful thing happens to them the pain will spread throughout the already unhappy regions which are the context for the latest increment of hurt. Tightly-integrated people are likely to feel loss very acutely. They are attached more deeply and wholeheartedly, both to people and to particular things. The pain of a loss would permeate the whole self. They might be permanently mildly depressed, unable to recover from one blow before the next falls—life is not east. The attachments of more loosely-organized people may be as strong and deep but there are fewer tendrils, so to speak: fewer regions of the personality are involved. The pain of loss, though as intensely experienced, would be more localized and more easily set aside for a while. On the other hand tightly-integrated people would find more comfort in the attachments which were still in being, whose comforting effect would permeate the whole as much as, and at the same time as, the hurt. The context makes the pain more bearable. Who we are and what we will become are determined by our actions; but are those actions planting the seeds for development, or dispersion? #RandolphHarris 12 of 18

Split-off centers off consciousness mark the extremely loosely organized, extremely schizoid personality. This has practical consequences for those who have an interest in evaluating or diagnosing or categorizing people whose difficulties in living are largely attributable to their personality. Such categories as “narcissistic,” “schizophrenic,” “withdrawn,” and “paranoid” can be regarded as referring to the states of mind in which other regions are kept split off. The problem for the therapist is to find ways which make it possible for a person’s consciousness to hold and carry what seem to be mutually exclusive states of mind, to make connections, for instance, between arrogant selfish “narcissistic” expressions of the personality, and more depressed and vulnerable regions. There are times when there is nothing that can be said or written by another that would be useful in helping to lead one out of one’s apparent spiritual stagnation. It may be something in one’s way of living or what one eats or drinks which is contributing to the stagnation. The practice of rigid self-denial of pleasures helps to bring one’s lower nature under control. With the work of translation completed, Joseph and Oliver began to winder about the promise the Angel had made to them at the time they were baptized and the Aaronic priesthood was conferred upon them. At that time, the Angel had promised if they continued to be faithful, they should later receive the Melchisedec priesthood with power and authority of laying on of hands for the gift of the Holy Spirit. For some time, they made this a matter of prayer. #RandolphHarris 13 of 18

One day in June of 1829 while they were praying at the Whiter home, the word of the Lord came to them that Joseph should ordain Oliver an elder in the Church of Jesus Christ, and that Oliver should ordain Joseph to the same office. Others were to be ordained as it should be made known to them for time to time. However, they were instructed to wait before ordaining each other until all those who had been baptized could meet together. At this meeting Joseph and Oliver should ask those assembled to vote whether or not they would be willing to accept them as their spiritual leaders. If the people voted “yes,” then Joseph and Oliver were to bless bread, break it, and eat it with the others. They were to take beverage and bless it and drink it with them. Then they were to ordain each other. When this had been done, they were instructed that they should lay on hands for the gift of the Holy Spirit on all who had been baptized, and as they were directed by the Holy Spirit they should call and ordain others to the priesthood. It is important that God made provisions that the people of his church should vote for those who would be their leaders. God knows what is best for His people, and He knows who should be their leader. Yet God is just, and will not force anyone to do His will. The Lord gives people their choice in all things. This was a wonderful experience for Joseph and Oliver. The Lord had answered their prayers. Jesus’ promise was true when He said, “Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you.” #RandolphHarris 14 of 18

At the same time that the command came for them to ordain each other, a revelation was given concerning the choosing of the twelve apostles. The Lord said: Behold, I command all humans everywhere to repent. Remember, the worth of souls is great in the sigh of God; for, behold, the Lord your Redeemer suffered death that all humans might repent and come unto Him. And He hath risen again from the dead, that He might bring all humans unto Him on conditions of repentance. And how great is His joy in the soul that repenteth. Wherefore you are called to cry repentance unto this people. And if it so be that you should labour all your days, in crying repentance unto this people, and bring save it be one soul unto me, how great shall be your joy with one in the Kingdom of my Father! And now, if your joy will be great with one soul that you have brought unto me into the kingdom of my Father, how great will be your joy, if you should bring many souls unto me! Behold, you have my gospel before you, and my Rock, and my salvation. Take upon you the name of Christ, and speak the truth in soberness; and as many as repent, and are baptized in my name, which is Jesus Christ, and endure to the end, the same shall be saved. Behold, Jesus Christ is the name which is given of the Father, and there is none other name given whereby humans can be saved. There are others who are called to declare my gospel, even twelve; and the twelve shall be my disciples, and they shall take upon them my name. The twelve are called to go into all the World to preach my gospel unto every creature. #RandolphHarris 15 of 18

Keep my commandments in all things; and by your hands I will work a marvelous work among the children of humans, unto the convincing of many of their sins, that they may come unto repentance, and that they may come unto the Kingdom of my Father. With these wonderful words of the Lord ringing in heir ears, Joseph, Oliver, and David determined to do the work of Jesus among the people of the Earth and to let nothing prevent them from doing that which they knew the Lord wanted them to do. Let as always remember, as we sew, so shall we reap. “All of my work has been directed toward myself,” said Jung; “all of the books are but by-products of an intimate process of individuation.” Those psychoanalysis like Dr. Freud who find no Overself but only complexes in the human being are outgrown by those like Dr. Jung who do find this holy core. Those who get into the hands of many psychoanalysts are likey to stay in their hands forever or until the requisite fees can no longer be afforded. Psychoanalysis has harmed patients by its stirring-up of muddy water that would have been better cleared of their dirt; by its pose as a strict science when it is only a fanciful pseudoscience; and by its narrow biased and misleading explanation of religion, which substitutes worship of the body’s pleasures of the flesh instinct for worship of the Universe’s higher power. Even the introversion which it so greatly excoriates as bad, is so only when it is unwilling and unable to fasten its interest on anything outside the small circle of its petty ego. Otherwise, it unfolds the capacity to intuit directly, to think metaphysically, and to meditate spiritually. #RandolphHarris 16 of 18

There can be danger in the patient evading the necessary work upon oneself and one’s character by using methods as seeming shortcuts to a very real goal. However, much danger could also be eliminated by avoiding too much harping upon the unhappy childhood or adolescence of a person, or upon one’s adult experiences, all in the name of psychoanalysis, is a mistake. The negative things in a person’s past should be impersonally examined, the lessons in them carefully extracted, and then one should be done with it. It is better for the analysts to life one up than to keep on pressing one down in this way. Similarly, the idea of writing down one’s past—whether in a diary or a book—to act as a safety valve and get rid of it, is erroneous. It merely makes the past more powerful when it ought to be forgotten. A more beneficial attitude to the present and the future ought to be built up, and this is not to be done by dwelling on the miserable periods of the past. The psychoanalysts have made it fashionable to search for a guilt complex, or to invent one if it is non-existent, and then to get rid of it as something utterly detestable harmful, and evil. Yet insofar as it humbles its possessor, it may render a necessary and even beneficial service. Its opposite number, the smug self-righteous assurance that one is quite a fine fellow, may lead a person just as much into detestable and harmful ways. Grandfather, look at our brokenness. We know that in all creation only the human family has strayed from the Sacred Way. We know that we are the ones who must come back together to walk in the Sacred Way. #RandolphHarris 17 of 18

Grandfather, Sacred One, please teach us love, compassion, and honour that we may heal the Earth and heal each other. Please remember us this day, O Lord our God, for our good, and please be mindful of us for a life of blessing. With Thy promise of salvation and mercy, deliver us and please be gracious unto us, please have compassion upon us and please save us. Unto Thee do we lift our eyes for Thou art a gracious and merciful Go and King. Please remember us this day, O Lord our God, for our good, and be mindful of u for a life of blessing. With Thy promise of salvation and mercy, please deliver us, have compassion upon us and please save us. Unto Thee do we lift our eyes for Thou art a gracious and merciful God and King. O Lord our God, please bestow upon us the blessing of Thy festivals for life and peace, for joy and gladness, even as Thou hast graciously promised to bless us. [Our God and God of our fathers, please accept our rest.] Please Sanctify us through Thy commandments, and please grant our portion in Thy Torah; please give us abundantly of Thy goodness and please make us rejoice in Thy salvation. Please purify our hearts to serve Thee in truth. In Thy loving favour, O Lord our God, please let us inherit with joy and gladness Thy holy [Sabbath and] festivals; and may America who sanctifies Thy name, rejoice in Thee. Blessed art Thou, O Lord, who hallowest [the Sabbath and] America and the seasons. O Lord our God, be gracious unto Thy people America and accept their prayer. Please restore worship to Thy sanctuary and receive in love the supplication of America; and may the worship of Thy people be ever acceptable unto Thee. #RandolphHarris 18 of 18

CRESLEIGH MEADOWS AT PLUMAS RANCH

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Cresleigh Meadows is now selling! Found just north of Feather River Boulevard, Cresleigh Meadows is home of the largest neighborhood in Plumas Ranch as well as the popular Bear River Park. With four floor plans available, ranging from approximately 2,000 – 3,500 square feet offering, three to five bedrooms, we are certain you will find the home that fits your needs and lifestyle.

Popular design elements include open floor plans, large kitchen islands, and flex spaces are staples in Cresleigh homes. Multi-generational living options also available in select homes.

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Residence Three is the largest of the single story homes offered in Cresleigh Riverside. At 2,781 square feet you’ll be hard pressed to find a contemporary floorplan that offers this much space. There are four bedrooms, three and one half bathrooms, including a multi-generational living option with separate bedroom suite with kitchenette, and a three car garage. The Dining Room and Kitchen are well situated to make entertaining a breeze.

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