Influence

Evanson: I would like to play with your word "influence". If we consider the word influence, we can derive a few thoughts such as, to in-fluence another, one need not bear upon the other from the outside, but rather let that flow of the Father within you rise out and present itself. This will create the same reaction within the other.

You have a phrase for social conditions, "breaking the ice." Most of you have experienced clashes in religious thought with other people wherein breaking the ice results only in shattering; it does not contribute to the flow of the Water of Life. Sometimes you must let this fluent of truth melt away that hard, dense rigidity. This requires patience, for, as you know, even ice in a glass of water requires time to fully melt. Michael has referred to himself as the water of life. You are his flue through which he may bring this life, the vitality of spiritual reality, to others. It is not something you grasp in your hand and pass along; it is something you take in and let rise and flow to the without.

Elyon: You are familiar with the pattern that, to truly understand and know, you must take the final step and teach what you know. This, in a sense, cements this knowledge into your vault of experiences. It is required for you to do this, and it is necessary for those to have this done for them.