Earthly Lessons — Heavenly Hope

What can we learn from the Urantia Book’s teachings about our ascendant career than can illuminate life’s significance and improve our educational efforts here on earth? And how can we introduce our communities to the ascendant career? "One of the most important lessons to be learned during your mortal career is teamwork. The spheres of perfection are manned by those who have mastered this art of working with other beings. Few are the duties in the universe for the lone servant." [28:5.14] We've spent the last few weeks learning about the inhabited worlds.  Mortal ascenders are all human regardless of how alien their worlds and cultures might seem should we be able to meet them and visit. Most humans are born, learn, wrest a living, and die in less than a hundred years - a very short time from a cosmic perspective. It would be surprising to spend any great length of time here and not learn many truths of living leading to wisdom.  It may not be apparent in any moment or low point in life but we gain many experiences;  which we are sure to discover are universal. In our very next life and the lives that follow, we congregate and meet with these fellow survivors from hundreds of other worlds in our local "neighborhood" with whom we will be in "school." "Those things which you might have learned on earth, but which you failed to learn, must be acquired under the tutelage of these faithful and patient teachers. There are no royal roads, short cuts, or easy paths to Paradise. Irrespective of the individual variations of the route, you master the lessons of one sphere before you proceed to another; at least this is true after you once leave the world of your nativity." [48:5.7] We'll have a few guests calling in. By all means, call in!