Now, a lady wrote me a wonderful letter last Monday night and I must share it with you. It’s dated the 11th, so she wrote it undoubtedly from here, it’s all in pencil. She said, “I found myself in a dream,” so it would be the night before, “I found myself in a schoolyard waiting for my husband, Ray. Now, all of the fathers had to come via an obstacle course. When the fathers arrived, the children became animated.” They had to come via an obstacle course. When the fathers arrived, the children became animated. When Paul is departing from this world, he writes in his letter to Timothy, “I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith. There is now laid up for me the crown of righteousness” . It is a race, but the race is an obstacle race. It is life: life is an obstacle race. And the fathers are coming back. We are the fathers, may I tell you, all of us are the fathers, and put us all together, without one missing, we form the Lord. For the word Elohim is a compound unity. That’s what the word means “one made up of others.” We are the one who fell and became fragmented and all separated into this fantastic experience; then all are gathered together, one by one, to unite into a single man who is God. So the fathers have come back, but as they come they must come via an obstacle race, and when they come the children become animated. Isn’t that a marvelous experience! So I want to thank her and I want to thank my friend for her wonderful story, the story I told tonight.363 ¶28