[tmtranscripts] Abraham & Emulan 8-7-00

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MEETING WITH ABRAHAM & EMULAN -- MATURE TOOL OF DIVINE POWER
AUGUST 7, 2000
WOODS CROSS GROUP

I am ABRAHAM. Greetings. Your discussion on this topic is branching out with
numerous shoots of new possibilities. I am uplifted by your comments and
willingness to learn. As we learn to embrace the adventure we find ourselves
with new energy to stay the course. Working together as a group enlarges our
capacity to receive divine information, create new ideas and balance our
thinking, yes. Well done.

When I first began teaching I found myself becoming concerned over my
students abilities to learn. I worried that I was an unfit teacher. Progress
seemed slow and my enthusiasm craved immediate results. I learned that in
time my students eventually understood lessons and that it was not part of
my duties to see to their advancement. My duty was to lay out the banquet
before them and it was the students responsibility to partake of what looked
appetizing.

In learning the difference between exhausting your human resources and being
controlling we sometimes must define our duties. As a parent, what are your
duties? As an employee, what are your duties? As a child of God, what are
your duties? What is within your control? Times may arise when you need to
contemplate your rolls as a citizen of Urantia and as a child of the
Kingdom. When you have felt you have performed your duties to the best of
your abilities there is only one task left, and that is in the releasing of
any outcome and acceptance of Father's will.

This week you were to ponder the meaning of relinquishing control for divine
power. In laying down that childish toy of control we will take up the
mature tool of divine power. Many individuals move from a feeling of being
Spirit-led, although they are unsure of the exact feeling, they are with the
best intentions.

I am EMULAN. Greetings friends. There are many examples of divine powers
when one can lay down the need for control. Those that have not want nor
need find the reception for divine information wide-open. They have a
universe of possibilities before them. One who relies upon the will of God
seeks not for themselves, but for the glory of God. Those that need to
control have need to fulfill certain desires. They spend their lives looking
to fulfill these desires.

To have want and need is to make effort to see to it that those things are
fulfilled. Those who perceive their lives are in abundance have gratitude,
and have not so much desire to have wants or desires to keep what they have,
but to spend time in gratitude. It's all training of the mind, my friends.
It's how you perceive life going on around you.

One who has been in a serious car accident may fear driving again. They may
take more precautions, and perhaps buckle their seat belts, or avoid driving
at night, or perhaps avoid driving altogether. Another individual may use
those logical precautions while driving, but feel gratitude for having
survived the accident. In this mode of gratitude they look deeper into the
eyes of their loved ones. They notice the bright and beautiful color of the
sky more. Perhaps they hear the songs of the birds more clear. Therein is
your value and meaning, there is logic, gratitude and abundance--there is an
ear open to God.

Your experiences may shape who you are now, but your reliance upon God will
broaden the vision of who you are becoming. He coordinates meanings and
values to aid you in your adventure. He has so much to show you. With your
need to control He is limited in what He can give you. Allowing natural
evolution is an open door to new beginnings.

How does what you need and want dominate your life? How does that keep you
reaching for that true feeling of abundance, that satisfying feeling of,
"yes, God is with me!" How do we begin to trust that Father knows very well
what we need and want? How will gratitude keep us from being controlling?
Thank you, my friends, I give you back to ABRAHAM.

We thank you, my friend, for your insightful words. Every day we should find
some time to look to our Father and realize what He has done for us. It
would be to our own benefit to give thanks and find some time for worship.

Our Father, we know that you have rallied each one of us to participate in
this epochal upliftment in time and space. You have dared to shine a
beautiful light upon a darkened planet. We know it is only for the love you
have for us, your children, you tend to us personally, as if we were your
only child. We are made to lay down those petty things when we realize your
love and hand in our lives. You are kind and merciful--yet powerful and
corrective. We find we can do all things through you, and that makes us ask
ourselves, "what more could we want?"

While you know all things, you have been patient with us in our blindness.
While you are the origin of all knowledge, you are patient with our
ignorance. While you are everywhere, you have fragmented yourself that we
may know you. We are with great love and gratitude in you. We commit
ourselves to trusting you and glorifying your works. Your perfection gives
us a goal to work towards. We are with excitement that you are our
destination. We will continue to strive to find you and your abundance.
Amen.

This week, my friends, take time to answer Emulan's questions and continue
to contemplate the possibilities of divine power. Find a few moments each
day to worship. That is all. My love is ever with you. Until next week,
shalom.