[tmtranscripts] Abraham 2-3-02

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ABRAHAM -- BALANCED LIVING
FEBRUARY 3, 2002
WOODS CROSS GROUP

I am ABRAHAM. There is quite a splendid light emanating from this room. Even
though life's difficulties and turmoil may create confusion you are finding
enough strength to return to your Spiritual foundation, yes. There is no
doubt we have a bond with one another and have a great deal of influence
over one another. In these times it is critical to find inner peace that
leads to rational solutions and spiritual fruits, instead of irreparable
damage and Spirit poisons.

It is wonderful to know that when the world seems to be falling down around
you, you have your brothers and sisters to help lift your faith and hope.
Around your family you need not make excuses for your personality makeup,
no, because a real and solidified family loves you as you are. There is no
need for hiding the true self, because all know that they are accepted as
is.

You will have your lessons together, children, yes, but take full advantage
of your training and incorporate those truths that you have learned to use
with one another. You are not infants in the Kingdom, no. You have more
responsibility as an apostles to settle your dealings with the highest truth
and honor. Emotionalism is understandable, but your training goes far beyond
the damage emotionalism can do.

Please take the opportunity to practice on one another your newly forming
spiritual developments. Many of you will be instructing new Kingdom
believers, yes, and your skills here in this group, socially and
spiritually, will make all the difference whether you aid a fellow towards
finding his inner light, or produce so much light that they are blinded.

I would take a few moments to discuss the purpose of restful worship. It has
been some time since we have discussed this topic and worship is crucial in
balanced living. In this incessant world of activity there is always one
thing or another that pulls you from Spirit. It is not sinful, no, but
really quite natural and to be expected as long as you possess a material
body.

Lets talk about attachments. As mortals, you all need to fulfill certain
satisfactions that bring balance to all aspects of living: physical, mental
and spiritual. Everybody has longings, desires and needs. As young, and
perhaps immature spirits, we strive for our desires and longings. We strived
for temporary gratification that helped to suffice whatever craving we had
at the time, never often giving much thought to a long-term outcome.

We, perhaps most all of us, can say that satisfying the present desire now
is not always what is best in the long run. To have our needs and desires
met we exhaust our human resources, doing what we have to to find
contentment, or even at the least, a neutral feeling of non-pain. Many will
search down various avenues of attachment. We have chemical addiction, food
addiction, even addiction to money, and these attachments become our focus
for what we strive for. These attachments become our first source and
center -- yes, our god.

When you think of worship, would you outright display an affectionate
worship for money? Would drugs and alcohol bring you the longing for love
and acceptance you have within? Would you worship a meal in which you are
hoping to be fulfilled emotionally from? No, of course not. When we worship
we worship the Source of all there is. We worship the Source that can bring
us the deeper, long term gratification's. We worship to show gratitude to a
Caretaker for our own benefit of receiving awareness for His presence.

He needs not our praise, no. He cannot be manipulated with glorious
flattery, no. We worship our First Source and Center, our Father of fathers,
to bring our focus back to our Parent/child relationship with Him. In that
relationship there is the really indescribable feelings of well being,
knowledge that 'no matter what befalls me, I will ever be sustained.'

Children, when we can find a few moments every day to tell Father, 'I know
you are here. I know you work for my good and the good of the whole. I know
nothing is impossible with you. I recognize you as my Father and Source of
all that is True, Beautiful and Good.' That is energy. That is power, my
friends. That is live thoughts going out only to come back with beautiful
repercussions. Can that happen with a material source like money or some
other attachment? No. Where are your attachments? Where does your treasure
lie? Can you find freedom from attachment in worship? Do you agree that
there is tremendous peace in non-attachment? Yes, freedom and confidence to
move in the world with purpose.

This Teaching Mission's participants have a great deal of responsibility to
be ambassadors leading into the stages of Light and Life. Your best methods
of teaching are to set good examples. You cannot go about dishonest deeds
and expect to win souls for the Kingdom. You will have a difficult time
being liberated from material attachments when you cannot put your focus on
the Source of all there is.

Yes, material needs must be met, no doubt, but the best way to meet those
material needs is to go first to Father and put Him as your focus, and watch
your living thought-energy come back as wonderful divine repercussions.
Allow not the worldly attachments to take you from your apostolic
responsibility. Find time to have a quiet worship, a moment of gratitude to
reclaim your focus, your freedom and your personal power. On worlds settled
in Light and Life worship is as common as breathing or eating. It is not a
chore to be dreaded, no. It is a connection to divine energy and solutions
for living.

In this mortal life pain is inevitable, but you do possess the tools to
become better by pain, not embittered. The good practice of worship dissects
pain into pearls of wisdom. Through the practice of worship refocus' you on
the values and meanings you need for new growth. A few questions.

CALVIN: We welcome our new guests this evening, Adam and Jackie. Pertaining
to the lesson, Abraham, would our relationship-attachments be in the same
category as material attachments?

ABRAHAM: That is quite possibly dangerous territory right now. First of all,
welcome to you, our new visitors. Yes, my son, you can include various
relationships in with material attachments. There are indeed lessons to be
learned from one another, and it is through interaction that you learn the
most about who you really are. Even an abused child will cling to its source
of abuse, because that is all he has known, that is his pattern, that is
what he has become accustomed to. It would take a mighty upset to sever this
bond to create new ones. This is difficult to speak on, for I had my own
attachment to Sarah that proved to be seemingly all for nothing, except for
the fact that I had learned all my worry and focus went towards her and I
lost not only Father, but myself. In the practice of worship you can rally
your focus back to a healthy standpoint, and know that all unhealthy
attachment brings with it more pain than joy. Yes, a good question.

ANGIE: My daughter turned three today and lately she has been with my
parents and she wants to pray the way my parents do the more formal set
prayer. We don't want to teach her that, but what would you recommend?

ABRAHAM: Certainly. The traditional way of prayer is not really so harmful
as it just loses meaning with time. The best way to teach a child to pray is
to show her she can talk to Father just like she can talk to you, just as
she can talk to a friend, a beloved companion, that Father is down on her
level, in her heart--not on a great throne in the sky. Children of today
have many role models, but the best role models are those that have a role
that a child can have hope of attaining. You must make God reachable to the
child.

BOB: Abraham, I just recently came back from a visit with my daughter in
Florida. We attended a worship service and one of the things that takes
place was a little puzzling to me. It was the situation where people are
saying they are experiencing the Holy Spirit, collapsing to the floor. While
standing there in the church I am sure everyone wanted me to experience
that, and of course if that is something I need to experience, I would like
to. If you could help me with a little understanding about that I would
appreciate it.

ABRAHAM: Certainly. The religions down through the years have tried to make
faith something you can see with your eyes. Just knowing through experience
and spiritual practice was not satisfactory and special practices were
developed, special signs, symbols, rituals. This is nothing more than an
outward show of attempting to gain an inward feeling. It is not so much
harmful, no, and everyone will receive out it their measure of faith that
they put into it. Those that believe in that practice--it is real for them,
but by far the long way to the Holy Spirit. This is acceptable, but
hopefully with time each of us can learn that worship is not about
manipulating yourself into Father's good graces or receiving gifts from the
Holy Spirit because of your technique and ritualistic operations--but that
we can know God is here without fanfare, without emotionalism, without
drama. He is our Father and we are His children. It is that simple. You are
a good Father, Harrison, for your way you remain open to your daughters, and
yet find small openings to slip bits of wisdom to them. Well done.

With that I will take my leave. Know that if I had any more love for you
each you would most certainly become an attachment, but nevertheless I love
you each dearly. Until next week, shalom.