WOODS CROSS GROUP

ABRAHAM

To That Place Of Peace In Mind

APRIL 19, 2004

I am ABRAHAM. Greetings. This meeting does me so much good in mind and spirit. Many times I am made to remember that my purpose is not solely about working. I love my work and yet meeting with you reminds me that there is so much more. For many of you this small allotment of time is the only time you can really generate this spiritual refreshment.

Various religious institutions provide for their member’s services that for the most part uplift the spirit. While our Mission is informal, this is your time to unify, fellowship, find balance, engage in reasoning and solutions, and share in faith. Informally speaking, this is your church. I thank you for having me. Believe me when I say I am learning right along with you. You have been a wonderful teacher to me. I am with comfort to be among you just as I am.

Again, this week as we allow our concerns to go by the wayside, let us take a step higher in mind to that place of peace. Here we are whole. Here we are accepted and adored for exactly what we are. This place is a moment’s rest from striving or being bogged down with duties, from being entrapped by miscellaneous concerns. Here we are what we are and that is indeed good. Over these many years we have discussed spirituality in conjunction with human behavior and tonight will be no different. I am apt to give where I can see there is a need.

Last week we spoke a bit on the Master’s life and the strength He gathered over time to become a perfected mortal. In this day and age impatience is rampant and to have everything immediately is looked at as common. To have everything includes to be well on the way to being accepting of the evolving self. Human weakness is abhorred in this society and great efforts are made to hide them. It would appear that when weaknesses are viewed by others they are confirmed and seemingly here to stay. Many view their real selves riddled with weakness and make great effort to be anything but themselves.

What I love about the Master’s example here on earth was the fact that He was always genuine, always Himself, always in tune with the spirit, and therefore an authentic extension of the Father in Heaven. If He had lived His life the way others had expected, where would the world be now?

· The Master’s loved ones wanted Him to fulfill their greatest expectations and perform miracles. His loved ones viewed His forthcoming greatness as their greatness or ego satisfaction by association.

· Some of the Master’s comrades desired that He take the Kingdom by force. Everybody wants to be on a winning team.

· The so-called educated, wealthy and/or most holy in the land wanted the Master to disappear altogether. His presence made their self-perception crumble with truth. In His life of genuine goodness, the holy men of that day recognized their life to be selfish and fake.

Did the Master have physical pain? Yes. Did He have emotional pain? Of course. Did He not love and hurt for those who rejected Him? Yes. The Master could have very well followed popular opinion. He could have chosen to live by man’s rules and not universal law. It is possible His life could have been a bit more easy and certainly extended. The Master however had an eye single to the glory of His Father in Heaven. He had a purpose and there was no one or thing or amount of any seemingly earthly goodness that could take Him from it.

His purpose to reveal Father to us and us to the Father kept Him selfless. It kept Him focused on the task at hand. All other things were kept by the wayside. The Master’s relationship with His internal Father was the key in strengthening Him to be about the business. His everyday practice of spending time with Father strengthened Him a little more each day to go forth with the Father’s plan. Had He not had this excellent relationship with Father maybe He would not have had such strength. You can see how He did make effort to relate more with Father and then deal with His mortal counterparts thereafter. The Father was first.

Of course, the Master understood weakness. He understood life’s experience is indeed strengthening for those tasks Father has planned. The Master well understood whom He served. This was His strength to be about the everyday mundane tasks that were beset before him. Many mortals striving in today’s world find their personal weaknesses to be overpowering and even when they fall, they have a difficult time recovering. To make effort to do good is a boost in moving forward. To slip in a sinful direction is indeed tearing down self-esteem for anyone who has a well balanced conscience.

To do good is to feel good. It is to be in tune with the spirit. To knowingly or perhaps unknowingly, go forward in a negative direction is to be sorely discouraged. It is to feel desolate or perhaps abandoned. Certainly this is an embellished perception of a guilt-ridden mind. In mortal life there will always be some weaknesses, some places where you will fall short. This will happen. You will make effort of course in the direction of self-mastery and many times you may find it unattainable. Do not be so harsh with your budding soul, your evolving self. We are each in a state of becoming and patience is required to see it through.

This week do as the Master did in strengthening himself to handle everyday tasks. Spend time with the Father. Rise to that higher place in the mind. Find a moment every day to ponder in whom do you serve? When moments of weakness arise think not to tear yourself down immediately. No. Dissect the weakness, find its origin. Know that in some way the mortal cries out. That is all. Know that I am with growing affection. Go in peace. Until next time, shalom.