ABRAHAM & MARY

FEBRUARY 6, 2006

WOODS CROSS GROUP



I am ABRAHAM. Greetings. I am feeling uplifted just hearing you share life experiences. We all have our stories. We all have our gifts. We all have our shortcomings and it feels right to be in the knowledge of acceptance. I am pleased to be a part of your group and your lives. I thank you.



I am MARY and I also thank you. You have welcomed me with open arms and non-judgmental attitude. This evening I am here to discuss life's tests and trials. When I had first come into the awareness that God is, I was somehow in the understanding that since I was in awareness, I need not be tested in faith and trust. It is well and good to see Father as a source of love and compassion, but we must also see Father as the Parent. It is His mission to draw us Paradiseward.



There is a great deal of testing on a mortal world. Here we begin at the bottom. I mean not to say that Father would set up before us obstacles to teach us the hard lessons to see if we can retain our faith, no. I mean to say that life happens and Father's universal network helps to arrange an ultimate good--that good that draws us Paradiseward.



There are many individuals who take life's tests and trials as a personal insult and are deeply wounded and not withdrawing the value therefrom. These individuals spend their lives compensating for past pain and they are indeed closed off to spiritual meaning. This is not to worry however. Again, Father, in His wonderful wisdom, eventually brings out an ultimate good.



Before I had met the Master I believed my life had been rather difficult and the world owed me everything. I could not see that ultimate good of being prepared to be an apostle of Christ. I could bear great burden, for I had experienced it firsthand and therefore I became a source of strength to others. Before my understanding of the Master's ministry I lived on self-pity and fear that Father did not care for me or did not know me.



Jesus was such a well of knowledge and His peaceful demeanor caused me to pause and be observant. I could then look back on my life, on my struggles and understand the value and ultimate good. While being witness to losing the Master's physical presence I was instilled with a determination to bring about an ultimate good out of such sorrow. That was what the Master wanted. He always said, "Carry on."



This week let us make time to review life and see if we are understanding the ultimate good or are in some way compensating for our pain by allowing weakness to be our master. I love the energy here this evening. Yes. That is all. From Abraham and myself, we send you with our love. Until next time, shalom.