[tmtranscripts] Rio Rancho TeaM 02-22-04

[Gerdean O Bowen]

DATE:                     February 22, 2004
LOCATION:          Ann Henry’s
                                Rio Rancho, NM
TEACHERS:         TOMAS & ANATOLIA
TOPICS:                 More About Prayer
T/Rs:         Gerdean and Matthew
PRAYER: 
Matthew: Let us place ourselves in the presence of Jesus, the Christ.
Master Teacher,
With lent on its way, and with the growing enthusiasm and excitement, as
well as controversy, surrounding the movie "The Passion" that is
introduced this Lenten season, we pray that an understanding of you and a
better understanding of what you encountered -- which apparently is the
focus and impact of the movie -- may that happen without more division
and without more derision (which the world does not need).  Perhaps the
movie can be an enabler for bringing us to better understanding, and thus
less secularism and the "my belief is better than your belief" syndrome. 
For that we place before you and before Our Father as a topic of
expansion for our hearts and minds. 
For the lessons we receive today we are grateful.  We are appreciative to
be a part of this process that has been enabled through you because of
what you have done for us in your visit to our world -- as well as what
you continue to do in our eternal growth. 
For all of the concerns, issues, or health-related priorities that we
have, individual or concern for others that we know and love, we place in
your hands at this time as well. 
And for those issues that are in our hearts, we know they will be
addressed. Our faith is in you and in our Paradise Father, now and
forever. Amen.
TOMAS: Greetings.
Group: Greetings.
TOMAS: Thank you for your prayer, Matthew, and thank you all for being
here this afternoon to attend this hour of prayer. 
What do I mean by "this hour of prayer"? When and as Matthew invited us
all to place ourselves in the presence of Jesus the Christ, he opened the
door for us to be in a state of conscious prayer. The other side of that
coin is to perceive of yourself in a state of prayer as you go about your
daily duties and affairs of life, conscious of the way you involve
yourself with it, without particularly placing on your life the mantle of
a walking prayer. Thus, with Jesus being here we are assuming association
with divinity.
We had embarked upon a discussion of prayer and wanted to return to the
topic to help you better understand the process of prayer, such that you
would be able to learn to be able to pray more effectively. What does it
mean to pray "effectively"?
I have a number of methods by which we might individually garner greater
appreciation for the process of prayer: 
(1) One of which might cut down on my verbiage considerably, but that
would involve your gaining a perspective on prayer such as is presented
in the text, the Urantia text. There are several pages devoted to the
practice of prayer that can benefit you and those pages are readily
accessible if you should opt to read essential information about prayer
before we commence. 
(2) Another method would be, and I would enjoy, hearing from each of you
as to how you pray, or even a topic you might chose to pray about, in
order to elicit from you your conditioning regarding prayer and the
practice of your praying as you understand it in the context of our
studies. 
(3) Finally, I could just, as I usually do, talk incessantly for an hour
in an attempt to convey to you all that I can to help you appreciate the
process of prayer as a viable means toward spirit progression in your
life and in the lives of those for whom you pray.
You will notice that you are being called upon to invest yourself in some
way or another in this discussion, even it if is only to decide how we
shall proceed. And for that purpose I will now pause for your
consideration, taking the T/R off-line so that she, too, can engage in
this course of action. [long silence]
[Deciding what to do, then doing all three, and including a discussion
about "The Passion" consumed the entire Side A of the tape. It is
transcribed and available if anybody is interested, but for practicality,
it is <snipped> from the transcript] 
TOMAS: I am in admiration of your exchanges and how you have, by the mere
act of inviting deity into your arena, elevated your discourse, meanings
and values to a level of prayer, exalting creation as prepared by God
himself and given to you as a gift, orchestrated for your learning,
provided for your growth and comfort. I have seen and heard you testify
to those events and feelings that support your perspectives. 
Much of your perception of prayer is actually worship. Prayer is an
attitude. And the attitude of prayer may speak to a full range of aspects
inside yourself, which makes your relationship with deity personal.
Sadness, happiness, fear, confusion, anger, rejoicing, lassitude,
ambition – all of these senses that are a part of your humanness and your
consciousness are real for you. And thus when and as you are able to
approach yourself in such a way as to understand your attitude and lift
it up to a power that can provide for you the necessary adjustments or
changes or enhancements, in order for you to prevail, maintain, persevere
and succeed in your ascent to supreme value, is worthy prayer. It is, as
well, a turning of those same suppositions in the direction of those for
whom you might pray.
Attitude is the key to prayer, and sincerity. The childlike sincerity of
the faith son (or daughter, child of divinity) is that attitude which is
most effective. Whether, as Paula indicated, she is praying for her own
understanding and growth or for a divine comprehension of the ways and
means of others, asking God to intervene on behalf of truth, beauty and
goodness is a prayer that can be sent up through your heartfelt yearning
to be heard by God, and these prayers are responded to when and as the
Divine Distributor reroutes your prayers to those agencies throughout the
universe, which will then help bring your desires into being. 
(Sometimes I think of God as you might think of Federal Express. Even
though you may be sending a package next door, it will go to the Central
Station for processing. Therefore, your attitude is seen, registered On
High, and the reality of your attitude is dealt with effectively from On
High, and so the only true prayer is that His will be done, for it is the
only prayer that can possibly be answered! Anything else has
"insufficient postage".)
Your project then is to observe the attitude that you maintain as you go
about your life, confronting and abutting and caressing those around you
whose attitudes are contributory to the divine will, asserting itself
against universe harmony, or somehow undecided or skirting the issue or
on the fence about that which will be necessary in order for all
advancement. Thus, even your prayers are made more effective by and
through the attitude you carry with you, in and through all you do. 
To rail against the vagaries of life is unworthy of you who have
knowledge of the aspects of creation such that you know the difference
between the various realms of reality, the differing levels of universe
reality. If a pint cannot hold a quart, it is also true that one who has
not been touched by the spirit is unable to respond as spirit. 
As such, it is possible for you to not only pray that God’s will be done,
but that you might contribute to the process by opening up the mortal
understanding of how even simple acts of kindness are admissions of
faith. It is not necessary for you children to have a sophisticated
concept of God in order to love God. In fact, the more pure and direct
your appreciation for that Element of pure love, as it is defined for you
in this new appreciation for the loving God that Jesus taught, the more
possible it is for you to plant those seeds and encourage that growth,
thereby putting asunder the doubts and fears of non-faith.
Give yourself an assignment in the days ahead to be mindful of your
attitude -- in particular as it is influenced by the attitudes of those
around you, perhaps those who have no appreciation for sincerity, or
those who have no faith in the reality of the trusting attitude. Knowing
that your reality is secure in the foundations of faith established by
your own relationship to divinity, you will be able to remain unmoved,
except as you choose to lend your own power through your consecrated will
to the enhancement of the will of God and subsequently, even
unconsciously, diminishing that which undermines or takes away from the
radiant reality which is sonship, as you understand it from the privacy
of your "closet" -- where you have prayed, given thanks, humbled yourself
and been exalted before God – the God of your understanding. 
This puts the ball in your court, and the power in your hands, even while
it may be limited to what you can do, one individual at a time, once
instance at a time, one moment at a time. This is how eternity is
created. And the fact remains, if you are faithful in these little
things, then more will be given to you.
This concludes my direct discussion on the topic of prayer, but it is
certainly not the end of our appreciation for and frame of reference
toward this essential state of being. Let us pause now as we reconfigure
our group energy and allow Sister Anatolia to embrace you and greet you
in her fashion for the afternoon. Thank you.
Group: Thank you, Tomas.
ANATOLIA: Welcome, friends, family and all who are here. It sounds as if
I am speaking beyond your immediate quarters to a throng beyond the
immediate participants. I address you by all of the above descriptions
because of your all- inclusive role that you are to me, as to us. As you
know, a son or a daughter is also a brother or a sister, oftentimes an
aunt, an uncle, a grandson, a granddaughter, on and on in the many roles
that an individual plays. It somewhat adds description to the depth of
our perception but also the extent of our relationships, both here and
beyond. 
While you are all of these descriptions and more – whether it be included
-- boss, subject, taxpayer, on and on, you are also at the same time
Child of God, emissary of peace, ambassador of the kingdom,
representative of truth, beholder of knowledge and bestower of beauty.
These are mere descriptions of the depth of your being, which is not
evident as are your earthly titles and descriptions. But like a tooth
that shines and has strength, body and function, so too does that tooth
have a root to enable it to be what it is by function, design and nature.
So too are you representative and demonstrative of your role in the
Father’s house.
I wish for each of you to be encouraged and to understand your role in
Our Father’s House, for there are none that sit higher or lower. All are
welcome to the table, and all have adequate seating. There is no limit.
There is no admission for what is the ability to enter into the kingdom
hall—and I say this in the loose sense, not in a denominational sense,
but if you want that to be a denominational meaning, you may have that as
well – into the kingdom hall, for all are welcome and all are invited. 
In like mind, since we happened upon the discussion of denominational
meaning or value, let me just shed light on the subject further, if I
may, like seeing light bulbs on the runway on the approach at night in
the airplane, so too is each of our roles as being beacons of light that
line the way for others to land and to seek security in knowledge of who
they are in the ethereal or supernatural way. 
It is my perspective to try to reinforce with you the dual nature and
more of your role here in this world as it is rooted in what is behind
the scenes, not at all evidence. I wish you could see and understand what
it is I am speaking of, but it is one of the things I try to address and
reinforce you with regularity, to have you understand the divine nature
of your beings at the same time you are preoccupied with being alert to
and concerned with your physical well-being. 
It is only natural, of course, that your preoccupation would be upon the
mundane and daily routine and activity, but your awareness of what is
beyond is great as well, or you would not be participants in this weekly,
even temporal in your perspective, so it is much like preaching to the
choir, if you will. Nevertheless I wish to reinforce your role as a dual
natured being. 
As you are aware, the Master, too, was a dual nature being much as you
are, enlightened in your ways prior to inhabiting your physical garment.
This is not exactly a perfect alignment, meaning that the Son of the
All-Encompassing One-Who-Is had greater insight and awareness, more so
than each of us who would be engraced with embodiment. Nevertheless, as
beads are on a rosary or the feathers are on the sparrow, so too are each
of us a part of that eternal plan and existence.
So it is my desire to reinforce within you the desire to have you be more
aware of your earth-bearing life, but it has meaning and value beyond
what it has represented, and this is 
 my friends, colleagues, children 

the truth behind what prayer is. As you say it, wish it, and send it
forth, so goes you in the process. You release within yourself and within
the universe of your being that wish, desire or statement of truth,
beauty and goodness. Therefore it has no limit, no bounds, and only
unites with its destination, the Source of all being, the Enabler of
All-That-Is.
So, in your prayerful moments, which hopefully are constant, as you are
aware of your eternal nature and destination, that you participate in
creation each and every day by your existence, which is well-rooted in
reality of spirit as it is in the world of matter, I wish for you to know
that you are truly empowered within our Heavenly Father’s realm to
participate in that which is good for all and that can be generated by
your hearts and minds.
Welcome to the eternal dimension, which you have been, you are and you
will remain. Let us rejoice and be glad, for the resurrection that has
occurred, is occurring. As you need not focus on the depth of despair
which brought about the resurrection. It is mindful to know that it was
through choice or allowance of the worst imaginable to prove and indicate
the grandest imaginable. For in desperation and despair eternity was
burst forth. As it is too within your beings. And as it is within all of
our hearts, let us rejoice and be glad.
Have a most beneficial week and pray that all that you touch may be
engraced by eternal life. Peace be with you, now and always.
Group: Thank you.
TOMAS: I feel inspired and invigorated and hope that you, too are renewed
and challenged to take steps into the dimensions of consciousness that
will contribute to your growth and the growth of others in those ways
which will better reflect the light. Before we go, are there questions?
Are there comments?
MYRA: I don’t have a question, but Tomas, my daughter is in labor!
Group: Oh! Oh! Oh, dear. Oh, great!
MYRA: Gather around her. 
Group: Ahhhh.
TOMAS: That is, indeed, cause for prayer and celebration! Let us pray
that the pangs of childbirth will be light and quickly forgotten in the
flawless delivery of a perfect child to enhance the lives of those she
touches, even beginning with those of us here today who hear of her
arrival and rejoice in her being, registered as a personality in the
Universe of Nebadon, 606 Urantia of Satania.
The discussions regarding further learning will continue when we meet
again. Be of good cheer. Farewell.
Group: Farewell. God bless! Thank you.
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