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Year="2003"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt">MAY 12, 2003</SPAN></st1:date><SPAN
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in -0.5in 0pt 0in"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman">I am ABRAHAM. Greetings.
What a beautifully blended balance of humor, love and wisdom we have here this
evening. You each have participated in creating a well of spiritual goodness so
this evening we will each take a moment to dip our cup. [Moment of silence.] My
friends, students and co-workers, you make each week's lesson possible by your
enduring faith and strength to carry on. Well done.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman">Over these past weeks we
have discussed personal weaknesses and how to find solutions toward finding
strength though Father and self-mastery. Meeting here each week is one such
source of strength. For many of you this is your family and a reflection of who
you are now and the possibilities of your becoming. For many individuals find
relationships, or other people, to be their
weaknesses.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman">The world, as it now
stands, appears to be an energy drain. Many of you know individuals who seem to
have the ability to drain energy instead of produce. While you are attempting to
be Spirit-led or God-like, at times seem somewhat vulnerable to other people's
needs and desires. We each must seek to be self-forgetting as the Master was,
but to allow yourself to be taken advantage of impinges upon your status as a
child of God. Some of your relationships seem to bring out weakness in you or
control the way you think and feel.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in -0.5in 0pt 0in"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman">Everyone has their own
definitions of certain roles you may take on in this mortal life. For example: A
wife may feel she is to have certain tasks in her charge, and to be unable to
fulfill her expectations of those certain tasks leads to feelings of
unworthiness. It is the wife's own perception of her definition that leads to
her feelings of failure. Feelings of failure puts the wife in a state of
constant atonement, which eventually leads to confusion in the relationship, and
possibly the husband learning how to live this lifestyle. The wife's
expectations of her definition ‘as the wife’ has manifested into her own
reality. Feelings of failing leaves one open to feel weak, unworthy, incapable,
and hopeless.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman">One's childhood or past
experience with relationships, somewhat create the reality of present
relationships. A child, who has been abandoned, may find as an adult difficult
to trust any relationship. Some adults who experience this find it their
personal challenge to avoid this issue. They would perhaps flee perfectly
workable relationships in order to escape any possible forthcoming pain and
re-experiencing being abandoned. This is weakness. Anything that seems to cause
repeated disruption in your life is worth investigating. You can keep on a cycle
of repeated mistakes, or you can delve into the situation, and be fully
observant of all that is taking place.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in -0.5in 0pt 0in"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman">Father is surely at hand to
help you put these realities into perspective. He would have you go into your
weaknesses and understand them, and gain tools to become empowered. The adult,
who was abandoned that experiences present difficulty, may perhaps review their
life, find the origin or source of the pain, try to find understanding of what
had befallen him, and if necessary, find
forgiveness.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in -0.5in 0pt 0in"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman">Always spiritual study and
understanding are useful tools to use to realize that you are a child belonging
to a much larger family. Spiritual understanding would complete the puzzle of
why you are here to experience all aspects of mortal life. The adult, who had
once been abandoned, could find understanding and be equipped with tools to
carry on in his present life circumstances, instead of fleeing and/or sabotaging
relationships. To escape is to continually drag out the misery. To go forth into
situations bravely is to find understanding and become empowered and create
change.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in -0.5in 0pt 0in"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman">This week review your
relationships and how they may be a weakness or stumbling block. Ask yourself,
‘In whom do I serve?’ With Father at the head of your family balance will be
maintained. What avenues would you find helpful in helping you overcome your
weaknesses? No questions this evening. I am with a full heart to know you are
each with a welcoming heart to me each time we meet. My loves goes with you.
Until next week, shalom.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P></FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>