*            Abraham: My friends, center yourselves in the stillness. Feel our presence, the presence of our Father, Michael and Mother. Know that you are loved and accepted. It becomes easier to realize your place in the family of God as you can feel connected to the spirit.

We enjoy your camaraderie, your humor, topics of discussion, and sincere reflections. Know that this process of seeking communion with other personalities is an end in and of itself, for wherever two or more are gathered, our Creator joins that union in the sincere desire to harmonize one’s talents and understandings with another’s. If you recognize this, that you are eventually to unify with all personality, then you can understand that any difficult or challenging conversations that you defer or put off, are merely delays in the inevitability of universal unity.  Better it would be at this stage of your awareness, to seek to understand and find calm and clarity when possible.  Your personality realization depends on this type of exploration. 

I do want to point out, however, that not all unification can occur at your present stage of existence and you are not required to endure deep negative hostility, but that you recognize your attempts to unify have value and are part of your supreme realization.

I am Abraham, and chose this topic this evening because I know you variously grapple with issues such as these, and during my mortal existence I was less than tolerant of differing opinions and beliefs.  Know that as you grow beyond your mortal existence you will have the opportunity to understand and fine tune your relations and how you relate with one another, but I encourage you not to dismiss the opportunities you have here now.

Thank you for listening to my discourse. I am present, if there are questions.

S: Yes, thank you. Last week the questions of what it would be like to live in light and life was brought up. I have never seen it as bad as it is now in my life. Certainly after the elections in recent years it seems like our country has been ripped in half. This seems like a historical pattern for many countries. I know we have limitations because of the rebellion and lack of energy circuits prior that we have now and that many around the world are having epiphanies, which is exciting.  But there are so many differences. I just don’t see some having the wherewithal or interest, who are maybe just getting by, living life, and dying. So I don’t see how we can have light and life in any way, shape or form in this kind of environment. There just needs to be so much change in our governance and in the hearts and minds of our population. So I think on some level I am resigned to it not getting much better than it is now, but maybe in the millennium to come when I’m on the other side I’ll see it.

*            Abraham: My friend, it is good to engage with you and your presence. Thank you for expressing the various concerns that are on the minds of many at this time. If you know anything about my history and the time I lived in, when we had a disagreement about beliefs with our neighbors, we often got our weapons and went and attacked them. And while I can see how barbaric that is now, it was the present development of our world at that time.

So, I hope you can recognize that there has been progress. Now, for the most part, humans argue for a long time about various ideas before they resort to violence, which can still occur and wars can still happen, but the replacement of violence as a primary resolution, to becoming more of a last resort, or at least not a first resort, this does signify that where you are now is still more progressive than prior millennia. 

When you speak of light and life, I would like you to think of it as a multi pronged effort at awareness, growing from the individual to the family unit to the community, nation and world.  Individuals can achieve light and life personally even as the world around them may still have varying degrees of strife. As you can see, this puts the emphasis on you, and how you will be and what you can focus on, rather than the external desire to see it occur on a global scale.  What can you do each day to learn a little more, to seek communion with your Creator, to view the world from a place of what you can offer, and to be able to not own the energy of others, but rather come from a place of owning your own energy and output? The greatest service comes from this place of awareness because you can offer, without being unduly influenced by the response, either positively or negatively. I hope these reflections aid you somewhat in your perspective, my friend.

S: They do, indeed, thank you very much. It really does center around the individual, doesn’t it?

*            Abraham:  One person at a time.

D: So Abraham, hello. I guess it feels like the gun factor is throwing us back to those old days and maybe what we see is really a smaller portion of the population than it seems because they’re so loud, violent and scary. “When can we start shooting people,” said one kid in a rage. It feels like throw backs to your time. It feels like you’re asking me to be neutral, calm and gaining peace in myself.  How are we to consider these people?

*            Abraham: I will not deny that you face challenges in this regard, in your society. Recognize still, that despite the incidences of violence that occur sporadically, most still talk about it and threaten and use various ways to try to influence others before they resort to any type of violence.

What you are witnessing is a great period of frustration, where the clashing of long held ideas and values are bumping up against changing mores, different cultures blending, and new perspectives encouraging more openness and tolerance and compassion. When viewed from a place of suspicion, regardless of what side of the fence you sit on, the other side looks dangerous, and it is scary to the ego trying to protect and conserve what comforts. This is not the same as my time, even if it appears more conflicting than it has been in previous decades. 

The effort to come from a place of balance within is not a call to be neutral or lukewarm, but rather to know where the real power lies so that you can act effectively, so that you can replace the negative with a positive action - not to ignore it, but to respond to it in a way that perhaps may be more enlightened and considering of the various factors and viewpoints involved. The solution to this present period of consternation will be borne out of real dialogue and consideration of one another’s viewpoints and slowly letting the wheels of progress unfold.

D: It’s just hard to know what to confront. A lot of my sister’s contradictory beliefs - Christian fundamentalism, where Jesus dies for my sins, everyone must repent, and gays must be destroyed.  It is hard to argue from a more enlightened place because she comes from that fixed place. I can’t argue those points, we’re not going to come to agreement.  So maybe it’s like in the old days where you used to tell us they are children, love the children. You don’t give the calculus book to the second grader.

*            Abraham: In some ways you have answered your own question.

D: That’s what happens isn’t it?  That’s how God works.  You just say it and then here comes your answer.

*            Abraham: Yes, indeed, for you are not required to change everyone. With some people you cannot shift where their entrenched beliefs lie, but you can love them and do kindness, and be positive, and then move along to the next person.

D: Okay, yes, it is an example of her loyalty and that is a positive value.

*            Abraham: Yes.

D: So you’ve been involved in this since the beginning.  Can you tell us how you feel about what is happening now and how it’s looking from there?

*            Abraham: I appreciate your reflections and would state a few ideas that come to mind.  From your perspective, this mission grew quickly, large and diverse, very exciting as it unfolded. But much like Jesus and the apostles and the disciples and the followers, when no great miraculous happenings occurred that could be pointed to as God asserting his power, there was a great winnowing where the people on the periphery lost interest and went in a new and perhaps more exciting direction for them. 

We view this as positive steps along the way toward developing those who are sincerely seeking to find inner awareness and utilizing their talents as they commit to this grand experiment of Michael’s to bring light back to a world that has been in darkness through no fault of your own. What we have now, are many points of light throughout your world, where personalities are intuned to the spirit within and are seeking for how they can manifest that awareness in a way that will radiate outward in less of a miraculous and exciting manner. This if focused on more of a slow, growing realization of spiritual brother and sisterhood and the power of our Creator and his presence within each of you. 

So we are enthused and feel that the steps of progression are being taken in such a way that eventually a sort of phenomenon can occur, where the idea that everyone can connect within is commonplace rather than seeing it as something to be awaited for the afterlife.  We look for how we can encourage individuals, such as you, to help in this regard, to pass on your wisdom and realizations, so that more and more share in a sort of “Pay it Forward” scheme that brings the whole world forward to the point where we can more actively minister to all of you.

D: More actively is interesting.

*            Abraham: Present and visible.

D: Wow, so we’re going to have another garden where we can watch the comings and goings.

*            Abraham: Perhaps.

D: Do you not know yet or can you just not tell us?

*            Abraham: How it will unfold is the question, but that it will unfold is not in question.  And my friend Machiventa, in concert with Michael, will choose the best mechanisms with which to apply the energy for the greatest edification of the most people, rather than seeing this as specific things that need to occur.

D: Yes, of course. Excuse my importunity.  When they work it out, they’ll try to bring it in a way that every culture can resonate to.

*            Abraham: Thank you, my friends, for your inquiries. I sense the connection wavering, so I will wrap up this dialogue.  I look forward to sharing again as the path unfolds. 

Look forward and look within. Understand that you are the first place that light and life can occur for you, rather than seeing it externally and somehow descending upon you.  Know that you are a core, and if light and life can occur within you, it makes it that much easier that it can occur within others in your proximity.  Good evening.