[tmtranscripts] Welmek, July 25, 2002

[Donna DIngillo]

WELMEK – INSPIRED LIVING
JULY 25, 2002

Welmek:  Good evening!  This is you friend and teacher, Welmek.  I bid
greetings to our newest member, R. Welcome!  I hope you find this
evening’s instruction valuable and helpful.  

Over the course of these last several months I have prepared lessons for
you that were designed to help you test those inner resources of faith
and to find a greater commitment within you to follow the leadings of
your spirit; to follow the will of our Father.

Tonight I wish to present the first in a series of discussions entitled,
“Inspired Living”.  We have discussed the many ways you stay connected
and contact with your inner spirits.  Your Thought Adjusters work
patiently, co-operatively, and valiantly within you in helping you
discern the divine will for your life; to feel the divine love that is
your birthright and is your destiny.  

The workings within your mind of these spiritual endowments change you,
mold you into a higher model of artful living and sublime spiritual
enhancement of those ideals and values that you have come to know and
cherish in human life.  

Service, patience, understanding, tolerance, compassion are all qualities
of a highly effective and highly attractive human being.  And so I hope
that you have felt within you that you have made progress in your
spiritual attainment of these qualities; that you are becoming more
lovely and more Godlike each day, each week, each month, and each year.  

So now in this evening’s discussion, I would like to present the idea of
what is inspired living? You have been fed and nurtured by your spirit
fragment of the Father.  And that weaves and molds – conforming your
sense of self – your personality expression into that which the Father
has planned for you.  And each of you here this evening has a certain
level of commitment to following your divine path.  And so I ask you now,
what does inspired living mean to you?  What inspires you?  What makes
life adventurous – enjoyable?  Where does your spirit dare to lead you? 
What uplifts your idea of living life each day to the realm of that
deeper commitment of contributing something of great value to your
fellows and to your civilization?  

I ask you to take this idea now into the stillness, and to spend a few
moments in asking your spirit to reveal to you what is inspired living. 
And then when you are ready, please feel free to share your answers with
me.  (Pause.)

Student:  Welmek, inspired living can be for me when I transcended my
prejudices and likes and dislikes, and can see clearly other people in
their needs and desires.  And when I’m then freed to act naturally and be
of service freely, and without too much attachment.

Welmek:  Would you characterize your living now as inspired?

Student:  Well, to an increasing degree I feel that I’m attuning myself
to wisdom and awareness, but I realize I have a long way to go to live
there unshakably and permanently.

Welmek:  But you are striving, and that is what is most important, is it
not – your heartfelt desire to grow in this capacity.  And what would you
say now is your greatest motivator within you?

Student:  Well, to be relieved of the suffering that accompanies an
egotistical approach to life, where my desires are always clouding my
vision, and my likes and dislikes are always dictating my perspective.

Welmek:  So to recap, your response would be your motivation is a relief
from suffering.  Would that be a correct restatement?  (Yes.)  Thank you.
I will address your comments when everyone has shared.

Student:  For me the experience of inspired living is consciously and
even automatically living according to the highest values I know.  And to
function according to the feedback I get when I behave in that way.    

Welmek:  And what would you say would be the way you learned of those
higher values?  How do you, in your experience, come to realize them
within you?

Student:  Partly through trial and error in discovering what doesn’t feel
good within me, and have a positive effect on those around me. Partly
through study with all of the resources that are more and more around,
and are promoting a higher quality of life.  

Welmek:  Thank you. 

Student:  Welmek, as best I understand you, I would like to talk about –
there are many things that are unfolding now; many desires that seem to
be the Father’s will.  I believe the one that I would like to talk about
now is, the one that seems to be of the greatest, most difficult and
greatest benefit, is the one - the desire to write a manual of sorts on,
parenting with God, as these things unfold in my family life - trying to
bring, trying to learn how Michael raised His family – how Jesus of
Nazareth raised His family; and take what I learned from Him and apply
this to my own family.  

And through this experience I would like to share this and write a manual
of this nature, and somehow get it into schools as curriculum.  A great
project!  A huge project!  But this seems to be unfolding to me now, as I
learn the Father’s will, more and more.  This is one of several, but it
seems to be the greatest.  So I would like to share that with you.  

Welmek:  I would classify your answer as something that you do in your
unfoldment of your inspiration; but what is the inspiration indicative of
in your life?  

Student:  The best I understand the question, it would be my desire to do
the Father’s will, my desire to add something to humanity that seems to
be lacking.  And most important, my desire to raise my family in such a
way that they will be spiritually fragrant as they grow up, and be able
to know the Father as I know Him.  

Welmek:  And what would you now say is your motivation to live an
inspired life?

Student:  It’s my love for my Paradise Father, and love for His Son, my
Father Michael – my brother Jesus; and the unfolding love for the Mother
Spirit.  (Thank you.)

Student:  Yes, Welmek, initially I had a difficult time trying to
pinpoint inspiration – what inspires me, because in reality, nothing
outside me, inspires me except my children, and to watch them grow and to
see the seeds within them grow and flower and bear fruit.  But what
inspires me, what gets me out everyday to breathe and to work day-to-day,
is my communion with the Father, and to express who I am in this world –
the qualities of God that I am in this world.  That’s my inspiration;
that’s all I am.  Nothing really matters to me except coming from a place
of honor and integrity.  And to see each person as the Father sees me,
and lives through me.  So that inspires me; that is the source of my
inspiration.  In a sense, I am this inspiration.

Welmek:  And what would you say is the direction your life is taking now
with this inspiration, as it unfolds?  

Student:  That is like, that is where I feel like I’m at that crossroads
where, I’m not really sure where it’s going, where it’s taking me, but I
do know it’s a good place – a place of perfection and love.  And that’s
why I’ve been praying and meditating upon how I can best use my gifts and
talents in this world.  So, I’m still unsure about where I am going in
this world, but I know that I dwell within the house of my Father.  

Welmek: I am honored to be in the company of four such dedicated and
earnest spiritual seekers of the truth and light.  It is uplifting to me
to see that which is within you, being born now, through those potentials
that have been placed within you as a gift from our Father in the
unfolding of His divine plan.  Each of you has special qualities and
talents that are configured uniquely that will find expression in your
outward external life, and will bear a beautiful depiction of the love,
the goodness and the truth of our Father.  And you are all so embarked on
this expression; and it will grow; it will harmonize with the best within
you.  And you will become increasingly more beautiful in time, and with
your continued striving.

It is time now to rise from the degradation and despondency of the human
condition that has mired the spirit from becoming all that God knows and
wants for you.  Use the resources within you now to not only cast-off the
fear of discomfort in the human condition, but look deeply within to see
the love that our wonderful, compassionate Father-Creator has for you,
and use that as a springboard for finding all of the beauty, and
unlocking the potential that exists within you. 

How beautiful do you want to become?  How much talent and ability do you
want to use?  You are very wealthy my friends and you are infinitely
blessed.  There is no end to what has been given to you – what lies
within now.  Inspired living takes you deep into this well of limitless
resources, and matches that which is the best and brightest, with your
talents and your abilities and makes them greater.  It makes them whole. 
It adds breath and depth to your soul and to your life.  

And you find yourself in many new circumstances to use these talents and
abilities to give back people the love that you have received – to share
with them the goodness and the beauty that you have within you, that
reveals the loving and compassionate nature of our Father and our Mother,
and of the universe; and gives them new hope for them to grow their
faith, for them to step-out in trust to find a new life rich with
happiness and peace, and most of all the knowledge that, they too are
beloved children of an infinitely compassionate and understanding Divine
Parent.  

When you so live through this internal inspiration, you will never feel
diminished, incapacitated.  You will always feel blessed and richly
blessed.  For you know, that everything that the Father has is freely
shared with you.  And there is nothing that, if you ask in sincerity, and
has true spiritual meaning, that it will not be given to you.  

How do you wish to live?  How do you wish you could share your gifts with
your fellows?  This is the time to step-out and try new experiences; to
push yourself; to engage yourself in activities that conserve and uplift
the divine plan on this planet. 

I know that there are times when you do not always know what that means,
or how it will manifest; and that is fine, that is as it should be.  For
you will never really know what is manifest until you try, until you
experience something new, and see what the outcome is – see how you
respond.  And so I encourage you to not think so much about what it is
you should be doing, as it is to being in the love of the Father, and to
asking that each day you be guided to new levels of service, to new
levels of helping another person or persons to grow spiritually.  And to
ask for opportunities to share what you have learned and how you have
loved with others.  

You gain confidence in your abilities.  You gain truth in your faith. 
You gain strength in the hope for a bright future, rich with abundance
and blessings.  You have everything to gain in reaching into this well of
love and inspiration you have within you, in allowing yourself to be led
– by asking that your will be aligned with the Father’s will for your
life.  For you are so deeply loved, and tenderly guided, that there is
nothing to fear about growing in this way; in putting yourself now in a
situation in your own mind that says, "I wish to rise to this challenge. 
I wish to be challenged today to live this inspired life.”

We have talked about being your ship with your pilot guiding you.  Hoist
your sails now my friends!  Take your rig on the high seas and see where
your journey takes you!  

Do you have any comments or questions at this time?   

Student:  I have a question.  And I’m very appreciative of the awareness
that I’ve been hearing tonight.  And I think I heard something about not
worrying about what to do, and to emphasize being in the will of that
infinite source.  So my question is, is there a particular way to be even
more effectively tuned into what to do – according to that will –
practical things, daily living, and all of the other mundane
responsibilities?

Welmek:  I would suggest that you split your perspective of living into
two camps: One camp is that which you do to maintain your material
existence – basic needs of food, clothing and shelter.  And the other
camp being that which you do to maintain your spiritual connection.  And
in so doing, know that there are times when these activities may overlap,
but for the instruction this evening I encourage you to think about this
in two different realms. 

In your spiritual life, I would encourage you to spend time in worshipful
communion, in being in that centered and still place within you, where
you feel loved, connected and guided; and to honor that place within you
with reverence and devotion.  And spending as much time as you can in
letting yourself be nurtured in this way.  

In time you will sense within you when it is time to move ahead, and to
do those things in your material life that more easily suit your
personality and foster a greater spiritual expression in your life.  This
is the natural unfolding of your divine life plan, and it happens over a
long period of time.  But it is a natural unfolding when you allow the
process, in and of itself, to lead you in a way that matches your inner
leanings with your abilities and talents, so that you will never be put
in a position where you feel that you cannot perform with confidence and
with assurance that you are being guided.  Does this help? (Yes, thank
you.)  Do you need any further clarification or elaboration on this idea?
 

Student:  I know there is a lot of very practical things going on right
now in my awareness.  And there is some reviewing of options on how to
proceed spiritually as well.  I’m ready to simplify and act now.  So I’m
wondering, perhaps there may be something specific regarding such things
as where to be located.  What kind of work to do.  Is any of that
something you can address at this time?  

Welmek:  Much of what occurs in your material life such as where you live
and how you live is your free-will choice and how attached you want to be
to any particular place or lifestyle commitment.  

I would suggest that you start in the spiritual realm, by asking your
spirit, “What do I need now to grow spiritually.  Guide me to that
understanding which will foster the greatest growth in my life.”  And
spend some time in worshipful communion in letting your spirit minister
to you in this fashion.  You may gain a greater sense of longing, or a
desire within you in how you wish to express this in outward and material
life.  Your interests may become more refined, and your sensing of what
it is that you wish to do become more clarified within you.  Do you
understand?  

Student: I do. Yes!  Thank you.  (You’re welcome.)

Student:  Welmek, I’m feeling so honored to be in your presence this
evening and to receive your teachings.  I feel extremely inspired to
become more than what I am – to the unfolding of God’s will and His
divine plan for me.  I thank you for your time!

Welmek:  My brother, I so cherish our times together.  It fills me with
such joy to see my Urantia brothers grow and strive.  I cannot portray
how this fills my heart.  You are all so deeply loved.  I wish you could
feel all of the spiritual personalities who witness and cheer you on in
your life.  

This is, however, a pale comparison to the love that lies within you –
carried deeply within those potentials of your body and mind and spirit,
that feed your soul, that are expressions of your Creator’s love for you.
 It is my wish for you, that each of you feel this more deeply and more
constantly each day.  For there is nothing so inspiring and so
beautifying as living in this love, and being the most exquisite human
creations that you can possibly imagine.  

If you look at the life and the beauty..(of Jesus of Nazareth?) (Tape
ends.) …(I daresay that I can envision?) yourselves as having this same
potential too.  I daresay it would motivate you within your soul even
more to go within even deeper – to dive into that pool of unconditional
love that is your heritage and your destiny.  What more can I say.  It is
this love that is your fuel for your long eternal career.  And so, why
not drink deeply now, in this lifetime - to immerse yourself – to
saturate yourself with as much as you can possible feel.  

For each day you will find yourself retaining more and more and more. 
And this is why we encourage the stillness practice so consistently,
because this is where you receive your nourishment.  You receive that
which your soul is languishing and thirsting for.  This is all there is. 
You can feed your body with food and drink, but until you nourish your
soul with the love of your Divine Creator, your life will not become that
which you want it to be, and which you know inside, it can be.  

So each day, my friends, spend time and allow yourselves to be filled to
overflowing with the love that has no end; the love that is yours for the
asking.  

Student:  Yes, Welmek, this is D.  And as you were speaking earlier; and
there’s this small part of me that says, this is too good to be true; and
especially amidst what is going on in this world.  But I’ve been
experiencing lately – As you probably know, I got baptized on Sunday
along with R.  And on Monday I was in meditation here, and I had a
question about, how can I best use my talents and gifts and all the
things that I have come to understand in this world – to be of service in
this world?  

And as I went deeper and deeper in meditation and stillness, I kind of
came across the Father within me.  And what He said to me was, I don’t
have to be anything, I don’t have to do anything.  Just allow.  Just live
and evolve.  Just be here.  And then yesterday, in meditation and in
prayer at the sonship group, I again went deep into meditation and deep
into my Father within, and He said to me, “Welcome home.”  

I can remember a couple of weeks ago I said, “I want to come home.  I’m
tired of this world.  And then last night He said to me, “Welcome home.
Welcome home, my son.”  And so it’s like I feel this presence within me
and I want to go out into the world and share what I have come to
understand.  But there’s this little trepidation of being a stranger in a
strange land.  And not being up to the challenge of what I can do in this
world.  But I do desire to get through that, and to live the life - the
inspired living, as you have mentioned.  

Because I have said, there is no other way for me.  And it’s like – and I
said just last night that there is a magnificent portrait of perfection
that I wish to express and experience and share with other people.  That
each person in this room is created in the image of God; and it is a
magnificent portrait of perfection and perfect love.  That’s what I want
to share.  That’s what I want to give and express.  But am I up to the
challenge?  

Welmek: And my friend, why wouldn’t you be up to the challenge?  You have
come to a deep and profound understanding within you.  To put your arm
around someone and to look them in the eye, and to send the love that you
feel within your heart into that other person is all you need to do. 
Words are not necessary.  It is the feeling you wish to convey to them.  

You see, sometimes in human lives you feel you must convince someone with
the words you speak of the validity of what you have experienced, and
there is a time for that. To be an effective minister of the Father’s
love only requires that you share what you feel.  In this world people
are languishing for lack of love, for lack of that human touch.  For lack
of someone to come to them and say, “I care about what you are
experiencing.  Tell me your troubles; I will listen to you.  Come let me
put my arm around you and comfort you.  Let me hold you and let me love
you.”  This is the challenge of sharing your love with others.  Are you
up to this?  

Student:  That sounds, for me, pretty easy to do that.

Welmek:  Why not start with this simple way and see where it takes you?  

Student:  Have you noticed the change in the relationship between my
roommate and myself?

Welmek:  I do not wish to comment on this at this time. I would encourage
you to conduct this matter in a private session if you so desire. Are
there any more comments or questions on this topic before we move on to
general questions? (Pause.) Are there any other questions then, this
evening?

Student: Welmek, I have a question that’s been on my mind that’s been
concerning me a little bit lately.  I’d like to just air it, if I may.  I
spoke with you about it, earlier today.  Would it be OK to speak with
you, with the group, now?

Welmek:  If that is your wish?  Yes!

Student:  I know the Lucifer Rebellion has been adjudicated.  Are the
spirits – the capricious and, I guess I would use the word, evil spirits;
has the planet been cleansed of these spirits or are they still around to
interfere with one’s contact with their indwelling spirit?  

Welmek:  There are no evil spirits lurking on the planet, conspiring to
create confusion within the human mind.  However, this does not mean that
all evil has been expunged from the planet.  Do you understand the
distinction or do I need to clarify this for you? 

Student:  Would you clarify it just a little bit more, if you don’t mind?

Welmek:  As you read in your Urantia text, there are varying levels of
violation of divine law and Father’s will.  Is this not so?  (Yes.)  And
each of these varying levels creates an energy force, an energy flow, as
it was, and minds can gravitate into this force-flow and follow the path
of where that takes – into the realm of sin and iniquity – that which you
have come to understand as the conscious and consistent violation of
divine law.  There are those on the planet who are iniquitous.  There are
those who are feeding this momentum of evil.  

You do not need to have spirit personalities perverting human thinking in
violation of the Father’s will and the Father’s ways.  There is this
existent energy circuit that is still on the planet that allows for evil
to still exist.  Is it being eradicated?  Yes, but it is slow; and it
will take time.  And it will require the effort of spiritually led
individuals like yourselves, through prayer – through collective,
prayerful, intentional, mindal overcontrol – to help eliminate these
deranged levels of thinking that are still existent on the planet.  This
is one of the reasons that group prayer is so important and can be so
successful in beginning to erase that which no longer is welcomed here.  

There is much celestial activity to diminish the effects of evil, but
by-and-large it is through human choice and human striving that the evil
will finally be completely eradicated from this planet. But I daresay my
friends, you will not live to see the full effects of this completely
erased nor the full effects of what your efforts are now currently
producing.  Do you understand?

Student:  Thank you for that clarification.  I appreciate that!

Welmek:  Are there any other questions before we conclude? 

Student:  Welmek, how will we, or more specifically, how will I survive
this existence.  I’m wondering what connection I will have with earth, if
any, after my mortal life is through, and what I might expect or look
forward to, if anything beyond this life; and will I have a memory of
this life, and if so, when, after leaving it? 

Welmek:  Upon completion of the mortal career, your soul and your
personality will move on to enhanced levels of living.  And you have a
wonderful and glorious destiny ahead of you, if you so choose to
participate in God’s plan for you in the eternal career.  And that which
has been delineated in your Urantia text will comfort and inspire you,
even to a greater understanding than you have already comprehended.  And
I encourage you to revisit this place and spend time allowing those words
to fill your soul.

You all have a rudimentary awareness of life on this planet at first; and
then as you gain more experience in your new life, you will have those
memory experiences – which made you into the person that you are becoming
– activated within your mind.  But there is no time frame, specifically,
when this will happen.  It is a matter of your own spiritual growth and
reckoning that allows this to occur.

So my friend, you have everything to look forward to.  Everything of
value that you learn here you will take with you.  Nothing is lost.  And
you only add more beauty and goodness and truth as you grow.  Does this
help?

Student: Yes.  It helps very much.  It addresses my perhaps greatest fear
that I wouldn’t take the little wisdom I’ve garnered here at some great
expense in some cases.  I’m glad that I will take that with me on an
eternal career.  It’s very comforting.  Thank you.

Welmek:  You will only grow more in wisdom and understanding and
judgement and ability to have all of these attributes harmonized and
magnified within you.  I assure you, you will be most pleased when you
re-awaken in the new life and see what awaits you.    

My dear friends, life is so full and rich. And I know you live on a
difficult world, and you face unsettling times.  And this is why we are
here – to help you grow strong in that foundation of spirit which gives
you the peace, the encouragement, and the stability that you need so that
you can be the pioneers on your planet; to change your world into the
world of spirit and light.  Good evening.