[tmtranscripts] Welmek, December 5, 2002

[Donna DIngillo]

WELMEK – PRAYER
December 5, 2002

Good evening. This is your friend and teacher, Welmek.  And I greet you
this evening after our one-week hiatus.  I am very glad to be back with
all of you.  

I hope that your Thanksgiving holiday was enjoyable and that you took the
attitude of prayerful communication into your holiday weekend and spent
some time thinking about the previous lesson.  Recall what we discussed
during our last encounter.  

We are beginning an in-depth study on effective prayer.  And I encouraged
you to try to pray more consciously and actively throughout your day. 
And now I wish to ask you, did you try this?  And if so, do you wish to
share some of your observations and insights with me now?  (Pause)

Student:  Welmek, I had an experience this afternoon when I was thinking
about your lesson on prayer, and the moment that it came to mind, I had a
very unusual thing happen.  It’s almost like I felt this connection of
the vast love of all the creatures in the universe.  It was a very
short-lived feeling, but it was very profound.  And it led me into a few
moments of thankfulness or gratefulness.  I had said several prayers
earlier in the day, I couldn’t think of anything right at that moment
after that happened, so I just took that moment for a little bit of
worship.  I just wanted to share that with you.  

Welmek:  This is indeed a beautiful reflection of your experience, for
you are beginning to sense the deep and wonderful friendship and love
that is yours to enjoy as being a member of our universal family.  

You have a knowledge of this family through many years of study of your
text.  And now you are gaining a strong assurance of the feeling of what
it means to be a member of this family.  This is one of the elements of
prayer that will be yours to enjoy as you grow more firmly enmeshed in
spiritual communication.  You are operating as a cosmic citizen.  This is
a privilege and responsibility.  And the enjoyment of this is part of
your privilege.  

All through your life as you ascend through the universe, you will come
to a greater appreciation through your own enjoyment of feeling the love
and the friendship and the support of your fellow brothers and sisters. 
As you gain more interest in praying, you are actually growing your level
of spiritual maturity.  You are gaining a greater range of spiritual
responsibility, and therefore the privileges – life in the spirit grows
as well.  

Are there any other observations or experiences you wish to share?  

Student:  Welmek, I am praying a lot more frequently than I ever have
before, and last time when we were here and the time before that in which
I was very depressed, and I noticed the next morning after the true
prayer had an impact on me.  So I’m becoming more prayerful and much more
praying during the day, and during an activity I try to pray briefly to
Michael and Mother Spirit.

Welmek:  What are you experiencing in your inner life as you do this
throughout the day?  Would you be able to articulate that for me?  

Student:  I can try.  I’m developing a separation – I’m only the
observer, and what I’ve experienced a week ago, I know that God is
proactive.  And I have a faith, which is by no means complete or deep,
but it is the beginning.  I would say that those two things are the
evidence that I’m experiencing on a daily basis.  

Welmek:  I find these to be quite significant that you are now beginning
to sense this deeper reality within you.  So you see, there is great
benefit when you pray – is there not? (Yes) And so, this is the
enticement. Your prayers will reveal new revelations of truth within your
own being and open new doors of spiritual experiences to you. 

For prayer is a form of service. And this is a sharing of yourself with
the universe. It is expansive. It is conscious altering. And so, the more
you pray, the more you are in spiritual communion and communication, and
the greater is your awareness toward the realm of spirit. So more can be
added into you and in time discernible within you. 

Are there any other comments? 

Student: Welmek, I was noticing that I was getting the validation to pray
more often, and the idea of more smaller practical prayers, like being in
a book store and asking for something inspiring to happen. I prayed for a
little task or person to meet. 

For instance, I found a book on angels. It was a collection done in 1943,
The Voice of the Angel or Angels. And I found it very uplifting – and I
thought that the speed of the answering of the prayer was thrilling, that
maybe it means that my prayers are more down-to-earth, more small steps.
I found that helpful, to be not only often in joyous prayer, but little
prayers that might get answered quickly like that, that keep the mind
focused on higher things rather than just mundane things.  

Welmek: These experiences are very confirmatory of the efficiency of
spirit, are they not? (I think so.) And they will inspire you to be more
faith-filled, will they not? For you find that your answers, your
support, and your excitement, is in the realm of spirit. And, as you say,
it has been thrilling for you to experience this. And so I encourage you
to continue to ask for these experiences through the prayers, and enjoy
how it is that you see the outworking reveal itself in your life. 

Student: Welmek, I would just like to say that for me prayer is something
very utterly new. Whereas I feel like I’ve discovered and used various
forms of worship my whole life. Just a wonderful, joyous feeling of
thankfulness and fullness, prayer is very, very new – in the sense of
conscious thing. But it is beginning to just pop in spontaneously. It
occurs about a dozen times a day. It doesn’t last long, but it’s always
welcome. It is just a very cheerful little note that happens
occasionally. 

Welmek: Your consciousness is opening to a wider range of spiritual
habits and ideas. As you sense these nudges of prayer come into your
being, bring your attention into the full awareness – not only in your
mind but in your emotions. Let the prayer in your heart captivate your
desire to serve and to assist another person in need. (Yes) As you pray,
ask Michael’s love be sent to that individual. 

You may not always be able to focus on His love for an extended time. But
if you can only begin to direct that prayer and that love for the other
person, you will have performed a mighty service for them. Perhaps this
will be the only spiritual circumstance or encounter of their life for
that day. And so, would that not be a wonderful component to add to
someone’s life, albeit brief? 

Student: Yes, Welmek, it helped. I have a friend, a very difficult
relationship with a friend, who I mentioned before seems to be in some
final stages of degeneration due to a lot of alcohol. And it helps to use
Michael’s mind as to how to handle this. I found myself just praying to
do the right thing when I met him that evening. And that evening it
occurred to me not to be critical, just to kind of be there for him, and
accepting seemed to be the good thing. That is a wonderful thing to have
this way of thinking about what to do. But maybe just acknowledging I
didn’t really know what to do with this friend. 

Welmek: You are learning well, my friend. That is all we ask of you. And
you are doing very well in your task. 

Student: Yes, Welmek, as I try to open myself up to living in prayer, I
discovered, or experienced, a rich texture just pervading my entire being
– that I sense a rhythm and a flow in my day-to-day life. In a sense,
living prayer allows me to be in the moment, the eternal moment that you
alluded to many months ago, and since changed my life – being here in the
present moment, in living prayer in that present moment. 

There’s so much power, so much strength and focus in that moment. And
this is where I live from, or yearn to live from, in every moment.
There’s so much, this is who I am in this moment. And there’s this
connection with the circuitry of the whole universal consciousness, in
this moment. And there’s oneness with every being, in this moment of
living prayer. 

And it’s a different, altered state of consciousness, like a shift within
my being, like an earthquake within my being, from time to time, as I let
go and let prayer breathe and live in my life, in my being. And yesterday
I noticed, when I came home from work, there was such a deep longing and
yearning to commune with the Father, like I had to do that, like I wanted
to do that. I just wanted to let go of my life’s burdens and just be
embraced. And that’s what prayer is for me has been.

Welmek: When you pray for others, would you say that your experience of
expansiveness and unity is the same as when you are in communion with the
Father? 

Student: I think it’s less expansive all the way around. But when I do
pray for others, like I prayed for my mother yesterday, there is a
greater increase of love and expansiveness, just of my consciousness. I
also have a sense too that my prayers, whatever they might be, are
answered – in their own time and place – that I may not get immediate
gratification or actualization. But, in God’s time, things will manifest
in their proper place and for the highest good of each person.

Welmek: Can you sense within the person for whom you are praying an
expansiveness within them? 

Student: There’s some, yes, yes I can. (Thank you).

Welmek: I am glad that D. shared his awareness of this expansive quality
in others, for I wish to lead you now in an exercise of prayer for
another person with whom you feel a particular closeness or affinity. I
would like for you, in your mind’s eye now, to select this individual and
to feel a strong mental presence of them within you. (Pause) 

And if you know this person very well, you may indeed be familiar with
their struggle or an area that they need spiritual support and guidance.
If you can identify that, open your heart and ask Michael and Mother to
assist that person, so they can indeed receive what you so lovingly wish
to send them through prayer. Spend a few moments doing this. (Pause)

Ask Michael and Mother to fill this individual with the spirit of your
prayer request. (Pause) After you have made your request, step back and
notice any spiritual impressions that come to mind, or any feelings that
you notice from your prayerful attempt. (Pause) Please share with me now
any observations or insights that you noticed during your prayer.

Student: Welmek, I noticed I felt a stronger, deeper, and greater love
for the man that I was praying for. I often notice this experience when I
do pray for others: a deeper bond with them, a stronger love for them
which is one of the more enjoyable aspects of prayer, I find. 

Welmek: What do you experience in asking for Michael’s will to enter into
that individual? 

Student: I experience a stronger connection with Michael and with Mother
at the moment that I call on them. (Thank you.)

Student: Welmek, I have a dear friend who is very psychologically
oriented. She is a wonderful, loving person, very brilliant, engaged in a
lot of volunteer work. And my prayer was for her to find some of the
spiritual joy that I have known these last few years. 

And it occurred to me then that this might, I don’t want any kind of
disaster to fall upon her in that sense. But she’s so bright and so much
in her mind, so self complete, that I found myself almost praying for a
kind of disquiet to overtake her, that the hunger for something more
might come in. So it seems kind of ironic in one way that I was hoping
for something to happen in her life that would open her to this whole
other realm.

Welmek: And as you are making your appeal to Michael and Mother, were you
able to discern any noticeable quality of connection with them to her in
her life?

Student: Just that this might be the form that it would take. That the
self-sufficiency she feels in her mind there would have to be a kind of
wanting for something more. I got that as a kind of a mechanism that that
is how it might work. (Thank you.)

Student: Welmek, I noticed praying for my boy, that as I zeroed in on
…the prayer seemed to improve.  I know he needed to feel loved. Then I
realized, through the prayer, there’s a sort of reciprocal thing
happening. I realized he needed the Spirit of Truth. He’s at that point,
he’s very scientific. The Spirit of Truth is the better prayer. And it
seemed to flow better. So I guess our prayers are ever expanding, and
it’s like co-creative with the people we’re praying for to help the
person. 

Welmek: And when would you say you noticed you made the shift in your
mind from what you prayed for, for the feeling of him to know he was
loved, and the prayer for him to be receptive to the Spirit of Truth?
When did you make that shift?

Student: I think the shift came when the degree of self-interest, not
selfishness, but the greater self gave up to more of spiritual hope and
allowed the prayer flow even for his brother, A., so that I didn’t have
to limit it in any way. And, as I focused on the actual personality of
the boy that I just made very good eye contact with about an hour ago,
that that way the element of self seemed to leave and the quality came
in, the appropriateness came in. 

Welmek: And was this before you made the appeal to Michael and Mother or
after or during? 

Student: It would be after. It took a little while to focus in on Michael
and Holy Mother, and allow a little bit of time to go by. (Thank you.)

Student: Welmek, I have a daughter in her sixties, and she has cut
herself off from the family. And I realized that through prayer I can be
with her, on a higher level, as I wish. I can pray for her through the
day, if necessary. So suddenly I realized that I do not need to be upset
because she’s cut herself off from the family. I can have a special
relationship with her, and help bring her in close, and have some impact.

Welmek: And as you notice the insertion of you into her life, in the
realm of spirit, do you also sense something happening in her, as well?

Student: I don’t know yet. I pray for, but I never know how to pray. Now,
once I become a better prayer, I would be interested to see what happens
with this profounder way. 

Welmek: When you made the appeal to Michael and Mother to come into her
being, could you articulate what you experienced in that moment of time?

Student: I think I began to hope at least that I can now have that
transcendent connection with her, and that that will grow in intensity
and effectiveness. (Thank you.)

Student: Yes, Welmek, I prayed toward my roommate C., because prior to me
coming here we had a situation that kind of turned towards conflict, that
turned kind of dark on his part and unsavory. So, when I prayed, I prayed
for love for him, and also that Mother and Michael would take care of
him. And when I do, and I did this yesterday as well, and I felt more at
peace yesterday. Today, I feel more conflicted, because of the decision
we came to before I left to come here. So, I don’t really feel any sense
of great peace – but of some apprehension – because normally when I pray
for somebody or something, there is a great swell of love and peace and a
sense of certainty. But with this situation, I feel apprehension – and
even a sense of fearfulness – because in a sense I’ve done all I could do
for this person. 

Welmek: When you made the appeal to Michael and Mother for this
individual, what did you experience in that moment or several moments
after that?

Student:  There was a letting go, (side one of tape ends) a sense of
sympathy for this person, a sense of sadness. (Thank you.)

Welmek: I wish to summarize some of the common elements of your answers.
These prayers are an attempt to bring in something greater of spiritual
reality into the lives of these people, who are perhaps still sleeping in
spirit and not yet fully aware of the potential of love and truth and
peace and joy that can be activated within them.

Your answers all carried within it the awareness that you were bringing
something into their inner being that is good and that is helpful and
nurturing – that they may not have even thought about in their own mind
or their own lives.

In prayer, you are carefully planting a new spiritual ideal within the
mindal environment of those individuals for whom you pray. Think of how a
seed, when it has been placed in fertile soil, is conserved so that it
can grow by having its roots firmly established in the soil in its home
environment. 

Prayer is your conserving of this spiritual ideal that you are now
introducing into the mindal environment of your brothers and sisters.
This might be the only time in their lives that they have something
planted within them that goes right into their young, and perhaps yet
uncultivated, foundation of truth.

You were all planting these seedling ideas, and you all experienced
certain responses of hope, of empathy, of love, of joy that something new
is happening within them. So, as you have planted this idea within them
through your prayer – as it has been instituted in them through the
prayer circuitry – let your continued prayer attempts for them be to
foster this environment.  Through your prayers, add the rain and the sun
that they need for this seedling thought to take root in the soil of
their mind – and to grow – to become a sprout and a bud and a flower.

Opening your heart, feeling the Father’s love for this individual, will
water this seed. Asking for Michael’s truth will be the sun that
illuminates this idea within their foundation. Asking Mother Spirit to
continue to work within their minds, to open and to make that environment
with them soft, receptive. This is how you can serve and grow this
seedling within them.

So, as you pray for these individuals, keep these ideas of seedling
nurturing in your mind. This is one of the most beautiful services you
can perform for your brothers and sisters, for you are helping them in
the very way that is gentle, that is compassionate, that is subtle. The
ways of spirit do not try to coerce people to grow. No, my friends,
spirit moves in the lives of these individuals by embellishing those
ideas of truth, so that they become so enlarged within the mind and
hearts of the individual – that will lead them to say "yes”, and to
receive and to become that which is growing within them. 

When you pray for these individuals in the future, recall the experience
that you had in prayer tonight, and let this guide you. Use this as a
measurement within your own mind of the service that you have performed –
for you have all gained a greater realization of the value of what you
were doing. And so, continue to use this as your impetus to pray for
these individuals. 

I will pause now and entertain your questions about praying in this
fashion. 

Student: Welmek, I have a question for you. Can the younger brother pray
for the older brother? And what I am asking, I pray for my brothers and
sisters here on this planet, but I can I say a prayer for you? Is there
something that you would wish to have me pray for? Something in your
life? 

Welmek: My dear friend, how it endears you to me in what you have asked
of me. And truly I am grateful and acknowledge the sentiment. What I
would ask that you consider that I need not of your service because the
need is so great on your planet, and your thoughts are better directed
toward others who are in greater need. I have none such need, my friend.
My life is fully assured and well underway. Those who are in need are
desperate for your prayers. Spend time focusing on them, and I will join
in my prayers with you – and you can call on me to pray with you at
anytime – and I will be with you in spirit and add my efforts and
attention to them as well. 

Student: Thank you, Welmek. I will do that. 

Welmek: This would be an answer to a prayer for me. 

Student: It seems to me that I’m aware that my daily life would be kind
of prayer [ ]. That would take some jelling to reach that state of mind
or spirit or all three. It seems to me that I gradually would be able to
break down the barriers between ordinary action and building that action
with spiritual intention and active prayer [ ]. Every encounter is
prayerful. (Some words were unable to be transcribed)

Welmek: This is so true, my friend, and you have gained a greater
illumination of the wonderful service that being in prayer entails. As
your intention grows in this prayerful attitude, be not discouraged that
your mind can wander and that you move out of prayer. It is the attempt
at prayer that is significant. Each time you pray, you are spiritizing
your thinking, and you are adding more depth and weight in your mindal
environment and making better habits for yourself. To that eventual end
that yes, you can actually be in a state of prayer at all times. 

But see this as a goal to be achieved over the eternity of your lifetime,
and make your attempts each day as best you can. And be well satisfied
that you did your best each day. You will grow in awareness of prayer.
You will grow in your ability to be prayerful. And you will find that it
will not matter what the outcome of the prayer is. For your faith in what
you are learning to mindfully focus on will become so enlarged within
your mind that you will be very happy with the attempts at service that
you are making.

Live each day as best you can – in prayer as much as you can – and we
will bring this back to the table in several months; and it will be quite
amazing to you to see your progress. And I address this last comment to
each of you here this evening. 

Student: Welmek, I notice that each prayer has an element of worship in
it. I feel that it must be the thought adjuster conducting the worship,
because the minute you pray you are happy that you believe in prayer, and
you are grateful you are in a system that uses prayer and before you know
it it’s converted to a worship experience. It’s got to be not only a
fringe benefit, but the feeling of growing into a larger and larger
universe citizen. But it happens all kind of seamlessly, and I feel that
the proportion is it seems to be almost 50/50 here. Is that a way of
looking at that? 

Welmek: What you have described is very apt. For it speaks to the very
essence of how you use your mind as a spiritual tool. The two major
components of spiritized thinking are prayer and worship. Prayer – in
seeking guidance and help for yourself and others; and worship as the
awareness of the divine presence in your life and the celebration
thereof. 

And, as you say, this 50/50 relationship is the proportional balance. In
time, as this becomes mastered, you will find that your day can be in
this proportional relationship more consistently so that 100% of your day
is spent in 50% prayer and 50% worship. And would that not be a wonderful
awareness, indeed?

Student: Sounds right. 

Student: Welmek, I’d just like to make a comment to you and to my friends
here about something I noticed: that as I become more receptive to just
being more emotional and feeling more – as it were, kind of loosening the
soil of my emotional garden – that all kind of weeds are popping up that
I thought I had gotten rid of long ago. 

I am determined not to be discouraged and to carry on. I’ll get out my
hoe and start weeding, from time to time, because the flowers are popping
up and the relationships are well worth it. But that is a side effect
that I’ve noticed, that some old bad habits keep coming around. And it is
because I am not acting like some kind of tyrant in my own mind anymore,
and just squashing them.

Welmek: How, my dear friend, it pleases me that you sense this richness
now in your emotional soil beginning to bud these new flowers; and it is
true that for a time there are these weeds there. But, as you say, you
are hoeing them out. And the more you turn to the Father for His love,
the more his hand can be there in the soil and removing the weeds with
you and for you and through you. And so that, in time, these weeds will
be troublesome no longer, and you will find that the habits that you have
are clean and healthy and life and spirit affirming. Let the weeds come
up naturally. Let the hand of the Divine Gardener remove them for you. 

Student: Thank you, Welmek, it’s the one thing I keep forgetting. 

Welmek: I wish to draw us now into a prayer. I would like you all to
think of the spiritual receptivity of this planet. Think about those
people who live in the unknowing of the Father’s love for them. Think
about those you know who live in a vacuum, whose hearts are closed and
empty. Let us center our attention on these individuals, as we pray for
the Father’s love to enter their lives. 

Pray to Father: We place before you our intention to ask for souls who
are lost on this world to be brought into your family, the family of love
and truth. We ask for your angels to seek these individuals out; and for
the environment of their minds to be opened by their ministrations, to
activate the Spirit of Truth within them, to assign spiritual helpers to
them to guide them to you. We ask you to pour your myriad of celestial
workers into their lives connecting them to people who can guide them. We
pray this for all of the lost souls on Urantia. Continue to hold the
focus. (Pause) 

My friends, pray each day for those you know personally who are lost,
wanting, in great need of the Father’s love, but know not to ask or to
receive. Engage your prayerful attention on them. Each day ask for more
love to enter their lives, for those agencies of spirit be added into
their lives to guide them to a new way of life. 

My friends, you are so richly blessed. Share your riches with others
through your prayers. Share the love and the guidance you have received
through your prayers for them. Spread the wealth of these spiritual
treasures. Your efforts will make Urantia a jewel of all Nebadon. And so
it is each time you pray. Each individual is a facet that is glistening
in an emerging jewel. Shine your light of love on these individuals. The
Father’s love flow through you to them. Make this a beautiful world, my
friends. It will be the joy of your life. Good evening.