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Cultivation of Listening Grace

Beloved Uriel

Beloved ones; there are many God-blessings available to humanity which he could have and enjoy if he knew of them; as well as Ascended Master and Angelic friends who can and will release those blessings into his experience at his conscious call. I KNOW, because in the activities of Ministration, we work with the Silent Watchers who abide over every city, state, nation, continent and the Planet itself. Of course, these Divine Beings neither slumber nor sleep, and are therefore ever cognizant of the needs of the life evolving within the scope of their watchful care.

One of the very simple ways by which humanity could open their worlds to the greater blessings of and from the Godhead to them would be by cultivating, using and expanding the feeling of sincere gratitude for blessings which they are already enjoying. Humankind's conversations with God - (their prayers) - usually consist of "Dear God. Why has this happened to me? - I need help here", etc. Most of their prayers are cries of pain and distress, for there are very few honest and earnest prayers of thanksgiving for the constantly flowing fundamental gift of Life, as well as the benefits thereof.

The cultivation of Grace is a very wonderful pursuit. Grace always begins to manifest as a feeling of thanksgiving. A graceless person is a very unpleasant one with whom to associate. You know that it was said of Holy Mary, that she was always 'full of grace'. In your case and in the case of all those who represent the Ascended Master Saint Germain, one of the most gracious Beings in the Universe, I do ask that you all, individually and collectively, begin to endeavor to really enjoy invoking the Spirit of Grace from my Divine Complement Donna Grace.

Try to be grateful for something every moment of the day. Try to find perhaps just one small thing in every life you contact for which to be grateful, also in every activity of the day in which you engage. Doing this, gradually you will come into a State of Grace which, by the way, is not a state of mind, but a feeling.

Throughout the centuries which have been, there have been courtiers and various individuals occupying diplomatic posts, representing various nations. These individuals go through all the motions of Grace but, behind their actions is so often the motive of self-preservation or self-aggrandizement. Therefore, those individuals are not the 'diplomats without guile' of which your Beloved Saint Germain has often spoken, these are hypocritical. So you may say 'thank you' a thousand times in many ways; you may open the door for another like a real gentleman and say 'God bless you' - but, if the motivating feeling within you for doing the act is not that of genuine love and gratitude to life for the existence of the other lifestream and his endeavors to promote and expand the activities of God upon this Earth, then all your words of simulated Grace are as nothing.

However, when the feeling of Grace is released from within the heart, it really makes the hand-shake, the blessing, the benediction or even the small favor, a gift from God himself and the receiver feels that. You cannot deceive the feeling world of another individual unless he or she is under the influence of that destructive humanly created entity of flattery.

On the other hand, if the individual is honest, earnest and sincere, and has been shorn of the capacity to allow flattery to swerve him from his purpose, the lifestream releasing the feelings of Grace does reach the heart of the other, there finding an anchorage in the world of the one who seeks love, comfort and encouragement along Life's Way. Thus the blessing one is able to give his benediction.

Constantly sustained feelings of Grace create a beautiful world in which to live. When you and we come together in your group activities, and particularly when the Ascended Master gives an address, for an hour or so you are in our Radiation and – therefore, in a State of Grace, at least as long as the Address is being given, the songs being sung and the visualizations held.

However, almost as soon as our Radiation ceases to directly pour, you go back into the vibratory action of your accustomed consciousness, that which was familiar to you before. Because of this, you lose much of that radiation of sustained Harmony which you so greatly need and which we are so desirous of anchoring in, through and around you, until we can say to the Beloved Lords of Karma, "Every chela under this Radiation is filled with sustained Grace; is in a state of sustained Harmony and is, therefore a true representative of our Beloved Saint Germain. Through that Harmony, each one is able and willing to be a conductor of all the Virtues of the Godhead to humankind".

If you think on and about any of the Divine Beings, you will notice that wonderful Grace in their nature. In the first place, they never come unless and until they are invited; they do not give advice unless they are asked for it; they leave when you are finished with their services, and they are at hand again when you make a conscious call for their assistance. These are the selfless Ones who give all they are and have, asking no return to themselves, but fervently hoping that their endeavors will bear some fruit of expanding perfection in this world of form.

Now, that is what you aspire to. "Keep on keeping on" with these aspirations until each and every one of you is so filled with sustained Grace that you are really like your Master. Can you think of our Lord Maha Chohan as being anything less than the fullness of Grace in all his service? The Beloved Morya, mighty Being of Fire that he is, is the most grace-full of all the Princes of Heaven. As we have said, the Beloved Saint Germain is so outstanding in his grace-full-ness that, when he moves into a room; when he raises his arms to give a blessing; when those lovely violet eyes flood forth their gratitude to the chela, every gesture is a manifestation of such Grace, such dignity and such love.

Jesus Christ was a most peaceful man, and yet he was a Power indeed, stronger than all the human appearances around him, even that of so-called 'death'. Do you think for one moment that our Beloved Jesus came by that peaceful control of energy just automatically? NO, my beloved ones, every instant from the time of his conception by the Beloved Mary did his mother and father consciously hold around his form the vibrations of Cosmic Christ Peace. Then, when he later became cognizant of his own Individualization in the body of Jesus, he was also trained to sustain that peace by Beloved Mary, Joseph, the Ascended Host and, particularly the Angels. Do you think he could have walked through the multitudes untouched by their doubts, fears and general distresses; do you think he could have raised Lazarus from the so-called 'dead'; make the blind to see; heal the lepers and continue to keep his devoted and well-meaning, but not always understanding disciples united enough in purpose to form the heart center of the Christian Dispensation... had he not had a strength which was greater than any human appearance, even 'death' itself?

Sometimes the tensions and pressures of the human serving in this appearance world, even in Divine Service, are such that one wearies a little of the sameness of activity. Sometimes you even weary a little in well-doing. However, I venture to say that, were any of you in this room temporarily to be freed completely from the physical appearance world for forty-eight hours and then were asked if you would care to come back and finish your task, you would most joyously do so.

Often, when serving begins to pall upon an individual, it is just a good rest and 'change of scenery' that is necessary to allow the outer self to re-gain its balance of energy and, in reconsecration by the Beloved Raphael, return to his service with renewed enthusiasm.

Remember. . . you have a personal Ministering Angel who has been with you for centuries. By your call to him, this Ministering Angel daily anoints all your four lower vehicles with his substance and feelings of Divine Love, Light and Grace. . . thus helping you to hold sustained peace, regardless of any human appearances or aggravations. Give him your undivided attention for just a few moments each day - during that time consciously accepting into your feelings the help he wishes to give to you.