[tmtranscripts] TOMAS: "Our Will be Done"

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Posted January 13, 1999
>From Gerdean
Pittsburgh PA
Transmitted:   11-16-97
Subject:  "Our Will be Done"
Teacher:  Tomas

TOMAS:	Good afternoon, faithful flock.
GROUP:	(Elyssia, Celeste, Jane, Hunnah, David, Leah, Gerdean) Good afternoon
Tomas.

TOMAS:  	What a marvelous afternoon it is indeed.  How beautiful it is in your
realm and how vibrant it is in your psychological and emotional realms.  Your
palette today has given us a panorama of color and motion upon which to play.
Indeed, your outpourings of this afternoon have been so varied and so
rambunctious as to create quite a quandary as to how to present a lesson that
would pull it all together, and, as on many occasions, we throw up our hands
and say, "Never mind.  We'll opt to do it our way," knowing that doing it "our
way" we will do it in the way of Our Father and it will provide joy and
sustenance for everyone concerned.

Indeed I would like this afternoon to spend a few moments in that context, and
that is that "Our Will be Done."  We speak of the will of The Father as being
the way to go, the path that we would take.  How many times have we all sought
in our prayer life to do His will?  From time immemorial noble man has always
asked about God's will and what does it mean to do His will.  How does it
present itself in the life?  Is it a way of life?  Is it a decision to make?
Is it a series of decisions?  Is it a job?  Is it a spouse?  Is it a field of
schooling?  Is it an attitude?  Is it a deprivation?  A discipline?  How is
His will to be understood?

As you discussed earlier, "It is my will that Your will be done," and so "What
is my will?  My will is that I do His will, but without further understanding
of what that is, I will my life to be filled with happiness, with joyousness
and with freedom.  I choose to surround myself with beautiful people,
beautiful thoughts, and beautiful things.  I like to be around harmony and
fragrance and I like to dance and sing and play.  I opt to be creative.  I
enjoy good food; I enjoy good books; I enjoy a good walk; I enjoy good health;
and so these things shall be my will which will be in accordance with His
will.  It is my will that Your will be done, Father."

Now I ask you to think in terms of "our will."  What on earth is our will?
Our will is a community of purpose.  I have beheld - you have beheld -
community of purpose.  Your evolved religions are exemplary of zealous,
united, spiritual purpose.  Other evolved religions also enjoin to know a
united purpose, and in that united purpose, armies are brought into being, as
well as industry and social movement.

In speaking of our will in terms of our comprehension of reality, within the
context of the Teaching Mission, as students of the Fifth Epochal Revelation,
we think of our will as conjoint harmony with the will of the Paradise
Trinity, and that would include truth, beauty, goodness, creativity, harmony,
and happiness - not for the individual, no, but for the greater whole, for the
honor and glory of the Creator and the Creators, for the edification of our
fellows, the entertainment of ourselves, for the ease of purpose in our filial
relationships.

It is said that love is the desire to do good to others, and this too is a
communal will.  As I choose to do good to you, you choose to do good to me; we
then have capitalized on our joint purpose and have invited the living Christ
to be part of our partnership, thereby bringing into reality, THREE  -- GROUP
- COMMUNITY.  It is OUR WILL that HIS WILL be done.

Now when you say, "I will" or "my will" or "His will", you can consider how it
is that your will fits in with the greater picture.  Are you being supportive
of the family of man?  Are you being a part of the cosmic neighborhood?  Or
are you a single individualistic entity in isolation and alienation of family
purpose?

In considering Our Will, you can consider that you are no longer alone.  You
are no longer an isolated individual, an orphan, in your cosmic bubble,
isolated from others of your kind, but you are part of the whole, part of the
fold, part of the flock.  It entails an embracing of the brotherhood of man,
the family of God, when you say "Our Will."

You will find, as this lesson enters into your consciousness, that there are
many who disagree with your point of view as to what Our Will might be, for
there are other groups who join together, who band together, in support of a
reality and in support of an understanding of deity which has come about as a
result of the inherent isolation you have suffered, and so the greater "Our
Will be Done" is in response to the opening of the circuits.

All of life is invited to ascend.  All intelligent life is invited to respond
to the stimulae of Paradise.  The gravity circuits are here to uplift you, and
you are encouraged to dance with each other in this weaving of reality to
Paradise.  You are not alone, nor is any other who chooses to be part of the
family of God.

I have spoken well enough for the afternoon for a formal discourse.  I am
eager to share with my companion, Merium, and we are jointly eager to hear
from our support system, our community, in understanding of our combined will
to foster and further the truth of the gospel on Urantia.

(Eight pages of Q&A)

I am going to take back the reigns, children, and again embrace you for your
wonderful personalities and your contributions.  It is time for us to begin to
wind it up and let me do that by reminding you of our theme for the evening
which is about "Our Will" - yours and The Father's and our fellow sojourners
in the path to Paradise.

Now I would not suggest that you become so sensitive to your fellow human
beings that you embrace mediocrity, no, but that in your path you understand
that there are times when you will not embrace the same truths as your
fellows.  This is part of what it means to be an individual.  It is part of
what it means to have a Father-bestowed personality which allows The Father to
lead you and guide you into unknown realms into advanced truths.  It is how it
is that you have become an ambassador of truth and why you account yourself as
an apostle, for we are making inroads into a new realm of reality.

Remember the fruits of the spirit and remember your ultimate loyalties.  Ask
The Father how to comport yourself in your day, and as Elyssia has invited
Michael into her day, invite Him to attend with you to your daily affairs.  In
your companionship with Him, and/or with your personal guides, you can be
flanked by spirit reality and, remembering your greater purpose, you will have
the strength and fortitude to persevere in those areas that you deem to be His
will for you that is in accordance with Our Will for all.

It is an interesting concept.  It is part of the group concept, in fact, and
so I will ask you to look at that this week in terms of what is Our Will - our
will in terms of the greater reality.  Not in terms of what is fun for me this
moment, but what is best for all for eternity, and certainly for the next time
span of our growing together in this ascension mode.  

Have fun.  We love you.  Enjoy yourselves and enjoy the snow.  We'll see you
later.  

Farewell.