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<P>LIGHT LINE<BR></B>September 6, 2007</P><B>
<P>TEACHER:</B> Ill make it easy for you. This is Tomas. It is good to have this
occasion to enter into your minds wherein you may opt to discern the value of my
words and how they may affect your approach to your spiritual path. I am a part
of the Teacher Corps and therefore I present myself as someone having some
authority over my subject matter; however, I am a philosopher, and philosophy is
not a hard science. It changes - not quite like a "shape-shifter" but it is
often malleable, depending on the capacity of the truth seeker. </P>
<P>It is said that the mind is the gateway to the spirit realm, and certainly
our task is to shed light on the path that you will take
not because of our
guidance but because of the guidance provided to you by the Way Shower himself.
We Teachers are simply landmarks along the way. There is no one who has
authority over your mind except yourself. It is your right to choose which
thoughts will serve and which are as tares that grow among the wheat. </P>
<P>In your search for that which feeds your growth -- the growth of your soul,
the hunger of your mind -- you allow yourself to feel needy, a certain
needfulness, a longing to be filled with a spirit substance, a soulful response,
an emotional backlash -- some kind of reaction or response from the universe you
can take as stimuli to feed that hunger that will stimulate the mind and spirit.
This neediness is the eagerness of perfection hunger.</P>
<P>There are some, of course, who are so needy, they are almost insatiable. And
like a youngster who is growing rapidly, cannot seem to get enough to eat,
cannot be filled. There are stages in your life that call for different
responses. In the mature years it takes very little to keep a body alive. Yet it
may take more to keep the spirit aloft in the face of such views as are those
who have lived many decades, seen many troubles and faced many challenges. There
is a time to eat and a time to refrain from eating. Not to starve, no, but to
slow down. There is a time to sleep, a time to be productive, a time to ponder
the effects of your actions and a time to anticipate the results of your
actions. All this provides perspective. </P>
<P>This is your life. Your choices, your life, your discernment, your appetites,
your productivity, outlay, input -- all these constitutes your experience. If
you never do another thing, if you never talk to another individual, if
lightening should strike you right now, you each have enough constituted with
you in your framework to continue in Mansonia, but that which you can do here
now toward augmenting your growth and, as if by default, the growth of others,
then you have contributed to life. You are not approaching life from a point of
neediness as much as you are a point of bestowal. You are in a position to feed
the hungry, to provide for the needy. </P>
<P>You will need to forgive yourself to failing to fulfill your own perception
of what that means. When we set out to be like God, we have the idea that God
can do anything, everything, and that if we abide by Him and live in Him, what
He wishes and what we will can be brought into effect, and yet oftentimes in
truth we fall far short. Sometimes it appears that we fail completely. </P>
<P>But this is an incomplete assessment of the situation, and so the thing to do
is to forge ahead in faith of the next instance and on the next day or in the
next circumstance, giving what you can, taking what you need, applying yourself
to the give and take of the living organism of life itself - the material world
and its energies as well as morontia reality and its energies, thus becoming a
part of all that is and being all that you can be in this world, even as you
function in and with the spirit.</P>
<P>Ascension is inherent. It is the plan, the scheme, the program. And yet there
is nothing you can do to hurry the process. There are no shortcuts and there are
no speed bumps. SO if you hasten ahead you will find you will have to wait until
life catches up with you. Or if you dawdle, you will find that you must catch up
before the world turns. All of you are in this together. Even though each of you
are on your own independent circuit, your own personal path, you are like the
many gears of a complicated clock synchronistically telling the time, ticking
off the days and revealing the signs of the times in which you live. </P>
<P>While you are encouraged to lift up, I also encourage you to reach back and
look down. Look down upon that which looks up to you. Look back at that which
follows you. And help it along. Nurture it. Nourish it and encourage it. Help
set it on its own path. It is in finding one's own way, through ones own will,
by the decision of ones own mind that one advances. And the wonder of it is,
when this occurs, we all advance together in harmony and in synch with divine
order. </P>
<P>I have taught through this medium for nearly 15 years (your time). I look
forward to many, many years of continued service in this Correcting Time, if not
in this capacity, in some capacity IF it is God's will, and if it suits those
who are my current and temporary supervisors. We hope that each of you will feel
similarly disposed to continue to serve in the Correcting Time - for your own
enhancement as well as for the enhancement of truth, beauty and goodness at
large. As long as you are still here, as long as you have energy to spare, as
long as you are still needy, and as long as you have something to give, let us
be factored into your paradigm. We in the invisible realms, we who watch over
you and work with you, encourage you and harmonize your efforts. </P>
<P>I do not have the authority to advise anyone what to do. But I do have the
authority of my own convictions, and they have come about experientially, just
as yours is coming about. And I assure you that when we meet in the morontia
form On High, I will know you from these days in the flesh and you will know me
by my teachings, and we will know together that we have come a long way together
in this perfecting process. I look forward to seeing your eyes open - if not on
the day of your resurrection [then] in the days that follow when you are putting
together all the pieces of the puzzle that today may be seen as a hazy picture
nebulous, ethereal
but <I>there </I>will be actual and vivid
unequivocal.
For that kind of assurance then will be my reward for having encouraged you to
continue in your grasp of those things which will feed your soul and foster your
spirit forevermore. It is a privilege to serve in this mission. It is an honor
to be allied with Michael of Nebadonia, our remarkable Prince of Peace, and the
many personalities in his organization who run a tight ship upon whose seas we
sail.</P>
<P>I would be happy to engage with you, to discourse with you any of your
concerns in your learning or your teaching. The floor is open. </P><B>
<P>Simon:</B> Hi Tomas. Can you hear me?</P><B>
<P>TOMAS:</B> Yes, very well</P><B>
<P>Simon:</B> This is Simon in Salt Lake. I was excited to hear you talk about
that spirit substance that people are really looking for. Perhaps you could make
some more connections in my spirit mind about that.</P><B>
<P>TOMAS:</B> Dear Simon, you are a good student. You ask not only for yourself,
but for others. I will say this about that. There are many who yearn for truth,
beauty and goodness, yes, who long for deeper love, greater reality, but they
don't know it. It is like people who have a tremendous craving for a certain
food, or for drugs and alcohol, or who have a tremendous desire to go somewhere
or to do something. They are drawn, they are compelled, they are driven but they
dont know what for or what about, and when you send out words such as truth or
beauty and goodness or love, they may not know what that means. They may not
have the same definition you do. Depending on where they are in their growth, or
where they are stuck, their definition will be different. </P>
<P>Here is where you need to reach down or reach back. And that may involve
ascertaining where they are so that you can reach them, rather than having them
lift up to you to find out where you are coming from. You go to them. Draw them
out, as Jesus did. Ask them questions. Socialize with them. The only place Jesus
did not go was to the public baths because of the rampant promiscuity there.
[But] there is no proscription against your going even to the public baths if
you feel you would be able to minister there to those who hunger and thirst for
righteousness. There is no lowly work in the kingdom. There is no demeaning
effort.</P>
<P>Sometimes people who have been abused in life only understand abuse. They
would disdain someone who would dare to be kindly, considering them to be
condescending. You need to find out where your student is, "where are they
coming from," as they say, and reach them there. You need not bring them up too
high. There is no point in giving your students spiritual indigestion. Just give
them enough that they have something to chew on, something that they can make
their own.</P>
<P>When you seek to enlighten your fellows, don't overburden them with all of
your ponderous thoughts and your pontifications (such as I myself am inclined to
do), but rather, speak to them where they are, as I would do if I were doing
personal ministry. In personal ministry, you can get quite intimate (without
necessarily getting familiar). Draw out the seeker and find out where their need
lies, and if it is within you to give it to them, or to direct them to where
they need to go to have that need fulfilled, in the hope that they will then
seek to go the next step and walk the second mile to find a higher plateau, this
will have been a valuable service.</P>
<P>For some reason, people like to think that the only acceptable or admirable
service is through a church or an institution or an organization that has been
sanctioned somehow through a government office, perhaps, or an eleemosynary
institution, perhaps, but I tell you the greatest services are those that are
accomplished one-on-one. Personal ministry. Even though there is a great
emphasis on classrooms, workshops, seminars, CDs, books, presentations and the
like -- EXPOs, conventions, conferences, retreats where people get together to
show what they are doing, what they have done, manifest their employment for God
and demonstrate their devotion to duty, this is only one of the many, many forms
of important ministry. Never overlook the importance of the one-on-one ministry
as you pass by. </P>
<P>It is not even necessary that it be Christian in its presentation, or
"religious," for human kindness is Godlike, and so is straight talk, sometimes
called "tough love," sometimes seen as Dutch Uncle conference. Acknowledging
another's existence is a service! I am certain, Simon, that you are one busy
fellow in the Kingdom. You may not feel your works rise to a level of notice
that would set you in the ranks of the movers and the shakers or the leaders and
the plowers, but you are an eager and earnest worker in the field. Fear not.
Just continue to befriend humanity as you do and as you can. I know that the
Father goes with you. </P>
<P>Playing checkers with the old men on the corner, combing the hair of the old
lady at the old folks' home, holding the babies in the nursery at the hospital,
reading textbooks to blind students, acting the clown for the neighborhood
children, peeling potatoes for your aunt, organizing the nuts and bolts drawer
for your uncle, these are ministries that make life sweet, that add to the
harmony of mortal existence -- those sensations that allow humans to feel that
all is right with the world, that humans really are good people. It instills
faith and hope through these simple gestures. Does this help?</P><B>
<P>Simon:</B> It helps a lot Tomas. You're super great. And I'll be studying
your words.</P><B>
<P>TOMAS:</B> Thank you. Are there other questions, other discussions, other
concerns?</P><B>
<P>Mike:</B> Hello, Tomas!</P><B>
<P>TOMAS:</B> Yes.</P><B>
<P>Mike:</B> Hi, this is Mike and I'd like to contribute something to this. I
have found that recently - over the past couple years - I have been definitely
growing, and growing in terms of my ability to love and relate and minister, as
you are speaking of. And I've found that as I get more clear-headed, so to
speak, about picking up on people's inner pain, or just knowing when to do just
something as simple as smile, I've sort of been confronted with larger problems
in terms of relative truth and dealing with sort of seeing situations from
behind the eyes of these people and knowing how real some of these realities are
to them and sometimes I'm not 100% sure which way ... what to say, or the right
thing to do in varying / in specific concepts I see, that seem to cross, and I
wonder if there is any information or counsel you can give as far as relative
truth.</P><B>
<P>TOMAS:</B> You have now broached my arena of philosophy. But before I get too
philosophic, let me point out that your question reminded me of the sundry
bestowals made by the Master in putting himself into situations that caused him
to need to learn to understand the nature of the creature whose world he was
incarnated into and having a plan for their advancement. Thus, your experience
in approaching these people, these situations, and having a mind to know it well
enough that you would be able to bring to it that same quality of concern and
wisdom that Michael would have brought in his bestowals, is a comparison not to
be overlooked. It confirms your relative maturity in having the mind to observe
the relativity of the situation and want to give your best possible of the many
possible contributions. </P>
<P>Sometimes there is nothing you can do except be there and afford them
companionship. This in itself sometimes is all that it takes, just to let them
know they are not alone, that you, too, have been in situations where you did
not know the answer but, even so, you knew that your motives were such that you
would not be punished for whatever choice you made, in fact, what ever choice
you made would bring about some kind of experiential wisdom. This, of course,
takes you off the hook.</P>
<P>If you know something about what their quandary is and you know something
about what they face based on your own experience, you might philosophize with
them as to what the cause and effect might be, given the circumstances. You
might review with them as Jesus did and "count the cost" of their possible
choices. You can draw them out and ascertain how their behaviors will affect
others and weigh the good and not so good effects, for almost nothing you do
does not affect someone or something else. And sometimes the best thing to do is
to do nothing. You need not have all the answers on their behalf.</P>
<P>There are, however (and blissfully) those times when you find yourself
bubbling up like a well-spring and works pouring forth from you like water from
a fountain, words that are surely only yours through the grace of God, and this,
of course, is those moments we look forward to when we are a channel for God,
when we know we are an instrument, without question. But in the meantime, to be
a man among men, a fellow, a friend, is a credible alternative, and perhaps even
more enduring for its tangible nature. </P>
<P>You are to live your life, after all, not anticipate that you will live the
life of Jesus but to live your life, and to encounter men, women, children as
you pass by in your life, in your time, in your culture and your economy and you
language, which makes it your unique experience. You cannot be expected to live
Jesus life or any other life but your own. Therefore, make it yours. </P>
<P>You needn't think your way through all of this life. You can feel your way
through some of it, allowing the adjutants to assist you, allowing the Spirit of
Truth to guide you, but allowing yourself the freedom and the leeway to also be
a student as you attempt to teach those with whom you encounter life's
situations. Is this helpful?</P><B>
<P>Mike:</B> It's quite helpful. Thank you so much for your wisdom. It helps
show me different approaches to the situation and different ways to assess the
situation and, of course, with all my difficulties I'm just happy to have these
situations to grow. And thank you very much for your counsel. </P><B>
<P>TOMAS: </B>You are welcome, my son. Yes, it is way too easy for people to
find the simplicity of polarity, but such a black and white response to life
lacks the depth often required which can be found in the gray areas of life's
situations. It's not always wrong or right, black or white, high and low. Life
can get very complicated. And rather than become discouraged by that
complication, far better to take the time necessary to embrace the situation and
dissect it or unsnarl it such that you can see your way clear, out of the trap
of indecision, or past the maze of confusion. Perhaps not to see the ultimate
resolution but to at least see it clearly enough that you can proceed in good
faith.</P>
<P>Are there other questions? [None] I would like to add some personal counsel,
then, for any of you who can use this as counsel. </P>
<P>Keep your focus. Keep your eye on the prize. <BR>Know Whom you serve. Stay
clear of that which befuddles.</P>
<P>Treat yourself well. Nurture yourself. Be good to yourself. <BR>If you are
not well, you cannot give of yourself in service for others.</P>
<P>Take your time. There is no hurry. The Master was never in a hurry. <BR>When
he did hasten, he was mindful of what he was hastening to. </P>
<P>Be at peace. Find it within you. Let your mind be at rest. <BR>Allow your
Spirit to minister to you and strengthen you.</P>
<P>There are no undue demands put upon you. You are a liberated faith child.
<BR>Be at peace. Be of good cheer. </P>
<P>We lift our voice now in thanks to the Universal Father, Paradise Trinity,
and Their myriad helpers throughout the realms of time and space, of which we
are a part, in happiness of this grand Family, forevermore.</P>
<P>Farewell. </P>
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