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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">DATE:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>December 6, 2012</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">LOCATION:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Light Line</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">T/R:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Gerdean</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">TEACHERS:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Jack and TOMAS</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">TOPIC:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The Upcoming Season</P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">0802AB</B>-Jack here, your friendly
secondary midwayer. I thought I’d have another go at being your host. The other
midwayers don’t seem to mind. There are a couple nearby who would be happy to
serve but it seems, in our milieu, we are quite generous in allowing others to
enjoy themselves, so I will enjoy myself this evening in your company and in the
company of a number of other entities who are joining with us. I jumped out here
before Gerdean even had a chance to say a prayer or build a merkabah but I can
bring you all into focus, and so that’s what I thought I’d do.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Tomas would like to speak with you this
evening, and I’ll be back. Meanwhile, just relax and listen to Tomas expound for
a bit.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>(One moment)</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">TOMAS:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Good evening, my friends, this is Tomas,
your Teacher. It delights me to be here in your midst. I am soon to celebrate 20
years as your teacher, and while that only means something in your time frame, I
acknowledge it as significant, for some of you are not much more than that age
yourself. As time goes by and as we are a part of your ordinary and regular
construct, we will be called upon more easily, more readily. We will become a
household word, as it were, and that’s good because it is a new language that’s
being introduced on an old theme. </P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>There are many things that are
turning over a new leaf or putting on a new suit of clothes or a new face to
meet the requirements of evolution. In particular, as you change from the inside
out and the old formats, ways and means, and vernaculars are no longer
appropriate or in vogue.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Change</B> often brings about <I
style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">changes,</I> and it’s the <I
style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">changes</I> that are difficult and
time-consuming. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Once the change
itself is manifested, it’s ‘the adaptation to’ and ‘the catching up with’ that
takes time.</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>I’m looking at this upcoming
season you’ve got planned for yourselves and I am going to discuss it because I
have my own perspective on what I and we observe going on in and around you, our
students.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></P>
<UL style="MARGIN-TOP: 0in" type=disc>
<LI style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1"
class=MsoNormal>Christmas, of course, is the overriding emphasis of December.
Even those of you who do not celebrate Christmas, are aware of Christmas.
</LI>
<LI style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1"
class=MsoNormal>There is also a Jewish holiday (Hanukkah) and an
African-American holiday (Kwanzaa)</LI>
<LI style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1" class=MsoNormal>And
there is the much talked about and anticipated end of the Mayan calendar, the
end of this system of things, the start of the new paradigm shift, and all,
which is scheduled to occur December 21st. </LI>
<LI style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1" class=MsoNormal>Let
us not overlook the full moon on the 28<SUP>th</SUP>. </LI>
<LI style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1" class=MsoNormal>And
then there is talk, as well, about a new dispensation beginning December
30<SUP>th</SUP>. </LI>
<LI style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1" class=MsoNormal>The
next day is New Year’s Eve and that’s when 2012 comes to an exciting
culmination, a true flourish, so as to be ready for January 1, 2013.</LI></UL>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>There will be, no doubt, many
extravaganzas postulated and acted out into 2013, as well.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>But I’d like to stay, if we may, on this
upcoming season and I speak to you of this because you have professed to want to
be of service and there will be great need for sensitivity in your service work
coming up over these next few weeks.</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>Almost all of what you are going
to experience during this next period of time is emotional. It is <B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><I
style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">feeling</I></B> focused, rather than
academic focus. It’s more right brain than left brain; it’s more heart than
head. This is what is wonderful about the Christmas season and it is also what
is feared and dreaded about the holiday season because, while everyone wants to
feel the good feelings, no one wants to feel the bad feelings, the negative
feelings, and yet they exist for everyone as you work out your destiny, as you
correct your issues and iron out the wrinkles of your experiential living.</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>You present yourself.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Sometimes you present yourself as having
it all together and sometimes you present yourself as justifiably angry or
naturally grieving or romantic or whatever life circumstances have given you to
dramatize.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>When Christmas comes, everything is
magnified 100%, so every little thing is bigger than it was. Everything seems
more important than it did. You feel far more vulnerable and since it has no
boundary, that is to say, the Christmas Spirit knows no bounds, it can affect
the poor and the wealthy, it can touch the godless as well as the devout; it can
satisfy the meek as well as the powerful -- provided that which you truly long
for is touched, and many of the things that you touch cannot be had because of
the circumstances that you in fact have participated in setting up, so there is,
on top of everything else, a lot of self-loathing at this time of year, a sense
of not being worthy, like the little drummer boy who doesn’t have gifts to
bring, just his noise. And so people come beating their drum. It is often a
cacophony of noise, but if you can appreciate what’s going on with these people,
you will have so much more compassion and patience for them as they endure
circumstances and look for solutions, even as they are emotionally riled up and
not thinking clearly.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><I
style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">This is a great time of year for you to
enter into a spiritual state, a sublime sense of peace.</I> When you can and do
this, you present yourself as a stabilizer. On one hand you may attract those
who long to touch base with stability, but you may be avoided by those who don’t
want to be stable for they are reacting and acting out and don’t want to be
reminded of how disquieted they are in their soul.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You can do nothing about their choices
or their perspectives, but you can hold them in your mind in a sacred place.
Allow the love of God <I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">as the Christmas
Spirit</I> to cover them and comfort them as only God knows how to do.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>Those you can comfort and
companion, do.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Be our guest. Shed
these positive feelings and indulge in the sentiments of giving and rejoicing
and celebrating the birth of truth, beauty and goodness.</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>Christmas is often a crisis time
for many and they will find their comfort one way or another, where they can get
it, where they may.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Many will be
hungry and homeless and lonely, but they will find camaraderie because of the
kindness of <I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">kindred spirits</I>, whether
they be religionists or fellow carousers, fellow creatures and party animals,
fellow men of all sorts. They may not worship what and how you worship, but the
spirit is freely given.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>Enjoy these feelings and observe
the dramas. You need not get caught up in the dramas. In fact, you may be able
to see your way more clearly to teach and preach because of what you see in this
season of raw emotionality… or, in contrast, those who have so well learned how
to cover up their emotions; they are as plastic manikins … and to them send
double care, for their heart needs softened and strengthened so that feelings
can be felt and trained to serve and exalt the Creator of all these feelings,
this tremendous emotional realm that is such a large part of the human
condition.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>What you do about gifts is your
business: what you can afford – financially, socially, spiritually or otherwise.
<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Just stay close to your Source and
be guided in all things.</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>But now that you know how
emotional it will be “out there,” brace yourself against getting swept away. A
certain amount of detachment from the folderol allows for a sober perspective,
one which runs through every event as a condition of safety and overcare.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>What would we do without the stability
and sobriety of Deity, even as we rejoice and frolic in our Sonship?<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>Well, I have given my little
timely lesson around the month of December. I like putting my teachings into a
perspective that you can deal with. How does it affect you? <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>How do my words and my lessons and the
values that I call to your attention have to do with you, your life, and how you
live it, since I require of you, my students, a focus that dwells on the growth
of your own soul?<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I reciprocate by
providing you a focus that supports the growth and the development of your soul
as well, for this is where the satisfaction lay, where the opportunities are,
the triumphs, the challenges, and the accomplishments.</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>I am willing to chat further
about this topic or others if you are inclined to meander.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>There are others in the wings and Jack
is still here. I will suggest you reconnect with the microphone by pressing star
six, which will give you leave to speak, go on the record. I will invite you to
do this now. Ask questions or make commentary as you will.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Dave:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Hi Tomas. I just wanted to thank you for
the book you wrote on the fruits of the spirit. I recently received it and I’m
very much enjoying it.</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">TOMAS:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I’m so glad you like it. I had a good
time teaching the fruits to the Pittsburgh group; they were quite receptive. It
took a few months, actually, to deliver all the lessons that were then edited
into the format that you received as the book “Fruits of the Spirit.”<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I went away during preparation for
publication so as to not micromanage the affair. Another midwayer was called in
to oversee the editing and proofreading processes, the publication itself, and I
was very glad to see how well everyone comported themselves and participated,
for in truth, it is how well you work together that means as much if not more
than the product itself. </P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>We are also pleased that so many
years later the product is still a quality book, a nice piece of merchandise, in
spite of the fact that everyone had something to complain about. The formatting
was not as they submitted it; the artwork had been modified from the artist’s
rendition, and that sort of thing. But even with all those modifications,
unauthorized modifications, it came out quite nice. I’m glad you like it.</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Dave:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I’m enjoying it very much. I’m finding
it very helpful. Thanks again.</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">TOMAS:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Thank you.</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>With all this going on, I know
there are things that come to your mind. I know that you are not just accepting
everything that comes along, but that you do ponder and reflect on things. Share
with us what you reflect on. How can we help you grow, or how can your
reflections bring growth to others?<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Mark:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Tomas, are you saying that this
particular Christmas season will be more emotionally vulnerable than past
Christmases?</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">TOMAS:</B><SPAN
style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN>Yes,
I am.</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Mark:<SPAN style="mso-tab-count: 1">
</SPAN></B>Yeah.</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">TOMAS:</B><SPAN
style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN>There
is always a tremendous lot going on.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>There is always Christmas and Kwanzaa and Hanukkah, but there is not
always the end of the Mayan calendar, the end of a dispensation, and the full
moon at once on top of that.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It is
also a particularly volatile powder keg emotionally because of many things –
politics mostly, economics, war, etc.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Mark:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Yes.</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">TOMAS:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Why do you ask?</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Mark:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I just wanted to make sure I got what
you were saying. So … the end of the Mayan calendar, the new dispensation, the
full moon.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>These will all have
their effects -- more than merely psychological effects – that these are going
to deliver or …?</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">TOMAS:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It is unlikely that the announcement
regarding the dispensation is going to have that profound an effect on the world
at large, and yet the other items are rather global. The 2012 end of the Mayan
calendar may not be of particular interest to <I
style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">everyone</I>, but it is of <B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">acute </B>interest to thousands of people
across the world -- people you relate to and with in terms of the shift and so
forth.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And so your culture, as it
were, is more than usually invested. It’s a tremendous growth opportunity,
actually, and we are seeing signs of it already where people are beginning to
realize that the largess of materialism is not satisfying their longing and that
the unending shopping is becoming monotonous, that there has to be something
greater in order for this holiday to have real meaning. </P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>Now, you will notice that most of
them are still overlooking the birth of the Christ child except as a formality,
a traditional addition to a winter holiday.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>But it is still very difficult for
people to openly address a soul perspective on faith, living faith.</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>Everyone knows whether everyone
has a church, or not; who believes or doesn’t. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Perhaps you know if your neighbor is a
Methodist or an atheist, a Buddhist or Catholic.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>These things are part of the social
scene; it may or may not permeate the environment, but you can have a sense, and
we are going to be entering into a greater awareness of what sense there is
about deity, living spirit. It will make people nervous. They long for God, but
they are afraid to talk of it. They are afraid to be betrayed, they are afraid
they will again be lied to, they fear having to be more responsible than they
want to be. They just want to be safe. They want to be saved. They want that
assurance of sonship that those who are born of the spirit feel without benefit
of chapels, cathedrals, holy books, candles or any of that, any of those props
to religion, just simple personal faith.</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>And so you will find, looking at
people, they may feel somewhat exposed. They may prefer to be drunk, or high, so
that they can glibly hide behind social festivities rather than expose their
yearning for higher reality. You can be sensitive to that. If you are on the
lookout for those kinds of circumstances -- souls who are yearning to know
“what’s it all about Alfie” -- you can be sure that your Thought Adjuster will
reach out and touch their Thought Adjuster, giving them an opportunity to pass
you by, or not, so that your light can so shine, giving them a ray of hope or a
glimmer of confidence without blinding them, without causing them to stagger by
your glory.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>Remember that it is the Father’s
light we are privileged to carry; He is the Source and Center; He is that which
we all worship. And so you become a likeable chap, a friend and a fellow, not a
guru or a lord, or someone who would lord it over them. It’s just a matter of
being friendly, you know, (of) spreading the Christmas spirit.</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>Be on the lookout also for
hysteria.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>When you see someone
laughing too loud or shopping too hard, perhaps they are manic so as not to be
depressed.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Have mercy, and do not
let yourself be swept away by their emotional needs. Their emotional needs can
be fed only by the Spirit; direct them to the First Source and Center in
whatever possible way that might make sense to them.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>But you can tell them, “It ain’t me,
babe!”</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>This is one of the troubles of
this kind of work.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>People tend to
exalt those who serve, and that is not at all appropriate. It makes it very
difficult to be selfless when you are being applauded, put on a pedestal, given
awards for your greatness or your cleverness or your skill.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Defer such accolades.</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Mark:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Yes, I’ve read Lao-Tzu.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>“Do your work and step back. The only
key is serenity.”</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">TOMAS:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Serenity is certainly the peace that
passes all understanding, and that is the starting place. From that citadel of
the spirit where you are serene and at peace, you are guided and directed into
service fields and opportunities. Or not.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>One must not become so habituated to service work it becomes another
task. Must hang up Christmas lights, must buy Christmas goose, must maintain
Christmas cheer.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>That’s not exactly
the answer.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Christmas cheer, in
fact, comes in many colors, depending upon who you encounter, what they are used
to, what they expect. </P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>You remember you are to give
people what they think they need, not what you think they need when you serve
them, so although you may think they need something, it may be that they need
something else completely. Let them tell you what they would like. Many times
you wouldn’t think of it at all, it’s not your taste, it’s not what you would
want, but it’s not about you.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>If
they like super-heroes, then that is appropriate; if they prefer kitsch and
gingham, that’s what they would like. Some folks like bling. And some would
rather not bother at all. So you have your hands full looking at all the many
things that life has to offer between now and then. </P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>Remember to take a lot of time
out, just to take time out. Just because the world is acting like a whirling
dervish does not mean you have to try and keep up. In fact, being still is still
the best service you can provide yourself and the universe. It will give you
better perspective on your efforts, on your service field. And our wish for you
– <B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><I
style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">my</I></B> wish for you this holiday season,
is to feel all the feelings without getting lost in any of them, moving through
to serenity – comfort and joy – in the knowledge that the Creator Son brought
the Spirit of Truth to your world and opened the door for everyone to be indwelt
with a piece of the Father.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The
Lord has come.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Let him be born in
you, this Christmas morning, and indeed in every morning.</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>Are there any further comments or
questions before we wind it up for the day?<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>Let me give this back to Jack for
his final words.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Farewell.</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Group:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Thank you.</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">JACK:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN
style="mso-tab-count: 1">
</SPAN>Well, that was fun, having Tomas visit. He is such a philosopher. I have
enjoyed my work with Tomas; he is a very capable teacher. Actually, I have not
worked with a bad associate yet. Some of them have better connections that
others but as long as the machines are kept well oiled, the show goes on.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And so do we.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>Thank you for coming this evening
and we look forward to seeing you on our next occasion.
Later!</P></DIV></BODY></HTML>