[tmtranscripts] 02-08-00 TOMAS on Service

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February 8, 2000
Butler, PA
Teachers Tomas and Merium
T/R:  Gerdean
Group:  Thoroah, Gerdean, Nathaniel and Rachel

TOMAS:  Good evening, my children.  I am Tomas, your teacher.

Rachel and Nathaniel, it is good to have you within our embrace in this 
configuration.  We thank you, too, for your spirits which accompany you and 
for your prayer you offer up on behalf of your growth and Our Father's glory.

I wish to discuss with you this evening the concept of service, for one of 
the factors of an eternal life involves eternal service, and as many the case 
is, you regard service as something you would not want to do forever.  

What difficulty we find in your perceptions when we make the best use of your 
language as possible, but we are aware of your background and your 
conditioning which tells you that service is compulsory and so it is work, 
and thus a large part of your consciousness thinks of eternal life and 
becomes exhausted.  

And yet there are some also who misconstrue the meaning of service to be 
self-effacing and martyrs to beliefs and needs of others, and whereas they 
may serve without tiring, in a compulsive manner, they are not experiencing 
the joy of service as we intend to depict when we employ the word to describe 
the will of the mortal to be fraternal and caring about their brethren.

Service also, in your language, provides a description of employment, as in a 
serviceman for your washer repair or car repair, and this puts it in the 
material realm but is again a misconception of the focus of reality of the 
concept of service.  And so what is service?  

RACHEL: What is it?  Are you asking the question?
TOMAS:  Not yet.  Would you like to jump in?  I would enjoy that.
RACHEL: It's to put a smile on their face, lighten their load.
TOMAS:  Yes, this is service.
RACHEL: And to do that makes you feel good.

TOMAS:  The ideal is certainly an enjoyable experience.  It is easier to be 
of service when you see the feedback of the smile on their face or the 
enlightenment/awareness come into their eyes.  It is easier to be of service 
with those who share your purpose. It is even more easy when you begin to 
experience the benefits of other people who want to also be of service, for 
then you can be the beneficiary of their joy in serving you, as well as the 
appreciator of the comradeship of those who also desire to be of service.

The value of these gatherings of like-minded people is that you begin to 
experience the joy of service to each other, inasmuch as it allows you an 
opportunity to be yourself and to be of service without compulsion or without 
payment or without fear of not doing your share.  It allows you to give 
expression to your Adjuster, who is adept at giving of itself, and giving of 
yourself is truly what service is -- giving of yourself in order to alleviate 
the burden of your brother, or sister.  

The conditioning on your world in many ways is not condusive to being of 
service, for it is not understood and your world is so desperately needy.  
Until it begins to tap into its Source, the individual Source within the mind 
of man, and get that life connection with infinity that feeds its essential 
need of acknowledgement and actualization, unless and until that is attained, 
the need to be filled will remain an insatiable thirst.

Your gift of knowing Our Father within gives you that font of living water 
that restores your soul, that feeds your thirst, and so you can reflect your 
joy in service, and often extend yourself in service in going the second 
mile, knowing you can replenish your Source in service to yourself in 
Stillness with Father.  And so as you experience these community 
relationships with your kindred spirits, your kin, you begin to realize the 
true joy to be found in being of service to each other.

The hurdle from the old concept and result of service is different than the 
appreciation for service which you will come to know and believe in time to 
come.  "Be not weary in your well-doing."  Remember to take time out to 
replenish yourself so that your desire to be of service does not become a 
compunction or an obligatory act but a free and spontaneous emission of 
unconditional love from Our Father.

What have you got for us this evening to engage in, children?  Are there 
questions?  The floor is open.