[tmtranscripts] Rio Rancho NM TeaM (03/24/02)

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DATE:           March 24, 2002
LOCATION:       Rio Rancho NM USA
TEACHER:        TOMAS
TOPIC:      GOD IS WITH US
T/R:            Gerdean

TOMAS:  Good afternoon, beautiful friends.  This is Tomas & Co. and glad to 
be with you.  
Today is one of those days when surely the stones cry out and rejoice in his 
coming.  The beauty of spring is with us, not only on your calendar but in 
your hearts.  The dark winter is behind us; we face the blossoming of the new 
season, the joy of living, and rejoice in knowing the sun [sic] has risen. 
This is a day to rejoice indeed, to celebrate the arrival of the Son of Man 
-- arriving in the city where he will meet his detractors and state his 
purpose once more before offering himself up to the culmination of his 
bestowal here.  

Haven't you felt a similar gladness when, after struggling with a situation 
for a while, you make a decision?  Having made the decision then, you have a 
happy heart, inasmuch as it is your sense that you have made the right 
choice, that your soul has reconciled that His will will be done in your life 
as a result of your choosings.  Having made your decision, having stated your 
faith, and proceeding to walk therein, you have hope of the final resolution 
as being a selection which would be pleasing in the eyes of the Ultimate as 
well as serviceable to the moment.

Only as you give yourself up to the Spirit of Truth within you will you have 
such clarity of mind, such serenity of soul, as to emit such radiance of 
positive energy and affirmation, as to reflect the divine nature of God 
himself.  And in this reflection of divinity you reveal to the life around 
you - [to] the stones on the side of the road, the leaves on the trees 
overhead, the countenances of passers-by -- thus revealing to your arena the 
radiance of the Father as He may live through you.  This is the gift given in 
Jesus' arrival at Jerusalem that day long ago which is celebrated today -- 
the realization that God is with us.  

How do you realize God in your lfie?  How are you able to recognize Our 
Father in and through your relationship with him, with the spirit, with 
divinity?  Certainly there are those who see Him in nature and testify to His 
greatness because of the beauty and grandeur of His creation, even the tiny 
reflections of perfection as they are revealed in the veins of the leaves or 
the veins in your hands.  There are those who see God in their fellows, in 
their relationships.  They see the Family of God, the Holy Trinity, revealed 
in the Family of Man, the marriage relationship and offspring of such unions, 
to people tomorrow -- civilization-in-becoming.  They see this as a 
reflection of divinity.

But how many of you realize that your very energy, when aligned with the God 
fragment which resides within you, is imitation of divinity such as to 
influence everything you touch, everything around you.  You, too, may enter 
the City of Jerusalem, humbly riding on a borrowed ass, and radiate the 
Father's goodness, greatness, divine beauty to all you see.  

Divine love is contageous.  As you live in love, as you walk with The Master, 
as you walk with your hand in His, as you align yourself with divinity, as 
you choose to do His will, as you seek His favor, you absorb and radiate His 
nature, and thus you walk as a Son of God and a Son of Man also - brothers 
now with Christ, workers in His field, fruit of his branches.  

We in the Teacher Corp have enjoyed our assignment of appropriating truths 
from your history, your culture, your nation, and incorporating those 
concepts in ways which will speak most closely to your heart, your mind, in 
order for you to feel those values, and in feeling those values, responding 
to the guidance of the indwellingGuide, thus hearing from God Himself as to 
how you shall go, how you shall think, how you shall feel.  

So it is with great pleasure that I close my lecturn and mingle among you for 
conversation and discourse as regards your concerns in your life as you pass 
by.  In this way how much more readily we will be able to conform our lessons 
to those yearnings of your soul which will render you a better reflection of 
the Father as may be useful to you and your fellowmen and your world.

Would you ask questions? Or offer commentary?

DORENDA:  Well, you can always count on me for a question!

Hi, Tomas. Welcome.  Happy Palm Sunday, and I'm so glad you're here!  This is 
so great to start.  So that was first and foremost.  Most of all I don't have 
anything except a full heart to bring, but at some point in the next few 
lessons, one thing I would be interested in talking about is in dealing with 
fellow workers, of the balance between applying what is right and what is 
good, working with different egos, and kind of turning the course away from 
fear into a more positive way.  I don't know if I've expressed that very well 
or not, but at some point in the next few lessons, that would be of great 
interest to me as a topic.

TOMAS:   Daughter, greetings.  I pause to touch your brow, to bless you in 
your openness and honest heartfelt desire to better serve.  The breadth of 
your concern will give us subject matter for many afternoons, for there are 
so many varieties of flowers and weeds that grow along the path you walk.  So 
there will be different methods of relating to different personalities, 
depending upon how best you might serve the moment.  

ESMARELDA:  Tomas, this afternoon we have some guests that aren't usually 
here, and from other towns and other states.  We have Willie with us from 
Columbus, Ohio, and we're very happy to have him.  We have LaReen and Ashley 
from Idaho and Utah, so this is quite a widespread group and we're very happy 
to have all of them.  Especially, Tomas, I'm happy to have you in my home for 
the first time.  This is truly a blessing and a joy and we're looking 
forward, so much, to each week.  And studying your lesson over again this 
week, after I finally got it on the internet, was just really a blessing.  
You are such a good teacher!  There's going to be no problem at all growing 
to love you like we love Ham and Abraham.  But one of the things that I'd 
like help from you is, it doesn't seem that I do very much in the way of 
service.  I know that I haven't been too well for the last year and a half, 
but I think my health is improving enough now and I feel I should be doing a 
lot more than I am, and so any help that you can give me along those lines 
will be very much appreciated.

TOMAS:  The service you have provided by your outpouring is adequate to keep 
us all busy for a week, and so you have truly served.  Let me see if I can 
arrange my responses so as to give honor to your words.

Indeed, we are blessed to be among kindred spirits, and those of you who are 
from distant parts are as close as those who reside here.  There is nothing 
to separate those who are like-minded.  Time and space are realities of the 
material life, but in the spirit, there is no separation; thus we embrace our 
students far and near, even as each and all of us are your teachers, 
companions and associates in the morontia realms as well as the material way. 
 Every day we are united in purpose we grow in power.  Our community extends 
and expands and the kingdom is enlarged.   Indeed, in time, this love of God 
that meets in moments like these, in homes like yours, are those foundations 
that give reality to the physical connection you share, as well as the 
morontial reality we all share, and the spiritual reality which we are all 
creating by our collective voice.  

This thing about service, Esmarelda, has a qualitative affect to it. Not only 
is it quantitative, for you understand that as you gain in wisdom, you no 
longer need to "spin your wheels" learning how to do what you've already 
learned to do.  And so you become spiritually expeditious.  Just because you 
don't spend time doing what you once did, does not mean your energies are not 
now put to quality use, because you have learned how to focus your Self in 
such a way as to organize your mind for consecrecrated service.  It doesn't 
take what it once took.  This is the value of experience.  This is why there 
is no replacement for personal experience.  

ANN:  Tomas, during the course of your lecture, you gave us a personal ass to 
ride into Jerusalem, and I am trying to get the symbol of whether….  I know 
that it is sometimes what they call "transportation," but today, is that ass 
that I'm riding on "humility" so that I am always open to the people around, 
no matter what the circumstances are?  Or is that ass that I am riding on, 
into the village, "hardship" that takes me to a better place? 

TOMAS:   This is a typical human question.  It gives me an opportunity to 
provide you with an either/or response, and the truth is there is some 
element of reality in either case.  The "humility" is, of course, the ass 
that we would choose to ride, not so much as to portray ourselves as pious or 
self-righteous, but simple.  Simple is a hard concept for your society, your 
culture, to appreciate.  It will, however, come to pass that simplicity will 
provide the efficient vehicle because there is no need for all the extraneous 
trappings.  The trappings of life are those embellishments which humanity 
uses to assert himself as if to say he has learned, he has mastered, he has 
arrived.  If and as a sojourner in life speaks and acts with simplicity, it 
will be easier to keep your eye on that which is meaningful, on that which 
truly feeds the hungry.  

ASHLEY:   Tomas, hello and thank you for coming.  I am grateful that I have 
an opportunity to get to know you and to share with this lovely group of 
people.  I have some thoughts on healing and different techniques of healing 
as a group.  I know that Rayson is taking people into toning, and I 
understand that we are all going through a healing time, a cleansing, a 
purging of ourselves and everything up to the surface, letting go of the old 
and becoming new.  And also I am aware that this is a crucial time right now 
for us to either go forward or step back, and I'm curious if there is any 
healing techniques that you have that would be of assistance for us as a 
group.

TOMAS:  Interesting question, in that I have not anything to offer, as I have 
not discerned a favorite healing technique, aside from the value of personal 
time with God in Stillness.  

However, I have certainly been present at many demonstrations of physical 
adjustments which could be considered healing or even miraculous (but 
certainly an improvement!) as a result of the mind's will to apply itself in 
faith and hope of a better reflection of itself, in and through its material 
organism.  Having paid some attention to these results of faith in action, I 
have enjoyed the many devices derived by humanity to prove the point, to 
demonstrate the concept, to depict the truth of the value of faith.  

It is possible to heal many of these mortal ills as an exercise of faith and 
conscientious application of essential laws of nature.  But the miracle I 
enjoy most is the heart that begins to rely upon the Spirit for the answer to 
all its questions.  When you begin to realize that the Universal Father is 
the First Source of all that you are and the Center of what you are becoming, 
you realize how dependant you are upon that energy, that power, that pattern 
which you depend upon as being yours and yours alone.  As you trust Father, 
as you sit in His lap, in faith of His overcare, as you hold your hand in His 
and seek perfection, He will help you attain perfection.  

He will help align your mind and soul in such a way as to give you that 
hunger that will find what it needs in order to be filled.  In some cases 
this is a more material representation, as in crystals and minerals.  There 
are essences more etheric, as toning and aromas which speak to and heal other 
areas of the mind which crave that more aesthetic level of perception, that 
will enhance spirit connection, that speaks to that human being.  There are 
those who enjoy the physical hands-on contact, as Reiki practitioners, as 
Life Carrier healing practitioners, phrenology and reflexology experts.  

These different techniques appeal to the different tastes and propensities of 
the various racial strains and cultural inclinations as well.  Many of these 
are mere superstition, but as faith is added, it is exalted and elevated to 
worship, and this worship is accepted On High as viable praise of Deity as it 
is understood by the Children of God.  So to ask if I have a favorite, no, 
nor do I have one that would be a panacea for all humanity, except for that 
tried and true practice which we promote, that being the practice of sitting 
in Stillness and listening for that quiet voice within, that part of God 
which is yours and which you are destined be one with.  

ASHLEY:     Thank you.

TOMAS:      You are welcome, child.  You are a delight and a gift to those 
who know you.  All of you are cherished, precious, unique and priceless in 
your own right.  Different you are, oh, so different -- like snowflakes are 
magnificent and unique -- and yet if you only are seen from afar, you are not 
discerned.  It is when you are clearly seen and when your facets are 
illuminated by the eye of discernment that your uniquness and originality is 
allowed to come through such that you can each only bow to the immensity of 
our Creator that such works are able to come into being.

One more question.

WILLIE:  I have a simple one.  This is Willie. And I work with Anatolia in 
Columbus, or vice versa, and she said that she's not from our galaxy but that 
she is basically from a planet that was already been established in light and 
life, and from what I remember reading from the transcript from your group 
last week, it sounds like, Tomas, you have moved on well and you said you 
are, apparently, from our galaxy.  Do you happen to be from the same 
neighborhood as Anatolia, that the two of you are working in the Teaching 
Mission?  And I know it's a big universe and beyond but had you known one 
anther before or have you only met in the hallways of the Teaching Mission?

TOMAS:  How marvelous a question, for this enables me to expand your 
appreciation of the local universe.  Yes, I know Anatolia.  She and I have 
been students together in classes we have taken along the way.  We know each 
other, respect each other, and enjoy each other as personalities and we knew 
each other well before we were each given the opportunity to serve here on 
Urantia, but we are not from the same world.  There are so many worlds in 
Nebadon it would be unusual for many to hail from any one particular world.  

I have made it a point to investigate the home base of many of my peers only 
because it's part of my personality propensity as a human and as a cultural 
anthropologist.  I enjoyed my work of going into the cultures of those 
outside my immediate environment and studying their way of life.  Thus I have 
a list of the worlds of my co-workers in the Teaching Mission that I intend 
to make a point of visiting when I have completed my assignment with you; 
however, that will not be right away.  And so I will need to wait, and look 
forward to those adventures even as I encourage you, over time, to look 
forward to those many adventures that you will have as you ascend through the 
Father's many mansions en route to Salvington and beyond.

I have visited worlds settled in light and life, and yet it was not possible 
for me to assimilate all that my eyes beheld because I was not exposed to 
that reality level to that extent.  My world was advanced, but it was only 
pieced together.  The experience of an entire planet settled in light and 
life was even beyond my grasp.  However, as I become more familiar with the 
architectural spheres of Mansonia and beyond, I am more able to appreciate 
worlds such as that which Anatolia comes from and the tremendous acuity that 
must surely be the characteristic of anyone who had that experience.

I have certainly found her to be sharp, keen, brilliant in her character 
reflection of our Eternal Parents, and I'm certain this has much to do with 
her upbringing on her world.  However, again referencing snowflakes, in the 
farflung universe, her clarity is no [more or] less beloved than your 
uniqueness here.  Even with all its difficulties, these very difficulties 
have helped to forge a character which is priceless and unique in all of 
Nebadon.  Again, another illustration of the magnificence of Deity. 

WILLIE:  Thank you.
TOMAS:  This is my pleasure.  

The heavenly angels sing.  The rocks cry out.  The world is alive, rejoicing 
in anticipation of his coming.  In the days that follow, as the collective 
consciousness of your realm is enlivened by the topic of Easter and the 
Resurrection, as you endure Good Friday and the reflections of Maundy 
Thursday, be mindful of his coming still.  Relinquish him not.  Hold fast to 
his garment.  Seek him.  Look for him everywhere.  Find him, speaking to you 
in the flowers, in the rocks, in the rain, in the wind, in the music, in the 
mind, in the soul, in the heart, and allow him admittance.

I'll see you joyous ones next week.  Farewell.


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