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Welcome to this forum.  I am Tomas.  I am [[Pleasure|pleased]] to be here this evening to carry on in my [[fashion]] as a teacher and a [[philosopher]] of the [[Teacher Corps]].  I specify “of the Teacher Corps” because it helps [[clarify]] my role.  I am a teacher. I am not an [[administrator]].  There are those in this mission and related tasks that have administrative duties to [[perform]] and that is appropriate, but I have been and will be, through the duration of my [[association]] with you here, a teacher, and hopefully I will be able to teach you each and all something about being a teacher in your own right, for truly, even those who are [[healers]] or [[creative]] artists or [[administrators]] are all teachers in their own fashion.  Every job in life requires a certain [[application]], a particular approach, whether that be a bedside [[manner]] or a [[voice]] of [[authority]] or a gentle [[touch]].  Whatever it is, these are some of the [[tools]] you use to teach as you pass by, and all would do well to find out what their task is and give themselves to it with abandon.  

Welcome to this forum.  I am Tomas.  I am [[Pleasure|pleased]] to be here this evening to carry on in my [[fashion]] as a teacher and a [[philosopher]] of the [[Teacher Corps]].  I specify “of the Teacher Corps” because it helps [[clarify]] my role.  I am a teacher. I am not an [[administrator]].  There are those in this mission and related tasks that have administrative duties to [[perform]] and that is appropriate, but I have been and will be, through the duration of my [[association]] with you here, a teacher, and hopefully I will be able to teach you each and all something about being a teacher in your own right, for truly, even those who are [[healers]] or [[creative]] artists or [[administrators]] are all teachers in their own fashion.  Every job in life requires a certain [[application]], a particular approach, whether that be a bedside [[manner]] or a [[voice]] of [[authority]] or a gentle [[touch]].  Whatever it is, these are some of the [[tools]] you use to teach as you pass by, and all would do well to find out what their task is and give themselves to it with abandon.  

===Lesson===

===Lesson===

===='''''[[Service]]''''', '''''[[Self Realization]]''''', '''''[[Destiny]]'''''====

===='''''[[Service]]'''''====

I’d like to chat a minute this evening about this: ascertaining your task, your role, and sticking to it through thick and thin, and I will utilize the [[word]] “gleaning” to make my point.  There is a painting called [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gleaning “The Gleaners” by Jean-François Millet], one of the masters in your artistic [[culture]] who strongly [[influenced]] [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincent_van_Gogh Vincent van Gogh].  The gleaners are working in the field.  A back-breaking task it is, this gleaning, [[discerning]] that which is to be [[harvested]] and that which is to lie fallow in the field.  Potato farmers are gleaners of potatoes, leaving clumps of soil and rocks behind.  

I’d like to chat a minute this evening about this: ascertaining your task, your role, and sticking to it through thick and thin, and I will utilize the [[word]] “gleaning” to make my point.  There is a painting called [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gleaning “The Gleaners” by Jean-François Millet], one of the masters in your artistic [[culture]] who strongly [[influenced]] [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincent_van_Gogh Vincent van Gogh].  The gleaners are working in the field.  A back-breaking task it is, this gleaning, [[discerning]] that which is to be [[harvested]] and that which is to lie fallow in the field.  Potato farmers are gleaners of potatoes, leaving clumps of soil and rocks behind.  

   

   

I am reminded of the [[parable]] of the sower which [[discusses]] strewing your seeds and some of them fall on fertile soil, some fall on the rocks, the barren soil, some are swept up by the winds and carried far away to cross-pollinate with other plants and some are used to feed the [[animals]], the birds.  The same it is with gleaning your [[destiny]] path.  You will find many, many seeds coming at you.  These seeds may be from the various [[celestials]] with which you do [[business]], or may come from your [[culture]], your [[society]], your [[parents]], your [[teachers]], your [[priesthood]], and so forth, but you must glean from these many offerings that which feeds your needs based on what you believe your needs to be.  

I am reminded of the [[parable]] of the sower which [[discusses]] strewing your seeds and some of them fall on fertile soil, some fall on the rocks, the barren soil, some are swept up by the winds and carried far away to cross-pollinate with other plants and some are used to feed the [[animals]], the birds.  The same it is with gleaning your [[destiny]] path.  You will find many, many seeds coming at you.  These seeds may be from the various [[celestials]] with which you do [[business]], or may come from your [[culture]], your [[society]], your [[parents]], your [[teachers]], your [[priesthood]], and so forth, but you must glean from these many offerings that which feeds your needs based on what you believe your needs to be.  

Granted, in the course of one short life in the [[flesh]], needs vary.  The needs of a child are not the same as the needs of a teenager or an adult, which are not the same as the needs of a senior citizen, and so [[different]] [[phases]] of [[personal]] [[evolution]] call for different [[values]] to be clutched and grasped and adopted as valuable and [[worthy]].  This of course allows that which you have already assimilated the option to be cast off or kept, depending upon how it is that you glean your acquisitions – not only [[physical]] or experiential, but [[value]]-wise.   

Granted, in the course of one short life in the [[flesh]], needs vary.  The needs of a child are not the same as the needs of a teenager or an adult, which are not the same as the needs of a senior citizen, and so [[different]] [[phases]] of [[personal]] [[evolution]] call for different [[values]] to be clutched and grasped and adopted as valuable and [[worthy]].  This of course allows that which you have already assimilated the option to be cast off or kept, depending upon how it is that you glean your acquisitions – not only [[physical]] or experiential, but [[value]]-wise.   

   

   

   

   

Prioritizing our loyalties, prioritizing that which we would take as our own and that which we can let go for whatever [[reason]], but basically because it does not serve that which you believe to be your [[destiny]] path.  Just as [[love]] must be redefined on each new successive level of [[growth]], that which you discern to be of value, in terms of your [[tools]], teaching [[techniques]], [[administrative]] abilities, ministering [[manner]]isms and so forth, gleaning is another way of refining that which is [[uniquely]] yours for your destiny path.  All destiny paths lead to the same place, but they are not all the same.  You are given a [[personality]] and a certain [[predestination]].  If you are always setting aside what is important to your personal [[development]], to accommodate others’ opinions or leanings, then you are short-changing your own experiential [[journey]].  

Prioritizing our loyalties, prioritizing that which we would take as our own and that which we can let go for whatever [[reason]], but basically because it does not serve that which you believe to be your [[destiny]] path.  Just as [[love]] must be redefined on each new successive level of [[growth]], that which you discern to be of value, in terms of your [[tools]], teaching [[techniques]], [[administrative]] abilities, ministering [[manner]]isms and so forth, gleaning is another way of refining that which is [[uniquely]] yours for your destiny path.  All destiny paths lead to the same place, but they are not all the same.  You are given a [[personality]] and a certain [[predestination]].  If you are always setting aside what is important to your personal [[development]], to accommodate others’ opinions or leanings, then you are short-changing your own experiential [[journey]].  

 

This [[mortal]] life you life is not here simply to aggravate you and irritate you, nor are the [[relationships]] you find yourself in, or the [[work]]ing situations you take upon yourself, these are aspects of life unfolding and there are indeed lessons to be learned therein.  The lessons are to help you in your task of being all that you can be.  And only you know what that is.  Only you have the antenna to hone in on those messages that speak to you.  You know what you need and when you hear what you need to hear, it is [[music]] to your ears. It may be [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Dance_of_Disappointment-2000-08-18 disappointing] to [[discover]] that to others it sounds like fingernails on a chalkboard or something quite flat and uninteresting, but this should in no way detract from your [[enthusiasm]] and your [[determination]] to follow that leading.  It requires great [[personal]] [[courage]] to “follow your [[dream]]” whether anyone approves or not, whether anyone understands or not, whether anyone joins you in the [[process]] or not.  

This [[mortal]] life you life is not here simply to aggravate you and irritate you, nor are the [[relationships]] you find yourself in, or the [[work]]ing situations you take upon yourself, these are aspects of life unfolding and there are indeed lessons to be learned therein.  The lessons are to help you in your task of being all that you can be.  And only you know what that is.  Only you have the antenna to hone in on those messages that speak to you.  You know what you need and when you hear what you need to hear, it is [[music]] to your ears. It may be [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Dance_of_Disappointment-2000-08-18 disappointing] to [[discover]] that to others it sounds like fingernails on a chalkboard or something quite flat and uninteresting, but this should in no way detract from your [[enthusiasm]] and your [[determination]] to follow that leading.  It requires great [[personal]] [[courage]] to “follow your [[dream]]” whether anyone approves or not, whether anyone understands or not, whether anyone joins you in the [[process]] or not.  

If you do embark upon a path in which you have the benefit of [[associates]] and companions, so much the better in terms of [[learning]] [[teamwork]] – a very important lesson to be learned, and a [[practice]] which will be utilized throughout [[eternity]].  But don’t fall into the lazy [[habit]] of doing what others do simply because you don’t enjoy the rigors of following your own destiny path, which can sometimes be quite [[Solitude|lonely]].  This is the [[trial]] of the [[agondonter]].  The thrill, however, of being an agondonter is knowing that even if no one else [[understands]] where you are coming from,  what your [[motivations]] are, what your goal is, what your task is, even if you yourself are not quite clear on what it might be, your [[faith]] will keep you in pursuit of that which calls to you.  You will glean for yourself that which is for you, and you will make it your own.  

If you do embark upon a path in which you have the benefit of [[associates]] and companions, so much the better in terms of [[learning]] [[teamwork]] – a very important lesson to be learned, and a [[practice]] which will be utilized throughout [[eternity]].  But don’t fall into the lazy [[habit]] of doing what others do simply because you don’t enjoy the rigors of following your own destiny path, which can sometimes be quite [[Solitude|lonely]].  This is the [[trial]] of the [[agondonter]].  The thrill, however, of being an agondonter is knowing that even if no one else [[understands]] where you are coming from,  what your [[motivations]] are, what your goal is, what your task is, even if you yourself are not quite clear on what it might be, your [[faith]] will keep you in pursuit of that which calls to you.  You will glean for yourself that which is for you, and you will make it your own.  

   

   

   

   

I am interested in hearing from you, should you have questions regarding our lesson for the day or from your own experiential path that I might shed light upon or somehow draw from your own font of inner [[knowledge]] that will assist and encourage you.  The floor is open.

I am interested in hearing from you, should you have questions regarding our lesson for the day or from your own experiential path that I might shed light upon or somehow draw from your own font of inner [[knowledge]] that will assist and encourage you.  The floor is open.

===Dialogue===  

===Dialogue===  

Jean:  This is Jean.  

Jean:  This is Jean.