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===Lesson===

===Lesson===

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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 [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gleaning “The Gleaners” by Jean-François Millet], one of the masters in your artistic [[culture]] who strongly [[influenced]] [https://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.  

Jean:  I don’t know about that.

Jean:  I don’t know about that.

   

   

TOMAS:  You have learned the lesson such that you will be able to teach what you have learned.  There is nothing quite like [[personal]] [[experience]]. Even when sometimes the experience is difficult, and many experiences ARE [[difficult]].  Just being God-indwelt does not relieve you of the [http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angst angst] of the [[human condition]], which can sometimes be difficult!  

TOMAS:  You have learned the lesson such that you will be able to teach what you have learned.  There is nothing quite like [[personal]] [[experience]]. Even when sometimes the experience is difficult, and many experiences ARE [[difficult]].  Just being God-indwelt does not relieve you of the [https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angst angst] of the [[human condition]], which can sometimes be difficult!  

   

   

Jean:  Well, you hit the nail on the head.

Jean:  Well, you hit the nail on the head.