[tmtranscripts] TOMAS: 2-22-2000

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MERIUM: I am Merium.  I will come in and keep you company while we wait for 
Uncle Tomas to toddle on over here.

THOROAH:    Hi, Merium.

MERIUM: Hi, my dear.  How are you this evening?  You look all brown and hale, 
having walked on the beach and turned your buttercup face to the sun.  How 
wonderful it is to have the windows of the mind thrown open and the fresh air 
come through.  This is my idea of pillow fluffing indeed.  You both look much 
pinker.

THOROAH:    Thank you.  I think.

MERIUM: Indeed, thank you for enjoying yourselves and for allowing yourselves 
to be open to the joy that is your inheritance.  Grasp the gifts of sonship 
with tenacity.  Do not let go of the basket.

TOMAS:  Good evening, children.  I am Tomas.
THOROAH:    Good evening, Tomas.

TOMAS:  I am instructed, in good faith of my supervisor's wisdom, to speak to 
you once again regarding the fruit of the spirit "confiding trust".  The 
quality of confiding trust is a sincere exchange of information which, when 
your soul is in the hands of the Creator, will allow your communication to 
address reality levels even beyond the obvious.  The Father within 
understands the quality of confiding trust and urges you to incorporate this 
characteristic into your personality pattern.

Confiding trust is not always a matter of confidentiality.  The confiding 
trust we have discussed before has to do with one-on-one communications, 
entering into and approaching a communion of understanding between the two 
who engage in a confidential and confiding moment of sharing the human 
experience and/or the spiritual perspective.  

Confiding is also a quality of attempting to speak meaningfully.  I can speak 
meaningfully to a thousand people.  I can confide in a thousand people at one 
time, because of my earnest desire to be intimate with you and to share with 
you, in confiding trust, our reality as sons of God and daughters of divinity.

This is pointed out because everything is expanding, you see.  Everyone is 
looking for an acceleration of truth, beauty and goodness.  The DNA's have 
been approached.  The mind-expansion era has turned the corner.  And so the 
understandings of yesterday and yesteryear are in need of updating and 
revising, steadily and naturally, as you yourselves are upstepped and 
revised.  And so whereas it was once understood that confiding trust could be 
construed as a whisper between intimates at hand, it is expanded today to 
incorporate the multitudes.

I will borrow from Gerdean's mind, with her permission, the response that she 
has been listening to the political programs and the presidential aspirants 
with an ear for confiding trust, as an indication of the character of the 
person who would lead this great nation.  

These are qualities of Our Father, these fruits of the spirit, and qualities 
that you are developing as you begin to pour forth fruit, produce fruit, from 
the Living Vine, as you attempt to introduce Our Father to His children and 
your brothers and sisters to Our Father.  

The fruits of the spirit are tools; as indicated in the reading you discussed 
early this evening, a way to allow the spirit energy to propel you into 
movement within the material realm.  This spiritual energy is indeed the fuel 
that turns the mechanism of the material existence.  It is the primary 
motivator; some of you call it the Prime Directive.  

We are glad that you have seen through the season of relative hibernation to 
awaken to the spiritual sap flowing through your physical veins, encouraging 
you to act.  So how are you?  Have you any questions or commentary?  Have you 
any stories you would like to share about your experience with your fellows 
at the retreat, or otherwise?  In confiding trust of our ministry, my 
friends, what can we do for each other?  What can we do for Michael?  What 
can we do for His children?

THOROAH:    The thought that I had after getting a chance to settle down here 
this morning for some Stillness, -- that the message that we have to give to 
everyone is that God loves them.  Which seems so simple that it could be 
simply overlooked.  There has been a war going on within everybody as to 
their relationship with God.  On one hand God is angry and on the other hand 
God loves them and you've got all this confusion, and we've got to tell them 
the war is over and that God loves them.  Period.  That's it. 

TOMAS:  And you document that by loving them.  Yes.
THOROAH:    Yes.

TOMAS:  It is confusing to people to be given permission to love God.  It is 
a very personal matter, a personal invitation given to the Indwelling 
Adjuster.  It's the kind of impetus that causes a stirring in the soul of the 
hearer - if they have not made peace with that truth, if they have not 
further experienced that vital truth.

THOROAH:    At the same time, the Church, basically the organized church, 
from my experience, was always admonishing us to love God. They made it clear 
that God so loved us that he gave his only begotten son, but they did not 
preach to us a God that loved us and so the love aspect has been with the 
obligation to love God, not the fact that God loves usWe should love God 
because of that, rather than the fact that God just loves us.  Period.

TOMAS:  This is a very rational approach to religion, yes, as parents will 
do.  "You should respect me because I have taken care of you.  I brought you 
into this world and you should respect me for that."  It demands an attitude, 
but it is not the same as the kind of relationship between parent and child - 
idealized by Our Father and His children - wherein the love is obvious 
between the two.  The laughter and the tears, the companionability, the 
sincerity, the wisdom of the parent and the natural trust the child places in 
such a wise and loving parent.  The joy of the embrace.  This is the kind of 
child-parent relationship that the Master has opted for us to employ as a 
depiction of the rightful inheritance of you with Our Father in heaven, that 
we should love him because we love him, not because we should.

But you need not disdain all of your forebearers for their perspective since 
they are also expanding in their awareness of Our Father and his relationship 
with his children.  It is true that many Thought Adjusters are unable to do 
much during a tenure when the mortal remains unconscious of Its ache to 
activate the living, loving relationship between It, the Adjuster, and the 
mortal of Its indwelling. I cannot speak for the work of the Thought 
Adjusters in the Resurrection Halls, but it has been witnessed time and time 
again that mortals who were asleep for the most part during their human life 
were awakened on the Mansion Worlds to reveal their actualization of 
relationship with their Adjusters.  

And so the work continues.  The mercy and patience of the Father for his 
children knows no limitation.  Time means nothing to the Father.  Death 
itself means nothing to the Father.  He can reach you in this life in the 
flesh or he can reach you in the morontia state.  It matters not, to him.  
What a freedom, indeed, from spiritual bondage!  It is the human perception 
that creates the bondage, that Spirit can release it from.  In bringing the 
great God down to the human comprehension, he is made hard and artificial in 
order to accommodate your previous understandings of who he was and we would 
have you turn to who God can and will be for you tomorrow in the awakening of 
a living, loving relationship that immortalizes you.  

That is a real glimmer, my lad, when you can look at your own immortality, if 
even for a second, and recognize that not only does God love you, but he will 
with you live forever.  Enthralling.  

These are concepts that must be grown into, if you will.  Fertilize the soil. 
 Dig around the edges.  Shine that sunshine attitude.  Water your little 
seedlings with your tears of joy and of healing.  Baptize your sonship with 
your brothers.  Allow the light of truth to fall gently on them and become 
part of their growing spiritual foundation.  The Father will be there to 
respond to their faintest flicker.  Be the Master's Ambassador in your 
living.  Carry with you the seeds of the fruits of the spirit.

THOROAH:    I was thinking today about telling people that God loves them, 
and fielding a question if someone said, "How do I know that what you say is 
true?  How do I know that God loves me?" and I was trying to imagine how I 
might deal with a question like that.  How would you deal with a question 
like that?

TOMAS:  How would I deal with a question like that.  I would use a question 
like that to open discourse rather than wait for them to ask you.  It's 
artifical to say "God loves you" when you have not made a soul connection.  
It's like, "Have a nice day!"  It means nothing unless you have already 
touched upon a facet of the spirit, whereupon that phrase then underscores 
the meaningful moment that was just experienced.  

When you can engage in this kind of discourse, it is a way of fertilizing the 
soil.  If you get in there together and peck around and crumble up the lumps, 
then you have together sowed your seeds of understanding, such that when you 
have withdrawn from that moment, the spirit then is able to reveal itself in 
kind and augment or accentuate the philosophy that you have just embarked 
upon in an attempt to understand Our Father and his relationship with you.

Thus, confiding trust is a good quality to learn how to use as a tool, a 
quality of spiritual energy that can help turn the gears of the material 
mechanism.

THOROAH:    Beautiful.  Thank you.

TOMAS:  The challenge is to allow your spirit to discern where they are, and 
then for you to creatively open that door by being amenable, by being willing 
to serve, by reaching out in random acts of kindness and senseless beauty, in 
asking for advice or in offering a compliment.  It needn't be overtly 
theologic, you see.

THOROAH:    Yes.

TOMAS:  And you well know by now there are how many heavenly hosts who hover 
in anticipation of being able to be of service to you in your desire to bring 
His will into your realm.  

A very interesting reading about Jesus the young man.  {Ed: Tomas is picking 
up with the group's initial discussion from TUB, page 1405, beginning with 
"Jesus is rapidly becoming a man.." and specifically the sentence, "He has 
very nearly mastered the technique of utilizing the energy of the spiritual 
drive to turn the mechanism of material achievement."  How marvelous that he 
was able to accomplish so much by the influence of his home life and his 
spirit mentor.  How important, indeed, was it that the Creator Son should 
benefit from the values of the Nazarene home life.  He was thus able in many 
ways to assimilate the best of opportunities presented in order for him to 
learn well and quickly what was necessary for him.

That is not to say that it is not also possible for the youth of today to 
attain to such responsible young maturity as Jesus, but the circumstances of 
your world are not such that your adventurous youth are content to bide their 
time in the workshop as faithfully as Jesus in his time.  Your culture is 
different; your world is different; your teachers are different.

THOROAH:    Is there a correlation between the studiousness that Jesus 
personified growing up and, as you said, in the workshops . . . in today's 
society? . . Learning trades and skills and things like that?  Is that 
essentially what Jesus did? . . go to school for 20 years?

TOMAS:  It also involves a relationship with the home, the family, the 
immediate culture, the neighborhood, a loyalty to the fine qualities of house 
and garden.  The shop represents an ability to tend the land, to take care of 
one's self, pride of ownership, relationship passed down between fathers and 
sons, mothers and daughters, the best in tribal values that foster 
civilization, which contributes to your education, the stimulation of the 
imagination and a mental striving for comprehension, the study of languages, 
the study of your and other's religions at home books and wise men and ways, 
all of this constitutes that which was available to Jesus which will be 
available to ones who have wisdom which they share with their clan, their own.

These qualities that I speak of and which Jesus had, give a certain structure 
to his life that enables these lessons to be learned with the foundation of 
values as underlining the foundation of all of life.  There are some/many 
situations/circumstances which require survival techniques to come into play 
-- so much that the development of culture is not attained.  Leisure is 
undeveloped.  It is hard to develop good character, true character, without 
the kinds of qualities which were made part of Jesus' conditioning, by his 
home life.  But that is not to say that there cannot be great strides 
accomplished in those which were not so fortunate.  We deal with you all on a 
regular basis about your background conditioning and how it supports or 
interferes with your personal religious experience and your youthfulness to 
Our Father and your fellows.  

THOROAH:    It's a challenge to be able to express the essence of that 
relationship to people who don't quite grasp the concept of having 
conversation with spirit, with the invisible, but yet that relationship that 
you just described, about teaching us how to deal with these things, is what 
the relationship is all about. And it's so precious!  I've kind of fallen 
into periods where I've taken it for granted, but if I stop and think about 
where I was or what it would be like if I didn't have you around to help me, 
there would be a big vacancy, and I'm anxious for a lot of people to get 
ahold of that and feel what I've grown to enjoy.  It's precious.

TOMAS:  Precious are you to us as well.  Indeed, this relationship is 
precious.  We hold it tenderly to our heart.  We cherish what we have, for it 
is rare in all of Nebadon, and we see how you have grown and we are humbled 
at your striving, your yearning for even more clarity in order that you may 
reflect the light to those who languish.  

But sometimes it is necessary for you to be discrete, agondonter, and whereas 
you believe, and whereas you have faith, and whereas you are learning and 
becoming more real, you cannot prove, except through the fruits of the 
spirit, and so the Living Vine continues to make its presence known in His 
universe through the tried and true methods of old.  

Perhaps we ought to end our session.  It is so good to have you back 
refreshed.

THOROAH:    It's good to be back and I always hate to have the sessions come 
to an end.

TOMAS:  It is the reason we give you assignments.  If you have an assignment, 
and if you remember the assignment, then you have an opportunity all week 
long to keep the lesson alive.  And so we'll make a game of it, and play 
touch tag throughout the week with each other as we continue to ponder this 
quality of confiding trust.  Exercise your understanding of confiding trust 
in as many ways as you can conceive it, and ascribe each as one facet of 
divinity.  What a wonder is this, Munificent Creator.  

Amen and Farewell.