WEBVTT 1 00:00:15.090 --> 00:00:21.520 So you know it's invaluable and here it is you can see that for many we will then 2 00:00:21.530 --> 00:00:22.800 you on 3 00:00:22.810 --> 00:00:29.400 a tremendously beautiful day and all that to be here I need to call it 4 00:00:29.640 --> 00:00:36.460 because you don't know me and my 1st period. Is very. Close to this 5 00:00:37.050 --> 00:00:43.620 day without surrendering to. This wonderful international speaker if you are in 6 00:00:43.630 --> 00:00:48.220 story. I bet 7 00:00:48.230 --> 00:00:54.940 a. 6 lot of your beautiful afternoon just turned out to be commuters 8 00:00:54.950 --> 00:01:01.300 stillness with the. Coverage over the sound it falling steadily as we get to spend 9 00:01:01.800 --> 00:01:08.410 an hour together thinking about still. How it has really been hit and everything 10 00:01:08.420 --> 00:01:12.980 you know your state comes from I have background as a Christian Scientist and as 11 00:01:12.990 --> 00:01:19.610 a practitioner Christian Science healing for the last 15 years or so. Now 12 00:01:20.050 --> 00:01:20.940 still there is 13 00:01:20.950 --> 00:01:26.800 a lot of respect it as you hear in this talk to that you know it's not something 14 00:01:26.810 --> 00:01:31.760 that is really far away it's not something we have to go elsewhere I don't have to 15 00:01:31.770 --> 00:01:37.660 go on vacation or meet up with work or Paris has says rule or gave 16 00:01:37.670 --> 00:01:43.020 a lot of money to be able to travel are you beautiful places. Or somewhere else in 17 00:01:43.030 --> 00:01:45.451 the world. Still this is really 18 00:01:45.461 --> 00:01:52.281 a matter of perspective and finding ourselves the quiet that is part of our 19 00:01:52.291 --> 00:01:57.871 to buying reality and in my nature that's really what we're going to discover 20 00:01:57.881 --> 00:02:02.991 a little more about in our talk today now as a better perspective 21 00:02:03.001 --> 00:02:09.591 a couple of weeks ago I was at a talk and I was. Reminded of a story that happened 22 00:02:09.601 --> 00:02:15.261 a couple of Christmases ago and it was that band that had come to 23 00:02:15.271 --> 00:02:18.351 a Christian Science church and where it is a night and 24 00:02:18.361 --> 00:02:21.861 a Saturday before he had been at the ball at 25 00:02:21.871 --> 00:02:26.091 a Christmas season and doing some shopping he had to go and get ready for somebody 26 00:02:26.101 --> 00:02:30.031 as we often do in this Christmas season and when he wasn't involved he was so 27 00:02:30.041 --> 00:02:36.081 overwhelmed by the crowds of people and parking spaces and the noise and how busy 28 00:02:36.091 --> 00:02:42.501 it was and he just got there and he was so frustrated by the left and went. Well 29 00:02:42.941 --> 00:02:43.391 as for 30 00:02:43.401 --> 00:02:47.561 a couple days later he needed in this Christian Science church service Wednesday 31 00:02:47.571 --> 00:02:52.921 night and these services are where people come and they hear from to both the 32 00:02:52.931 --> 00:02:56.921 Christian Science the Bible and the spoke of Science and Health with Key to the 33 00:02:56.931 --> 00:03:01.161 Scriptures this year old hear more about today and I've been reading people to 34 00:03:01.221 --> 00:03:06.621 stand up and share stories of this man in this true service and 35 00:03:06.631 --> 00:03:12.911 a woman stood up and she talked about how grateful she was for going to the mall 36 00:03:13.141 --> 00:03:19.031 the previous Saturday. And Sunday that this mall the thing all right seemed off was 37 00:03:19.081 --> 00:03:24.881 full of just peace and I and I was no harm in doing these other issues and able to 38 00:03:24.891 --> 00:03:30.361 go and buy or get superglue easily and if you felt like there was so much love in 39 00:03:30.371 --> 00:03:33.531 her being well this may have been 40 00:03:33.541 --> 00:03:40.441 a reactor and was it really all. And he was just so's drug 41 00:03:40.791 --> 00:03:46.871 by how it was in the hope perspective and. The fact that this woman was in need her 42 00:03:46.881 --> 00:03:52.141 stillness to the experience as she lends it was that it was 43 00:03:52.291 --> 00:03:56.691 a 5 minute time difference nothing that changed in the hall from the time it was 44 00:03:56.701 --> 00:03:59.471 there to the time she was there but there was 45 00:03:59.481 --> 00:04:06.401 a different outlook and different expectations and you already and 46 00:04:06.411 --> 00:04:11.551 that's really I think what it takes to discover that stillness within ourselves 47 00:04:12.491 --> 00:04:18.991 that often the hardest part is just we have room to look for the stillness. So 48 00:04:19.001 --> 00:04:23.851 still this is not something that you get from the plates or even from inactivity 49 00:04:23.861 --> 00:04:29.731 and sincerely it's something that each like you have within yourselves already and 50 00:04:29.741 --> 00:04:36.271 that it just takes sometimes are stilling to our Miles and quietly once went out of 51 00:04:36.281 --> 00:04:43.211 her box to discover that deep settled sense of calm that's within us. Now as you 52 00:04:43.221 --> 00:04:47.331 listen to Day to share with you a piece of advice that I got when I was 53 00:04:47.341 --> 00:04:54.141 a masters student in peace building years ago. I was going to where I was going to 54 00:04:54.151 --> 00:04:56.531 be hearing some speakers and I was going to be going to 55 00:04:56.541 --> 00:05:03.341 a conference and I remember said I'm Ari when you're listening this weekend I want 56 00:05:03.351 --> 00:05:08.201 you to listen not only to well the speaker said but pay attention to what your own 57 00:05:08.211 --> 00:05:13.911 heart is saying at the same time that you're listening. He said Really Do people 58 00:05:13.921 --> 00:05:19.371 listen to their own heart speak while they're hearing some particular speaker I'm 59 00:05:19.381 --> 00:05:24.861 talking he said now the real message that you're looking for. And that's the 60 00:05:24.871 --> 00:05:30.141 message for us here today that as we spend this time together and I share with you 61 00:05:30.471 --> 00:05:37.081 from my heart my experience I hope you hear your own heart speaking. And that's the 62 00:05:37.091 --> 00:05:41.941 real message that you came for today so pay attention to that was one of the new 63 00:05:41.951 --> 00:05:47.883 guys all right so the snow mess. There's a story I heard 64 00:05:48.013 --> 00:05:49.863 a few years ago about 65 00:05:49.873 --> 00:05:56.363 a chalice and the square of Syria. And how did $992.00 is 66 00:05:56.373 --> 00:06:02.243 a true story. And on this particular date is jealous walks into the center square 67 00:06:02.253 --> 00:06:06.823 it's very valuable it's down to the cello case the little chair and he sits down 68 00:06:06.833 --> 00:06:12.200 and think that is instruments and he starts to play the instrument. And as the 69 00:06:12.210 --> 00:06:17.400 sound of the Chalo filled the square in the backdrop there artillery shells falling 70 00:06:17.410 --> 00:06:23.330 from buildings people are vying for power because it's the start because the civil 71 00:06:23.370 --> 00:06:28.110 war. Now this is now it doesn't just come to the square in the middle of the 72 00:06:28.120 --> 00:06:34.450 conflicts and playing his cello this one time but he goes back every day for 73 00:06:34.460 --> 00:06:40.600 $22.00 consecutive days in the middle of the war to play music plays cello. Because 74 00:06:40.610 --> 00:06:46.010 he wants to commemorate the $22.00 men and children who were standing in 75 00:06:46.020 --> 00:06:52.820 a bread line and were killed at the start of the hour. Now this story so 76 00:06:52.830 --> 00:06:58.530 misfired so touched me with her it and it just copied how to myself what would it 77 00:06:58.600 --> 00:07:02.180 take to be able to go to a place where 78 00:07:02.190 --> 00:07:06.790 a feeling bombarded or threat or where there's a lot of chaos 79 00:07:06.800 --> 00:07:13.310 a lot of destruction going on and to bring that sense of stillness. How each one of 80 00:07:13.320 --> 00:07:17.370 us. What everybody involved are doing our thoughts on 81 00:07:17.380 --> 00:07:21.000 a daily basis hopefully we're not going to be enough as in the situation in 82 00:07:21.010 --> 00:07:21.430 a word is 83 00:07:21.440 --> 00:07:28.370 a lie. But on any given day with whatever might be happening in our lives and 84 00:07:28.380 --> 00:07:34.270 we bring our sense of stillness to whatever situation we find ourselves in whether 85 00:07:34.280 --> 00:07:36.200 it's the model or whether it's 86 00:07:36.210 --> 00:07:42.880 a family situation or something in our community. It will be in 87 00:07:42.890 --> 00:07:48.380 Broward and someone sent me this quote as she was in the gym disco it be 88 00:07:48.390 --> 00:07:52.650 a couple of years ago Smith shared with us she talks about still she says at the 89 00:07:52.660 --> 00:07:57.030 center of the most turbulent heart there is 90 00:07:57.040 --> 00:08:03.970 a place of peace. A place beyond time that cannot be touched by change 91 00:08:03.980 --> 00:08:10.430 or lots No 2 malls and star of the quietness no shadow did the 92 00:08:10.440 --> 00:08:17.280 lights. Here in this still is rest and healing. Nothing we suffer 93 00:08:17.720 --> 00:08:24.710 nothing that we fear can diminish its RINGBACK action. Now have kind of 94 00:08:24.720 --> 00:08:31.500 stillness. Is already there that nothing can take away 95 00:08:31.540 --> 00:08:34.210 not past history not 96 00:08:34.220 --> 00:08:41.180 a sense of loss the noun or what kind of economic status we come from or what 97 00:08:41.190 --> 00:08:48.031 background or what our past history says that we have that seem to find rights to 98 00:08:48.041 --> 00:08:50.891 a sense of peace and stillness. And 99 00:08:50.901 --> 00:08:57.431 a reason that's true is because it's rooted in God and divine presence in divine 100 00:08:57.441 --> 00:09:02.401 reality that's bigger than each one of us individually. And God and Christian 101 00:09:02.411 --> 00:09:08.141 Science is not far away the obvious guys really and it comes down certain 102 00:09:08.151 --> 00:09:09.991 intervenes in our lives every once in 103 00:09:10.001 --> 00:09:16.081 a while maybe we're not sure why or maybe we. Did something good that particular 104 00:09:16.091 --> 00:09:19.921 day and deserved it but other days we don't and so we don't really hear from God 105 00:09:20.271 --> 00:09:26.982 That's not the guy missions that we understand. That God The 106 00:09:26.992 --> 00:09:28.382 Christian Science articulate is 107 00:09:28.392 --> 00:09:33.204 a God this kind of like the sun shining. Not sure how we can translate it to the 108 00:09:33.214 --> 00:09:37.354 snow today but over his head like a dude that knows you have 109 00:09:37.504 --> 00:09:44.066 a sunny day because when the sun shines it shines on all 110 00:09:44.486 --> 00:09:48.996 who are it is the city it doesn't pick and choose who gets to deserve those raids 111 00:09:49.276 --> 00:09:53.086 who get to be blessed by the sons of war it doesn't matter if it's 112 00:09:53.096 --> 00:09:59.226 a beautiful part of New York or New York all parts to that scene 113 00:09:59.646 --> 00:10:05.646 equal to the touch of those sun's rays that's the goddess light and it shines all 114 00:10:05.656 --> 00:10:09.816 the time even though we see the stars to our the sun behind it that's why we have 115 00:10:09.826 --> 00:10:16.680 lights. It's only the shining it is the way that God's presence works as well that 116 00:10:16.690 --> 00:10:23.331 each one of us is being touched every moment by Have blessing from 117 00:10:23.371 --> 00:10:30.111 God divine light to goodness that's what it is it's 118 00:10:30.121 --> 00:10:37.051 a presence to my goodness. Now today we're going to have 119 00:10:37.091 --> 00:10:42.091 to meet idea. Of that sort of set the stage for our talk the 1st one comes from the 120 00:10:42.101 --> 00:10:44.971 Bible and I think the Christian Science 121 00:10:44.981 --> 00:10:50.201 a space and 2 different books the 1st one is the only bio and this idea comes from 122 00:10:50.211 --> 00:10:57.133 sounds sounds 46 now in this song and again the 1st songs of these very bad days 123 00:10:57.143 --> 00:11:03.283 for Poland are songs very hard to do that and so to speak to music but today it was 124 00:11:03.293 --> 00:11:03.593 just 125 00:11:03.893 --> 00:11:10.014 a little bit it is now $46.00 it starts up talking about turbulence worlds where 126 00:11:10.024 --> 00:11:14.864 the mountains are shaking the rivers are troubles and the mountains are all out 127 00:11:14.874 --> 00:11:19.804 into the sea and everything's kind of in a sense of destruction. But there's 128 00:11:19.814 --> 00:11:24.124 a little later in the some against in this little statement that you may know even 129 00:11:24.444 --> 00:11:31.324 still and know that I am God. To me 130 00:11:31.334 --> 00:11:31.844 that sounds 131 00:11:31.854 --> 00:11:38.626 a lot like stilling whatever seems to be trying to my heart out in our hearts to 132 00:11:38.706 --> 00:11:39.346 find 133 00:11:39.386 --> 00:11:45.121 a god that is all these very dire. Now Mary Baker Eddy is the author of the book 134 00:11:45.131 --> 00:11:50.381 Science and Health with Key to this for sure is this book really good it looks take 135 00:11:50.421 --> 00:11:53.181 in fact is directly from the Bible and listen to have 136 00:11:53.191 --> 00:11:57.101 a spiritual life and how to put it into practice and. Maybe 137 00:11:57.111 --> 00:12:03.761 a great he wrote this about stillness she said that spirit guide is heard 138 00:12:04.241 --> 00:12:11.161 when the senses are silence. So. How do we hear it have to 139 00:12:11.211 --> 00:12:17.891 find presence how do we connect with it that it comes when distraction when all the 140 00:12:17.901 --> 00:12:22.471 things that are pulling on us well whatever roles we might play in life daughter 141 00:12:22.511 --> 00:12:29.091 hug or friends community work or church where her parents teacher with everybody 142 00:12:29.101 --> 00:12:35.941 that when all of those walls and demands are quiet that we start to see this other 143 00:12:35.951 --> 00:12:42.401 reality of spirituality to this right hand so we can tune into every 144 00:12:42.411 --> 00:12:47.791 moment. And this is analogy that is healthy think about so I have 145 00:12:47.801 --> 00:12:53.821 a daughter. And as. The parent goes to learn with 146 00:12:53.831 --> 00:12:57.071 a child over all of these lessons so for a day almost 147 00:12:57.081 --> 00:13:03.841 a decade I have been going to my love I could probably play very well. And the 1st 148 00:13:03.851 --> 00:13:09.071 thing you do when you go in my life that is that the pilot is to get to know if the 149 00:13:09.081 --> 00:13:13.491 student teacher who never gets runs lessons grade out of tune by so she turns on 150 00:13:13.501 --> 00:13:19.291 its finger and then my daughter will play her violin in the same doze and at 1st I 151 00:13:19.301 --> 00:13:21.021 wanted to write so You Tube has been 152 00:13:21.031 --> 00:13:27.071 a vibration and it kind of out of sync sound very good but then slowly she turns 153 00:13:27.081 --> 00:13:31.551 a little fine to those other instruments and it brings the violin into tune with 154 00:13:31.561 --> 00:13:38.360 that tuning to me knows the window that is playing on the tuner. And it was the 155 00:13:38.370 --> 00:13:44.940 violence into it sounds like there's only one and those being played. And that 156 00:13:44.950 --> 00:13:51.240 sense of unity is how we each exist that's what our spiritual reality is like 157 00:13:52.250 --> 00:13:56.500 but all of these external definitions we have for ourselves that he does have 158 00:13:56.510 --> 00:14:03.450 a lot in to the anti I'm how we are all waiting for wearing etc etc. 159 00:14:05.150 --> 00:14:07.360 That in this reality this one is 160 00:14:07.370 --> 00:14:12.890 a god of those external definitions all the way that we see ourselves as the out of 161 00:14:12.900 --> 00:14:19.100 the car. As children of light and that is the place where it is 162 00:14:19.290 --> 00:14:26.090 a process of calm still. And sometimes the 1st step is just remembering to look for 163 00:14:26.100 --> 00:14:31.440 it and to tune in to that I know presence that's right there like the violence to 164 00:14:31.450 --> 00:14:38.150 get to where it can be played. Now so we've got 3 main factions in Iraq 165 00:14:38.160 --> 00:14:42.220 today the 1st one is going to be either you know these still and knowing that I am 166 00:14:42.230 --> 00:14:49.130 God and the lack of us look at stillness individually helps us to practice it 167 00:14:49.220 --> 00:14:54.090 I don't want to work for ourselves. And we'll look at still this and I will look at 168 00:14:54.100 --> 00:14:57.900 an example of how is that healing How does it reveal it to our lives in each of 169 00:14:57.910 --> 00:15:04.110 these sections the same section will get seen still as seeking God and how does 170 00:15:04.120 --> 00:15:10.100 that help us with the relationships of others. And the finalization We'll look at 171 00:15:10.110 --> 00:15:15.750 being still and listening to our own heart the Bible says Be still and you with 172 00:15:15.760 --> 00:15:21.970 your own heart on your back there really need to listen to your own heart speaking 173 00:15:22.620 --> 00:15:28.240 and you get quiet enough that you can hear. The tree. 174 00:15:30.870 --> 00:15:36.520 While you're gone so there's actually get how do we find stillness and peace it's 175 00:15:36.530 --> 00:15:40.550 like the world has been trying to do you realize or feel like they're not very 176 00:15:40.740 --> 00:15:41.580 thoughts on 177 00:15:41.590 --> 00:15:46.960 a regular basis right so that's where you get your and I have our regular day to 178 00:15:46.970 --> 00:15:53.910 day out so the 1st question 1st actually here still and knowing God that 179 00:15:53.920 --> 00:15:58.860 helps us find stillness with ourselves it helps for us to just stablish What does 180 00:15:58.870 --> 00:16:01.600 this look like. What does it look like to be 181 00:16:01.610 --> 00:16:03.940 a piece of ourselves and that's actually 182 00:16:03.950 --> 00:16:07.300 a question I have for all of you here today this shout out 183 00:16:07.310 --> 00:16:12.120 a couple of characteristics that are coming to you David why did the language you 184 00:16:12.130 --> 00:16:16.920 know how you feel at ease with yourself does that look like what would you say how 185 00:16:16.930 --> 00:16:21.710 would you answer just shut out any words that come to you that the sounds of calm 186 00:16:22.450 --> 00:16:29.060 or happy joy letting go right now and humble glance 187 00:16:29.270 --> 00:16:35.830 oh of this one is whiteness that loves to be talked about the last great. 188 00:16:37.200 --> 00:16:38.510 Freedom a is I had 189 00:16:38.520 --> 00:16:44.220 a piece peace deep sense of peace. I saw it and you know this. 190 00:16:45.900 --> 00:16:50.090 I'll add that it so know what I know you will just said that we were free from 191 00:16:50.100 --> 00:16:54.940 anxiety we're free from we're also we were free from judgment and we're truly 192 00:16:54.950 --> 00:17:00.100 a piece of ourselves we don't judge ourselves so harshly we don't judge others so 193 00:17:00.110 --> 00:17:06.050 harshly they are really related to. Another characteristic for me opinion pieces is 194 00:17:06.060 --> 00:17:12.370 that we are less interested in the concepts of others. There are the rehearsing 195 00:17:12.380 --> 00:17:14.950 over and over those conflicts in the world or in 196 00:17:14.960 --> 00:17:21.000 a family or our allies we just can't lose interest we're so home and so peaceful we 197 00:17:21.290 --> 00:17:24.960 don't need to prove that the things I've heard over and over we just lose interest 198 00:17:24.960 --> 00:17:31.930 . And 3rd point that is what really frightens me about ease of myself is that in 199 00:17:31.940 --> 00:17:38.712 those moments of soundness I don't feel in charge all the time and I think the best 200 00:17:38.722 --> 00:17:43.752 letting go right to me that's Allegro is about that they're willing to let things 201 00:17:43.762 --> 00:17:47.612 I'm told and see what happens rather than feeling I have to make everything happen 202 00:17:47.612 --> 00:17:49.810 . I'll share with you 203 00:17:49.820 --> 00:17:53.760 a little story that has illustrated that for me and my life this is where it gets 204 00:17:53.770 --> 00:17:59.550 in the human aspect of it all of this quality and it was mentioned just nice ideas 205 00:17:59.560 --> 00:18:04.220 that you can talk about here but then you go home you're back to the stressful life 206 00:18:04.360 --> 00:18:10.951 that we are in to live in this very busy world these ideas have power because. 207 00:18:12.201 --> 00:18:15.491 They're not just been human characteristics they're 208 00:18:15.501 --> 00:18:17.451 a description of what you will surely be as 209 00:18:17.461 --> 00:18:23.621 a description of it. At the core of who we are we're being still 210 00:18:24.551 --> 00:18:29.601 there we are at peace that we are calm that we feel joy and you know so I think 211 00:18:29.611 --> 00:18:34.681 gratitude that gravity is there and there were just feeling connections with others 212 00:18:34.721 --> 00:18:41.371 that we didn't stats. So. A couple of years ago around 213 00:18:41.421 --> 00:18:47.231 Christmas time again I was preparing to have purely come into town and I was going 214 00:18:47.241 --> 00:18:51.021 to be ready for the wonderful meal we're going to have to give them presents for my 215 00:18:51.151 --> 00:18:56.251 kids and they had lots of activities and so on and I was feeling quite hairy I must 216 00:18:56.261 --> 00:19:03.101 say and I'll say Boston so similar to the exit here it's very sound and like 217 00:19:03.281 --> 00:19:07.931 content you acted outside of Boston I have to say from time to time I think you'd 218 00:19:07.941 --> 00:19:10.011 have to think that stress just becomes 219 00:19:10.021 --> 00:19:15.551 a natural part of life. Well one day I woke up and if we don't check up by these 220 00:19:15.561 --> 00:19:20.711 sometimes it creeps it right the stress is sort of this ever present thing so one 221 00:19:20.721 --> 00:19:22.921 day when I woke up I was had 222 00:19:22.931 --> 00:19:26.301 a lot of things going on to prepare for this holiday season and I had 223 00:19:26.311 --> 00:19:30.851 a pretty stiff back and heads up very well and it's really painful crick in my neck 224 00:19:30.851 --> 00:19:37.751 . And as I do every morning I start my day by really getting myself calm and 225 00:19:38.061 --> 00:19:44.681 and having very focused meditated time with the Bible and the sounds of. And 226 00:19:44.691 --> 00:19:50.811 reading ideas and steady as I did that I was praying for myself. And I was 227 00:19:50.821 --> 00:19:57.111 expecting healing the pain would actually didn't you go away as I have experienced 228 00:19:57.301 --> 00:20:01.891 in other areas of my life throughout life but this particular day my pretty little 229 00:20:01.901 --> 00:20:08.433 rushed and the little bit along the lines of Dear God I have so much will not today 230 00:20:09.343 --> 00:20:14.753 feel relief like you know on the day. I got my commanding. 231 00:20:16.743 --> 00:20:21.863 Officer I realize at the end of the day I went to sleep and woke up the next 232 00:20:21.873 --> 00:20:25.753 morning and had not slept very well again and the painting was now even more 233 00:20:25.763 --> 00:20:30.853 intense it was plain when I was no fights that this was very effective but I kind 234 00:20:30.863 --> 00:20:34.403 of cursed in the same way back to my days trying to get stuck with 235 00:20:34.413 --> 00:20:39.073 a lot of pain that the next night I went to bed and really wasn't sleeping the 3rd 236 00:20:39.083 --> 00:20:42.913 day when I woke up this was really at the point now where I couldn't even take 237 00:20:42.923 --> 00:20:48.373 a step without shooting pains on the back right back so I just flat out I said I 238 00:20:48.383 --> 00:20:54.393 was I was talking can't even move right now so I was lucky I was. And just felt 239 00:20:54.403 --> 00:21:01.323 like all he just being that he's in that stillness that. Will need me 240 00:21:01.363 --> 00:21:01.493 for 241 00:21:01.503 --> 00:21:07.753 a couple days and my parents and I started to live there for hours and started to 242 00:21:07.763 --> 00:21:14.655 find that I started to quiet my senses and all those racing racing racing cars I 243 00:21:14.665 --> 00:21:19.715 started to see what I had been doing to my prayer thank you kind of treating God as 244 00:21:19.725 --> 00:21:23.485 like a divine assistance but I was the c.e.o. 245 00:21:23.525 --> 00:21:27.025 My life was like my 2nd shark Ok helps me 246 00:21:27.035 --> 00:21:33.790 a loading dock and through stuff. But. One point is I was realizing all of this I 247 00:21:33.800 --> 00:21:34.020 heard 248 00:21:34.030 --> 00:21:40.820 a very clear message constantly and the message was. The shepherd. 249 00:21:43.340 --> 00:21:44.670 Now I puzzled over this for 250 00:21:44.680 --> 00:21:49.780 a little while it came into being to me was that I had started raising what it 251 00:21:49.790 --> 00:21:56.130 meant to be a sheep rather than the shepherds self. That to be 252 00:21:56.140 --> 00:22:00.910 a good sheep meant I had to follow the feeling in charge of what was going on in my 253 00:22:00.920 --> 00:22:07.631 life. And soul of 2 we feel in charge all these it's take the opposite of 254 00:22:07.641 --> 00:22:11.381 stillness from being right is sort of rushing around trying to accomplish 255 00:22:11.391 --> 00:22:16.611 everything and feeling like it's all the really our shoulders. I started to realize 256 00:22:16.621 --> 00:22:19.381 that I was led to entertain for 257 00:22:19.391 --> 00:22:23.881 a couple of days are going to weeks actually about how you know this is 258 00:22:23.891 --> 00:22:28.151 a really big Christmas that we're planning and gosh I have anyone else to do this 259 00:22:28.161 --> 00:22:28.781 it's just not 260 00:22:28.791 --> 00:22:33.831 a good time as long as I can do it so I just have to. Share not to you Governor. 261 00:22:35.631 --> 00:22:40.012 And I was sorry what do I cover and that's why I didn't think it was 262 00:22:40.022 --> 00:22:43.512 a little startling to realize that I think in that that I was in charge of 263 00:22:43.522 --> 00:22:47.872 everything including in charge of praying in the right way to get 264 00:22:47.912 --> 00:22:53.961 a hearing to correct the problems in my body. And all of this is in charge and as I 265 00:22:53.971 --> 00:22:58.671 just returned to the well you know where I was now in bad not being able to get 266 00:22:58.681 --> 00:23:02.531 anything done. So when society had him that there was 267 00:23:02.541 --> 00:23:08.761 a live shot buried and it was not me I had also come to terms with my bias against 268 00:23:08.771 --> 00:23:08.931 being 269 00:23:08.941 --> 00:23:15.641 a sheep so. I've grown up leading this girl the people in general should be leaders 270 00:23:15.651 --> 00:23:18.111 and should be strong which is true but as 271 00:23:18.121 --> 00:23:22.771 a result I bought the she kind of body the opposite that they were these followers 272 00:23:23.021 --> 00:23:26.651 and she did a really bad rap right we don't aspire to be 273 00:23:26.661 --> 00:23:32.161 a she we aspire to be that actually. But in this instance I realized this was that 274 00:23:32.171 --> 00:23:38.281 in order to be effective speaker and effective parents so my 2 kids were defective 275 00:23:38.291 --> 00:23:43.191 spouses and I was bitter and so did that projects and I have explained that today. 276 00:23:44.550 --> 00:23:51.150 I had to understand. Where the sense of responsibility 277 00:23:51.440 --> 00:23:57.890 was and it wasn't in me but I had to understand how I was be shepherded 278 00:23:58.860 --> 00:24:02.990 so that I could shepherd these all these things of my life effectively without 279 00:24:03.000 --> 00:24:09.140 feeling like it's depleting. Their work it's not intended to deplete us to the 280 00:24:09.150 --> 00:24:13.810 point where we flood that at the end of the day exhausted just feeling like we 281 00:24:13.820 --> 00:24:18.790 couldn't do any more and get up the next day to start all over again. But our work 282 00:24:19.030 --> 00:24:20.600 lies are intended to fuel 283 00:24:20.610 --> 00:24:26.620 a refreshment beside the still waters that as we know that we are like those sheets 284 00:24:26.630 --> 00:24:32.520 of the vitals are so much about the Psalms that we follow the watch birds. That are 285 00:24:32.530 --> 00:24:39.280 were our lives are designed to be our fashion and still things. Not 286 00:24:39.290 --> 00:24:43.830 afraid to carry stressful things. And this right in the middle of the most 287 00:24:43.840 --> 00:24:49.710 stressful moment that is the moment to be still not one word of the activity now we 288 00:24:49.720 --> 00:24:54.210 get home from work we're right in the middle of our plates it doesn't mean we have 289 00:24:54.220 --> 00:24:59.930 to sit on the floor and meditate or light out you know there are places that but it 290 00:24:59.940 --> 00:25:04.390 doesn't think the policy. And just something you can for 291 00:25:04.400 --> 00:25:09.520 a moment even 3 minutes out of our day to be totally quiet and put away 292 00:25:09.530 --> 00:25:15.040 distractions and tune ourselves like that island gets too great in that 293 00:25:15.160 --> 00:25:22.100 conversation with God to find love. The love that is universal like 294 00:25:22.110 --> 00:25:28.250 the sun and impartial and for everyone else. And that's what I was doing that day 295 00:25:28.290 --> 00:25:34.200 when I said that. They started to feel that I understand what it meant to be 296 00:25:34.210 --> 00:25:39.720 a sheep and I was appreciating the quality is the of the evils of the receptive and 297 00:25:39.730 --> 00:25:46.180 trusting. And I value the following the right idea of the shepherd 298 00:25:47.190 --> 00:25:48.280 I was willing I had 299 00:25:48.290 --> 00:25:52.490 a willingness to let go of what I didn't have to be in charge. And to see in 300 00:25:52.500 --> 00:25:57.650 a way that it doesn't hold what happened was more I've thought about these ideas 301 00:25:57.920 --> 00:26:02.680 and let go of all the arguments of my head about but I have to do this I have to do 302 00:26:02.690 --> 00:26:08.620 this I'm in charge of this my responses to this and all that conversation. More 303 00:26:08.630 --> 00:26:12.110 like put that aside and just let it be for 304 00:26:12.120 --> 00:26:18.210 a minute to understand the reality of that one ness that we were talking about with 305 00:26:18.220 --> 00:26:24.330 God. That I just felt my whole body is equally changing. 306 00:26:25.710 --> 00:26:32.080 And my next stuff and I can turn it without fishing and I all my muscles and 307 00:26:32.090 --> 00:26:37.350 everything in my shoulders loosens to the point where I go downstairs and rejoin I 308 00:26:37.360 --> 00:26:42.590 feel like the celebration. But I did so with this incredible sense of quiet 309 00:26:42.600 --> 00:26:49.290 stillness today had not been thinking about only the entire month of December. And 310 00:26:49.300 --> 00:26:54.050 so I didn't rush I didn't take over instead I went downstairs and I noticed the way 311 00:26:54.060 --> 00:26:58.110 that my kids that were written to the occasion were started up more than one 312 00:26:58.120 --> 00:27:04.070 monitored everything I noticed the way that my husband and my step family members 313 00:27:04.180 --> 00:27:08.060 were pitching in and there was this who community that was beautifully working 314 00:27:08.070 --> 00:27:13.180 together in harmony that I was witnessing and I didn't have to orchestrate really 315 00:27:13.190 --> 00:27:15.020 in charge and it was such 316 00:27:15.030 --> 00:27:20.940 a prenup of our role. And I it has been 317 00:27:20.980 --> 00:27:27.750 a reminder to me since that experience that to not just get in 318 00:27:27.760 --> 00:27:34.210 take charge before I go is really in charge that is that God and divine presence is 319 00:27:34.220 --> 00:27:39.370 what's in charge and being responsive to that allows me to participate in the 320 00:27:39.380 --> 00:27:46.310 harmony rather than have to be in charge of making me. Ok now this is an idea from 321 00:27:46.380 --> 00:27:51.720 the side of the notebook that I think characterizes this experience for me it's 322 00:27:51.730 --> 00:27:53.990 very decorated wrote this she says that there's 323 00:27:54.000 --> 00:28:00.660 a scientific community which exists between God and man and it must be right 324 00:28:00.670 --> 00:28:06.680 out in life practice and God's Will must be universally done. 325 00:28:08.200 --> 00:28:14.810 That there is this divine presence that in held us to conform to deny 326 00:28:14.860 --> 00:28:21.631 reality. That is not something we have to work up to earn or try so hard to say 327 00:28:21.641 --> 00:28:28.221 you're listening to the reality that's already present. But almost always you 328 00:28:28.231 --> 00:28:33.471 listed sometimes what happens and healing experiences for me and what happened in 329 00:28:33.481 --> 00:28:40.251 this one. Was that my career started off thinking here's my challenge and I'm going 330 00:28:40.261 --> 00:28:44.371 to look at ideas and spiritual writings to apply to this challenge at the end 331 00:28:44.381 --> 00:28:48.013 hopefully they'll come out with their resolution. It's like 332 00:28:48.023 --> 00:28:53.583 a problem solving prayer. But that was not effective and that's not prayer as 333 00:28:53.593 --> 00:29:00.461 Christian Science defiance. That there is really I don't seem to know what already 334 00:29:00.521 --> 00:29:06.001 existed and that prayer is going to allow this to to do ourselves in to align 335 00:29:06.011 --> 00:29:11.271 ourselves to what is going on in reality that's all spiritual The prayer is to 336 00:29:11.281 --> 00:29:18.221 listen why it is less about talking it is about this. I spent 337 00:29:18.231 --> 00:29:24.361 5 years traveling around different countries in Africa for some work I did about 3 338 00:29:24.371 --> 00:29:27.101 or 4 years ago and one of the things that 339 00:29:27.111 --> 00:29:30.551 a friend of mine told me when I got there is this little parallel he said are you 340 00:29:30.561 --> 00:29:33.231 know we have 2 ears and one not for 341 00:29:33.241 --> 00:29:37.811 a reason. And I do it for me that's been 342 00:29:37.821 --> 00:29:43.311 a characteristic that I go talking in my prayer more than I'm listening that's 343 00:29:43.321 --> 00:29:49.821 a really that these are really just. So he's with ourselves finding the stillness 344 00:29:49.831 --> 00:29:50.351 that is about 345 00:29:50.361 --> 00:29:56.151 a discovery of the reality that already is present with us that didn't build the 346 00:29:56.161 --> 00:30:02.301 most harried hurrying to vanity day that is right it's 347 00:30:02.311 --> 00:30:08.411 a moment there for me and I'm still. In the middle of the business traffic jams 348 00:30:09.281 --> 00:30:13.761 are the most to me and our time that's the place to stop and tune into that 349 00:30:13.771 --> 00:30:19.561 stillness by why I mean all this talk. And just focusing on the stillness just 350 00:30:19.571 --> 00:30:24.461 remembering that sometimes is enough to tune into what's going on in spiritual 351 00:30:24.471 --> 00:30:30.551 reality. Now let's look next at how this helps us with our relationships with 352 00:30:30.561 --> 00:30:37.211 others and parts you hear so. Perches about still and seeking 353 00:30:37.221 --> 00:30:43.031 God So the 1st was about knowing God this is about really seeking God in our lives 354 00:30:43.031 --> 00:30:49.991 . Now one way that this is described in the Bible it 355 00:30:50.001 --> 00:30:55.501 holds great. And he writes letters to friends of the Romans the globe is 356 00:30:55.511 --> 00:31:02.031 a little Asian isn't it all of these writings he says something repeatedly. And he 357 00:31:02.041 --> 00:31:04.011 said as he said Hugh half 358 00:31:04.051 --> 00:31:10.172 a mind of Christ. Now. That means us today 359 00:31:10.992 --> 00:31:16.232 well the christ is not the man Jesus that did all those wonderful dates for the 360 00:31:16.502 --> 00:31:22.781 short period of time he was your Earth. The Christ is the spirit of just by 361 00:31:22.831 --> 00:31:28.911 goodness that he reflected in body and lived in his life that he was so clear on 362 00:31:28.921 --> 00:31:34.641 that unity that scientific community with God everything he did was an outcome that 363 00:31:34.641 --> 00:31:40.511 . He was so clear on that stillness and that he said it existed just because you 364 00:31:40.521 --> 00:31:44.581 get it from him and people were attracted to that actually into that center at 365 00:31:44.591 --> 00:31:51.391 altitude of stillness that he invited and. Now when you hear those words that you 366 00:31:51.401 --> 00:31:55.501 all have the mind of Christ when you think what it will comes up for you get 367 00:31:55.511 --> 00:32:02.441 a shout out. Consciousness consciousness and all right 368 00:32:02.921 --> 00:32:09.481 that is it again. It sounds like you're oh the light of Christ well 369 00:32:09.841 --> 00:32:13.861 and so she says don't let you are doing this but what it means RINGBACK to have the 370 00:32:13.871 --> 00:32:20.731 mind of Christ is that the same thoughts the same consciousness is used as 371 00:32:20.741 --> 00:32:25.301 having He was here it made him do all of those things he did that healing and the 372 00:32:25.701 --> 00:32:32.381 ability to heal. Because I sure things didn't go by Jesus did but that was how many 373 00:32:32.391 --> 00:32:37.331 rounds of it might have distracted that he was able to maintain that sense of calm 374 00:32:37.821 --> 00:32:44.821 because he had the rights it wasn't his own but that was this universal defiant 375 00:32:44.831 --> 00:32:49.561 crimes that was bigger than one person but this human mind it was the mind of that 376 00:32:49.571 --> 00:32:54.131 guy it was him being aware of 377 00:32:54.141 --> 00:33:01.031 a timeless Spirit of God that informs everything he did and that timeless 378 00:33:01.041 --> 00:33:06.941 spirit of God's goodness is here right now today we call it the Christ spirit 379 00:33:07.211 --> 00:33:13.901 inside the idea of this Christ and they house each one of us and in this one 380 00:33:13.911 --> 00:33:18.761 follower they will see just as you all have the mind of Christ it literally being 381 00:33:18.771 --> 00:33:24.881 that they all. Just mind. Some of that consciousness is enough that maybe nothing 382 00:33:25.281 --> 00:33:29.021 you feel that lets us out here when you hear that mind of Christ we don't have. 383 00:33:31.141 --> 00:33:35.761 Kindness they say because of the whole television power. 384 00:33:38.491 --> 00:33:45.151 Yet being conscious of the good at all times still small. The still small voice 385 00:33:45.251 --> 00:33:50.491 visible mind of Christ is that still small What is what is that selfless selfless 386 00:33:51.071 --> 00:33:57.141 one why and make him feel satisfied certainty yes 387 00:33:58.011 --> 00:34:04.811 humility. Absolutely all of these qualities you know the reason why you 388 00:34:04.921 --> 00:34:09.371 why we can see qualities you know here is because we embody them ourselves if you 389 00:34:09.381 --> 00:34:13.061 are noticed that they are going to hire you because someone else is only because 390 00:34:13.071 --> 00:34:18.561 you have you see yourself when you see someone else and you think of their socalled 391 00:34:18.571 --> 00:34:22.481 they wish they could be like that is because you now have that calmness in yourself 392 00:34:22.491 --> 00:34:29.411 that is attracted to their own. So these qualities. Come from and have their 393 00:34:29.421 --> 00:34:35.774 origin in God. And that's why we experience that here just like Jesus showed us 394 00:34:35.784 --> 00:34:41.314 that through his example through what you taught and he was here that he taught us 395 00:34:41.384 --> 00:34:48.274 how each one of us can have that same approach to life. In our life and often about 396 00:34:48.274 --> 00:34:54.971 . Practicing and maybe we don't know how to do it perfectly. Yes yet is that. 397 00:34:56.831 --> 00:35:02.931 Knowing that that mind is bigger than our own brains our own thoughts our it is 398 00:35:02.941 --> 00:35:09.341 a consciousness of unity that's bigger than one percent but that's great here as it 399 00:35:09.351 --> 00:35:11.951 is each one of us that sense of the christ is 400 00:35:11.961 --> 00:35:17.091 a divine influence for good in our lives and that is not an influence has more 401 00:35:17.101 --> 00:35:23.981 power than anything outside. So for example we think about our relationships to 402 00:35:23.991 --> 00:35:28.321 others one of the words that often comes up when I think about this or in my 403 00:35:28.331 --> 00:35:30.691 practice and people call for a feeling is 404 00:35:30.701 --> 00:35:37.452 a reaction I reacted to that so I said what she said high school all day and like I 405 00:35:37.462 --> 00:35:42.102 agreed to get it I can't believe I made that mistake oh just every day every time 406 00:35:42.112 --> 00:35:45.462 we see each other it comes up again business is the single story you're either 'd 407 00:35:45.642 --> 00:35:51.692 you're everywhere all you folks right this is in reaction to that we're stuck in 408 00:35:51.702 --> 00:35:55.721 this or it's different people we can't get out of it. There's 409 00:35:55.731 --> 00:36:02.431 a species called mutants cradle is 5 below. All of the oh why 410 00:36:02.441 --> 00:36:06.561 was I when you let go of it it's the 3 of them build another one on the other side 411 00:36:06.571 --> 00:36:11.021 right it's called is pretty limited it is causing 412 00:36:11.031 --> 00:36:14.671 a reaction back and forth and you can feel it we're stuck in that sometimes in 413 00:36:14.681 --> 00:36:20.891 relationships we don't know how to. But this idea of having the mind of Christ is 414 00:36:20.901 --> 00:36:27.581 by that interrupts that process. That says that we don't have to get it nation for 415 00:36:27.591 --> 00:36:34.481 what happens and what other people do or say. Which seems strange at 1st 416 00:36:34.491 --> 00:36:39.871 ray that it seems that when someone came up to him who was crippled or ill for 417 00:36:39.881 --> 00:36:45.291 a long period of time or had particular mental challenges and. He has information 418 00:36:45.301 --> 00:36:51.821 about that individual came from the unity with that divine consciousness not from 419 00:36:51.951 --> 00:36:58.141 the picture in front of and NASA to deal with it change. His or her mission have 420 00:36:58.151 --> 00:37:04.431 this other source. The Mind of Christ the Christ source for that 421 00:37:04.961 --> 00:37:10.271 same kind that we are can practice and turn to in our lives because that is our 422 00:37:10.281 --> 00:37:16.711 only true divine Mind in our divine creation as we are truly created. 423 00:37:18.101 --> 00:37:22.381 Now and friends outside another story I have to illustrate the human part of the 424 00:37:22.391 --> 00:37:28.631 sense of stillness that the mind of Christ is always still always at peace. And I 425 00:37:28.641 --> 00:37:33.601 am a friend of mine about 10 years ago I was working in our home. And she dropped 426 00:37:33.611 --> 00:37:38.071 a glass and shattered certainly in pieces of one of the little tiny pieces of glass 427 00:37:38.081 --> 00:37:44.431 had bedded her eyeball. And it was very painful and her husband was really 428 00:37:44.441 --> 00:37:49.691 concerned about her eyesight and she was so comfortable about this now she was 429 00:37:49.701 --> 00:37:54.031 a Christian Scientists. And she didn't practice the spiritual healing that 430 00:37:54.041 --> 00:37:58.331 critiques of the teachings of Jesus in the Bible and the Science and Health book 431 00:37:58.341 --> 00:38:02.261 and putting that into practice the scene results in her life but she was so 432 00:38:02.641 --> 00:38:07.261 comfortable that her husband finally washed her off to the local hospital to the 433 00:38:07.271 --> 00:38:11.981 emergency room so when she got there the doctors like Terri they did see the use of 434 00:38:11.991 --> 00:38:16.801 lavender I told her when they wanted to get out when they would prepare for this 435 00:38:16.811 --> 00:38:22.571 minor operation or Persinger related to get it out so she asked if she could go get 436 00:38:22.581 --> 00:38:23.751 them here and just make 437 00:38:23.761 --> 00:38:30.223 a big phone call so she did and she latitude got really quiet and she hung on. And 438 00:38:30.233 --> 00:38:35.563 she asked if I would pray for her and this is what I do actually so I thought I 439 00:38:35.573 --> 00:38:41.193 would be happy to pray with her according to the wages created teachings of 440 00:38:41.203 --> 00:38:42.873 Christian Science and we only had 441 00:38:42.883 --> 00:38:47.883 a couple of that in the fog of the inspiration that he really nearly was for her to 442 00:38:47.893 --> 00:38:54.433 go back into the hospital and love everything she saw. And she said she didn't 443 00:38:54.443 --> 00:39:01.340 try and she looked at her and she got up shit off our. And I hope is that she falls 444 00:39:01.790 --> 00:39:08.640 this love over she felt the love or why. She was 445 00:39:08.650 --> 00:39:14.140 in love with the patients and the doctors her husband was there and as and when she 446 00:39:14.150 --> 00:39:20.700 felt this incredible sense of awe for. All of the worry about price and the anxiety 447 00:39:20.710 --> 00:39:24.660 about what was going to happen and what the doctors who were going to do with can 448 00:39:24.670 --> 00:39:30.130 do damage in the process the 3rd reading of blaming herself as to why this having 449 00:39:30.140 --> 00:39:36.540 got her all of that built in and was replaced by just loving others and 450 00:39:36.550 --> 00:39:43.380 everyone around. And as you point out in the hospital that he's a liar I have 451 00:39:43.390 --> 00:39:48.370 a trouble and it obviously isn't there it is that it was the Glastonbury or I go 452 00:39:48.380 --> 00:39:55.260 back home. The boat was so striking to her was that how where I was that 453 00:39:55.270 --> 00:40:01.240 there was this power and that that just transformed how she thought dolls and the 454 00:40:01.250 --> 00:40:06.480 way her body responding. And that's something that she has been working to 455 00:40:06.490 --> 00:40:13.130 experience and stay with the rest of her life. And that sense of love that Harry 456 00:40:13.140 --> 00:40:19.870 had have that power of love this radiator is it comes from that relationship to 457 00:40:19.880 --> 00:40:21.000 God that one has 458 00:40:21.010 --> 00:40:27.140 a car. And it way we. Hold that in turn for 459 00:40:27.150 --> 00:40:32.490 a day of the love that's that's powerful for each one of us it has attention will 460 00:40:32.500 --> 00:40:38.320 result in our experience. It need to feel the power of that mind of Christ like you 461 00:40:38.330 --> 00:40:42.990 always talked about them living in that forgiveness for that being to forgive is 462 00:40:43.000 --> 00:40:49.831 a great quality of that Christ spirit and when we are. Really feeling that 463 00:40:49.841 --> 00:40:55.191 we have that same divine mind that has existed throughout all time one of the last 464 00:40:55.271 --> 00:40:59.681 picture it happens we start to tap into some of that love that my friend 465 00:40:59.691 --> 00:41:05.201 experienced research and feel that the power and presence of now love right here we 466 00:41:05.211 --> 00:41:10.371 are it's not far away from anyone. And it changes the way to respond to 467 00:41:10.381 --> 00:41:14.461 relationship others then we start to see relationships that have been this way for 468 00:41:14.471 --> 00:41:21.113 years and years in different light. My friend was 469 00:41:21.203 --> 00:41:25.793 realizing it happened to me in the hospital it's this idea that Mary Baker Eddy 470 00:41:25.803 --> 00:41:32.253 raised. She says. To the burdens and 471 00:41:32.263 --> 00:41:39.196 Cleary Jesus come on to me there are needed to rest for the 472 00:41:39.206 --> 00:41:45.526 righteous the rest in Christ he's in love the thought of it stills 473 00:41:45.566 --> 00:41:51.886 complains that he didn't search of life's troubles the phones itself the way 474 00:41:52.806 --> 00:41:53.976 and I'm unique is 475 00:41:53.986 --> 00:42:00.906 a deep settled calm. That he conservative life on 476 00:42:00.916 --> 00:42:07.036 the way that we discovered that deep subtle calm that's right there. Now in the 477 00:42:07.046 --> 00:42:13.391 last section let's just talk about how this applies to the Worlds. So here is are 478 00:42:13.441 --> 00:42:18.561 these are developments that have to be challenging to know how we can feel like we 479 00:42:18.601 --> 00:42:19.611 were from to making 480 00:42:19.621 --> 00:42:24.361 a difference whether we can affect any kind of change in places in the world where 481 00:42:24.811 --> 00:42:30.281 we'd really like to see something different going on. And even getting into that I 482 00:42:30.291 --> 00:42:31.561 just want to talk to you 483 00:42:31.571 --> 00:42:37.451 a little bit about the Founder of Christian Science Mary Baker Eddy. She had an 484 00:42:37.461 --> 00:42:43.591 experience in her life where she was diagnosed with something terrible. She had 485 00:42:43.601 --> 00:42:48.651 a very ill childhood and was right with me physically and the doctors had nothing 486 00:42:48.661 --> 00:42:54.805 else they could do for her and on which she was bedridden and her friends and her 487 00:42:54.815 --> 00:42:59.225 family were preparing her house on because she was going to die there was nothing 488 00:42:59.445 --> 00:43:05.325 else that could be done for. It On this one particular day she opened her Bible and 489 00:43:05.335 --> 00:43:06.825 she started to read what we had 490 00:43:06.835 --> 00:43:13.255 a grave or less sorry she started really what Jean. Had done and healing people. 491 00:43:14.495 --> 00:43:20.375 And that moment very great fells that credible power of love over her so that she 492 00:43:20.585 --> 00:43:26.935 got up on bad walked across the room and fell asleep while up. And she was so 493 00:43:26.945 --> 00:43:31.665 curious about what happened to her she called herself assigns an investigator to 494 00:43:31.675 --> 00:43:35.365 understand what was going on she believed there was 495 00:43:35.375 --> 00:43:40.525 a spiritual law that undergirds our existence here this is not 496 00:43:40.535 --> 00:43:47.420 a random occurrence. It is no mean time that you came here today it's not random 497 00:43:47.430 --> 00:43:54.260 that other people may have heard about this that it wasn't that she was healed and 498 00:43:54.270 --> 00:43:55.860 other people are that there was 499 00:43:55.870 --> 00:44:01.190 a lot that we can understand and put into practice and she spent the rest of her 500 00:44:01.200 --> 00:44:06.310 life looking into what that is all about how understand God's way that has 501 00:44:06.320 --> 00:44:12.310 a tangible results in our lives. And the result is for crying 502 00:44:13.381 --> 00:44:17.961 one of the only result they hear from her was the Christian Science Monitor 503 00:44:17.971 --> 00:44:20.842 newspaper which is going to hold 504 00:44:20.852 --> 00:44:24.972 a private still exists and stay on my newspaper today also has 505 00:44:24.982 --> 00:44:29.652 a weekly magazine attributed with it and she started this because she wanted there 506 00:44:29.662 --> 00:44:30.172 to be 507 00:44:30.182 --> 00:44:36.732 a new source that interests no one but left this all of humanity. She learned to 508 00:44:36.742 --> 00:44:39.432 live at times and play the 100 here 509 00:44:39.762 --> 00:44:46.402 a gladiator nearby and hear it and state the ladies and how did early night 510 00:44:47.122 --> 00:44:47.942 and it was 511 00:44:47.952 --> 00:44:53.362 a time when the news cycles at the time were publishing lots of false news or words 512 00:44:53.362 --> 00:45:00.182 . About sounds of the mind into the. But I see how that 513 00:45:00.302 --> 00:45:01.582 said that there needed to be 514 00:45:02.182 --> 00:45:07.342 a source of journalism that was later beacon of light. That allowed there to be 515 00:45:08.142 --> 00:45:10.772 hope there would be a group of hopeless there would be 516 00:45:10.782 --> 00:45:15.092 a little nugget of something that would get people off the tracks you expect and 517 00:45:15.102 --> 00:45:18.982 hope it is not falsely noble calling and way but in 518 00:45:18.992 --> 00:45:24.402 a tangible way it really brought it left the interview. And that was the focus and 519 00:45:24.412 --> 00:45:25.232 still it is 520 00:45:25.492 --> 00:45:29.642 a Christian Science Monitor. And I think about it like this so there is 521 00:45:29.652 --> 00:45:34.150 a story of. A contest for peace but as any peace building there is 522 00:45:34.160 --> 00:45:39.440 a contest for children to trot with the top Heaslip play. So if you have kids or 523 00:45:39.530 --> 00:45:45.150 you go home and afterward they drop by this is the drawing that one of his contacts 524 00:45:45.150 --> 00:45:47.580 . The Challenger on 525 00:45:47.700 --> 00:45:52.340 a rushing glory inquired call totally go over rocks and fall into 526 00:45:52.350 --> 00:45:57.360 a big pool of all the turbulence the steam that comes from the water falling down. 527 00:45:58.721 --> 00:46:01.521 If you've ever been at a water bowl this powerful is 528 00:46:01.531 --> 00:46:07.631 a quiet place you're. Right you know to shout I'm going to be hurt because the 529 00:46:07.641 --> 00:46:12.511 water is very very much. Well great behind in the water on 530 00:46:12.521 --> 00:46:19.231 a little tiny. Little yellow area. I think near you was pictured as 531 00:46:19.241 --> 00:46:23.251 a scene. And this is the in this is the challenger I have 532 00:46:23.261 --> 00:46:29.531 a piece with. The stillness It's not about escaping from our environment. 533 00:46:30.771 --> 00:46:36.881 But about having Billy to sing despite the trivial. And the Christian Science 534 00:46:36.891 --> 00:46:43.691 Monitor as it was designed to be used like that Mary to be the voice of 535 00:46:43.731 --> 00:46:49.011 hope for peace and goodness that that for those of us that really have 536 00:46:49.021 --> 00:46:54.051 a desire to see change in the world or goodness in the world that it kind of puts 537 00:46:54.061 --> 00:46:57.331 us a step ahead of knowing that there are still 538 00:46:57.341 --> 00:47:03.731 a part of the solution. Because the we're all in that turbulence and sucked up by 539 00:47:03.741 --> 00:47:07.891 the waterfall we're not able to help anybody else because of the invalid our water 540 00:47:07.931 --> 00:47:13.291 all because we're trying to survive ourselves and that can feel that's what is life 541 00:47:13.301 --> 00:47:17.811 sometimes for beings but we get stuck in the news cycle unfold our current were 542 00:47:17.821 --> 00:47:24.501 pulled out or by the waterfall of all the news to us. But if we can take that 543 00:47:24.511 --> 00:47:30.611 zone as it allows us to be on the edge. Which is where the Christian Science 544 00:47:30.621 --> 00:47:34.611 Monitor helps me to do when I need to pray about news there's always that and those 545 00:47:34.621 --> 00:47:34.891 made 546 00:47:34.901 --> 00:47:41.811 a waterfall we can help them. And that's how change happens that it starts 547 00:47:41.821 --> 00:47:48.351 1st and it changes cause all change in policy in government in Nations achieving 548 00:47:48.361 --> 00:47:55.261 the nation that changes starts with an idea. That serves consciousness and every 549 00:47:55.271 --> 00:47:59.761 single prayer of hope and goodness and when they would pray chips away at the 550 00:47:59.771 --> 00:48:06.270 division. Order the intractable challenges seem to be penetrated decade after 551 00:48:06.280 --> 00:48:11.430 decade I really do care chips away at that so the consciousness of being 552 00:48:11.440 --> 00:48:18.420 a ship. Not one of those fears is useless. As we get still and 553 00:48:18.430 --> 00:48:25.240 maintain our ability to know. That reality we become part of the 554 00:48:25.250 --> 00:48:30.740 solution and the last this last part to be shared to begin with detail and commune 555 00:48:30.750 --> 00:48:36.550 with your own heart listen to your own heart even louder if you listen to the news 556 00:48:36.640 --> 00:48:42.420 reports for me the time that means taking no cause for this report of doubt or of 557 00:48:42.430 --> 00:48:45.880 listening to the sun on the radio and driving you're listening to these people 558 00:48:45.890 --> 00:48:46.780 talking just have 559 00:48:46.830 --> 00:48:53.450 a few moments of quiet to just really listen deeply. And 560 00:48:53.460 --> 00:48:59.080 that is where stillness is. Included tonight. 561 00:49:00.320 --> 00:49:06.750 So it is about conscious constant have to understand God because it is 562 00:49:07.100 --> 00:49:14.090 universal and impression love. Is about Harley and I am today to discover 563 00:49:14.130 --> 00:49:18.100 the reality that's right there and that we might even see and I are rushing to 564 00:49:18.110 --> 00:49:24.400 hurry and strive. And to really look for that deeper reality that underlies our 565 00:49:24.410 --> 00:49:25.650 existence to find 566 00:49:25.920 --> 00:49:31.750 a lot of love that is right there. And that 567 00:49:31.760 --> 00:49:36.680 a tangible feeling dissolves in our own lives in our relationships and in what we 568 00:49:36.690 --> 00:49:43.140 see in the world even if you believe in this need. It chips away and what needs to 569 00:49:43.150 --> 00:49:50.020 change use it. To anyone you like and just under no 570 00:49:50.030 --> 00:49:53.810 pressure couple of questions or comments before I share online here with you the 571 00:49:53.820 --> 00:49:59.630 Repos they would have any questions or comments in place of either share anything 572 00:49:59.640 --> 00:50:04.380 that's coming here. Just want to put out there for those of us here to say. 573 00:50:09.680 --> 00:50:14.930 Anything you know we do question player and you heard today. 574 00:50:19.770 --> 00:50:26.400 Believe he could marry if you're going to. Focus it will be the best when you get 575 00:50:26.410 --> 00:50:31.280 really still she said and we talked about this yeah yeah those are the blood 576 00:50:31.290 --> 00:50:36.270 highlighted at the last question that Ok she was if you know in way or feel really 577 00:50:36.280 --> 00:50:41.880 rush or anxious or Strasser or if you are really her aids is there any particular 578 00:50:41.890 --> 00:50:46.061 technique that helps you to get still and you know I think there's 579 00:50:46.071 --> 00:50:50.541 a lot of I did it it's a great question for each of you a little bit in 580 00:50:50.551 --> 00:50:57.312 a way what I work for you. It's for me personally but often helps 581 00:50:57.802 --> 00:51:03.233 is a couple of different things we in our family take sabbaticals work for 582 00:51:03.243 --> 00:51:07.323 a while but not we're not teachers so that I have a sabbatical but it technology's 583 00:51:07.333 --> 00:51:12.803 a battle and one that even though it was I had our devices and our computers and 584 00:51:12.813 --> 00:51:17.363 all that we just turn along briefly now a couple of years ago we used to do it for 585 00:51:17.373 --> 00:51:22.923 a whole week and I revel in our. Kids would revolt 586 00:51:22.933 --> 00:51:29.693 a little bit. And the 1st few meetings or 10 hours of that weekend with. Gossip 587 00:51:29.703 --> 00:51:30.493 would you be thinking as 588 00:51:30.503 --> 00:51:34.373 a parent is this really worth Dale my goodness you know we're going to this prior 589 00:51:34.383 --> 00:51:39.403 whole family breakdown we should be looking back to find it but but after you took 590 00:51:39.413 --> 00:51:44.763 your time also in Israel abstinence and we start playing games again and there's 591 00:51:44.773 --> 00:51:51.746 just this focus on the present moment. That is so hard to find when there 592 00:51:51.756 --> 00:51:56.446 is of somebody distractions plagued us and so many directions and I personally love 593 00:51:56.456 --> 00:52:01.410 to multitask. But recently one other technique that has helped me is to my own task 594 00:52:01.950 --> 00:52:08.750 so purposely being myself open found one thing and put aside everything. And to 595 00:52:08.760 --> 00:52:15.330 see the types that thought goes to the smile and asking me. What I think about how 596 00:52:15.340 --> 00:52:20.040 can I answer I have discovered the theory of relativity with 200 emails to check 597 00:52:20.050 --> 00:52:26.920 every day when that happens so sometimes I think it's about. Positive and 598 00:52:26.930 --> 00:52:32.561 how little sabbatical and then do we did it can be 5 minutes. For me it's about 599 00:52:32.571 --> 00:52:33.811 turning off the radio for 600 00:52:33.821 --> 00:52:38.741 a moment when I get in the car after I drop my kids off their school and I was 601 00:52:38.781 --> 00:52:45.301 happy to 500 things to just be in the car and think that if I was an absolute lie 602 00:52:45.311 --> 00:52:50.881 it really gave me listen. So there's a lot to take p.k. 603 00:52:51.351 --> 00:52:56.631 And you all have so something that works for you just greedy get it out and snow 604 00:52:56.641 --> 00:53:01.311 hit rate where you are noticing the little things there's another one it's really 605 00:53:01.321 --> 00:53:07.941 noticed a little of it is a good here I am afraid there is no Chicago it's 606 00:53:07.951 --> 00:53:08.551 a disease city in 607 00:53:08.561 --> 00:53:13.521 a big fire she knew from the very place the beautiful nature of it in northern 608 00:53:13.531 --> 00:53:15.391 Wisconsin as she was still 609 00:53:15.401 --> 00:53:20.501 a lot of sort of located in the city. There were trains and there was no way cars 610 00:53:20.511 --> 00:53:26.391 everywhere and yet there's no reason to come so to be nice or let's say she was 611 00:53:26.401 --> 00:53:31.851 a birdsong in the middle of the shoot the city of Chicago. And all Suzy she just 612 00:53:31.861 --> 00:53:37.791 can't eat and gratitude that her son. It was like her entire to meet her shit man 613 00:53:37.801 --> 00:53:44.391 we talked about respect it was done this. General Holder spoke to seize on what 614 00:53:45.331 --> 00:53:50.881 she probably was all about. So she was starting to notice moments of nature that 615 00:53:50.891 --> 00:53:54.671 are right there are lots of different techniques so you have to stop yourself 616 00:53:55.041 --> 00:54:00.641 thinking that I say anything else any other questions or comments. Yeah. 617 00:54:03.001 --> 00:54:09.801 Just go. Talk more about this. Being sure she said 618 00:54:10.041 --> 00:54:15.841 talking about forgiveness as forgiving yourself giving others. There's 619 00:54:15.851 --> 00:54:20.171 a story I would have to share thinking about that mind of Christ that we talked 620 00:54:20.181 --> 00:54:25.951 about and forgiveness being part of it. As about my sister she said I could tell 621 00:54:25.961 --> 00:54:31.431 a story. So years ago when I was 1st and you parents my younger sister used to 622 00:54:31.441 --> 00:54:36.451 clover and she would give me parenting advice. Now she has no kids. 623 00:54:38.361 --> 00:54:45.301 So now to see it 1st would be to kind of. You know none of the silly listen to us 624 00:54:45.311 --> 00:54:48.581 you say but I know a little defensive player you know 625 00:54:48.691 --> 00:54:52.661 a little bit reactive maybe some of the fact that she had 626 00:54:52.701 --> 00:54:58.741 a kid who was you know how we have you here so well this is happening in my head 627 00:54:58.751 --> 00:55:04.103 one day I was thinking of our relationship but I knew she was coming over. This 628 00:55:04.113 --> 00:55:10.613 just your need to be more forgiving and be more accepting and to have that sense of 629 00:55:10.623 --> 00:55:17.563 the crisis and to really see the Christ in her. And to see 630 00:55:17.573 --> 00:55:23.463 the Christ in others response to the Christ in us. As much as we can feel like 631 00:55:23.473 --> 00:55:28.773 these mortals try to figure out is something bodies the specific hair color and oh 632 00:55:28.783 --> 00:55:35.663 he didn't do each other happy conflicts. That. The promise is that we can 633 00:55:35.673 --> 00:55:41.781 start to see ourselves and others as more like that why did Christ's. And that that 634 00:55:41.791 --> 00:55:48.061 line is close spawns and brings us together with others. And as I was thinking 635 00:55:48.071 --> 00:55:53.031 about this and thought about my sister I started to really focus consciously on 636 00:55:53.041 --> 00:55:58.841 wanting to look for that right Savior and her. And when she gave it she offered her 637 00:55:59.151 --> 00:56:02.911 parenting advice this particular time I found I just I made 638 00:56:02.921 --> 00:56:05.561 a joke which I I didn't really think at the time I was 639 00:56:05.571 --> 00:56:10.151 a very versed it but this particular joke just came out and she's are laughing and 640 00:56:10.161 --> 00:56:15.111 I started laughing and all that and there was no tension or conflict anymore now 641 00:56:15.121 --> 00:56:15.421 this is 642 00:56:15.431 --> 00:56:21.451 a minor experience in light of what many of us have and need to be thinking about 643 00:56:21.501 --> 00:56:27.331 in terms of forgiveness there are much more egregious. Experiences that are harder 644 00:56:27.341 --> 00:56:34.101 to forgive. But what I do know is that we need to see those qualities of Christ in 645 00:56:34.111 --> 00:56:40.431 ourselves and we need to begin to see all of your christ another person. 646 00:56:41.711 --> 00:56:45.921 What happens is that we start to see them differently no matter how badly they are 647 00:56:46.551 --> 00:56:50.861 they matter how much their behavior justifies our feelings about how awful they are 648 00:56:50.861 --> 00:56:56.591 . Matter how much house history or series of reviews or whatever it might be that 649 00:56:56.601 --> 00:57:02.881 the person has perpetrated. The forgiveness is about who we are now and they are. 650 00:57:04.621 --> 00:57:09.311 There forgiveness is about how we want to be and the qualities that we want to hold 651 00:57:09.321 --> 00:57:15.800 in ourselves not the other person is or isn't. And that's the change that they like 652 00:57:15.870 --> 00:57:20.280 and this is the class situations with my father and other things throughout the 653 00:57:20.290 --> 00:57:25.350 history of my life that I focus on how I want to see the light in others and the 654 00:57:25.560 --> 00:57:32.290 price lights. Or has the way that we see it changes and 655 00:57:32.300 --> 00:57:37.250 that's the 1st. Reconciliation service between 2 people that are here and that's 656 00:57:37.700 --> 00:57:41.680 something that happens with us and it changes the you. 657 00:57:46.860 --> 00:57:51.960 So much for coming in today or being arrogant have to get out of that as you say 658 00:57:51.970 --> 00:57:58.210 takes so that you and I were so. Close today with. Mary Baker Eddy. 659 00:58:01.800 --> 00:58:08.160 She writes. We should adopt the spirit of the same ministry. 660 00:58:09.220 --> 00:58:16.171 By just spiritual attitude as will draw the Arabs to us. My straight 661 00:58:16.621 --> 00:58:23.161 crisis and it's my overall size spiritual asses and His power 662 00:58:23.171 --> 00:58:30.141 is late and it's priceless Felts. Turn stillness and. 663 00:58:33.031 --> 00:58:34.791 Thank you all for coming say.