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Speaker 1: Stream thinking. It's learning how to trust what is in

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your present place of right now now. To get there

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requires practice. Here's what I do one sheet a day,

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ten minutes. Just write about whatever is moving through your

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presence of right now, with absolutely no judgment. Stream thinking

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will sharpen your skills as a listener, a communicator as

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well as an activator. Learning how to trust what is

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right now. This is stream thinking today. We're reading from

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September twenty eighth, twenty twenty four. In the moments after

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Tropical Storm Helene. We have no electricity and the streets

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are buried with tree limbs and green leaves, which is

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kind of odd to see as summer evolves into fall.

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Normally it's all gold and red oranges and whatever else

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Mother Nature is providing with her splash of paint in

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our atmosphere. The next step is to clean up the mess.

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I feel like a child who is staring into the

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eyes of his father. But I didn't do this. Why

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do I have to clean this up? That's when the

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very stern father takes his hand, puts it on the

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son or daughter's shoulder, and says, because I told you so.

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Those moments, those challenges, those changes those things where we

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reach into the idea of not wanting to finish up

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the job. No, it was not me who created this mess.

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But in order to break free of that mess, you've

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got to find it inside your heart to clean things up.

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And I think that's where we have a lot of

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problems with everything in our life, is that we're having

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problems with the headlines, and so instead of trying to

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find peace, we would rather find protest. Sure, it's great

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to be heard, but it's tik not. Han once said

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while attending a protest of Vietnam. People were going, why

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aren't you protesting loudly? He says, if I want peace,

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I have to showcase peace everything we do. Find your

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peace first. I'm Merril, and that's stream thinking.