Speaker 1: Stream thinking. It's learning how to trust what is in
your present place of right now now. To get there
requires practice. Here's what I do one sheet a day,
ten minutes. Just write about whatever is moving through your
presence of right now, with absolutely no judgment. Stream thinking
will sharpen your skills as a listener, a communicator as
well as an activator. Learning how to trust what is
right now. This is stream thinking today. We're reading from
September twenty eighth, twenty twenty four. In the moments after
Tropical Storm Helene. We have no electricity and the streets
are buried with tree limbs and green leaves, which is
kind of odd to see as summer evolves into fall.
Normally it's all gold and red oranges and whatever else
Mother Nature is providing with her splash of paint in
our atmosphere. The next step is to clean up the mess.
I feel like a child who is staring into the
eyes of his father. But I didn't do this. Why
do I have to clean this up? That's when the
very stern father takes his hand, puts it on the
son or daughter's shoulder, and says, because I told you so.
Those moments, those challenges, those changes those things where we
reach into the idea of not wanting to finish up
the job. No, it was not me who created this mess.
But in order to break free of that mess, you've
got to find it inside your heart to clean things up.
And I think that's where we have a lot of
problems with everything in our life, is that we're having
problems with the headlines, and so instead of trying to
find peace, we would rather find protest. Sure, it's great
to be heard, but it's tik not. Han once said
while attending a protest of Vietnam. People were going, why
aren't you protesting loudly? He says, if I want peace,
I have to showcase peace everything we do. Find your
peace first. I'm Merril, and that's stream thinking.