Speaker 1: Stream thinking. It's learning how to trust what is in
your present now. To get there requires practice. Every day
wants you to paper just ten minutes, write about whatever
is moving through your presence of what is right now,
with absolutely no judgment. Stream thinking it sharpens your skills
as a listener, as a communicator, and as an activator.
Learning how to trust what is right now. This is
stream thinking today. We're reading from September twenty fourth, twenty
twenty three, my mother's birthday. She always seemed to celebrate
them quietly, amazingly grateful to receive a gift, but please
don't waste your money on flowers unless I can plant them.
For several years of enjoyment. Mom believed in all of
her children in the way of letting us explore we
weren't wild and out of control rule breakers, because nothing
was far worse than getting the mom look. You know,
that calm stare that said you know what you did
doesn't sit well inside my heart. It's your beautiful birthday
in heaven and on earth. Mom. So much has been
written about you inside these pages. It's like planting flowers.
One of the things that I am learning about our
everyday chapters are the words that were not using. When
it comes to describing the journeys, the ups, the downs,
the arounds, the challenges, and the victories that we had
with our parents, we just naturally assume everybody knew them. Now.
The way that I knew my mother was one hundred
percent different than my other brothers and sisters. We all
had a great relationship with Mom, but it was never
the same. I was the creative kid, the kid with
the long hair that wanted to do weird stuff. He
was always being creative. He was always doing things that
other people go ooh, ooh, you're weird. But Mom never
made me feel weird. She always had that feeling of
I accept you, I like what you're doing. I don't
get it, but just keep doing it. All the times
that I would call her up and say, Mom, I
just landed this job at this great radio station. Mom,
you know how radio is? I lost my job. It's
the ratings. Mom. Mom, Hey, some bad stuff has gone down.
I want to talk to you about it, but I'm
not sure you're going to understand it. No, Mom, I'm
not drunk. My contacts are messed up either. My eyes
are red because my contacts are messed up mom talk,
the stories that remain silent unless we share it. I'm
Errow and that's stream thinking.