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==Session==
==Session==
===Opening===
===Opening===
This is Nancy, I will pray. Thank you for the opportunity to be together, to learn, and to grow. Thank you for the Eternity before us, that we may not achieve perfection today, or even tomorrow, or even in a millennium. Amen
This is Nancy, I will pray. Thank you for the [[opportunity]] to be together, to learn, and to [[grow]]. Thank you for the Eternity before us, that we may not achieve [[perfection]] today, or even tomorrow, or even in a millennium. Amen
Daniel (Nancy): Greetings, my friends, and students. I am Daniel, your faithful bringer of tidings, of great satisfaction, in my relationship to each of you. As I relate to you week after week, I smile with the joy of the great affection that I feel, for each of you. You continue to delight me. My role as your facilitator, friend, teacher, and guide continues to delight me. I bubble with pleasure in this assignment.
Daniel (Nancy): Greetings, my friends, and students. I am Daniel, your faithful bringer of tidings, of great [[satisfaction]], in my [[relationship]] to each of you. As I relate to you week after week, I smile with the joy of the great [[affection]] that I feel, for each of you. You continue to delight me. My role as your facilitator, friend, teacher, and guide continues to delight me. I bubble with [[pleasure]] in this assignment.
I have, in no way, grown weary, or bored, or restless, yearning for new adventures, NO! My place is here with you and will continue to be so, for the visible future. The idea is, I am not going anywhere and neither are you.
I have, in no way, grown [[weary]], or [[bored]], or restless, yearning for new [[adventures]], NO! My place is here with you and will continue to be so, for the visible [[future]]. The idea is, I am not going anywhere and neither are you.
===Lesson===
===Lesson===
Today I wish to introduce a new format. The smaller size of this group may assist in this experimental design, by being more casual, more intimate; instead of a lesson followed by questions, or alternatively a lesson that is the result of us questioning you, how about a lesson that begins with your questions, with your choosing the topic. Please take a few moments/minutes to reflect within, from a receptive place, a guided place, bring forth your questions. We wish for this to be a fully participatory format. To achieve that result, our wish is that after you have all had the opportunity to reflect, that you each put forth your current thoughts, concerns, and then we will create a lesson in response. Please ! avail yourself of the stillness, and search for that topic. As you become aware of that which you wish to ask, would you please feel free to lay-it-out there.
Today I wish to introduce a new format. The smaller size of this group may assist in this [[experimental]] design, by being more [[casual]], more intimate; instead of a lesson followed by questions, or alternatively a lesson that is the result of us questioning you, how about a lesson that begins with your questions, with your choosing the [[topic]]. Please take a few moments/minutes to reflect within, from a receptive place, a guided place, bring forth your questions. We wish for this to be a fully participatory format. To achieve that result, our wish is that after you have all had the opportunity to reflect, that you each put forth your current thoughts, concerns, and then we will create a lesson in response. Please ! avail yourself of the stillness, and search for that topic. As you become aware of that which you wish to ask, would you please feel free to lay-it-out there.
Ken: Do I understand you correctly, to say, that we should all speak and then you will develop a lesson plan on what we all say.
Ken: Do I understand you correctly, to say, that we should all speak and then you will develop a lesson plan on what we all say.
Daniel: Yes. (Thank you)
Daniel: Yes. (Thank you)
===='''''[[Stillness]]'''''====
===Dialogue===
===Dialogue===
Daniel: Is there anyone with a thought ready to begin a discussion?
Daniel: Is there anyone with a thought ready to begin a discussion?
The stillness has been our topic in many nuanced ways for these many years, since the beginning of our time together. The stillness is where, as you know, you connect to God. What I wish to emphasize at this moment, is that lack of clarity does not mean lack of success. Your crankiness is understood. It is part of the natural, human makeup, to feel frustrated.
The stillness has been our topic in many nuanced ways for these many years, since the beginning of our time together. The stillness is where, as you know, you connect to God. What I wish to emphasize at this moment, is that lack of clarity does not mean lack of success. Your crankiness is understood. It is part of the natural, human makeup, to feel frustrated.
To understand the stillness, to experience the stillness, think of that which brings you the sense (of) calm, and peace. This could be an evening walk where you hear the distant sounds of dogs barking, or birds settling in for the night. You smell freshly cut grass, you see the change and play of light, shadows lengthening, the sky turns pink, and so forth. What I am describing is your animal views of your senses; and yet you are using them without a particular purpose. You are not seeing in order to read print to gain knowledge, you are not smelling to detect whether food is good or bad, you are not listening to a barrage of information, rather, instead of using your senses to take in information, there is a sense of expansiveness, of not using your s! enses, of being. In that time there is a calm, this is stillness. Some individuals experience a sense of oneness with God’s creation through physical activities, such as skiing. They stand at the top of the mountain, they smell the air, they feel the rush of the wind, they move with the mountain. Again, there is that sense of being in the moment. Certainly not all skiers would have this, if one is planning their route, fearing the slope etc., that is not there. So, stillness is an attitude of openness. To be receptive means to be open.
To understand the stillness, to experience the stillness, think of that which brings you the sense (of) calm, and peace. This could be an evening walk where you hear the distant sounds of dogs barking, or birds settling in for the night. You smell freshly cut grass, you see the change and play of light, shadows lengthening, the sky turns pink, and so forth. What I am describing is your animal views of your senses; and yet you are using them without a particular purpose. You are not seeing in order to read print to gain knowledge, you are not smelling to detect whether food is good or bad, you are not listening to a barrage of information, rather, instead of using your senses to take in information, there is a sense of expansiveness, of not using your senses, of being. In that time there is a calm, this is stillness. Some individuals experience a sense of oneness with God’s creation through physical activities, such as skiing. They stand at the top of the mountain, they smell the air, they feel the rush of the wind, they move with the mountain. Again, there is that sense of being in the moment. Certainly not all skiers would have this, if one is planning their route, fearing the slope etc., that is not there. So, stillness is an attitude of openness. To be receptive means to be open.
There is a difference between stillness and communication with teachers, such as I. Early on we talked of genetic makeup that makes it more difficult for some, than for others, or the reverse makes it easier for some, than others, to make this type of contact. However, this does not mean that the guidance, love, direction, and knowledge of the Father are not occurring.
There is a difference between stillness and communication with teachers, such as I. Early on we talked of genetic makeup that makes it more difficult for some, than for others, or the reverse makes it easier for some, than others, to make this type of contact. However, this does not mean that the guidance, love, direction, and knowledge of the Father are not occurring.