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Absolutely nothing else works. But if I just drop everything and lapse into stillness, I know I’m in God’s hands and I get anchored, and focused, and centered. That way I can just focus on this instant and not on expectations of me, or what I thought I had to do, or what I was worried about, or what I was eager to accomplish--whatever it was. Because anything can send me into panic mode, it seems. It’s just amazing how fragile I feel these days. But I do take heart that I have the strength to know enough to run home, to spiritually run home and take cover in the Citadel of the spirit that you provide. So I just wanted to reinforce that idea that, if we can deal with the panic first, it will unfold. This too will pass and we’ll be in a good orderly direction. Thank you.

Absolutely nothing else works. But if I just drop everything and lapse into stillness, I know I’m in God’s hands and I get anchored, and focused, and centered. That way I can just focus on this instant and not on expectations of me, or what I thought I had to do, or what I was worried about, or what I was eager to accomplish--whatever it was. Because anything can send me into panic mode, it seems. It’s just amazing how fragile I feel these days. But I do take heart that I have the strength to know enough to run home, to spiritually run home and take cover in the Citadel of the spirit that you provide. So I just wanted to reinforce that idea that, if we can deal with the panic first, it will unfold. This too will pass and we’ll be in a good orderly direction. Thank you.

*(The practicality of stillness)

*(The practicality of stillness)

Michael: Thank you, my daughter. You bring up a very strange word that’s not always associated with spiritual things, and that is: practical. This is something you earn, this being able to be still.  And of course the sooner you can get your children started on it the better. (Michael laughs) This is something you earn. You’re building up this home base in spirit--as we called it one time, and it is the most practical thing in an emergency because often you are… It’s a fundamental fact of human life that you can be overwhelmed and not only by an accident where you are terribly injured yourself, but how about if you are driving along and come across such an accident.  In these moments of panic your mind can be fluttering everywhere trying to deny or avoid what is happening.   

Michael: Thank you, my daughter. You bring up a very strange word that’s not always associated with spiritual things, and that is: practical. This is something you earn, this being able to be still.  And of course the sooner you can get your children started on it the better. (Michael laughs) This is something you earn. You’re building up this home base in spirit--as we called it one time, and it is the most practical thing in an emergency because often you are… It’s a fundamental fact of human life that you can be overwhelmed and not only by an accident where you are terribly injured yourself, but how about if you are driving along and come across such an accident.  In these moments of panic your mind can be fluttering everywhere trying to deny or avoid what is happening.   

Student: Hey, Michael, this is Cal.  What do I need to do to make the most out of my life?  That’s it.

Student: Hey, Michael, this is Cal.  What do I need to do to make the most out of my life?  That’s it.

*(Exercise your sense of morality)  

*(Exercise your sense of morality)  

Michael: Well, yes, my son. Did what I say about having an innate sense of morality, did that register with you? What a challenge it is, and yet what a necessary thing it is to ask yourself and exercise this, just like a muscle. It’s like learning a job, to do a necessary task. Spend some time to reflect on your life, like what did you do today?  What have you been doing for the last week or two? What do you need to do? What do you want to do? With all these dimensions swirling through you, the best thing to do is enter stillness. Take some time out of your busy life and sit down and, if you want to, keep a notepad, and spend twenty minutes living with yourself.   

Michael: Well, yes, my son. Did what I say about having an innate sense of morality, did that register with you? What a challenge it is, and yet what a necessary thing it is to ask yourself and exercise this, just like a muscle. It’s like learning a job, to do a necessary task. Spend some time to reflect on your life, like what did you do today?  What have you been doing for the last week or two? What do you need to do? What do you want to do? With all these dimensions swirling through you, the best thing to do is enter stillness. Take some time out of your busy life and sit down and, if you want to, keep a notepad, and spend twenty minutes living with yourself.   

New Student: Michael?  In the past I have expressed gratitude for A Course in Miracles, and my wife and I each morning read the lesson for the day. We’ve found that to reflect back on the day’s lesson in the workbook in the A Course in Miracles is a good way to get our minds quiet, and to approach the stillness, and reflect and relax for the day. Today’s daily word--today’s lesson in the course was Divine Order, and that’s a wonderful one that has carried me through this day to this moment.

New Student: Michael?  In the past I have expressed gratitude for A Course in Miracles, and my wife and I each morning read the lesson for the day. We’ve found that to reflect back on the day’s lesson in the workbook in the A Course in Miracles is a good way to get our minds quiet, and to approach the stillness, and reflect and relax for the day. Today’s daily word--today’s lesson in the course was Divine Order, and that’s a wonderful one that has carried me through this day to this moment.

*(Divine Order)  

*(Divine Order)  

Michael: Well, it’s there; it’s definitely there! You may not always be able to perceive it, or feel it, or experience it, but that’s where faith comes in. Faith is this very unique kind of ability to extend yourself out, out into the unknown. You can do things with faith and trust in that Devine Order that are impossible otherwise. In terms of absolutely knowing for sure what’s going to happen before you do it, that’s kind of limiting. That’s what your whole scientific study is aimed at--what is Natural Law clear out from the sub-sub-atomic particle, out to billions of light years. But the next moment? What are you going to be thinking five minutes from now, right in your own life, you own human life?  

Michael: Well, it’s there; it’s definitely there! You may not always be able to perceive it, or feel it, or experience it, but that’s where faith comes in. Faith is this very unique kind of ability to extend yourself out, out into the unknown. You can do things with faith and trust in that Divine Order that are impossible otherwise. In terms of absolutely knowing for sure what’s going to happen before you do it, that’s kind of limiting. That’s what your whole scientific study is aimed at--what is Natural Law clear out from the sub-sub-atomic particle, out to billions of light years. But the next moment? What are you going to be thinking five minutes from now, right in your own life, you own human life?  

With this opacity of the future, to be able to see that Devine Order, and beyond that even, to be able to trust it, have faith in it: this is a marvelous ability and it’s its own reward, of course. You have faith and because of that faith you are able to do something. And because you did something, something happened, and your faith is rewarded. The Devine Order has just given you a little wink.

With this opacity of the future, to be able to see that Divine Order, and beyond that even, to be able to trust it, have faith in it: this is a marvelous ability and it’s its own reward, of course. You have faith and because of that faith you are able to do something. And because you did something, something happened, and your faith is rewarded. The Divine Order has just given you a little wink.

Student: Thank you very much, and just let me make a slight correction for anyone who is fact-checking. In addition to reading in the lesson in the workbook Course in Miracles, we also read the Daily Word which is a daily meditation put out by Unity. It was Devine Order which was in today’s Daily Word. The Course in Miracles lesson for today was: I am not alone, and experiencing the effects by seeing. (Laughter) That’s good too.

Student: Thank you very much, and just let me make a slight correction for anyone who is fact-checking. In addition to reading in the lesson in the workbook Course in Miracles, we also read the Daily Word which is a daily meditation put out by Unity. It was Divine Order which was in today’s Daily Word. The Course in Miracles lesson for today was: I am not alone, and experiencing the effects by seeing. (Laughter) That’s good too.

Michael: I think we see a tie-in between those two. (Student, For sure!) It is definitely part of the Devine Order that you are not alone, that there is a Being--The Being--experiencing everything that you’re experiencing and taking it on, literally taking on your life. That is your gift to the presence of God.   

Michael: I think we see a tie-in between those two. (Student, For sure!) It is definitely part of the Divine Order that you are not alone, that there is a Being--The Being--experiencing everything that you’re experiencing and taking it on, literally taking on your life. That is your gift to the presence of God.   

Student: Amen, Thank you very much.   

Student: Amen, Thank you very much.   

Michael: Thank you, my son. Keep going. Keep on reading and also, do just a little bit of pure stillness. It’s not really practicing emptiness. Emptiness can get awful full inside, sometimes, when it’s you and us and all kinds of beings. (Michael laughs) Sometimes your stillness gets awfully crowded in here. But that’s part of the delight of it all. Be in my peace. (long pause)

Michael: Thank you, my son. Keep going. Keep on reading and also, do just a little bit of pure stillness. It’s not really practicing emptiness. Emptiness can get awful full inside, sometimes, when it’s you and us and all kinds of beings. (Michael laughs) Sometimes your stillness gets awfully crowded in here. But that’s part of the delight of it all. Be in my peace. (long pause)

It’s a wonderful merkabah, a wonderful shared consciousness we create in times like this, to instantaneously cross all this space. It can be very still, very open.

It’s a wonderful merkabah, a wonderful shared consciousness we create in times like this, to instantaneously cross all this space. It can be very still, very open.

===Closing===

===Closing===

*(Stop and say hello)   

*(Stop and say hello)