Sunrise

 

Moments ago

Thank you for the beauty of your skies and for a pleasant start to the day 

Now ripping off Lee whole, Inner Christianity Substack, today, Sensation and Glory: 

Hi there, this is Lee, and you’re watching In The Moment, a series of commentaries on life, the Gurdjieff work, and many other things. 

And today, today is my 71st birthday, quite a while to have been on this planet. And I thought I’d start off today by reading a few notes I took about sensation over the last week. 

So let’s see what we’ve got on these little sheets of paper. 

Oh my goodness, the first note isn’t about sensation. 

Maybe I stacked them wrong, or Maybe this is what you were meant to hear first. 

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Make it a task once a day to be open to glory. 

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The most useful question to begin with is always, “Where is my sensation now?” Everything else follows. 

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Note number three: Everyone wants to try something before sensation, but it’s useless. It can’t last. Sensation is what creates durability. So I need to understand this first. 

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Don’t undertake any action in order to be in sensation. Be in sensation in order to undertake action. 

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The traditional clearing of the throat is now completed. 

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No matter what happens, I always begin again, as though nothing has ever happened before. 

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Well then, there’s a few remarks. Thought I’d share a few impressions about my life with watchers, listeners, readers, what have you. 

You know, if you work throughout your life and you search for the depth in your being, the most extraordinary things can happen within you. 

You can know what is meant when Christ says, the kingdom of heaven is within you.

For the gifts that are sent to us are immeasurable. And the things that a human being can come into contact with within their inner, their secret life, the life of the soul, are so extraordinary that they can never be described with words. 

And in fact, in a certain way, everything that has ever been written or said about them falls so far short that it might as well be the difference between light and darkness. 

For there is a light in the soul that knows no boundaries, and we are made of nothing but. 

I suppose I’ll leave it at that for today. 

Thanks for watching. Catch you next time.

Thank you for sunshine

Comforts of home. Now

Guess I’m surprised though I shouldn’t be by the effect weather has on my mood. Plus it’s warm and summery today

  A said he had a good day, calm. I am grateful from that and to hear him say so. TNJ

   No complaints from S. TNJ. Bless her through her moments  

   Lord I adore your presence and comfort 

   Lord I confess I fall short of 

   Lord transform my grievous  faults so that I act in you will; forgive my placing my wants before the other one today and other times. I see I am quick to forgive myself

   Lord give us what we need to thrive for your will day by day.   IJN

    

God abide with us

50 years old at least, big and yellow

And thank you for your support 

As always, take special care of S today. Send her everything she needs to survive and thrive the day. 

Lee Daily Five Substack today, to remember itsnature: 

“ When the connection to gravity is a sound one, 

without interference from thought 

and when the stillness is more perfectly aligned with being, 

the taste of the vibration that arises in sensation is more concentrated. 

And this is the taste I wish to carry forward into life today. 

To remember its nature here in the body. 

And to stay with it in every moment that I can.”

Change of season

I love fall color. In Greenfield from LL corner about 5:30

Sky’s still gray after three days of rain, 

but the the leaves held fast 

We just came off the Saturday full moon which we could not see for constant rain. Surely its cosmic influence had some effects on us all this week

  J and A are watching Sox vs Yanks right now, first time together, and I’m hearing lots of laughter and spirited conversation. Such a delight to me!  Thank you Jesus for that young man. One of your angels, maybe, though he would laugh if I said that. 

  Another angel is moving on, to MDOT from hair dressing and daughter-like consideration. She’s in my will even. Bless her whole life and career change. It is the right move though a loss for us. 

    Daily must I lift up S for healing as she goes through this cancer experience.

  Nor would I neglect to ask your blessing on my other children and husband and family. We seem so fragile when a few shocks occur close together. 

   You are and must be the great addition. Buoy us up in every hour with realization of love from and for you, blessed savior.  Comfort us, like the mother hen gathering her chicks under her wing, as the Word describes. IJN

Must imagine the chicks

4-13-26 in the ‘hood

I give thanks

 

September 24, 2023. Knitter

Before the events of this day, whatever they are, let me watch my heart open to give thanks.  Let me see that the kingdom of heaven is truly within and its atmosphere is peace, the peace of God. Fear opposes it, doesn’t it?  And fear would deny it. So help me stand, gird in the assurance of That peace—Gods forgiveness and love. The unity that Lee and Master Eckhart discuss in Sermon Twelve. Lord, knit my uncertainties into the assurance of presence. IJN

Prayer

 

Friday  Sunset, Corn Harvest moon Saturday

4:49 am. Awake fussing with cPap and then phone storage over an hour. 

S may be awake. Help and comfort and heal her I pray. I asked her whether she prayed or if I was asking too personal a question. She said I was. I hope that means yes

Adoration. Jesus, you are totally lovable and beautiful. I love the good you brought into the world, including the the structure of Judaic Christianity and the trinity. Blessed awesome Jhwh. 

Confession I Sam a sinner, I have fallen so short of goodness and treating well the people I know 

Thanksgiving. I thank you for this life and this earth and sun

Supplication For S again but for A and me as aging affects our actions. For I, E, A and my siblings and their families. Help us grow our inner lives and move to you. As we move through our time. Bless B and all my GIG friends,  IJN

Meister Eckhart sermon 12 from Lee ‘s substack, Inner Christianity, today

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Now he says, that we should want his forgiveness. That is why our Lord rightly says, it is my will that you beg them that harm you. (Luke 6:27.) That is how important it is that we should beg them that harm us. Why? That we may do God’s will, that we should not wait till they beg us, we should say, Friend, forgive me that I have made you sad. 

And that is how serious we should be in our practice of virtue. The greater our pain, the more seriously we should strive for virtue. So much should your love be one. For love does not wish to be anywhere, but where there is likeness and oneness. Where there is a master and servant, there is no peace, for there is no likeness.”

I know not how

Season is dying

Bit not ingloriously

As Lee repeats frequent:

Lord, I call to thee from the depths of mine iniquity. 

I have not delivered myself sufficiently unto thee. 

I now not how

  

I find it really hard to push away depression these days. I pray your help. For S too. And for all suffererers. 

 

I watched UT short about an absolute murderous Chinese emperor 2k years ago, who he buried alive under the 8000 clay warriors: 700k workers and enemies and relatives. What would RB say to that after the atom bomb comment last week?  Almost inconceivable how buoys people are in their pursuit of “mutual destruction.”  So repeat, did God know or care?  But also is there some meaning in this horror?

Again, “ through a glass darkly, but in face-to-face.”  We hope. And pray. 

Kind of raises another question:  I assume I need God’s forgiveness    But do I and humans need to forgive God?  Look out I’m waiting for the lightning to strike!  And cover myself by saying God forgive me for my lack of Humility. IJN