Mowing Lawns

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Mowing 10 lawns in one day and having fun while doing it.

We arrived!

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Yesterday the NLC class all arrived here in Cedar Rapids safe and sound. The majority of the travel was harmonious and the travel that wasn't was a learning experience. There were many demonstrations of God's Law of Adjustment throughout the day, and we all had many stories to tell of travel plans falling into place. The weather was very nice, and we were introduced to our two vans for the weekend, nicknamed Snowball and The Whiner. When we got to Saint Andrews Church, where we're staying, we found a warm and welcoming environment also finding that all of our clothes were trapped "in the flood" and we would have to do without them for the next day. The hypothetical flood was set up by Ed and Jeni, our class leaders, who told us to leave everything in the vans and then locked the vans for the night. It was simulating the floods that the people of Iowa City and Cedar Rapids had to go through - losing their belongings with very little warning and having to make do with what they had available to them. This was only as small taste of the inconvenience which the people had to go through, as we got our belongings back this morning. We discussed the loss which many people went through and how they didn't know when or if they would get anything back. We also looked at pictures of the flooding and devastation, putting our night of no change of clothes and no hairbrush into perspective.



This morning, we had a very meaningful discussion about the lesson, talking deeply about Life and death. It's a bit cloudy today, but that means that hopefully we won't be too hot for our day full of lawn mowing! We will be maintaining 18 lawns of homes in the area, today and next week. You can imagine that with enough rain for a flood the laws are hopping! A lot of what we will do is still shrouded in mystery but we know that will will be putting in dry wall for a couple of days. We are having a great time with allot of lightning bugs at night that make for great entertainment and many nice people for us to support and learn from. It was the first time for most of the West-coasters to see lightening bugs, so they had fun catching them and admiring them. We got a cup of them, releasing them right before bed.



We're having a lot of fun and miss you all back home! Thank you so much to all of our donors - it's so cool that the good going on can be spread all over the country. Also thank you to the practitioners and all the people who have been supporting us and have made our trip so harmonious.

:) Olivia Krishnaswami and Gunther Ott

Thinking about the weather...

Here are some quotes about how weather cannot disrupt the harmony of Divine Love.

And the same day, when the even was come, he saith unto them, Let us pass over unto the other side.
36 And when they had sent away the multitude, they took him even as he was in the ship. And there were also with him other little ships.
37 And there arose a great storm of wind, and the waves beat into the ship, so that it was now full.
38 And he was in the hinder part of the ship, asleep on a pillow: and they awake him, and say unto him, Master, carest thou not that we perish?
39 And he arose, and rebuked the wind, and said unto the sea, Peace, be still. And the wind ceased, and there was a great calm.
40 And he said unto them, Why are ye so fearful? how is it that ye have no faith?
41 And they feared exceedingly, and said one to another, What manner of man is this, that even the wind and the sea obey him?
Mark 4:35-41

And a man shall be as an hiding place from the wind, and a covert from the tempest; as rivers of water in a dry place, as the shadow of a great rock in a weary land.
Isa. 32:2

All that God imparts moves in accord with Him, reflecting goodness and power.
S&H pg 515

All that is made is the work of God, and all is good.
S&H pg 521

The divine Mind maintains all identities, from a blade of grass to a star, as distinct and eternal.
S&H g 70

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Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off the goal.

Henry Ford

Everybody can be great...because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Scott Duvall

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882)

A PSALM OF LIFE

WHAT THE HEART OF THE YOUNG MAN
SAID TO THE PSALMIST

TELL me not, in mournful numbers,
Life is but an empty dream ! —
For the soul is dead that slumbers,
And things are not what they seem.

Life is real ! Life is earnest!
And the grave is not its goal ;
Dust thou art, to dust returnest,
Was not spoken of the soul.

Not enjoyment, and not sorrow,
Is our destined end or way ;
But to act, that each to-morrow
Find us farther than to-day.

Art is long, and Time is fleeting,
And our hearts, though stout and brave,
Still, like muffled drums, are beating
Funeral marches to the grave.

In the world's broad field of battle,
In the bivouac of Life,
Be not like dumb, driven cattle !
Be a hero in the strife !

Trust no Future, howe'er pleasant !
Let the dead Past bury its dead !
Act,— act in the living Present !
Heart within, and God o'erhead !

Lives of great men all remind us
We can make our lives sublime,
And, departing, leave behind us
Footprints on the sands of time ;

Footprints, that perhaps another,
Sailing o'er life's solemn main,
A forlorn and shipwrecked brother,
Seeing, shall take heart again.

Let us, then, be up and doing,
With a heart for any fate ;
Still achieving, still pursuing,
Learn to labor and to wait.

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