Importance of NOW

“Participant 1: Where does awareness come in? You're giving us an awareness today of things we should be aware of in order to let go of something. So, we're in a moment, and we might make a decision in that moment. At that point, is there some awareness that comes in?

Rev. Penny: There is the un-manifest and it comes to a point. At that point, it is no longer the un-manifest. It becomes the manifest because once something is manifest, it is no longer in the un-manifest. The point where the un-manifest and the manifest meet is the portal, which is the center of the universe and where the unknown becomes known. What could not be realized, perhaps, now becomes realized. That transition, that place where the two meet, that is the current moment. Does this make sense?

Participant: …We don’t want to carry a storyline with us into the next moment.

Rev. Penny: No, we don’t.

Participant: You’re telling us about our storylines, in effect. We don’t want to carry them into the next moment to influence it. We want the next moment to be spontaneous, to be new.

Rev Penny: To live our lives from the spirit, the spirit has no past, it has no future. It has only the moment. So, you wouldn’t want to bring a storyline from the past. You want to have a realization of the moment, which is the life that is in you at that moment. And that life can mean anything in the world to you. It means something different to everyone. So, when you don’t bring into manifestation that which you do not want, then you have no storyline for the next moment.

Participant 1: Actually, we really want to be storyline-free. Neither do we want to bring in an old one, nor do we want to create a new one.  We just want to experience.

Participant 2: I use a good affirmation, ‘I desire greatly to use my abstract mind.’ Because stories are made up, anytime I have a story, an illusion, they’re made up from the past. I can continue to carry that story into the next moment – but then I'm using my concrete mind, not the abstract mind. It’s not from my higher self or the abstract mind. So, that’s the only thing I need to recognize. When I’m in a space where I’m telling myself a story, that’s when I have the opportunity to recognize that it’s a story and that’s when I can let it go.

Participant 1: The whole process here is about recognizing our storylines and to realize that I’m stuck in some silly storyline and that I’m creating my life as I ‘put down a carpet’ as Ng-on Kar says.

Participant 2: I’ve benefited greatly from ‘The Wil of God’ teaching that Stella gave us: If I have a story about something, and I have peace from it, then I know I'm listening to the Will of God. But if I have a story, or some question about it, or some angst around it, then I know I'm listening to my concrete mind.”

08/10/2025 Blog. Rev. Penny Donovan and Don Gilbert, ENERGY PORTALS – LIVING IN THE NOW, March 18-20, 2011, Pgs. 8-9. Copyright 2011 Rev. Penny Donovan. All rights reserved. To buy this booklet, please contact: sherry@sacredgardenfellowship.org