The Circle of Life: Getting Started

I first got started Listening to God through a friend Lucy...I call it the Lucy Factor. I have had conscious contact with God for a while now but sometimes my emotions and character defects get in the way of receiving the proper answer...God's answer instead of mine. When I say listening I am referring to sitting quietly in the mornings and writing it down. That concept was foreign to me. I wish I could sit quietly in the morning and learn how to spell but that may be asking for too much.

I was instructed to read the book by Wally P called "How to Listen to God". It was great and most instructive. That put me into a research mode and I researched the AA history and some of the Oxford Group past. What I found is that in AA during the 1930's and 40's most members used this technique. Bill W. (Co-founder of AA) practiced this while putting together the Alcoholics Anonymous Big Book of AA. I found that in the book "Doctor Bob and the Good Old Timers" Bob S. (Co-founder of AA) stated that AA had lost something when many Ohio members stopped practicing sitting quietly in the morning during what is called Quiet Time. By the 1960's it was all but a lost art.

I called Wally P. and asked him about his book. He said that he has been giving seminars called Back to the Basics where people are taken through the steps and then taught the art of Listening to God. I was overjoyed. Lucy gave me contact with a man who practices this listening technique...Tom P. I called Tom and he helped me out tremendously. I am going to attempt to write down what I hear...except some of the obviously TMI stuff here on my blog. (I did this but later decided that it was personal between God and me). I ask anyone who wishes to write what they hear and share it with someone you trust that practices Listening.