{A Circle Structure for Prayer (1)}[29th September 1989]

[Redbook6:278-279][19890929:1130b]{A Circle Structure for Prayer (1)}[29th September 1989]

19890929.1130

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Reading through Vol[ume] IV* yesterday – I noticed how comparatively easily (now) I seem to become distracted from focusing on God – or just to drift off.

I decided to adopt a prayer** or attention (‘waiting upon God’) discipline. At first I thought of morning and evening; then of Muslim practice; then (as that turned out to be 5 x per day) of the Circle pattern itself.*** So I started in bed that night:

[Text extracted from ms diagram reproduced above:]

				0 . 12
				|
	3am			C			9pm
		\		←		/
			r~		s~
a.m.6	–	g~		☼		m~	–	6 p.m.
			j~		u~
	9am	/		a~		\	3pm
				|
				12
				midday

This actually works out very well, since r~ takes the form of an instruction or intention left (by me) to my sleeping mind: and both C and g~ cover both sleeping and waking periods (I think about r~ quite a lot anyway). j~ gives creative impulse to household chores (eg breadmaking) | At about a~ today, the computer went wrong badly (Z[-]80 card failed, disk drive A ?failing), so I missed that stop: by u~ I was on the way to fixing it (using Z-80 software emulator), but stopped for a few moments of silence, which I badly needed.

*[of these journals]

**{But what is prayer? See below 

[[Redbook6:283-284][19891003:1130]{A Circle Structure for Prayer (2)}[3rd October 1989; 

[Redbook6:305][19891012:1612b]{A Circle Structure for Prayer (4)}[12th October 1989]]. 

What is worship?} 

{(cf [[Redbook6:305][19891012:1612c]{A Circle Structure for Prayer (4) [continued]}[12th October 1989]f,] 305; 

[[[Redbook5:94-96][19880318:1955c]{Worship}[18th March 1988]]; & see next entry])}

***[...]

****(I am flexible about a~ [sic] and c, and think of r~ then too.

[Possibly g~ was meant instead of a~]

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