I was talking with a dear friend tonight about parenting.  She told me that she was doing so good with the Teaching Self Government principles in her home for about a month.  She said she really saw results whenever she remembered the principles and used them.  Then she said that her family went on a trip for a week.  Beginning on the way home from the trip, she stopped using the teaching self government principles.  She said that for some reason she just went back to her old inefficient way of running things at home. 

We all go through times when we loose focus and lapse back into the way

For the last month I have been co-directing a play; Shakespeare's "The Tempest".  Today was our last day of performances.  We had a matinee performance and an evening performance. 

The matinee performance started under lots of stress.  We were missing our stage hand, two of our actresses, and our sound person.  Everyone was stressed.  The play started late.  The only thing we had time to do was say a prayer.  We usually take time getting into character at the beginning as well as do energy building exercises.  We had time for none of this, but the play had to go on. 

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