x2 Step 33 – Journal : Step 32 - The truth is with me. I can feel it.

Today: Step 33 - I have a mission in my life to fulfill. (MP3)

I have a mission in my life to fulfill. Step 33

YOU HAVE A MISSION IN LIFE TO FULFILL, a mission that was given you before you came here, a mission that you will review once you have left. It involves the reclamation of Knowledge and the proper engagement with others to bring about specific results in the world. It is not so important at this moment that you evaluate your current life to see if it reflects this greater purpose, for you are now involved in the reclamation of Knowledge. As your Knowledge becomes stronger, it will shine its beneficence upon you and through you. Your activities will then be adjusted as is necessary. Thus, you need not blame or condone the past or your current activities, for you are now adhering to a greater strength within you.

IN YOUR TWO LONG PRACTICE PERIODS TODAY, dwell upon the idea that there is a great mission that you have in life. Think about this. Do not become immediately convinced by your own first responses. Think about it carefully. Think what this could mean. Think of the moments in your life when you have thought of this before or have entertained its possibility. In your two practice periods, you will have an opportunity then to consider this, but beware—make no conclusions yet.

PRACTICE 33: Two 30-minute practice periods.

This is a Step where you really should be writing down your thoughts, recording them in some way that you can review them.

Picture:  The Smithsonian‘s Museum of Natural History greets visitors with an African Elephant in the main lobby. Many thousands pass through this and other museums on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. Seeing, touching, experiencing something unique in a museum may spark one in the direction of their mission.

From the journal Step 32 - The truth is with me. I can feel it.

8:05 a.m. September 20, 2000 – feeling truth –

7:30 p.m. At the trail head. A bit of nature time before I go do my PowerPoint for Marsh Institute. I'm late at it as always.

Gorby [the cat] has passed. This morning when I went to work he was alive. I told him he would be missed by Sarah, David, Tim, Cindy and I.

Today's MIF [Minimum Instream Flow] meeting went well. We had press coverage – Ashley May & Rich Cooley photographer. The river was high – but we went for the planned field trip anyway.

The practice is about feeling the truth. That is not in the notes of the day, but it is always the focus of these practices.

At the 2014 Encampment, Marshall was asked about the diamond symbol on New Message books. Marshall replied that the diamond shape is a symbol of Knowledge in the universe. 

So, let us continue, seeking the sense of truth and Knowledge. Diamonds show the way, identify other students.

NNC

Note: If you’ve some interest due to this or other Steps, you should go to the beginning blog post. From here you will learn about Steps to Knowledge and can begin it on the day that makes sense; then progress as needed. You can use the posts on this blog as a companion if it helps. They will remain in order in the archives - one post per Step.

Often it takes 18 months to get through the Steps once. For this blog, the pace is one-a-day, but it really makes no difference how fast you do it, only that you begin, persist and repeat. Posts here provide a trail that may let you have a virtual companion when and if you want one. One may have to study alone, as I did in the beginning. There are other Steps students blogging their experience and you might find a person more like you as a companion, or use a number of such Steps journeys. There are options as well through the Free School of the New Message.