x2 Step 42 – Journal Step 41 - I am not afraid of the power of God.

Today: Step 42 - Review ~ Take special care today to see how deeply and how carefully you are practicing. (MP3)  – Journal  Step 41

 

IN YOUR REVIEW TODAY, review all of the instructions given in the past week and your experiences of practice. Take special care today to see how deeply and how carefully you are practicing. Make sure that you are not changing or adjusting the lessons to meet your tastes or expectations. Remember that you need only follow the curriculum to receive its true rewards. Your part is small. Our part is great. We give the means. You need only follow them, in faith and in true expectation. In doing this, you will develop patience, discernment, trust, consistency and self-worth. Why self-worth? Because you must value yourself highly to allow yourself to approach the great gifts of Knowledge. Nothing else will undo self-hatred and self-doubt more expediently and more completely than receiving the gifts that are meant for you.

THEREFORE, IN YOUR ONE LONG PRACTICE PERIOD TODAY, review the past week of practice. Without judgment look and see what has been offered, what you have done and what can possibly be done to deepen your practice so that you may receive its benefits more directly. If you are having difficulty, recognize the problems and attempt to correct them. Give the week ahead greater involvement. In doing so, you will correct self-doubt and confusion merely by directing your will.

PRACTICE 42: One long practice period.

From the journal Step 41 - I am not afraid of the power of God.

8:17 a.m. September 29, 2000 – Regional Intelligence for our Local Planet.

Third day of minimal daily entries. It must have been a busy time. Also, these are heavy Steps. Today, Step 41 reads: “To feel and accept the power of God, evil and guilt must leave you.” I have guilt, but is there “evil” too? Soul-searching here, but the task is to “feel the power of God.” So, again we practice. Later, I added a diagram to this page: 

 

The Step talks about relationships, “as you learn to be in relationship with that which is the source of all your relationships, the information that you need can come easily to you to guide you.” Drawing from other parts of the Steps, I envision so our relationship with God in this triangle. Simple, not easy. Let us continue.

NNC

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