Today: Step 142 - I will be consistent today. (MP3)
 |
| “I will be consistent today.” Step 142 |
PRACTICE CONSISTENTLY TODAY regardless of what is occurring
within you or without. This consistency represents a Greater Power within you. This
consistency will give you certainty and stability in the face of all
disturbances, in the face of all external events and in the face of all
emotional states within you. This consistency will stabilize and balance you
and in time will bring everything into right order within you. You practice
consistency so that you may learn it and experience it. As you do this, it will
bestow upon you the empowerment that you will need to be a contributor in this
world.
THEREFORE, TODAY PRACTICE CONSISTENTLY. Practice
upon the hour, reminding yourself to be consistent. In your two meditations, practice
keeping your mind steady and focused, allowing it to settle into itself so that
it may experience its own nature. Do not repress what is occurring within you.
Do not control what is occurring without. Simply maintain consistency, and all
things will find a right balance and relationship to this. Thus, you are
bringing forth Knowledge into the world, for Knowledge is entirely consistent. This
will render you a person of great presence and power. Others will come to
experience your consistency in time as it is more fully received by you and
more fully developed. They will find refuge in your consistency, and this will
remind them of their purpose as well, which waits to be discovered.
PRACTICE 142: Two 30-minute practice periods. Hourly
practice.
Note: “You
practice consistency so that you may learn it and experience it. As you do
this, it will bestow upon you the empowerment that you will need to be a
contributor in this world.”
Picture: The
built environment of the city, here a bridge across the Chicago River, is
engineered to be consistent. Wherever we go each day, be it to work or school,
or at home caring for others, we need to be reliable; consistent. We can see
ourselves in that picture, benefiting from the workers throughout history who
have given us what is good and useful today.
From the journal Step
141 - I will be confident this day.
Sunday,
January 7, 2001
9:40
a.m. Rising now. Where in the world am I? Starting out mind/body – a notch
below spirit. That re-connect is needed, for it doesn't keep. If it did, I
wouldn't be here. Go into the realm, at least to the edge so I feel/know about
the greater side, as opposed to lower life options here manifestation. There is
perhaps a Spiritual weather map– the spiritologists, with a Doppler radar,
could map the moods and mood density of the collective soul, and it would show
like the weather pattern. The ultimate pollster gauges mood and spirituality of
people. But, where in my work am I?
→The body is
whole. Its areas are local and regional. This definition I found in a medical
dictionary. As below, so above.
From
the human centered – the world is defined outward. It learns of boundaries and
may use them if socialized. There usually is a physical family for the new soul
– though it may be stressed, dysfunctional and the home/nest provided does
not/cannot protect and nurture. Some children are abandoned emotionally,
physically.
[regional
template to put over problem/issue/goals to create/encourage alignment]
–
may end up with the State or in the street, not being socialized.
[teaching
4 pillars – they bundle into a pedestal]
From
a warm house, full stomach, it is easier to be spiritual in overview.
For
those souls in body who have never had love, peace, warmth – even trauma in the
womb, I wonder – is the soul itself damaged – creating ghosts – fragments, or
souls in biological units that learn slowly.
This
may be the case for many, but my path is/or feels more awakening and my life
simplifies and gets organized by global vision. My youthful goal to save the
world has become format the world in scaled regions. – Like a "view"
in a Microsoft program.
9:40
a.m. My mind has been all over as I ate my peanut butter and jam breakfast.
Thought – "Think globally, act regionally" might work, but – the
change is too subtle.
Solar sys
Think
globally LOCAL PLANET act locally REGIONALLY
[a
repeat of the idea from April 1, 2000 – it will grow]
→A networked
planet of many nodes & hubs – no central authority that is not
democratic/representative of the community users/servers.
A regional
community approach is to bring in more minds – two heads better than one.
People power needed to be more "creative" and thus more competitive
in order to maintain wealth and be able to support local community.
This
is temporary, to consider it permanent would be to buy into an illusion, the
illusion. What is permanent – it appears to be the soul – all souls – the
Oversoul creater.
Spirit
can make the manifest better through incarnate souls which become awake and
contribute. Those contributions can be, have been rejected by many, but not
all…so humanity has progressed – but we lag apparently.
11
a.m. So, I am, and am willing to learn/grow – become more disciplined &
organized.
I'm
exhausted, where have I been?
11:45
a.m. Practice #1 completed – 141 "I will be confident this day." A
ride in and out of stillness as the current issues of my life – all the
stressed relationships – came to the surface, stirred around – until I return
to the non-temporary still center.
12:40
p.m. Alignment of regions – delimited regions – the state agencies favor
regional cooperation, but not defined regions other than how they defined
regions themselves.
The
call for regional cooperation w/o defined boundaries creates confusion for the
local governments, since there are so many permutations for regions. The simple
standard used by Virginia created good regions. Alignment of state agency
policy by region is what creates effectiveness.
>
But, my focus has to be GCW - I – the
chapter on freedom – to feel more of that.
Greater
Community – a future oriented spirituality.
10:34
p.m. In my Study – following the Steps – and willingly so…but still indolent
about myself in the world. I may yet be possessed by knowledge and take on God
is my freedom. Would I abandon David & Sarah – not that they aren't already
abandon some – by me.
Preparing
for the Future – GCW I –
Spiritual
Truths –
We
hide from God here on earth – I was hiding, but now am found – and pulled home
to God.
12:15
a.m. January 8, 2001 – GCW – I, S2K – Feeling what I read, what I know, being
willing to go home – looking for the next step…to be vital – with meaning,
purpose, direction – free to do so…keeping spiritual freedom alive on earth.
Amen & Amen
While
the Steps focus, the more one has studied and applied the teachings and
their perspective to the world, the more self-reflection may take place. The journal
is one place this can be done. Let us continue.
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.
No comments:
Post a Comment