x2 Review ~…review the week with sincerity and depth. – Journal – Step 167

Today: Step 168 - Review (MP3)

REVIEW THE WEEK THAT HAS PASSED. Review each lesson as it was given and each practice that you experienced. Review the entire week so that you may fortify the learning that you are now undertaking. Remember that you are learning to learn. Remember that you are a beginning student of Knowledge. Remember that your evaluation, if it is not born of Knowledge, will not be helpful. Without this evaluation, it will be apparent how to strengthen your involvement, how to strengthen your preparation and how to make adjustments in your outer life to support you in your endeavor. This can be done without self-condemnation. It can be done because it is necessary, and you are able to respond to that which is necessary without punishing yourself or the world. This preparation is necessary, for it represents your will.

IN YOUR LONG PRACTICE PERIOD TODAY, review the week with sincerity and depth. Give this your full attention so that you may receive the gifts that you are now preparing to receive.

PRACTICE 168: One long practice period.

From the journal Step 167 - With Knowledge I am free in the world.

8:25 a.m. Friday, February 2, 2001 – Compressed disk in my lower spine. Makes me move slowly. …

4:30 p.m. Off work 3 PM. Friday – thanks to the new system. I don't think it's sustainable, but it does give me time. My spine will heal – relax – and I'll focus on strength building exercise. I have the constitution to live a long time, the work to live a long time – I just need to increase the focus. That is coming about slowly.

Yesterday I sent a card of thanks to Marshall. My perspective on life on earth has changed. It has come into a logic/truth/mystery that feels correct. Thus I'm less and less subject to paralysis of action and depression about my life and the world.

Step 167 – "With Knowledge I am free in the world." Practice #2.

10:31 p.m. Low point. If I could do the marriage over, I wouldn't do it. The primary benefit has been travel to Boulder and contact with Marshall.

Gotta live somewhere with someone. "With Knowledge I am free in the world."

Highs and lows all in the same day. I’m sure I’m the only person on the planet that faces this – and I’m not even bi-polar. The Steps study and material related to the Greater Community Way (GCW), as it is known in this period, it working in my life. It is saving my life, day in and day out, so that I might do something in the future to support the New Message.

NNC

 

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