x2 Step 159 - The poor cannot give. I am not poor. – Journal Step 158

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“The poor cannot give. I am not poor.” Step 159

 

THE POOR CANNOT GIVE, FOR THEY ARE DESTITUTE. They are required to receive. You are not destitute, for the gift of Knowledge is with you. Therefore, you are in a position to give, and in your giving you will realize your worth and any sense of destitution will leave you. Be confident that Knowledge will provide all material things that are truly needed by you. Though it may not provide what you wish, it will provide what you need and in the right amount. Thus, you will have what you need to contribute according to your nature and your calling in the world. But you will not be burdened with that which can only burden you. You will have exactly what you need, and the world will not burden you with its deprivation or its excesses. Thus, everything will have perfect balance. Knowledge will give to you what you need, and what you need is what you really want. You cannot yet assess your needs, for you are lost in what you want. But your needs will reveal themselves through Knowledge, and in time you will understand the nature of need and how it may be fulfilled.

YOU ARE NOT POOR, FOR THE GIFT OF KNOWLEDGE IS WITH YOU. Repeat today’s statement upon the hour and consider it in light of your observations of others. In your deeper practice periods, allow yourself to experience the wealth of Knowledge that you now possess.

PRACTICE 159: Two 30-minute practice periods. Hourly practice.

Note: “You are not destitute, for the gift of Knowledge is with you. Therefore, you are in a position to give, and in your giving you will realize your worth and any sense of destitution will leave you.”

From the journal Step 158 - I am rich so I can give.

6:45 a.m. Wednesday, January 24, 2001 – The need is regional intelligence – to promote that, grow it there needs to be regional data for specific regions.

10:50 p.m. Practice #2 "I am rich so I can give." Not the full 30 minutes – 28 – and not all smooth – body stuffed and aching at my waist/waste and work thoughts in and out – yet they were @ the surface beneath was a powerful center where I experience that feeling – much stronger/more solid than any yet.

I am rich in my life – family, life, people, events – not much of the world, but in the world. It was healing to learn through Steps why this doesn't feel like home – why it never has.

I thought/knew that I was lucky. My soul remained near the surface and it set me seeking, seeking, seeking – but me not knowing it was "home" I sought.

I do not know why the world is as it is, but I do know human decisions can make it better for more and this is the area I have with the help of RHG [Regional Harmonics Group] developed a new viewpoint to share with the world.

Amen & Amen –

The Steps page has a note in the blue ink from 2^nd year which is “Letter of Thanks to Marshall.” You may

develop that gratitude at some point. Often, in reading the books or Steps, I had the sense that something had been written specifically for me. That wasn’t ego, but recognition that seeker souls have many questions. To find an answer to one, an explanation in the moment, is a great joy. When the time is right, the teaching will appear.

NNC

 

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