x2 Step 256 - The world is emerging into the Greater Community of Worlds. – Journal – Step 255

Today:  Step 256 - The world is emerging into the Greater Community of Worlds. (MP3)

Step 256 - The world is emerging into the Greater Community of Worlds.

THIS IS A STATEMENT OF TRUTH regarding the evolution of your world. It gives meaning and direction to your understanding of your participation and your contribution in the world. It is not meant to frighten you or to create uncertainty or anxiety because with Knowledge uncertainty and anxiety are not essential. With Knowledge there is no uncertainty, for the quietness of Knowledge is your certainty, the voice of Knowledge is your certainty and the movement of Knowledge is your certainty. All of your mental and physical abilities and faculties can serve to express this in whatever avenue you are destined to serve.

THE STATEMENT THAT THE WORLD IS EMERGING into the Greater Community of Worlds is an affirmation of your purpose because your perception, your understanding and your appreciation of the world must grow. Your understanding of the world’s difficulties and opportunities must grow. You cannot hold a small vision of the world and possibly understand the meaning of your own Knowledge. You must think in a larger context. You must not think only of yourself—your wants and your fears—because you are part of a greater life which you have come to serve. The world that you are serving now and will learn to serve in the future is emerging into the Greater Community of Worlds.

REPEAT THIS IDEA UPON THE HOUR and think of it as you view the world around you. In your deeper practices, engage your mind actively in attempting to understand today’s lesson. Today’s practice is not focused upon stillness but on comprehension. Here the mind is used meaningfully, for the mind should either be used meaningfully or not at all. Allow yourself to consider all of your ideas about today’s lesson. Concern yourself with understanding your objections, your beliefs, your fears and your preferences. When these have been recognized, you will be in a position to know. Knowledge will be stimulated by today’s lesson, for today’s lesson is to stimulate Knowledge.

PRACTICE 256: Two 30-minute practice periods. Hourly practice.

From the journal:  Step 255 - The errors of this world will not dissuade me.

8:29 a.m. May 1, 2001 – Work – & life – at work I don't know what I did wrong – except to be honest and tell the truth.

3:04 p.m. Steve's plan – seek ARC and EDA funds – the old we are poor give us money instead of the entrepreneurial, proactive model I sought.

6:55 p.m. Where am I? Came home. Did practice #2 Step 255. It was a tough day mentally – again – anger about the PDC changes. My failure to have an entrepreneurial government agency be sustainable. Sometimes it physically hurts… Though I could not find others with the buy-in. It is like Joe C… at LFCC – free-agent sneaker net, there is no system-wide improvement.

I can continue to advance my work from the new position. There's much less work to do. What I value has not changed.

11:30 p.m. I am pulled to bigger things and smaller things, all at once. Time to build the Ark.

In The New Message from God, what this teaching has evolved to and revealed to be in the world, anger is not an emotion to be denied or suppressed neither is it to be acted out, but to be used as a catalyst to find its cause or causes, so correction can be made. It is an energy that can be harnessed and put to productive use. The process can take a very long time, but resolution is worth that. Anger carried too long is of no benefit and potentiality greater harm, if not reconciled. The Steps provide a way to achieve this, working in concert with other methods one might have used. 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.