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| Step 260 - I am a friend of the world today. |
YOU ARE A FRIEND OF THE WORLD TODAY, and as you experience
this you will experience the world as a friend to you, for the world can only
reflect your purpose as you express and experience it. Here you will experience
a new world with Knowledge, a world that you had not considered before, a world
that you only momentarily experienced before.
BE A FRIEND OF THE WORLD TODAY, for you have come
to be a friend of the world. The world is in great need. It is demonstrating great
confusion and error, and yet you have come to be a friend of the world because
the world needs your friendship. In this, you receive a greater reward than
anything you could secure for yourself alone, for anything you secure for
yourself alone you must take from life. Yet, anything you give and receive as a
friend to the world, life gives to you, and it does not lose in the exchange. Then,
there is no guilt in your giving and in your receiving. Here your involvement
is wholesome and clean. With Knowledge this becomes evident and is demonstrated
day after day until you finally learn that it is true without exception.
UPON THE HOUR BE A FRIEND TO THE WORLD. Recognize
that all anger comes from confusion and that Knowledge is emerging now to resolve
all confusion. As a result, your life is now engaged with true resolution and
not with compounding the world’s predicament. Your
life is about resolution and not predicament. Be a
friend to the world. In your two deeper practice periods in stillness, give
yourself to being a friend to the world, for this will ease the world’s
confusion. As you learn to give this with Wisdom and discernment, you will
allow the world to become a friend to you, for the world wishes to become your
friend as well.
PRACTICE 260: Two 30-minute practice periods. Hourly
practice.
“4/1/00
How can this lesson be so perfect?
KNOWLEDGE”
[and a year later]
“5/5/01 – Saturday – Again – the perfect lesson”.
From the journal:
6:40 a.m. Saturday, May 5, 2001
6:40 a.m. Saturday, May 5, 2001
Center
for Regional Communities.
What
do I know? What do I think? What do I want?
I
want to understand What I Know!
Woke
up early in a dream of a PDC meeting. I was director again, Carolyn was the
secretary – we were in a library like room, setting up for meeting – a reporter
was there. I was in the typical frantic moments of who will show…
Once
awake I began again to ponder my fall in order to understand what I really want
to do. I'm more comfortable having freedom now to pursue bigger priorities –
like a FIPS code for State Standard Regions.
New
Vision Regionalism: Regional Communities and Governance Coordination
…
S2K
#259 – "I have come to teach in the world". Practice #1 – I've
already done it – expounding that which needs to be taught.
The
text says: "Think of what you want to teach with your life and think of
what you want to fortify with your life. Think of what you want to give and
think of what the world has given to you to stimulate this true desire. All
these things will generate right thinking and right action, and through right
thinking and right action Knowledge will flow effortlessly through you to bless
life around you and to bring purpose, meaning and direction to your
relationships".
– My
goal – to be a teacher of God. In this, S2K and ACIM are the same – teacher of
God/unhealed healers. It is process. It is life. I teach my needs and receive
such teachings from others. There are many needs in the world. They are met
through cooperation, through community. S2K – teaches greater community. Our
frame of reference will expand.
–
The practices call for two 30 minute sessions – and hourly… I'll spend the day
because, as it was 4/1/00 – this is today's perfect lesson for me.
9:30
a.m. – Rereading the Manual for
Teachers – ACIM. I began study of the Course in September,
1989. I traded a copy of the Urantia Book to Sue for an ACIM copy.
Just
as Christen's guides told me Urantia
and ACIM needed to be taken together, I knew Steps was a continuation of these
spirit communications, which were themselves continuations of the Books of the
Bible, Koran, etc.
– I
come back now to ACIM – with experience. Section 1. Trust under "What are
the characteristics of God's teachers" – frame my unburdening. The
"period of unsettling" which I thought to be the separation and
divorce, relationships with women, of the 1980s – was not my real
"unsettling" – nor my real area of teaching. That has come in the
past ten years. – RI-RC – all that I wrote about earlier. So – with hindsight –
I understand the past ten years – and push on to learn from ACIM again. As I
was doing this work – Marshall was receiving the next lessons.
It
is the wholeness – the holy, holy, holy - that I desire - and the return to
God/has given that to my soul.
[I
am unhappy here away from God on earth, but not ready to return to heaven. 4:01
p.m. 5/12/01]
2.
Honesty – "All other traits of God's teachers rest on trust".
It
was a great surprise to me that Cindy said she loved me and married me, but did
not trust me. I said w/o trust it's not love – it had to be fundamental.
To
trust – and allow error – misfeasance rather than malfeasance – is critical.
Errors of learning… – that takes wisdom.
–
Honesty – I recorded here recently, my greatest error @ PDC was to be honest –
8:25 a.m. May 1 –
3.
Tolerance says Teachers are not judgmental. In my being honest with people
about their work and need to improve skills I was taken to be judgmental – ENTJ - which – was
harsh in the minds of recipients – employees became disloyal and
self-protective. Marie has been dishonest – taking based on her power with
people. She learned enough to help perpetuate the Commission. Steve will
eventually understand. That's not my work now – I've been unburdened –
unsettled. So here I must be tolerant – and trust→ K→ teachers – life
4.
Gentleness – my response to the attack has been patience and gentleness. They
are amazed – the work advances.
5.
Joy – "Joy is the inevitable result of gentleness. Gentleness means that
fear is now impossible, and what could come to interfere with joy?"
Not
here yet. I have moments of fearlessness – and joy – but that's not the
heartbeat. This affirms the path and so I take heart.
As
of now – 10:25 a.m. – I intend to review the ACIM teachers’ handbook – then
hiked to patience. This is the day of "Pee Wee's Big Review".
6.
Defenselessness – "God's teachers have learned how to be simple. They have
no dreams that need defense against the truth". – OK – on the path to
simple/simpler
"It
is not danger that comes when defenses are laid down. It is safety. It is
peace. It is joy. And it is God".
7.
Generosity – "The teacher of God is generous out of self-interest".
Not with physical things – but with things of God he can both keep and give
away.
8.
Patience – "Those who are serving of the outcome can afford to wait, and
wait w/o anxiety. Patience is natural to the teacher of God. All he sees is
certain outcome, at a time perhaps unknown to him as yet, but not in
doubt". – Yes – RC-RI – Local planet.
[Money
can wait. Wealth can wait!]
9.
Faithfulness. The extent of faithfulness is a measure of advancement in the
curriculum.
"Faithfulness
is the teacher of God's trust in the Word of God to set all things right; not
some, but all". – Not apply to all problems – "To give up all
problems to one Answer is to reverse the thinking of the world entirely. And
that alone is faithfulness".
Faithfulness
to God/Son of God is the non-separation. (!) (?)
3:55
p.m. At the Trail Head – in the car – a summer downpour –
Time
to continue the ACIM Manual for Teachers review.
10.
Open-mindedness – it comes with lack of judgment. As judgment shuts the mind
against God's teacher, so open-mindedness invites him to come in…. Only the
open-minded can be @ peace, for they alone see reason for it".
"How
do the open-minded forgive? They have let go all things that would prevent
forgiveness. They have in truth abandoned the world, and let it be restored to
them in this and joy…".
4:38
p.m. ACIM – some of it works; some does not. Illusion must be dealt with… and
S2K offers a way. So – I do my best to integrate.
5:50
p.m.@ Little Bear – playing with matches, tobacco – fire and smoke – a 3 x 5
index card to roll a cigarette. Smoke a little of the peace pipe.
Here
for Practice #2 –
What
has the world taught me and what do I need to teach?
It
seems the world has taught me it is whole. I don't know exactly when or how
that occurred – or why I even thought about it. In considering being a writer I
thought I'd write a book that had been written. Thus I teach and learn in
planning and futures. It seems to me there are better ways to do physicality.
I've learned some – some has emerged – and I'm sure there's much more. RI/RC
Both
ACIM and S2K talk about teaching. ACIM focuses, it seems, on physical healing –
a priority for many people. Much illness is psychosomatic – so mental healing
makes sense.
My
experience with ACIM was that thinking/change of thoughts could not heal
everything. Not deal with Sarah's, David's or Cindy's needs. It helped, but I
felt that with total healing I’d disappear, as Urantia says happens when you
connect with your thought adjuster.
Physicality
will remain here and S2K is a method to deal with that. RI/RC will continue to
emerge – I'll learn/teach/learn.
"The
world can only teach you what you need to teach the truth".
The
New Testament says, "Ye shall know the truth and the truth shall set you
free".
→ I'm open to knowing and being able to teach the
truth.
Amen & Amen
T-om Su ne
Family of Sha-Rone
11:37
p.m. Time for bed. …
To
“make sense of the world” has been a long term goal for me. Thought and writing
go together, so a long review of an earlier teaching. For other students, there
may be other perspectives to review. 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.
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