Today: Step 301 - I will not
lose myself in anxiety today. (MP3)
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| I will not lose myself in anxiety today. Step 301 |
DO NOT ALLOW THE HABIT OF LOSING YOURSELF in anxiety
to capture your mind this day. Accept that you are entering a greater life with
a greater sense of purpose. Allow yourself to rely upon the certainty of
Knowledge within you and its confirmation of your true relationships. Be at
peace this day. Allow stillness to abide with you as you walk through the
world.
UPON THE HOUR REPEAT TODAY’S IDEA. In your deeper
practices, use it as an invocation to begin and as a benediction to complete
your meditation. In your meditations allow yourself to be still. Do not let uncertainty
capture you today. Do not let anxiety take you away. You are abiding with
Knowledge, which is the source of all certainty in the world. You are abiding
with it, and you are allowing it to spread its potency and its gifts to you who
are learning now to reclaim certainty for yourself. Allow this day to be a
confirmation of your studenthood. Allow this day to be an expression of
Knowledge.
PRACTICE 301: Two 30-minute practice periods. Hourly
practice.
Picture:
Driving into a tunnel; a closed space – creates anxiety for some – particularly
if you’ve not done it before.
From the journal: Step
300 - I receive all those who are my Spiritual Family today.
7:10
a.m. Friday, June 15, 2001 – "I receive all those who are my Spiritual
Family today". "… true community exists in service to Knowledge.…
Enter into the presence of your Spiritual Family, for you are born of community
and into community you now enter, for life is community – community without
exclusion and without opposite".
"K
will reveal what you must know and what you must do. You are not meant to be
burdened with attempting to understand that which is beyond your comprehension.
But you are given the responsibility to respond to the communication that is
being given to you from the mystery of your own life and from the power
of God in your life". (RI/RC – it seems 6/23/01)
*These
are then, the mystery journals, the place I record those things that come
to me. Some are profound, some are silly – that reflects the source. Community
was an emerging theme in my thoughts and the term "Greater Community"
attracted me to this work. Earlier, I'd sensed that there was spiritual family
and reflection on Fr'ank, the spoke soul for the group that were Christen's
guides. This plus my own experience of having several guides, which may or may
not be family and experience of souls of my earthly family – Bart, Herb,
Regina, Walter, Karl.
Here
in Front Royal, I have no physical family – just Cindy and her family – a
different wavelength. I made friends mostly by serving others – I had a goal of
1000 friends and in terms of people who know me and I can count on… Well – I
won't know until the next crisis. Certainly they fended off Nora Belle and Bev
and Andy D….
Spiritual
family is a comforting thought. How real that can be for us as individuals is perhaps
up to our meditation and stillness practices. What are they trying to tell me?
Listening and recording in the journal is one way to test the reality and value
of thoughts we receive or generate ourselves. Let us continue in this mystery.
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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