Today: Step 350 – Review - View your life unfolding. This
is preparing you for the future… (MP3)
ONCE AGAIN REVIEW THE PAST TWO WEEKS of your
training, reading each lesson and reviewing each day of practice. Once again
develop your ability to be objective. Once again recognize the overall movement
of your life—the slow but very important and substantive changes that are
occurring within your values, within your engagements with others, within your
activities and, most importantly, within your entire sense of yourself.
KEEP IN MIND THAT IMPORTANT CHANGE is gradual and
often goes unnoticed until its results become evident. Realize that minor or insignificant
change often involves great emotional upheavals where people think that
something tremendous has just happened. The greater change is deeper and
changes everything. Small, incremental change affects your point of view
immediately, but its overall effect is not that lasting. The only exception to
this is when your Teachers intervene into your personal sphere to demonstrate
their presence or to deliver a message of potency that you absolutely require
at that moment. These interventions are rare but can occur on occasion when it
is required for your own behalf.
THEREFORE, VIEW THE OVERALL MOVEMENT OF YOUR LIFE. View
your life unfolding. This is preparing you for the future, for this program is
preparing you for the future. Everything that is taught here you must utilize
and reinforce, and you must practice both within the scope of this preparation
and far beyond it as well. In your longer practice period today, become a wise
observer of your own development. Recognize where your practice needs to be strengthened.
Realize that this emanates from your Knowledge. Follow this to the very best of
your ability as we now approach the final lessons in this stage of Steps to
Knowledge.
PRACTICE 350: One long practice period.
From the journal:
8:15
a.m. Friday, August 3, 2001
I am
here to work. My being serves the truth. Thus I am free. Personally, I am not
in physical pain now. My relationships are source of discomfort. I fear for my
children's lives because of their situations and their own Knowledge/submersion
of Knowledge that got them there. In terms of work and contribution – I have an
open track and clear goals. It is a challenge except. Where is my joy?
→ Built
environment integrators – what planners are now.
→ Housing sprawl
is driven by employment sprawl. People will give 45 minutes to an hour to the
job trip.
– We
de facto plan for cars and hate schoolchildren. [Suburban
communities want each new home to pay the costs of any school children it might
generate that require service expenditures. This is part of the reason housing
costs are are so high.]
Where
am I? Step 349 – "I am happy that I can finally serve the truth". The
reality is that my relationships are not serving me so I can serve the truth. They
take my energy, get me angry – deny my truth.
Challenges
and progress. 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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