Today: Step 85 - I find happiness in small things today. (MP3)
Greetings All –
From the journal Step
84 - Review
11:37
a.m. Saturday, November 11, 2000 –@ the AARP 55 Alive Driving Course. I've got
to take by physical condition more seriously and exercise. Greater focus and
simplification is needed for RI. Too many distractions to my mission.
In
the woods today.
3:20
p.m.@ truth – on School House Road overlooking Route 66. This year for honoring
the land I have Virginia tobacco leaf and Indian corn. This is the third year
of the ceremony, perhaps 4th. I decided to do it on 11/11/00 – at least began,
because I won't get to every place today. I start here because that's how I
feel guided. I also need to do my long review.
I'm
more comfortable with my Senior Planner status. On NPR today they talked of
David Brower, founder of the Sierra Club and other groups who, in his career,
was ousted from some slots due to his "lack of managerial skills"
which really meant his emotion.
I
needed the directorship experience, but as an evangelist – I need freedom to
follow the emerging knowledge.
I'm
slowly getting the S2K truth. I am/we are spirit. The challenge for mind and
body to serve spirit instead of lead to their own limited conclusions. To self-monitor,
self-discipline – and not to abuse power/making domination the outcome is a
partial statement of the challenge. There appear to be forces – and they need
be dealt with as our world changes.
3:45
p.m. #1 offer tobacco and corn to the 7 directions …
Feeling
of the woods is home – as usual – only more so...
5:46
p.m. Su-ne – with extra corn & tobacco @ the point of Su – where I had my
first holy instant.
…
#9
6:45
p.m.@ home– by the maple tree.
–
Regional Being – I did not start out regional. I was born in a local hospital
and lived the early years committed to my local boundaries.
So –
my honoring of points for the seven directions – centered on each vortex, but
relating to and honoring all spirits, guides, unseen ones, souls, spiritual
family, devas, past and present – for their support.
8:04
p.m. Now…the long practice. Here in the quiet house. At 55 Alive it is clear to
me that I must increase my focus and minimize distraction. I also need less –
and will need to keep things simple in order to have time for regions.
84 –
Review… "Allow your external life to become rearranged as your inner life
begins to emerge into shine its light upon you.”
10:21
p.m. The review is being completed. I have experienced the stillness this week
in a deeper way – a satisfying way. My spirituality is personal. It happens
when I'm alone and focused. In group situations – or now as I listened to a CD
to overplay the TV which Cindy is watching – I receive/connect with souls of
others – here John
Boswell. I can feel the Spirit in all that makes up this room, this house.
I'm singular, yet not alone. Review complete 10:45 p.m.
Here
are the points recorded on the Review cards.
As
a spiritual seeker one may do strange things. I saw a Native American ceremony in
Virginia where the chief used tobacco and corn to honor the land. He did so to
the four directions. I copied that, not because I was Native American, the DNA
test recently showed that there’s no Native American genetics in me, but the
Celtic and German tribes, the DNA ancestry I have. Those tribal cultures honored
the land, but their ceremonies were lost, so that need to honor the land came
forth and the Native American ceremony is that which has survived, so, that is
what I used. To the four directions, North, South, East and West, I added
spirits above, spirits below and spirits here where I stand. I used corn and tobacco.
I did this for several years, then there was no longer a need.
Your
journey may have such elements, or not. There are many ways to honor Spirit.
Let us continue.
NNC
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