TODAY
WE SHALL REVIEW THE PAST WEEK OF PREPARATION. Review this objectively without
condemnation, once again realizing your advancements and your limitations and
strengthening your resolve. For it is your desire for Knowledge that we wish to
cultivate as well as your capacity. It is right thinking, right action and true
motivation that will advance you naturally in the direction in which you are
meant to go. Each step forward will give you a greater sense of purpose, meaning
and direction in life and will free you from attempting to resolve matters that
do not require resolution and from attempting to understand things out of fear
and anxiety. The more at peace you are with your nature, the more your nature
can express the greatness that you have brought with you. Thus, you will become
a light unto all around you, and you will marvel at the events of your own
life, which in itself will be a miracle.
IN
YOUR LONG PRACTICE PERIOD TODAY, undertake your review with depth and
sincerity. Do not let anything dissuade you from your practice today. It is
your practice that is your gift to God, for you give yourself in your practice,
and you receive your gift as well.
PRACTICE
133: One long practice period.
From the journal Step
132 - Let me learn to be free so that I may join.
12:21
a.m. Friday, December 29, 2000 – Knowledge draws me to my purpose.
Watching
life unfold in real time, in stories/movies about the past, the incremental
advances, the challenge of being w/o a greater perspective, being @ the mercy
of the powerful – the tyrannical,
8:54
a.m. The idea of local must be expanded to the planet; not a map, but a globe
9
a.m. Challenge to become Community – not a collective.
9:08
a.m. GCW/S2K – the statement of the problem is the same: Separation. The
solution is different – engage with life, do not go to spirituality
exclusively. Both ACIM & GCW encourage "Fear Not" and the
attention to Holy Spirit. They both refer to "Ancient Home" – the
source of our Spirit self.
9:21
a.m. Am I a man of Knowledge? Not yet. I'm on the path. I have meaningful
relationships with others. I have also made significant errors in relationships
– been trusting and not discerning. Repair has not always been possible, and
I've been dumped – hurt, weakened→yet I have faith
and trust in the Creator, the patient's and hard to proceed – for I choose
life.
→True power, true
life is in conscious community. Collective life goes too far?
>I
will need others to help me make visible the benefits of regional community
building.
10:26
a.m. Commerce is all about competitive advantage, rather than building Quality
of life.
11:15
a.m.> LACKING THE TEACHING OF KNOWLEDGE it would be heart-to-heart
connections that would demonstrate Knowledge.
7:20
p.m.> Idea this afternoon –
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The
world of regions is chaotic – there are no standards –
→Earth is local, earth
is whole – no perfect subdivision of this whole
I
have this earth Affinity
We have a great challenge in the world, trying to
make this reality work for the incarnate souls who were already here and have
joined us during our own presence on the planet. When I was born in 1946, there
were 2 billion on the planet; in 2015 – 7.2 billion. Current estimate. 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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