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| “I will honor the world today.” Step 145 |
HONOR THE WORLD TODAY, for it is the place you have
come to reclaim Knowledge and to bestow its gifts. Thus, the world in its
beauty and in its tribulation provides the right environment for you to fulfill
your purpose. Honor the world because God is in the world honoring the world.
Honor the world because Knowledge is in the world honoring the world. Honor the
world because without your judgment you will realize it is a place of grace, a
place of beauty and a place that blesses you as you learn to bless it.
REPEAT YOUR LESSON UPON THE HOUR. In your two
longer practice periods, experience loving the world. Allow Knowledge to give
its grace. You do not have to try to be loving here, but merely to be open and
to let Knowledge express its great affection.
HONOR THE WORLD TODAY so that you may be honored
for being in the world, for the world honors you as you honor yourself. The world
is acknowledged as you acknowledge yourself. The world needs your love and your
blessings. It needs your good works as well. In this way, you are honored, for
you have come here to give.
PRACTICE 145: Two 30-minute practice periods. Hourly
practice.
Note: “Thus,
the world in its beauty and in its tribulation provides the right environment
for you to fulfill your purpose.” This implies we have chosen to be here. Bad news for the claim: “I
didn’t ask to be born.”
The
built-environment of our world is one part of “the world” we can honor. The Vltava River
flows through the center of Prague, and is the waterway around which the
city has developed over the past 1000 years. When I selected this picture, I
didn’t connect it to that of the sundae for the prior Step. Here we see nature
in the trees and river; an iron railing reflecting foundational technology and
the city on a hill. A church is prominent in the landscape, showing the people
who built and maintain this city had a spiritual practice which may be in need
of renewal today.
From the journal Step
144 - I will honor myself today.
Wednesday,
January, 2001
6:30
a.m.
→ Nobody really cares about regional – they only want
it to help locally, where their loyalty is.
10:30
p.m. RI – I need a customer – Bill --- /Jack--- are my closest customers
– Write the proposal –
Very light in the journal; a.m. and p.m. entry. A
lot can go through our minds in a day. Only a bit can get captured. Reading the
very short text of this Step today, this stood out: “Honor yourself this day so that Knowledge may be
honored, for in reality you are
Knowledge. This is your True Self, but it is a Self that you are only
now beginning to reclaim.”
OK, that is a good hint about what Knowledge is –
look in the mirror for our True Self. Reclaiming is the process and this is the
beginning. The thrashings in the mind and in the journal are part of the reclaiming I think. This beginning turns out to become extended - a journey, so let us continue, let us persist, so
the relationship can be experienced more fully.
NNC
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