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| I receive all those who are my Spiritual Family today. Step 300 |
RECEIVE THOSE WHO ARE YOUR SPIRITUAL FAMILY, who
guide and assist you, whose efforts on behalf of Knowledge supplement your own
and whose presence in your life is a confirmation that true community exists in
service to Knowledge. Allow their reality to clarify your own, to dispel all
the darkness of isolation and all of the weakness of individuality so that your
individuality may find the strength of its true contribution. Do not dwell
alone in your thoughts today, but 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.
REMEMBER THIS UPON THE HOUR TODAY. In your longer
practice periods, engage your mind actively in attempting to understand the message
that you are given today. Try to understand what Spiritual Family really means.
Try to understand that it is intrinsic to you. You did not choose it. You are
simply born of it. It represents your accomplishment in Knowledge thus far. All
accomplishment in Knowledge is the reclamation of relationships, and your
Spiritual Family are those relationships that you have reclaimed thus far in
your return to God.
THIS WILL BE BEYOND YOUR COMPREHENSION, but your Knowledge
will resonate with the message for today and the invocations that you have
practiced in previous days. Knowledge 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.
YOU ARE PART OF A SPIRITUAL FAMILY. You receive
this through your experience, an experience which will confirm your
participation in life and the great purpose you have come to serve.
PRACTICE 300: Two 30-minute practice periods
Another
deep Step. It says: “Allow yourself to penetrate the mystery of your
life, for the mystery of your life is the source of all meaning in your life,
and it is this meaning which you seek today.”
I’ve come
to use this image for the mystery of my life:
It is a
fishing trawler heading out in the San Francisco Bay. Greater Community
Spirituality – Chapter 3 – What is Life Force? Says: “You are the captain of
your ship, but it is not up to you to determine where it is sailing and for
what purpose. Even what your ship contains is beyond your authority. Consider
these words carefully and do not make a mistake here. To become the captain of
your ship is a responsibility and a power that few people have ever assumed. To
become a true captain means that you are aware of everything concerning the
protection, maintenance and well-being of your vessel and that you have respect
for its secret cargo and its true destiny. While many people proclaim that they
are the captain of their own lives, they have no idea what this means.”
This ship
is heading into the mystery, it is me, it could be you.
From the journal:
June
14, 2001
10:57
p.m. From 9:30 p.m. – on – no energy.
I
meditated – Step 299 – NOME NOME CONO NA VERA TE NOME.
–
"Allow yourself to penetrate the mystery of your life, for the mystery of
your life is the source of all meaning in your life, and it is this meaning which
you seek today".
That
"I am" is experience of this moment and the next. The mystery is that
I have this continuing experience in an environment populated with other
"I ams" of different degrees of self recognition, itself a learned
state for many. My life is not the mystery, but an underlying mystery –
These
Steps are done on faith. I experienced a unique value of the sacred language at
the Encampment this year. After learning of the nineteen translations of God Has
Spoken Again made possible by students, the evening entertainment included
the singing of songs in the spiritual language. All were together in this
language and I could imagine other voices joining from throughout the Greater
Community. 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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