Sunday, November 15, 2015

x2 Step 319 - Why should I be afraid when a Greater Power is in the world. – Journal – Step 318



Today:  Step 319 - Why should I be afraid when a Greater Power is in the world. (MP3)

Why should I be afraid when a Greater Power is in the world. Step 319

WHENEVER YOU FALL INTO THE DARKNESS OF FEAR, you are withdrawing from Knowledge and entering the darkness of imagination. Whenever you fall into the darkness of your own fear, you are denying the reality of a Greater Power in the world and are thus losing its beneficence for yourself. Whenever you fall into the darkness of your own fear, you are following the teaching of fear, which runs rampant in the world. You are allowing yourself to be a student of fear. You are allowing yourself to be governed by fear. Recognize this and you will realize that this need not be, that you have the power to redirect your studenthood and that you have the ability to re-enter true preparation.

THINK OF THIS SERIOUSLY TODAY. Why should you be afraid when a Greater Power is in the world? This Greater Power which you are now learning to receive is the source of your redemption. What can you possibly lose as this source becomes recognized, as you learn to come into relationship with this source and as you serve this source and allow it to serve you? What can the world take from you when the source of Knowledge is within you? What can the world do to itself when the source of Knowledge is within the world?

THIS AWARENESS CALLS FOR YOUR COMPLETE PARTICIPATION in the world and your complete service to Knowledge. It calls for your complete engagement in contributing to others because you are a vehicle for the Greater Power in the world. Yet, in this active participation you understand as well that it is only a matter of time before all minds awaken to the light of Knowledge within themselves. This can take a very long time, but time is with you and in patience and in confidence you may proceed, for what can undermine your preparation and your contribution but self-doubt and fear? What can dissuade you from proceeding with certainty and complete engagement but the doubt that Knowledge exists in the world?

THEREFORE, WHENEVER YOU ENTER INTO FEAR, practice this day recognizing that a Greater Power is in the world. Utilize this recognition to bring yourself out of fear by remembering that a Greater Power is in the world and by remembering that a Greater Power is in your life. Think about this on the hour and in your two deeper meditation practices, re-enter your sanctuary where in stillness and in confidence you receive the Greater Power that is in the world. Here you must realize that your preparation requires that you step away from fear and darkness and that you step forward into the light of truth. These two activities will confirm your nature and will betray nothing that is real within you or within the world.

AS YOU LOOK UPON THE WORLD WITHOUT JUDGMENT and as you look upon yourself without judgment, you will see that a Greater Power is at work. This will restore happiness to you, for you will realize that you have brought your Ancient Home with you and your Ancient Home is here as well. This will lift the burden of fear, the oppression of anxiety and the confusion of ambivalence from your mind. Then, you will remember why you have come, and you will devote your life to contributing that which you have come to give. Then, your life will be a statement of happiness and inclusion, and all who see you will remember that they too have come from your Ancient Home.

PRACTICE 319: Two 30-minute practice periods. Hourly practice.

Picture: Turkey Vultures on a cell tower. They are unattractive, if not ugly. Their presence can feel ominous and threatening.


7:01 a.m. July 3, 2001 – Region – the "little" big picture. It is not just data, it is your temperature, vital signs, a measure of your health. It is the basis for knowing what needs to be done or undone.

9 a.m. Reading – "Why in the world: Adventures in Geography" – George Demko

– No notice of regions. Geography – the art and science of place.

Now that the earth is explored and settled, the question is sustainability – avoiding a tragedy of the commons – instituting an overarching self-management. Community – coming together and self-management – is what avoids tragedy.

Where the "local" governments had managed the show in the past, were carved out of the wilderness to be settled in the European way, that scale has limits – and greater scale needs to be applied for economic reasons.

9:37 a.m. This will take time – lots of time – to build the database
– I need formats, decision trees perhaps
– Goals

9:57 a.m. Call from Alan Voorhees – about GIS strategy for Virginia –

10:15 p.m. Practice #2 – getting ready – David called. More tickets haunting him. One more bail out.

The day went OK – productive – but the way to go is so…long.

Is the Greater Power working in me as I seek to promote regional cooperation? That is my hope, but this question I will ask often in Stillness, as I’ve done for years. Am I doing the right, the needed thing? Let us continue. The Steps seem to be helping. Some questions get answered; new ones arise.

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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