CT Step 13 - I give myself to my practice today. – Journal – CT Step 12

Today: CT Step 13 - I give myself to my practice today. (MP3)

I give myself to my practice today. CT Step 13

No matter what is happening in your life at this moment, no matter what challenge you may be facing, or what difficulties may be preoccupying you, you have an opportunity today to apply everything to your practice and to deepen your practice. Here you participate in the world like your Creator, who uses everything for a greater purpose. The Creator does not come and destroy the wicked and take control of everyone and everything and force a unity that people would resist and could not choose for themselves. Instead, everything is set in motion for redemption, for reunion, for contribution, for empowerment, for forgiveness and for true recognition.

Today your life gives you the tools to do this. It gives you the laboratory experiment. Use everything today. In your practice time and in your hourly practices, use today. Stay with this. The world teaches you about Knowledge and about the denial of Knowledge and the ignorance of Knowledge. Use this. Let the world serve you through its demonstration. Observe yourself and see for yourself how easily your concentration is lost, how easily you give yourself away to things that seem to overtake you, things that do not have nearly the power that you do. See how your fear overtakes you, overwhelms you and how are at its mercy. Today can serve you in your practice if you are present.

Practice 13:    One 30-minute stillness practice.

                          Contemplation practice.

                          Hourly practice.

Picture:  The signage on this building in Milan, Italy is an indicator of the economic challenges present in the world. May 30, 2015

Plan B - If the MP3 doesn’t work, here’s the link to the folder: New Message - Student Spoken Steps CT Recordings - Steps to Knowledge Continuation Training - Working file

From the journal:  CT Step 12 - Today I will not try to be happy.

9:55 a.m. Wednesday, September 5, 2001

– The geography of cooperation. Physical geography isn’t much help to man – it assumes land shapes man, when the reverse is true. Political scientists are worried about lack of governance in regions, but the real need is more administration.

Physical boundaries tend to be soft – transitional – a gradual change from desert to grassland to forest. There are not hard, either/or boundaries like a political boundary.

The built environment and the infrastructure it requires, need oversight for operation and maintenance. Population increase – can require more services, and aging changes the service needs.

10:45 a.m. Regional assets – regional from the inside out. Use the immediate territory for you own promotion. Cooperate to invest and enhance the area community. Hub air-ports – National networks -

1:25 p.m. Where am I? Once again in contemplation. Today's Step – "Today I will not try to be happy". The emphasis is on trying – the more we try, the less we achieve? David's and Sarah's happiness – or peacefulness is something I'd like to see, but cannot make. Their issues unbalance my life, though it has driven me to "infinite community".

8:35 p.m. Work tomorrow. Today – what did I see of people trying to be happy? A 50+ guy on his six-cylinder Valkyrie motorcycle – driving around Front Royal, an old 65 Mustang coupe sitting in a driveway, the CD of Moroccan music I bought yesterday, the musical instruments I bought, but can't play;

9:39 p.m. Tired – to bed early. My RC work is very clear. I've not yet found someone thinks the same way, but there are many who want regional cooperation to work. The world needs to be re-perspective-d. I seek to contribute to that.

After meeting Z… Sunday and learning and she was and abductee, it seemed I might be more careful about my location; to remain hidden – as though I were wise. I do need more time, more input and processing of new & existing input.

There will be no magic, but there will be progress and results.

Contemplating my work and how it relates to my purpose. Whatever your work inclinations, they might be the focus in your journal. Inspiration will come, if you are paying attention. Capturing it is important, though you may not know which are important at the time.

My sense for many years as a student of A Course in Miracles, which taught listening for Holy Spirit direction, was that it was necessary to prove that you could follow direction. Sometimes it would lead somewhere, sometimes not. The skill was the listening. In Steps to Knowledge this skill is developed with more focus. Knowledge is another word for Holy Spirit.

We continue.

NNC

Note: If you’ve some interest, but this is the first time you’ve seen 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. Begin at the beginning.

If you do know about Steps, but have not done Steps twice completely, read the related materials, and have a sense of the direction of this study, you won’t get the experience. The Introduction begins:

“This is the Steps to Knowledge Continuation Training. It is designed to build upon the Steps that were learned in Steps to Knowledge to enable you to experience the grace, the power and the direction of Knowledge in your life and to become an expression of Knowledge in everything that you do. If you have completed the book, Steps to Knowledge, twice through and have followed the instructions as they were given without altering the curriculum in any way, then you are now ready to begin this more advanced study”.

If you are an independent student, that is certainly an option. 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.