CT Step 78 - My strength is called for in the world. – Journal – CT Step 77

Today:  CT Step 78 - My strength is called for in the world.  (MP3)

My strength is called for in the world. CT Step 78

Your strength is called for in the world, most assuredly. But do you have the strength? Do you have the wisdom? Are you ready? Can you respond? Can you deliver what you came here to deliver? Can you recognize those people who are essential for you to know and to associate with? And can you look past those who are not essential for you to know even though you may feel great affection for them?

A relationship is only as good as the strength that its participants bring to it. It is the sum of your accomplishments. Your relationship with others, your primary relationships, reflect this. Your relationship with the world reflects this. You can even have a dysfunctional relationship with the Creator, and in fact this is quite common. What is the strength you bring to this relationship? What kind of discernment do you bring here? The world is calling for your strength. This is a relationship with the world. What is your responsibility here?

People say they have a calling or they want a calling in life, and perhaps they will dream of it and desire it, but are they ready? Only the Wise will know. That is why the real Spiritual Teachers, the Unseen Ones, and even those who are still in physical life, do not show up everywhere giving everything to everybody. Perhaps they are not the popular teachers that are out there disseminating the "Ancient Texts" or the "Secret Teachings" to the general public. The more advanced the teacher, the more discernment they must have, the more care they must use regarding students and the more discrete they must be about what they know and what they can do.

The world is calling you, but are you ready? Life is ready. The world is ready. Are you ready? Do you have strong enough relationships? Do you have the self-confidence? Ask yourself these questions today.

In your practice in stillness, simply be still and listen so that you may become stronger. Exercise this strength upon the hour when you are out in the world to see where you are and what is happening. Stay in contact with yourself so that you may become strong in every situation that you enter.

Practice 78:   One 30-minute stillness practice.

                         Contemplation practice.

                         Hourly practice.

Picture:  We can feel quite small in a big world, like this delivery vehicle driver at a big construction project in Beijing, China, yet our strength is called for.

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 77 - REVIEW

7:17 a.m. November 10, 2001 – Pittsburgh – I forgot to change my watch and missed my flight last night – a $85 lesson – or more. No spiritual meaning – just error. Definite need for emphasis on limbering in exercise.

Step 77 – Review

7:33 a.m. On the plane. Life moving smoothly. I feel rested. Onward to home & then Virginia Beach.

71 – Let me become aware of the Mental Environment in which I live. Note: This is rudimentary, yet I learned only @ age 55.

72 – I'm influenced by the mental environment around me.

73 – The mental environment of the world is changing.

74 – I seek to be a force for good in the world.

75 – I will not be deterred by the opinions of others.

76 – I am here to serve the world.

77 – Review

1. Relationships – Y

2. Work/livelihood – N

3. Health – Y

4. Spirituality – N

→ R – Support family work; observe

→ H – Limberness, balance, schedule –

9:05 p.m. Virginia Beach @ Penny S… – a faster cable connection on her PC for sure.

The review has gotten efficient and the pillars review has a format. One more week of Continuation Steps, then we begin again. 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.