I will remember those who have given to me. CT Step 11 (MP3)
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| I will remember those who have given to me. CT Step 11 |
In today’s practice in gratitude, recall those
individuals who have given to you. Think about what they have given, and do not
limit them only to those who seem to encourage you in a positive way. For even
your adversaries have made you strong, have made you stand upon your own ground
and have required you to establish your freedom and to secure it for yourself.
Ask yourself, "Who do I need to acknowledge
today for serving me?" And you might be surprised to who comes to mind.
Whoever does come to mind, recognize their gift. What did they give you to
enable you to find yourself and your way in life? Here your supporters and your
critics alike become valuable resources. In this, you learn not to be offended
by those who seem to criticize you today, for tomorrow you will recall them in
such a way that you will appreciate the opportunity that they provided you to
become stronger with Knowledge and closer to the Grace that lives within you
and all around you.
Beyond your practice in stillness and your hourly
exercises in awareness and discernment, spend time considering the meaning of
today’s lesson and receiving those who come to you as you think about it. The
past must be a record of gratitude if it is to have any meaning or value at
all, and today we learn to seek and to find that gratitude.
Practice 11: One
30-minute stillness practice.
Contemplation practice.
Hourly practice.
Picture: The Lord’s Chapel is on Greenway Road, outside
Winchester, Virginia. It is a place where I was able to pursue my expanded
journey beginning in 1989, so I remember and the founder and Minister Suwaylu Anniah, woman of vision. Date sign picture taken: September 27, 2009
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
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.
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