Greetings All –
Step 75 - Today I will
listen to my Self. (MP3)
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TODAY LISTEN TO YOUR SELF, not
the small self in you which complains and worries and wonders and wants, but
the Greater Self in you. Listen to the Greater Self in you, which is Knowledge,
which is united with your Spiritual Teachers, which is united with your
Spiritual Family and which contains your purpose and your calling in life. Do
not listen to ask questions, but to learn to listen. And as your listening
becomes deeper in time, your True Self will speak to you whenever it is
necessary, and you will then be able to hear and to respond without confusion.
IN YOUR TWO PRACTICE PERIODS
TODAY, practice listening to your Self. There are no questions to be asked.
That is not necessary. There is listening to be developed. Listen to your True
Self today so that you may learn of that which God knows and loves.
PRACTICE
75: Two 30-minute practice periods.
Yesterday: Step
74 - Peace abides with me today.
A simple, yet important
practice and lesson.
From the Journal:
September
29, 1999
...
11:40
p.m. At Bowling Green Country Club - a Local Government Forum on water issues
called by Frederick County. After a 35 minute discussion there was a motion to
form an Advisory Committee for a local government regional water authority. Jim
Longerbeam, Bev Fleming, Jim McManaway, Pete Dunning, - Winchester City ... all
were there. - Amazing - it is an outfall of the Regional Partnership ... I took
a big risk to be part of that - it worked - even though I've been on a rocky
road for over two years.
Faith
has kept me nearly straight. The work remains invisible and probably always
will be such.
Time
to mediate - Step 74 - Peace abides with me.
1:12
A.M. Thursday, September 30, 1999. I meditated - until 12:20 A.M. or so - then
to bed, but I can't get to sleep. I am not up to eat or have a glass of wine.
It may be for a message - or what - I don't know.
Nana
- Jo Schaaf - ME's mother and Jo Evans are both close in thoughts this minute.
They were good to me. Many, many people have been good to me. I've fallen short
- still - they love me. I am the same to David.
Peace
abideth with me. My vision came true tonight. The State made the regional table
valuable with the regional partnership. Once the Chief Elected Officials and
the CAO's got together and could work ... then more cooperation could take
place. Regions work - value regions is what we need. This is my song - it needs
to be celebrated →.
2:40
A.M. Read Sheldan
Nidle's 9/28 report - we move to a golden age. I also
read Jim Oliver's article in the UVA Newsletter. He talks somewhat about
regional cooperation, but mostly about revitalizing state, regional and local
government.
Why do people do what they do?
What difference does the city make?
So - this book ends and another
volume of research shall begin.
Amen
& Amen
Wow
- that was a lot to enter, and a lot to read. Here I'm sharing my work as it is
part of my Steps practice. The names shared are of public elected officials who
were doing public work in a public environment. A goal/need stated in the New
Message is for an "Age of Human Unity and Cooperation."
As a person
whose job was to promote cooperation among local governments, I can say it is
not easy, but it is possible. For me that meant to talk about being a regional
community of communities where identities were not merged into a centralized
something. Skip over such things if they don't suit you, but in your own line
of work, be introspective as to how it makes the world better rather than more
difficult.
NNC
Journal
2nd Time Step 74. This is for those who have completed
Steps once. Doing Steps with only the texts, messages and your life experience,
including what you may have studied and practiced is your journey. I’m showing
my first year Step comments after the Step, so as not to influence you in
advance. It is a wilderness trek to be left to your own wits, but then you can
also listen more closely for guides, angels and teachers, always first saying:
“I surround and protect myself with the Love and the Grace of God.” Thankfully,
I was taught this practice in 1989.
P.S. 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.
