Greetings All –
Step 99 - I will not
blame the world today. (MP3) [Open in Drive or copy to
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| "I will not blame the world today." Step 99 |
TODAY
PRACTICE NOT BLAMING THE WORLD, not judging its obvious errors and not claiming
or giving responsibility to others for these errors as well. Look on the world
silently. Allow your mind to be still.
PRACTICE
THIS UPON THE HOUR and view the world with your eyes open. In your two longer
practice periods, also practice with eyes open looking upon the world. It does
not matter what you look at, for it is all the same. Your concentration today
will be to look without judgment, for this will develop your real faculties of
mind.
THEREFORE,
IN YOUR PRACTICE PERIODS, practice looking with your eyes open, looking without
judging. Look about your immediate environment. Look only upon things that are
actually there. Do not engage in imagination. Do not let your thoughts wander
to the past or to the future. Witness only what is there. As thoughts arise
that are judgments, simply dismiss them without considering them, for today you
are practicing seeing— seeing without judgment so that you may see what is
actually there.
PRACTICE
99: Two
30-minute practice periods. Hourly practice.
This day in 2014, I had to travel to Florida for a conference. Travel
often impacts practice. I intended to do the review on the plane, but after
reading the Steps through, I had to get some sleep. I’m going on, and will do
the full review as soon as I can.
Yesterday: Step 98 - Review
10/23/99 – 8:32 A.M. Funky start to the day at
7 -
…
Go ye therefore and teach all nations, baptizing
them in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit – what is Holy
Spirit – the spirit of cooperation. Where two or more are gathered in my name -
there am I also –
…
12:50 p.m. The challenge is quite simple for earth
souls: “We must become the one that we are.” T-om Su-ne
…
4:20 p.m. At Little Bear for the S2K weekly review.
[list of Steps 92, 93, 94, 96, 97, 95, 98]
Note: It wasn’t until Friday that I knew I’d
skipped #95 – so it came out of sequence in practice – though I’d been looking
ahead.
4:52 p.m. Review completed – moving forward in S2K
on faith.
A total of 32 minutes were spent in review this day in 1999. There were
a few pages of notes. The Steps had been read and the time spent in practices,
but I can see now that I was very much a beginner. I’m thankful that I did, as
the last sentence says, move “forward in S2K on faith.”
NNC
Journal second time x2 Step 98. 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
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.
