Greetings All –
Step - 147 Review (MP3) [Open in Drive or copy to
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IN YOUR REVIEW THIS WEEK allow yourself to realize
the lessons that are being presented to you. Take special care to recognize the
empowerment that is being offered to you as you exert your will for good. Note
as well the requirement that you accept yourself beyond your current
understanding, that you honor yourself beyond your current evaluation of
yourself and that you experience life beyond your own thoughts and prejudices.
Recognize the opportunity that is being given to you, and realize that each
moment that you spend in sincere application furthers your progress
tremendously and establishes a permanent advancement for you. If you think of
what you would want to give to the world, give your advancement. From this all good
things which you have come to give, according to your nature and your design,
will be given completely. Thus, your gift to the world now is your preparation
so that you may learn to give.
IN YOUR LONG PRACTICE PERIOD, review the past
week—your lessons, your practices, your experiences, your accomplishments and your
difficulties. View this objectively and determine how you may give yourself to your practices more completely in the future.
PRACTICE 147: One long practice period.
Another week, another review; this seems like
school and work. It is both.
Yesterday: Step - 146 I will honor
my teachers today.
From
the journal:
6:20
A.M. – December 10, 1999
S2K
“I will honor my teachers today.” In this practice I’m to think about my
teachers. I’ve been in conscious contact for many for many years – and
unconscious contact – recognizing my intuition much longer.
I’ve
always enjoyed thinking and internal dialogues have allowed me other voices. I
also can have an internal sound track. The music playing is KWS –
percussion/blues guitar, bass.
These
journals are full of messages, many are well written as the mind Spirit flow.
My
work is my children – David, Sarah, the office. Greater Spirit must create the
conditions whereby different biological/racial entities can meet without attack
– Friend or Foe? The Sentinel’s question.
6:50
A.M. End of Practice #1 – “Today I will honor my Teachers.”
…
8:50 p.m. Practice #2 – Will not go into stillness,
but consciously honor my teachers – the names of those I know(and can remember)
are: El-tor, Joseph of Harmony, Old Chief, Mar-cum, Thomas of Dykstra; Valley
Tribal Council – Other teachers to honor – Christen, Sue, David, Sarah ,
Regina-Grandma; Jo/Jo – Patience/Truth-/the wall/Deep Patience/Clari-tree/and
the Devas – Cliffs of Joseph. Kenneth Copeland, Robert Schueller, Robert
Bauman, AD Goodson, Jesus of Nazareth –
Seek-Ask-Knock
– I have asked, I have knocked, I seek and have found.
The
old mold – divide and conquer. The new paradigm – unite and empower. Where
might evolution→
this humanity go?
I could think I might be further along,
had I understood things earlier. Supposed I’d bought the Urantia Book in 1974
at the Samuels Library. My life might have gone a different way. The fact that
I’d seen it motivated me.
Suppose I’d started S2K the first time
I went to Colorado and met Marshall.
I am where I am by the law of my own
being – James Allen that whole teaching – the U.S. Navy.
If I changed anything – the result
might not put me here today. Even my stock market fears which have cost me so
much to date. – I can’t judge it.
It is far more important to my soul
that I can answer better the question: “What’s a region!”
A region is not whole – it is made up
of pieces and is itself a piece. The challenge is to make it a “whole” – a
local region.
Detailed entry this day, which may be entertaining
for readers, or troubling. You may have had more or fewer Teachers in your
thinking, but are likely to have had some. Many of those I listed at that time
are people that I would list today.
NNC
Journal second time x2
Step 146. 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.
