Greetings All –
Step 312 - There are
greater problems for me to solve in the world. (MP3) [Open in Drive or copy to
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| Step 312 - There are greater problems for me to solve in the world. |
MANY OF YOUR PERSONAL PROBLEMS WILL BE RESOLVED as
you give yourself to a greater calling. Some of your personal problems you will
need to attend to specifically, but even here you will find that their weight
upon you will diminish as you enter into a greater arena of participation in
life. Knowledge gives you greater things to do, but it does not overlook any
detail of what you must accomplish. Therefore, small details and great details,
small adjustments and great adjustments are all included. Nothing is left out.
You yourself could not possibly balance your preparation in this respect, for
you would not know how to establish your priorities between what is great and
what is small. Your attempt to do so would merely push you deeper into
confusion and frustration.
BE GRATEFUL,THEN, THAT YOU HAVE BEEN SPARED from
attempting the impossible for yourself, for what is real is given to you. What
you must do is become a student and a vehicle for Knowledge. This will activate
all meaningful individual development and all meaningful individual education.
It will require more of you than you have required of yourself, and all that it
requires will be fulfilled and will yield its true promise for you.
UPON THE HOUR REMIND YOURSELF OF THIS and take
heart that a greater involvement is promised which will provide you escape from
your individual misery. In your deeper practice periods today, actively engage
your mind to review all of your small personal problems. Review all of the
things you think hold you back and all of the things you think you must resolve
for yourself. As you look at each one objectively, without denial, remember and
remind yourself that a greater calling is given you which will correct these
things or make their correction unnecessary. Remind yourself that Knowledge
will provide correction at all levels as your life becomes uniform and
directed, as your Knowledge begins to emerge and as your true sense of self
begins to be recognized and received.
PRACTICE 312: Two 30-minute practice periods.
Hourly practice.
Picture:
Looking down on the City of Chicago, pick your problem. The New Message says we
are in a race
to save human civilization.
From the Journal:
7:05
a.m. May 23, 2000 – How do I use Knowledge in the world – how do I discern?
8:10
a.m. After reading an hour of Fast Company ideas on how to get things done –
when the team didn't gel – progress stopped. I did not respect Marie – I did
not get the support I needed – I made bad hires – (overly optimistic) – and got
an enemy boss – Nora Belle C… and disappointed a customer – Andy D….
So
here I am. In my personal life I got into a difficult relationship and my
children experienced problems in their lives.
I
had a lot to learn, many mistakes to make. I moved through ACIM and
am now on S2K – still seeking to understand my gifts and learn how to offer
them to the world. (Having reviewed obits 1980 – 1987 – lots of learning there
– even though the meaning – Child Care – was strong – life was difficult.)
The
world's environment has changed significantly – and, per S2K, the forces
involved are even greater than one imagines.
Star
Wars – Star Struggles – for it is intelligence and its use that is the issue.
Minds, lacking a spiritual link, implement their imaginations based on fear and
competition to benefit special communities.
These
special relationships keep the creation "separated."
Where
do I fit? That's what I'm seeking to learn.
I'm
not alone in Knowledge – the earth, its people, are permeated with it – as is
the universe. (But it is latent.)
The
Earth Spell of Separation keeps limits the emergence of Knowledge. Other
intelligent civilizations must have similar issues – other life forms are
treated as lab rats – even as here below – the powerful use the lesser
ones/dominated ones, for experiment/work.
Choose
life is the path but the points of choice don't seem clearly marked nor are the
consequences of the outcome offered – to improve choice.
Pain
becomes the teacher, which is often "empty” success."
Life
has been interesting. I'm not homeless on the street, but neither have I
connected knowingly with my do-ers – my Spirit team of destiny.
I
wait, look, learn, distill and ask –
I am
open to guidance and truly seek conscious connection to the creator’s peace
dynamic.
12:15
a.m. I'm befuddled – confused – alone. Where is my place? Great ideas – no
people. A vision w/o people is nothing. The staff got out of control – I was
doing too much – and things fell through the cracks.
I
BURNED OUT – I DID NOT HAVE A PLACE TO GO.
REALITY,
SAM Chased them away? my error…my bad. –
How
do I recover? What is the lesson? My guilt makes me do too much, try too much?
I
was in the wrong job – and self-destructed →
What
does this have to do with Knowledge and me now, my gift to the world? Is it not
through my work?
What
is my work, my gift? That's what I'd like to know.
"Yet,
also remember to respect the power of its (the world) confusion and its
inducements."
→ All this good
information – and it is not used – it is confusing that we know so much, yet no
nothing.
5:50
p.m. In the middle of the afternoon's rideshare meeting I wrote to myself
"Get out!" @ 2:50 p.m. As the sessions went on – and people struggled
with the beginning questions of "How do we do this…" I had the goal
of "Work in a place where they know how to do the work."
…
Most
people I know are in Virginia – that's my primary network –.
My
goal remains the integration of plans. The third sector must demand it.
All
this is healthy pain.
This
is a diversion of fear – I have my book outline – I seek to make that real –
and use the mundane to create the sublime.
9:05
p.m. – …
The
feeling now is that my life could go in a whole different direction.
I
don't know what my imagination might generate.
9:50
p.m. Dismayed, I began reading eCompany now, a new magazine I got at home – the
premier issue. I'm reading through exploring the Internet world to which I'm
drawn and for which I’ve had no people. One article is about a Harvard
professor who proposed the concept of marketspace in 1994. He was denied tenure
in 1997, he kept on exploring his topic as a consultant with Dianun Technology
partners.
→ "I've been
denied because the Commission cannot understand what I've done." I will
keep on exploring my topic –
→ My vision is
not taken seriously.
10:12
p.m. I am in the integration business. Local governments are fragments –
intending to stay local. –
Self-evaluation
is helpful and can be brutal. Others should not have to see it, but here I
offer a look – so others can have this odd benchmark. Let us continue.
NNC
Journal second time x2
Step 311. 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.
