Greetings All –
REVIEW THE PRACTICES AND THE INSTRUCTIONS for the preceding week. Review your progress objectively. Realize how great your learning must be. Your steps now are small, but substantive. Small steps lead you all the way. You are not expected to take great leaps, yet each small step will seem like a great leap, for it will give you so much more than you have ever had before. Allow your external life to become rearranged as your inner life begins to emerge and to shine its light upon you. Maintain your focus and accept change in your outer life, for it is for your benefit. Only if Knowledge is violated will the indication of error be evident to you. This will lead you to effective action. If Knowledge is not offended by the change around you, then you need not be. In time, you will achieve the peace of Knowledge. You will share in its peace, its certainty and its true gifts.
THEREFORE, CONDUCT YOUR REVIEW in one long practice period today. Review with great emphasis and discrimination. Do not allow yourself to miss the recognition of your learning process.
PRACTICE 84: One long practice period.
Many useful thoughts offered in this Step as we go to Review.
From the Journal:
10:24 p.m. Friday, October 8 - S2K 83
I vluse Knowledge (Holy Spirit) beyond all things.
This is a significant day - because faith in God/Holy Spirit has created good - proving fear wrong/unecessary/not to be believed.
The day at the office was good. ...
Went to the movie "The Sixth Sense." It was an amazing story. The boy actor's character Cole was a psychic boy who saw ghosts. Bruce Willis - the psychologist - we learn at the end - was dead. What a twist?
All of this day has rewarded my faith, so I go on in the plan.
This was a good day, fourteen years ago. For me, based on my reading of the Wisdom books, Holy Spirit is Knowledge. That I wrote on the page in 1999:
Here are the two references I had at the time I was doing Steps in 1999:
WISDOM FROM THE GREATER COMMUNITY - Volume I
Chapter 20- Inner Listening
God has given you a perfect guidance
system within yourself, which we call Knowledge. You may also call it the Holy
Spirit, if you wish. It is an inner guidance system. In a very
pervasive way, it is exerting its influence on you continuously, and on rare
occasions it will actually move you to do something and motivate you in a very
strong way. The power of your Knowledge is tremendous, and it is safely hidden
within you in such a way that you cannot meddle with it. It is more powerful
than you are, but it is actually who you are. If you did not have a personality,
if you did not have a body and if your mind were completely unified, you would
be communication itself, which is actually what you are. But in this life you
are like a communication that is tightly wrapped and sealed inside a thick
shell.
GREATER COMMUNITY SPIRITUALITY
Chapter 26 – Who is Jesus?
Jesus set into motion a direct
relationship with the Divine through the intermediary of the Holy Spirit, which
in Greater Community understanding would be defined as Knowledge itself. This relationship emphasized the Divine
reality within each person and the possibility for personal revelation and
spiritual development. Humanity has been struggling with this ever since, yet
it is a remarkable achievement that Christianity is present in the world and
that it is accepted by millions of people in different countries, from
different cultures and backgrounds. This is a religion for international
civilization, as is true of many of the other religious movements that were
initiated in the world and that have advanced into a more modern age.
NNC
