Greetings All –
YOU ARE HONORED BY GOD, and yet this statement can inflame your sense of uncertainty, arouse your
sense of guilt, confuse your sense of pride and stimulate all manner of
conflict that actually exists within you now. In the past you have attempted to
be something unreal, and it has failed you. Now you are afraid to be anything
for fear that failure will pursue you once again. Thus, greatness appears to be
littleness and littleness appears to be greatness, and all things are seen
backwards or reversed from their true meaning.
YOU ARE HONORED BY GOD whether you can accept this
or not. It is true regardless of human evaluation, for only things that are beyond
evaluation are true. We are taking you to that which is beyond evaluation,
which will be the greatest discovery possible in this life or in any life.
UPON THE HOUR REPEAT THIS STATEMENT and consider it
seriously. In your two practice periods, allow your mind once again to be still
and receptive so that you may learn to receive the honor that God has for you.
Surely, this honor must be directed towards a part of you that you are barely
aware of. It is not your behavior that is honored. It is not your idealism that is honored.
It is not your beliefs, your assumptions, your demands or your fears. These may
be for good or for ill. These may serve you or betray you. But honor is
reserved for something greater, which you are now learning to recognize.
PRACTICE 103: Two 30-minute practice periods.
Hourly practice.
Yesterday: Step
102 - There is much I must unlearn.
From the Journal:
8:42
A.M. Wednesday, October 27, 1999 – “There is much I must unlearn.” – S2K – That
was part of ACIM. I remain open to my strange life, or is it my life within the
strange.
…
Not much in the journal. Lots of green ink.
This records the notion: "one local world." This may have been the first time I recorded this thought. Eventually it became, "Think local planet," the planet being a single region and a whole.
NNC
