Greetings All –
SELF-CONCERN IS A FORM OF HABITUAL THINKING, born of
negative imagination and of errors that have not been corrected. This compounds
your sense of failure, thus influencing your lack of self-trust and
self-appreciation. Our lesson for today, then, is to fortify that which is
genuine within you. If you are with Knowledge, Knowledge will care for all
things that require your attention. Think not that anything will be left
unattended to that is for your own behalf. All needs of a greater spiritual
nature and of the most mundane nature as well will be met and understood by
you, for there is no neglect in Knowledge. You who are accustomed to neglect,
who have not used your mind properly in the past, who have not been able to see
or hear the world, can now be comforted, for you need not have concern for
yourself today.
FOR THIS YOU MUST EXTEND YOUR FAITH and your trust
that Knowledge will provide for you. This in time will allow you to receive the
gift of Knowledge which will dispel all doubt and confusion. You must prepare
for this experience. In this, you must extend your faith and trust. Be
confident this day. Recognize those things that require your attention, even if
they be of a mundane nature, and attend to them well, for Knowledge is not
seeking to take you out of the world but to bring you into the world, for you
have come here to give.
FORTIFY YOUR UNDERSTANDING OF TODAY’S IDEA by
repeating it upon the hour and giving it a moment of true consideration.
Fortify your practice today by utilizing it in your deeper practices where you enter
stillness and silence. You can only enter stillness and silence if you are without concern for yourself. Thus, your
commitment to give yourself to your practice is an affirmation of the safety
and the certainty that abide with you.
PRACTICE 156: Two 30-minute practice periods. Hourly
practice.
From the Journal:
9:30
A.M. Sunday, December 19. Much to do today. It is hard to tell if I’m making
progress on S2K. I’d like my life to be more stable so that I can advance
Regions Work. We don’t have the data to do that. …
Community
precedes cooperation.
…
→S2K today “The
world blesses me as I receive – I now receive greatly from the rich creation
and have received such from birth. As I began to understand my wealth years
ago, the richness of this particular environment, I felt the grace of God. I
wasn’t w/o problems – and I’ve had richness there too in the past two years at
work – forever with David & Sarah – I still see/feel/sense with the S2K
expansion of ACIM – that I am blessed. I want to share this with others.
Amen & Amen
T-om Su-ne
This was a strong step. In the Steps book I diagram
relationships, seeking to visualize the relationships presented. You may have
already done this, or can do so in the future. There are many relationships to
consider in our learning. The notion of "Being without question" comes from ACIM.
NNC
