Greetings All –
FEEL THE ABIDING QUALITY OF KNOWLEDGE, which is
always available to you beyond your thoughts and self-preoccupations. Upon the
hour, feel Knowledge today. Repeat the idea for the day and take a moment to
feel its presence. The presence of Knowledge is something you can take with you
everywhere you go, into each encounter, into each circumstance. It is
appropriate everywhere. In this, you will be able to see each circumstance and event.
You will be able to hear. You will be able to give. You will be able to comprehend. This stability is something the
world greatly needs, and you who are rich with Knowledge have this to give.
FEEL KNOWLEDGE THIS DAY IN YOUR DEEPER PRACTICE
PERIODS. Give yourself to this, for this is your gift to God and to the world.
Let this day be a day of strengthening and a day of confirmation. Let not any
small failure today dissuade you from your greater task. Realize that all
setbacks can only stop you in your progress, and you need only step forward to
continue. The response to any failure, then, great or small, is simply the
decision to continue. For you need only follow the steps that are given here to
achieve the results of this preparation for you. How simple is the path to
Knowledge. How clear is its way when you follow its provision step by step.
PRACTICE 163: Two 30-minute practice periods. Hourly
practice.
May the learning continue, Step by Step.
Yesterday: Step
162 - I will not be afraid today.
From the Journal:
December
26, 1999 (continued)
1:09
p.m. Done with Chapel. My first visit in many months. Good to meet people. The
circle of song and prayer reminded me of the Christmas card from Marshall. It
is a warm image of people dancing in a circle around a fire – arms encircled
like a Greek dance – with the Unseen Ones looming as silhouettes.
I choose to
be alert.
– Amen & Amen
4:58
p.m. Home again. Trying to keep it simple. … Now Practice #2. I’d mentioned S2K
at the Chapel, but I’m not in a position to teach it – because I’ve not learned
it.
Right
now the grass is high and the living is easy. The Millennium has not turned
fearful as some projected. I too was concerned – I’m positive – but not as much
as others. Prudent – in my own wacky way.
There was a lot of fear around Y2K, more so than
2012, but prior to January 1, 2000, when a computer chip needed to know it was
a new century, changes had been made. As I reflected on this Step today in my
journal I wrote: “Since 1999 I’ve made good progress on this Step.” You will
have this same experience in time.
NNC
