Greetings All –
YOU HAVE A CALLING IN THIS WORLD. It is not what you
think it is. It will emerge from your Knowledge once Knowledge is allowed to
emerge within your mind. You have a calling in this world because you have come
here to do some very specific things. Your purpose in this world is to reclaim
your Knowledge and to allow your Knowledge to express itself. That is a very
simple statement of your purpose, but it is a statement that contains a great
deal of depth and a great deal that must be fulfilled in time.
YOU HAVE A CALLING IN THIS WORLD because you were
sent here to do something. It is for this reason that your mind is the way it
is and that you have a specific nature that is distinct from others. As your calling
emerges, you will realize why you think and act the way you do, and all of this
will be brought into true balance and harmony. This will erase all cause you
have for self-condemnation, for your nature represents a usefulness that you
have not yet realized. In other words, you are made specifically for something
that you have not yet comprehended. Prior to this you will resist your nature,
thinking it is a limitation upon you. In time, you will realize that it is an
invaluable resource for accomplishment, for you have a calling in the world.
UPON THE HOUR REMIND YOURSELF OF THIS and remind
yourself that you do not yet know what your calling is. Without presumptions, you
will be in a position to discover the truth. In your deeper practice periods
today enter stillness and silence once again, utilizing the word RAHN if you
find that helpful. This is a day of preparation for you to realize your true
calling in the world. It is a day given to Knowledge and a day that is taken
away from false assumptions and self-deception. A day given to Knowledge brings
you closer to realizing your calling, which will arise naturally without your
presumptions once you and those with whom you must be engaged are prepared.
PRACTICE 231: Two 30-minute practice periods. Hourly
practice.
This was busy Step for March 2, 2000. I chose to
write out the response, which provided interesting reading in 2014. In the page
margin I wrote:
Later I concluded and wrote in the margin: “No other method gives a way of dealing with confusion other than Faith.” Permission to be confused and
thoughtful at the same time; a different spiritual approach.
I cannot say that I am confusion-free after all the
years of being a student, but I do have tools to handle it when it appears.
From the Journal:
6:32
a.m. Thursday, March 2, 2000 –
Confusion?
What confusion? Sexual, food, work, religion, politics, culture, growth,
change, death, love, design, usefulness, behavior, attack, right or right/wrong
or wrong/right or wrong, relationships, incarnate/discarnate life, friend/foe,
scale/local/regional/community, value, communication, order/freedom, feedback,
today/tomorrow.
That
there is confusion – or they what we experience in the manifest is confusing is
a dawning consciousness.
No
wonder so many are frantic. No wonder there are so many schemes, scenarios,
philosophies, sciences, fictions, seeking to explain within the human mind that
which it can't really contain.
We
can experience the world "as if alone" – truly feel that – the more
alone we feel – due to local conditions, abuse, attack, mental illness, the
more self-destructive/violent an individual human may become.
We
are born into and band into family/gangs/tribes/cultures/communities,
state/nations – a few to (also) see the planet.
What
is the greatest whole you can behold? All politics is local
Boundaries
subdivide whole geographies – The greatest contiguous whole is earth, our local
planet. (The whole truth 3/11/2000)
6:55
a.m. I've been writing and using my mind to deal with this step – 230 "My
suffering is born of confusion." I read it this a.m. so I could get
started on it early.
As I
wrote this paragraph and had the insight I experienced a great sense of
gratitude for these books, these steps – which spirit has delivered for my
growth; for the continuum of learning I have followed – ACIM, Urantia, CWG, RUOW,
the writings of Ken Carey, – J Krishnamurti – TV evangelists, early Christians
– for within the surface confusion – the synchronicity of my path – the
nurturing of many, many souls – who I am beginning to discover, are my
spiritual family – and fellow practitioners for Knowledge.
So –
my soul becomes a greater force for calmness in my mental and physical life by
leading me to S2K and to this lesson – where – my life experience can understand.
– Futurist
– just like everyone else trying to see over the next hill. – looking for
trends – listening to others. In order to see, you must listen. Find the clear
ones. Expert? – immediately. Planners should be, experts in "Process."
You end up needing data about transactions of others.
11:45
p.m. Practice #2 were "My suffering is born of confusion." Some of it
is mine, some of it is from others, some is a joint or even multi-party
confusion. The day went well; ---
Seeing,
feeling, knowing it is "confusion" is a liberating gift. There’s more
to come. This may fade as an insight for there are likely others to come.
The Steps page follows. Even though I wrote out the
response, I did not follow the Step exercise to the letter.
Let us continue. Only 135 Steps
left in the year.
NNC
P.S. At Step 231, we are into Part Two of Steps, so
if you’ve found this and find some appeal in this or other Steps, you should
really go to the beginning blog post. From here you learn about Steps to Knowledge and
can begin it on the day that makes sense and 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 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.
