Greetings All –
YOU ARE A FRIEND OF THE WORLD TODAY, and as you experience
this you will experience the world as a friend to you, for the world can only
reflect your purpose as you express and experience it. Here you will experience
a new world with Knowledge, a world that you had not considered before, a world
that you only momentarily experienced before.
BE A FRIEND OF THE WORLD TODAY, for you have come
to be a friend of the world. The world is in great need. It is demonstrating great
confusion and error, and yet you have come to be a friend of the world because
the world needs your friendship. In this, you receive a greater reward than
anything you could secure for yourself alone, for anything you secure for
yourself alone you must take from life. Yet, anything you give and receive as a
friend to the world, life gives to you, and it does not lose in the exchange. Then,
there is no guilt in your giving and in your receiving. Here your involvement
is wholesome and clean. With Knowledge this becomes evident and is demonstrated
day after day until you finally learn that it is true without exception.
UPON THE HOUR BE A FRIEND TO THE WORLD. Recognize
that all anger comes from confusion and that Knowledge is emerging now to resolve
all confusion. As a result, your life is now engaged with true resolution and
not with compounding the world’s predicament. Your life is about resolution and not predicament. Be a
friend to the world. In your two deeper practice periods in stillness, give
yourself to being a friend to the world, for this will ease the world’s
confusion. As you learn to give this with Wisdom and discernment, you will
allow the world to become a friend to you, for the world wishes to become your
friend as well.
PRACTICE 260: Two 30-minute practice periods. Hourly
practice.
On the Steps page I wrote: “How can this
lesson be so perfect? KNOWLEDGE” [and a year later]On 5/5/01 – Saturday – Again – the perfect lesson.
From the Journal:
6:35
a.m. Saturday, April 1, 2000
I am
free today of responsibility for the region’s success –
A citizen’s
guide to regions –
People
do not know that fragmentation/subdivision mars the flow. The great green world
has been taken and divided into nations, states, localities.
[It is this day, April 1, 2000, that I
developed/received: “Think local planet, act regionally.”]
Fourteen years later, I continue to promote the idea: “Think local planet, act
regionally.” It is a step beyond “Think globally, act locally,” which emerged
in the late 1960’s – early 70’s, which was important at that time. As the world
progressed, it became clear to me as a regional planner, that often the local
level was too small to solve many problems. A regional/greater community
approach was required. That is what called to me from Greater Community
Spirituality as consistent with the perspective I saw needed. Later learning of
the New Message call for a needed “Age of Humanity Unity and Cooperation,” what
had come to me seemed consistent. Slogans, even if paradigm statements, will
not get us there, but may nudge human thinking in the right direction.
[There are 14 more pages of regional thinking, but
that doesn’t need to be included.]
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11 p.m.
Practice
– S2K – "I have come to teach in the world." This is like ACIM. We
are always demonstrating/teaching.
This
was a good lesson for today. I've improved my teaching some by being more
conscious. I had Sarah sharpen the lawnmower blade with a file before we mowed.
I wish she was here more – I could teach her more.
Everything
taught – is not received as such – that was the problem at work. I couldn't get
anyone to learn what I needed to teach. I may have been a poor teacher, but unless
someone actually understood what I was trying to teach – it wouldn't make
sense.
"The
world can only teach you that you need to teach the truth."
"Think
of what you want to teach with your life and think of what you want to fortify
with your life.” Yes – 259.
Let us continue, as we are trying to understand our
teaching role/goal.
NNC
P.S. At Step 260, 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.
