Greetings All –
I
am not apart from life. Step 11 (MP3) [Open in Drive or copy to your Drive –
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| I am not apart from life. Step 11 |
REGARDLESS
OF THE GREAT ESTABLISHMENTS built upon your individuality and all that is
associated with you personally— your body, your ideas, your difficulties, your
specific forms of expression, your idiosyncrasies, your talents—you are not
apart from life. This is so obvious if you look at yourself with simplicity and
realize that the very makeup of your body, the very fabric of your physical
life, is completely made of what life is in the physical. It is quite apparent
that you are made of the same “stuff ” as everything else around you. What is
mysterious is your mind. It seems to be a distinct point of understanding, but
it is as much a part of life as your physical fabric. You are an individual unaware
of your Source and your total inclusion in life. Your individuality is a burden
now, but it will be a great happiness to you when it can express life itself.
PRACTICE
11: Read the lesson three times today.
Picture: A
flight from DFW to IAD on June 23, 2015. A near complete technological
environment.
Time
commitment - Again, read fast or slowly, thoughtfully. A minute or two.
Yesterday: Step
10 – What is Knowledge?
From
the journal:
1:25 p.m. Tuesday, July 6 - 1999 - at work -
buried in details. That is what keeps the place going. It is an energy
challenge. The K stuff brings up many of the old ACIM issues. Why even be here?
The heat wave makes things no easier. I'm so alone in all of this, in my vision
- that it is hard to imagine I'm getting any support. I'm trying to simplify
the office. It will simplify out of existence. Words mean nothing?
It
is time to regroup - organize for the next century. [Remember - Y2K is near]
Reading Step 10 may or may
not generate thoughts for your journal. As noted before, the book page can
function as a journal like this:
Note today's entries, as well as those from before. I
assume the second set is from the second year of doing Steps.
NNC
Journal
2nd Time Step 10.
This is for those who have completed
Steps once. Doing Steps with only the texts, messages and your life experience,
including what you may have studied and practiced is your journey. I’m showing
my first year Step comments after the Step, so as not to influence you in
advance. It is a wilderness trek to be left to your own wits, but then you can
also listen more closely for guides, angels and teachers, always first saying:
“I surround and protect myself with the Love and the Grace of God.” Thankfully,
I was taught this practice in 1989.
P.S. If you’ve some interest due to this or other
Steps, you should go to the beginning blog post. From here you will learn about Steps to Knowledge
and can begin it on the day that makes sense; 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 post 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.
