Greetings All –
Step 35 - Review (MP3) (MP3
Steps 29-35) [Open in Drive or copy to your Drive – Download folder or play from Drive
– Step PDF also.]
THIS REVIEW WILL GIVE YOU AN OPPORTUNITY to learn something
of The Greater Community Way of Knowledge. In two 30-minute practice periods,
review your prior week’s instructions and experiences in practice. Do this with
as little judgment as possible. Merely look and see what was instructed, what
you did and what the result was.This objective review will give you the
greatest access to insight and understanding with a minimum of pain and
self-abuse.You are learning now to become objective about your life without
repressing the content of your emotions. Instead of attempting to destroy one
aspect of yourself, you are simply attempting to cultivate another.
THEREFORE, IN YOUR REVIEW, use this as a guidepost: “I will
look, but I will not judge.” In this way, you will be able to recognize things.
Remember how much easier it may be for you to have insight about another’s life
and how little you may have about your own. Greater objectivity is possible
with others because you are not attempting to use their life for any specific
purpose and the extent to which you are, the less able you will be to
understand them, their nature, their development or their destiny.Therefore,
the less you attempt to use your life, the more you will be able to understand
it, appreciate it and work with its intrinsic mechanism for your greater advancement.
PRACTICE 35: Two 30-minute
practice periods.
Step 34 said: "greatness
that waits to be discovered within you, a greatness that will give you true
equality in life." This, I noted in my copy, is a
"goal" and a "promise." It is something to work toward as
well as a reward.
From the Journal:
6:53 p.m. August 19 - Being here is an obvious
element of my mission. That, in itself has often been difficult. I'm missing 10
to 20% of my mission -
That would mean
10-20% of my time is mis-allocated?
Being a beginner in anything
is not easy. We want to get beyond that stage quickly. How hard can it be to
learn this anyway? We will find out.
NNC
Journal
2nd Time Step 34. 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.
