Step 42 - Review ~ Take
special care today to see how deeply and how carefully you are practicing. (MP3) [Open in Drive or copy to your Drive – Download folder or play from Drive
– Step PDF also.]
IN YOUR REVIEW TODAY, review all of the instructions given
in the past week and your experiences of practice. Take special care today to
see how deeply and how carefully you are practicing. Make sure that you are not
changing or adjusting the lessons to meet your tastes or expectations. Remember
that you need only follow the curriculum to receive its true rewards. Your part
is small. Our part is great. We give the means. You need only follow them, in
faith and in true expectation. In doing this, you will develop patience,
discernment, trust, consistency and self-worth. Why self-worth? Because you
must value yourself highly to allow yourself to approach the great gifts of
Knowledge. Nothing else will undo self-hatred and self-doubt more expediently
and more completely than receiving the gifts that are meant for you.
THEREFORE, IN YOUR ONE LONG PRACTICE PERIOD TODAY, review
the past week of practice. Without judgment look and see what has been offered,
what you have done and what can possibly be done to deepen your practice so
that you may receive its benefits more directly. If you are having difficulty,
recognize the problems and attempt to correct them. Give the week ahead greater
involvement. In doing so, you will correct self-doubt and confusion merely by
directing your will.
PRACTICE 42: One long practice period.
From
the journal:
8:22 A.M. Thursday - Aug 26 -
Meditation - Baseline - God - All stuff layered over it.
Levels of noise, distraction, flotsam and jetsam → stay
connected to the peace as Legoland plays.
Almost poetic, but in my Steps the book is a diagram that
may be useful.
NNC
Journal 2nd Time Step 41. 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 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.
