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Step 61 - Love gives of
itself through me. (MP3)
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| Love gives of itself through me. Step 61 |
LOVE GIVES OF ITSELF THROUGH YOU when you are ready
to be its vehicle of expression. You do not need to try to be loving to appease
a sense of self-inadequacy or guilt. You do not need to try to be loving to win
the approval of others. Do not fortify your sense of helplessness or sense of
unworthiness by attempting to place a happy or benevolent sentiment upon them.
Love within you will express itself, for it is born of Knowledge within you, of
which it is a part.
EACH HOUR TODAY AS YOU LOOK UPON THE WORLD,
recognize that love within you will speak for itself. If you are without
judgment, if you are capable of being with the world as it truly is and if you
are capable of being present with others as they truly are, love within you
will speak for itself. Do not try to make love speak for you. Do not try to
make love express your wishes or your needs, for love itself will speak through
you. If you are present to love, then you will be present to the world, and
love will speak through you.
PRACTICE 61: Hourly practice.
A
simple, but perhaps not easy, practice.
Picture: Temple
of Heaven Park, Beijing, China.
Yesterday: Step
60 - I will not judge the world today.
From
the journal:
8:22 A.M. Wednesday, Sept 14, 1999 -
Today I will not judge the world. The explanation for this S2K affirmation puts the world as a hurt child which need attention rather than judgment.
...
Some
events that day that tested the step. The hourly seems easy, but it is not.
This is, however, no reason to hot keep at the Steps.
NNC
Journal
2nd Time Step 60.
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 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.
