Greetings All –
Step 69 - Today I will
practice stillness. (MP3)
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| Today I will
practice stillness. Step 69 |
IN
YOUR TWO 30-MINUTE PRACTICE PERIODS TODAY, practice stillness. Allow your
meditation to be deep. Give yourself to it. Do not enter meditation with
demands and requests. Enter meditation to give yourself to it. It is the temple
of the True Spirit within you to which you bring yourself. In your practice
periods, then, be present and be still. Allow yourself to bathe in the luxury
of emptiness. For the presence of God is first experienced as emptiness because
it lacks movement, and then within this emptiness, you begin to feel the
presence that permeates all things and gives all meaning in life.
PRACTICE
STILLNESS TODAY so that you may know.
PRACTICE
69: Two 30-minute practice periods.
Picture:
Greek Orthodox Church Bell Tower, Winchester, Virginia. The bells are
still.
From
the journal:
8:30 A.M. Thursday, Sept 23,
1999 - "I will not lose faith in myself today." S2K's affirmation is
one I've often needed. I'm still here. Personal faith varies more than the
weather.
This
is a challenging time for me - I remain overwhelmed - just letting the too much
flow by.
The journal is a self-talk therapy. Life can be very bumpy. Resilience
is required.
NNC
Journal
2nd Time Step 68. 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.
