Greetings All –
Step 70 - Review (MP3)
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TODAY
CULMINATES TEN WEEKS OF PRACTICE. Congratulations! You have come this far. To
be a true student means that you are following the steps as they are given. To
do this you must learn to honor yourself, to honor the source of your
instruction, to recognize your limitations and to value your greatness. Thus it
is that this is a day of honor and a day of acknowledgment for you.
REVIEW
THE LAST THREE WEEKS OF PRACTICE. Reread the instructions and recall each
practice period. Recall what you gave and what you did not give. Honor your
participation and attempt to strengthen it today. Deepen your resolve to have
Knowledge and deepen your experience of being a true follower so that in the
future you may learn to be a true leader. Deepen your experience of being a
true recipient so that you may be a true contributor.
LET
THIS DAY OF REVIEW, then, be a day of honor for you and a day that strengthens
your commitment. Honestly evaluate your participation. Assess your apparent
successes and failures. Your successes will encourage you, and your failures
will teach you what you need to do to deepen your experience. This is a day of
honor for you who are honored.
PRACTICE
70: Several long practice periods.
As the Steps says, "This is a day of honor for you who are
honored." There has been much work to get this far;
rewarding work. There is more. Review thoughtfully.
Yesterday: Step
69 - Today I will practice stillness.
From
the journal:
6:42
A.M. Friday, Sept 24, 1999 - Back to meditation. S2K has not had a daily
meditation for 11 days. I could have done one - didn't.
Stillness meditation is
important, yet often difficult. The of the two sessions I did today, one was
noisy - a lot of mental exploration, while in the other more of the time was
still. While I set a timer for 30 minutes, sometimes I do not want to come out
of it - so I just continue after I've shut off the alarm. There are other times
when reading or studying, that there is a spontaneous stillness. So, just keep
doing your best to practice as directed.
NNC
Journal
2nd Time Step 69. 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.
