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Step 73 - I will allow my
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I will allow my errors to
teach me. Step 73
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ALLOWING
YOUR ERRORS TO INSTRUCT YOU will give them value. They would have no value
without this and would be a mark against you in your own estimation. Using
errors for instruction, then, is taking advantage of your own limitations to
have them point the way to greatness. God wishes for you to learn from your
errors so that you may learn of the greatness of God. This is done not to
belittle you but to raise you up. There are many errors you have committed, and
there are some errors you will still make. It is in order to guard against the
repetition of damaging error and to learn from error that we wish to instruct
you now.
UPON
EACH HOUR OF THIS DAY, repeat to yourself that you wish to learn from your
errors and feel for a moment what this means. Thus, through many periods of
practice today, you will begin to understand the statement you are making and
will perhaps then perceive how it can be brought about. If you are willing to
learn from your errors, you will not be so afraid to recognize them. Then you
will wish to understand them, not to deny them, not to bear false witness
against them, not to call them by other names, but to admit them for your own
benefit. From this recognition, you will be able to assist others in the
reclamation of Knowledge, for they too must learn how to learn from their
errors.
PRACTICE
73: Hourly practice.
Picture: Haight-Ashbury is a
district of San Francisco, California, named for the intersection of Haight and
Ashbury streets. ….The neighborhood is known for its history of, and being the
origin of hippie subculture. In taking on the culture of sex, drugs and rock 'n’
roll, some people may have erred.
From
the journal:
9/27/1999
8:40 A.M. Greater Inclinations Versus compulsions.
My compulsion to watch TV & eat, SNL - Kept me up until 2 A.M. - starting my week in
the hole energy wise. I'm inclined to promote regional organizing - and using
what is already in place. It takes work to maintain the structure. S2K -
"deepest inclinations lead to meaningful relationships."
6
p.m. Dead tired. I'll do my second meditation.
my
deepest inclinations -
- to seek spirit
- to promote cooperation
- to learn that I might teach
- to see the beauty in things, situations and
people
- to understand the past, present and future
path
- to be in the woods
- to help others ...
- to work with women
- to honor the land
- to build
- to organize
- to design for better use, a better way
- to contribute to thinking
Writing out the answers to
the questions in the Steps is useful because very few of us can remember what
we were thinking a few days, weeks or even years ago.
NNC
Journal
2nd Time Step 72. 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.
