Greetings All –
Step 98 - Review (MP3)
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IN YOUR REVIEW ONCE AGAIN REVIEW all of the
instructions of the lessons and everything that you have experienced thus far
in the past week of practice. Honestly evaluate your engagement with these
lessons and recognize what they have yielded for you in terms of understanding.
Try to be very fair in your assessment. Remember that you are a student. Do not
claim that you have realized more than you have actually experienced.
THE SIMPLICITY OF THIS APPROACH may seem obvious,
but for many people it is very difficult to achieve, for they are so used to thinking
that they have more than they have or less than they have that it is very
difficult for them to assess their actual circumstances even though their
circumstances are quite obvious.
IN YOUR ONE LONG PRACTICE PERIOD, then, review your
lessons and consider each one in depth, recalling your activity with them on the
day that they were given and your understanding of them at this moment. Review
each of the six previous steps very carefully and beware of making conclusions
that do not represent your true experience. It is better to be uncertain than
to have false conclusions.
PRACTICE 98: One long practice period.
This has been a busy week. Keep going as best you can.
From the Journal:
7:32
A.M. Thursday, October 21 – woke up in an aggressive/confrontational dream – a
meeting/hearing o planning/water issues …
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Fulfilment – I am fulfilled when my life has purpose. When I am present to
assist others and make the beautiful planet, if only for a few moments. What is
tiring, unfulfilling – is to be attacked for being honest.
I
withhold honesty and become depressed because a more true perspective is not
accepted. Being honest – I often have not lived the truth.
I am
most fulfilled – on the path, in the woods, - in quiet & meditation – at
Little Bear and Su-Ne – the wall and with the tri-maple. The forest is nature
being nature within environmental and man-made constraints.
9
A.M. Floating am I. It is hard to imagine that all six billion souls on earth
would do S2K. ACIM says it is a mandatory course – I don’t think I got all of
it/most of it/though I’ve experienced the Holy Instant. That was fulfilling –
but the body, it seems, cannot stay there – or it is the earth relationships
which draw us back to the manifest. →
drew me
Knowing the HI I gave the world another
chance. We are here and I don’t know why? Life is moving, but I don’t know –
can’t know (?) the destination.
Perhaps when I’m dead these words might
find the eyes, hearts and minds of others who seek the impossibility fo the
part knowing the whole.
I walk this day blessed for I
volunteered to be here – “Here am I, send me.” Knowing love was the mission,
but not knowing the territory.
Amen
& Amen
T-om
Su-ne
11:24 p.m. A surprising good reading
… I am in the flow – S2K is working. I
am being fulfilled – the message needs to go further. In the next year – I will
collect my thoughts; prepare to take my insights to a bigger audience.
A good day is recorded. I have gotten readings over
the years in order to assist is my self-assessment. I learned early on to
protect myself by saying: “I surround myself with the love and the grace of
God.” That may or may not be helpful in your life. It is a decision you’ll have
to make. The experiences of others can be helpful. A bit of skepticism is
always useful.
NNC
Journal
second time x2 Step 97.
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.
