Greetings All –
Step 121 - Today I am
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| “Today I am free to give.” Step 121 |
YOU ARE FREE TO GIVE TODAY because your life is becoming simple and your needs are being met. This frees you to give, for once you have received, you will only want to give.
YOU WILL HAVE A SPECIAL PRACTICE two times today
where you are to think of someone in need and then give them a quality that you
wish to receive yourself. Send that individual that quality. Send them love or
strength or faith or encouragement or determination or surrender or acceptance
or self-discipline—whatever they need to bring about resolution in their lives.
You are free to give this today, for your own needs are being met.
THEREFORE, IN EACH OF YOUR TWO PRACTICES, with your
eyes closed, bring to mind individuals and give to them what you know they
need. Do not try to solve their problems for them. Do not try to strengthen a
preferred outcome, for you cannot usually know the right outcome for any other
person. But you can always give strength of character and strengthen their
faculties of mind. This will give you your own sense of purpose and will
reassert these qualities within yourself, for you must possess them to give
them, and in giving them you realize that they are in your possession already.
AS YOU PRACTICE TODAY, have no doubt that what you
exert for others will be received by them on their own behalf.
PRACTICE 121: Two 30-minute practice periods.
From
the journal:
6:30
A.M. Sunday, November 14 – 1999
Diane’s
birthday – when my longest living friend joined me in the world.
My
body is feeling well. I’ll need to work on strength.
I
did not get the complete review I needed yesterday. I’ve not followed S2K to
the letter – but will improve that. I’m not getting the hourly points
regularly. I could set my watch chime – but that gets irritating to others.
The
stated goal is to understand how I learn. I’d say I learn from the truth. Truth
is revealed in relationships. Lies and misrepresentations are also in
relationships – and I’ve been too trusting – or unable to be aware of lies.
The
goal of simplicity is true to my heart – simple – city.
…
9:45
p.m. In the basement. Where am I? In need of favorable nutrition. Heard it
again for the 3rd or 4th time through an iridology
analysis. …
10:28
p.m. I have no compelling goals. No reason to live – except to see what happens
next – but only for the kids whose responsibility I wish I didn’t have.
11:01
p.m. I am immature, not young, and thus the student who knows virtually
nothing. …. Focus is required here - …
A stated goal in the New Message from God, the full
name for the teachings and messages brought to the world through Marshall Vian
Summers, is that the beginning student become unburdened. I’d read those words,
but did not understand them. The journal entries demonstrate the presence of
burdens, but that’s not easy to understand from one’s own perspective.
The Steps page has a few notes as well. Blue is
year two.
NNC
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.
