Greetings All –
Step 340 - My practice is my contribution to the
world. (MP3) [Open in Drive or copy to your Drive – Download
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| My practice is my contribution to the world. -Step 340 |
YOU ARE A BEGINNING STUDENT OF KNOWLEDGE. As a beginning
student, you engage yourself completely with your practice. Do not imagine for
yourself a great role as a saviour or redeemer in the world, for this will only
discourage you because you are not yet prepared to carry forth things of
greatness. Your duty is to follow the steps as they are given. This is the
requirement. In time, greatness will grow within your experience, and you will
experience greatness within the world. Yet, as we have so often indicated in
our preparation thus far, the greatness you will experience will express itself
in simple and mundane things. Therefore, do not imagine grandiose ideas of
yourself as a saviour. Do not see yourself being crucified in the world, for
these images are born of ignorance and you do not comprehend their true
meaning.
FOLLOW EACH STEP, for each will require your
complete attention and engagement. Without your attempting to add what is
unnecessary to your preparation, you may then become fully engaged with your preparation.
This will fully engage you and will elevate all of your physical and mental
abilities and give them uniform purpose and direction. Your practice is your
gift to the world. From your practice all gifts that you will give in the
future will be able to be given with confidence, with love and with certainty.
UPON THE HOUR REMIND YOURSELF that your practice is
your gift to the world. If you really wish to serve the world and if you really
wish to exemplify within the world that which you hold most dear and that which
you honor within yourself, then give yourself to your practice and do not
neglect it this day. In your deeper meditations give yourself to practice, for
practice is an act of giving. And you who are learning now to receive are also
giving yourself to learn to receive. Thus, you are learning to give as well. If
you cannot give yourself to practice, you will not be able to give to the
world, for giving to the world is a form of practice as well. Remember that all
you can do is practice. No matter what you do, you are practicing something,
you are asserting something, you are confirming something and you are studying
something. Given this understanding, give yourself to your true preparation,
for this is your gift to yourself and to the world.
PRACTICE 340: Two 30-minute practice periods. Hourly
practice.
Picture: These are the Holy Days. Christmas is one
of the Holy Days in the season of Holy Days and this tree at the Galleria
serving the Greater Dallas region – the Metroplex or North Texas, is a symbol
of multi-jurisdictional cooperation as a means of contribution to the world.
Yesterday: Step 339 -
The presence of love is with me now.
From the Journal:
6:18
a.m. June 20, 2000 – No matter how big the universe gets – it is still whole.
All life is done in wholes > that which is un-wholy is between recognition
of its wholeness.
"The
presence of love is with me now."
→ The first
scream when domination/abuse was perpetuated adult/child –
→ Fear enforced
morality
Tiger
Woods & Shaq – (Blacks) – using wholes
golf
ball – basketball demonstrates mind control for sport –
5:50
p.m. At the I-95 Wayside south of Fredericksburg – left for Richmond @ 7 for
the AOSE meeting. I'm contributing there – this is good.
I've
stopped for my first Practice. The lesson today is profound. I've taped
comments and will transcribe them later. [Did I ever transcribe them?]
The
power of S2K was not anticipated by me at the start. I felt ACIM was powerful –
and profoundly experienced the Holy Instant – but there was more – far more –
and this is that path my soul sought. Still a beginning student – I only seek
to Know and contribute to life manifest.
10:20
p.m. Where am I? At home. Back proch – tired – too little sleep for 3 days –
but what can I do? Humble – hungry – one who enjoys food – it is a joy – all
try not to judge it.
If
only others could see the beauty I see in the world. How each artifact reflects
all the manifestation that brought it to be – Round hay bales in the farm
fields outside Warrenton; a Kenworth Rig pulling a shiny trailer
–
two rigs in convoy; the eagle flying over I-95 – the deer in the pasture; also
amazing to be here from the stillness and going where? About their lives – in
the world.
What
is my work? Boundaries and cooperation. Testing, testing, testing – my thoughts
on the world to see how they are accepted.
NNC
Journal second time x2
Step 339. 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.
