Greetings All –
Step 341 - I am happy, for I can now receive. (MP3) [Open in Drive or copy to your Drive – Download
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| I am happy, for I can now receive. Step 341 |
LEARN TO RECEIVE AND YOU WILL LEARN TO BE HAPPY.
Learn to give and your happiness will be confirmed. In the simplest of words,
this is what you are undertaking. If you do not make this complicated with your
own ideas and expectations, you will be able to see the ever present truth of
this, and you will learn exactly what it means and what it will require.
Remember that complexity is a denial of the simplicity of truth. The truth will
carry forth its activity each day, step by step, as you are carrying forth your
preparation each day, step by step. As you learn to become a student of
Knowledge, you learn to live the truth. The simplicity of this is ever present
to you, for truth is simple and evident to all who look for truth and to all
who look without the weight of condemnation or judgment.
REMEMBER YOUR PRACTICE UPON THE HOUR and in your
deeper meditations, once again reinforce your capacity and desire for
stillness. For if you experience a little more stillness each day, it will grow
and grow and will fill your life and emanate from your life like a great light,
for you are here to be a light unto the world.
PRACTICE 341: Two 30-minute practice periods. Hourly
practice.
From the Journal: Step
340 - My practice is my contribution to the world.
7:15
a.m. June 21, 2000 the summer solstice – most daylight of the year.
6:20
a.m. June 22, 2000 Thursday. Good MIF meeting yesterday – RP [Regional
Partnership] today – it is very frustrating that Bev doesn't acknowledge my
role in getting the successes they represent.
But…that
isn't the high point of the day. I was going to the woods to meditate late 8:30
p.m. I would go to the store after. Driving south on Royal Ave. The message was
"Home." I could meditate on the back porch. I finally got it, went to
the store first. About 15 minutes later when I came out – to the north – I saw
dark clouds of a storm moving in. By the time I'd gotten home – the winds were
swirling – and it was beginning to sprinkle – the woods wouldn't have been
good… Home…was the place to be. I'm glad I listened; I'm thankful I could.
Learning
to listen and to respond to what we hear is a growing skill. Not every time does
it lead to recognizable benefit. It often seemed to me to be a test of
willingness to follow direction. My life is being saved by Steps in this year. There is a lot of venting going on. It will take a very long time to fully understand the unburdening that is going on. Words are simple and direct often, but the experience side of the thought can take years or decades. In urgent patience, let us continue.
NNC
Journal second time x2 Step 340. 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.
