Greetings All –
I am worthy of God's
love. Step 24 (MP3) [Open in Drive or copy to your
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| I am worthy of God's love. Step 24 |
YOU ARE INDEED WORTHY OF GOD’S LOVE. In fact, you
really are God’s love. Without pretense of any kind, at the very core of yourself,
this is your True Self. It is not the Self you yet experience, and until you do
experience it, do not pretend that this is your experience. But hold in true
awareness that this is your Self. You are a person, but you are greater than a
person. How can you be unworthy of God’s love if that is what you are? Your
Teachers surround you and provide that which you are so that you may experience
yourself and your true relationship with life.
IN YOUR TWO PRACTICE PERIODS TODAY, practice
receiving once again the love, support and direction of your Teachers, and if
any thought obstructs this, if any feeling prevents this, remind yourself of
your great worthiness. You are worthy not for what you have done in the world.
You are worthy for who you are, where you have come from and where you are
going. Your life may be filled with errors and mistakes, wrong decisions and
poor choices, but you have still come from your Ancient Home to which you will
return. Your worthiness in the sight of God is unchanged. There is only great
effort to repair your errors so that you may experience your True Self so that
it may be rendered into the world.
THEREFORE, IN YOUR PRACTICE PERIODS, practice
receptivity and experiencing true worthiness. Let no thought conflict with the
greatest truth of life.
PRACTICE 24: Two 15-minute practice periods.
Picture: One lion of the Lion Pair by Olivier Strebelle, 1992, at Pauscollege, Leuven, Belgium – April
5, 2009
Plan B - If the MP3 doesn’t work, here’s the link to
the folder: New Message - Student Spoken Steps Recordings -
Steps to Knowledge - Working file
If this is your first time seeing one of the “Steps to Knowledge”,
then welcome. There are 365 Steps, daily spiritual practices if one seeks to
complete them in a year, but that is not necessary. They can be used by people
of any religious tradition or no religious tradition. They will help one to
become mindful in the world.
The Step today is from the book: Steps to Knowledge: The Book of Inner Knowing. The practices were
brought to the world through Marshall Vian Summers, The Messenger for The New
Message From God. Important background for the Steps is in: “Greater Community Spirituality” and the “Wisdom Books - I and II”.
Hard copies are available from the New Knowledge Library Store. The
Society for the New Message from God also has a Free Book Project. If you need
the books now, PDF files can be found here: http://goo.gl/RJuuGP
Keeping a journal is recommended. If you have a Steps book,
write your reactions and comments, highlight or underline points that strike
you, and date the note. In this way, your Steps book can be a partial journal.
Using the PDF, you can print out pages as you need them, or use
the software to maintain a digital copy where you can enter notes and highlight
text that stands out.
Other modern methods of keeping a journal include having a
document on your PC or phone to keep notes. You could send yourself an email or
use the voice recorder function. It is important to capture insights and
reactions because it is by this means that you can understand change. Sometimes
it may just be a word or short phrase, an image or a scene.
To end this post I again offer the blessing: "May the
presence of the Teachers be with you." In the invocative language of
Knowledge this blessing is: "Nasi Novare Coram" (pronounced NAH-see
no-VAHR-ay co-RAHM)
The short form of Nasi Novare Coram used by students is NNC.
The short form of Nasi Novare Coram used by students is NNC.
NNC
P.S. 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 linked below 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.
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 anyone 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.
