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My will is to know God. Step 43 (MP3)
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| My will is to know God. Step 43 |
YOUR
WILL IS TO KNOW GOD. That is your true will. Any other desire or motivation is
to escape this, which represents your will. It is your will that has become
fearful to you. You are afraid of what you know and most deeply feel. This
leads you to find refuge in other things that do not represent you, and in this
you lose your identity and attempt to construct an identity that is related to
those things which you have sought for escape. In isolation you are miserable,
but in relationship happiness is regained.
YOUR
WILL IS TO KNOW GOD. Do not be afraid of your will. You are created by God.
God’s will is to know you. Your will is to know God. There is no other will.
All motivations other than this are born merely of confusion and fear. To know
God gives God power and gives you power as well.
IN
YOUR TWO PRACTICE PERIODS TODAY, in silent meditation, practice feeling the
strength of your own will. Do not let fear and doubt cloud your mind. You need
not try to feel the will of God. It is simply there. It only requires your
attention for you to recognize it. Therefore, practice deeply by simply being
present to this experience.
PRACTICE
43: Two 30-minute practice periods.
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names - McKay's Used Books, Manassas, Virginia
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.
