Greetings All –
There
is a role for me to play in the world. Step 92 (MP3) [Open in Drive or copy to your Drive – Download folder or play
from Drive – Step PDF also.]
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| There is a role for me to play in the world. Step 92 |
YOU
HAVE COME INTO THE WORLD AT A CRUCIAL TIME. You have come to serve the world in
its present needs. You have come to prepare for future generations. Can all of
this be meaningful to you personally now? Perhaps not, because you are working
for the present and for the future. You are working for the life that you will
live and for lives that will follow yours. This is fulfilling to you now, for
this is your gift that you have come to give. Without pretense and without uncertainty,
this will arise from you naturally and will give itself into the world. Weaving
your life with other lives in a very specific way, it is meant to uplift you
and all with whom you come in contact. The Plan is greater than your personal
ambition, and only your personal ambition can cloud your vision of what you
must do. Be thankful, then, today that there is a role for you to fulfill in
the world. You have come into the world to fulfill this role—for your own
fulfillment, for the advancement of your world and for service to your
Spiritual Family.
IN
YOUR TWO PRACTICE PERIODS TODAY, concentrate and affirm that there is a role
for you to play. Do not attempt to fill in that role according to your ideas or
your wishes, but allow that role to fulfill itself, for Knowledge within you
will fulfill it once you are prepared. In stillness and acceptance, affirm that
there is a role for you to play in the world and experience the power and the
truth of this great idea.
PRACTICE
92: Two 30-minute practice periods.
Picture: University
of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta.
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.
