RECOGNITION 2A

Addendum

There are some passages from NTI that I found meaningful and pertinent with this section.

The last two chapters(20-21) of the Gospel of John and the book of 2 Timothy. I recall Regina Dawn Akers stating: “2Timothy will save your life.” I’m not exactly sure what that means, but it certainly got my attention.

Moving into NTI again caused me to reflect on the journey over the last few years. In a linear way we could look at it as jumping from one book to the next with a sense of moving towards something or Someone, but what seems to happen if I take that linear approach is that the tools I used or was offered in the past sort of get discarded by the wayside as I pick up new ones. That picture just didn’t seem correct to me.

The Path is much more a spiral than it is a straight line, and as we move on the spiral we touch some of the same things (feelings, behaviors, attitudes, beliefs), but we discover that our knowing and perception are now different and we might be seeing something (including ourselves) for the “first” time.*

Presently to me now is also a deep sense of being guided, lovingly lead to a deeper sense of Self-Discovery or as this chapter would say “Self-Recognition.”

There is no backward motion on the Path. When we are called to pick up an “old” book or revisit a set of teachings we might have used in the past, I believe that is an encouragement to be open to seeing, hearing, feeling, knowing in a different, perhaps deeper ways.

*great line from Harry Chapin—-“There’s no straight lines make up my life and all my roads have bends, there’s no clear cut beginnings and so far no dead ends.”

And I think that is a great thought to begin our NEW YEAR.

Peace, Love, Blessings to all—-as we walk each other home.