This is a dispatch from the Junior apprentice. And the following is a reply:

Beloved Junior Apprentice,

It has been such a tediously frustrating and exhausting past week, hasn’t it? I’m hoping that you’ll find a peace within you to slow down in your momentous routines. You have an inclination to rush through life; I see it in the way you drive your vehicle, the way you speak, the way you eat, the way you open and close doors, and the way you get your chores settled. The settlement of these tasks allocated to you by the Order is admirable, but it looks to me like your soul often has a problem catching up with your physical activity. Because your life sometimes seems like one big rush.

I suppose the at this juncture, what you need to hear isn’t so much about the battle we’re engaged in. You’re already fully aware of this battle. But I have on occasions also spoken to you about our life within the Order of the New Kingdom as a dance. It is a dance of life, propelled by the love of the Master, in which he invites you and me to join with him in an inter-penetration of being. Can you almost immediately see that a dance involves a rhythm by which we must live our lives within the purpose of this Order?

What I worry is that you might have often strived so hard to fulfill the requirements of the Order, thinking that this pleases the Master, and in the process forgotten your rhythm. When you live without rhythm, your life loses its artistic value. When your life loses its artistic value, the way you engage in battle looks clumsy and inelegant; and that wouldn’t be very well reflective of life within this impending New Kingdom.

And so, at this moment, my junior apprentice, I have these words to offer to you so you may reflect upon them and allow them to guard the rhythm of your life: watch your step. Do not ever allow yourself be caught in situations where you are found to be loud, rushed, and abrupt. Let your life, your movements, your work, be a magnificent exhibition of graceful splendour.

Keep working well on those goals and tasks set before you, but do it with gracefulness and dance through them with the beautiful rhythm of the Kingdom. Our battle is not a laborious one; it’s a battle that’s already won, remember? Hear the Master keep whispering into the depths of your soul, “Peace, be still”.

Work. But as you do so, know that you are loved.

Yours most affectionally,
Senior Apprentice