Step 26 in Steps to Knowledge is the first step with the word “errors” in the actual step.  The word “errors” first appeared in step 24, “I am worthy of God’s love.”

“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.”

I recall having a certain amount of apprehension when I read the bit about great effort to repair my errors.  I recall thinking to myself “Oh dear, that might take a while.”

There is an idea in our culture which could be expressed in the form “Everything that happens to me happens for a purpose, and it serves me.” The context in which this step places that idea is “The pain people experience as a result of their wrong decisions causes people to value truth, which can lead to true Knowledge.  There are poor choices people make, which are not only purposeless and meaningless, but a hindrance to meaning and direction. These poor choices cause a great deal of suffering.  Stop making errors, mistakes, wrong decisions and poor choices, so that you can stop suffering so much.”

The Prodigal Son took the counsel of this step, learning to value truth through the pain of his errors.

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