Arrived

Arrived: 

there are times when I still feel alone and lonely, losing loved through the last several years, and with a present loss still keen in parting. Yet my translation of these life events have shifted, there's a different perspective given now. I'm no wiser than before, not any more enlightened, but I have gained an intimacy with a loving presence that is constant in its comfort. Of course the Holy Spirit has always been present and it was only my insistence on a particular form that kept this experience at bay. My years of loss have brought me here, more so, they've revealed a pattern of my own denial of what is real and true.

nothing real can be threatened.

nothing unreal exists.

these are no longer mere words to me, not just a passage in a book that offers fleeting comfort - they're now an active, living reality, a source of immediate recognition that what is real can never be truly threatened nor taken from me. Yes, only love is real, and it's never contained in a particular form or experience. It's here, now, and available through every moment of existence. My life is about noticing this grace, being aware of its thread through my life events. I've arrived at the only moment ever made available, here, with nowhere else to be...

and herein lies the peace of God.

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I love you, Eric

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A Healing Mind

A healing mind: 

and perhaps this is the most radical of all thoughts offered by Jesus in A Course in Miracles is that the healed mind does not plan, and, indeed, relies solely on the guidance of the Holy Spirit. This puts us solely in the present moment, without concern for defending the past, nor projecting worry to the future. It's clear that my own mind is not yet healed, but it is healing, and I am learning to trust in God in a very profound way. This is really about staying present, being attentive to divine flow and attuned to the voice of the Holy Spirit. It's also a beautiful way to live, being deeply appreciative to the ebb and flow of life, having faith the nothing is removed without reason, and that nothing essential is ever absent. This past year has been a lesson for me on trust. It has felt like a time of continuous loss on so many levels. Yet I am here now, with just a little willingness to give up the plans drawn up by ego. There's another way of living in the world....and I ask the Holy Spirit to help me find it. 

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I love you, Eric

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Hurt

Hurt: 

so perhaps the most tenderly expressed lessons of A Course in Miracles, beautiful and loving words we gently say to ourselves with such deep conviction - that I will not hurt myself again today. Finally, nearing the end of the lessons we come to the crux of the matter. We've been hurting ourselves, holding a false claim against the world, believing that anything exists outside us that could ever bring us harm. This is a story told by the ego, a belief in blame and judgement projected upon others, but only really festering deeply within ourselves. 

our salvation from this harm is forgiveness.

this is where we turn to the Holy Spirit for help, that part of our mind that only sees the loved shared between us, indeed, that's all it ever recognizes. It's here ask for our story to be reinterpreted in a truthful way, our perceptions healed. We harm only ourselves with our judgments, all of our blame is returned to us, and our every resentment is a self-inflicted wound. 

I will not hurt myself again today.

and that's the entity of A Course in Miracles, it's the lesson a Buddha, and every great master. Our story of the world, our false perceptions of others - traps us in self created misery. 

so with deep conviction, and ever so tenderly,

we say together,

I will not hurt myself again today.

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I love you, Eric

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The Art of Smiling

The art of smiling: 

my own smile has grown more gentle, an easiness present, as if a heaviness of self-disappointment has now been lifted. I've always been my own harshest critic, never needing someone else's  harsh judgement, yet readily believing it if it came my way. There's an art to true forgiveness, and through the years I've polishing my craft. Small things at first, slights that would seem to linger, little mistakes I've made that seemed to snowball in importance through the years. I'm an artist now, not perfect, but I have the tools of transformation at hand, recognizing the raw material my life has given me and using them to shape the beauty of that gentle smile. 

forgiveness truly does offer every I want.

I'm an artist at last.

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I love you, Eric

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Of Steps and Freewill

Of steps and choices:

my own sense of free will has been narrowed to the scope of two choices, each unfolding very differently in the possibilities of their outcome, and only one of them based entirely on the reality of love. A Course in Miracles reminds me that the script is written, meaning that my welfare is assured in heaven, and indeed, salvation has already occurred. This isn't a metaphysical statement, heaven isn't a distant achievement granted by a capricious God - it's here, now, and as Saint Catherine of Siena beautifully stated: every step of the way to heaven is heaven. So my only real choice is in choosing a step towards heaven or the illusion of distance between myself and God. 

yet the script has been written.

I'm already home.

and my every step is a mindful prayer...that this is so.

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I love you, Eric

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Special Function

Special function: 

it's still unfolding, or perhaps being revealed is more apt to say - this my own special function, what A Course in Miracles describes as one's particular function for the salvation of the world. That sounds like a very heady title, and of course salvation is, indeed, a very large task. But my own role isn't so overwhelming, not really, none of us are given a function that is too large for us to perform. We are only asked to heal each other, we're asked to forgive and perform the miracle of extending love through every difficult encounter. We're also given something very specific for us to do, a role uniquely ours, turning a special talent into a tool for performing miracles. What I'm doing now, creating content on a small YouTube channel, bringing voices together for their own special function to be heard - this is it for me, or at least this portion of the plan that's been revealed. At the age of 60, with a long career of stumbling through life...this feels right. 

perfect even.

as if I finally said yes to a question long asked.

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I love you, Eric

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Aware

Aware: 

there's no battle here, only mindfulness, a gentle noting of where the ego leads me, and then an even gentler return to the Holy Spirit's choice of love. This is a lifelong meditation, an easy vigilance that allows awareness to play it's natural role. My choices don't have to be perfect, but I'm more apt  now to notice just before the ego becomes involved, providing a course correction that offers me a more peaceful resolution. So awareness removes me from the battlefield of the mind, reduces conflict to an easier point of smiling at my own folly. 

I know what each choice provides.

 aware of my options.

I'm mindful.

and ultimately...simply I'm more forgiving. 

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I love you, Eric 

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