Within a Single Prayer

Within a single prayer:

it's all revealed within a single prayer, the entire essence of A Course in Miracles is offered in an early chapter, it's a formula really, and it's given as a practice. This is a prayer of reversal, right from the beginning I'm told that I must have chosen wrong for the simple reason that I'm not at peace. I'm only asked to recognize how I feel, mindfully so, and then examine the thought system that brought this feeling to fruition. If I am not at peace I must have decided wrongly, making every decision that led to this point completely on my own. 

I forgot to ask the Holy Spirit to guide me. 

so how I'm feeling right now is a mindful moment, a pivot point that allows the shift from fear to love, from unease to peace, replacing a thought system based entirely on ego towards one that relies only on the Holy Spirit's grace. 

the decision is mine to make.  

whichever one I choose will produce my experience of the moment.

so here's a wisdom prayer that undoes all guilt, resolves every misguided thought that brought me to this point of sorrow, and provides the ultimate comfort of God's peace. 

⁷I must have decided wrongly, because I am not at peace.
⁸I made the decision myself, but I can also decide otherwise.
⁹I want to decide otherwise, because I want to be at peace.
¹⁰I do not feel guilty, because the Holy Spirit will undo all the consequences of my wrong decision if I will let Him.
¹¹I choose to let Him, by allowing Him to decide for God for me. (ACIM, T-5.VII.6:7-11) 

it's a prayer of practice, 

a meditation.

and the basis of forgiveness. 

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I love you, Eric

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Aligning

Aligning: 

I love the immediacy of results in my early morning yoga practice, each pose providing feedback through breath, thoughts and balance. If anything is off by even a fraction my body shows exactly what adjustments are needed and everything aligns. Forgiveness too, for me, is an asana, a posture purposely held throughout my life, returned to as frequently possible. This also provides immediate results, a measurement of peace that's instantly revealed as a holy moment. Sometimes, just like a physical asana, it's just the briefest of alignments. Like every other yoga pose, if I'm mindful, forgiveness provides me the opportunity of trusting a wisdom far greater than the thoughts I might be holding. With this trust I'm asked to make those little adjustments needed to bring me back to God-centered presence, noting whatever led me astray and then offering myself a gentle return to peace of mind. 

so my life is really about yoga now, 

aligning myself,

returning back to God-centered presence....

just as often as it's needed.

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I love you, Eric

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Laughing Myself Awake

Laughing myself awake: 

and finally, I'm remembering to laugh again, natural, joyfully, and it's bringing me home. The beautiful cosmology of A Course in Miracles tells me that the world I see and experience now isn't really here and it's creation never actually happened. It was a tiny mad idea of separation, an impossibility so absurd that the child of God should have immediately laughed at such a thought. However, in that briefest instant of imagination we cast a crazy dream upon ourselves and now believe that it is real. 

so here we are, 

an idea taken quite seriously.

lately though, there's been a gentle laughter in this dream. 

I'm remembering that I'm already home.

still asleep, but stirring, 

with my thoughts drifting towards light, experiencing the early effects of dawn...and now unable to take this dream quite so seriously. It's my own laughter that's waking me to the innocence of dawn, and that which is still asleep begins to be seen as no more than the craziest part of this dream. I have no idea when this longest of imagined nights might be over. It doesn't really matter. I'm home right now, safe, dreaming, yes, but gently, joyfully...

laughing myself awake.

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I love you, Eric 

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Appreciation

Appreciation: 

and it's with growing appreciation that I move through life, a deepening sense of gentleness that helps me see my own struggles as an opportunity for kindness. A Course in Miracles moves the student from the guidance of the book to the working practice of life. Awakening will never come from words but through their application, repeatedly, and even my own sense of failure as a student becomes the means of expressing true forgiveness. What I find now is that everything serves as practice, my deepest heartbreak, the stress of fiances, and those small daily concerns that seem to plague us all - this, than, is my awakening, whatever's happening, right now...

is here for my forgiveness. 

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I love you, Eric

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Sigh

Sigh: 

softly now, proceeding through life with each moment welcomed with true forgiveness. There is a growing sense of gentleness occurring, a long held tension dissipating with ease. My life feels like a sigh, as if I've held my breath for so long, afraid of letting go, never even realizing how constricted I've become - and gently, gently, this breath surrendered with a smile...and a new one taken. 

forgiveness only asks for what's been held too long, 

stale air, our fear of letting go,

we're urged to sigh -

trusting that we never breathe alone.

~

I love you, Eric

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Rungs

Rungs: 

from every aspect now I wish to trust only in God, having my faith placed upon the unseen, and being sure that love alone provides the  answer to questions I no longer even need to ask. The ladder of prayer was my arrival, with so many years placed upon the first rung, pleading for things I believed would actually make me happy. The second rung was quite transformative, just the beginning step of learning to change my mind through prayer, less concerned with material thing and more emphasis on how my thoughts created the world that I experienced. With the third rung I finally felt at home, maybe without need of ever climbing any higher - it's here I learned the value of true forgiveness. 

my only need is recognizing what's real, seeing through the illusion of the world, trusting that forgiveness is my only function here and through it's practice the reality of love prevails. 

 there's one more rung of prayer to go.

another step.

and it's here I waver...

this is a final step towards heaven, it's pure communication with the Divine, with nothing left to ask for and only love received. There are moments of surrender where I feel myself lifted up to this rung without effort of my own. And I feel that this is how is should be, not hurried at all, and allowing the final step to be God's will alone. I am content to be truly helpful, a life upon the third rung of prayer, continuous forgiveness, trusting that the script is written and the final step has actually already been taken - with no ladder ever really needed.

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I love you, Eric

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Patanjali, Jesus, and Forgiveness

Patanjali, Jesus, and forgiveness: 

"If all but loving thoughts have been forgotten, what remains is eternal" - as if spoken by Patanjali, a new yoga centered on awakening to the present moment through relationships, seeking union by healing the very symbol of our separation. Yet these were words said by Jesus in A Course in Miracles, chapter 17 giving a discourse in an entirely new language of yoga. What's given here is the last secret to enlightenment, a version of tantra that uses our every present relationship as a means of awakening to the eternal holy instant. Forgiveness is the only practice needed, being used as a continuous recognition of our holiness, an instant insight into the reality of love. We are not alone in this practice, invoking the Holy Spirit to help undo all that blocks our awareness of love's presence. Here, our "inner spark of beauty" is rediscovered, revealed through our forgiveness, and union is achieved. 

this is yoga of the highest order.

with our every relationship offering us the potential for awakening.

for the present is forgiveness, as Jesus says in the Course/

and so our practice of yoga begins,

right now.

~

I love you, Eric

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