I Promise

I promise: 

prayers for the struggle, no matter your particular battle, just know that I love you. This is a personal note, it's for you and yet I have no idea who you are. I don't need to though, not really, because I've reached an age where my own battle scars show through and there's no wish to even try and hide them. 

my prayer for you is to reach the otherside.

whatever your battle,

there is a way through.

I promise.

and I love you.

at this point I could recount my own struggles, retell old battle tales of addiction, depression, and a loneliness that breaks me to the core to remember even now. But I won't. I have no stories to tell you, no scars to show - you can see them though, they're not hidden. 

they're just forgiven.

and that's my point here, why I made you that promise. 

there's a way through.

it might be different for you, another path, something that calls to you with an unmistakable voice of care and healing. You'll hear it. I promise. And I'll be there with you, even if we never actually meet in person, I'll walk the path with you. 

we'll reach the otherside. 

together.

I promise.

and I love you. 

The way is not hard, but it is very different. ²Yours is the way of pain, of which God knows nothing. ³That way is hard indeed, and very lonely. ⁴Fear and grief are your guests, and they go with you and abide with you on the way. ⁵But the dark journey is not the way of God’s Son. ⁶Walk in light and do not see the dark companions, for they are not fit companions for the Son of God, who was created of light and in light. ⁷The Great Light always surrounds you and shines out from you. (ACIM, T-11.III.4:1-7)

~

I love you, Eric

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Of Our Awakening

Of our awakening: 

indeed there is something about those four words, just their consideration gives room to pause and brings a shift to something far gentler than our previous state of mind.

⁷And God thinks otherwise. (ACIM, T-23.I.2:7)

it's a prayer, 

soft,

a deliverance really, that right now in the very mind of God we are held in reverence. Loved beyond all measure. But we miss this through our own haze of denial and disbelief. Our every worst thought about ourselves is a lie. Everything we believe about another is mistaken. 

God thinks otherwise.

always.

with no exceptions. 

it's the prayer of our awakening.

~

I love you, Eric 

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The Yoga of a Little Willingness

The yoga of a little willingness: 

it's never been a stretch for me to see forgiveness as a seamless expression of yoga, in fact my first year through A Course in Miracles I easily took it as a deepening of my practice. While Patanjali's Yoga Sutras doesn't explicitly mention forgiveness, it's clear to see how it unfolds in that direction, a natural result of a yogi's commitment. I fell in love with how the Course too me there directly, a reverse order yoga where the truth is practiced first without preamble. 

forgiveness is my path of yoga.

my practice.

and it immediately offers me the benefits of yoga, as a matter of fact these words from Lesson 122 of the Course could easily have been taken from any ancient yogic text:

Do you want a quietness that cannot be disturbed, a gentleness that never can be hurt, a deep abiding comfort, and a rest so perfect it can never be upset? (ACIM, W-122.1:6)

Jesus explains in the Course that all this, and more, forgiveness offers you, and it's certainly has been the case for me. It often brings me directly to the second sutra, leaving me in a profound state of grace that can only be explained as an instant awakening in truth. Even if for just the moment of my practice. Of course the good news is that it's repeatable, uncomplicated, and only requires one thing that Jesus ever asks from us...

⁵Your part is only to offer Him a little willingness to let Him remove all fear and hatred, and to be forgiven. (ACIM, T-18.V.2:5)

so really, this is the yoga of a little willingness.

and that's become my practice.

~

I love you, Eric

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Sips of Coffee

Sips of Coffee: 

the ritual is now sips of coffee and asking Holy Spirit for just the right words to reach the page - between the two is a sweet space of silence where inspiration always finds me. I guess every writer has their process, a means of invoking their own personal muse. Through the years my writing has grown softly specific with little need to petition for inspiration. 

sips of coffee,

ask,

and then patiently wait for the Holy Spirit's words to find me. 

my ritual for joyful writing.

every morning.

~

I love you, Eric

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A Present Moment Retrospective

A present moment retrospective

: 

forgives goes so deep these days, older now, and feeling there's less time to hold onto any resentment longer than he very moment that it appears. And they still do appear, even after decades of practice they arrive in regular fashion - but more often now they're subtle, trickier, taking a bit more introspection to root out and forgiven. Perhaps this is because they're so familiar, as if we expect them to be there and they're treated as an accepted backdrop to our lives.

aging is in an example.

relationships too.

death.

what I find isn't that I've made peace with certain changes and endings, but that they accepted as inevitable declines and that I should grit by teeth and play a brave role here. That's not peace and it certainly doesn't feel like forgiveness. So my life is in a present moment retrospective, a paradox, yes, but not really a contradiction. It's not that I'm reviewing the past to heal, not really, but that the present moment is holding remnants of all my previous unhealed encounters, outdated belief systems....wounds.

all things that I wish to heal in my remaining years ahead.

they're present now in thought,

memories,

stored patterns still repeated.

and I forgive them all.

deeply so.

as often as they appear.

patiently,

with no hurry,

there's still a lifetime ahead.

~

I love you, Eric

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Gently

 

Gently: 

Regard him gently. (ACIM, T-26.IX.1:5)

such a wonderfully soft description of the Holy Spirits directive in the world, it's a heartfelt way of navigating life and extending ourselves to others. 

my lifelong search for a sense of transcendence and enlightenment has largely been replaced by the gentleness of this soft approach, a focus centered more on a holy instance that offers room for others in a truly loving way. 

and oddly too,

this is the place of my own awakening.

exactly where I found you.

~

I love you, Eric

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I Need Do Nothing

I need do nothing:

it's become a continuous theme for me, a deep expression of trust, softing playing through the undercurrents of my mine. Jesus, in A Course in Miracles, gives the ultimate zen expression, a whispered urge to drop the frantic chase towards....anything. 

“I need do nothing.” (ACIM, T-18.VII.5:7)

of course life goes on as always, my outer life appears much the same - and yet my inner stress has lessened, there's an easiness to forgiveness now, it's more immediate and available as a practice. Gentleness is the world that comes to mind, my life has become increasingly gentle. Even in the midst of problems, some serious issues at hand. Yet throughout everything I'm reminded that I need do nothing, there's no rush to get the ego involved.

it's as if I'm always held in loving arms.

guided.

and all I have to do...

is remember.

~

I love you, Eric

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