Love's Presence

Love's presence:

I was told that my task wasn't to seek love, words that immediately found my heart, forever ending an endless chase after something that always seemed so elusive. There is such relief in surrendering the role of seeker. A Course in Miracles gave me an extraordinary promise and then offered my life as living proof - I am already love, ever present, unavoidable, and that my only purpose here is to find every barrier within me that blocks its appearance. 

my job is to simply be aware.

and fortunately those blocks show themselves so conveniently. Every grievance, resentment and judgment is a revelation of a barrier that prevents reality from being known. They are still frequent guest, often harsh in appearance, but sometimes subtle too in their soft whisper of believability. Yet their presence is followed by a willingness to surrender their hold - not immediately, but following shortly after their appearance. It's now a matter of blessings, recognizing that a barrier is gaining entrance and that a blessing dissolves any further progress. My seeking days are truly over. 

I'm simply aware.

willing.

and ready to surrender to love's presence.

~

I love you, Eric

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Relationships

Relationships:

I've been thinking of relationships lately, considering their scope and the extent of their reach—and it's been lovely to find that no one is absent from my care, not even slightly. We are kin, connected by a dreamed-up world that waits for our awakening. My own suffering is the cause for yours, believing that I've somehow stepped past the reach of God, and now stranded, endlessly searching for home. I've kept you trapped with me, enclosing you in a belief system of desperation and isolation, denying our true and most intimate relationship—that we both share a single Christ between us.

and that thought is our awakening.

so you are my dearest relationship, my salvation, truly. And I find you everywhere now, not even a search is needed. You're never absent from my thoughts or reach. Remarkably, and so often, you appear in the least likely place that I would have previously looked for—you are present within everyone that I used to keep distant, refusing to acknowledge you there, as I believed you were once the cause of all my suffering. But I'm aware now, available to receive you in whatever guise you offer.

I'm ready to awaken.

and you are my salvation.

thank you.

I finally see you, never truly hidden at all.

you were merely waiting for my truest eyes to open.

~

I love you, Eric

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To Be Truly Helpful

To be truly helpful: 

so to be truly helpful calls for my surrender, giving up all notion that I might know my own, or anyone else's best interest. This is wonderfully freeing. I do not have to know what to say or what to do, and yet anything that needs to be addressed will be handled through me by a most loving source. A Course in Miracles offers a beautiful prayer as this reminder: 

²I am here only to be truly helpful.
³I am here to represent Him Who sent me.
⁴I do not have to worry about what to say or what to do, because He Who sent me will direct me.
⁵I am content to be wherever He wishes, knowing He goes there with me.
⁶I will be healed as I let Him teach me to heal. (ACIM, T-2.V-A.18:2-6)

this has been my directive for some time now and its success depends entirely on my willingness to let go of my own best tendencies to be helpful. The Holy Spirit speaks clearest without my interference. I'm ready to quietly serve in whatever way that's shown me - knowing that I'm lovingly guided to be exactly where I need to be and with the surest words to offer. 

amen.

~

I love you, Eric

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My Holiest Encounter

My holiest encounter:

of the infinite infinite things to write of, I choose you...and the beauty the you offer. Through all of time, you are my holiest encounter, the reminder that my true home is just a thought a way. Yet I've so often missed this opportunity for awakening, lost in my own private world and seemingly unable to sustain this connection. I'm sorry. But I see you now, more clearly than ever before, and I'm ready for us both to awaken, forgiving the illusion of our past together and embracing you fully in this one and only precious moment that we share. I love you, always...and the beauty that you share. 

my holiest encounter.

thank you.

~

I love you, Eric

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A Little Bit of Doubt

A little bit of doubt:

more than ever now my life holds a great deal of doubt. Almost every thought that doesn't serve the purpose of extending love is, at the very least, examined for it's worth. This is a mindful process, in a very loving way, actually, of simply noting the thoughts that cause even the least bit of disturbance and raising them to doubt. What I'm asking for here is an open mind, to consider, for just a moment, that there might be another way to view a person or situation. 

this little bit of doubt is my freedom. 

shifting how I see the world.

spacious now,

loving. 

forgiven.

~

I love you, Eric

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Relief

Relief: 

it's a relief to know that I can't judge, not that I don't make judgement, but that not a single one made is worth of consideration. Most of my life has been a continuous judgement against myself,very often appearing in the guise of my thoughts about another - yet every single one has more truly been a value call on my own self-worth. 

You have often been urged to refrain from judging, not because it is a right to be withheld from you. ³You cannot judge. ⁴You merely can believe the ego’s judgments, all of which are false. ⁵It guides your senses carefully, to prove how weak you are; how helpless and afraid, how apprehensive of just punishment, how black with sin, how wretched in your guilt. (ACIM, W-151.4:2-5)

the above words are from Lesson 151 of A Course in Miracles. Judgement is the major theme here and this lesson is designed to set us free, completely so, from the belief that we're even capable of truly judging ourselves or others. As condemnation dies down we begin to hear the quietness of the voice for God, gentle, patient, and only judging between what is real or false. 

Yet you must learn to doubt their evidence will clear the way to recognize yourself, and let the Voice for God alone be Judge of what is worthy of your own belief. ²He will not tell you that your brother should be judged by what your eyes behold in him, nor what his body’s mouth says to your ears, nor what your fingers’ touch reports of him. ³He passes by such idle witnesses, which merely bear false witness to God’s Son. ⁴He recognizes only what God loves, and in the holy light of what He sees do all the ego’s dreams of what you are vanish before the splendor He beholds. (ACIM, W-151.7:1-4)

and that's where I am right now, with active doubt taking the place over the certainty of ego. Things mostly continue as they have before, my first thoughts might be a quick judgement cast upon another, or an evaluation of my own sense of worth. Ego still very often makes the first call. But Holy Spirit is the presence that always makes the last judgement and it's always in the favor of love. My peace of mind is only dependent upon how quickly I turn my thoughts of worthiness and condemnation over to the Holy Spirit and allow the voice for God to whisper truth to me. Those words echo within me, continuously, never absent - and I'm more apt than ever to listen first, closely, and give these echos my faith and full devotion. 

All things are echoes of the Voice for God. (ACIM, W-151) 

~

I love you, Eric

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Sustained

Sustained: 

yes, I am sustained by the love of God. Lesson 50 of A Course in Miracles arrives to me with a soft urgency to remember, a life rope of grace in times of my forgetfulness. This my my reminder to sink deep within the reality of God, calm and abiding, placing no faith within a dreamed up world. It's the answer to every problem of the dream, indeed, it's the whisper of my awakening. 

Here is the answer to every problem that will confront you, today and tomorrow and throughout time. ²In this world, you believe you are sustained by everything but God (ACIM, W-50.1:1-2)

this lesson mentions the "eternal calm" of the Son God - promising that nothing can intrude upon the mind that is steeped within God's presence. That was the promise I trusted through years of care-giving for both my parents, delivering a new language of infinite patience and tenderness to ease my mind as well as their's. Being sustained by the love of God isn't a distant promise of what will be available after years of diligent practice - it's the immediacy of my surrender, given to me now, and now, always in this one and only Holy Instant. 

Put all your faith in the Love of God within you; eternal, changeless and forever unfailing. ⁴This is the answer to whatever confronts you today. ⁵Through the Love of God within you, you can resolve all seeming difficulties without effort and in sure confidence. (ACIM, W-50.4:3-5)

eternal, changeless - that's the promise. 

not distant.

now.

yes, I am sustained by the love of God...this moment, 

and always.

~

I love you, Eric

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