My Own Special Function

My own special function:

I want to be very careful in considering what A Course in miracles calls my "special function" the core task assigned to each of for the salvation of the world. It's so easy for the ego to rush in and lay claim to almost any role that helps glorify it's position. What I've found is that there's really no singular job to hold to, no specific title that I can say is mine - it seems that our special function is much to fluid to be contained within a set perimeter, it blooms wherever we are planted if tended to properly. I am very much at home right now on my YouTube channel, comfortable with guests, and also just enjoying times where there's carefree banter and helping others feel peaceful and at ease. My special function isn't being a content creator, it's much deeper than any description. 

but I'll try and summarize a bit here.

my special function is joy. 

it's curiosity.

laughter.

and most importantly it's offering these things to you, whether on my YouTube channel or in person. My only real talent...is sharing. So wherever I go, anyplace I might find myself, I am tasked with the special function of offering you love through my own unique capacity of doing so.

it's a wonderful function to fulfill.

~

I love you, Eric

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Truly Helpful

Truly helpful: 

to be truly helpful is to praise God, seeing past errors to the heart of Christ that beats in sync with one another. This is the language of A Course in Miracles, using terms that might nor resonate with some, but sincerely conveys the holiness of our encounters. Here, Christ is a state of mind that signifies our best and highest thought system, it's the pure light found within us all. Being truly helpful is finding God within another, even through their seemingly worst behavior, and this simple recognition is enough for our own salvation. On the level of form, bodies, perhaps nothing holy shows through -

but, and as to where we really are...there is great joy in heaven

we have praised God, 

indeed.

~

I love you, Eric

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Bedrock

Bedrock: 

my own deep sadness is still often present, there's been no spiritual cure that has chased depression away and delivered me a perfect life. Not yet at least, and I suspect not in this lifetime. But there is a difference, noticeable so, and brings me great relief - there's an ever present state of joy now too, an underlying bedrock that the currents of sadness pass through. It's always been here, though largely unnoticed, yet as I grow older it has become more central to my focus, a sanctuary of absolute love that calls so readily for my return. Yes, I still get drawn into those upper currents, sometimes lost for brief moments. There's just no longer the fear of drowning.

as there's a bedrock of joy beneath these currents,

always.

~

I love you, Eric

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Joyfully So

Joyfully so; 

reading the Course anew, and it's amazing how these long familiar words leap from the page and capture my attention once again, even after decades of my study. More so, the Course speaks through me now, energized in an astounding way, it no longer feels a practice but an actual loving presence that guides me on my way. 

I'm living A Course in Miracles...

and yet, 

it's really beyond words, those were just seeds long ago planted that are now finally baring fruit, as if my recent re-immersion within the text called this energy forward to be activated in my life. So in truth, I'm not so much living the Course, nor doing a practice, as I am expressing its intent. Still imperfectly, of course, but committed and sincere. 

joyfully so. 

~

Love, Eric

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Wherever There is Sadness

Wherever there is sadness: 

the last line of the first half of Saint Francis's Prayer seems to be asking for a complete transformation, maybe even bypassing the current emotion of sadness and putting on a false from of joy. Where there is sadness, joy, is a lot to ask for, and most especially when we find ourselves immersed in the heaviness of our sadness. Yet what's prayed for here isn't bypassing at all, nor even a request to transform the presence of sadness into something other than it is right now -

what we prayer for is recognition.

where there is sadness...

joy.

it's more truly known that both my coexist at the same moment, not one replacing the other, but that there's an ever present joy in simply being alive and able to experience the fullness of all that life offers, and that this sense of joy only awaits our recognition to be known. 

wherever there is sadness...

joy

even in the very moment of our deepest sorrow.  

and this is what we prayer for,

~

Love, Eric 

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Infinitely More Joyful

Infinitely more joyful; 

things will still happen, good and bad, and life continues to present itself through both joy and sorrow. Yet it seems different now, a subtle shift has occurred, and I'm finding myself far more relaxed to these daily challenges. In yoga, karma is seen as simply the consequence to infinite effects, life is motion, and there's no punishment here, just results naturally unfolding. A better, more fulfilled life, is brought about by addressing the cause to these events, not chasing down each effect for correction, but going straight to the source, being mindful of our thoughts and actions. 

more so, and how it seems to me right now..

is that I'm asked to be kind.

to forgive. 

this isn't an escape from karma, it's not bypassing any event or situation by forcing myself to see them through a new light. It's just seeing the truth that things are unfolding in the only way they're able to right now, and that my best response is to accept, forgive, and extend myself as love. From here, everything changes on its own, as it always does of course, yet I am less involved in any forceful way, there's less of an attempt to bend the world to fit my own particular demands.

I'm more relaxed.

kinder.

and forgiving.

the true cause, is always fear, it's projected outward to the world and that's the life we're given. Or it is until we see things clearly. We can transcend karma through forgiveness. It's that simple, and actually, it becomes joyful, life being filled with opportunities to offer only love. That's the value of forgiveness, a return to the innocence of the present moment where we're completely free of karma. Our salvation is truly at hand, right now, through whatever situation that's unfolding. 

yes, things will still happen.

they always will.

yet everything is different now...

we're able to forgive.

and life in infinitely more joyful. 

~

Peace, Eric,

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Happy Learner

Happy Learner: 

these past few election cycles have taught me the impossibility of any attack thoughts residing within a peaceful mind. Above all, I want peace. This, of course, doesn't mean ignoring conditions of the world and refusing to take an active role in making it a better place for all to live. Yet it also doesn't call for my involvement in any of the turmoil, confusion, or attack on others that is so currently prevalent within our political system. What's called for, at least for me, is a recognition that things are this way because these thoughts are present within my mind.

my thoughts project the world I perceive. 

and so I am called to heal.

but only my own mind.

this is also true on a smaller level, not just politics, my own life is filled with moments that offer an opportunity to heal. This is continuous forgiveness, no chance encounters, every person and situation provides me a moment to heal, extend love, and examine my projections. If I perceive attack in any way then I know that my ego was overly involved. This then, becomes just another healing moment, a holy instant where I forgive myself in the gentlest fashion without remorse nor reprimand. 

another opportunity to heal. 

and these moments are endless. 

so these days of politics and social media are intense lessons of forgiveness for me, graduate school for a slow learner such as myself. It's also joyful. I find myself now, mostly so, a happy learner, developing a keen sense of surrender, and allowing myself to be guided through each lesson that arrives. I'm not alone in this, there's a greater intelligence involved and I'm more than willing to turn my thoughts over to this guide. My own thoughts, ego, certainly haven't brought me very far.

so with this, at this point, 

I find myself content,

joyful even...

..to simply be a happy learner. 

~

Peace, Eric

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My Soul Expands

My Soul Expands:

it's a theory, not yet shown to be absolutely true, but I love to consider it just the same - that the earliest sounds that greet on my earliest morning walk, the dawn chorus of multiple songbirds, serve at a frequency that cause plants to expand their stomata - a mouth like opening - in order to receive the micro-nutrients that have settled on their leaves. It's a beautiful symphony of notes played at a specific vibration that brings the full ovation of a flowers bloom. There doesn't seem to be a consensus with any proof of this theory, and it matters little to me if the scientific community shows this to be true.

as my world expands each morning to their song.

this too is my cause to bloom.

what we know is that we're aligned to the fractal patterns of nature, our eyes instantly adjusting to these self-replicating designs and the brain producing an alpha-wave awareness that settles us in a peaceful state of mind. Stress has been shown to be measurably reduced as significantly as 60% within moments of our exposure to these patterns. So why not sounds as well? We're not removed from the dawn-chorus offered by songbirds, our own frequency shifting in delight with even the first few notes that our ears receive. My own observation seems to show that the entirety of my being anticipates this song, already expanding in a state of curiosity and wonder.

so,

what I know for certain is that the dawn-chorus offers me its song...

and in this certainty,

my soul expands in a joyful blossom.

~

Peace, Eric 

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