Morning Prayer

Morning prayer: 

there's a morning prayer offered in A Course in Miracles that I dearly love - it takes the challenges of the day ahead and surrenders them to God, asking these questions:

"where would you have me go? What would you have me do? What would you have me say, and to whom? "

and with that, my role is over, I simply go where I'm directed, doing whatever is called for me to do, and speaking just the right words to those whom I meet along the way. What I most love about this prayer is that it could easily have been found in the Tao Te Ching, or the Bhagavad Gita. These are wisdom words asking for guidance from a greater source than mere ego, a non-dual stance of surrendering my own limited beliefs of a smaller self, and trusting in the intelligence of a truer self. 

it's just letting go...

and allowing life itself, 

in all of its spontaneous wonder, to take over.

the truth is, I often make a mess out of my little part of the world, thinking that I know best and forging ahead with my own ideas and plans. When I'm able to step aside and allow life, God, the Tao, to lead me in the right direction, providing me with proper words, the more apt I am to be happier and fulfilled. It's only when I cling to my own sense of knowing best that I make a mess of things. Yet I find that I still place my intuition and wisdom guidance aside and listen to my ego's voice, even after all these years and surely knowing better.

true surrender is hard it seems.

so each morning I pray...

where would you have me go? What would you have me do? What would you have me say, and to whom? 

and then I simply listen.

~

Peace, Eric

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Where Life Takes Me

Where life takes me: 

it seems now - I'm much less involved in the world, and yet at once somehow more intimate with life itself, perhaps a paradox, but it feels perfectly right to me. This doesn't mean that my usual interests and the things I care for no longer meaning, they do, there's just less concerned for my personal involvement, that I don't need to add my opinion to every matter, there's no wish to make other wrong through my own demands of how I wish the world to be.

there's just no longer a need to believe I'm always right.

so I hold my views lighter now,

more gently,

 surrendering, forgiving, wishing love to others.

and seeing where life takes me.

~

Peace, Eric 

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To Let Go Of

To let go of: 

and as always, it's just one more thing to let go of, with even the ritual of forgiveness being just another concept that is eventually surrendered, having realized that all we ever have is the present moment and that no trace of our past actually remains. 

forgiveness is instantaneous.

so the truth is, 

we don't do anything.

healing happens on it's own.

yet our rituals are important too, for as long as needed, serving to remind us that we are forever bound to the present  moment, always right now, and that no past event can ever truly harm us. Forgiveness is a liberating ritual, a wonderful healing tool. 

but in the end,

it's just one one more thing that's let go of...

as surrender too, 

happens completely on its own.

~

Peace, Eric

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