Trusting:
more than anything else, it comes down to trust, always an issue for me, but now arriving to the point where it's imperative. This isn't to imply that I'm mistrustful of others, but in the deeper sense of living in full faith that Gold alone provides. It strikes me as ironic that I write this as an abundance of air is available for me to draw each breath, my body functions without any conscious effort, and the universe is perfectly aligned for my comfort and ease. I don't question any of this, fully trusting in the present moment for these essential needs to be met.
and yet a certain doubt persists.
as my later years old there's been a series of loss that confronts me, knowing that at my age it's inevitable for more to follow. Fear seems natural and it's so easy to give in to, feeling almost impossible to place my trust in an ever changing world. And of course it is - I'm not asked to trust anything that changes, but only to continuously look deeper to the changeless source beneath all things. My faith is now being drawn there, just a little more each day, and my trust is growing.
so what's really called for is my surrender.
ego traded for faith in God.
giving up illusions.
and trusting in the reality of always being cared for.
faced with this surrender I simply say...
thank you, thank you, thank you.
trusting.
~
I love you, Eric
To read more from Headless Now, please visit: Nothing Unreal
Also, please visit to buy: Nothing Real Can Be Threatened
Thank you.
Nothing unreal exists:
the beginning gives it all away, right from the start of A Course in Miracles we're told that nothing real can be threatened, nothing unreal exists, and in this theses two lines we find the peace of God. Already we're set up for debate, just glancing around shows us exactly what exists, and the realness of our thoughts and body speak of their reality. Yet all of these can be threatened in someway, so ultimately, they're untrue.
and, indeed, therein lies the peace of God.
it's here where we make a helpful distinction - only what God has made is real, and it's eternal, having the lasting value of God's love. It can never be threatened. Of course this doesn't mean that we don't care for our material possession, or not taking joy in our bodies. But all of these are threatened by time itself, having a shelf life of a certain number of years.They are unreal in this sense, and so to believe that they will bring us any lasting peace will always, eventually, lead us to suffering.
that which is real, God, is beyond suffering.
only love is real.
and therein lies our peace.
~
I love you, Eric
To read more from Headless Now, please visit: Invented
Also, please visit to buy: Nothing Real Can Be Threatened
Thank you.
Invented:
that I have invented the world I see, an early lesson in A Course in Miracles and vital in our understanding. What's meant here is that the world, and all that it entails, is a product of the mind. If I look around and see a world of evil, suffering, and division, it's only a matter of the thought system chosen, my beliefs given completely to the ego. Yet there's always another choice, that even through my miscreation there is an option of another world that exist beneath illusory vision that I now offer. This isn't a battle of good vs. evil, it's not God against dark forces - it's a choice, simple and clear.
choose love.
only.
and the world shifts in your perception.
~
I love you, Eric
To read more from Headless Now, please visit: What We Teach is Love
Also, please visit to buy: Teach Only Love
Thank you.
What we teach is love:
I love that single qualification offered in A Course in Miracles, a teacher of God being anyone who has somehow, somewhere made a deliberate choice in which they did not see their interest apart from someone else's. A teacher of God is, indeed, someone who performs miracles, with this being the ability to pause and ask for a shift in their perception. We are all capable of such miracles, and all of us are called to be teachers of such - yet only when we're ready. So with this we begin to see the world as a learning opportunity, a classroom, with a curriculum set in order.
today there will be a lesson.
it is not pass or fail.
but only the acceptance,or delay of our role as teachers.
so there really are no chance encounters here
only teaching opportunities.
and what we teach is love.
~
I love you, Eric
To read more from Headless Now, please visit: My Teachers
Also, please visit to buy: Teach Only Love
Thank you.
My teachers:
and thank you to all of those who have taught me the way of true love, teachers that have urged me to look deeper through the illusory veils of separation between us, challenging me to see their light beyond the present point of darkness. It's those teachers that appear at the most inconvenient times, arriving during those already difficult moments, offering their hardest lessons. I love you because it has not always been so easy to do so, at times feeling almost impossible, and yet these teachers still have such great faith in my ability to learn.
thank you, thank you, thank you.
for as long as you appear.
~
I love you, Eric
To read more from Headless Now, please visit: Again
Also, please visit to buy: Teach Only Love
Thank you.
Begin again:
and I am right back where I started, beginning the workbook for A Course in Miracles, fresh from another years study and eager to dive in again. Truthfully, there's probably no real reason to do so, as every previous lessons from decades before still ring fresh in my mind. Forgiveness rolls pretty easily and naturally from me these days, sometimes as a first response, fairly often still after a few moments of consideration. I am not seeking anything, nothing at all aside from each moments peace of mind.
so why begin again?
just for the comfort of the words, daily reminders that I am hear only to be truly helpful, to be kind, and that now the path isn't mine alone, but ours, and that we will begin heal together. The instructions aren't really needed, nor is a reminder truly necessary - but I enjoy the company, that soft whisper of a voice that's so familiar to me now.
and so another year begins.
~
I love you, Eric
To read more form Headless Now, please visit: Committed
Also, please visit to buy: Teach Only Love
Thank you.
