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Hi! Welcome to the Joy of Miracles.

To write is to uncover, to unhide, to bring to light, and express what is within. To share is the end of all private thoughts, all shame, all guilt, all pain and separation. Here is all Joy found at last! Writing helps us to repeat, focus, choose, and remember ideas. The purpose of this writing is healing for all of us.

This blog is inspired by "A Course in Miracles"and The Work of Byron Katie. You are invited to share your comments by clicking on the word "comment" at the end of each post. If you scroll way down there's a little info about me and also an archive of past writing you can view by clicking on the title. Thanks so much for visiting...

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Monday, December 29, 2008

inevitable

i am a fountain of light
no matter what i think
no matter what i do

sooner or later
i will accept the Truth

because i have no choice

ultimately nothing else will work

impossible goals are impossible goals

permanent joy can never be found in the temporary

joy is not death/does not end
or it is not joy

God is where we live

no leaf
no grain of sand
no clump of cells

could be anything
but a ridiculous
temporary dream
of substitution for GodMind

Joy created us
Joy created us
Joy created us

Joy is not matter,
though She is reflected there.
Joy is Spirit
Joy is Eternal

Joy is what You are
Now

seek only within
and you will find it

seek outside you
and you will not

right now
today
all is given

no experience necessary
you were born with it
no license required
no age minimum or maximum
not one more second of your life is needed

make no conditions for your happiness!



happiness is

no matter what the conditions....

and we give amazing gratitude that this is so....

love, J

Saturday, December 27, 2008

what God wills is NOW!

What God wills is NOW! (240,6,6 wb)

Time is a defense!

to keep you from your present happiness/bliss

do not look to the new year to bring you happiness
do not look to past memories of imagined happiness
do not look at finishing the Course
do not look at when your relatives go home
when Christmas is over
when you lose five pounds
when you go to Hawaii
when the stock market changes....
when your kids leave for college
or come to visit
or get their life together

or until you get yours....
do not wait until you practice the Course without effort
or until any problem you ever have is solved

This is but a defense against Joy right now

what God wills is now

what Joy wills is now

what You will is now!!!

God wills all happiness be yours NOW

NOW
NOW

NOTHING IN YOUR LIFE
NEEDS TO CHANGE FOR
YOU TO BE HAPPY RIGHT NOW

Happiness lives You
from the inside out

Happiness sources You

You are the Light of the world right now!!!

nothing else matters
nothing else is true

we need no resolutions to change

they would be but a denial of our current perfection

ALL JOY IS NOW!!!!

thankyouthankyouthankyouthankyoufor this overflowing Joy,
J

Wednesday, December 24, 2008

quiet



the only way to hear something


is to be quiet







you visit with One Who

has but learned all

your lessons


the wisdom

is always present

in your mind


the learning has

been completed



if you are

but very still


the memory

will return

to your awareness




J


honesty

honesty 
light
consistency
unhiddenness

is the answer to everything


our only problem is trying to(illusion of) hide thoughts

keeping some thoughts separate

from ourself, thus others


we judged them so quickly we weren't really aware of it

and tried to bury them/push them away


and so we FEEL deep in us tension
pressure
constant effort to keep 
these thoughts away from our awareness

to keep them hidden



we keep trying to prove 

our innocence
our worth
our value

to ourselves/the world


but at the same time
our hidden separate thought is attacking our innocence
we do constant battle to defend our self worth

through our special
"love"
job
money
career
service 
sacrifice
family
endless skills
education
friends
vacations
hobbies
clothes
make up
Christmas presents.....
moving up the ladder
becoming more spiritual
getting more of anything and everything
adding on and on and on
making list after list because none of it has ever worked for long.....
trying to be enough of something
trying everything under the sun!


all in an effort 
not to look at
one deeply buried thought of fear


today we do not ask for more of anything
instead we let everything we have ever valued go

we were wrong about everything



today we are silent
we are empty
we are open




peace



J

fear

be not afraid of fear





while you are here

it is as natural 
as the rain
and snow


sometimes it seems like we are
caught in a surprise rainstorm

in the middle of a bright blue sunny sky
it suddenly changes

the fog starts to roll in while our attention 
is  somewhere else for a moment

the sky turns a dark gray
and clouds appear pregnant and full,
ready to burst



fear not





the temperature  can drop just as suddenly
where a minute ago our heart was warm and open

now there is some kind of freeze
each crystal that forms starts to block the flow
until perhaps only a trickle remains
hidden under the ice





fear not






this will happen







fear not the dark stormy nights
fear not the subzero temperatures
fear not the illusion that no flowers exist
and that warm summer days are gone forever





we do not fear this 






nor do we run
and hide out under the covers







like a child
we watch thru the window
the approaching storm
we watch the patterns trickle on the glass





we feel the thunder shake the ground we stand on
we might even jump at the loud cracking sound



but we always know
it is just a storm
just a passing storm



there is never for a moment
a fear that this will not end
and that the Sun will not return




we might even grab our Mother's leg
or hide under the bed for a while



but like a child we will
run again out into the yard
we will splash in the puddles
squish our toes in the mud
look at the earthworms laying on the sidewalk
see how green everything looks after the rain

and learn that everything is now more beautiful 
than it ever seemed before


the rain washes us clean
the rain is a sign there is healing going on
we let the clouds pour out/expose our guilt
so the sun can shine once more

we remember 

there is nothing to fear

and we give thanks for this light on the storm,
Love,
J


no wonder...


would you ask a two-year old

for advice about your problems?




this is what we do

when we make a decision

by ourself







:-)))))))))))))))))))

J

One Word

words are but tiny tiny tiny symbols

of huge infinite ideas.....






sometimes we walk right by them





without a  real glance


at all they really hold



too many words

like too much  of anything

leaves us not seeing any of it

not really tasting it

one word is the symbol of an experience


we want the experience!




so let's just slow it all down and really take a look




perhaps we don't need more words

but less


only one
to really BE with


instead of hiking through mountains of symbols

we go deep

into One




we've seen One many times before

and walked right on by




today we actually stop

we stand perfectly still

and open up the front door

we walk inside One


it expands and expands and expands

and expands



like a little old house that looks so small 

from the outside

when you go through the front door

you see it is huge and all encompassing

once you are INSIDE

it goes on and on and on and on

forever

and you never want to leave

nor can you...

because everything you have ever wanted 

is right here

now






God











love,
J

trick or treat?

"you will attack 

what

does not satisfy..."--unhappy things.....




overeating

loneliness

stupid tv shows

your mother

your mother-in-law

your job

your boss

your marriage

yourself!!!



...."and 

thus

you will not see

you  .... made it up."(633)


this is a trick/illusion!






you only attack false ideas.

if you are upset,

it must be 

over nothing.



this is a treat/truth!

you are innocent
you are beautiful
you are free
you 
did not create your Self!

only this is true!

we are learning the difference 
between a trick
and a treat

they are not the same

they are different

thank you, Jesus, for this lesson....


love you,
J

ridiculous


on the back of a bus...

"are you living with schizophrenia
or bipolar disorder...."


oh yes! :-)))))))))))))))
we all are

we've denied our deepest pain
have no idea we are infinite love
and believe that we are not what we are

and it scares the hell out of us






we so want to know that God is here
that we are Spirit
that this world is the effect
of our confused thinking

and that as our thinking straightens out
so will our experience in this world......




but the schizophrenic egoworld answer
to this frightened frantic mind......


is.....


"you may be eligible 
for
a
clinical
research 
study!!!!!!!



ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh yes! absolutely brilliant!  
that should solve everything!




first, of course,
we will isolate you ! 
see you as very separate from ourselves





then, 
we will pop you
 right into one of those cheery little petri dishes...:_)))



yes, yes....just like the kind you loved in school 
where you grew that slimy jelly kind of stuff

yes, some very good memories....

and then,



 we will measure your deficiencies very regularly 
and very very carefully

and  we will record this

and of course, we will share 
this description of your inadequacies with all the world



we just  might even post it on the internet
so that it can benefit all of mankind...

oh how very very loving!



oh what a very jolly good idea!!!





that should be very comforting
to this totally freaked out child





no no no no.....
no such thing as a hug or two
or loving reassurance that Jesus loves you
(that's not scientific, not rational,not verifiable or reproducible you know.....)


no no
just a bit of numbers 
should do it!


well, thank you so very much, dear science,
for your cold hard facts...







i thank you, Jesus,
for the humor i can now see in this/myself


light shining into  the hidden dark corners of our mind
shows us once more
that there is only one of us --not two (or three or four or five or six.....)

it is but Love that cures all our schizo dis-ease...
in Love's safety  and innocence all our ugly phantoms can come out to play and be healed--no more need to hide anything


we are sustained 
and nourished 
by the Love of God!!!!!
not petri dishes.....


love,
J

surprise me, God

what kind of day would i have?

i am open

and receptive

to 


something I  have never heard before......



to

LIGHT!







surprise me, God!!!!

i would open a present

i have never seen before..........





ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh myyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy......................................









so much gratitude...
J

nothing at ALL


my concious mind knows nothing

my subconcious mind knows nothing



only God

knows




J

dis-ease

dis-ease

is when

you think

you know something








J

don't push the river

this is my very first by request topic---

what a fun new thing....

feel free all of you 

if you have something you would like to hear more about....


so

don't push the river....





when you are  really hungry for the Truth

you WILL GO SHOPPING!!!!




there will be

NO DELAY!


your eyes and ears will be so wide open

you will see it and hear it everywhere

YOU WILL BE DRAWN 
TO WHAT LIGHTS YOU UP



you will LET NOTHING GET IN YOUR WAY of what contributes to your happiness

Infinite bliss is inevitable...(no other choice looks  very good compared to this)
don't worry about when it comes to your awareness



every flower blossoms
in its very own predetermined 
dance
micrometer
by micrometer


some like to dance slowly
some like to pound the floor hard
some like to dance as hard and as fast as they can
some like it all and shake it up

ALL OF IT IS BEAUTIFUL AND JOYFUL!!!!!!

if you didn't get that FULLY the first time,

ALL
ALL
ALL
ALL
ALL
every single microsecond of your life is beautiful
the whole thing IS YOUR DANCE!

you are waking up right now!!!!!

NO MATTER 
HOW YOU SEE IT










we are viewing Reality from the point of a pin 
(we see almost nothing of what is really there)


even in this world 
even if we traveled around the world all our life
we would still see so very little of all that exists



SO
we TRUST
there is Something
so much greater 
going on
than our mindset



we TRUST
the timing of everything
we TRUST our Heart
we listen to the deepest 
most quiet Voice within Us


and LET ourselves be guided 

and we realize
there is NO NEED TO PUSH THE RIVER
nor can we!!!!

how silly to even think of the idea!!!!
it flows so easily 
so effortlessly
all by Itself



we simply TRUST
hop on our Tube
and enjoy the ride.


Enjoy the ride all you fabulous 
so beautiful angels!

oh dear beautiful lovely 
children of God
stop looking at your watch!
(you are missing the movie you came here for!)

and just
enjoy the ride!

what would Joy do?

love,
J

tiger watching

"you attack (and defend) only false ideas(idols)..." (633)

the ego thought system attacks itself to maintain that it exists

(pain=reality)

attack is a trick 
we would not fall for

we would not feed this tiger!


keep your fingers outside the cage.....



instead we simply watch her
from a distance
her sleek body
so beautiful
is not enough
to seduce us
into coming any closer

we leave 
this tiger 
behind







if you are upset

it MUST be 

over nothing!:-)))))


do not feed the tiger!







UP  SET

means 
you have knocked something over


what you have knocked over

is your perception(nothing else!)


and it is trying to eat you alive!



 lying on the floor 

under the bookcase

is not a position of strength

and the view is terrible




we ask our new boyfriend, Total Safety,
to take our hand
and help us get back up



standing upright
we watch the tiger slink away
we leave idolescence
 and approach adulthood



from here
we can see everything is in perfect order
safe
and unbroken
as it has always been 
before and while
 we hid under the bookcase


today we pre-occupy our mind 
with Total Safety/Grace
and leave no room imaginary tiger tricks


and we thank the Ringmaster for this view,
J

yes!

before 
you even think

of Happiness





She is there!!!!!!





clapping Her Hands
 for You!








(this 
is
Grace)



J

irresistable

Hold it!
Just a minute.....



what kind of day would i have?






a day of irresistable Joy


so light

so healed

so beyond anything I have ever experienced



All the same...

all one thing


Infinite Bliss
ride it!!!!










let go of all my preconceptions


and this is the kind of day i will have!!!!




i let go of all my parameters....





















i open....















to


what



is....









standing before me


where ever i look



is the most beautiful angel



i have ever seen






J





About Me

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I have been a student of A Course in Miracles since 1986. It has helped me tremendously to be a happier person by helping me change my perception of everything. I have found writing to be very helpful in the process of practicing, experiencing, and living the ideas in the Course. In 2006 I started sharing inspiration from the Course with a friend. Now it is a joy to share it with everyone. In 2009, The Work of Byron Katie found me at a woman's group. The Work is a way to identify and question your stressfuI beliefs. I dove right in and in April 2013 became a Certified Facilitator of The Work of Byron Katie. I work with people privately and offer online classes. Please visit www.joyofthework.com for more information. I also still occasionally lead the 11am Sunday Gathering at the Rocky Mountain Miracles Center in Denver. For more information http://www.miraclescenter.org/

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