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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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Thursday, January 29, 2009

Power

without attack

is all Power available
is all Power released
is all Power in our awareness


close the door no more

what is boarded up 
is not at your disposal


it is WE
who abandoned the idea of God--
the idea of perfect Sanity
the idea of perfect Purity
the idea of perfect Love
the idea of Perfect Joy
the idea of Innocence


behind boards
nailed across windows
it remains shining
shining
shining
forever strong
forever powerful

forever What It Is

True
and 
Free



enlightenment IS but a recognition

God IS IN our  mind


we let our resistance fall away

knowing what is behind the boards
we joyously 
and effortlessly 
let them fall to the ground

the wood has rotted
and falls apart of itself
once we no longer desire it

we gave it but the illusion of strength

now that our sight 
and heart
are returned to the content
to the Light
to the True

there IS nothing else.



love and gratitude,
Joy

Monday, January 26, 2009

cookies

only happiness is creative

sadness is the opposite of happiness
a denial of it
a block of its awareness
creates nothing


happiness

bounces!
springs
leaps
dances
swirls
rolls
glides
takes off
rises
elates
elevates ALL

lights us up!

from deep within

heals all sadness
by warmth of the kitchen fire

today we warmly invite
any cold thoughts
to come into our kitchen
for warm milk and cookies...


warm  and loving,
Joy

Saturday, January 24, 2009

holy mirror

no one is ever at fault for anything

we see but our own mind


if something seems out of place

we can only see it by looking in the  mirror




we CANNOT SEE IT 

BY OURSELF!!!!


we give infinite gratitude for the mirror

that we may SEE

what is out of place

and also see how to put it back in order


This is the holy relationship.


no one is ever at fault


we are only here to be truly helpful.


today we give thanks for every single one of our mirrors...

love,
Joy

Tuesday, January 20, 2009

shining knight!

we are all shining knights!!!

here to save the world

the armor of defenselessness

protects us from all thoughts of attack


we simply shine and shine and shine and shine

and radiate and radiate and radiate and radiate


and all the world warms up with us


our rays of Joy
bouncing
bounding
sparkling
everywhere

the chemistry of Happiness
of Life Itself

Spirit

God

forever and ever and ever

enriching
exciting
renewing
and
refreshing
Itself

love 

that I am my own shining knight!

my salvation comes from me(L70)


and i love all you mirror images!!!!!

we rock!!!

love,
Joy

Monday, January 19, 2009

total innocence

your grace is given me (L168)

claim it now


acknowledge it.


God speaks to us.


Grace
Total Innocence
Perfect Love

nothing else

is GIVEN

is OURS NOW

we ACKNOWLEDGE IT

(Here is the entire Course!)

there is NOTHING 
i need do
to earn it

NOTHING 
i need do
to pay for it
to get it


I AM IT
Infinite Joy
Maximal Love

Love is always maximal
 or it is the illusion of Love

Joy is constantly increasing
or it is the illusion of Joy

you have substituted 
fake
cartoon
of Joy

today we would accept 
no cartoon of God
no cartoon of our Self

we acknowledge only
the Real Thing
beyond any words
beyond this world
beyond all limits,
concepts, percepts

we let it all go
and
we allow Grace to be 

i LOVE you!
joy

Saturday, January 17, 2009

outrageous love

the immensity of defense struck me today

the image in my mind of spending gazillions of dollars
to kill people
to lock them up 
to lock ALL OUR THINGS up

and we call it/think of it as SECURITY/SAFETY


ALL OUR TIME IS SPENT TRYING TO PROTECT OURSELVES from each other

holy shit!!!!
no wonder we have relationship "problems".....

of course if we hate each other, we have a "problem" loving each other...
it doesn't even make sense to say it.....


this is our mind!!!!!!

my mind!!!

i own it!!!


i see it!


we have taken the most dangerous drug ever: 
FEAR

and are overcome by complete PARANOIA...


we see it
we see it
we SEE IT!!!!

Hurray!!!
good news at last!!!


that means we have been given help


what in the hell do i do now?@!! that i chose this!!@?

i see that i don't really want this,


what is the most radical thing i can do?
how do i leave this mess behind?

i smile
i am free
i laugh at it
that i ever thought this could possibly bring me happiness

i call up my dear innocent holy friend
and i tell her my latest ego drama

and we LAUGH AND LAUGH AND LAUGH OUR HEADS OFF!!!
 we are free!!!!!!!!

Holy Spirit help me to see the HUMOR in this????

we haven't put Funny in a straightjacket like we have Love.
Sometime we think of Love as "serious".....

Heavens, no!

so we go with funny!

Holy Humor!

Tell a joke!
it's universal!
it's a radical new way of seeing a situation

we watch the drama with a Friend
and see that it is really a ridiculous comedy!


the gazillion dollars spent on killing people in the name of our safety
represents how much we hate ourselves--it is but the attack we have on our Self.
It's an image of how much we are in denial of God!


So today we opt out
we don't buy it


instead we give ourselves some Outrageous Love!!!
that's just another name for Truth/God/Reality

and we laugh as we never have before.......

love to each and everyone of you,
Joy

belly laughter

your heart
your gut
your belly

laughter

needs no defense

nor would it offer any

it but GIVES

and gives 

and gives

and gives....


laughter is contagious

it never takes


our function is to laugh


you can't help but laugh 
when someone else is rolling on the floor
in laughter

it is the most natural thing in the world

it goes on and on and on and on...

all around the world...all the time...

someone is always laughing 
even in this world 

(now that is some very good news....)

no intellect, no effort, no hesitation, no thought

this is God's plan for salvation/laughter
and only this plan will work

we demonstrate only laughter
because that is what we are!

what other plan could possibly be more fun?!@!

all joy,
Joy

drugfree

defense is a response

to a thought of lack

which takes the idea  of lack/threat SERIOUSLY



now we are in deep shit


we've taken a hit from the fear pipe

it flows through our veins
poisons our heart
immobilizes our decison maker

the hallucinations 
the fantasies
the trips 
begin

we are lost in "wonderland"

now everything in this unreality seems but real--

amazing or frightening or ecstatic  

but never for long

change is certain


and the end of this trip as well


we realize the effects of our fear taking

and we realize the cause

and we would no longer pop pills of fear

ADDICTION IS NOT FREEDOM


we recognize the pusher

when he comes  around

and recognize we no longer want the disastrous effects


we would no longer lose
our family
our friends
our Self
we would no longer lose our true identity
FOR NOTHING

we would no longer be homeless
under a bridge
surviving on scraps and crumbs

this is no place for Joy

today we choose Joy instead
and let ourselves be drawn to Her
wholly without fear

today we walk freely 
toward God
with no other possible goal in sight

in defenselessness lies God
in defenselessness is all freedom
in defenselessness I AM

love, Joy

Friday, January 16, 2009

(video) in defenselessness my safety lies

Lesson 153 from A Course in Miracles

PULL OUT THE NEEDLE!

defenses keep us fearfullllllllllll

feed our fear

bloat it

IV it

a continual feed

a narcotic

to keep us drugged

under the influence of fear

hallucinatiing
wild figures
deranged
nightmares
delusion
crime and punishment


PULL OUT THE
friggin' NEEDLE!

UNPLUG THE DRUG!

remove the fear from your thought system

and only the Son is shining


only your Innocence remains

the Infant--before the addiction

still in her Mother's Arms

totally loved

beyond measure

Creation remains shining

as Innocent as God Himself


Defenselessness sparkles

All Joy

Forever untouched

we lay down every idea
 we have ever held

Here is transcendence


today we kick the habit

we are clean and free
Joy

p.s.   fear literally is a drug


it does produce chemical changes in our body


which is why


it is so much easier


not to take the drug in the first place



it is very hard


to think straight


once we have


taken a hit......




love you,

Joy

Tuesday, January 13, 2009

POWER!!!

the POWER 
of 
DECISION




ALL POWER

in 

Heaven and earth




What do you WANT?

no time is EVER better spent
than here



here
is 
everything!!!!!!



right here
your Will



what channel?

what movie?

happily ever after....

or 

doom and destruction....

(there are only 2 channels, not 500.....)



right now

STOP STOP STOP STOP STOP

are you completely
wholly surrounded by 
JOY


is your  mind effervescent

bubbling over

on its tip toes

are you leaping with gratitude

are you speechless 

from the glory you envision?



ALL you have to DECIDE

is if you WANT THIS?

or not.....


it IS THAT SIMPLE!!!!!!

do you want

will you accept

that you deserve

to be God!!!!!!!!

that you are Spirit

and only Joy beyond measure is possible



God has already decided for you

you/we are AMAZING JOY

and we give unending thankyou kisses to everything we see!

love,
Joy

Monday, January 12, 2009

Thank God!



nothing changes

ever


no matter how crazy

how negative
how angry
how insane 
how wacky
how depressed

how seemingly powerful 


our mistaken thinking


nothing happens!


Love is unbroken

Communication is unbroken


you can't break Love/God


you can never even disturb Peace
a little...

your ego is completely without power 
to effect any change at all


the idea is completely unshared by anyone else


no one else owns it
no one else agrees with it
no one else gives it life
or empowers it

it dies quietly and quickly
a very shortlived match
given no fuel

seen for a second
and then no more

THANK GOD!

Love is now
all ready 
and always
separation never occured and never occurs and never can occur


Thank God Reality remains

tininess an unheard whisper

and God laughing laughing and laughing 
no matter what we come up with.....


Happy day!
Joy

Thursday, January 8, 2009

(video) love is all there is


Music helps us remember.

payment

"payment is neither given nor received." wb135, 9:4

where Infinity flows forth constantly
through everyone and everything and everythought in every moment


the idea of payment is a joke!


exchange is ridiculous!


God's laws give forever 
and never never never take.


Loss is impossible!!!!!!!!







ONLY ENDLESS JOY.................
FEEL IT!
NOW

IT IS HAPPENING 
HAPPENING 
HAPPENING
now!

i am not a body, i am freeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee.........................................
thank you!
Joy

let go!

while you seek for salvation

in things that have no meaning

anything specific
form
anything that is not eternal


you bind yourself to matter

to limitation
tininess
to laws that make no sense

you bind your experience 

to only

what you  think know now

which is nothing!:-)))))))))))(be glad you are wrong!)


today
we recognize
we don't know what God is


we let go of all idea that we know anything about God
about what would bring us happiness
about what our best interests are

and open as wide as we can possibly open...
so that
something so much vaster....

so much farther beyond 
our tiny current scope....

something so extraordinary....

sooooooooo outside our box....


can be revealed......

now

God knows the way to us
we do not  know the way to Him

love,
J

Monday, January 5, 2009

you are

it's not about striving for perfection
it's not about striving to be

all that you are

it's about letting go

of the crap!

that is in the way

the crap that you have been telling yourself...


You are the Holy Son of God right now!!

in gratitude,
J

i am not a body

i am         no  a body

Spirit leads

Spirit is the force

Spirit is the guiding Light
the guiding power


Spirit is Joy that would express Itself/Joy

it MUST express
because of what it is
its nature
IS EXPRESSION
extension
EXPANSION

CREATION

all pain 
is simply 
ignoring
the truth in you
the spirit in you

SHE WILLS TO SING!!!!

silence is painful to a singer
it is the same as if she had her vocal chords removed
as if SHE NEVER USES THEM!!!


a dancer who never moves
MUST FEEL DEAD
and sinful inside

so one who has forgotten what Love is,
and yet
IS LOVE ITSELF
MUST SUFFER to the depths of his soul
from not loving

today we let go of every single tiny detail
of all our preconceptions of 
WHAT WE ARE

if we have been suffering in any way
WE DO NOT KNOW
WHAT WE ARE

we let go of the false images/ideas
we have had of life
our self
of God
of reality

and we WAIT
wholly open minded
wholly open hearted
wholly open handed

for our true Joy

and ONLY
FROM HERE

will we know
what to do
that will bring us Joy


in God's Name,
Joy

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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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