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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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Sunday, January 31, 2010

wordlessness

nothing can infiltrate love

attack on love?

are you crazy?

viruses eating away parts of love?

love gives itself freely
eat me
eat of me
All of me
feast on me
take all you want!!!

my Joy is yours

i love you!
i see you,
you harmless
mistaken
dreamer,
with hands over your eyes!

oh what loveliness you are,
dear innocent child

live with me
within me

there is no part of me
that can be destroyed

i am not form

there is no form i don't come through
and no form destroyed that effects me in any way

i am the air you breathe
the sun on your back
the seed from which you arose

eternity is one name
spirit yet another

the truth,
but wordless,
yet all power
all strength
that is
was
or ever will be...

Saturday, January 30, 2010

God is

God is

Joy lives

Joy loves
everything

she simply continues to shine
amidst all the thoughts
of this and that

of the particular,
the part

joy is all of the space
surrounding it

shining so brightly
her light on it

her pinkish light
her greenish light
her bluish light...

she casts...
her shadow
on it

so that joy is always visible,
unmistakable

no where
no tiny corner remains
without the perspective of joy

hi there!
she waves
she surprises!!!

yes, oh what a lovely lovely
friendly
surprise!
we all have waiting for us

afraid for so long
to open the padlocked
dark
chest

to ever think of it
barring all images of it
from our mind

now
we have begun
to investigate
to explore
this most ancient
of frontiers

and behind those plastic skeletons
those see-thru ghost costumes

there I AM
Joy JOy joy and more joy

singing so, of course,
joyously

yes, way off the ground!
and just like a child
who is finally discovered
in a game of hide and seek...

who can barely wait for his
loving parent
to discover him...

She leaps out at me
wraps her arms around me

and so welcomes
the mirror image
i am

into One
big laugh!


Thursday, January 28, 2010

evergiving

heaven speaks through you
to everyone
in the way
they
can hear

being
like water
enters the cracks
in drips
or trickles
or rivers

wherever the opening is

it will sit forever
waiting silently
and patiently
and perfectly
for the moment
an ear
a mind
a heart
opens the tiniest crack

some will hear your laughter
as their own
and like the ocean waves
let it swell up
as large as it is
and cover them completely
in its joy

to move them
and lift them
and rotate
their point of view

others may stand silent
not understanding
but feeling something
deep
move
within

a yearning
awakened

a moment
of leaving behind
familiar things

this Song of Heart
is
the greatest gift

the only gift
there ever
is


Friday, January 22, 2010

yes, baby, yes


the stream

is so

gentle


and then

into the river

it rushes


and carries


literally

carries

us


beyond any capacity

of our little self

to stop

this

surging


all coming

together

to gather


at the

ocean


all

coming

together

to gather

at the ocean


the waves crash

and continue

on and on and on

as far as we can see

and beyond...


awake and asleep

day and night

and dawn

and dusky

and even when i am feeling lost and confused

and crazy

as i've ever been...


soothing

continuous

a rhythm

so certain

so safe

so

assuring


we rest


rocked

forever

in

the

cradle

Monday, January 18, 2010

i am safe

i am safe

i need nothing

it doesn't matter
what cartons you move
around the room

how you arrange them
the order they arrive
nor what they contain
nor how many
nor how old
how ancient
or how many times
you have believed
you were the dress
you were wearing

i am not the cartons
or the contents

thoughts simply arrive in your mind

come through the window
into the room

waiting for you
to put them on
and act them out
or
not

i see this

attack, guilt, fear
have no effect
on me
or anyone

i
am
safe

"In me is His creation sanctified
and guaranteed eternal life.
In me is love perfected, fear impossible,
and joy established without opposite.
I am the holy home of God Himself.
I am the Heaven where His Love resides.
I am His Holy Sinlessness Itself, for in my purity
abides His Own." (Course workbook p479)


Saturday, January 16, 2010

amazing face

i saw it last night
for the first time

a man's face
made 1000
different moves
in each moment

it was impossible to count
to see
it all

even just one eye...
i watched
entranced

i've never seen
this miracle before
though i thought i'd seen
1000 faces at least
10,000
100,000
who knows the number

i never saw at all
the continual
tiny miracles

an eye shifting ever so slightly
and everything around it
eyelashes
angles
shapes
lids
tilt of head and nose
and
smiles!

oh my gosh!
a smile
just exploding
all over the face!

we do
break
into a smile

oh yes

the whole being
breaks free
from all other thoughts

have you seen
the infinite movements
of a head
changing positions

completely done
for it
through it

no intention
of tilting the head
to this exact posture
in space

yet every moment
all day long
it happens

life!

always dancing!

eyes
always dancing

even in sleep
the mind
performs

the greatest show
on earth

how very very dear
is every face

watch
your
Self

be
lived


no ifs!

no bargains
no compromise
no loss
no exchange

no waiting... to give...
to see if it is justified...
if this person
circumstance
situation
is worthy of your time
and love

no withholding

"no selling the pearl"
if you....
no conditions for truth

God is not "iffy"

the poor--
ignorant
unkowning
forgetful
asleep

and the beggars--
desperate
despair

rejoiced
rejoined


be cause
of joy (be the cause
of joy!)

be cause
of the man/messenger/mind
Who gives freely
(without charge)


NO COST
NONE!!

only Grace

do you hear this?

no time
spent with God
could ever possibly
leave you
with less,
not more

life
love
joy
light
rich experience

it is not possible
that your thought
turn to God
and is not healed

for this
is
healing

God is
the richest place
on earth

freely give God

to you
to everyone
in every moment

no happier
path
than this
exists


Wednesday, January 13, 2010

trusting defenselessness

trusting defenselessness
trusting honesty
trusting
what is

i open my cupboard
and find
amazing gifts
i had no idea
were there

for who can see
behind closed doors

to open everything you are
to self examination
no judgement
just what is

the light
now transforms
the shadows
into spectacular light shows

illuminating
secret fears
so we can see
the gifts of tenderness
and deep compassion
where before
we felt
a
gap


open
doors
hide
nothing

and
now
there is
nothing left
to fear

Tuesday, January 12, 2010

stop the car!

we can't see the view
at 100 mph!

stop the car!!!

we slow down
the racing
frantic mind

so we can see!

one moment of forgetfulness
and you would wipe out the rest of time

the consistency
the practice
the devotion
the commitment
your marriage to God
your proactivity
your deliberate decisionmaking
the authentic true love in your heart

because of one tiny
instant of forgetting....

that is not reasonable

that is hysterics!

slow it down
writing slows down the mind
from racing off
cliffs
and crashing
and burning
and losing control
around hairpin turns of events....

slow down the mind
stop now
and watch...

stop
the
car!

and
see

the
beautiful
over
view...


refreshment

ego: i am a hypocrite;
you don't practice
what you preach

Love:
i am a student
of the Master

i have lessons to learn
to review

you are learning/reviewing
that your sinlessness is guaranteed
by God

going back over the evidence
which is so surely there,
but forgotten

we are refreshing
our memory

this is a refresher course

that's why it all rings true

it's not really new
or different
or radical

it's Home
it's the only true home
the only truth
we've ever known
because it's the only thing
that is true

we hear it
and everything else
falls away

we hear it
and we feel
restored
to safety

we hear it
and we never want to leave
this peace
this innocence

we hear it
and we want
to remain in this
state of mind
forever

the freshness
sparkles

ever fresh
ever lovely
ever without the possibility
of anything else

without end
timeless

refreshed!

Monday, January 11, 2010

what is too much?

what is too much?

to one
a moment of your joy
is overbearing

to another
he cannot drink
enough of you

who is it
that would tell you
you should be different?

only one
who is blind
to your joy


Let the Master speak!

let
the Universe carry you
love you
come through you

let lifejoylaughter express
through you

just relax
let go
let it come
through
you

let it all
come to you
it is all loving

i let the Master speak
teach
through me

i simply get out of the way
leave the door open
and let
the Master
speak

the Master is!
there is no denying this

the Master lives!

and you are but a speaker
for
his words
for revelation
for music of the soul
that we may flow again

that all frozenness
is melted away
by these
Ideas
of
the Master



for the very first time

laughter is!
you didn't make it

think what it was like
when you opened your eyes
for the very first time

your mother's loving eyes
warmth
milk
covers
closeness
air
nothing to do
but be

imagine now
you are opening your eyes
for the very first time
and see
all
that is
given
you


the underworld

the
underworld
subconcious
is showing itself to me

hello joy
you believe this thought
that you are a fragment
partial
needing something
for completion

you will "kill" anyone
you will "kill" God
to meet this false need

as long as you believe
it is true

the underworld
is my friend

is where i can meet
every idea
in silence

i can watch her dance
slither
sing the ancient song

and thank her
for sharing her entire existence with me

and watch
as
she
dis appears...




rock is

judgement is always illogical
biased
a pre-verdict
a "spin"
which selects out a few parts
to prove it is the whole

a lie!

placed upon reality
simply what is
a rock
a tree
a man
a woman
period

reality is life

you are here
by no effort of your own
your Mother pushed you out into the world/life
you breathed without thought

she fed you
she bathed you
held you
carried you
everywhere

and so it still is

we are carried
ideas never stop coming to us
through us

we are breathed

the provider of all this
is still providing everything

lay down your plan
your story

and remember
you have done nothing
to deserve all this

it just is

stop thinking you are God
long enough to see

what God
has really done

in one person
one flower

is All
of Heaven


unreasonable

fear is always
illogical
unreasoned
and unreasonable

give me this!
it shrieks
i need this!
not seeing
it already has that
and everything else
lovingly tucked in her back pocket
by her everloving Mother

no, you don't understand
my unique predicament
something
will always go wrong
no one will ever want to marry me
or hire me
or be my friend
because
i am fear!

and fear doesn't know
how to do or be anything but fear

so everywhere i go
that's all i can see in the mirror
in my job interview
the other fears me
on date
the other fears me...

and all the time
who is this fear?
but a moment of being startled
and then it is gone
and sanity returns

and we can see
we are surrounded
by loving friends and family
everywhere we go and look and think

and we see
how illogical
it was
to ever fear

and we laugh
that in the presence of the most
beautiful amazing beings
we have ever seen
we could ever
have
"feared"
them



Wednesday, January 6, 2010

prop open the door

just keep the door open

and Heaven

is flowing

out
through
you

all the time

God will never cry for you

"the Holy Spirit will never
teach
that you
are sinful" (text p454)

God will never
cry
for you!

He maintains your shining face
for you

He maintains
that infinite Joy
can never
leave you

He maintains
your purity is impossible
to pollute--
for anything else
to enter it

He maintains your nature
is Godlike
and
forever
Godlike

He maintains your strength

He gives you everything
you are
and maintains
there is nothing in you
that is not of Him

He maintains
you are completely free!

God will never cry for you!


Sunday, January 3, 2010

home

i carry my home
with me
across the desert sands

an umbrella for the sun
and storm

though wet
i will surely get
and sunburned
from time to time

i hold it all
within easy reach

the comfort
of my soul

below the hot sand
the water lays
cool
pure
and sweet

everything i need
underground
protected
from it all


stay with her

stay with her
(dedicated to all daughters
of God)

stay with her
as she glides across the floor

as she swirls and merges
the chocolate
and vanilla

the melted
and the frozen

stay with her

as she begins
to slowly
open her eyes

as the light
gently falls upon
her face

as dawn peeks
through
the curtain in her mind

stay with her

as she rises
from the ground

the steam wafting
away
in the morning light

stay with her
stay with your girl

as she matures
as she begins to step forward
out of time

as she leaves
all she has known
behind

stay with her
stay with her
stay with her
and
you'll be fine



where is my heart?

where is my heart this morning?

i've got to be home
with myself
sitting in my kitchen

i love my company
who is deeper than i?
all people are here with me
in the silence

there is
only
depth

patience questions
and answers
that knock on the door
before entering

sometimes children rush in
to interrupt
in their urgency

but mother sees this
and loves them
with all her heart

i love to be alone
in my kitchen
with all my children
around me

my pen puts them down
on paper
where i can greet them
properly
and share them
with
the world


stillness

here
in the pool
i sit

dissolving
all
dissonance

all miss matching thoughts
all out of placeness
all hypotheticals

lingering softly
the breeze fades

stillness
pervades
every cell

resting

in total ease
in total support

nothing to do
but
be

motion ended
the steam now rises softly
and goes out to all creation

moisture dripping
from the leaves

the rainforest
brings forth

the canopy
the shelter
the life
the joy
of
continuous play

rooted
in
perfect
stillness


Friday, January 1, 2010

de-housed

de-housed

i left my walls
today

oh how straight
up and down
they have given me

a view
of
flatness
and
facade
and
this side
and
that

how very kind
walls have been to me
while i needed them
there
to help me
feel safe

i didn't know
they didn't

i gave them
total trust
and faith

even
while they burned

i trusted plaster walls
with my life!
WOW!!!

if this
isn't illusion
and childish
and really
just plain blind
and goofy....

like an old sitcom
that repeats
the same
old
jokes

how very funny
that i would count on plaster...
for anything!

old boyfriends
old self concepts
old parents
and toys
and knick knacks...

ye shall know the truth
and the truth shall
set you free:

plaster melts
in the rain

plaster cracks
under pressure

plaster
is nothing more
than you make it

plastic
world
bends

open roof
open walls

opening

the angel
is everywhere

Here
in
the other
is He


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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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