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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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Wednesday, March 31, 2010

caressing

there is nothing(no thought)
holiness
cannot caress

bring light to

the most loving mother
loves her baby
with all her heart
no matter
what kind of dirt
it brings in
spills on her shirt
or writes on the walls...
while it thinks she is not home....

there is nothing
no act/no thought
that cannot be found innocent

oh dear baby
come feel this caress

you are my child
my light
is
you

feel my love for you

it's really very funny
to think you could hit the sun
with a mudpie!

Tuesday, March 30, 2010

no one home

where no one resides

egolessness

is my safety

no idols
to propel
and push
and pull
and devestate

God
innocence
creation

the smoothest mirror
on the face of this earth

as far inside

below

the Alps
of problems
distinctions
definitions

a constant
smile

constant
hum

i am
(the tree told me
in the middle of the night
when i asked
who would i be
without guilt?

nothing at all

the direction
is not forward...

directed out there
assertive
seeking

but
stepped back

it's the exact opposite
of the go-getter
the world at my feet

i see
this world
is not
my joy

i step backward
remove myself
desires
from it

in peace
i rest
now

in purity
perfect clarity
no blocks to love
at all
no differences of form
holding any meaning

this
i simply
am

no clasping fingers
to hold you

only purity
draws
you
near

Monday, March 29, 2010

even just one river...

today
i would see without judgement
(a story of how everything relates
to
me
me
me...)

i would let
the Father
be
seen

let the Father
come through
into awareness
in my mind

a whole Universe
before my eyes
so much
i forget
exists
in my tiny
local
focus

today
i allow
love
to be visible
felt
accepted
as it is

i let it be

all of it

absolutely amazing

even just one river,
for heaven's sake!


Sunday, March 28, 2010

innocence

innocence

completely clear

completely unblocked
Joy

pouring through (wrote purring first, and i like that alot too!)

no fear
no worries

no compartments!

no now and later
no here and there
no "difficulty "
at all

everything perfectly clear

holy purpose in everything

perfectly free=
no concept of sin

definition of God: innocence

to love God
is to cherish
your innocence (literally, now, be still
and give time to your innocence)

anything else is
devil/ego/sin
worship

put your Self
now
up
on the altar
without a speck
of truth
to the concept of sin

(imagine...what would it be like...
to live... completely without fear/suffering?)

you are a sinner who deserves death
or
perfect innocence

there is no overlap

only one can be true

today
who is your God?
Sin or Innocence?

and the choice is total...
we murder all our brothers, ourself, and God
or
we are breathless
before Innocence


Tuesday, March 23, 2010

rejoice!

rejoice!
no job can give you
your identity

nor
take it away

what child's game is this
you play

that you
can change
what you are?!@

no job has ever contributed one bit
to your value

your job makes no difference at all
plays no part at all in your identity
your source
your nature

here or there
doing this
or doing that

Spirit remains
still

calm
unmoving

forever
everything

from here
does the snowfall

from here
do our feet go out

from here
do words speak themselves

in Florida
or Spain

DQ
or the temple

Buick or
on foot

barefoot and tattered
and laying broken in the grave

Spirit never changes

forever warm
forever kind

form
has
no
effect
on
Spirit

Sunday, March 21, 2010

quest

quest

quest ion

a quest for under standing
for truth
for what lies under this
behind this

what is really going on?

thoughts are hypotheses,
theories
untested

where's the control group?

who would i be without this thought?
oh .....my......
man oh man......
wow
so that's true too
hmmmm.....

all thoughts are questions!

is this
what i am?

no, honey,
you are not your thoughts

you
are not
your body

how merciful is this
you, sweetheart,
are
the Love of GOD!

this is the seed from which you extend:
only this content

the form will change:
people
places
jobs...

but there is only one thing
you ever are
LOVE

the answer
to any thought(question/hypothesis) to the contrary
is false/negative

the definition/nature
of the ego
is
doubt

all uncertainty/fragility is ego

only God
is certain/solid/unchangeable

unquestionable

you are not your questions
you are the Answer!
to
all question....

the quest

we are rescued
now
from the mistake
that a question,
a wondering,
was a statement:

loss
is
not
possible
(this is the answer to every single question on earth!)

amen!


Wednesday, March 17, 2010

falsies :-))

reality is not insane
i have true thoughts
as well as false/insane/mistaken (p86 workbook)

falsies (false beliefs)
flimsy
unsubstantiated
appearance
image...concious
graven image
idol
believed in
to replace
cover
hide
what you think
is lacking

false claims
fake you

it is fake
and if this what you are
depending on
you have every reason to be
afraid

falsies
will never provide
a real sense of self worth--
you are not a body

you are free
of this belief

you
are
spirit
forever whole
forever undisturbed
forever unlacking
needing no defense
no substitute possible

what is overflowing
bursting forth at the seams
needs
no
padding!

we remain,
thrive,
as Love
is
Us

no shabby falsies can ever
compare
with
this
sparkling
Infinity!!!


Monday, March 15, 2010

in every house

in every house
the father lives
speaking day and night
of his love
for his son
and his will
he come home

that he know himself/his father

be no longer
a stranger
to God,
this glory
you are

all of the stars
the moon
the sky
do not compare
to the grandeur
of Heaven
endless joy (you are!)

no limit to happiness
no doubt
no fractures
no fissures
no gaps
calling for bridges

just Eternity
brimming over
right now
nothing held back from you
from what you are
at all

if God is our Father
we must
be One

Thing

as in Heaven
so on earth

devotion
is spirit

and so everything
we look upon today
everything that looks at us

we give
our deepest devotion

being
the One

Love

we are devoted to


let no man/yourself
be lacking your devotion

or
you will
feel
like
your Father has left you


Sunday, March 14, 2010

God is my name

God is my name

here is the end of all suffering

the nature of reality
is
returned to our awareness

safety is no longer foreign
but all inclusive

we cannot ever
go away

Life
is not a mere
fruitfly

to be whisked away
destroyed
with but the
softest flick

no,
life is
far beyond
our tiny thoughts
of destruction

our tears
can never
wash away joy
permanently

what rubbish
to think
we could possibly
wipe out joy
forever

or even
for an
instant

my name is God

all argument is folly
(but playful,
childishly
silly,
egocentric)
against
this Reality

the big world
unseen
and unknown to the child
remains all ways
her home,
her source,
her inheritance

what a funny thought
that we could ever
be alone
in the midst
of five billion lovers

Wednesday, March 10, 2010

Happy happy Easter!

fear is simply the thought
there is something other than God--the whole

something specific
small
a tiny part
partial evidence
partial picture
partial identity
incomplete picture
as
idol/god

leave nothing out!
(like Everything
the big picture
God!!)

forgiveness
would not ignore
holiness

the Source

the nature
of Reality

it would no longer
concoct a crazy story
based on a tiny crumb of what is

a part it found
on the floor
under a table
disregarding
everything else
in the Universe!

the whole truth
and nothing but the truth
so help me,
God....

love knows no end

it would image
nothing
other than
itself
on and on and on and on

we are sooooo blessed!

love and deepest gratitude
to all of you today

i love what we are!

Tuesday, March 9, 2010

correction

God is my Home

God is the basis of reality

on which i stand

anything else is illusion
mistake
mis take
mis interpretation

the body is not you--how funny to think this piece of mud is infinite Joy
the body is not God

God is God
and you are His Son

you did not create yourself
He did

you are created in His likeness
you must reflect God

this memory is deep within you
and it makes total sense

it is this correction of error
you have been seeking
since time began

now we know what
the mistake is

we need seek no more
to find happiness
where none can be found...
the refrigerator
car
tv
boyfriend
house
war
truce
election
environment
vacation
and on and on and on....

you were created by God

you now
have
everything
you could ever
want


purity

only purity is true

purity is life
strength itself

anything else is but attack
a thought of weakness
a forgetting/dissociation
of purity

but never
for a moment
changes Purity/Reality

Heaven's Open Arms
opening as wide as eternity
only open
to welcome you
all of you
to welcome the infinity
you are

a heavenly mind
outlook
sees
to take all of you in
so big
bigger than big
joy is the only word big enough
bigger than any form
far beyond a tiny speck of flesh

all gates have disappeared
now there is no difference at all
between Heaven
and
you

Monday, March 8, 2010

hilarious mr. policeman

hilarious mr. policeman

how funny:

you go here
you go there
you say this
you say that

all just the same content
of not knowing
what i am
reflected
in this play

instead of continuation
of more
of the same

i would stop
sit down on the corner
and be quiet

and remember
i do not know
which way to go
what i am
or where i am going

maybe
i'll just stop
and be still

stop running

stop the tape
pause

is that true?
no

how about that?
no

that?
no

ohhhhhhhh.....


one

God is the love
in which my heart swells

and becomes all i am
all i see anywhere

it becomes all of time
every second
but a place for
heartness
heartiness

can you feel it now?
heartiness is shared
is one thing
not mine
or yours

heartiness is the quality of
life itself
all life
must be hearty
absolutely overflowing with
itself,
love

meeting
extending
everywhere
yes
on and on and on and on....

we never meet
for the first time

because
we have never been
apart
(a part)

child's play

all thoughts
are one thing

like children
they do seem to be many
calling out to us,
watch me!!!

look at this!
see me summersault,
flop down on the bed:
my name is defeat!

i am very powerful

my name is failure--
i am a more powerful idea
than love
my daddy is bigger than yours!

my name is wimpy--
i am a very attractive idea;
let's spend the day together

my name is fear--
let's run away together--
it's fun to go shopping!

a parade of ideas/concepts
all day long

seeming like a lot
but really only one

One idea
come home
be still

everything is a reminder:
God is

Sunday, March 7, 2010

what am i?

the pool
of clarity
is
my home

all the way to the bottom
i can see
every stone
and its harmlessness
it blocks nothing

a rock is simply a rock
it does no harm
to the water

the clarity of water
is not marred
by sand stirred up

it still remains
forever water
crystal clear forever
its nature

the sand may rise and fall
but never
will clarity
disappear


Wednesday, March 3, 2010

endless joy

endless joy
is the happiest
thought
i can think of

why would i toss it out
the train window?!

what could ever
push me
to do such a thing?

it can
only be
a bad dream!

certainly
in reality
Joy
would never
kill herself

Joy holds
no murder

it simply isn't
so

it is simply
a ridiculous
thought
that we could
ever throw away
what we are

it is not sin

it simply isn't so

it never happened

the impossible
did not occur

Joy remains
our identity

Accept
this
Fact
and all joy
is yours

Tuesday, March 2, 2010

my name is open

my name is open

i am not a wall
built of bricks
and numbered

vertebrae
and ribs
and bones
that crack into a million pieces
scattered on the beach as sand

i am open
to include
all of it

the grains of the sand on the beach
are but a miniscule
part
of the whole

how could i possibly
leave out
everything else
and
be
what i am?

the joy
of wholeness!

open
channel
to
receive

to hear
to allow
to carry

never
am i
more
myself
than this!

virgin

without defenses

only tenderness

wonder

facing the opposite direction
we have for so long held

that of defense
and difference
and knowing the constant need and effort
for protection
in every moment
even while sleeping at night

now

the depth of
tenderness

approaches
us

expands and opens

and keeps opening

and opening
and
opening

what?
is
this?

not the small word
from my past
from my dictionary

no relation to
things
of this world

the unknowing

the wholly surrendered
frame
paradigm
all meaning

is
met

fully met

with a surprise
and wonder

pockets keep opening

and exclaimed at silently

what is this place?

this sparkling space
where attack
has never lived
at all?

tenderness is
so very
very
virgin

Monday, March 1, 2010

all the way through

i am not a body

spirit is my name
and no other

no other name but this is true

what would you call me
other than Heart?
other than Song?
other than Life Force
in Full Bloom?

inside out
and outside in

all one
burst
of spires

in spires
out spires
but never
expired

this for certain:
continuity
consistency
one thing all the way through

what is spirit
must
forever be
Itself

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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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