Wow. Another year! I don’t know how it is for you all, but the seemingly longer I am around, the more time seems to belong to the play of the psyche. What a gift this awareness is. I have noticed, as I’m sure you have, that time is the servant of presence. In love time stretch eternally into the now. Whereas resistance, well, it drags one back and forth through fear constructs; from past to anticipated future.

What I have seen for myself is that whenever I look into time directly, it is nowhere to be found. I find only the present of now; the attention and love which I, myself, come to this moment with, is exactly what I find.

I have chosen the path less habituated, the road less often traveled: The Joyous~Love expanse; THE PATH OF UNCONDITIONAL HAPPINESS… This is an irrefutable decision… It is unwavering.

No half measures, no yah-buts, no tomorrows… no excuses…

It is Joy Now; which is always.

I mean, why not be happy? In any situation from disappointment to death, how possibly could my choosing to be unhappy help, or even effect, the situation one iota? It can not. Furthermore, it is only when I am happy now, not burdened by worries or regrets, that I have any access to a clear mind with which to think.

Joy+faith=clarity

It is the most honest thing we can do. Choose the consummate expansive of genuine happiness! This is my invitation to human kind for 2010. Make the choice for happiness, NOW!

It’s this easy. I open my heart, and keep it that way. I just keep releasing any contraction, which is merely a misunderstanding of energy.  I just let go and keep letting go. I let that energy reformat to joy. I give you (everyone) back to yourself, by having no expectations or agendas ‘for’ you.

It is an experience of imperturbable inner peace to release the world. This release one to the recognition of being Awake now!

This is what I have delineated.

Everything is for~giving…

We are constantly given the chance to review our minds via the world around us and distinguish if we are happy with what we see, and if not, choose to see it differently, in other words change our mind. It is the science of forgiveness and I for one have never been bored a minute, nor without subjects for review.

A few years ago, I came to this analogy about the sliding effect while watching forgiveness reformat my life. It felt completely natural, whatever shifts were made, seemed like they had been there all along, no residual angst. Yet in attempting an analytical review, I could not reasonably connect the dots as to how a situation congested with guilt and shame, anger or resentment, could transform itself to one of unity and love, teeming with genuine care and kindness… How did it get that way? Perception-Slide………..

Deciding for happiness seems to be the portal…to…Peace of mind and the new world. Forgiveness imparts openness, where becoming takes a sideline to being. Point of view becomes Spirit-view…

Inadvertently, what reveals itself as well is that seeking anything outside oneness, including ‘spiritual-ness’, is the domain of the ego mind. Plain and simple.

I have felt that having children in this life has been a direct line to the purity of innocence and love (often through the main-line forgiveness I.V.).

As a parent, when anger, frustration, the desire to control outcomes, surfaces up, there’s not far to look to see the source of my discomfort.

I love you, see. So if I seem to be feeling something else, it must be that I have lost touch with my love. Which incidentally, is what I am and you are. In other words, I have slipped into amnesia, and forgotten who I/we are…. I wish only to re-member us…

The forgiveness is the perception magic button which invites the miracle of love to correct our unbelief in both our divinity. This frees us to respond generously to the ever-increasing desire to give all to all.

This reflection of our absolute oneness with each other rests certainly in our mind, as the memory that we are at the same time one with God.

How joyous it is to feel certain. Forever in peace.

It is the way of joy… There’s nothing personal about it.

We come to see that, truly, our thoughts are images that we have made, allows us to look deeper, feel deeper, trust deeper… into the stillness of Love…the certainty of God…. … The pure joy of unconditional happiness!

This is my Christmas prayer: May we recognize the light of joy within us as the Christmas Star it is and make the unbreakable vow to live the life of total and complete happiness and shine our light for everyone, everywhere to see.

Merry Christmas ~ Thank you~ I love you~

A FEAST OF GRATITUDE

This being the Thanks-giving season and all, offers the

perfect opportunity to express the true energy pulse that

beats my heart on a day to day basis… GRATITUDE!

It is by the Grace of God that I recognize the perfect beauty that is my life…

It could have gone so many other ways. I have explored every category of personal rejection through judgment, using denial and distraction and escape in every form, till the breaking-point of self-defined… And in the total inhalation of the made-up me, I saw the light! ~That is Grace!

~The Truth waits patiently for us to give up putting our interpretation; labels &  names (judgments) on Life, with the joyous fullness of creation that is our birthright.

Each day unfolds a new me to befriend and love and champion, through relationship. Be it my so-called children, my perfect partner/spouse, the sweet grammylady at WildFoods that wants to bless my life by sharing about her children and grandchildren while we look for coconut oil, or the man outside the dollar store who wants to bless me by washing my window and receiving my gratitude for it.

Here’s what I’ve noticed. Everyone wants to give and be received. And what we give is always the best we have at the time. We need to receive; our self and whoever and whatever is being offered. This completes us.

GIVING AND RECEIVING are major ingredient in the LOVE DIET.

This is THANKSGIVING! And, Thanksgiving is everyday, when you choose the LIFE OF UNABRIDGED LOVE.

The LIFE OF UNABRIDGED LOVE ; is the Life of Gratitude. It heals everything and everyone…

It’s like a simply dropping a single tear of joy into the water of Life it mingles and mixes and joyafies the entire pool!

Thank you! I love you!

It’s amazing the joy I feel right now!

That joy~ that is my Self!

Isn’t that something?  Certainty reigns. I know my Self. I feel me in every smile and conversation; the laughter and tears and wholly communion with all my brothers~~~ make that sister’s today.

I just got back from my Sister’s Retreat.

Every moment was a feast of beauty, taste and gorgeous gratitude; each instant, one which blessed the world with whole love and wholly oneness.

Inspired, in Spirit, the feast is one of GIVING, FORGIVING, RECEIVING, LIVING, CREATING and LOVING

ENJOY EVERYTHING! That is my maxim! No matter whatever else is seemingly going on; from the laughter to the tears, the serenity of chopping wood and carrying water (cleaning house) to the ‘high drama of personal relationships’. I have learned that just behind the scenes of all of it is the call to joy.

ENJOY BEING PRESENT AND ACCOUNTED FOR. For me this has been key !  Being willing to not only be accounted for, but to account for myself; for my presence in my life, changed my life!

My presence is the only present I have to offer. And, it turns out the only way I can receive the gift of your presence. This Present of LOVE, is GOD. It is GOD’S PRESENCE, experienced as JOY.

JOY IS THE AUTHENTICATION THAT ONE IS INDEED PRESENT TO ONES LIFE.

How wide can I stretch my arms and embrace the subtle and the gross?

~ BIG AS THE UNIVERSE~ that’s how large and wide and magnificent my LOVE is. LOVE IS ALL. AND JOY AND LOVE ARE ONE. 

  I have found that my experience with eating, as with all things, has to be set right from the onset. The goal is JOY; to joyously experience the LOVE that is what is REAL and PRESENT in everything.

So here are some centering thoughts I take into my eating experience.

1. Enjoy fully everything I AM!

~ Fully enjoy everything I eat~

Therefore~

2. I must Be only what I really am!

~ Eat only what I really enjoy~ 

 This is what I do and it works for me, perfectly.

I just keep in mind, the light of joy to see my day by. This lets me remember that the body is a communication device for the purpose of communicating light; which is joy and happiness.

All the rules about nutrition, balanced food intakes, yada, yada, yada… It’s just more of the ego’s ploy to keep us physicalizing our experience of living.

Well, that is not where the living is happening.

Living is of God. Life has no opposite for it is God. As we forgive the world, rules like the ones around food; what to eat, how much, when and where really start to slip in our mind.

They just can’t hold water, they can’t hold up in the light of understanding that only love is real.

The relationship of body and food naturally begins to reflect the JOY of the release from burdens no longer believed.

 Eating, like everything in the forgiven life, has a reverence to it. We chop wood and carry water and taste God as we smell the sweet encouragement of the orange we are peeling, inviting us to join… We begin to see the gift within what we eat, as well as the eating experience. Naturally, eating this gift becomes an expression of gratitude for its welcome and extension of all of itself for union…

We don’t gobble, because we are void of nothing, we are but receiving…and it is our receiving that brings satisfaction.  

Our hunger is the sign that we are prepared to receive this gift.

If we TAKE it instead of RECEIVE the food, we waste the opportunity for joining and we will not be satisfied. 

You’ve experienced this difference. Be honest with yourself in this. LOVE is always the answer; the approach that allows us to receive so we can give…

For-give the past and receive the Present.

The groovy thing about the Holy Spirit’s curriculum is that you always get another chance to forgive and see things differently.

And there is never a better time than now.

The Holy Spirit is always now.

Our distractions and delays only took place in the past, which is gone. So now is the moment you will receive, for it is God’s Will that you have received His gifts, now.

“God’s Will for you is complete peace and joy, unless you experience ONLY this you MUST be refusing to acknowledge His Will. His Will does not vacillate, being changeless forever…”

Here’s to feasting on joy!

I love you~

I LOVE CHOCOLATE.   There are times (alot of times) in a girls life when CHOCOLATE is the perfect expression and extention of  LOVE.  It is to be tasted in reverence and lavished on oneself in friendship and the greatest honor.

CHOCOLATE wants nothing from you. That is its purpose. It’s a little tidbit of the experience LOVING~ a little reminder of  the LOVE that we are. It only wants to be loved. And so do you. 

After recieving CHOCLOLATE’S gift of LOVE , one then naturally wants to extend and share it ~if the opportunity arises. That’s the way of LOVE! 

Chocolate cannot be eaten with guilt or it is ineffective. Guilt ruins the taste…It spoils your date with LOVE… It erases the pure joy that LOVE by CHOCOLATE has to offer. CHOCLOLATE is a messenger of LOVE. ACCEPT its offering~every acceptance is a MIRACLE. Try to look at every gift of joy from the miracle-minded perspective and let your old judgment go.

Let Miracles replace this grievance!

I came accross this darling blog called Confessions of a Tired SuperGirl 

She’s got the right idea. And, she’s sharing the chocolate love… Check her out…

Treat youself to something decadant, chocolate or something frivolous and luxurious; whose only purpose is to bring you JOY.

Because LOVE created us like itself ~joy is our purpose…

And CHOCOLATE is one way to remember the LOVE that we are…

I LOVE YOU!

I’ve been doing alot of people watching. I’ve been on vacation, road-tripping it up with my son Parker. I notice how much people want to love. They look for any chance  to connect on any available level. people want to be helpful and kind.

I notice too, how so often we are so self-comsumed that we don’t offer any of these chances because we are confused about our own hunger and need. Here are these miracle-workers all around, waiting for the slightest invitation to be truly helpful. (even if they don’t realize it ~ the Holy Spirit does).

I just bless them with my holiness, and feel their holiness blessing me right back. 

Kids don’t have this closed-up, insecure, self-protection going on. They give freely of themselves, whether extending friendship or asking for help. Its all the same to them. Parker is just such a role model. And I follow suit. What a joy!

Most of us just wander around blindly feeling trapped and isolated. We’re constantly judging ourselves for our weak will and habitual,  negative eating patterns around our bodies and food.  It  affects all our choices and relationships. We know it.

We can sense that actually we are not really living. We are in a sedated state of personal past; of imprisonment where we can’t see the way out… We keep hearing ourselves saying, “Why do I keep doing this to myself?”

That question is actually a clue from our Self to our self, which is asking us to look more closely to the beliefs about ourselves that underlie our so-called life.

If you are like I was when I started getting really honest and taking responsibility for the life I had made for myself, in which the food/body addiction drama was a pivotal aspect, as you start wading through your beliefs, you will find a repetitive regurgitation of past dramas, hurts, guilt and disappointment… Well, you know, you’ve already got the list. 

Have you written your story down; looked at it in black and white? This really helps. It’s not so big nor so real on a paper in front of you as it is in the shifty ego mind. You see that all of it is just thought. They aren’t even original thoughts. They come from adopted paradigms. I saw that those paradigms fuel beliefs and that beliefs fuel repetitive feelings and ideas. None of it authentic. 

And it is theses thoughts that  keep us in hell!

This is the good news. Cuz once you see this, love’s compassion rises up, fueling a deep desire to know and live your own authentic life; to be authentically your Self. This Self is beyond the body but can express through it.

Because it is our fear-based thinking with the ego or false self, that seemingly causes our perceived habits, bodies and relationships, it is through aligning with a love-based thought system that we shift paradigms. 

All disorderd thought can actually disapear in the twinkling of an eye through true forgiveness. They are past and the past is nowhere and nothing.

So, it is to these past beliefs we must address our forgiveness work.

As we forgive the past, and let go of attack thoughts and we stop seeing ourselves as victims…and a surprising thing begins to happen.

Our fat goes with it.

So too, our obsessions with artificial images of thinness…

As forbidden fruits are laid open as a banquet you share with your new best friend, yourself, cravings and compulsions quiet down. The taste buds wake-up, smells once again satisfy in and of themselves… For instance, think of the smell of freshly brewing coffee. Now that is a complete experience, yes? You don’t need anything more with it, do you? Or fruit as you break it open, or freshly baking bread. Without the slave to crave, smells give to be received as is… And it is enough. 

The initial ‘letting go of judgments’ stage with food/body rules, is powerful… We really start to see that it was our belief system around food and our bodies that was weighing us down and imprisoning us.

Once I actually stopped and asked myself, “Wait just a darn minute here, what is it I actually believe about food and my body; this ominous, illusive power that wields its sword over my self-worth… Where did those rules and beliefs come from? Do I even agree that it is a reliable source? What do I now, given who I have come to know as myself, believe that I know as true that dispels their validity?

I began my list from those initial questions, or a semblance of that anyway… Most of it all turned out be dogma from sources that I would not want to emulate.

I needed a new role model.

 Everyone I knew or knew of was jaded…  

Except kids ~ I used them as my role model.

After all, that’s how I felt; brand new, innocent and willing. They ate what they wanted. Period.

They never force feed themselves for the sake of ‘good nutrition’, but they like anything, if they can choose it in total freedom.

Also, kids move when they feel like it. This is important.

We have to be trained to be lazy; to squelch our energy, become couch potatoes. But trained we are from a very early age we can learn to even make wrong the desire to jump up and dance. Institutionalized schooling and parenting help out here. But we are not a victim of past programming. We invented the past which we are now forgiving. and Love will inspire our future, now. 

What we believe is what we experience; by questioning and forgiving our beliefs, our perceptions change and our bodies use food differently. Once freedom starts, there’s no stopping it.

We are free by design. Love is free and we are merely remembering the frequency of  living love.

I love you.

I am love…

I am pure light…

When I am only light I have no body appetites. In other words, appetites drop out of awareness as I hold the focus of love and light.

You know what I mean. We’ve all had those light experiences. If you’re coming to this site through A Course in Miracles you have had light episodes, however brief, while doing the lessons or reading the text or contemplating the meaning beyond the words. Jesus stands in singularity in the perfect purity of the light we are as one emanation His circle of Atonement as a compelling invitation. There it is; pure and simple… experience.

Let’s be honest here.

You’ve had other moments where your joy is full, and you know you are the light of the world; that love is yours and you are love.

I want to talk about this seemingly subtle, yet magnanimously important point. Because this is the ticket~

Every encounter with food must be seen as a holy encounter. Every meal you prepare a devotional to love. When you address your body, you must do so reverenced as if you were entering the home of Christ.

Love is the frequency necessary to drop body appetites. We all know this. It has happened whenever we experience unhindered love. Whenever we have ‘fallen in love’, whether with a mate of with a newborn infant, a sunset or waves crashing on the beach, watching children laugh or sleep…we could go on and on… Where was your craving for food then? Where were you body judgments?

Love fills up all the space!

I know, you’re saying, “yeah, but it doesn’t last.”

Now, let’s look at that. Is it true?

Who is saying yeah, but?

This is the belief in time and space. It is the belief that there is something more important than love. ~Otherwise, you would remain in the eternal now that you were experiencing just an instant before.

You would be feeling loved and loving, with activities secondary to and as an outcropping of this love.

You’re asking what the practical application in my life is. I am giving it to you. Approach your relationship with eating, food and body as something sacred.

For it is. Your holiness blesses it.

If you are like I was, you want a formula to follow. Here it is.

S L O W  D O W N!  Listen-up. Turn up the volume on your love, tune-in to the frequency of God; love, light! Let go of every idea you ever held about your body and food and eating. 

Here are some steps I took which are suggestions as a model for you to begin from…

  *1. Listen to your hunger. What are you truly hungry for? If it is food, ask what you truly want.

2. Give yourself to yourself~ Even if your mind is putting up resistance, say, “If this were for Christ, what lengths would I be willing to go to in order to show my love through this gesture?” That little trick has stopped me in my tracks, many times; both when I was going to buy myself off with some easy substitute for what I really wanted as well as times when I some yummy nugget was within reach, but not what I was really asking for.

3. The next thing to do is, when it is food you’re hungry for, it is crucial to prepare the food with Love at the helm. Love every aspect of the preparation. Feel the food in your hands, the smell that offer little gifts to you, the colors and ideas ~love all of it… recieve and appreciate.

What everyou do, be conscious. Pay present moment attention and love everything. Even if fear arises, recognize that ‘this need not be’ and release it to the Holy Spirit (love) for correction. Then bless the circumstance that seemingly brought up the fear in gratitude. There is nothing your holiness cannot do…

4. Sit down to your meal in whatever way is most comfortable for you. If the kitchen or dinning room are latened with have-to’s curl up on the sofa. Same in reverse… you know where you hide out… 

Stay conscious. Bless and appreciate every bite by smelling, tasting, chewing, swishing flavors around in the mouth~ make it a practice of meditation. This is a feast prepared for you by God, blessed with His holiness and yours as well.

5. Pay attention to the sensations of you body. Satisfaction arises in first heart area, and begins to subtly coat the throat, accompanied with a sense of completion. It then tops off the stomach with feeling satisfied, full but not to the brim, not stuffed. You are no longer punishing yourself for eating by eating too much and hurting yourself.

Give thanks for this awareness.

6. Feel the appreciation you have for dinning with Christ. This is no idle comment. You are, indeed, dinning with Christ.

If other people are dinning with you, share your gratitude aloud, with them.

7. Complete your dinning experience by loving the clean up.

 Bless every step of the experience with your holiness and love.

8. Turn up the volume on noticing your ‘communication device’.

Just pay attention without judgment.  What is, is just what it is~ not good, not bad… just love, getting your attention.

9. When you are feeling restless, that is not hunger! I’t a signal. Restlessness comes from thinking there is a choice to be made where there is no choice.  So pay attention, do you feel you just can’t ‘sit with it’?

Likely you’ll find, like I did, that the restlessness you are feeling is your body wanting to move. ~Move it! 

~Give thanks for noticing; this blesses your body with your holiness.

10. Get up and start walking around. What do you feel like doing? What comes to mind? Dancing, walking, running, playing leap frog, hide-n-seek, 4-square, hopscotch, playing pool, swimming… what’s it gonna be?

Whatever it is, remember, it is an act of love. You are being asked to dance by Jesus. Take his hand. Dance. Bow and say thank you. If you have kids around, you’re lucky, they can help. They haven’t forgotten.

The important thing to keep in mind is that Love is the answer. So whatever action you take. ~LOVE IT!

The reason there was a problem was singularly this one thing: Love was absent in your relationship with your body and food! Period! 

Thanks for joining me.

I LOVE YOU.

Have you noticed that whenever you feel the love that you are, whether it is for yourself or seemingly for another person or music, art or nature, in that same moment you are not experiencing your insanity around your body?

If not, check it out for yourself. As a matter of fact, every idea that feels good or right to you, is totally worthy of your experiencing for yourself. Take it for checking. Once the idea has been placed in your mind and you have agreed to its possibility, you have planted the seed for it to come into your field of experience. The rest is willingness.

I notice I am resistant to give a list of how-to actions to take as a guide in healing a condition of the mind, regardless of how specifically it show’s up as a physical condition. Here’s why.

The physical is the domain of the ego construct. You wouldn’t find yourself seemingly addicted to food or weight or your body image, if you weren’t confusing yourself with the ego-construct, in other words, your self concept vs your Self. Self is of God in the end and now and always. Our true identity is in the truth of our creation. Love is the intelligent substance by which all creation extends. So, we, each of us must be that love as well.

I know, you’re probably saying, yeah, that is not hard to follow in theory, Danét, but how does that help me when I’m stuffing myself on ding-dongs, watching soap operas, where commercials range from food to diets to exercise programs to medications for depression and anxiety, and right then you need all of them?

It doesn’t. Love and death don’t occupy the same space in mind. Unconsciousness is not peace.  When I am confused about what I am and seek unconsciousness, I have displaced love in my awareness.  I don’t have access from here. What I can easily access is that I feel yucky.  I am not at peace. I must have made a decision without love and I need an alternative to where I find myself now. 

You have to, unreservedly, decide you want life instead of death; be awake to life rather than sleeping it away.

You have to give up your way.

 It is that recognition and surrender and the willingness to be shown, that allows the miracle to alter perception.  It is our job to ask for an intervention from Love, Holy Spirit, Jesus…

We have to ask for another way.

 On an action level, this could look like I leave the room, or call someone I can be honest with. Maybe I remember my son wants his room rearranged, or that I haven’t put the dishes away, or changed the litter box.  Maybe I write that ten pound thank you note I have been meaning to write. Something ‘different’ will come to me to do than I had previously considered.

I have learned that no matter what it is, how irrelevant it might seem to me in light of the gravity of the circumstance I thought I was in  ~ do the impulse it directs. It is the physical answer to love’s reaching me from within the vibe  which I am currently available to be reached. Responding in kind, speeds up my frequency and I opens me to miracle-mindedness.

Now I am available to participate in my life in a loving way. Connecting, laughing, sharing, risking, playing and enjoying the fullness life as a mission in love. 

Remember practice, practice, practice…  I starts to become a fun game of listening to and responding and watching the miracle happen.

Try it yourself… 

I love you.

You know what is so fun? I have been playing in the yummy freshness of this moment now. Old insights are circling back up in my mind and life with renewed aliveness and much more depth.

Let me give an example. Recently, I have been corresponding with an amazing woman; teacher of God and all around inspiring being. We’ve been addressing addiction and food/body addiction in particular. Years ago, in the beginning of my healing with A Course in Miracles, I was graced with freedom the insanity of an upside-down relationship with my body, eating and food. And actually with yours as well, I compared myself with everyone I met. That craziness was lifted and I was able to focus on the business of healing my mind.

Finding what did work for me was, at times, an absolute miracle. I would walk into a book store and find myself picking up a book that I hadn’t known I came for and no recollection as to what I had come there for in the first place. I had a sense of being in the right place at the right time that was poignant and I would buy the book without question.

Or I would meet someone that would lead to a conversation about freedom and addiction and food and weight and I would hear myself speaking from a place of true gratitude. Often in those times, if there was a particular struggle I was having with my body or cravings, as we began communicating, in that sincere request for a true answer, a specific one to my specific issue would unfold during the conversation.

I discovered quite rapidly that the more I shared my experience with healing and freedom from the body/food monkey around my neck, the less I had experienced cravings and body judgments.

So, being the junky I am, I started facilitating groups and individuals in upholding a single-pointed spiritual foundation as core sustenance, as a replacement for the obsessive focus of a body/food addiction.

I saw how my unhealed mind, having obsessed about my problems with food and weight and how to get the perfect body and what to eat, how to keep from eating too much, what combination of foods, how to work out and how often, accompanied with a commitment to feeling ashamed and guilty and deserving of punishment, yet feeling like a total victim, helpless to change, hopeless in the face of societal requirement of lovability, had kept me exactly where I was. My judgments and beliefs had made me the person I saw myself as: weak, unlovable, unworthy, a waste of skin, taking up room that a more deserving person should have.  I was wrong… that is all.

A fundamental principle in A Course in Miracles is that ideas leave not their source and that ideas increase when they are given away. We, being God’s Idea, remain in Him as He extends His love as Son. We are that Son; that very same Love. We therefore must allow our love to extend creation in order to know our Self.

We’ve all had so much appreciation for some miracle in our life that we couldn’t wait to share with everyone.

That’s how I felt. That’s how I feel, now. It’s the reason I blog.

I love God. I love Jesus. I love A Course in Miracles. I love you, my one Self.

 So anyway, I am again finding myself with this awesome opportunity to share the miracle down the body/food addiction avenue.

You know we all come to A Course in Miracles with body addictions. We mistake them for ourselves. We are wrong. That is all.

The course turns us around and points us smack in front of our mind.  We see without question that it is or identification with a false identity, in a life/death, duality based world in our mind that is the source of our pain. It trains us in a systematic way to dispel every belief you ever believed to be true, as false.

We see that our world is one of perception, but that everything that feel good comes from somewhere beyond perception, never from the thing or circumstance itself.

We come to see that learning to forgive is our most treasured tool in the reversal of a thought system based in fear back to the source of our being~ love.

Peace is the result of emptying our entire arsenal of fear thoughts onto the touchstone of forgiveness. 

We are born anew.

“Let us be still an instant, and forget all things we ever learned, all thoughts we had, and every preconception that we hold of what things mean, and what their purpose is. Let us remember not our own ideas of what the world is for. We do not know. Let every image held of anyone be loosened from our minds and swept away. Be innocent of judgment, unaware of any thoughts of evil or of good that ever crossed your mind of anyone. Now do you know him not. But you are free to learn of him, and learn of him anew. Now is he born again to you, and you are born again to him, without the past that sentenced him to die, and you with him. Now is he free to live, as you are free, because an ancient learning passed away, and left a place for truth to be reborn.” (T-31.1)

  I am going to be writing more about the healing of body appetites. It might be with this yummy woman, Lisa, I was talking about. A site about this is her idea. I am interested to see what comes forward. Grace has shown me that body appetites are misdirected miracle impulses. That in recognition of this fact, I open to act miraculously instead of ‘feed the need’, to enliven and inspire rather than shut-off, separate into the dirge of the pleasure-pain dirge.

Thank you!

I love you! 

My primary miracle’s blog is “LOVE’S MIRACLES” ; from there you can click onto any of the lessons for my commentary and/or reflections…

Thank you for joining me in the circle of Atonement, where we stand unified for GOD…