Thought for The Day

​

What you want to experience

you will always experience.

 

How is this so?

 

Because what you experience

is experienced in your mind

and nowhere else.

 

Were it actually possible

to experience anything

anywhere other than your own mind,

you would be forever cast

in the role of victim and freedom

would be an impossibility.

​

***

​

Prayer for the Day

​

I am the one who wields

the awesome power

of the entire Cosmos.

 

Or not...

 

Today, let's make that a yes.

 

Amen

***

Thought for The Day

​

18. What could you not accept, if you but knew that everything that happens, all events, past, present and to come, are gently planned by One Whose only purpose is your good? ²Perhaps you have misunderstood His plan, for He would never offer pain to you. ³But your defenses did not let you see His loving blessing shine in every step you ever took. ⁴While you made plans for death, He led you gently to eternal life.

 

19. Your present trust in Him is the defense that promises a future undisturbed, without a trace of sorrow, and with joy that constantly increases, as this life becomes a holy instant, set in time, but heeding only immortality. ²Let no defenses but your present trust direct the future, and this life becomes a meaningful encounter with the truth that only your defenses would conceal.

 

20. Without defenses, you become a light which Heaven gratefully acknowledges to be its own. ²And it will lead you on in ways appointed for your happiness according to the ancient plan, begun when time was born. ³Your followers will join their light with yours, and it will be increased until the world is lighted up with joy. ⁴And gladly will our brothers lay aside their cumbersome defenses, which availed them nothing and could only terrify.

 

A Course In Miracles, Lesson 135

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***

​

Prayer for the Day

​

I trust you, Father,

I really and truly trust you.

 

It has taken me the scope

of almost a lifetime

to be able to say this

and know that it is

completely felt.

 

I trust the life which is mine to live,

recognizing that everyone

and everything abides

safely in the palm of your hand

and unfolds in perfect accordance

with an unchangeable

and eternal mystery.

 

This mystery, this Divine Plan

for all of life, which was beget

before time was born, includes

nothing short of everyone

and everything which has ever been

or ever will be.

 

And I would know that mystery

in its fullness, as I am

fully known by you.

 

For I am Thine

and Thou art mine.

​

Like water mixed with water,

inseparably mixed,

where do You end

and I begin?

 

Amen

***

Thought for The Day

​

Q: Why do you persist

in making yourself wrong

for being how you are, for being who

you are and your life for being as it is

when you consciously chose

to be all of this before you were born?

 

Every thought, every feeling,

every sensation

and every experience

was carefully and lovingly planned

by you for you exactly as it is?

 

Until you get this,

you do not understand

a single thing about acceptance.

 

For you can only accept others

to the degree to which

you have genuinely learned

to love and accept yourself,

exactly as you are.

​

***

​

Prayer for the Day

​

I am really beginning to comprehend

the degree to which

I reject myself by rejecting

and judging my experience

each and every day.

 

Help me begin to turn this around

this very day, for I would learn

to love all of me, all of time

exactly as I am.

 

Amen

***

Thought for The Day

​

Let's try a little experiment

today, shall we?

 

Without editing yourself

or censoring yourself,

without avoiding or resisting

the experience in any way,

what does fear actually feel like

when you no longer make it

or yourself wrong for

experiencing it?

​

***

​

Prayer for the Day

​

I am no longer afraid

to be afraid.

 

I am obviously supposed to be

experiencing this at this moment,

or I would not be experiencing it.

 

Let's begin with

that basic acceptance.

 

Then help me lean in,

soften and open wide,

welcoming the isness of what is.

 

Amen

***

Thought for The Day

​

Name one situation which

either was or has actually improved

because of your resistance.

 

Struggle against what is happening

is not what God does,

it is a demonstration of failure

to trust in the divine plan

on your part.

 

It is what the ego does,

and does well at the cost

of your peace.

 

What could this be other than

a tumultuous example of

self will run riot?

​

***

​

Prayer for the Day

​

Help me get out of my own way

today and trust in the divine plan.

 

Amen

***

Thought for The Day

​

(lovingly dedicated to all

the fearmongers

among us...)

 

When you really get down to it,

what evidence do you actually have

that you have not been deeply loved,

fully supported and graciously provided for

your entire life and that the universe

will not continue to do so for you

and those whom you love?

​

***

​

Prayer for the Day

​

Just for today...

no matter what happens,

I choose to see everything

as GIFT, to open my heart

to each experience, whatever

it is and trust.

 

Thank you for the life

which is mine to live.

 

Amen

***

Thought for The Day

​

I have been getting a lot of feedback

lately regarding how much fear

people are experiencing.

 

When you notice fear,

I ask you to search your inner world

and notice three things.

 

(1)

 

The presence of fear always reveals

somewhere you have

actively given your power away.

 

Ask yourself, "Where have I done so?"

 

(2)

 

When you disempower yourself,

(believing that you are weak,

inept or susceptible to harm)

under the false notion

that there are forces in this world

that are more powerful than you,

you are actually disempowering

the greatest force in all the universe (God)

because you do not believe

that you are part of it.

 

(3)

 

Why would you do that

to someone you loved?

***

​

Prayer for the Day

​

False Events Appearing Real.

 

The key word  is false.

 

Let me not forget that.

 

Tat Tvam Asi.

 

I am that which I seek.

 

Amen

***

Thought for The Day

​

The world is an effect,

not a cause.

 

That is why efforts to try to

change the world are little more than

band-aides on bullet wounds.

 

What do you think the world

would actually look like

if everyone were to support themselves

emotionally, psychologically, physically

and spiritually with love,

kindness & gentleness?

​

***

​

Prayer for the Day

​

Help me minister to the deepest

need of every heart,

beginning with my own.

 

Amen

***

Thought for The Day

​

It gets increasingly more difficult

to successfully pull the wool

over one's own eyes when the light

is so bright you have to wear shades.

​

***

​

Prayer for the Day

​

Thank you for that.

 

Amen

***

Thought for The Day

​

Do you realize that

when you truly advocate

on behalf of yourself,

you are advocating

on behalf of everyone?

 

Thus, an assignment is given you today.

 

What is the difference between

self-advocacy and selfishness,

for there must be crystal clear clarity

in your heart between the two.

​

***

​

Prayer for the Day

​

Thank you for lifting the fog

from these eyes

so that the heart could again see.

 

Amen

***

Thought for The Day

​

Vulnerability, authenticity

and a transparency wherein

nothing either can or does

cling to you are the tangible signs

of one who is truly free.

 

​

***

​

Prayer for the Day

​

May I be so free.

 

Amen

***

Thought for The Day

​

Sometimes the most loving thing

we can say to another human being is,

"I'm sorry, I love you with all of my heart,

but I'm through with this."

 

Then use your two legs

to stand up, turn around

and walk away.

 

Will you feel sadness?

 

Will you grieve?

 

Will you possibly contend

with guilt because of old

residual religious programming?

 

Probably. You are human

after all.

 

You have loved. You have given

your heart. You have

tried your level best.

 

But a relationship born of

who and how you used to be

no longer fits who you are today.

 

And love does not suffer fools,

tolerate disrespect, abuse

or any other form of cruelty.

 

Love is not a doormat

and it most certainly

does not play victim.

 

A Course In Miracles says that

to teach is to demonstrate.

 

Demonstrate your own self-love,

self-respect and your willingness

to advocate on behalf

of how you deserve to be treated

by knowing when you are done

and the gig is up.

​

***

​

Prayer for the Day

​

I've been so confused, Lord.

 

Confused about what

LOVE really means.

 

Help me be brave, kind,

loving and respectful

to myself and my world

every day from here on out.

 

Amen

***

Thought for The Day

​

You know, one of the things

which you have been

quite reticent to admit

is that some of the people

in your life deserve some serious time

in the boot of your car

to rethink their lives.

 

And you know what?

 

It is absolutely okay

for you to admit that this

is how you really and truly

deeply feel.

 

If you do not begin to advocate

on behalf of yourself,

who in the bloody hell

do you think will?

​

***

​

Prayer for the Day

​

Help me be vulnerable enough today

to be honest with myself.

 

Help me be vulnerable enough today

to be honest with

the people in my life.

 

Help me  be vulnerable enough today

to be honest with my world.

 

I've been so consumed for so long,

trying to be 'spiritual,'

that I have forgotten

I came here to be a human being,

and an honest one at that.

 

Amen

***

Thought for The Day

​

It takes a courage which is not born

of this world to turn and face

the child within you, to face them

completely, to come eye ball

to eye ball with them and see

their suffering in its totality

and not shirk away from it

in either terror or aversion.

 

Truth be told, you

have been running from

this child your whole life.

 

Your life has been and is

a testimony to running as fast

as you can and trying to success your way

out of the unspoken parts

of your history and family legacy.

 

And this child?

 

He or she has more in common

with a feral cat or a rabid dog

at this point if you are

willing to be honest with yourself.

 

But your life cannot

and will not turn around

until you have the courage

to face this one and rediscover

who you were before you were born.

 

And in that selfsame instant

it will become clear to you

that what has happened

is that you have actually

actualized God.

​

***

​

Prayer for the Day

​

O My Soul!

 

Receive thou the gift

of all of me.

 

For thou art the truth

of my innermost being.

 

Amen

***

Thought for The Day

​

Listen, dear one,

get off of the hamster wheel

you've been running on for so long

and stop wasting your time.

 

You cannot find yourself

in this world

because you were never of it.

​

***

​

Prayer for the Day

​

I've been spinning my wheels

for as long as I can remember

and I am so tired.

 

So very very tired.

 

Help me listen today

for my heart's song.

 

Amen

***

Thought for The Day

​

Your heart, dear child,

is Heaven, the abode of God.

 

And that which you cast out of your heart,

you deny heaven, you deny

the direct experience of God.

 

You cannot withhold anything

from anyone ever

without withholding it

from yourself.

 

This is the only path

to FREEDOM.

​

***

​

Prayer for the Day

​

Let me not forget

that LOVE never withholds.

 

Come home, dear world.

 

I welcome all of you

into my heart

as a part of my Self.

 

Amen

***

Thought for The Day

​

How does one achieve

something which was never lost?

 

How does one deserve something

when it asks absolutely nothing

of you in return?

 

This is the precise reason

why it is so difficult

for humanity to accept that

truth is true and only truth is true.

 

Because no one can fathom

receiving something

which is priceless

when there is no

personal cost at all.

 

And to actually surrender to that?

 

There is absolutely nothing

you can do to achieve

or deserve a LOVE such as this.

 

But it is yours for the asking.

 

Just say yes.

​

***

​

Prayer for the Day

​

Yes, Father, yes.

 

Thank you for loving me.

 

Amen

***

Thought for The Day

​

Nothing can intrude upon

your peace

unless you give it

the power to do so.

​

***

​

Prayer for the Day

​

Peace be in my heart.

 

Peace be in my mind.

 

Peace be in these eyes.

 

Peace be in these hands.

 

Peace be in the words I speak

and the deeds I perform,

walking ever before me

and informing all my activities

and actions.

 

Peace, blessed peace,

I earnestly pray that

you envelope our world

with thy eternal presence.

 

Amen

***

Thought for The Day

​

Hush. Be still.

 

And put your dukes down.

 

Let go and trust.

 

You are always in the care

and self-keeping

of God.

​

***

​

Prayer for the Day

​

Help me go placidly today

amidst the noise and haste,

trusting that Thou art

ever with me. For I would know

the comfort of Thy Presence

that is with me unceasingly.

 

Amen

***

Thought for The Day

​

Meditation is a deep

moment-by-moment trust

of one's inner experience

exactly as it is

and yielding to it fully

with love and gentleness.

​

***

​

Prayer for the Day

​

I bow before the isness

of my inner and outer

experience of life.

 

For I can clearly see now

that it is all a gift.

 

Amen

***

Thought for The Day

​

For the last two decades

I have repeated the same message

that your humanity is the doorway

to your Divinity.

 

This goes against the grain

of thousands of years

of human history.

 

How is this?

 

Human beings have falsely

believed (because they have been

falsely taught) that one's Divinity

is revealed through the denial

and destruction of one's humanity.

 

Self-abnegation was

the name of the game

in the spiritual marketplace.

 

And as this decade of global stress

and uncertainty has progressed,

people are, at long last,

beginning to be kinder

and more gentle with themselves.

 

But this is not enough,

nor does it reflect a clear understanding

of the deeper meaning to this message.

 

What, then, could it be pointing

us toward?

 

When you are at complete and utter

ease with your humanity,

and your humanity is abiding peacefully

and at ease with you,

when you are totally comfortable

in your own skin and you feel loved,

cherished and appreciated by yourself

(because it cannot be given

to you by anyone else),

then, and only then, will

your Divinity reveal itself to you.

 

Why?

 

Because peace, presence, fulfillment

and LOVE are an inside job.

​

***

​

Prayer for the Day

​

Thank you thank you

thank you for this incredible gift.

 

How fortunate I am!

 

Amen

***

Thought for The Day

​

The reality you accept as truth

is the reality which you

inevitably will live out in this world,

100% of the time.

 

It is time to unplug from

every limitation which you

have empowered as if

it were the truth

when it is not.

 

For everything resides within you

and you determine whether or not

you play the role of victim

or that of the light of the world.

 

Who is right?

 

God or you?

​

***

​

Prayer for the Day

​

It is time to stand up

and walk out of the kiddy pool

I've been playing in

my entire life.

 

I want to see what this thing

called life is really all about.

 

Amen

***

Thought for The Day

​

How do you learn what it means

to get out of your own way?

 

You stop trying to control

and plan. You allow,

you yield to what is.

 

Doing so will not pull you under,

make you weak or fail to accomplish

something you are supposed to.

 

What it will do, is make you strong

and gentle and wise.

 

For you were meant to live

life from the heart.

 

You were born to live as love.

​

***

​

Prayer for the Day

​

Help me live from a space

and place of gentle yielding

and trust in the perfection

of life's plan for me

and everyone else

for that matter.

 

Amen

***

Thought for The Day

​

Nothing changes until we accept it.

 

And we cannot begin to accept it

until we can love it

exactly as it is.

 

It will help if you remember that

everything you experience

you need to experience

in order for your light to expand.

 

And any resistance always makes

one's light contract.

 

This is a matter of knowing

in your heart of heart's

that you are always on

your soul's perfect journey.

 

It is not the perfect journey

for anyone else on the planet,

but it is always the perfect journey

for you.

 

What could this possibly mean?

 

What is unfolding strikes

at the very core of what you now need

in order to proceed to the next step

in your journey without distance.

 

You have every reason

to trust.

​

***

​

Prayer for the Day

​

I do trust, Father,

and I am learning to trust

you more and more

every single day.

 

Thank you for being

my partner

in the dance of life.

 

Amen

***

Thought for The Day

​

Building on yesterday's TFTD,

how can you share with another

how much God loves them

exactly as they are if you do not know

how much God loves you?

 

For only one who has allowed

God to love them completely,

to ravish them and adore them,

can be a living demonstration

of a love which knows no bounds.

​

***

​

Prayer for the Day

​

Grant me the courage

to open my entire being

to you, O God, without

defenses or fences

of any kind.

 

Amen

***

Thought for The Day

​

I would like to try to define

a miracle for you today.

 

A miracle (because there is

really only one) is the degree to which

you will allow God to love you,

to actually let love in.

 

Everything else that happens

from that point on

is the fruit of that miracle.

 

You trust the sun to rise

every day.

 

You trust the moon and the stars

to appear in the night sky.

 

You trust 4,000+ pounds

of steel, plastic and chrome

to get you from point A

to point B, in one piece.

 

You trust that your family

will always be there for you every day.

 

So why do you not trust God

enough to allow the Beloved to have you

(not just some of you but all of you)

and love you completely?

 

How much, dear child, how much?

 

How much will you allow

God to love you toay?

​

***

​

Prayer for the Day

​

Today I choose to trust

and let God in.

 

Amen

​

***

Thought for The Day

​

If you are suffering in any way

you are doing it to yourself.

 

At some point, you have to see

how powerful your mind

actually is.

 

You are the only one

who gives meaning to everything

you experience

and by thus, you suffer.

 

With all my heart I adjure you

to not give anything

that power over you.

 

You are the only one

who gives meaning to everything

you experience and this is how

you give your power away.

 

Seeing this clearly, you know that

you can stop doing this to yourself

if you choose to.

 

The power of decision is yours.

 

And there you have it.

 

Clear?

​

***

​

Prayer for the Day

​

Bless my efforts

to see clearly today.

 

Hear this universe?

 

Can't touch this.

 

Amen

***

Thought for The Day

​

In everything choose love.

 

For it is the greatest power

in the entire universe.

 

Love is the evidence

of one who is aligned with their soul.

 

Anything else

is a demonstration of ego.

​

***

​

Prayer for the Day

​

LOVE live me.

 

Amen

***

Thought for The Day

​

A New Year Blessing:

 

May 2023 be the year that

you stop enabling the dysfunction,

cruelty and otherwise

unconscious behavior of everyone

in your life, including yourself.

 

Because in the end

what you must real eyes

is that your acceptance

and tolerance of what is clearly

not loving from others,

is really about your disrespect

and dishonoring by you

of yourself.

​

***

​

Prayer for the Day

​

Help me learn to love and care

for myself even more.

 

Amen

***

Thought for The Day

​

Today is a day of both

observation and practice

in what I call the 4 D's:

 

Dodging

 

Deflection

 

Distraction

 

Denial

 

The assignment goes as thus:

 

Notice how often you use

one of the four D's to avoid

meeting someone soul to soul,

or you avoid deeply meeting yourself

because intimacy, availability

and vulnerability are too scary

to consider, let alone practice.

 

Then consciously choose to lean in,

open wide, and be one

with the experience.

 

Be tender, be gracious, be transparent,

be loving, be gentle and kind.

 

Remember the little play on words

for intimacy?

 

Into me you see. or, conversely,

into me I see.

 

Be a true blue human being.

 

Be divinely human

and humanly divine.

 

Because this?

 

This is where life gets real.

 

Because this is

the meaning of life stuff.

​

***

​

Prayer for the Day

​

I am tired of throwing

grenades into my life, tucking tail

and running away, shutting down,

building a wall, living life

asleep at the wheel.

 

If I am being truly honest

with myself, my life

has been a helter-skelter mess

of incompletions.

 

This ego's life-long motto has been

"Judge. Blame and then move on

to greener pastures, or at

the very least, different pastures."

 

How many times have I done this?

 

So many beautiful relationships

destroyed because I did not

have the courage

to face myself honestly.

 

So many bridges

unnecessarily burned.

 

Today my life gets real.

 

Grace, please bless my efforts

to turn this tiny boat around

and be willing to face myself

and my life, to face

my humanity and that of others

and consciously choose peace,

to consciously choose

the love of God, to consciously

choose intimacy, vulnerability

and presence.

 

I choose an awakened life.

 

Amen

***

Thought for The Day

​

Today is the first day

of a bright new year.

 

Many of you have devoted your lives

to practices, to professions, to paths,

to areas of service because

you believe it accurately reflects

who you are.

 

You mistakenly think that

it is where what you believe is true

is made actionable.

 

But these things are not a reflection

of who you are, they are a reflection

of how you escape from who you are

by creating a spiritual identity.

 

This identity is meticulously

formulated in order to

adapt "spiritually" in the present

because the baggage of the past

can be more successfully avoided

by creating a better version

of yourself.

 

But it hasn't really worked,

has it?

 

An honest and loving heart

is not afraid to look within

and see themselves clearly,

to acknowledge what

they have been doing.

 

But ignorance

cannot be mistaken for

the truth.

 

As Baba used to be fond of saying,

"Be very careful. This is a rare opportunity."

What will you do with the time
which is given you in 2023?

​

***

​

Prayer for the Day

​

I am here to love

and that is the sum total of it.

 

And if I am very honest

with myself,

the love I have offered

has not been very clean at all.

 

Teach me to love purely

in 2023.

 

Amen

***