A lesson in wholeness and gratitude from A Course in Miracles
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The grasses they are speaking The holy world is wide Communicating with you Your own dear breadth of mind
The universe is watching And loving all you do The spirit’s soul, perfection, whole Is loving only you
Every breath you follow To your sacred unity Extends from deep within you And blesses all you see
In every footstep you’re renewed Releasing all to Him Who’s heart, its rhythmic beating song Gathers you deep within
“All things that live bring gifts to you, and offer them in gratitude and gladness at your feet. The scent of flowers is their gift to you. The waves bow down before you, and the trees extend their arms to shield you from the heat, and lay their leaves before you on the ground that you may walk in softness, while the wind sinks to a whisper round your holy head.”
A Course in Miracles, Workbook Lesson 156 — I Walk with God in Perfect Holiness
“Your plan I follow here, and at the end I know that You will gather Your effects into the tranquil Heaven of Your Love, where earth will vanish, and all separate thoughts unite in glory as the Son of God.”
A Course in Miracles, Workbook Lesson 326 — I Am Forever an Effect of God
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Dear John By which I mean the planet I’ve been living on For so long Dear John
Dear John By which I mean the fear that has been so strong In my mind So long
Dear John By which I mean the planet I’ve been living on For so long So long
Dear John By which I mean the body I’ve been speaking from The idea in my mind that kept my fear strong So strong So long
Dear John By which I mean the planet I’ve been living on The beings I’ve shared ideas of identity through physicality With for so long So long
If you look at me quantumly you’ll see I’m gone Was never here I’m gone
The love we’ve shared in truth is all that’s still strong Ideas of physicality are long gone Long gone Dear John
And I’ve come here to share a new idea so strong in me It’s so strong To tell you if you’re fearful or you’re lonely That it won’t be long
I’ve come to share my certainty that truth is all that’s left of me That I was wrong I’ve come to share my certainty that we were only ever free To love and loose the bounds of time From all that we had thought we’d seen Dear John, dear John
And now we dance forever to the songs we wrote together in eternity We’re free, dear John Dear John, we’re free Dear John
Dear John If you look through the eyes that can see quantumly You’ll see, we’re gone With love, Dear John
In gratitude for those who’ve walked this way before
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There’ll always be poems for you The one who has held me, encouraged me through A myriad distractions, a myriad of days On paths that felt stony although they were paved With the certainty of those who’d walked them before And left in each footstep a beautiful star
There’ll always be poems for you The one who has stood still and shone your light through The darkest of terrors, the stormiest nights Your beam ever present and clear in its sight
There’ll always be poems, there’ll always be stars For those who have loved me while I fell apart And cradled my soul as I crashed to the floor And welcomed me, whole, as I rose, as I soared
There’ll always be poems of love in my heart For the brothers that know me beyond where I start For those who are centred, their clarity breathes The verdure of life in my heavenly leas
A corner’s been turned in the misty air’d fall I believe I feel life, I believe I see dawn Up ahead breaking into the heart that has learned Finally to give away all it earns
There’ll always be poems for you In beauty and power and infinite truth They well up inside me and break their way through All troubles are quenched as their river runs true
Yours are the hearts that have shown me the way Intrinsically fearless as love takes its place In the mind that was hoping but couldn’t be sure Now your light is my clarity, happiness, law
There’ll always be poems and deep gratitude For the ones who have voyaged before me to truth Who’ve conquered their demons and wrested their scars From the jaws of the tempters and lifted their hearts
To the ones who’ll devour them until you stand Vulnerable. Beating, it rests in your hand Peaceable, strong, in the knowledge so clear That the only thing left to attack you is fear
They’ve stood at the altar and laid themselves down And discovered the sword was dismissed with the crown They’ve torn down their statues again and again Stepped into the fire of the purging of men
There’ll always be poems, there’ll always be songs For the ones who’ve discovered as they marched along In the discipline of their surrendering minds The peace that surpasses the self they’ve declined
There’ll always be poems for all that you are As evolved revolutions of wakening hearts Are roused at their centre, welcomed and hugged The poems that flow through for you are my love
“And left in each footstep a beautiful star” — This is an idea taken from the Course.
“His step is light, and as he lifts his foot to stride ahead a star is left behind, to point the way to those who follow him.“
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There is a spirit within all things That speaks to the mind open and alive Listen for the silent heartbeat of the wildest, truest friend There is a wisdom that connects beyond all form Expressing universality, oneness, clarity Expanding, dismissing what was previously reason Tittle tattle dropped to forest floor, trodden under sole and passed away Ease of living, unquestionable, obvious Decisions shown through lightness, darkness, doors open or closed Seen clearly in the hallways of the mind Clarity cuts through impossibility Gives me to its presence, gratefully encompassing the whole
I am grateful, my deepest love, that I have now heard your call Spoken through all things natural and alive I am here now, I am open, I receive you Let your loving wisdom be the rhythm of my day and night Bringing me, each instant, to the perfect timelessness of now Your sanctity and peace become the only pathway that my mind remembers The natural world: no more or less of matter to its form But simply less obstruction to the truth that lies beyond No complicated mind imposed to stand between itself And the intrinsic perfection of its present reality You who know your perfect wholeness, Teach me how to know myself as you
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I willingly slip into the waters that run Deep within the self that I’ve begun to get to know Deep within the self I choose to be As I learn to let go of the dreaming of duality
And this time I let myself fall Welcome the comfort of the arms that aid my understanding You are my canvas covered walls You are the structure that gives shelter where I’m standing And each time you call I’ll be there in leaps and bounds will fly across the heather For our laughter says it all The love that I’ve found here rips apart my twisted tether and I’m free
I’m free
I willingly slip into the riches that hide Deep within this force of light, the power of my mind Deep within the self that I am shown As I raise my eyes and take this power as my own
From this time I decide to be Everything that I’ve discovered in the light of love’s direction Now I accept that I am free And I believe all that I see within the light of love’s reflection Each time you need me I’ll be here in love with every joy and every sorrow For I have faith in the love I breathe And I offer it up anytime for you to borrow for it’s free
That perfect moment in the depths of the full moon when you realise that everything is alive
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Times when the veil is thin And all of life breaks open within The light in the sky is a thunderous din As she wakes me from slumber to welcome her in
All is wild and alive The attributes of an opening mind The raining of stars in a heart that’s revived From deep tender longing to finally arrive
Solid, beating, tranquil, true Right in the centre that forms the root From which the highest certainty rules Directing the mind that inherently values
Her pulsing, gentle, articulate beat The accompanying tide at her moonlit feet That gives and receives through her rhythmic, sweet Impossibly powerful, full, mystique
The heart of heaven is felt within Her rising, beautiful, star-filled brim Expanding as the enchanted sing The angels’ chorus, enlightened, begins
I wake and feel the thinning veil Rent and ripped in tatters and tails Spinning useless upon the gales Of an open mind, released from its trails
I wake and feel the parted seams Releasing me to beyond my dreams As the wildest gentlest shining gleams Reflect within my heart as it beams
Holly Rose Thomas 