Here is something I wrote as I was joined by Jesus in that way I call “receiving.”
“Thank you so much for the slow/fast arising of that response, the moment of waiting and the feel of the words coming before the words or the readiness of my hands to type. . . the moment of blur between. . . is it me or is it you . . . then the thankfulness for You. Thank you for joining with me.”
Even if you don’t hear words in the way I do, don’t you at times, feel this blur, or this slow arising?
Another day I wrote:
“Why do I linger and linger here, Lord? It is to be with you and to be with me, to be one with you and with me. It is the same. And what I need to live and breathe freely. To linger with you. My “true self” is one with you! You are the weight taken from my shoulders. You open up what is blocked in me.”
Even if you don’t hear words in the way I do, don’t you at times, feel the desire to linger? The lightening of the weight of the world, or of a decision, or the opening of what is blocked in you?
Yesterday I was reminded of these words:
You do not need to believe in the words nor the potential of the exercises to change your life, for these words enter you as what they are, not the symbols that they represent. An idea of love is planted now, in a garden rich with what will make it grow. C:3.9
These words enter you as they are, not the symbols they represent.
This is receiving.
After reading and being in a group for almost two years, my true Self broke through and the experience of “being” is beyond words. Thank you for being “A Course of Love”.
Ah Marian, I join you in this thankfulness. Thank “you” for being!
Reading Mary’s comment (on the Mystery of Grace) and Mari’s response ( words and music) this morning, extends the musical experience of grace that I was during a concert of St Andrew’s Madrigal Group yesterday evening, singing Eric Whitacre’s sublime Lux Aurumque ! Sometimes music is more than music…thank you…blur indeed!
So good to hear from you, Ben. I can imagine you experiencing this grace as you sing, as you create the new. It is like we are each composers now, or part of the composing of the music and the movement that will bring the new. The “more than” is so divinely brought through to us and from us!
Receiving and responding, the Holy Dialogue. In last night’s group on The Art of Thought, it was asked, “How have you changed since beginning this journey?” Words as symbols could not convey. Joyful tears, expressions of gratitude, awe, innocent wonder at The Mystery of Grace never ending. “I never dreamed I could feel like this, Be like this!” These words of mine fall short, but I know your heart can hear me. With much LOVE (is), Mary
Mary, these “words as symbols” are music to my ears. Sometimes, words are more than words, aren’t they?
Thank you for sharing this Mari.
Receiving love.
“Receiving Love.” What a beautiful two-word sentence. Thanks, Eddie.
Beautiful gift you and the course are to the world. Hugs
Thank you, Brett. You are a gift too!