Find a comfortable place for you to sit.
Turn your awareness inward,
Towards your heart,
Towards your breath.
Take a moment to disconnect with yourself sitting in the chair or on the floor.
And taking a few slow deep breaths.
Breathing in the light and breathing out the darkness.
Letting go of any of your thoughts or worries about the past or the future.
Bringing all of your focus to this moment,
To your own heart beating now in the light of God.
Keeping your feet connected to the earth,
Grounded,
Solid.
Being aware of your body,
Aware of your mind,
Aware of your thoughts.
Just fully being inwardly present right here,
Right now.
Taking a moment to connect to the being beyond your thinking mind,
The soul,
The spirit.
By watching and waiting for the next thought with your eyes,
As if you're watching a movie screen waiting for subtitles.
And as you watch and wait for the next thought,
You should have no thoughts,
Even if it's just for a few moments.
The space between your thoughts.
This is your true self.
This is your spirit,
Your oneness with the greater spirit,
God,
The divine presence.
So as you keep watching and waiting for the next thought and continue to hopefully have a quieter mind,
I invite you to put a hand at your heart.
A hand at your diaphragm where you can feel the breath,
Feel the life force,
The prana,
The God force breathing through you.
Knowing that this is who you are.
You are not your thoughts.
You are not the egoic thinking mind.
You are love.
See if you can just breathe in and out of your heart,
Not forcefully,
But just gently feeling the breath,
Breathe through your heart.
As you say the word love repeatedly as a mantra,
As you open the heart to the love that's there,
As you breathe in love and breathe out fear.
And as the mind wanders off in thoughts again,
You can just bring it back.
Watch and wait for the next thought.
Be present to the mind.
Turn it off.
As you feel the spirit breathe through you,
As you feel the love of God within you.
The Course in Miracles has some beautiful sayings.
I'll be reading some of them and incorporating some of the concepts into these next meditative words.
So I invite you to just relax into them,
Try them on,
Really believe the truth of these words.
I feel the love of God within me now.
I feel the love of God within me now.
Love created me like itself.
Love created me like itself.
There is a light within me.
There is a light beating inside my heart.
I see the world anew,
Shining with innocence,
Alive with hope,
And blessed with charity and love.
Who could feel fear in such a world as this?
This light offers me a warm and gentle home in which to stay a while.
And I see a world where peace offers its gentle light to everyone.
There is no fear here.
See if you can imagine a light bursting in your heart.
Maybe you can imagine the light of the sun,
Or the light from a bright star in the galaxy,
Or the moon rays just shining down upon your heart,
Gleaning,
Opening,
Awakening your heart to this pure light,
Pure love.
The choice is always this.
I can look upon life with grievances or miracles.
And a miracle is just a perception change from fear to love.
My grievances hide the light of the world from me.
My grievances hide the light of the world from me.
What do I want my grievances for?
They keep me in darkness and hide the light.
But the light of the world will shine all that I see away.
So I will there be light.
If I hold grievances,
I am attacking love.
I'm attacking God and thus myself.
What do I truly want?
I truly want the truth and grievances hide the truth from me.
Love holds no grievances.
Love does not put forth guilt or judgment.
Love blesses,
Offers compassion,
Forgives.
Love transforms all darkness into light.
Let the light be my guide today.
Let the light be my guide today.
Let me look upon a world of light with forgiving eyes that bless everything with my holiness.
I let the light come to replace the darkness.
The light has come.
It's inside you.
It enfolds you.
It embraces you.
Take some time now to imagine that you are seeing light in everything and everyone.
The light of innocence,
The light of peace.
Just for now you're willing to look out onto the world with forgiveness and bless it.
According to mine now,
Someone with whom you have a grievance,
Imagine them in your mind's eye or hold them in your heart and say the light in you is all that I would see.
I see the God in you.
I see the love in you.
I look beyond what I'm judging or see as negative.
The light in you is all that I would see.
I bless you with my holiness.
Now bring to mind a situation that you have a grievance around in the world or your community,
The group of people,
And say the light in you is all that I would see.
I bless you.
I'm willing to see your innocence.
I'm willing to forgive.
I'm willing to know that you're in fear,
That you know not what you do,
And you need blessings.
You need love.
You need the light to move forward just as I do.
So I look at you.
I look at my world with forgiveness as I keep breathing in and out of my heart,
Feeling the love of God within me now.
And as I feel this love,
I see the world anew,
Shining with innocence,
Alive with hope,
And blessed with love.
And now I turn this love towards myself.
The light in me is all that I would see.
I allow myself to feel peace,
The peace of God,
The peace of the Spirit,
The peace that only love offers.
Nothing can happen in life that can threaten my soul if I let the light enhance my awareness and connect with my non-judging heart,
The place that I know as God,
As peace,
As love,
Pure unconditional love.
And so I breathe into that space,
Into that light,
And all is well.
Thank you.
