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This week I’m dog-sitting for a delightfully enthusiastic Border Collie named Bonnie Lass.  What a lovely creature!  So full of Life and fun and play, she communicates with gentleness and peace, and really knows how to play ball!  She’s been very patient with me, too.  For a couple days I wasn’t feeling well enough to run around outside.  But, this morning, we’re back in action.

Bonnie Lass and I went for a long walk-and-play in the park early this morning.  I love morning walks, because this is often the time when I connect the deepest with Truth and stillness, and hear the inspiration that comes from that spaciousness.  As we walked, I was blessed with a sudden and wonderful Thought:  the Holy Spirit’s voice sung clearly in my mind, “You’re Being is cherished and held in the infinite Love of God.”  Aaahhh.  My whole body, mind and being relaxed deeply into the blessed presence of this Thought.  I say Thought because this was not like the meaningless thoughts that run through our mind incessantly: this was not coming from the analyzer–the little “thought machine” in our minds.  And this Thought was not experienced as a thought the mind thinks.  :)  It was felt, sensed, known by my entire Being in an everlasting moment of recognition.  And it had an effect on me similar to the mouth on cotton candy: I melted and dissolved.  My heart burst open even more, and tears of Gratitude washed my face.

As I became aware again that I was walking the dog, that I actually had a body with a leash in one hand and a ball in the other, I sang a mantra of Thank You to God, and to all the Awakened Ones.   I sang in gratitude for how perfectly cared for we are, no matter what appears to be going on in the world.   I sang in gratitude for the Voice that came through so clearly and Blessed me with Remembrance.   And as I looked over the valley, at the rolling green hills and the misty clouds and the snow-tipped mountains and the budding trees, I sang in gratitude for the Beauty that reminds us of Truth.

And now, this gratitude remains.  It will remain always, as long as I remember the Self, the Christ, the Love that we are.

My prayerful intention today is that we all remember this in every moment.  That we allow the Voice, the Holy Spirit to be heard in our minds.  That we allow the stillness to speak to us so that we always know how precious, loved, loving, safe, beautiful, whole, innocent, infinite and perfect We truly are.  May we never forget this, and may this Truth guide our every step as we awaken the dream.

I spent the weekend in deep prayer and union with God.  After such an experience, what is there to say?  Words cannot even begin to convey the beauty of revelation.  Fortunately we have poetry and music.  These wonderful forms of expression bring us closer to communicating/sharing the power of truth.

As I sit resting today, I just picked up The Gift, poems by Hafiz, and of course opened right to the perfect poems to share with you in this moment.  Smile with me as we celebrate truth in peace and joyful laughter.

“I understand the wounds that have not healed in you.   They exist because God and love have yet to become real enough to allow you to forgive the dream.   You still listen to an old alley song that brings your body pain;….My love for your Master is such you can just lean back and I will feed you this truth:  your wounds of love can only heal when you forgive this dream.”

“Children can easily open the drawer that lets the spirit rise up and wear its favorite costume of mirth and laughter.  When our mind is consumed with remembrance of Him, something divine happens to the Heart that shapes the hand and tongue and eye into the word Love.”

“This is the time for you to deeply compute the impossibility that there is anything but Grace.”

“And for every reason in existence I begin to eternally, to eternally laugh and love!  When I turn into a leaf and start dancing, I run to kiss our beautiful Friend and I dissolve into the Truth That I Am.”

“Sing because this is a food our starving world needs.  Laugh because that is the purest sound.”

Aaahhh  Thank you Hafiz. 

Enjoy my 2 newest songs, just uploaded a few days ago at www.myspace.com/jeanyes1

Live, Love and Laugh often!

Yesterday I observed myself laughing often.   Those of you who know me might be asking “what’s new?”  I laugh a lot.  It’s something people tend to notice about me pretty quickly, because not only do I laugh often, I tend to laugh pretty loudly as well.  The volume is something I can’t always control.  And the laughter I rarely control in the sense of hold back or limit.   Laughter is always an appropriate response to life.

Another thing I observed as I was laughing a lot yesterday is that, at times, I feel as though I need to explain myself!  Like the inner critic voice says:  what are you laughing at?, what’s so funny?  why are you laughing so much?  And, is laughter really always appropriate…what if someone is hurt, what about all the tragedies if genocide, war, starvation and extinction happening on the planet?  You can’t laugh at that!

We are so used to laughing for a reason: at a joke, at someone or something.  Most of us allow ourselves to laugh only when our intellect or analyzer decides something is funny or humorous.  And, unless we are laughing at another’s “expense”–out of judgment, condemnation or competition–there’s really no harm in intellectual humor.  However, the laughter I speak of when I say “laughter is always an appropriate response to life” is the laughter of the Heart in recognition of Truth and acceptance of Grace.

Aaahh…Grace : )  That ever-present, always giving, energy of divine love, peace, presence and awareness.  Grace is experienced in so many ways, but always as a gift.  It may appear as divine intervention, an epiphany or moment of revelation, an opening in our awareness, a feeling of contentment and gratitude, and a sense of absolute and certain peace.  When we are in acceptance of the all-and-ever-givingness of Grace that is Life, what more natural response is there than Laughter?!

Laughter is the song of grace, singing its celebration of joy, peace and acceptance:love.  This kind of laughter doesn’t always happen out loud.  Sometimes it is the inner smile of our awareness and acceptance of what is.  Sometimes it is a stillness inside in response to outer unrest.  And sometimes it bubbles forth like a song of enthusiasm, gratitude and celebration of Being.  We may laugh inside, in celebration of our infinite immortal Spirit, while we respond compassionately to the worlds pain through whatever form of action we are inspired to take.  Throughout that compassionate action and service, however, if we remember ourSelf, we laugh inside,  allowing Grace to pour through us to enable and strengthen our actions with Love and Peace.

When we laugh, we are in the present moment, our mind is not engaged in past guilt or future fear.  We simply Are.  In laughter, the doorway that allows Grace’s ever givingness to be received is wide open.  Resistance releases when we laugh.  We can not laugh and hold on to fear, anger, resentment, resistance or any other thoughts that hold back Grace.  Laughter says Yes! to Grace.

My favorite poet, Hafiz, says it so well:

“I have a thousand brilliant lies
for the question:
How are you?

I have a thousand brilliant lies
for the question:
What is God?

If you think that the Truth can be known
from words,

If you think that the Sun and the Ocean

Can pass through that tiny opening
called the mouth

O someone should start laughing

Someone should start wildly laughing–

Now!”

May the song of Grace give a smile to your Being and Wholeness to your Mind.