Who ya gonna call?

“Every choice we make is a kind of prayer that aligns us with a certain reality and a certain future.” –Charles Eisenstein

Although I’m not quite as prolific as “Sybil,” who allegedly had 16 different personalities and voices, I notice two distinct thought patterns vying for my attention.

The first, often called an ego, constantly tries to keep me safe, points out lots of things I need to improve and basically repeats old stories, old ideas that toe the party line. Never have I noticed it telling me anything new or exciting or revelatory.

The other voice, which I’m discovering is every bit as present and available, speaks a whole different tale. It tells me I’m loving, loved and that my love is needed, important even.

The kinder, gentler voice claims to have always been there, but because it’s not pushy (love never is), it had to wait for my invitation. Which, as you all know by now, I’ve been doing every morning. Inviting it to dish!

Today, it assured me that its voice is my real voice and that the other voice—the one that has berated me off and on for my whole life—is just borrowed nonsense from a culture that lives in fear.

It even went so far as to say that it perceives me as perfect.

Say what?

Nobody has ever said that before, except maybe one of my old boyfriends in the early throes of romance.

And it also mentioned that as I begin to recognize this perfection in myself, I’ll see it in everybody else. Now that’s something worth having because as this point, I still seem to see a few things out there that I don’t rank as a perfect 10.

So I’m happy to be what the Course calls “a glad receiver.”  And I’m becoming more and more willing to surrender my allegiance to the old thought system that a) never seemed to have my best interests at heart and that b) is made of creaky old tapes that I no longer need.

Hope y’all are enjoying your budding love story with your own correspondent which I’m told by my correspondent thinks you are perfect, too.

#222 Forever!

Pam Grout is the author of 20 books including E-Squared, E-Cubed, Thank & Grow Rich and her latest book, The Course in Miracles Experiment: A Starter Kit for Rewiring Your Mind (And Therefore Your World)