“In the end, every single path leads back here to love.”—Elizabeth Gilbert
First, a big sloppy thank you to all of you kind, beautiful people who posted such compassionate words right here on this very blog.
It’s never comfortable admitting your shortcomings, especially in a culture that expects perfection and constant progress. But I couldn’t continue to blog with a straight face without owning up to this hugely significant life event and the lapse in my own practice.
What was so clearly shown to me (As the Course says, nothing is against me, everything is for me) is that, despite my looking the other direction, I was never abandoned. The loving life force from which we all spring never left its post. This Divine Grace (call it the Dude, Cosmo K, whatever works for you) is eternal, immovable.
There’s nothing any of us can do to sever our connection. It can’t be done. It’s who we are.
Our thoughts, on the other hand, could use a little work.
So often we use the powerful mojo of our thoughts to create what the second of the Ten Commandments called “a graven image.” This is an image that looks real, that sure seems to be causing us problems. But it’s a version of life that’s not valid. It hides the truth, blocks the miracle.
So glad to know that, like Dorothy with her red ruby slippers, I can click my heels at any time and return home.
#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)
34 Responses
Love love love your blog. I get an enormous amount of emails but yours I look Forward so receiving and reading. Thank you!!
What a nice thing to hear. Thank you!!!
How could I abandon you? I love you.
Yes! And the universe says this to us every day!!!
You are amazing!
Why thank you!!!
We love you so much Pam!
And I love all of you so much
Absolutely, we are always connected. Like you I sometimes fall off the bandwagon, but we know it’s temporary and we are soon back on the path.
Love and hugs coming your way.
Loraine x
Yes, let us all give ourselves grace when we tumble off the back of the wagon.
I approach these deviations, along my life’s journey, with as much self compassion (and curiosity) as I can muster. It’s going to happen. I always find a way to pick my self up, dust myself off, breathe and proceed forward. Much love to you! ♥️
And much love back!
You are the absolute best! Thanks for being human!!! Love Victor
Being human is quite the trip–mostly a beautiful one!
I appreciate the love and wisdom that you continue to share with us. The simple analogy of Dorothy’s slippers ‘just one click and you’re home’.
I’m not quite there yet, but one day soon.
Thank you for sharing your vulnerability and knowing.
Why not today?
But what if it wasn’t a short coming or a lapse in your practice? What if everyone shared the real work of being human? Of being a divine unlimited multidimensional being having a human experience? To go through devastation and then click our heels three times and come home? I absolutely love this post, you are a total legend!
What if everyone shared what the real work looks like? Words are so powerful. I genuinely believe a reframe is needed. This planet is tough biscuits. That’s a fact. But the truth is love. What if we shared the biscuits that lead us to the jam within? This analogy sounds like a jammy dodger! 😂 You guys have those in the US right?
Tough biscuits, grief and heartbreak and loss and trauma. Transmuted into gratitude and forgiveness and light and love. Jam. This planet is known as the hardest planet. What if we embrace the biscuits as equal to the jam for it is the biscuit that holds the jam.
Something like that! 🩷🍪🍩🍭 Love you so much Pam, you’re so frickin awesome, couldnt do the journey without you 🦔👠👠🙏
I love the idea that the “tough biscuits” in life can be equal to the “jam” within them just with a change in our perspective. And that if we share the biscuits with each other we get to share in the jam too. Great analogy. Thanks Seainin. 🍪🍓🦋💛
Wow! Those are some wise words right there! Thank you!!
Pamela Sue Grout…it is absolutely not a shortcoming to grieve a cherished loved one and feel – at least for a while – that life can be harsher than we wish it was.
And most mortals fall off the wagon and off their practice over much less.
Cut yourself some slack, Sister!
That said, I am glad that you know deep down, that The Dude and all of us love you, no matter what!
xox
Ah, thanks, my friend!!
Well said Pamela Joy! I heartily agree. 🥰
You know something dearest Pam? One of the reasons we here love you so much is because we can relate to your humanness. We are blessed to have you sharing the good, the wonderful, the extroadinary and the heartbreakingly sad with us here. To know that “falling off the wagon” is normal, and that we can all climb back on again too with a few clicks of our ruby red heels. So thank you for sharing your loss with us and for letting us know that you, too, sometimes drop your bundle when times are extroadinarily tough. Knowing that helps me know that I’m not a ‘failure’ when I drop my bundle. I’m just human, like all of us, and we’re all just feeling it all in all it’s beauty, pain, heartache and glorious joy. So thank you for being your wonderful self dear Pam. It’s our privilege to witness your journey and to share it – and ours – with you.
Biggest hugs and heaps of love always.
🤗❤️😘👠🌹👠😘❤️🤗
The key, as you point out, is picking it back up, clicking the ruby reds and remembering the truth. Love you, Jenny Louise!
I love your analogy of the “graven image” being our own graven imaginings. That’s a powerful thought in itself. Thanks for sharing today Pam. That’s definitely what I needed to hear today.
X0 Fran
So glad, Fran, as we all walk each other home!!
Love you and your honesty so deeply. When I have felt sucked down the rabbit hole I often feel I am there alone. But one of the promises I can cling to is “If I make my bed in hell thou art there.” It is so nice to know we are never there alone and remain only until we see the ever so small crack of light in the door way and from that point the light begins to flood us.
With Love Always,
Kate, Carmel Ca
I’m so grateful for the light in the crack in the doorway. It shines right through the shards!
I literally kicked my heels when I read this post!
I can’t tell you all enough how much I appreciate all your sharings on this topic🩷it’s a beautiful spiritual cyber family here that feeds my soul thank you💫
Linda
This is one of the reasons we love you, for sharing the good and the bad. I think the lessons you share are so much more powerful when we share all of our human experiences, and it builds stronger connections because we can all relate. Thank you for sharing that experience and I’m so sorry for your loss. xoxo
What an enlightening and comforting thought! I love those Ruby red slippers and there really is no place like HOME. <3
I love you, Pam! 💖
Hi Pam, I was recently reminded by a dear friend about paying it forward, even if that meant just a mere compliment to show your appreciation and gratitude to people who take the time to show their caring concern. I’ve been an avid fan and reader of yours since I asked the universe to help me understand life better while suffering less. I first learned about a course in miracles that led me to you and your books. I wanna thank you for being so candid about what you have recently experienced. I am sorry for your family loss and I can completely empathize and sympathize with your experience. Your last post really resonated. It was almost like you were describing my own current situation and it reminded me that the universe always has my back and that my thoughts can create false stories and realities, that do nothing to serve my highest good. May the universe always remind you that it always has your back and the ways That you can easily identify and feel comforted please take care and thank you always.