Only my thoughts can hurt me 

And all my memories are false prophets 

I have forgotten my true self 

And peace resides only in the remembering 

Love nudges me to let the past go 

For when I cherish ancient hates 

I hurt myself 

And when I day dream of the future 

I deceive myself 

Time conceals the truth 

But the present sets free each deception 

The cause of all pain 

Disappears in this moment 

But my memories bring it charging back 

What I want to remember is only right now 

To feel the Truth of Love 

That has always been alive in my mind 

As an ever-present peaceful presence 

And as I forget every imagined trespass  

I heal in Truth’s warm revealing 

I finally see the set-up  

That unconscious fear

Causes our collective reality 

And broadens the seeming gap between us 

Still the Truth stands quietly by

Assuring me I need no healing to be healed 

Created by wholeness I am already whole 

Extended from Oneness 

We are One in the same 

Spirit urges me to stop and be still

To meld into the quietness 

That comes with remembering God

And pondering His perfection

If I do nothing to make myself afraid

If I stop distracting myself 

And running away to hide in good deeds 

I will remember the beginning and the end 

I know I have nothing to truly fear

I cannot be excluded from the Will that is for me

Stillness speaks of a gentle Love

And reminds me

I have done nothing

And I never need do anything

To be worthy of being called His child 

Past this false world of sin is freedom 

I can know my true perfection 

Given me in my Creation 

And by finally quieting my mind

And allowing the memory of God to arise

I remember

I have never left Him

He has never left me 

And He will carry me back

Across the bridge into Eternity  

And this fearful universe 

That I wrongly thought contained us all 

Will finally disappear…