With joy and thanksgiving

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 Can I become more simple here now? 

Simple to the point that I just begin here now. 
with nothing more than the sensation of my body, 
every cell. 

We are here together in a world that is made from goodness. 
It somehow does not look this way to my eyes 
or sound this way to my ears, 
because I am filled with things that are seen 
only from the point of view of man. 

And I need, at the same time, 
to both deepen my point of view through the body 
and expand it through the heart 
and let it be more open through a mind that is still, 
so that a single new impression of being can enter me. 

I don't need to complicate things so much today. 
Just being here is already good. 
And the more that I am here within my organic sensation in this body, 
the more that goodness begins to flow in 
through every crack that I have created 
in the shield I keep around me to keep the world out. 

And so the water of life and truth 
and goodness and love and being 
are all around me like an ocean, 
pressing into the substance of my being, 
the substance of my being body, 
and bringing a gift which I can receive here. 

I still resist, but at least now I have a taste of the goodness 
that establishes my presence here where I am. 

I myself am not good, 
and this is strange because, in fact, 
I am created from goodness and through goodness, 
like all the rest of creation. 

I have lost creation somehow, 
even though it is here making me what I am now. 
I have forgotten it. 

I just want to shed all of the opinions and the reactions that I have 
to make room for it to come home 
here and to me 
so that we can re-establish our relationship with one another. 

In the end, I know nothing. 
And this is a good and wondrous thing. 
It gives me permission to move forward into life in a new way. 

Perhaps even a way that does not carry myself and what I have been 
as baggage into it. 

To leave the past behind and go forward into life 
with joy and thanksgiving 
and all the praises of the Lord.