Today\u2019s reading reminds me of the children\u2019s nursery rhyme:<\/p>\n
Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall,
\nHumpty Dumpty had a great fall;
\nAll the king’s horses and all the king’s men
\nCouldn’t put Humpty together again.<\/p>\n
The wall we sit on is belief in our thoughts. It is a very shaky wall, crumbling at its foundation. If we sit on this wall, \u201ca very great fall\u201d is destined. The fall results in a break from clarity; we see from a separated, biased point-of-view instead of from reason and wholeness. We also make the mistake of believing how we see\u2014we think we are right\u2014and so, \u201cAll the king\u2019s horses and all the king\u2019s men\u201d cannot help us see rightly again.<\/p>\n
In today\u2019s reading, Jesus gives us a prayer to pray whenever we find ourselves on that shaky wall:<\/p>\n
Father, it is not Your Will that I be separate from you, so it is not my will that I be separate. I rejoin with you by letting go of my attack [or fear, judgment, guilt, unworthiness, etc]. I give this to you, that you may do with it as it is Your Will. I ask for nothing of you but peace.<\/p>\n
This prayer, or one like it, helps us let go of thinking that is about to cause \u201ca great fall.\u201d When we surrender thoughts in this way, we let them go and leave them in God\u2019s Hands. We don\u2019t continue to think with those thoughts. We don\u2019t speak from them, and we don\u2019t act upon them. We step outside that loop of thinking. We willingly let things be as they are and as they will be.<\/p>\n
If we follow the prayer up by thinking, speaking or acting with those thoughts, we have not surrendered them. Our wall remains shaky, and a fall is eminent.<\/p>\n
Today\u2019s reading also points toward true perception. We can place our attention with this pointer instead of with our separation thinking, if we want to. The pointer that Jesus shares is \u201cthe innocence that is found within our Lord.\u201d Jesus also uses a small child as an example of his own innocence, which he calls \u201cone innocence.\u201d<\/p>\n
In order to understand this pointer, we need to understand \u201cinnocence.\u201d In this case, innocence isn\u2019t the opposite of guilt. Innocence is \u201clack of knowledge.\u201d (From Merriam-Webster\u2019s Dictionary.) Or said another way, it is the opposite of the I-know mind.<\/p>\n
Again, believing our thinking is the problem. When we accept, \u201cI don\u2019t know,\u201d we disengage from the thinking mind and open up to intuition, which comes from consciousness.<\/p>\n
Twice in today\u2019s reading, we are told that Jesus \u201copened his mouth, so that the Holy Spirit could pour forth.\u201d We aren\u2019t<\/u><\/strong> told: Jesus knew the man who was speaking, and he knew this guy had a grievance against so-called-Messiahs. He also knew that he had to prove this man wrong, or many people might stop trusting him. And so, he tried to get the man to see another way, so that the crowd would not turn away.\u201d<\/p>\n Opening his mouth without any ideas about what he would say is an example of innocence. Believing thinking, like the thinking in my made-up example above, is the opposite of innocence and a fall from clarity.<\/p>\n Each day, I read from NTI. When I feel to stop and be with a particular sentence or paragraph, I do. However, when I finish reading and pick up my laptop to begin writing the tip, I always wonder, \u201cWhat will I type today?\u201d<\/p>\n My daily tip is a surprise to me. It unfolds as I write. Until it is done, I don\u2019t know what it will say. Today, the idea about Humpty Dumpty came after I put my hands on the keyboard. In fact, I originally wrote, \u201cToday\u2019s reading is about how we separate ourselves.\u201d After I typed that, the idea of Humpty Dumpty came, so I deleted my original opening sentence and followed Humpty Dumpty to see where it would go.<\/p>\n Innocence is lack of knowledge. By following that pointer, we experience true perception. By believing our thinking\u2014by thinking we know\u2014we keep climbing up and falling off of a wall, over and over and over again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Today\u2019s reading reminds me of the children\u2019s nursery rhyme: Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall, Humpty Dumpty had a great fall; All the king’s horses and all the king’s men Couldn’t put Humpty together again. The wall we sit on is belief in our thoughts. It is a very shaky wall, crumbling at its foundation. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101,88],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-28765","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-gentlehealingtips-year2","7":"category-sidebar","8":"entry"},"yoast_head":"\n