It's only pretend, right?

Can you let all of your opposites...love and hate and joy and pain and sadness and happiness and light and dark and so on and so forth...be whole and perfect and true, living within you? 

Can you imagine yourself letting them be, with no need to make some wrong, and some right? Can you imagine that, whether you see them all as beautiful, as blessing, they are? Can you imagine that you are the one deciding factor in the existence of each one? Can you imagine that what you call blessed, though it seem otherwise, is blessed...that even what you may have called cursed, may be blessed, if you say it is?

Imagine yourSelf as perfect LOVE...as That, in which all is perfect and true and whole. Imagining is a nobler sounding word than pretending, but pretending is no less powerful. If it is easier for you to say "pretend", remember this little mantra -- "Pretending is practicing, and practicing is remembering."

Pretending is practicing, and practicing is remembering. Say it a few times, to yourself. Then say it a few times, aloud. Feel it. Let yourself feel it. What are you practicing today? Can you let yourself practice blessing everything, regardless of how you have previously known it? Can you practice being LOVE, and allowing your world to be LOVE? Allowing all of it, then being easy with yourself, when it is hard, or when it feels like lying?

Pretending is practicing, and practicing is remembering. What you are remembering, and what no one else can remember for you, is that you are LOVE...perfect being, perfect understanding, perfect allowing. You are remembering that you are LOVE, and that everything you experience is you, is LOVE. This is what you are remembering. You are LOVE, and LOVE is all. You are LOVE, which knows all as LOVE.

Today, can you let all of your opposites...love and hate and joy and pain and sadness and happiness and light and dark and so on and so forth...be whole and perfect and true, living within you? Can you pretend that they are? Can you pretend that you are LOVE, in which all is perfect and whole and true, living within you?

It's only pretend, right?

Patrick