Regina Dawn Akers

I see now
that symbols do not
communicate.

Communication is beyond
all symbols.
Communication occurs
through the vibration
of mind or Heart.

Holy Spirit,
help me to abandon
the vibration of mind
because the thinking in mind
is not me.

Help me attune
to the vibration of Heart
and sing only its song,
since its song is my true song
and all that I would want
to sing now.

Holy Spirit,
it is my will
that I do Your Will.

I am aware
of a voice in me
that is not Your Voice
or Your Will.

I chose this voice
and gave it permission
to live in my mind,
but now I make another choice.

It is my choice now
to return to My Will,
which is also Your Will
because our Will is the same.

Help me to leave
the habits I have formed
and return Home
to my Heart and my truth.

Show me when I have slipped
and begun to forget who I am,
that I may surrender the will I no longer want
and return Home to Your Will and my Heart.

Holy Spirit,
let me remember
that a bird is not a bird,
a hand is not a hand,
a body is not a body.

Let me remember
that the sky is not the sky,
the clouds are not clouds
and rain is not rain.

All that my mind shows me
as I look upon the world
is an error and a mirage.

How can I think I know
based on what I see and experience?

To think I know
based on what I see
is to be a fool
believing a fool’s images.

Let me be wise
and trust not my sight.
Let me surrender fully
to You.

Holy Spirit,
let me hold
no separate identity
apart from you.

Let me see all ideas,
all thoughts,
that tell me I exist
as a being apart,
and let me surrender those thoughts
into the dust of nothingness
from which they came.

As I surrender my thoughts,
I surrender my heart too.
But I surrender my heart,
not to nothingingness,
but to everything
and only-thing,
which is to surrender to you.

Make of me a slave
moved only by You
through my desire
to have no semblance
of my own identity,
an identity I would call mine.

Make my identity
ours,
one and the same.