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What do you Know for sure about God? What can you point to that explicitly expresses the Presence of the Presence without one other option for what the impetus might be? I would have to say that it is my life, my breath, my very beingness that makes me Know God with the greatest of clarity and ease. This is why I practice Being Here, why I practice staying present, so that I can Know what I need to Know to get where I need to go.

Free and Clear; this is what I Am by my own declaration, which is what the experience of freedom and clarity require; your willingness to declare (speak) it. In order to live free you must choose freedom with your actions. In order to get and remain clear, so that you can hear what God and life are saying to you, you must intend to be Present and practice. There is no sustained experience available to us outside of that which we practice most determinedly. So what is it going to be? Here, where you get to choose or anywhere that the winds of life blow you? Inhaling deeply through your nose and following your inhale, tell God thank you and stay Here.

All of the time - for me - it is my best bet to simply short-circuit any staticky thinking with attention to my breathing. It just cuts out all the fluff. I can get and stay right in the sweet spot without having to fish for grounding or experience the difficult energy of trying to keep myself afloat (or constrained) when a moment gets difficult. Instead I just let God and Life regulate all of every situation, including and especially me. I can do this easily by turning my attention to my breathing. So can you.

There is nothing you cannot do if you would simply be willing to do it one breath at a time, with your attention focused on your breathing. Because isn't this how all of life must be done anyway?

Deal with it. Whatever comes; whatever feeling, whatever thought, whatever moment shows up to show you itself, be Present. No matter how tattered, obtuse or “wrong” you might deem it to be, treat it like the hand Life is dealing you in this breath and see what it has to say about where you are in this great Life game. Get in the game. Stay in the game. Breathe and follow your breathing. It Knows the way.

“The further you get out of line, the more energy it takes to come back,” this is what Spirit said to me. I am greatful for this generous reminder. I am greatful that my breath can carry me, even from out of bounds, safely to where I belong; in God’s Presence, under God’s cover and anchored to my breathing.