What is life demanding of you right now?

What is pressing in on you?

Weighing too heavy on you.

Feeling like it's too much.

Like you're not up for it, up for the challenge.

What am I demanding of you right now?

And if you really know me, your shoulders should be relaxing.

Your stomach should be softening.

That sword has fallen out of your hand onto the floor beside you.

You're remembering that the battle is mine and it is one and that anything presented to

you to do, I will do.

With you, through you, for you, all you had to do was remember me. That is the surrender.

Talk to me like I'm there. That is the surrender. Not like I'm not there. There is a difference

and you can feel it when you are mid-prayer. That false prayer becomes real prayer when you feel me there.

Just like if someone else was in the room

and you had your back to them,

you could sense them there.

I'm right in front of you

and behind you.

And on either side,

I'm within, looking out.

We're looking out the window together, peering out the windows of that body together,

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