To be a student of A Course in Miracles is a commitment to practicing seeing Christ in everyone. Sometimes, when I do google searches and see some anti-course sites out there, I am always certain that the author has never done the lessons. Last Tuesday, we had the doubter’s discussion, the one where ego says, […]
Perhaps I’m inching a bit closer to learning to embrace reality. “Reality” in Course in Miracles terms isn’t the same as normal folks think of reality; in fact, it’s denying what mass consensus views as reality. It’s things exactly as they are, but seen through Christ’s vision. In Course terms, “Reality is changeless. It is this […]
Today is my 24th wedding anniversary. Life goes on, of course. Work tugs and I have things I must tend to, but for a moment, I pause to remember this day 24 years ago, when I was excited and happy and grateful. So I love today’s A Course in Miracles lesson: My heart is beating […]
For my Roots class, we are reading Emerson; specifically his essay on Spiritual Laws. Emerson says, “Each man has his own vocation. The talent is the call. There is one direction in which all space is open to him,“ and I found myself wondering if that is true and if so, what is my vocation? […]
Gentleness. It’s a word I like. A Course in Miracles uses the word frequently: it appears 37 times; gentle by itself appears another 45. It is one of the characteristics of God’s teachers. This morning, as I stood back and witnessed what ego was up to, it was a quality I needed. I was noticing […]
Some days when I awaken, I notice ego scanning the horizon looking for a place to part its dissatisfaction. You’d think I enjoyed being unhappy! This is always the result of arguing with God over what my life is supposed to look like, and truth be told, it is usually the result of sitting in […]
The challenge of doing these daily Course lessons is that sometimes it feels like I’ve giving up choice. This group of lessons from the Course in Miracles workbook is focused on trying to transform what the body is used for. Ego wants to use the body for attack, for making separate, for seeing differences that […]
Let me perceive no differences today. Love is the same. God is changeless. The eternal and infinite cannot be contained. It is only that I try to limit them by believing in separation. Because somewhere, nestled in the world of form, within the individualization, all the separate bodies lie testament to differences; or so ego […]
Today, we begin Section 5: What is the Body, which is the heading for these next ten A Course in Miracles lessons. It instructs: “Identify with love, and you are safe. Identify with love, and you are home. Identify with love, and find your Self.” Since it is difficult to conceive of NOT being a […]
I woke up excited that it’s Tuesday because that means I have my class tonight. It’s funny how integral the Course has become to my life. It is hard to exclude it from anything these days. I relate everything back to these teachings. And it fills me with such gratitude because I know how the […]
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