Today is one of those days when conflicting goals find me feeling tempted to enter stress-monkey mode. So naturally, because everything is truly in divine right order, today’s Course lesson is “Let me remember what my purpose is.” It is the reminder that I cannot serve two masters simultaneously. It says “No one can serve […]
The longer I study A Course in Miracles, the more I get why it is really about learning to forgive. In truth, it is just letting myself off the hook again and again and again. Intellectually, I understand this but the practice is another story. Like any skill, I may think I get it, but […]
How many mornings have I thought I had adequate time to reclaim my old habit of daily writing, with sitting with God, with the pitapat of the keyboard as I settle into contemplation? Too often! Too often, I have arisen early enough so that theoretically, I should have had adequate time to wedge the activity […]
This is a love letter. Writing love letters is not something I’ve done a lot of over the years, but before the days of instant messaging and cell phones that allow us to communicate from all corners of the earth, the depths of one’s affection for another could be evidenced by taking the time to […]
The past is a collection of stories. In reality, these stories are the only way the past continues to exist and so it behooves us (me) to tell stories that empower. It behooves us (me) to recount a version that plants seeds of creativity, stories that catapult us in the direction of our dreams rather […]
I was eating an ear of corn on the cob when I noticed it – somewhere along the way, I had adapted the habit of comparing. I had forfeited that was in front of me to enjoy. I had flushed away the present moment’s joy by measuring it against the past; an epiphany that made […]
It seems fitting to me that today’s ACIM lesson is: I am not a body. I am free, for on the heels of yet another ACIM group meeting with “Shams” as an attendee, those of us who were present definitely left feeling high and questioning our reality. Of course, that is the key: question everything […]
I am no longer trying to fix things. There IS nothing to fix. Letting go of this inclination may not seem like a gargantuan feat – after all, it is infinitely easier to NOT do things than to do them, but trust me, it is. It’s huge. It is the taming of ego. It is […]
Nothing real can be threatened. Nothing unreal exists. Herein lies the Peace of God. I have studied long enough to realize that when I encounter stress, I am looking at a place within that needs healing. It is resistance to what is. It is fear. It is lack of trust. Yesterday, as I once again […]
“There isn’t any hell or heaven except for how we relate to our world. Hell is just resistance to life.” ~Pema Chodron, The Wisdom of No Escape. When I am in hell, I need to write. The part that is screwed up (of course!) is that I resist writing, as well. When I am in […]
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