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The Danger of Virtuous Intentions

January 1, 2019

ACIM, Choice, Commitment, Fitness, Forgive, Life

It’s the New Year and New Year’s Day is the perfect depiction of how good intentions can have a corrupting influence. I’ve long thought it a little insane to go out on New Year’s Eve and party so hardy that you wake up already on the wrong side of accomplishing your goals. It’s the “I’m […]

Rhythm, Routines, Competing Priorities, Keeping My/Your Word and Success

September 26, 2018

ACIM, Atonement, Forgive, Life, Love, Motivation, Peace, Sinlessness, spiritual practice

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I have struggled to find the rhythm that will lead me to success, by which I mean a life filled with the things I want to accomplish. My latest book is The Motivation Myth: How High Achievers Really Set Themselves Up to Win and what I have come to realize is my issue is my […]

Magic Thoughts

September 12, 2018

ACIM, Forgive, Life

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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 […]

Pi Day, Hawking, and Forgiveness as the Path to Healing

March 14, 2018

ACIM, Atonement, Forgive

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Today, I am playing hooky. It is Pi Day and my husband and I are off on an adventure – heading to Pie Town, NM ,shortly, to celebrate geekiness and perhaps mourn the death of Stephen Hawking who choose today to discard his weary body. Meanwhile, though I undoubtedly have work that will call my […]

Time to Release Illusions

February 15, 2018

ACIM, Atonement, Ego, Fear, Forgive, Life's too short, Love

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It is good to rest on these lessons that let me off the hook for all the stories I have made up about how I am undeserving. I mean, it’s not like I go around constantly berating myself, but those niggling thoughts persist about how I “should” have done… fill in the blank. Each time […]

New Habits

January 8, 2018

ACIM, Fear, Forgive, Habit

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As we begin the second week in January of this New Year, I find myself noticing how challenging it is to totally embody new habits. I have been working on my Miracle Morning routines, I see how ingrained other habits are and how it will likely take a while to shift into incorporating these new […]

Ideas Leave Not Their Source

January 3, 2018

Acceptance, ACIM, Choice, Expectations, Forgive

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“Some of your greatest advances you have judged as failures, and some of your deepest retreats you have evaluated as success.” ~A Course in Miracles I woke up late with the feeling that settles in the moment you realize that already you (I) have messed up. You know, where you set this awesome intention and then […]

Lesson 365: Last Dance, the End of the Road

December 31, 2017

Acceptance, ACIM, Atonement, Choice, Commitment, Connection, Faith, Forgive, Life's Purpose, Love, Sinlessness, spiritual practice

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God did not leave His children Comfortless

“You need but ask it of Him, and it will be given you,” says the epilogue to A Course in Miracles. It is graduation day – the last day of doing these daily lessons (for the second time!), although by now I am certain I will call on many of them for the rest of […]

Lesson 364: Faith and Belief and How Prayers Get Answered

December 30, 2017

Acceptance, ACIM, Atonement, Choice, Connection, Ego, Faith, Forgive, Life's Purpose, Love, Sinlessness, spiritual practice

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The year is quickly coming to a close and with it these lesson reviews. I am grateful to have had these daily reviews, with reminders of what I was/am learning. Not surprisingly, today’s focus was reflected in two conversations I had yesterday – about how prayers are always answered but sometimes we (I) fail to […]

Lesson 359 – God’s Answer is Peace: Some Thoughts of the Atonement and Healing

December 25, 2017

ACIM, Atonement, Forgive

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Today’s ACIM lesson, #359, is Lesson 359 says “God’s answer is some form of peace. All pain is healed; all misery replaced with joy. All prison doors are opened. And all sin is understood as merely a mistake.” It is the call to peace. It is the call to be healed. This blog post was written […]

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