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Only the Mind is in Need of Healing

December 2, 2018

It snowed last night. Nothing major. It was a mere inch or two that covered the trees and ground, but I am scheduled for duty at church for first service so staying in is not an option. But in truth, I just want to hunker down. Jay is still in bed and I’d forgotten how […]

A Story about Stories

August 5, 2018

ACIM, Life

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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 […]

Opening to Energy

January 17, 2018

ACIM, Choice, Connection, Fitness, Habit, Life, Love

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Michael Singer quote, The Untethered Soul

I am all about the flow of energy lately. Jay and I purchased a recumbent exercise bike for Christmas and I have been using it every day. I start each day with at least 20 minutes on the bike. I bring this up not because I am looking to get congratulated for finally taking the […]

Value vs. Money: Some Thoughts on Habits and Life

January 4, 2018

ACIM, Habit, Life, Life's Purpose, Life's too short

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Nature abhors a vacuum. Now that we are in the New Year and my habit of revisiting last year’s ACIM lesson begs to be replaced by something else, I find that I am examining my daily habits. Habit is something I slip into when a void arises, or I am faced with doing something I […]

Lesson 356: Healing is Another Name for God

December 22, 2017

Acceptance, ACIM, Atonement, Choice, Faith, Life's Purpose, Love, Names, spiritual practice

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ACIM LEsson 356, Healing is but another name for God

“Healing is another name for God,” today’s lesson tells us. To call on God is to call on healing, and as the Course reminds us often, God will never fail to answer His son’s call. We are His son. There is really only one of us here. (“It should especially be noted that God has only one Son. […]

Lesson 190: Pain is Illusion

July 9, 2017

Acceptance, ACIM, Choice, Ego, Pain, spiritual practice, Trust

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I choose the joy of God instead of pain.

“It is your thoughts alone that cause you pain. Nothing external to your mind can hurt or injure you in any way,” today’s lesson says. “Pain is illusion.” A year after writing this, I still have the perception of aches and pains. The difference now is that I am aware that what I am experiencing […]

Lesson 107: Truth and Errors

April 17, 2017

Acceptance, ACIM, Choice, Connection, Ego, Habit, Life, Resistance, spiritual practice

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My writing from last year on today’s lesson Truth will correct all errors in my mind: The days that I am battling with my ego are easy to tell: they are the days when I can’t remember what the lesson is without going back to look it up again and again. Thank God for my […]

Lesson 100: My Part is Essential

April 10, 2017

ACIM, Atonement, Choice, Commitment, Connection, Ease, Frequency, Life, Life's Purpose, Love, Peace, spiritual practice, Vibrational match

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My part is essential to God’s plan which is ultimately for all His children to be happy and know how precious they are. From last year’s daily writing: It’s a paradox: we are all One, not separate bodies, but One; a concept that obliterates the ego and abolishes specialness, yet somehow, the Course alleges, is […]

Lesson 95: One Self, United with My Creator: Explorations in Healing

April 5, 2017

Acceptance, ACIM, Ego, Expectations, Faith, Labels, Law of Attraction, Life's Purpose, Persistence, Sinlessness, spiritual practice, Struggle

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From last year: Lesson 95 – I am one Self, united with my Creator. I am still trying to connect with the consciousness that would allow healing to occur. This has always been one of my deepest challenges and part of why I have had an ongoing fascination with the powers of the mind. Intellectually, […]

Lesson 356: Healing is Another Name for God

January 1, 2017

Acceptance, ACIM, Atonement, Choice, Faith, Life's Purpose, Love, Names, spiritual practice

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It’s time – time to relinquish all egoic ideas of being anything less than God created and allow the healing to occur. The Course says, “All healing is essentially the release from fear.” It is the Atonement, the recognition of our oneness with God and with each other. In the Manual for Teachers, Jesus states: “1 Healing and Atonement are not […]

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