I. Introduction Last month, when it seemed like winter would never come, somebody asked me to clarify an earlier reference to prayer, and I began writing instantly and intensely. But I didn’t answer their question. I didn’t even try. Sometimes it’s like that. The Holy Spirit gives you an assignment and you respond with allContinue reading “Notes on Prayer”
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The Easy Peace of Relationship
Every relationship in which we find ourselves is an aspect of the One Relationship, which is God’s relationship to Creation in Creation as Creation. Therefore, every relationship is an opportunity to remember our shared innocence and to become happy together in a way that invites God to “take the last step” (e.g., T-17.II.4:5). We perceiveContinue reading “The Easy Peace of Relationship”
Reading the ACIM Manual for Teachers: Introduction
A Course in Miracles reframes traditional concepts of teaching and learning (and thus of student and teacher), with an eye toward bringing us to responsibility for healing in all our relationships. In the traditional view, teaching is a profession, a 9-to-5 type of gig – you train, get certified, find a job, develop professionally. TeachersContinue reading “Reading the ACIM Manual for Teachers: Introduction”
In Christmas Time: The Authority of Love
0 I am feeling my way towards something here. Please be patient. You know what I’ve forgotten, and the trail is growing faint. 1 Lately I’ve been riding the insomnia train again. Do you know it? I mean insomnia like, it’s three a.m., you haven’t slept for twenty some odd hours and you have toContinue reading “In Christmas Time: The Authority of Love”
In Christmas Time: Vast Rivers of Healing
0 I’ve spent a lot of time in this life with the cross, and somewhat less time with resurrection. The one makes the other necessary – a kind of grim cycle I wish on nobody. Yet recently, another way has shown itself. Late, but not too late, I am called back into the desert whereContinue reading “In Christmas Time: Vast Rivers of Healing”
In Christmas Time
And so the journey ends. So the Advent season – always an abstraction, always a projection – ends. The long night ends and a new day begins. The manger was always a symbol. Shall we be born again in our shared heart? Can we even begin to understand what that means? Do we need to?Continue reading “In Christmas Time”