By grace I live. By grace I am released. Kindness is not complicated – really it is just a question of putting another’s needs before our own – and that service becomes the light by which we are find our way back to Heaven. We need each other so that we might learn how toContinue reading “A Course in Miracles Lesson 169”
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Reading the Rules for Decision: On Sitting By
One of the reasons A Course in Miracles is so effective is its insistence there are only two options available to us: we can be right or we can be at peace (T-29.VII.1:9). There is no middle ground. The clarity of that will save us, once we stop fighting it. Rules for Decision is clear thatContinue reading “Reading the Rules for Decision: On Sitting By”
Reading the Rules for Decision: One Step Forward, Two Steps Back
Sometimes it feels like the dance of A Course in Miracles could be called “one step forward, two steps back.” There are good days and bad days, and some of the good days are amazing to the point you can hardly talk about them with words, and some of the bad days are very badContinue reading “Reading the Rules for Decision: One Step Forward, Two Steps Back”
Reading the Rules for Decision: Practice Makes Perfect
I was fortunate to grow up in a house where my mother and father took religion – and by extension, spirituality – seriously. They did not compromise when it came to Catholicism and they were open-minded and fair with respect to other paths and traditions. Of course there are downsides to growing up thinking ofContinue reading “Reading the Rules for Decision: Practice Makes Perfect”
Reading the Rules for Decision: Finding Our Place in the Great Awakening
A Course in Miracles meets us where we are. That is part of what is so powerful and so lovely about it. There are no entrance examinations, no catechisms, no rituals. No special handshakes or secret signs. You don’t have to walk on your knees in pilgrimage. We pick it up and read and itContinue reading “Reading the Rules for Decision: Finding Our Place in the Great Awakening”
Reading the Rules for Decision: Catching Snowflakes on your Tongue
I’m working my way through a close reading of Rules for Decision. Yesterday’s post mused on the relationship between new beginnings and the rules. Today I’m wandering just a few sentences in, thinking about how utterly uncompromising A Course in Miracles is when it urges us to leave the decisions to Jesus and the HolyContinue reading “Reading the Rules for Decision: Catching Snowflakes on your Tongue”