The premise of A Course in Miracles is that we are confused about what we are in truth. We identify with ego, rather than spirit. This mis-idenfication has allowed a world of illusions to replace reality. This is painful! Fortunately, as Bill Thetford and Helen Schucman learned together, there is another way: we can beContinue reading “A Course in Miracles Lesson 51”
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A Course in Miracles Lesson 50
I am sustained by the Love of God. Here in Lesson 50 is the truth: here is the one fact that will save us. Here is the cause of joy and peace. Here we are brought home in perfect stillness and equanimity. Here we remember what we are in truth. Lesson 50 is penultimate –Continue reading “A Course in Miracles Lesson 50”
A Course in Miracles Lesson 49
God’s Voice speaks to me through all the day. A Course in Miracles suggests that our mind is effectively divided. One part – the only part that is actually real and functional – thinks with God in the perfect stillness of creation. The other is given to ego and its divisive raucous chatter. Lesson 49Continue reading “A Course in Miracles Lesson 49”
A Course in Miracles Lesson 48
There is nothing to fear. To the ego, the statement “there is nothing to fear” makes no sense. Indeed, it borders on offensive – of course there is something to fear. Have you read the news? Looked at the world? To the ego – and to its home, the body – fear is natural andContinue reading “A Course in Miracles Lesson 48”
A Course in Miracles Lesson 47
God is the strength in which I trust. In order to survive as bodies in the world, we need strength of various kinds. We need physical strength to move furniture, plant gardens, carry kids and knead bread. We need moral strength to call out evil. We need psychological strength to overcome internal bias and deception.Continue reading “A Course in Miracles Lesson 47”
Reading A Course in Miracles: The Message of the Crucifixion
I love this section of A Course in Miracles. It’s pretty substantial, compared to other sections which are about half its length. And it addresses two issues that are dear to my heart. First, we get a continuing – and continually helpful – revision of the crucifixion, that pivotal event in Christian theology. And second,Continue reading “Reading A Course in Miracles: The Message of the Crucifixion”