Author Archives: Sean

Do you know the Taung Child? This child lived approximately three million years ago. Its skull – all we have to remember it – indicates that at about four years of age its eyes were plucked out by a great eagle. Imagine its terror – being held down by a bird twice its size. ImagineContinue reading “Review Period V: ACIM Workbook”

Salvation of the world depends on me. When we accept the invitation to remember God, and to know ourselves as God created us, we do not do it alone. Nor we do we do it only for ourselves. Our unity with all our brothers and sisters means that salvation is shared. There are not manyContinue reading “A Course in Miracles Lesson 206”

I call upon God’s Name and on my own. To speak the Name of God is to speak our own name because God would not – indeed, could not – have it otherwise. As a child shares its name and identity with its family on earth, so in Creation do we share our identity withContinue reading “A Course in Miracles Lesson 203”

I want the peace of God. To say that we want the peace of God is easy. To mean it is another level. It shifts our focus entirely, and our lives become dedicated to God’s peace without qualification or condition. There is nothing else to want. When we accept that we are not bodies, butContinue reading “A Course in Miracles Lesson 205”

The Name of God is my inheritance. Perhaps you are unsure of God’s Name. You think yours is “Sean” or “Mary” or “Douglas.” Maybe on a good day you can claim “Christ” for a few minutes. But Yahweh? El Shaddai? No. But look. Even our accepted “names” for God are simply placeholders. God cannot beContinue reading “A Course in Miracles Lesson 204”

I will be still an instant and go home. There is the experience of being home, and there is the experience of being not-at-home. To be home is to be safe. To be home is to know rest. When we are home we are creative and welcoming. We can lay a table for friends, makeContinue reading “A Course in Miracles Lesson 202”