Author Archives: Sean

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”

I trust all my brothers who are one with me. A Course in Miracles is a twig on the branch of the Christian tree that deals with nonduality. We are not separate from God, nor from our brothers and sisters, nor from anything else in Creation – blue whales, violets, black holes, quasars. Our remembranceContinue reading “A Course in Miracles Lesson 201”

I am not a body. I am free. Few lessons pose such a challenge to the ego’s framework as this one: every lie the ego tells, and every story it convinces us is true, rests on the premise that we are bodies, that bodies are limits, and that we are subject to those limits. OnlyContinue reading “A Course in Miracles Lesson 199”

There is no cruelty in God and none in me. Lesson 170 asks us to consider that we are confused about the difference between fear and love – that we are calling fear love, and worshipping it accordingly, and as a consequence are actually afraid of love. This reversal divides us against ourselves, making peaceContinue reading “A Course in Miracles Lesson 170”