Think but an instant just on this; you can behold the holiness God gave His Son. And never need you think that there is something else for you to see (T-20.VIII.11:3-4). Our task as students of A Course in Miracles is simply to choose the goal of peace. There is literally nothing else that weContinue reading “A Course in Miracles: Forgetting What We Know”
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A Course in Miracles: On Holiness and Truth
The holy do not interfere with truth (T-20.III.3:1). I write by a window facing north. Robins are working a patch of earth beneath the dogwood tree whose blossoms have yet to soften and open. The sky is pale gray; rain fell earlier and may yet again. Beyond the early summer bird song and far offContinue reading “A Course in Miracles: On Holiness and Truth”
A Course in Miracles Lesson 194
My practice of A Course in Miracles is grounded in the ordinary. It finds itself in what arises day-to-day – baking bread, mowing the lawn, writing poetry, drinking tea with Chrisoula, and walking and talking with my children. The course is efficient and practical. The attention I give to it on its terms is returnedContinue reading “A Course in Miracles Lesson 194”
A Course in Miracles Lesson 186
Salvation of the world depends on me. Ask yourself: when told that salvation of the world depends on you, does not a chorus of internal voices begin to clamor in various degrees of consent and disagreement? Anticipation and resistance? And hearing those voices – and not pretending they are not there, and not playing favoritesContinue reading “A Course in Miracles Lesson 186”
Giving is What Matters
It is helpful to remember that as we become more aware of what A Course in Miracles calls the ego, we may feel the effects of egoic thinking quite intensely. Patterns of thought and behavior and feeling that went unnoticed before suddenly call attention to themselves. It is not always comfortable when this happens! ItContinue reading “Giving is What Matters”
Precious Steps
Go out in gladness to meet with your Redeemer, and walk with Him in trust out of this world, and into the real world of beauty and forgiveness (T-17.II.8:5). I woke sharply at 4 a.m. and by 4:05 was outside, leaving the eastbound dirt road for old potato fields slick with ice from sleet yetContinue reading “Precious Steps”