Category Archives: ACIM Daily Lessons

I can elect to change all thoughts that hurt. It does not seem controversial to say that if we are hurt, then something caused our pain. For example, if I drop the bureau I am carrying up the stairs and it lands on my toe, then we know what caused the pain. That’s easy. Let’sContinue reading “A Course in Miracles Lesson 284”

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”

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”

I see only the past (W-pI.7). The seventh lesson of A Course in Miracles is a beautiful way to reconnect to how practical and powerful the course is, and how readily it can be applied in our day-to-day lives. What is the past but interpretation clung to in place of reality? When we see onlyContinue reading “On Seeing Only the Past”

All things are lessons God would have me learn. It is possible to experience peace in this world, a facsimile of what we will know when we remember again that what we are in truth is not separate from what God is. The means of peace is forgiveness: the sharing of our perception with theContinue reading “A Course in Miracles Lesson 193”

Your grace is given me. I claim it now. We claim God’s love – God’s grace – in confidence, not because of anything inherent in us, but because of what God is. God does not distinguish between minds that sleep and those which are awake. God is not bothered by the appearance of the worldContinue reading “A Course in Miracles Lesson 168”