Category Archives: Separation

A Course in Miracles suggests that we “not allow the body to be a mirror of a split mind” (T-8.VIII.9:5). I want to understand this in order to practice it. What would that practice look like? And what is its relationship to Love? A Course in Miracles suggests that our mind is split between itsContinue reading “Split Minds are Bananas”

The Holy Spirit will not deny you. Only the ego ever denies you. If you feel anything less than perfect peace – perfect happiness, perfect rest, and perfect holiness – then you are listening to ego, who never means you well. This is not a crime against God or nature but there IS a betterContinue reading “Advent Journal: The Holy Spirit Will Not Deny You”

The cold breaks overnight, may I never forget to be grateful. Morning arrives gray but with a little mist. The river murmurs beyond the pasture, a language I love but never learned to speak. Something bad is going to happen. I can feel it. There was a phase in my study and practice when, hadContinue reading “Advent Journal: If the Cross Comes”

Eventually, you reach the sins. You make contact with material that’s so bad even God turns away. I hail from a long line of sufferers, folks who destroyed themselves rather than face the possibility God doesn’t love them. They died bravely but forsaken, hard deaths I don’t wish on anybody. Paradoxically, looking at my unworthinessContinue reading “Advent Journal: In the Country of Sins”

Projection is a defense against fear. It’s not a decision but a reaction; it’s a conditioned response to a perception of circumstance. It’s not personal, is what I’m trying to say. Noticing projection is healing, and is all we can do. If you notice the projection, and you know it’s a defense against fear, thenContinue reading “Advent Journal: Beyond the Sign”

I think often of the disciples for whom he really was dead. The ones who’d eaten with him the day before and never would again. The ones who had heard him laugh and teach earlier in the week and never would again. They did not know yet that Easter was coming. The ruined body ofContinue reading “Holy Saturday 2025: Empty Roads and A Course in Miracles”