January-March, 2016
“The patient [brother] must be helped to change his mind about the ‘reality’ of illusions.” (P.Int.1:8)
I have found most recently that I was drawn into a circle of “emotional disturbances” and I think that most of us can say that from time to time we get drawn into these circumstances that take our Peace away. Following is what I find to be most helpful when I find myself drawn into these emotional disturbances.
January-March, 2016
“God is the Light in Which I See.” (ACIM W-44)
I am in the process of working through Pathways of Light ACIM Practitioner course 908: Abundance Awareness. Part of this course has us review Lesson 44. After revisiting this Lesson for many days now, I am experiencing more and more of what this lesson means. I had recently found myself going into deep levels of despair and depression, from what I consider to be a state of limbo. My telecommuting job seems to be done in the illusion; however I have not heard from Holy Spirit that it is time to resign. Since making the decision to sell my Colorado home and move to Florida, my job responsibilities have grown ten-fold. I find myself working many days 10-15 hours without a break. I have been feeling very overwhelmed and confused about all this.
January-March, 2016
I feel like my “Trust” level is steadily increasing. I have been practicing forgiveness — ACIM style — for more than two decades. Seeing the world as a classroom and every circumstance and situation as a “forgiveness opportunity” is the goal of the practice. And I am definitely getting better at it.
Why do I think that I am getting better at this? It seems to be in the way I feel — the amount of love that comes my way — a feeling of confidence that everything is exactly as it should be for my continuing spiritual growth. I am so grateful to have this pathway to travel while I slowly yet steadily realize that I am the “dreamer of the dream.”
The situation that I can apply this to today has to do with the fact that my book, Forgiving Kevin, is being made into a full-length motion picture. Although this was not my idea, I did say, “yes” to the project after going to Holy Spirit. In fact, I felt that I heard Spirit tell me, “say yes, and then let go and leave the rest to Me.”
January-March, 2016
I am ashamed to say that my day after Thanksgiving crash is as predictable as Thanksgiving. It has been a personal “tradition” for as long as I remember. Every year, I vow that this will be the year it won’t happen. This year, like so many years past, I think I have guarded against it, but, alas, I awaken this day after Thanksgiving and here it is.
The story that precipitates the crash is pretty much the same each year. Here are the highlights: No kids of my own and my step-children go to their mother’s house for Thanksgiving. Relatives ask us to join them for Thanksgiving and it feels like a “pity” invite. I feel like a fifth wheel as they are surrounded by their children and grandchildren. In Course words, my ego screams: “Separate, separate, separate” and I get up Friday morning depressed and feeling alone in the world.
January-March, 2016
As a nondenominational minister, I embrace all religious and spiritual traditions as they are understood at their core. The shared core teaching being that we are all connected. Because of this interdependence, it behooves each of us to act with kindness and compassion toward one another. In this sense, ‘As we give, so do we receive.’
Believing in this faith, I still encounter many situations where I do not know what compassionate or kind act to take; what should I give or allow myself to receive? Over the years, though I have cultivated a reliable relationship with an Inner Guide, known to me as Inner Wisdom, that unfailing Guide aids me in choosing the exactly perfect act, or compassionate gesture, or knowing what to give and what to receive in every situation.
January-March, 2016
The most powerful thing I have ever learned in my life is that there are two very distinct realities happening in the mind. You can call them light/dark… ego/christ… negative/positive… whatever you call it ...the single most important thing you can learn is to recognize it inside yourself. At 28 I opened up A Course in Miracles and what a relief to discover life was coming from me and not happening to me. Everything I was and am experiencing is coming from my thoughts.
January-March, 2016
Recently I was on a kind of break from ACIM. Doesn’t that sound strange? Or maybe not to some of you. I had finished the courses necessary to get my ministerial credentials done faithfully for a couple of years, almost daily. I also did one more course afterwards, faithfully until near the end of that one.
Then I began to procrastinate. I took art classes. Then my fatigue issue increased to the point where I felt bogged down in life generally. I told myself I was still working the Course because I routinely asked Holy Spirit questions like, “help me to see this differently.” Or, “Holy Spirit I do not know what this means,” referring to my daily problems with fatigue. I would read a lesson from Myron’s daily postings and read it through it as fast as I could because I was in a hurry to go nowhere and do nothing except feel fatigued all day.
January-March, 2016
In Lesson 159: I give the miracles I have received, the message is about forgiveness and seeing with ‘Christ’s vision,’ which is our vision when we are in union with that part of ourselves that knows the Truth. I hold this lesson as a vision for my life because I have experienced so many miracles in my life. One of the miracles is to be in a position to share them with so many people through my work and friendships. I share two miracles here with you.
January-March, 2016
Eckhart Tolle has a great video that describes his sort of waking up experience. He indicated he was going through a lot of depression and darkness. One night he had a thought… ‘I can’t live with myself anymore.’ The next moment he had another thought and noticed… hey, there are two things here, something that can’t live with something else. In the video he says that is when everything collapsed.
January-March, 2016
As part of my studies as a ministerial student, I was recently completing an exercise in the course, The Transforming Power of Trust. This particular section states the following:
“When we believe in the idea of having an identity that is separate from God (or Love), unconsciously we know we are rejecting our true Nature, which is openness with Love. The result is feeling guilty and unworthy because deep inside, we know we are secretly rejecting Love. When we don’t want to admit to ourselves that we are rejecting Love, dissociation and projection occurs. This means we dissociate from knowing our oneness in God and throw (or project) the guilt and unworthiness that accompanies this out on the world, looking for guilt in others.”
January-March, 2016
In the moments
just before the dawn
My sleepy gaze
fixed on the skies
The question comes,
Must I go on?
Oh yes! my Holy Guide replies
For all the things you came to do
And all the words you ache to say
Are not just for the little you
But the others in your life today
January-March, 2016
Is there ever an end …?
So often I have sat down in the morning and let go of many different things during meditation and the daily tapping session my husband and I do regularly. Yes, I am blessed with a husband who also does the lessons, who practices the Course principles with himself and me, and who is experiencing our relationship as a holy one.
And we both pay attention to remember when we are not in joy or in peace: We make a note, whether mental or written (he does it on his phone), and bring it up the next morning to release it and see it differently.
January-March, 2016
From my past
Came an awareness so strong
I needed to right a terrible wrong
For You are my Brother in Christ
For you see
I had a mistaken perception
That you had caused this deception
For You are my Brother in Christ
I now realize
I have created this projection
And placed on you my own reflection
For You are my Brother in Christ
January-March, 2016
Here’s a place where life is simple,
a truly rural country scene.
A place to rest and meditate,
so quiet and serene.
You may browse in summer gardens,
or help harvest in the fall,
watch the dancing snowflakes,
or, not do a thing at all.
Just you, yourself, that’s all you need,
you are all you have to bring,
to watch the leaves fall in the autumn,
and the grass grow in the spring.
October-December, 2015
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