” ‘My sinlessness is guaranteed by God,’ ” I read. I sat at my desk the Monday morning after the long Thanksgiving weekend pondering this recurring refrain from A Course in Miracles workbook lesson 93, “Light and joy and peace abide in me,” both statements equally confounding to the little b brain of the little […]
A Conversation with Ken Wapnick: Just don’t justify it!
I recently sat down again to interview Ken Wapnick while attending a weeklong Academy class at the Foundation for a Course in Miracles in Temecula, California. I am still processing the deeply helpful and healing messages from the week in which Ken emphasized, among other great themes, the importance of shifting the purpose of the […]
Seeking a friend for the end of the world
NOTE: This post was written a week ago; when the Flagstaff fire in Boulder and the Waldo Canyon fire that has devastated parts of Colorado Springs had just broken out. Since that time, thousands and thousands of people have been evacuated and hundreds have lost their homes. Sadly, for many in Colorado, it may well […]
On true compassion and worldly happiness
Last week a student who is fairly new to A Course in Miracles and was reading my book, Extraordinary Ordinary Forgiveness, contacted me with a series of wonderful questions that arise for us all as we apply the Course’s unique forgiveness of our illusions in our everyday lives. She is generously allowing me to share […]
C’est la guerre
A Conversation with Ken Wapnick: be gentle with yourself
I was fortunate enough to sit down again recently with Ken Wapnick while attending a workshop at the Foundation for A Course in Miracles (FACIM) in Temecula, California. Many of my questions arose from listening to two of Ken’s newer CD sets: On Death and Dying and Cast No One Out, as well as from […]
Seek not outside yourself
I sat cross-legged on the floor in front of my imaginary TV screen, rummaging in an imaginary drawer filled with imaginary DVDs of my many seeming lifetimes in this apparently endless dream of exile from the one Love we never really left. But try as I might, I couldn’t find the one I was looking […]
Another endearing conversation with the ego
I stared at the computer screen, begging for clarity about how to respond to another seemingly confounding email. I’d been struggling to follow the Holy Spirit/Jesus (that memory of our true undifferentiated wholeness in our mind) instead of always trying to lead. But the struggle had merely resulted in a paralytic dance leaving me stalled […]
Your task is not to seek for love
In the dream I am on foot, adrift in a sprawling, unfamiliar city. Winding up and down twisted streets slick with rain, crossing highway overpasses, and trying to navigate bridges and tunnels I hope may lead somewhere. At times I am terrified by the traffic zipping by; alarmed by the lack of space for pedestrians, […]
What have you saved to settle by yourself?
I sat at my computer anxiously awaiting my appearance as a guest speaker at ACIM Gather; an online radio broadcast service for A Course in Miracles students and teachers. I had assembled my magic props: chamomile tea, an assortment of flower essences, a lump of obsidian to help ground me, and a really expensive cream […]