While cramming for unexpected exams in my forgiveness classroom this week, I thought I’d share another excerpt from my new essay collection, Forgiveness Offers Everything I Want, about finding comfort where we think we are, even as we’re learning the only real comfort lies in our one, healed mind. A lot has changed in my […]
No order of difficulty in miracles
His office door stood ajar; always open, he has told us again and again. And so I didn’t even bother to knock, just barged right in, plopped down in the familiar chair across from where he sat hunched over, grading papers, and placed—OK, possibly slammed–the big, blue book down on his desk. He peered up […]
In my defenselessness my safety lies
“You who feel threatened by this changing world, its twists of fortune and its bitter jests, its brief relationships and all the ‘gifts’ it merely lends to take away again; attend this lesson well. The world provides no safety. It is rooted in attack, and all its ‘gifts’ of seeming safety are illusory deceptions. It […]
Choose once again, and again …
I found a big black spider in my bathroom yesterday, hiding in plain view. It stood in freeze-frame against the eggshell-blue wall, like a prisoner making a break for it, suddenly caught in a roaming strobe-light beam. I sighed. After all, we’d talked about this. Not me and this particular spider, perhaps, but I’d definitely […]
True prayer
We had traveled only an exit or two when my husband’s cell phone, resting in the vehicle beverage well between us, sounded a sharp alarm. Weather alert, he said, glancing down at it. No surprise there. We had spent the day moving my daughter back to college in Colorado Springs. While unpacking the supplies from […]
This need not be
Just a little willingness
This week I’m running an excerpt from my new book, Forgiveness Offers Everything I Want, now available at Amazon.com in both paperback and kindle versions: http://www.amazon.com/Forgiveness-Offers-Everything-I-Want/dp/0983742014 Hope you enjoy! Through the mottled glass of the window on the office door I could see Jesus bent over his desk, grading papers, no doubt. You’d think he […]
Those we do not forgive we fear
“… Before complete forgiveness you stand unforgiving,” I read, from paragraph 11 of ‘The Lifting of the Veil,’ the final subsection of the final section of ‘The Obstacles to Peace’ in Chapter 19 of A Course in Miracles. “You are afraid of God because you fear your brother. Those you do not forgive you fear. […]
A Conversation with Ken Wapnick: making it the most important thing!
I recently sat down again to interview Ken Wapnick while attending a weeklong Academy class at the Foundation for a Course in Miracles (FACIM) in Temecula, California, in which Ken emphasized more clearly than ever the importance of looking at the ego’s guilty story of separation realized through the eyes of the part of our […]
