“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.” F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby I had spent the long Fourth of July weekend mostly solo, my husband away attending the wedding of a long-time colleague’s daughter, our daughter, now home working for the remainder of the summer after […]
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. […]
No one can fail who seeks to reach the truth
I staggered into his office and plunked down across from his desk, hanging my sorry, little head. For a variety of external reasons that still seemed all too real, I could not bring myself to meet his welcoming eyes. “Bless me, father, for I have sinned,” I whispered. “Oh, come on,” he said. “Not this […]
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 […]
Choose once again redux
Sickness is a defense against the truth
I was just so frustrated again. Still nauseated, in fact, by the seeming stupendous insensitivity of a costar in the movie of my so-called life, a special relationship I thought I had forgiven once and for always that nonetheless seemed to be right back in my face, prompting the unwelcome realization that although recognizing that […]
In search of true innocence
” ‘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 […]