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[Please note: ACIM passages quoted in this article reference the Foundation for Inner Peace (FIP) Edition.] In my Post-Workbook Practice this year, I am choosing my daily lesson from the Text. Yesterday’s lesson was from T-13.IX.”The Cloud of Guilt.” The main ideas for...

[Please note: ACIM passages quoted in this article reference the Foundation for Inner Peace (FIP) Edition.] Last night I was reading "The Correction of Error" in Chapter 9 and this line really hit me: "When a brother behaves insanely, you can heal him only by...

These past two weeks in my weekly “Deepening Your Workbook Practice” class, I’ve been reviewing Course-based meditation with my students. This week, I asked them to focus on the “Name of God Meditation,” which appears first in Lesson 183. I’ve always liked this form of...

The class I did last Thursday is something I haven't been able to get out of my mind. It got me in touch with just how much in conflict I feel between those two ways: giving and getting. What I've been realizing is that it's all about the question "Where do I look...

I was reading yesterday's lesson, "Let me remember I am one with God," and thinking about how the meaning of oneness with God has changed for me over the years. At first, the concept of oneness was a radical new idea, the main thing that set apart my new beliefs in...

Yesterday I was again practicing a thought about "God's masterpiece" (I've practiced this before and written about it before, too). So I thought I would share some reflections on the concept. First, let's think about God as an artistic creator (the lower-case "c" is...

I was talking with someone yesterday and it struck me how much she needs to lighten up and learn to laugh, especially at her own mistakes. And as I talked, I realized how much I need this same thing. I do love a good laugh, but when it comes to the serious things, I am...

[Please note: ACIM passages quoted in this article reference the Foundation for Inner Peace (FIP) Edition.] Several times the Course takes the famous line from the Lord's Prayer, "Thy will be done," and turns it back on us: And God Himself, Who knows that death is not...

[Please note: ACIM passages quoted in this article reference the Foundation for Inner Peace (FIP) Edition.] For a few months now, the word "natural" has been coming to my mind. It will occur to me that something the Course asks of me, something I've been very...

I was reading in Chapter 24 this morning, about specialness, and it just brought home to me the unparalleled depth, originality, and brilliance I see in the Course and how much I love it. In these sections on specialness, the Course does what is so characteristic of...

Over the last few days, I have been thinking about the power of decision. I am not a will person; meaning that I don't emphasize getting through things by sheer force of will. My approach is usually to try to reason with myself in one form or other, to the point where...

I am currently reading in Chapter 25 in the Text. I know I've said this before, and I realize I am preaching to the choir, but I am going to say it again: I can't get over what a massive and recurring focus there is in the Course on seeing something pure, valuable,...