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I was reading this morning the original dictation of what's now Chapter 3 in the Text, and read these familiar words: Certain fundamental concepts cannot be meaningfully understood in terms of co-existing polarities. It is impossible to conceive of light and darkness,...

[Please note: ACIM passages quoted in this article reference the Foundation for Inner Peace (FIP) Edition.] I am doing Lesson 292 today, "A happy outcome to all things is sure," and I am so struck by its artful weaving together of God's Will and our free will that I...

Yesterday, I was practicing a line that I found in the original dictation of Chapter 2. The line was this: "The only way out is to stop miscreating now, and accept the Atonement for miscreations of the past." All I did was turn that into a first person statement: I...

I was reading Helen's original notes for Chapter 2 yesterday and something really hit me. Here is the passage: There is no doubt that the spiritual eye does produce extreme discomfort by what it sees. The thing that man forgets is that the discomfort is not the final...

This morning in my meditation I was really connecting with the Brother Lawrence version of "Here I am, Lord," which is "My God, here I am, all Yours"---especially that last phrase: "all Yours." This made me remember my earlier blog post about trying to get comfortable...

I had an insight while meditating this morning. (I always wonder if these insights are a case of mind-wandering or a case of guidance from the Holy Spirit, which is supposed to come in during meditation.) The gist of it was this: We can view our lives in one of two...

Have you ever read something in the Course that you didn't even consciously note as you read it, only to have it come back to mind later as something deeply meaningful? That happened to me recently. I was reading in Chapter 22 in the Text. I wasn't all that engaged and...

[Please note: ACIM passages quoted in this article reference the Foundation for Inner Peace (FIP) Edition.] We've all heard the Course's style of writing described as "symphonic." This was first observed by Ken Wapnick, who spoke of how, in the Course, themes are...

Ken sent me this picture. He said, "I couldn't help myself after seeing this photo. This 1862 photo shows soldiers next to a lone grave after the Battle of Antietam near Sharpsburg, Md. It was considered the 'bloodiest day in U.S history.'" "It reminds me of the...

[Please note: ACIM passages quoted in this article reference the Foundation for Inner Peace (FIP) Edition.] I've always like the prayer to Lesson 244 ("I am in danger nowhere in the world"), but the best part of it, in my view, is the final sentence, which,...

[Please note: ACIM passages quoted in this article reference the Foundation for Inner Peace (FIP) Edition.] On August 21, Patricia and I had the great honor of visiting Mother Antonia, the “prison angel of Tijuana.” It was a beautiful experience. As we saw how totally...

We spiritual people talk a great deal about surrender, but A Course in Miracles never uses the word "surrender," not once. Why is that? I believe the reason is that the concept of surrender implies giving up your will in favor of a larger, more powerful will. It...