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[Please note: ACIM passages quoted in this article reference the Foundation for Inner Peace (FIP) Edition.] The importance of being prepared has been on my mind quite a bit lately. It has also been coming up in some of my teacher-pupil meetings, so I thought I’d like...

I've spent many years reflecting on the Course's teaching that we are Sons of God who are merely dreaming we are human beings. In the last few days, the topic has been very much on my mind, and I'm relating to it in a new way, not conceptually but personally. What I've...

I don’t like people telling me what to do. I don’t know when it started, because all my growing up years I was a good little girl always doing what I was told. However, I do remember myself as having a clear sense of what I wanted and then going out after it. For...

Monday, after writing about accepting our place as junior to God---in how we see things, what we want, what we decide, and how we came about---I had what felt like a big realization. My realization was that two assumptions I walk around with just don’t go together. One...

In a recent post about the power of discouragement to stop our practice, I said I planned to use the approach from Lesson 95 to defuse my discouragement. I summarized that approach in this way: Forgive yourself for missing; be tolerant of your weakness. This deprives...

[Please note: ACIM passages quoted in this article reference the Foundation for Inner Peace (FIP) Edition.] Yesterday my practice focused on the idea of "home" in the Course. You probably know that the Course says this world is not our home, that that's why we all feel...

[Please note: ACIM passages quoted in this article reference the Foundation for Inner Peace (FIP) Edition.] I love this lesson, and practicing it this time around I’ve had further insights into its meaning. They aren’t earth-shaking insights, but they brought me an...

[Please note: ACIM passages quoted in this article reference the Foundation for Inner Peace (FIP) Edition.] I have been noticing lately just what a major factor discouragement is in my practice, and I'm sure I don't see the half of it. What I've been noticing is that I...

[Please note: ACIM passages quoted in this article reference the Foundation for Inner Peace (FIP) Edition.] Have you ever come across some idea in the Course that you are familiar with, but that you suddenly realize you have no real, personal relationship with? That is...

I've long been convinced, and remain convinced, that we are not going to make real progress with the Course unless we really do the practice taught by the Workbook. And that means, among other things, putting in the time. I've always been resistant to that, because I...

This morning I was asking myself a very effective real question. It was during my morning run to drop the kids off at their schools. By this point I have been racing around quite a while, getting everyone ready to go off for the day, and I'm often quite anxious. A lot...

The other day I was practicing Lesson 346, "Today the peace of God envelopes me, and I forget all things except His Love." When I first said the second line---"and I forget all things"---something struck me. What I realized is that I love the idea of having permission...