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(Epilogue to my "Putting it into practice" blog) During the weekend at the family gathering for the burial of my cousin's wife, I really liked how James and I were. He is such an outgoing person, who is genuinely interested in people, and he spent his time at the...

[Please note: ACIM passages quoted in this article reference the Foundation for Inner Peace (FIP) Edition.] The last few days, I've been practicing Lesson 75, "The light has come." It is a beautiful lesson affirming that, whatever my life looks like at any given...

Filled to overflowing with the effects of my insights about love (the focus of my last blog, "All that I have to do"), I went off with James last weekend to attend the burial of the wife of a close cousin of mine. I knew that there would be one other cousin there...

In his Teacher Profile, Gerry said that, “People in the study groups are feeling more and more comfortable to raise personal issues to be resolved in the context of ACIM.” Martha asked him how that came about and if it was directly related to his training in Spiritual...

Ever since Robert's blog on "The summary idea of the Course," I have been on fire with the idea that all I am here to do is love and that I must not let anything stand in the way of that. It's not really a new idea, but it seems to have affected me on a very deep...

[Please note: ACIM passages quoted in this article reference the Foundation for Inner Peace (FIP) Edition.] Kathy and I have just had a most amazing healing experience, a "gloriously powerful" one, as she describes it. I am so exhilarated by it that I just have to...

[Please note: ACIM passages quoted in this article reference the Foundation for Inner Peace (FIP) Edition.] "As you integrate, you become one and your one need become one accordingly" (original version of T-VI.2:4). We naturally think of ourselves as having a variety...

[Please note: ACIM passages quoted in this article reference the Foundation for Inner Peace (FIP) Edition.] At the end of our Workbook class, one of my students asked me if there was an order in the Workbook. What she meant was, is there an order by which one learns...

I have macular degeneration, a degenerative eye disease that leads, with aging, to a loss of sight. Since the diagnosis, I have been doing everything recommended on the form level to deal with this, and for the past several months I have also been working with a...

I recently listened to a man named Howard Storm's account of his near-death experience. In 1985 he was dying, left his body, and ended up encountering Jesus. He and Jesus traveled up toward a light that he understood to be God, but he didn't feel worthy. So they...

I have been thinking a lot about death recently. As some of you know, I just finished a study of the topic for an End of Life forum and it seemed appropriate, therefore, to share my thoughts here. The idea that has grabbed me most of all from this study is the notion...

Recently, Julie Glynn and Martha Fitzgerald, have been having a very similar experience. Since moving to new locations (Julie to Nelson, B.C.; Martha to Bloomington, Indiana) both have joined Course study groups that lack structure and follow (more or less) a Ken...