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I have been practicing about the idea of giving for the last couple of days, and I just wanted to share some of my thoughts about the topic. I have this sense that if I really took off all the inner inhibitors I have around giving, all trace of reluctance, my life...

I have been noticing with dismay that my Workbook-style practice, after all these years, is still something of a chore, and as a result, is still spotty. On the positive side, it is a fundamental part of my day. While at my desk I practice a number of times an hour...

[Please note: ACIM passages quoted in this article reference the Foundation for Inner Peace (FIP) Edition.] I am doing a lesson I absolutely love today. Not that I am sticking with it all that well. But I still want to write a post about it, and maybe that will help me...

I have been thinking a great deal about love lately, about its centrality in the Course, and about how easily we forget that centrality. We Course students talk a lot about forgiveness, but much less, it seems to me, about love. I think that is probably because the...

I have been thinking lately about the spiritual life. How do I conceive of it? What is my basic attitude toward it? I find that I am very slowly inching my way along a spectrum between two poles. At one end of the spectrum, I see the spiritual life as an unreasonable...

Yesterday, for some reason, I made my lesson for the day Lesson 123, "I thank my Father for His gifts to me." Each time I said this line, I tried to get in touch with something I'm thankful to God for. I realized two things, both important. First, I realized that the...

[Please note: ACIM passages quoted in this article reference the Foundation for Inner Peace (FIP) Edition.] I read a section in the Text yesterday that really grabbed me. It is called "Looking Within" (T-12.VII) and the point I took away was that I will only believe in...

I've been having a series of thoughts I have decided to put in the blog. I have been getting in touch with how profoundly wonderful the Course's view of reality is and have had a lot of thoughts around that and my own relationship with that. I believe that we have a...

I had a really fruitful day of practice yesterday. As you probably know, I have been focusing a great deal on the idea of giving miracles---understood as taking the form of an almost constant stream of kindnesses and helpful messages. This can easily seem to impose on...

[Please note: ACIM passages quoted in this article reference the Foundation for Inner Peace (FIP) Edition.] I've just realized that I can read the Course in a new way and I'd like to share it with you. I've been dwelling a great deal lately on the notion of God's Love,...

I've been focusing a great deal on God's Love lately. If God really does love us the way the Course says He does, then that really does change everything. It changes every moment of every day from now till forever. Along these lines, an image has been coming to my mind...

"All that I do I do unto myself. If I attack, I suffer. But if I forgive, salvation will be given me." This post was written by John Perry, a longtime Circle friend and teacher. During a 2 AM Greyhound bus rest stop, I was standing in the aisle of the bus when a...