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[Please note: ACIM passages quoted in this article reference the Foundation for Inner Peace (FIP) Edition.] I have had a miracle. It sneaked up on me unawares and took me by surprise. All of a sudden there it was and my whole world looked different. I had been...

I've been noticing something about my relationship with God lately that has me seeing God somewhat differently. I realized some weeks ago that my main concept of God is as this wonderful Guide and Friend. He's this great Guy, He's got this plan for me, He's available...

I had a realization a few days ago about forgiveness that is helping me with a longstanding block. The block is this: Based on what I see, forgiveness neither makes sense nor is particularly in my interests. When I carry judgment or resentment, what I see is a separate...

To really understand why I treasure my relationship with God, I've got to start with my other relationships. I think we are all profoundly weighed down with a lifetime of being in relationship with what I'll call the ego-bound. You start out in life generally full of...

I wrote a post last week entitled "Going away from myself is going toward myself." It was based primarily on Jesus' teachings in the gospel that "the last will be first" and the humble "will be exalted." Yesterday I found the almost perfect Course expression of this...

I had an insight the other day that I wanted to share. I have applied it so far in only a fairly spotty way. But the insight itself has gripped me and seems to hold a lot of promise, so I thought I'd share it. I've been reflecting on how the human mind can treat two...

I had a realization yesterday that was extremely important for me. I was working with the original teachings of Jesus, for a class I teach here in Sedona. Specifically, I was working with three sayings: The last will be first and the first last. Everyone exalting...

Lately I've been mulling over the Course's teaching that we are holy no matter what. In the Course, the word "holy" means basically the same thing it means when we use it to describe, say, Mother Teresa. It's not the watered down "wholeness" that we often redefine...

When I left the Lutheran church, I basically stopped relating to prayer on a personal level. As a Course student, I did notice the prayers in Part II of the Workbook, but, oddly enough, it never occurred to me to actually pray them. Then one weekend I was on a personal...

Today is election day. I didn't do early voting, so I decided to show up at my local polling station at 5:45am, to beat the crowds. I think I was seventh in line. There was a chatty bunch already there. One woman was sitting down and knitting. By 6:00 there were 15 to...

[Please note: ACIM passages quoted in this article reference the Foundation for Inner Peace (FIP) Edition.] For a few months when James's working conditions were getting more and more difficult and even when he eventually left his job, I stayed peaceful, loving, and...

Yesterday I continued with the theme of love. After some experimenting in the morning, a line from the Text popped into my mind: "As self-value comes from self-extension, so does the perception of self-value come from the extension of loving thoughts outward." This...