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[Please note: ACIM passages quoted in this article reference the Foundation for Inner Peace (FIP) Edition.] Recently, I had a very useful insight into the idea of the call for love or call for help. This is an idea I've been trying to understand more fully ever since I...

[Please note: ACIM passages quoted in this article reference the Foundation for Inner Peace (FIP) Edition.] Robert and I did the Workbook Program recording for Lesson 45, "God is the Mind with which I think," I found myself deeply attracted to that lesson's goal of...

[Please note: ACIM passages quoted in this article reference the Foundation for Inner Peace (FIP) Edition.] (February 13, Lesson 44) This morning I had an amazing practice time, for which I am very grateful, and which I'd like to share with you. The changes in James's...

[Please note: ACIM passages quoted in this article reference the Foundation for Inner Peace (FIP) Edition.] LESSON 40 I am blessed as a Son of God. You can’t read the first paragraph of today’s lesson without realizing just how important it is to your success in...

My last post was about anger (which, as I explained, rather than taking a "hot temper" form, really takes the form of a kind of constant disapproval of things). And that's actually what I've been focusing on ever since. That's really how my process tends to go. I...

[Please note: ACIM passages quoted in this article reference the Foundation for Inner Peace (FIP) Edition.] Last week was one of my best practice weeks ever. I got quite excited about the lessons (28-34), which seemed to fit together perfectly for me, and were having...

[Please note: ACIM passages quoted in this article reference the Foundation for Inner Peace (FIP) Edition.] As Robert and I have been doing the recordings of the early lessons, I've been struck by just how strongly the Course emphasizes the idea of applying the idea...

[Please note: ACIM passages quoted in this article reference the Foundation for Inner Peace (FIP) Edition.] The past few years, I did what the Circle calls "post-Workbook practice." I have a bowl in which there are 365 little cards, on each of which is written a number...

[Please note: ACIM passages quoted in this article reference the Foundation for Inner Peace (FIP) Edition.] Robert and I have been doing Workbook class recordings together and, like him, I have been struck by the recent series of lessons about anger and attack. I'm...

I had a great realization inspired by Lesson 22 ("What I see is a form of vengeance") the other day and I feel compelled to write it down. I started out this life a pretty angry person. I have been in recovery literally since about age 12, when I found that my anger...

I love doing word studies in the Course. It is simply amazing how much you can learn by tracking a word--any word--as it recurs throughout the Course. Back in December, I decided to research the word "ancient." So I collected the 70 references to it in the Course. Then...

[Please note: ACIM passages quoted in this article reference the Foundation for Inner Peace (FIP) Edition.] I wrote in my last post about very painful event in my life, so I thought perhaps it was time for an update. I'm still experiencing emotional ups and downs, but...