Important Course Concepts
The course emphasizes that we only need a tiny bit of willingness for that miracle – that shift in perception – to occur. And this is true! We’re asked to do so little. So we hand our situation over to the Holy Spirit, again and again. But we still feel stuck with...
Important Course Concepts
Do you ever get caught up in trying to make a decision? You want to make the “right” decision, and so you labor over what to do, perhaps weighing the pros and cons, feeling concerned about the outcome. This can take on endless forms, from being afraid of making a...
Important Course Concepts
Willingness is the key to happiness! Willingness is the foundation on which A Course in Miracles is built. It is the only building material we are asked to supply. The heart flowers on my website are reminders for willingness. We so often forget that the Course...
Anxiety, Important Course Concepts
I was reading the Original Edition of “A Course in Miracles” this morning when I came across a section that really struck me. “How weak is fear – how little and how meaningless! How insignificant before the quiet strength of those whom love has joined! This is your...
Important Course Concepts
Today I was working with the lesson, “God is the mind with which I think” (Lesson 45). When I began the practice period, I started repeating the idea for the day to myself, only I said, “God is the mind IN which I think.” Although it is true and we are all part of...
Important Course Concepts
There are many parts of the early version of “A Course in Miracles” that are left out in later editions. In the Urtext (the “original” text published by Miracles in Action Press) of A Course in Miracles, we get an inside look at the material that was omitted in later...
Anxiety, Important Course Concepts
We seem to go through periods of “end of the world” fears. The end of the Mayan Calendar in 2012, Y2K, and Wikipedia reveals a whole host of other predictions that have been happening for centuries. With all of the periodic “end of the world”...
Important Course Concepts
My morning ACIM reading today was all about how we are NOT our bodies. This may seem like a fearful idea at first, but rest assured that it is only the ego that is feeling that fear. This is joyous news to the Spirit!! Our ego will feel fear at the thought “I am not...
Anxiety, Important Course Concepts
Maybe you’re new to the Course… Maybe you’ve been studying it for a while… Either way, you’ve certainly got a question about something that the Course says, or how to integrate it into your life: “Will the Course help me with even...
