(I’ve been taking some time off to catch up and reflect over the holidays. In the meantime, here’s an excerpt from my book of essays, Forgiveness Offers Everything I Want. Wishing you a 2015 filled with compassionate awareness of the ever-available choice to recognize and forgive ourselves for our addiction to special interests, thereby opening, […]
True comfort and joy
“This Christmas give the Holy Spirit everything that would hurt you. Let yourself be healed completely that you may join with Him in healing, and let us celebrate our release together by releasing everyone with us.” (ACIM Text Chapter 15, XI. Paragraph 3, lines 1-2) It can be hard this time of year with all […]
The two rooms
“Have I mentioned lately how much I just love Thanksgiving?” I asked, while standing at the kitchen sink, drying yet another drainer full of pots and pans. “The way it’s all about just being grateful for this wonderful world of ours. For the blessings of family, and friends, and food and, you know; God-damn pumpkins.” […]
Kryptonite
“Seriously?” he asked, eyes widening. I’d been filling my imaginary Jesus in on the events of the last few weeks. OK, months. OK, years. The video game of my so-called life that had been firing at such warp speed; who had time to talk things over with him before the next forgiveness opportunity appeared to […]
I want to hold your hand, but …
Seeing Purple
(First published this essay two years ago but it seems just as appropriate today as we approach the elections!) “You do not offer God your gratitude because your bother is more slave than you, nor could you sanely be enraged if he seems freer. Love makes no comparisons. And gratitude can only be sincere if […]
What do you ask for in your heart?
(Here’s an excerpt from my upcoming book, Forgiveness: the Key to Happiness.) “I’m not talking about this now,” I said, barricading myself in the fox hole of my office against incoming verbal shrapnel like any self-respecting ego. Feeling once more misunderstood, manipulated, unfairly treated, and falsely accused in a special relationship; just when I thought […]
A Conversation with Rosemarie LoSasso, Foundation for a Course in Miracles
Welcome to the third of my individual interviews with the three staff members that teach the academy classes http://www.facim.org/temecula-schedule.aspx at the Foundation for A Course in Miracles in Temecula, California http://www.facim.org/. Rosemarie LoSasso, Loral Reeves, and Jeffrey Seibert have all worked closely with Kenneth and Gloria Wapnick for decades. Their devotion to Ken and Gloria’s […]
The way I fly in gratitude
Just back from visiting my family in upstate New York and thought I’d share this excerpt from my first book of forgiveness essays, Extraordinary Ordinary Forgiveness—published in 2011. Hope you enjoy! Last night I attended an orientation for the International Baccalaureate program my daughter would officially begin as a high school junior next year. The […]
