Forays In Forgiveness

Learning to live a truly forgiving and forgiven life

A Conversation with Ken Wapnick: making it the most important thing!

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I recently sat down again to interview Ken Wapnick while attending a weeklong Academy class at the Foundation for a Course in Miracles (FACIM) in Temecula, California, in which Ken emphasized more clearly than ever the importance of looking at the ego’s guilty story of separation realized through the eyes of the part of our […]

Choose once again redux

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I sat at my desk on another Monday morning, staring at the computer screen in front of me, the proverbial blank page I still sometimes see in my dreams, as white as the carpet of newly, fallen snow outside my office window, beckoning my inner child to fill it with angels. A space I once […]

Sickness is a defense against the truth

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I was just so frustrated again. Still nauseated, in fact, by the seeming stupendous insensitivity of a costar in the movie of my so-called life, a special relationship I thought I had forgiven once and for always that nonetheless seemed to be right back in my face, prompting the unwelcome realization that although recognizing that […]

In search of true innocence

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” ‘My sinlessness is guaranteed by God,’ ” I read. I sat at my desk the Monday morning after the long Thanksgiving weekend pondering this recurring refrain from A Course in Miracles workbook lesson 93, “Light and joy and peace abide in me,” both statements equally confounding to the little b brain of the little […]

A Conversation with Ken Wapnick: Just don’t justify it!

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I recently sat down again to interview Ken Wapnick while attending a weeklong Academy class at the Foundation for a Course in Miracles in Temecula, California. I am still processing the deeply helpful and healing messages from the week in which Ken emphasized, among other great themes, the importance of shifting the purpose of the […]

Seeking a friend for the end of the world

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NOTE: This post was written a week ago; when the Flagstaff fire in Boulder and the Waldo Canyon fire that has devastated parts of Colorado Springs had just broken out. Since that time, thousands and thousands of people have been evacuated and hundreds have lost their homes. Sadly, for many in Colorado, it may well […]

On true compassion and worldly happiness

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Last week a student who is fairly new to A Course in Miracles and was reading my book, Extraordinary Ordinary Forgiveness, contacted me with a series of wonderful questions that arise for us all as we apply the Course’s unique forgiveness of our illusions in our everyday lives. She is generously allowing me to share […]

C’est la guerre

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“Long time no see with,” Jesus said, leaning back in his office chair, sandaled feet propped up on his desk. Have I mentioned he really is a lot funnier than anyone gives him credit for? Still; I was in no mood for jokes, really; in no mood for much of anything. I plopped down in […]

The quiet answer

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“Let me get this straight,” I said, as my inner imaginary Jesus and I rode up the chairlift at Loveland Ski Area together last weekend. “You want me to make friends with my projections? You still haven’t met them, have you?” He just laughed, swinging his skis like he’d been doing this all his life. […]

Hakuna matata

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“Hakuna, matata; Hakuna, matata!” I woke the Monday after the change to daylight savings time to find the ego surreally cavorting around my still-darkened bedroom, belting out the famed Lion King tune. “It means no worries for the rest of your days,” he sang. “Scram,” I said. I sat up and rubbed my eyes; the […]