“You who feel threatened by this changing world, its twists of fortune and its bitter jests, its brief relationships and all the ‘gifts’ it merely lends to take away again; attend this lesson well. The world provides no safety. It is rooted in attack, and all its ‘gifts’ of seeming safety are illusory deceptions. It […]
Shark Week
In honor of the Discovery Channel’s annual Shark Week (that begins today), I’m posting the following excerpt from my new ACIM essay collection, Forgiveness Offers Everything I Want—hope you enjoy! (I am on vacation the week of August 9th and will post again on August 19th.) “You always. You never. Why can’t you just? Do […]
The way we weren’t
“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.” F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby I had spent the long Fourth of July weekend mostly solo, my husband away attending the wedding of a long-time colleague’s daughter, our daughter, now home working for the remainder of the summer after […]
Just a little willingness
This week I’m running an excerpt from my new book, Forgiveness Offers Everything I Want, now available at Amazon.com in both paperback and kindle versions: http://www.amazon.com/Forgiveness-Offers-Everything-I-Want/dp/0983742014 Hope you enjoy! Through the mottled glass of the window on the office door I could see Jesus bent over his desk, grading papers, no doubt. You’d think he […]
Sickness is a defense against the truth
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 […]
A Conversation with Ken Wapnick: Just don’t justify it!
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 […]
C’est la guerre
The cost of living
“THE ONLY THING WORTH DYING FOR IS LIVING,” read the marquee outside a nearby church. My foot popped off the accelerator and moved toward the brake. But another car, tight on my tail, prevented me from slowing down to make sure I’d read correctly. I drove around the block and reread the caption: “THE ONLY […]
A Conversation with Ken Wapnick: be gentle with yourself
I was fortunate enough to sit down again recently with Ken Wapnick while attending a workshop at the Foundation for A Course in Miracles (FACIM) in Temecula, California. Many of my questions arose from listening to two of Ken’s newer CD sets: On Death and Dying and Cast No One Out, as well as from […]
