I found a big black spider in my bathroom yesterday, hiding in plain view. It stood in freeze-frame against the eggshell-blue wall, like a prisoner making a break for it, suddenly caught in a roaming strobe-light beam. I sighed. After all, we’d talked about this. Not me and this particular spider, perhaps, but I’d definitely […]
This need not be
Come fly with me
I rapped softly on his office door, magically hoping he might have taken a vacation, thereby allowing me to chalk up credit for effort while not actually having to engage with him again, even though I was learning, to my growing dismay (alright, horror), that there were no real vacations from true forgiveness. “Come in,” […]
Remembering our only function
I had been revisiting a section of Ken Wapnick’s CD set, On Death & Dying: Ending? Continuing? Awakening?, a recording of an academy class held at the Foundation for A Course in Miracles in Temecula, California, in March 2011, in which Ken addresses the question of “scripts.” A metaphor used to describe the way in […]
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 […]
A Conversation with Ken Wapnick: making it the most important thing!
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 […]
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 […]
In search of true innocence
” ‘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 […]
