Forays In Forgiveness

Learning to live a truly forgiving and forgiven life

The Only Real Relationship and a magic cookie recipe

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I was back in that rawest of places in a special relationship; believing in the dream again, berating myself for lack of palpable improvement in form; the way my issues with this person kept boomeranging back on me despite my commitment to this path of forgiving what never was. Once more looking for evidence of […]

Forgiveness ACIM-Style: No Big Deal!

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I was fortunate enough to sit down recently to interview Ken Wapnick again while attending a workshop at the Foundation for a Course in Miracles (FACIM) in Temecula, California. I felt more than ever the radiance of Ken’s unwavering faith in an innocence that includes everyone and everything, even this mess of a Course student. […]

What have you saved to settle by yourself?

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I sat at my computer anxiously awaiting my appearance as a guest speaker at ACIM Gather; an online radio broadcast service for A Course in Miracles students and teachers. I had assembled my magic props:  chamomile tea, an assortment of flower essences, a lump of obsidian to help ground me, and a really expensive cream […]

Boot Camp? Not …

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A couple of weeks ago in the regular A Course in Miracles Thursday night class I teach our conversation wandered into that ever seductive quagmire of senseless musings the ego would like us to get lost in more often. Things like; how can we be sure this is really an illusion? How can I believe […]

You Gotta Wear Shades

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“I would just–for once in my life–like to have a little direct experience of God, is that too much to ask? A little preview of our Father’s Love, my real, capital S Self, eternal wholeness, boundless, all-inclusive creativity and all that …” I hesitated, considering my present company. “Jazz,” I said. My imaginary Jesus continued […]

What Is Forgiveness?

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“An unforgiving thought does many things. In frantic action it pursues its goal, twisting and overturning what it sees as interfering with its chosen path. Distortion is its purpose, and the means by which it would accomplish it as well. It sets about its furious attempts to smash reality without concern for anything that would […]

Lean on me

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Lean on me, when you’re not strong And I’ll be your friend I’ll help you carry on For it won’t be long ‘Til I’m gonna need Somebody to lean on -Bill Withers “So self-reliant,” they would say. Parents, aunts, uncles, neighbors, and teachers; referring to the way I seemed to have entered this world so […]

Be you in charge

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I sat at my desk reviewing the latest tips for stage fright I had downloaded off the internet. “Visualize a past success,” I read. What were these people smoking? “Just be yourself.” Really? Now which self would that be? My little “s” ego self had gotten me into this mess to begin with. And if […]

Forget this book: well; maybe tomorrow

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As I sat at my desk carefully cutting out strips of duct tape to suture the ragged spine of my A Course in Miracles book the other morning I became aware of my imaginary Jesus quietly sitting beside me. I did not remember calling on him but his presence indicated otherwise. “I know what you’re […]

Objects in mirror are closer than they appear

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A couple years ago I had an epiphany of sorts while contemplating the recurring, ever-strengthening urge to begin formally teaching A Course in Miracles classes versus my colossal resistance to that preposterous idea. Since adolescence I had been seemingly crippled with a debilitating fear not only of speaking in public but of being the center […]