“A happy outcome to all things is sure”

[Please note: ACIM passages quoted in this article reference the Foundation for Inner Peace (FIP) Edition.] I am doing Lesson 292 today, “A happy outcome to all things is sure,” and I am so struck by its artful weaving together of God’s Will and our...

Turning over a new leaf ACIM-style

Yesterday, I was practicing a line that I found in the original dictation of Chapter 2. The line was this: “The only way out is to stop miscreating now, and accept the Atonement for miscreations of the past.” All I did was turn that into a first person...

Discomfort without fear

I was reading Helen’s original notes for Chapter 2 yesterday and something really hit me. Here is the passage: There is no doubt that the spiritual eye does produce extreme discomfort by what it sees. The thing that man forgets is that the discomfort is not the...

The real possession drive

This morning in my meditation I was really connecting with the Brother Lawrence version of “Here I am, Lord,” which is “My God, here I am, all Yours”—especially that last phrase: “all Yours.” This made me remember my earlier...

What is the part and what is the whole?

I had an insight while meditating this morning. (I always wonder if these insights are a case of mind-wandering or a case of guidance from the Holy Spirit, which is supposed to come in during meditation.) The gist of it was this: We can view our lives in one of two...