Robert Perry • Circle of Atonement

"I am not asked to make a sacrifice"

[Please note: ACIM passages quoted in this article reference the Foundation for Inner Peace (FIP) Edition.] First off, I want to apologize for being away for so long. I've had quite a lengthy illness, which the rest of my family here got, but I got worse! That's why we...

"You can heal him only by perceiving the sanity in him"

[Please note: ACIM passages quoted in this article reference the Foundation for Inner Peace (FIP) Edition.] Last night I was reading "The Correction of Error" in Chapter 9 and this line really hit me: "When a brother behaves insanely, you can heal him only by...

The conflict between giving and getting

The class I did last Thursday is something I haven't been able to get out of my mind. It got me in touch with just how much in conflict I feel between those two ways: giving and getting. What I've been realizing is that it's all about the question "Where do I look...

The changing meanings of "one with God"

I was reading yesterday's lesson, "Let me remember I am one with God," and thinking about how the meaning of oneness with God has changed for me over the years. At first, the concept of oneness was a radical new idea, the main thing that set apart my new beliefs in...