The importance of being prepared

[Please note: ACIM passages quoted in this article reference the Foundation for Inner Peace (FIP) Edition.] The importance of being prepared has been on my mind quite a bit lately. It has also been coming up in some of my teacher-pupil meetings, so I thought I’d like...

Don’t tell me what to do!

I don’t like people telling me what to do. I don’t know when it started, because all my growing up years I was a good little girl always doing what I was told. However, I do remember myself as having a clear sense of what I wanted and then going out after it. For...

The hush of Heaven

[Please note: ACIM passages quoted in this article reference the Foundation for Inner Peace (FIP) Edition.] I love this lesson, and practicing it this time around I’ve had further insights into its meaning. They aren’t earth-shaking insights, but they brought me an...

Antidotes to criticism

[Please note: ACIM passages quoted in this article reference the Foundation for Inner Peace (FIP) Edition.] One of my pupils and I have been talking in our meetings about a tendency we both have to find fault and to be critical and judgmental. It wasn’t pleasant to...

“Try to Remember”

[Please note: ACIM passages quoted in this article reference the Foundation for Inner Peace (FIP) Edition.] In a response to a comment on my recent blog, “Sitting at the feet of my teacher,” I mentioned an article  I had written about my favourite song, “Try to...