“Jesus, help me see my brother as he really is”

The other day I was practicing as my lesson for the day a prayer that Helen received from Jesus. Here is her account of receiving it in the Urtext (with some formatting and spelling corrections done by me): On Wednesday evening, November 24, Helen had sudden flash of...

What about their part?

The other day I was mulling over the age-old issue of “what’s my part and what about the other person’s part?” I’m sure you know the issue: You know you have your part, but then the other person has their part, too. And if you just do...

Adventures in Text reading

The other night in our Teacher of Pupils training, we reviewed a study technique advocated by Allen Watson, called the superficial read-through. This is where you read through the entire Text, or a chapter, or even a section, fairly quickly, as a preparation for a...

The result of genuine devotion is inspiration

I was reading the dictation for the first part of Chapter 4 this morning and came across this familiar line: “The result of genuine devotion is inspiration, a word which properly understood is the opposite of fatigue” (T-4.In.1:5). A little spark went off...

“Respect from the worthy to the worthy”

[Please note: ACIM passages quoted in this article reference the Foundation for Inner Peace (FIP) Edition.] The other day I was reading in Helen’s original notes for what is now Chapter 2. Those first two chapters, of course, introduce the miracle, laying down the...