God as central heating

The other day when a student and I were talking, she mentioned that living in Mexico without central heating, she dresses in layers of clothing, putting more on as it gets colder, taking more off as it warms up. That led us to talking about how it seems that just when...

A gem buried in Helen’s notebooks

Yesterday I came across a brief personal message in Helen’s notes that is not part of the flow of dictation and did  not make it into the Urtext, let alone any version after that. Nevertheless, it is a true gem, one of those passages worth memorizing and keeping...

A stunning account of God’s Love

The following is not from the Course; it’s from a near-death experience of a woman named D. S. Weiler. But I believe it helps make real to us the kind of love the Course is talking about when it speaks of God’s Love. It fleshes that Love out in surprising...

Here I am, Lord.

I have practiced this prayer, which Jesus gave to Bill, for many years. In fact, at one time, I prayed it in its extended form every day for over a year. How amazed I was, then, to discover it in a deeper, newer way when I took it into my quiet time this morning. My...

When you just can’t feel the truth

I recently realized something that I think has really been holding me back. Maybe you can identify with it. When I try to practice the truth, to remind myself what is really true, often my mind can’t really go there. I might remind myself, for instance, that...

Cells in the “body” of God

The other day, I was reading Charles Tart’s The End of Materialism, and he quotes in full an account of a profound mystical experience that a man named Allan Smith had. Smith was a promising young researcher on the nature of anesthesia, and an atheist, when one...