Your Will––my will

[Please note: ACIM passages quoted in this article reference the Foundation for Inner Peace (FIP) Edition.] I have been profoundly affected by our recent TRP readings, especially since “The Dreamer of the Dream” at the end of Chapter 27 and into Chapter 29. I found...

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...

Diminished capacity

I’ve spent many years reflecting on the Course’s teaching that we are Sons of God who are merely dreaming we are human beings. In the last few days, the topic has been very much on my mind, and I’m relating to it in a new way, not conceptually but...

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...

Does forgiveness encourage the repetition of mistakes?

In a recent post about the power of discouragement to stop our practice, I said I planned to use the approach from Lesson 95 to defuse my discouragement. I summarized that approach in this way: Forgive yourself for missing; be tolerant of your weakness. This deprives...