Peace Instead of This

[Please note: ACIM passages quoted in this article reference the Foundation for Inner Peace (FIP) Edition.] Last week was one of my best practice weeks ever. I got quite excited about the lessons (28-34), which seemed to fit together perfectly for me, and were having...

Applying Course practice immediately to upsets

[Please note: ACIM passages quoted in this article reference the Foundation for Inner Peace (FIP) Edition.] As Robert and I have been doing the recordings of the early lessons, I’ve been struck by just how strongly the Course emphasizes the idea of applying the...

The Early Lessons

[Please note: ACIM passages quoted in this article reference the Foundation for Inner Peace (FIP) Edition.] The past few years, I did what the Circle calls “post-Workbook practice.” I have a bowl in which there are 365 little cards, on each of which is...

Relinquishing attack; extending love

[Please note: ACIM passages quoted in this article reference the Foundation for Inner Peace (FIP) Edition.] Robert and I have been doing Workbook class recordings together and, like him, I have been struck by the recent series of lessons about anger and attack....

Anger

I had a great realization inspired by Lesson 22 (“What I see is a form of vengeance”) the other day and I feel compelled to write it down.I started out this life a pretty angry person. I have been in recovery literally since about age 12, when I found that...

“Ancient”

I love doing word studies in the Course. It is simply amazing how much you can learn by tracking a word–any word–as it recurs throughout the Course. Back in December, I decided to research the word “ancient.” So I collected the 70 references to...