If you believe in God, you believe that God created a lot of things, including other people. But, if you are like me, you may unconsciously imagine God creating people much like a factory cranks out toasters---automatically, almost blindly. According to the Course,...
He has asked for love, but only that he might give it to you. You do not love yourself. But in his eyes your loveliness is so complete and flawless that he sees in it an image of his Father. You become the symbol of his Father here on earth. To you he looks for hope,...
Guidance is one of those topics that most students of A Course in Miracles seem somewhat confused about. One of the many confusions is about how frequently we are actually supposed to be asking for it. On the one hand, we have nearly fifty Workbook lessons in which we...
As the teacher of God advances in his training, he learns one lesson with increasing thoroughness: He does not make his own decisions; he asks his Teacher for His answer, and it is this he follows as his guide for action. (M-9.2:1) He will tell us what to do, where to...
For a great many Course students it has become a fundamental principle of the Course that God does not know we are here, and does not even know we think we are here. Many quote the idea as a good thing, while many others wrestle with an idea they find to be very...
How many times have you heard, or said, "I ask for guidance, but I just don't hear anything"? Wouldn't it be great if A Course in Miracles gave us detailed instructions in precisely how to listen for the Holy Spirit's messages? Thankfully, it does exactly that. There...
If Jesus could come back and see our Christmas celebrations, what would he make of them? What would the humble carpenter from Nazareth think of all this praise of his birth? What would he think of the gifts, the carols, the lights, the feasts? How would he feel about...
When we know there is a need on the other end, when we know that our actions affect someone else, that is usually a motivator. When, for instance, another person is lonely and needs our company, that tends to spur us on, moving us to reach out further than perhaps we...
What does Christmas mean anyway? For many of us, the mythology has dropped away. In a scientific age, we may question the Virgin Birth and other miraculous events. Along with many modern scholars, we may question the story of angels, Wise Men and shepherds. For some...
I don't speak a great deal on basic Course metaphysics, but whenever I do, I get a barrage of questions, which suggest to me that there is a great deal of confusion around fundamental aspects of the Course's view of ultimate reality. So I decided to devote a class to...
How do we conceive of God? This has to be one of the most important and more elusive issues that we face in this life. How we conceive of the Source and Summit of reality will automatically shape how we see everything else, ourselves included. As children, we were...
Jesus of Nazareth is arguably the most influential man to have ever lived. Through a ministry that may have lasted as little as a year and consisted primarily of preaching in rural villages, he managed to change the world forever. Today, a third of the world’s...
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