Living the Course Articles

How A Course in Miracles Has Helped Us in Couples Counseling and How It Could Become a Helper of the World In the last issue of A Better Way, I shared an insight I had received from the couples counselor my partner Patricia and I are working with (“Healing Is...

The Relief of No Longer Having to Be Mistake Free Recently, during a meeting Patricia and I had with our couples counselor, our counselor gave me an insight that has had a positive impact on my life. The insight is not really new to me, but for whatever reason, it has...

This contribution is a little different than usual. It is not an article, but a sharing of guidance I received on behalf of the Circle, a little over a year ago, in October of 2003. You may know that we at the Circle seek guidance together about all kinds of decisions...

This world is a serious place. Everyone leaves here in a box. And before we make it into the box, we tread a precarious path trying to avoid catastrophe, whilst living inconstant fear of it. This is the unpalatable truth that lurks at the back of our minds, casting a...

Who of us has not, at some time, been drawn to pray for someone—a sick relative, a friend in difficult circumstances, or even a stranger whose heart-touching story we hear about on the news? As a Course student, how do you respond to such a natural and compassionate...

With any spiritual path, we face our hardest moments when a crisis comes along—when we are faced with awful circumstances, terrible dilemmas, and unanswerable questions. At these times, we may expect a number of things from our path in order to support us through a...

Making the “Foreign” Language of A Course in Miracles Your Own As many of you know, I am now living in Mexico with my fiancée, Patricia Zamudio. Things are going very well overall, but the transition from the United States to Mexico has been quite an adjustment for me...

The Spirit of Celebration in the Historical Jesus and A Course in Miracles Everyone loves a good celebration. But why? If we are honest with ourselves, we may come to realize that underneath at least some of our love of celebration is a depressing idea: Life is, as...

It is a fact of life that people often resist the very help that they need. This resistance tends to throw them into conflict with those who are trying to help them. As a result, what could be a joyous situation—one person offering loving aid to another—becomes a...

We get asked a lot about whether it’s proper for a Course student to serve on a jury. My short answer is yes, and I’ve already written a Q & A on the topic. Here, though, my focus will be different, because I was recently called to jury duty for the first time, and I...

How I Learned to Laugh at Misfortune We’re all familiar with that famous passage from the Course that begins with this line: “Into eternity, where all is one, there crept a tiny, mad idea, at which the Son of God remembered not to laugh” (T-27.VIII.6:2). It is a...