By Hans Hallundbaek I’ve traveled a long road in this life of mine, striving to discover my function, but the twists and turns I’ve taken never really led me there until I discovered A Course in Miracles. According to ACIM, the definition of our function in this world...
By Shadia Sachedina I was born Muslim in Pakistan and raised in Kuwait where I grew up to the sound of the Azan (the Muslim call to prayer) ringing out across the land. Although a Muslim, my parents enrolled me in an all-girls Catholic school because it offered the...
By Cyndi Bohun I grew up on a small farm in New York State with an Italian father and a Scandinavian mother. We lived with my Italian grandparents. I found my spirituality in the countryside and remember walking in the woods as a young person and thinking about God....
by Judy Alexy My parents were raised in the Southern Baptist Church. When I was six months old, they moved north from New Orleans and to Pittsburgh, PA where we began attending an American Baptist church. I don’t remember experiencing any strong resistance to my...
by Irene Bentsen My family was not religious and we did not go to church. Yet I believe I have been a spiritual being all my life. For example, as a little girl, I remember pondering life’s big questions, such as how I got here and what the point of it all was. In...
We all come into this world in a sacred state of holiness and a yearning for God, free of religious dispositions. However, within weeks of my birth, I was baptized as a Lutheran, the state church of my home country, Denmark. Later in school, religion was drummed into...
By Alwyn Whitehead My mother was a southern lady who made sure we were in church every Sunday. I clearly remember the day my Methodist Sunday school teacher informed me that only Christians would “go to Heaven,” all others were doomed to hell. Even at that age, I...
By Nancy Benjamin “What’s it all about, Alfie?” I can still hear my mother singing along with the radio in the 1960s and I would join in. “As sure as I believe there’s a heaven above, Alfie, I know there’s something much more….” This is the story of how I found A...
By José Lorenzo Many people say they had happy childhoods, but my childhood was anything but. I was a shy, dreamy boy. My father was not much in the picture in my early days, so when not at school, I spent most of the day with my grandmother while my mother attended...
By Jeanne Sanner It took me three tries to get off the couch - not because of bad knees or a bad back or a bad headache, but because of a bad depression. Infidelity can do that to a person. I knew I had to get off the couch and do something - anything - so I slowly...
By R.H. My parents were Christian missionaries, and I was born and raised in Kenya. When I turned 14, I moved to the United States to go to high school. After high school, I went to Texas Tech University to study international business. It was my intention to return...
By Corrine Giacobbe I was born and raised a Catholic in the 1950s. As a youngster, I was taught about Jesus and the Holy Ghost. Jesus was my friend and the Holy Ghost conjured up my favorite hero, Casper, the Friendly Ghost. With the bishop’s tap on my cheek during...
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