Dear Hearts, We have received reprieve from the cold, but only days ago it was dangerous. The weather was literally deadly and even if you were swaddled in layers, the wind was face breaking. At 6 degrees I set out to the gym with a stop at the ATM. This is a little satellite of […]
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Dear Hearts, Restless? Thinking about a change? I mean a really big change, the kind that you believe will set you free, the kind that you dream will solve your problems, the kind you imagine will heal the lack, inadequacy and anxiety that has plagued you too many years? Have you been longing for something
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by marybeth I need more poetry and less hierarchies. I need more snow days and less evening news. I long for the sound of a pond lapping as if she were the one drinking herself in and I was pouring my self out. I need less food and a long, slow stretch where fingertips reach
Dear Hearts, In the midst of political tremors, under sunless skies, and through relationship terrors, there is bed where we can rest. There is choice that we can make. There is a Friend who is reborn each time we pause to receive God’s peace. The world seemed particularly difficult and cruel this week. It takes
A Course in Miracles is a spiritual path, prose and poetry, lessons and teaching, offered for healing, for love, for waking into God. Its words come from a supra- human Source. I have practiced these words for more than a quarter of a century. Sometimes The Course feels like a lover… one that has my
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Right now, can you give a moment, bringing awareness to your lungs, your belly, your body? Are you breathing? Deeply? Free of the grip that clamps the jaw; free of the strain that stiffens the shoulders; free of the worry that sutures the stomach, pocking the breath into slivers and pits? Notice, air moving in,
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…and in His judgment will a world unfold in perfect innocence before your eyes. ACIM WB 164 Dear Hearts, Do you think you can judge God? Perhaps you feel you are right to evaluate, to appraise His world. Perhaps you have judged God to be a failure, a loser. Perhaps He is dead, or so
Call to your Father, certain that His Voice will answer. He Himself has promised this. And He Himself will place a spark of truth within your mind wherever you give up a false belief, a dark illusion of your own reality, and what love means….In loving gentleness He will abide with you as you allow
Sometimes in forgiveness we forge perky little formulas for healing and moving on, except that mostly we just move on, making a ritual of what once was a sincere effort to heal and let go. Self-deception hides self-will. Self-will attempts to pull truth into your illusion. Self-love requires sincere and earnest efforts to reach the
Dear Hearts,One of the most meaningful things I do each week is this. I come to the computer and I write to you. There is a little ritual, an asking of my heart what to share, how much, in a story? In a poem? I begin to consider this on Monday, always wanting to get
