by Mari Perron | Aug 30, 2015 | A Course of Love
We have not removed ourselves from life in any way, and yet we have reached a place of retreat, a place of safety and of rest, a place away from “normal” life and the lack of freedom you have experienced there. I am your refuge from the past, your gate of entry to the...
by Mari Perron | Aug 23, 2015 | A Course of Love
You who have so worried over what to do have both welcomed and feared the idea of some kind of service being required of you. . . . To be of service to God is not to be a slave to God but to attend to God. To give God your attention and your care. C: 29.3 I’ve been...
by Mari Perron | Aug 16, 2015 | A Course of Love
The mind goes from the small to the large, the heart from the large to the small. Only the wholehearted see the connection of all. C:23.12 It’s 5:52 in the cabin. The sun’s imminent rising is visible as a streak of light-infused coral. The frogs or crickets...
by Mari Perron | Aug 9, 2015 | A Course of Love
Active acceptance is what allows the great transformation from life as you have known it, to death of that old life, to rebirth of new life. By clinging to some of the old, you prevent its death and you prevent the rebirth of the new. You prevent the very life-giving...
by Mari Perron | Aug 3, 2015 | A Course of Love
“While you think of acceptance as just another word, another concept, another trick of the mind, you will not see it as the replacement of learning, and as such as an active state, a state in which you begin to work with what is beyond learning, a state in which you...
by Mari Perron | Jul 27, 2015 | A Course of Love
This is a time of knowing who you are and who I Am while at the same time, holding, or carrying, the mystery within you. That mystery is the tension of opposites. It is time and eternity. Love and hate. Good and evil. In other words, All and Nothing. It is the tension...
by Mari Perron | Jul 19, 2015 | A Course of Love
This time of concentration on the self is unheralded in history. It is what has been needed. Be grateful to all of the forerunners of the new who have been courageous enough to call you to examine yourself. Be grateful to yourself that you have had the courage to...
by Mari Perron | Jul 12, 2015 | A Course of Love
There has been a death. A death that has taken a much beloved man from this earth and the ACOL community. Ivor Sowton was a significant part of the supportive community that exists for A Course of Love, ACOL’s publisher, Glenn Hovemann, and Take Heart Publications. I...
by Mari Perron | Jul 6, 2015 | A Course of Love
My eldest daughter is married. I’ve inherited a new grandson, a son-in-law, and a whole slew of “in-law” relations. I learned there is now such a thing as “gel” nail polish and polished my nails for the wedding—the first time in about twenty years. It was beginning to...
by Mari Perron | Jun 22, 2015 | A Course of Love
You are the ushers, the pioneers of the new. The electricity isn’t working in the cabin this morning. I check the fuse box down in the basement, but nothing’s blown, and so without a sure quick fix, I figure I can run in and out for coffee and not investigate...
