by Contributing Authors-ACOL Readers | Mar 18, 2016 | The Embrace
To Give or to Receive? That is Love’s Question By Laurel Elstrom It was Valentine’s Day. My partner hadn’t met my expectations. I watched my own wounded reaction, knowing it was ridiculous and not helpful. Yet the recognition that I thought I had...
by Contributing Authors-ACOL Readers | Mar 2, 2016 | The Embrace
My Meeting with Mari By Celia Hales The year was 2004, three years after Mari Perron had published the first part of A Course of Love with New World Library. Like Mari, I was living in the Twin Cities area of Minnesota. And, like Mari, I was a seeker. My story about...
by Contributing Authors-ACOL Readers | Feb 22, 2016 | The Embrace
A Course in Miracles and A Course of Love — A Reflection By Douwe vanderZee It seems the controversy about the relationship between A Course of Love (ACOL) and A Course in Miracles (ACIM) is gaining momentum. Numerous comments have been posted on Amazon, but...
by Contributing Authors-ACOL Readers | Feb 10, 2016 | The Embrace
A Cup of Tea — With Milk, Sugar, and the Spacious Self By Derek Neilson [Editor’s note: The “spacious Self” is an important element of Jesus’ message in A Course of Love, one he does not mention until the final part of the book, in The...
by Contributing Authors-ACOL Readers | Jan 22, 2016 | The Embrace
Exactly What I Needed By Barry Cosme On November 13, 2015, Barry Cosme, a longtime student of A Course in Miracles, posted the following review of A Course of Love on Amazon.com. He graciously gave permission for it to be reprinted here. This book (ACOL) was the...
by Contributing Authors-ACOL Readers | Jan 7, 2016 | The Embrace
Dropping From a Tree Into the Arms of God By Douwe vanderZee For more than a decade, I regularly played with children. The term ‘original play’ was coined by Dr. O. Fred Donaldson, who discovered that what little children – and animals – do is...
by Contributing Authors-ACOL Readers | Dec 23, 2015 | The Embrace
The Greatest Leap of All By Mari Perron It was meaningful to me in 1998, as it still is now, that A Course of Love first began to come to me as the season of Advent began . . . the season that marks the Second Coming of Christ and the end of Ordinary Time. In the...
by Contributing Authors-ACOL Readers | Dec 10, 2015 | The Embrace
Miracle of the Manger: Who’s There? By Paula Payne Hardin December 7, 2015 A new Christmas image just came to me. It was so unlike anything “I” would normally imagine, it was a shock. In fact it is affecting me to such an extent I can hardly type. I am...
by Contributing Authors-ACOL Readers | Nov 24, 2015 | The Embrace
Elephants and Rhinos and Miracles—Oh, My! By Douwe vanderZee As I co-led a group of people in the iMfolozi Game Reserve, the oldest game reserve in Africa, a large bull elephant appeared straight in front of us, on the same path that we were on. Sipho, my fellow guide...
by Contributing Authors-ACOL Readers | Oct 29, 2015 | The Embrace
New TerritoryBy Mari Perron, First Receiver of A Course of Love Dear Reader: Welcome to the INAUGURAL EDITION of The Embrace, an occasional newsletter featuring many voices. A Course of Love asks us to enter new territory. The territory of conscious awareness. This...
