by Contributing Authors-ACOL Readers | Dec 21, 2016 | The Embrace
A Christmas Message: Your Purpose Is to Be Loved By Laurel Elstrom Editor’s note: the following message was received in meditation. Do you not realize that your entire purpose is to be loved? Will you allow creation to love you? You think that you lack love,...
by Contributing Authors-ACOL Readers | Nov 23, 2016 | The Embrace
Donald Trump: Man of My Dreams By Paula Payne Hardin November 13, 2016 What could my inner dreamer be saying by sending me a series of five startling—even shocking—dreams over the year preceding the election of Donald Trump? Dreaming is rare for me these days but I...
by Contributing Authors-ACOL Readers | Nov 11, 2016 | The Embrace
The Election: Moving from Shock to Love By Michael Mark Voting this year felt like trying to distill years of carefully-gathered hope and passion into a single, oval-shaped grunt. It was like trying to create a landscape painting with a single prick of ink. It’s...
by Contributing Authors-ACOL Readers | Oct 20, 2016 | The Embrace
Matthew, the Hurricane, Meets A Course of Love By Paula Payne Hardin October 14, 2016 There is an afterglow bathing my community of Vero Beach, Florida. The Category 4 hurricane named Matthew, due to make a direct hit sometime during the night of October 6 through 7,...
by Contributing Authors-ACOL Readers | Sep 29, 2016 | The Embrace
The Politics of Acceptance By Michael Mark It’s that time again here in the US. I’m increasingly confronted by discussions of politics. They’re coming into the home, the office, the car. With the menu, the memo, the mail. And why not? We’re...
by Contributing Authors-ACOL Readers | Sep 13, 2016 | The Embrace
Expanding Our View of Ourselves . . . with Yes By Mari Perron, First Receiver I’m in a “yes” year. I came up with the idea of having a year in which I’d say “Yes” to all that this Course would bring me before I heard that Shonda...
by Contributing Authors-ACOL Readers | Aug 8, 2016 | The Embrace
My Wild Ride By Paula Payne Hardin The ad for A Course of Love shimmered on the page in October 2014. Within a few days the book was delivered to my home—and so began a wild year for me! A year I wouldn’t trade for anything. A year of facing my life at a deep...
by Contributing Authors-ACOL Readers | Jul 15, 2016 | The Embrace
In Memoriam – A Final Article from Douwe: Untangling Life’s Traffic Jams By Douwe vanderZee Editor’s note: We are deeply impacted to learn that our “elephant whisperer” friend, Douwe vanderZee passed away in an automotive incident in his...
by Contributing Authors-ACOL Readers | Jun 24, 2016 | The Embrace
Depression, Acceptance, Transformation By Douwe vanderZee From as far back as I can recall, I suffered from a virtually constant underlying anxiety. I felt very alone, and had difficulty communicating. I longed for meaningful relationships, but seemed unable to...
by Contributing Authors-ACOL Readers | Jun 2, 2016 | The Embrace
I Love Them Both By Michael Mark [Editor’s note: The following, reprinted with the author’s permission, was first published on Amazon.com as a review on February 27, 2016.] I offer you no credentials, no histories or justifications. The purpose of this...
