by Contributing Authors-ACOL Readers | Jan 5, 2018 | The Embrace
A Little Boy, and Jesus: From Loss to Love By Christine Fine Open the door! The windows! I cannot breathe. My lips have grown pale and drawn, my throat dry, my mind a spin with pain and sorrow, loss and envy. I have lost a relationship. A special relationship. I go...
by Mari Perron | Dec 17, 2017 | A Course of Love
Here in Minnesota, I often look out in the late afternoon and see that the sun, held in a gloomy pre-evening sky, looks exactly like the moon. It’s a time when one could easily awaken and wonder if it is day or it is night. This is the time of the solstice. Many...
by Contributing Authors-ACOL Readers | Dec 5, 2017 | The Embrace
Is the World an Illusion? By Mari Perron, First Receiver of A Course of Love The illusion, as spoken of in both A Course in Miracles and A Course of Love, isn’t about physics. It’s not about science. We see an illusion when we don’t see the truth. Illusion is not a...
by Mari Perron | Nov 19, 2017 | A Course of Love
Past the ego’s guarded gate: empowering revelations After my mom’s death in August, I was taken by surprise to realize there were things I was holding against her and myself. Things I had not forgiven. Things that came to me the day after the funeral...
by Contributing Authors-ACOL Readers | Nov 4, 2017 | The Embrace
I Have Nothing, I Have Everything: My Song of Gratitude By Sebastian Blaksley Note: Sebastian Blaksley, of Buenos Aires, Argentina, was born to a prominent Argentinian family. Although many opportunities were available to him, he wanted to be a monk. That not being...
by Contributing Authors-ACOL Readers | Oct 2, 2017 | The Embrace
Of Course It’s Love By Jeff Gilbert Editor’s note: Jeff is young in body yet remarkably mature spiritually. At three years of age he spontaneously, ecstatically, accepted Jesus. He graduated with a Bachelor’s degree in Biblical Studies and Philosophy from San...
by Mari Perron | Sep 10, 2017 | A Course of Love
The mind cannot hold open the doors of the heart and yet we turn within, turn to the mind, and show it where its openness lies, where sweetness abides, where love’s knowing is found. All the mind can do is rearrange reality and hold it still and captive and rule...
by Contributing Authors-ACOL Readers | Sep 5, 2017 | The Embrace
My Greatest Experience – Ever By Miguel Carvalho It was the greatest experience of my life, what happened to me on August 14th, as I was exploring A Course of Love. And what is more, it was not a one-time occurrence, a fluke, a misinterpretation, or a figment of...
by Mari Perron | Sep 2, 2017 | A Course of Love
Life is the connecting tissue of the web of form with the divine All. Life is consciousness. Christ-consciousness is awareness of what is. It is the awareness of connection and relationship of All to All. It is the merging of the unknowable and the knowable through...
by Contributing Authors-ACOL Readers | Aug 4, 2017 | The Embrace
Accepting Feelings of ALL Kinds By Christine Fine I sing in the shower. Every morning. It’s a song of gratitude. There are so many things to be grateful for! I even made a list and laminated it so I could keep it in the shower with me. It helps inspire my morning time...
