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 Mari Perron | Oct 9, 2016 | A Course of Love
Christ-consciousness is your will to know, to be, and to express. The time of Christ, and the second coming of Christ, are expressions meant to symbolize the completion of the cycle of birth, death, and rebirth as a means of coming to know. D:Day17.11 Yesterday was...
by Mari Perron | Oct 3, 2016 | A Course of Love
We dwell in the reality of the One Heart, creation’s birthplace, birthplace of the new. I.11 The situation of violence throughout the world, the feelings of being powerless to change anything, of being caught in deception, make me go, “No, no. I don’t want to look at...
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 Mari Perron | Sep 25, 2016 | A Course of Love
Remember that you are tired of learning. You are tired here, after your climb. You simply want to rest and have whatever transformation is to come to you to come. If you could indeed give in to this desire fully, it would speed the transformation along quite nicely....
by Mari Perron | Sep 18, 2016 | A Course of Love
Become the author of your own life. Live it as you feel called to live it. D:4.24 I have been reading and re-reading Thomas Merton for over a decade, but I recently found a quote from him I’d never seen, one that describes love and its affects in a way that fits me...
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 Mari Perron | Sep 11, 2016 | A Course of Love
[I]f you were to think now of a person whom you know who has died, you would not be likely to think of them much differently than they were in life, even while you are able to imagine them being peaceful and free of the constraints of the body. This is as good an...
by Mari Perron | Sep 4, 2016 | A Course of Love
“Taking to the road—by which I mean letting the road take you—changed who I thought I was. The road is messy in the way that real life is messy. It leads us out of denial into reality, out of theory and into practice, out of caution and into action, out of statistics...
by Mari Perron | Aug 21, 2016 | A Course of Love
As air carries sound, as a stream carries water, as a pregnant woman carries her child, this is how you are meant to carry what you have been given. What you have been given is meant to accompany you, propel you, and be supported by you. You are not separate from what...
