by Mari Perron | Jan 24, 2016 | A Course of Love
The learning that occurs during the time of tenderness is learning from love. No lessons learned without love touch your heart. No lessons that do not touch your heart will accomplish anything. The purpose of the final lessons are both unlearning and moving...
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 Mari Perron | Jan 3, 2016 | A Course of Love
Creation balanced with rest is the pattern that has been taken to extremes within your world. You think of birth as creation and death as rest. You do not realize that your nature, and the nature of your life, like that of all around you, is governed by seasons...
by Mari Perron | Dec 27, 2015 | A Course of Love
Last week I wrote of the Christmas season’s capacity to take me out of ordinary time: “Being out of ordinary time is like visiting another state of being. Some would have us believe this only happens in meditation, or formal practices of some kind. But life is full of...
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 Mari Perron | Dec 20, 2015 | A Course of Love
The Christ in you is that which is capable of learning in human form what it means to be a child of God. The Christ in you is that which is capable of bridging the two worlds. This is what is meant by the second coming of Christ. C:P.7 There is only so much I...
by Mari Perron | Dec 13, 2015 | A Course of Love
Help is here. Be what you have been called to be. Open your dwelling place to your true Self, your true identity. Imagine this opening and this replacement occurring with every fiber of your being. Imagine the separate self being enfolded, embraced, and finally...
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 Mari Perron | Dec 7, 2015 | A Course of Love
Lay aside your want of other answers, other stories, and accept the story we share. The Bible and all holy texts can be seen clearly now as one creation story. One story of one beginning. One story with many promises made. D:Day1.28 Here in the cabin, the sky is...
