The New You

by | 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...

Change is the way

by | 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...

In Remembrance: Douwe van der Zee

by | Jul 10, 2016 | A Course of Love

The mourning and the manifestation of the new. I learned yesterday morning that my friend Douwe van der Zee has died. (I wrote of him on May 8th. He’d come from South Africa to meet with as many from the ACOL and ACIM communities as he could, beginning with the ACIM...

Let your self be your given self

by | Jun 26, 2016 | A Course of Love

“What we casually refer to as “normal” behavior is really a state of arrested development.” Gregg Levoy, Vital Signs For at least a month, Saturdays have been the hottest day of the week. It as if the heat builds and builds, flames out on Saturday, and starts from...

Anticipation and arrival

by | Jun 12, 2016 | A Course of Love

Everyone knows, in this time of Christ, that the end of the old way is near and that the new is coming. They are thus moving toward anticipation rather than adaptation, and evolution moves with them. D:7.23 It’s 5:41 a.m. with a storm brewing. Thunder woke me. Or I...