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The Embrace #12: METAMORPHOSIS: My Journey
METAMORPHOSIS: My Journey By Christina Strutt I love the Bible. I love A Course in Miracles. I love A Course of Love. Each arrived and delivered its gifts at the precise time in my life when I needed them and was ready to receive them. Each one I carry in highest...
The Embrace #11: Sex and The Course: A Personal Perspective Question
Sex and the Course: A Personal Perspective By Laina Orlando A major event gripped the social world in 2015—the sensational transgender transformation wherein Bruce Jenner died and was resurrected as Caitlyn Jenner. It reminded me of my own transformation through a...
The Embrace #10: To Give or To Receive? That is Love’s Question
To Give or to Receive? That is Love's Question By Laurel Elstrom It was Valentine's Day. My partner hadn't met my expectations. I watched my own wounded reaction, knowing it was ridiculous and not helpful. Yet the recognition that I thought I had needed a particular...
The Embrace #9: My Meeting with Mari
My Meeting with Mari By Celia Hales The year was 2004, three years after Mari Perron had published the first part of A Course of Love with New World Library. Like Mari, I was living in the Twin Cities area of Minnesota. And, like Mari, I was a seeker. My story about...
The Embrace #8: ACIM and ACOL – A Reflection
A Course in Miracles and A Course of Love -- A Reflection By Douwe vanderZee It seems the controversy about the relationship between A Course of Love (ACOL) and A Course in Miracles (ACIM) is gaining momentum. Numerous comments have been posted on Amazon, but...
The Embrace #7: A Cup of Tea–With Milk, Sugar, and the Spacious Self
A Cup of Tea -- With Milk, Sugar, and the Spacious Self By Derek Neilson [Editor's note: The "spacious Self" is an important element of Jesus' message in A Course of Love, one he does not mention until the final part of the book, in The Forty Days and Forty Nights. It...
The Embrace #6: Exactly What I Need
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...
The Embrace #5: Dropping From a Tree Into the Arms of God
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 intrinsically very...
The Embrace #4: The Greatest Leap of All
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...
