Exile

Exile

When Every Kindness is a Miracle   Mother Mary speaks of her years of exile after Yeshua’s birth in Memoria:  I knew what it was to feel the heat and cold of a journey fleeing danger: the hunger, the thirst, the hostility, the inability to communicate in a new...
Who We Are and Who We Want to Become

Who We Are and Who We Want to Become

This past weekend was my “birthday weekend.” It was so nice! We did “dinner and a movie.” Somewhat due to my 15-year-old grandson Henry being one of the viewers, I chose the movie, “Blinded by the Light.” Based on the memoir, “Greetings from Bury Park,” the book...
Seeing Yourself as You Already Are

Seeing Yourself as You Already Are

If you’ve followed your reading of A Course of Love with “Mirari,” you may have been surprised at the difference between the two. It might have been disconcerting at first, as it was to me. The hardest part of getting “Memoria,” the second book of Mary ready for...
Victim: Not Truth but Habit

Victim: Not Truth but Habit

Mother Mary said to me the other day:    Be at peace with all your feelings now, including your feisty ones. Remember the women around the fire. (Opening of “Mirari.”)   I do rather like my feisty feelings. To discover that, I had to first reject victimhood,...
All About Love

All About Love

I somehow missed that a favorite author of mine, bell hooks, (who chose to present her name uncapitalized) died last month. In the attached interview, I heard her voice for the first time. I thought it would be different, more scholarly, or tough. But she sounds like...
The Presence of the Self You Are

The Presence of the Self You Are

Who you are now was there when you were a child, and there in all the years since then, and there before you began your learning of this Course. Your awareness of the Self that you are now was not present in the past, but you can truly now, with the devotion of the...