Jul 8, 2021 |
In March of this year, Lee Flynn, who is both my friend and an ACIM scholar, (though he doesn’t like me to call him that) read the “Identity Crisis” writing that I had just rediscovered. It is a memoir of my time of receiving A Course of Love, written as it was being...
Jun 24, 2021 |
Much of the country experienced a June heat wave. According to the Twin Cities National Weather Service, the first 13 days of June in the Twin Cities and much of Minnesota were the hottest on record. This I knew. It took me longer to discover that this was a worldwide...
Jun 17, 2021 |
“Begin to imagine life passing through you rather than getting stopped for examination at its intersection with you. . . . It will seem as if you are shirking some primal responsibility to assign meaning to everything.” Leaving meaning behind undoes the...
May 25, 2021 |
The Virgin and the Desire to be Good I am finding myself hampered of late; hampered by “no” desire to be good, but hampered worse, by the desire “to” be good. Recognizing that both desires exist within me is an ongoing discovery, an inner dialogue guided, in...
May 19, 2021 |
Simeon, Son of Coco, brother of Maximus, beloved companion to Mari Perron and her family Born on Easter Sunday in the year 1999, “Simmy” died April 23, 2021 after a six-month illness. Simmy came to me during the first year of my reception of A Course of Love (which...
May 6, 2021 |
Many of us have drawn on the metaphor of the caterpillar and the butterfly as an example of the way in which Jesus, in A Course of Love, speaks of our transformation “into what we always were.” What I’ve never shared, and I don’t know if anyone else has either, is the...