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...
Apr 29, 2021 |
No victim is to blame for the violence done to them. The Chauvin trial that gripped Minnesota and people across the world, is over, but there was another death of a young black man. Maybe in another year it wouldn’t have been so enraging, and yet the rage is...
Apr 22, 2021 |
Talking Naturally with Jon Mundy Mother’s Day 2021 When Jon Mundy and I first met, in 2009, I was nervous. It was my first meeting with a leader of A Course in Miracles. But my nervousness soon vanished. We talked for hours. Ever since I have called...
Apr 19, 2021 |
When I’m writing poorly, I can get to feeling so low. I often call bad writing “dribble.” When it appears, I’ll say to myself, “I hope the dribble goes away.” But what I am really hoping for is inspiration. I realized this recently and changed that sentence around:...
Apr 5, 2021 |
I’ll now conclude these Easter Musings with this contemplation from Mirari: The Way of the Marys. In the early church, Easter was associated with an expectation that the second advent would occur on Easter Day. In A Course of Love, we heard of the Covenant of...
Apr 4, 2021 |
Musings will offer contemplations from Mirari: The Way of the Marys from now until Easter Monday. Easter In Mirari, I ask: “What am I to see in today’s Easter? Mary responds, “Gentleness, my child. Gentleness is what is most in need of being seen after the...
Apr 3, 2021 |
Musings will offer contemplations from Mirari: The Way of the Marys from now until Easter Monday. Holy Saturday My son had only hours to grieve for himself, to wish that the cup would pass him by, or to mourn the end of his time with his friends, and...
