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Why Loving Thy Neighbor as Thyself is Hard

In Matthew we are told to love God with all our hearts, our souls and our minds, and to then love thy neighbor as thyself. Often, my thoughts focused on how challenging it can be to love certain people - some just rub us the wrong way. Jesus emphasizes this when he...

A New Way to Respond When Feeling Attacked

One powerful message in A Course in Miracles is the idea around how we should respond when we feel attacked by others. An attack could be in the form of verbal or body language that we perceive as negative, or someone pulling away/deserting us or someone trying to...

Letting Go of Judgement

A Course in Miracles teaches that judgement is totally misunderstood by the world. It is confused with wisdom, and substitutes for truth. It’s confusing because we are taught by parents, teachers and society that a person is capable of “good” and “bad”...

If we only understood how magnificent we are

I'm learning that if we all could accept how beautiful and magnificent we are, our whole world changes. Just like me, God created all of us to be uniquely ourselves. He wants us to shake off all of the judgements of ourselves and others, criticisms of ourselves and...

A lesson in putting into practice what I’m learning

My day has started off with two challenges - both chances to put into practice what I've been learning and sharing out. Two different situations, work related, where miscommunication has caused a rift. Both happened within minutes of each other and both caused my heart...

What is A Course in Miracles All About

To me, A Course in Miracles is a guide on a way to live life in line with God and the Universe. It is based on the Bible and other spiritual themes and universal principles. It is a self-study program that helps heal one’s belief system from a system based on fear...