Archives of A Course in Miracles

Lesson 199 I am not a body.  I am free. Everything in the world points the realness of this body:  injury, illness, death, hunger, pain, etc.  The body can be the toughest concept to question on an inward journey.  Even thinking of the body as a mere concept can cause much alarm to one’s psyche. […]

Lesson 198 Only my condemnation injures me.   When we speak ill of or hurt another, we truly are only hurting ourselves.  There are many ways in which this happens. First, the strong feelings we have towards another, that move us to action, are only occurring in our own heads and bodies, wreaking havoc on our nervous […]

Lesson 197 It can be but my gratitude I earn. Who are you when no one is watching?  What do you become when life does not go your way?  What do you do when acts of service go unnoticed?  These are all questions that point us to areas where we may be wearing a “spiritual […]

Lesson 196 It can be but myself I crucify. In the process of liberation, we exercise our courage to investigate the array of “masks” that appear in our inner and outer world. As spiritual beings having a human experience this means we have privy to the wide range of experiences and emotions possible on the […]

Lesson 195 Love is the way I walk in gratitude. Gratitude is like grace; it “foreshadows Heaven” (ACIM Lesson 169 12:3).  It is the sweet recognition of our abundant gifts and the Oneness we share with our Creator.  If it were a gesture, it would be the “tipping of the hat,” acknowledging the perfection of […]

Lesson 194 I place the future in the Hands of God. Beyond trust is mystery. The act of “trusting” still takes a bit of action on our part.   However, abiding in mystery is the art of witnessing, in spaciousness, how Love shall decide to be shown; how the formless decides to take form. As we […]

Lesson 193 All things are lessons God would have me learn. It is no coincidence that everything in the Course seems to function around the singular number “one.”  The one way to Heaven.  The Oneness of all.  The one purpose.  The One Love.  The One Light.  The one Will, God’s.  And, now, the one lesson. […]

Lesson 192 I have a function God would have me fill. Once more we are brought back to the requirement for each and every journey, forgiveness.  The element of forgiveness is the compulsory essence of any journey, whether you come to find that through A Course in Miracles, A Course of Love, The Way of […]

Lesson 191 I am the holy Son of God Himself.   Lesson 191 brings to mind the words of Martin Luther King, Jr. from his “I Have a Dream,” speech delivered August 28, 1963.  Words originally spoken for the Civil Rights movement, however they ring true to all of us who are in search of […]

Lesson 190 I choose the joy of God instead of pain. On the human journey we often feel more like the mistake rather than the joyous miracle we are. We identify ourselves with the one who makes the wrong choices; the one who causes others to suffer; the one who goes about wrecking everything it […]