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Turning 70
A very special 70th birthday celebration. This is in effect a love story about my daughters’ love for their mother. I am truly blessed.
Weathering the Weather in Queensland
We moved to Queensland. You know, the place where it’s ‘beautiful one day, perfect the next’. For one year, while we searched for a house to buy and then moved into our new home, we enjoyed the sunshine and warmth of the summer and the cooler but un-Melbournelike weather in the winter. We ate out […]
Lesson 155: I will step back and let him lead the way
I often feel like a fraud when I am with people who are either conventionally religious or have no spiritual leanings. In other words, ‘normal’ people who believe this world is real and are caught up in all aspects of surviving and succeeding in the world. Many believe that God made the world and that […]
Here I Am, Lord
The day before the Course started coming through to scribe Helen Schucman, Jesus gave co-scribe Bill Thetford a practice, with specific instructions on how to quiet his mind using a simple prayer from the Old Testament: Here I am, Lord. This article by Robert Perry describes the background and implications of this special guidance from Jesus.1 The guidance was […]
Workbook Lesson 34: I Could See Peace Instead of This
I wake up and remember that Donald Trump is now the President of the United States. I remember the hopes of so many millions of Americans and many more of us outside of America, up to a couple of months ago: the hope that somehow, miraculously, Americans would see fit to appoint a highly qualified, […]
Christmas
It is Christmas morning. I indulge the yearly ritual of playing five Christmas CD’s on spiral, which means sometimes the same song by the same artist coming up twice in succession. Hearing the well loved songs of my childhood mixed in with some newer ones such as Mariah Carey’s All I Want for Christmas is […]
The Move Part IV – A New Beginning
I didn’t cry when I left my home of 22 years in Melbourne, but I cried when I left the apartment in Runaway Bay. This beautiful place which we called home for more than eight months, came to represent a peaceful oasis, a lovely transition period in our move. It was comfortable, in a beautiful […]
A Water Leak and A Course in Miracles
My intent as a serious student of A Course in Miracles is to apply Course teachings to my life in general, and more especially when life throws curveballs at me. I walked into the ensuite early one morning some weeks ago, on my way to the toilet, and stepped in water.
I am as God created me
I am as God created me. This lesson is so important that it is repeated three times (Lessons 94, 110 and 162 in the Workbook). What does it mean to me, as a student of A Course in Miracles of more than seven years? It means that I haven’t changed anything about the me that […]