The Move Part III: The Search For Our New Home
Leaving Melbourne When we drove away from our home of 22 years we did not immediately drive to Queensland. We stayed at my sister Preethi’s home for a few weeks, during which time Jerome travelled to Bangkok with a mate for some well-earned R and R and I spent time with Preethi and Christopher and […]
The Joy of God
Not long after I became a student of A Course in Miracles, as I progressed through the Text and then the Workbook, a theme, amongst the many themes in the Course, kept cropping up and catching my attention. I am referring to joy. The Course clearly states that God is joy, that he created me […]
Unsung musician heroes
I feel envious when I see someone sit down at a piano or keyboard, or pick up a guitar and start playing effortlessly. One of my longings from the time I was a child, was to play the piano. I took lessons on and off as a young adult, but never quite got past playing […]
The Holy Spirit’s Curriculum
I came across a piece of writing from a year ago which I want to share. My Course practice today, based on the review of Chapter 12, is: Let me give my undivided attention to the Holy Spirit’s curriculum and become an excellent learner and teacher of love. What is the Holy Spirit’s curriculum? For […]
Belief
I have been at both ends of the spectrum; well, maybe not quite the ends, but as far away from each other that it doesn’t matter. By this I mean I have been a believer and then not-quite-a-believer. I was raised a Christian, in the Methodist church, until my mother encouraged us to convert to […]
My Chosen Path
In 2017 the Complete and Annotated (CE) Edition of the Course was published by the Circle of Atonement. The Circle’s founder Robert Perry had worked on this edition for ten years, alongside Greg Mackie, using Helen Schucman’s original notes and a significant amount of material that had been progressively edited out and was not included […]
Deafness Is Not a Flaw
I read an article in The Guardian today that prompted this post. Sarah Marsh writes about her experiences as a deaf person, having worn hearing aids since she was a toddler due to genetically acquired hearing loss. She talks about how she had always thought of her deafness as a flaw until she met a […]
Vesak – Festival of Light
I am ready and impatient. My older sisters are taking their time getting ready. It’s starting to get dark – the in-between time in the tropics where dusk is almost non-existent and the sunlight is banished by darkness in a matter of half an hour. I can’t wait to head out and mingle with the […]
The Quest for Joy
What is joy? The Cambridge Dictionary describes it as ‘great happiness’ and the Merriam-Webster Dictionary as ‘the emotion evoked by well-being, success, good fortune or the prospect of possessing what one desires”. Joy and happiness appear to be synonymous in this world where joy, for the most part, is a fleeting phenomenon experienced when we […]
The Crippled Boy and the Makeshift Drumset
The drum set consisted of saucepan covers for cymbals, upturned pans, and an assortment of things that made sounds. And a set of drumsticks. The boy was maybe 14. The set-up was in the sitting room. As you walked towards the house you would hear music, loud music, loud instrumental music. The Shadows were the […]