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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
The Move Part II – The Hard Part
Once the contract was signed, and the cooling-off period ended, we launched into the next phase of our journey, the most difficult and potentially most stressful part of the process. Jerome is a planner who likes to organise in a way that is logical and meaningful to him. I consider myself to be very organised […]
The Move Part I – The Decision
Why would I want to document our move? Isn’t it something a large percentage of the population does with regularity? What would be special or different about my preparation to move, not just move homes but move states? I keep hearing a persistent little voice at the back of my head suggesting I do so. […]