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Comment by Joe Wolfe on May 10, 2013 at 6:46pm

Comment by Joe Wolfe on August 25, 2012 at 8:50am

From Gary & Cindy Renard:

http://www.fearlessbooks.com/Meditations.html

Comment by Trevor Sullivan on May 23, 2012 at 9:38pm

Wednesday’s meeting was a great success so much so it was decided that we will meet every Wednesday morning to listen to Veronica’s teaching and her directed meditations. It was also decided that the conference room will be open every weekday morning 8:30 PST that is 11:30 am EST for half an hour. The participants will join together sharing their experiences with the study of a course in Miracles. The purpose is to lift each other up and confirm them in the resolve to a 100% commitment to stay the course. 

In these times there is a need to keep a close group relationship. This is fostered by not only in writing text and corresponding via the internet but by a person to person communication. We listen to each other with the heart and we feel each other’s burdens. When one is ‘down’ the others are there to help. The Course is often dubbed as a personal ‘do it yourself’ path – But how very wrong this concept is: “The ark of peace is entered two by two…  “Without forgiveness the atonement is impossible. This implies we are to learn to forgive, and that means learning it from our brothers. 

You are all welcome to join us – come test it out, the result is waiting your test. It will be a truly rewarding and exhilarating experience. 

Dial-in: 1-712-432-3100

Conference code: 484888

The Conference will open every week day for half hour starting at 8:30 am PST, that is, 11:30 am EST. 

Every Wednesday Veronica teaches from her vast experience of 25 years of practice.  

Comment by Wende Wylie on May 6, 2012 at 2:53pm

Thanks, Joe. I like Mary's message. Hugs.

Comment by Joe Wolfe on May 6, 2012 at 9:29am

Author Mary Gerard and her partner John from A Course in Miracles group in St. Louis MO., shared this with me: http://PauseForInspiration.org

 

Comment by Lepa Arsenieva on April 22, 2012 at 8:28pm

Jay, thank you!

I remembered I had something about the Centering Prayer and  than I went to my resorces about the Christian tradition.

My favourite one is "The Practice of the Presence of God" by Brother Lawrence of the Resurrection.  He says: "The shortest path to God is by a continual exercise of love, while doing all things for the love of God..."  "Neither skill nor knowledge is needed to go to God but only a heart determined to devote itself to Him, for Him, and to love Him only."

Another one is "Self-Abandonment to Divine Providence" by Jean-Pierre de Causade who defines the state of surrender: "A state in which one discovers how to belong wholly to God through the complete and total assignment of all rights over oneself - over one's speech, actions, thoughts and bearing.. " "And so we leave God to act in everything, reserving for ourselves only love and obedience to the present moment."

You can find these books on www.ccel.org for free. 

We need to pray unceasingly and I've got other books on this prayer which are from the Christian Ortodox tradition, but unfortunately my favourite one is not translated in English. 

Comment by Corinne Zupko on April 22, 2012 at 4:37pm

Jay, Wende - you both said it beautifully!!  The only way I can get quiet is to not resist anything. Mindfulness has really helped me with this. ♥

Jay, I'm not sure what lesson you're thinking of, but when I'm looking for a quote, I'll go to one of the online searchable ACIM editions (the links are above under ACIM online) and plug in some key words to see what I come up with.  Let us know if you find it! :)

Comment by Periquita Peres on April 22, 2012 at 8:52am

Jay, very beautiful as you state it...  thank you.  Trying to identify a specific Lesson as you want is hard, because ACIM lessons are all so tightly woven, but maybe  Lesson 254 -Let every voice but God's be still in me?

Also I feel that for each of us it might be a little different, since we can only look at things from our perspective, very limited... For example, for me today, your words would bring me to center around the "judging nothing".   

 

Comment by Patri on April 22, 2012 at 7:10am

Jay, this is amazing.

Comment by Jay Williams on April 21, 2012 at 11:34pm

You guys are right on it. I've been doing contemplative (centering) prayer for about a year now, and it has really worked for me. Fr. Thomas Keating says that one year of centering is like ten years in a monastery, and recently it has become clear why: That the act of allowing, not resisting your thoughts and then letting them go is the very act of forgiveness. When we forgive, we don't really forgive people or situations, injuries or offenses, we forgive our judgments of them. As our thoughts are allowed and then recognized and released without judgment, actual forgiveness is repeated over and over in the only place where it can really happen. Then a most amazing and wonderful thing begins to happen: we do it automatically, before the thought comes--it is forgiven. Somebody help me. Which lesson is that? When I read it something in my head went "boing!"

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