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Love is a commonly used word, so frequently do we hear it that it’s become both under valued and over valued.  Over valued in it’s fickleness and under valued for the unexamined depth of what it really means.  I’ve sought to discover its true meaning.  It’s been a life long question and the answers change [...]

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Image Locale Apparently all that deep inner work happened rather quickly.  It is within hours of my last blog post, Feel the Fear, that I updated a group of Internet gal pals on my progress.  I’ll quote that directly below and then add to it. “Dawn came to Bethie today.  First it started with it’s [...]

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Image Locale I’ve gone back to finding my religion again, loosely translated that means I am believing something about my precious oldest daughter that is painful for me to believe.  Lately, every day I pick up ACIM and let a page fall open and speak to me. Today it opened to Lesson 54.  All ACIM [...]

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Image by Rassouli As events unfolded through the latter part of last month, I found myself blowing into my little God Whistle asking for strength.  It was a February of change and challenges that shook me more than anything had for quite some time.  The strength did come and right beside it flowed wisdom and [...]

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Image Locale Imagine a world where “not one illusion is accorded faith” If it isn’t the voice of strength, if it isn’t the voice of love, if it isn’t the voice of confidence, it is the voice of illusion. Imagine according your faith only to the voice of strength, love and confidence. Imagine withdrawing your [...]

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Image Locale This world is full of miracles. They stand in shining silence next to every dream of pain and suffering. They are the dream’s alternative, the choice to be the dreamer, rather than deny the active role in making up the dream. The body is released because the mind acknowledges ‘this is not done [...]

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This is my favorite movie of all time.  As the years have passed since I first watched it as a child, I see that its meaning is multi-layered. Home is where Dorothy wants to return and finds that she always had that power to get back home via the ruby slippers. Yet, when she wakes [...]

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Image Locale Simply do this: Be still, and lay aside all thoughts of what you are and what God is; all concepts you have learned about the world; all images you hold about yourself. Empty your mind of everything it thinks is either true or false, or good or bad, of every thought it judges [...]

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We can let our lives be directed by the same force that makes flowers grow.  {…} To trust in the force that moves the universe is faith. Faith isn’t blind it’s visionary. Faith is believing that the universe is on our side, and that the universe knows what it’s doing. Faith is a psychological awareness [...]

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{“Surrendering” by Freydoon Rassouli} “You cannot wake yourself. You can let yourself be awakened.” ~A Course in Miracles I like the emphasis here on letting.  Not forcing but allowing. And then an interesting synonym for “let” is: sit still for.  This is to suggest that to let something come about requires no action on our [...]

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