The power of A Course in Miracles is its focus on hope and healing in a world of such division. It reminds us that no matter how much pain and suffering we may be personally experiencing or how dangerous we feel our world is right now, “vision already holds a replacement for everything” we think we are going through. It tells us that the power of God’s love is far greater than the hate of this world or of those in power, because God’s love pulls us all together in truth. A world of hate, attack, fear, and grievances cannot stand in the face of…

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From the perspective of A Course in Miracles, when we dwell in fear, we are deceiving ourselves about our reality. As we are told in the Course, if there could be an opposite to love, it would be fear; however, what is all-encompassing (love) can really have no opposite. Therefore, when we dwell in fear, we are denying not only our reality of love but our real power. We are living a lie, and the lie is costing us…

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Back in the early 90s, my husband Paul had the opportunity to sing at Carnegie Hall in New York City. I remember buying him a T-shirt at the time that, on one side, asked, “How do you get to Carnegie Hall?” On the other side, it said, “Practice, practice, practice.”

You probably guessed that’s what it said, and most of us would agree that’s what it takes to achieve things in this world. It takes practice because we don’t naturally have those skills unless we practice. But from the perspective of A Course in Miracles…

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Workbook lesson 74 from A Course in Miracles tells us, “The idea for today can be regarded as the central thought toward which all our exercises are directed. God’s is the only Will.” This is quite a bold statement, but when we realize what it really means, we see it can only bring us great comfort and peace…

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For many A Course in Miracles students, “I rest in God” is one of the most comforting lessons in the Course. It is not a lesson of denial but rather a lesson of escape from the world of illusions and an assertion of our real power that we have sought to throw away, but what God has kept inviolate for us. We can experience the power and peace of this lesson as we say…

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“I will there be light,” the thought in MDC’s worldwide prayer ministry for May, is a powerful lesson from A Course in Miracles to fill our minds with as the world goes through such darkness. It affirms our strength in the midst of whatever may be occurring in our lives or world. It reasserts the truth instead of wringing our hands over how powerless we have made ourselves. All the ego’s bullying cannot withstand the light of truth. It is time we reaffirm…

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“Give Him full charge…, and let Him tell you what needs to be done by you in His plan for your salvation.

What would You have me do?
Where would You have me go?
What would You have me say, and to whom?” – Lesson 71

My brother and I found A Course in Miracles in 1977, and in 1978, we started Miracle Distribution Center. We had no idea what the Center would be, but we did trust what the Course was offering to the world…

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One need only look around this world to feel a sense of worry, helplessness, suffering, and fear. But those fears and feelings have been here since time began! Just the other day, I was looking at something I wrote in 1999 about the Y2K worry. Remember that? It was the catastrophe that was speculated to happen when the computers we had come to depend on for everything couldn’t recognize the date change that would occur in the year 2000. Those who were “doom and gloomers” — they are always around — said that this event would be cataclysmic. I remember when the new year of 2000 came and went…

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Workbook lesson 222 from A Course in Miracles is truly a release from the prison of guilt that our minds seem to hold us in. It is an affirmation of the fact that there is no time, place, or experience in our lives where God Answer is absent. He is a part of all our daily activities, our very being. As the lesson states, “He is my Source of life, the life within, the air I breathe, the food by which I am sustained, the water which renews and cleanses me. He is my home, wherein I…

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Back in the 1960s, singer-songwriter Jackie DeShannon had a big hit with the song “Put a Little Love in Your Heart.” The 60s saw a lot of upheaval in our world, sort of like now. But then, as well as now, love is the antidote. DeShannon wrote the song “Put a Little Love in Your Heart” as an answer to the warring mentality of the Vietnam War, but she didn’t come up with the song’s most important words herself; her mom did!…

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