Tag: joy
member name: Ann Weaver Hart
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August 15, 2007 08:56 AM EDT --
This is the first of a series of articles about A Course in Miracles. In it, I describe the road that led to my reading ACIM.
I've been a seeker all of my life. Some of my earliest memories . . .
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August 15, 2007 09:51 AM EDT --
A Course in Miracles is divided into several sections. The section on which these articles focus is the "Workbook for Students." It contains 365 lessons, one for each day of the year.
A few . . .
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August 17, 2007 09:27 AM EDT --
This is the third in a series of articles about A Course in Miracles.
Years ago, a friend asked me "Where is God?"
I looked around the room in confusion. I couldn't put a "where" . . .
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August 19, 2007 01:05 PM EDT --
This is the fourth of a series of articles about A Course in Miracles.
"Why am I here?" The question is ancient and universal. Religions seek to answer it with varying degrees of success. ACIM . . .
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April 23, 2007 11:21 AM EDT --
Note to all: I am not proselytizing. This is my path. It is how I hope to join you as a member of the human race, which, for me at least, seems to be a hard club to join sometimes.
I'm about 120 . . .
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April 28, 2007 01:09 PM EDT --
Before I go back to my oil and ges wells, I thought I'd share a slice of life with you:
The breeze was warm and gentle
when I hung the red sheets on the line.
You can see them a block away, . . .
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May 19, 2007 05:07 PM EDT --
Geez. I'm tempted to give you five qualities about which I am positive, but here goes.
1. I'm loyal. It's pretty simple, I don't turn my back on people, friends, neighbors, family. Couldn't . . .
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January 08, 2008 11:15 AM EST --
The Mother of my dear husband has come to live with us. I highly recommend such an arrangement for anyone actively seeking spiritual growth.
If that sounds like a sideways slam at my mother-in-law, . . .
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October 27, 2007 03:02 PM EDT --
My grown daughter went out last night ot a Halloween party. We heard her come in about bedtime, but she went back out. This morning, my car was gone and I needed it, so I asked her dad to call her, because . . .
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May 18, 2007 05:13 PM EDT --
This gorgeous young man just came strutting up into my yard.
He brought along a lady friend, but I don't mind. He really thinks he's something, and I have to agree.
I'm pleased he stopped . . .
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June 21, 2007 01:09 PM EDT --
In "Murphy's Rule for Old Houses" I expounded on the ins and outs of fixing up an elderly dwelling, discussing in depth the lengths to which one must go to "keep the ship afloat" . . .
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June 22, 2007 11:30 AM EDT --
Here are five truly bad ideas guaranteed to make life hell:
1. God will only love me if I am good/perfect.
2. God will punish me if I am not good/perfect.
I call these two ideas "The Heresy . . .
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September 10, 2007 09:12 AM EDT --
Even as I sit in meditation, the busy-ness of my life crowds in to distract me. It is hard to believe peace is possible. Success, or what we come to call success, depends on what we accomplish or so we . . .
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April 13, 2008 01:16 AM EDT --
My reading last week in A Course in Miracles was Lesson 335 in the workbook or students: "I choose to see my borther's sinlessness." I often tend to gloss over the titles and head for the . . .
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May 13, 2007 02:55 PM EDT --
It seems to be a fundamental truth for me that the more I attach to a particular outcome of a situation, the less likely it is to turn out the way I want it to. Conversely, the less attached I am to seeing . . .
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June 10, 2007 03:52 PM EDT --
I have had a teenager in my home for more than 12 years. Sometimes it feels like it must be karmic retribution for having been a Nazi war criminal in a previous life. Other times, I know I'll miss . . .
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June 13, 2007 11:23 AM EDT --
No one who knows me could think I support the war in Iraq. That would make me a peacemaker, right? Hardly.
They say charity begins at home.
So does peace.
When the bible talks about beating swords . . .
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July 14, 2007 11:17 AM EDT --
Yeah. God has a sense of humor. Or is that "humour," as in water? Believe it or not, it is raining again. Remember, wet tin is slippery. Remember also, the roof is not finished, despite boyfriend . . .
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July 29, 2007 06:07 PM EDT --
The word maze doesn't even begin to describe Guanajuato.
We got a map when we got here, first thing, figuring that the local people must tire of telling people where the Centro or the Mercado . . .
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December 20, 2007 01:04 AM EST --
Or if you do, buy it in July, and give it on Christmas.
Everybody is busy this time of year. Things seemed like they were on the right track. And then everything went retrograde in squares, as they . . .
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