Click here to listen to the Prayer for Today- Purity of Heart!

Wow! These Living A Course in Miracles classes are so great. I feel so invigorated by the combination of offering these classes and traveling to visit sacred sites.

Yesterday I had several hours at the Cathedral and Grotto here in Lourdes, at the site where Bernadette saw the figure of the Immaculate Conception. Bernadette proved what Jesus said, “Blessed are the pure of heart for they will see God.” We can be that pure now. We don’t have to wait.

There are people here from all over the world who have come to Lourdes for healing and inspiration – and many of them are recovering from broken hearts. Yesterday, I participated in two Catholic Masses – both in German – and it was very noticeable to me that i didn’t get bothered or tweaked at all. In the past, I would often become irritated by something in a Catholic Mass, I had such an aversion to religious ceremony.

I’m so grateful that I could participate and only be aware of the deep Love of God that was being expressed. The desire for healing, for inspiration and motivation was so palpable. At times the energetic felt dizzying it was so strong and intense.

Even in the rain, hundreds of people were sitting outside the Grotto and praying, lighting candles and bottling the sacred water from the spring. In many ways, it’s SO commercial, with all of the souvenir shops and the stands selling bottles and candles and yet, the innocence of Bernadette is in each person who comes here. That’s beautiful.

What I notice is that I am open hearted to it all. Where once I would have been so judgmental about religion, and the commercialism, and even the pilgrims who come here, now I am peaceful, inspired and uplifted. I feel so blessed.

My current happiness comes from putting the ego to the grindstone. Thought by thought I surrendered the cause of my suffering and discovered the Peace of mind that had always been hiding underneath my opinions and judgments. I’m finding Freedom in my heart and mind and for this I am forever grateful.

Yesterday’s class is available on replay at LivingACourseinMiracles.com and I have the Homework class today – our topic this week is Unbreak Your Heart. There’s no need to suffer – let’s find together true healing and transformation!

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Click here to listen to the Prayer for Today- Choosing Again!

How many times have I heard people share they’re confused about their life purpose? So often. I have come to believe that my life purpose is to share Love and be loving. My purpose is to remember my true identity. It’s a being not a doing – and we’ve heard that so many times, and yet the ego almost always rejects it because it doesn’t seem like enough – and yet it is everything. Being loving is everything.

When I’m being loving then I’m being truly helpful.
When I’m being loving then I’m being my true self and awakening happens.

The ego likes accomplishment in the world of effects. And yet the ego is never satisfied. There’s only a sense of momentary satisfaction because for a moment the ego feels validated.

There is a permanent validation available to us, and as far as I can tell it requires me to release any sense of satisfaction from the doing of things. Only being loving truly brings a sense of unremitting peace. How wonderful that this feeling is always available to us according to our willingness to be loving.

When we hold onto upset, energize upset and value being upset – through being controlling of others with the upset, there’s a great sense of loss that follows. We’ve lost the opportunity for healing and transformation and instead have chosen to feel more separate, more lacking, and more limited and we didn’t have to. We forgot.

And then we begin again. We choose again.

This week at LivingACourseinMiracles.com we have two free classes on how to Unbreak Your Heart – join us and determine to let the hurt be dissolved and resolved by the Higher Holy Spirit Self. The time for healing is now. Always now. The past is gone. Let the dead bury the dead and let’s really live in Love. Love out Loud!

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Click here to listen to the Prayer for Today- Choosing Healing!

I’ve just arrived in Lourdes, France and am opening myself to whatever is unfolding for me here. I’m not sure why I’ve been called here, but it felt very clear and strong and I’m grateful that I listened. Lourdes is a gorgeous city, surround by the Pyrenees mountains. It’s very lush and green and spring is springing!

Yesterday, walking around the city and settling in, I could sense the energy of the millions of people who have come here and will come here in search of healing and transformation of all kinds. It’s a city that has welcomed these pilgrims for more than 150 years. Wow!

I find it interesting that this weeks’ classes at LivingACourseinMiracles.com are entitled Unbreak Your Heart and our focus is on healing hurt and suffering. We’ve also got a full moon this week and that’s always a time of releasing. Wow again!

There’s clearly some Divine Atunement and Alignment happening and I’m looking forward to what it bring us! As I shared about in my Unity.FM online radio show yesterday (you can get all the downloads at iTunes) – we can move into the NOW moment and stop defending ourselves so that we can have deep and abiding healing, NOW. Let’s go for it!

If you haven’t already registered for the free classes at LivingACourseinMiracles.com please join us! We have 12 more classes – all free – including this week’s two classes.

Suffering is optional – let’s get our healing ON together!
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Click here to listen to the Prayer for Today- Clear Motivation!

When I need a powerful shot of inspiration I can turn to the words and life of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. It’s important to remember that Dr. King wasn’t a politician. He wasn’t a professor or a businessman. Martin Luther King, Jr. was a minister and he lived his life in the way and the teaching of his teacher, Jesus. Like his teacher before him he learned how to love through loving.

We all know the power of love, but how many of us are committed to loving as our daily practice of nonviolence? How many of us love as our mode of being in the world? If we’re not committed to love, what then are we committed to?

Dr. King spoke often about loving the enemy. I’m grateful every day for the direct benefits I enjoy because Dr. King loved those who appeared to be his enemy. Dr. King taught me that there will always come a time when my enemy, the one who has hurt me needs my help. Maybe they’ll need my prayers, a good job recommendation, some money, a kind word. The day will surely come when I have the opportunity to defeat my enemy, to embarrass, hurt or expose them. This is when I absolutely must find the love in my heart. This is when I most need to be inspired by those who went before me.

Dr. King didn’t teach about the oneness of all life the way that Earnest Holmes taught about it in the Science of Mind. But he lived it and understood it. Dr. King knew that any act of hatred was an act of self hatred. He knew that any act of violence against another would only lay himself low. And so he offered the other cheek. He offered himself in a new way. He met every act against him with love – not with tolerance, not with submission, but with a powerful force of love. A love we still feel today.

Like my teacher before me and his teacher before him, I am committed to loving. Join me and we walk together. Join me and we walk in the new heaven as one.

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Click here to listen to the Prayer for Today- Being of Heart Service!

A full and rich life cannot be had without giving service to others. It is in service to others that we acknowledge and appreciate our oneness with all life. There are so many different ways to live a life of service. I think we sometimes believe that in order for our service to be substantial it must also be highly visible and dramatic.

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. said, “Everybody can be great … because anybody can serve.” There are many ways to serve. I’ve come to see that being kind with everyone I meet is an extraordinary act of service. To treat people with love and kindness regardless of what they’re doing, or how they’re treating me is to serve God in the most direct way. While this may appear to be simple it can often be challenging and nearly impossible. Sometimes it is hard to even have a kind thought about someone who has treated me badly. Yet this is precisely when it is of the greatest service.

It is so easy to match a person’s anger with more anger. To remain in the loving heart, to demonstrate kindness in the face of anger is to turn the other cheek. I must ask myself, who is it that is being served when I’m able to remain loving and kind despite all kinds of provocation? Perhaps the person who is provoking me is giving me the opportunity to be of service. If my intention is to be more loving, can I find the answered prayer in the challenge to be of service?

Today I expand my idea of service to include choosing higher in moments of frustration. Today I look to be of service to the highest possibility of peace, of love, of my heart. Today I am open to the call to serve and to getting past any resistance. Today I am a true practitioner of nonviolence.

Affirmation:

I AM open hearted and loving!

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