I thought I would post something simple today. I’ve been busy with life and it’s social and financial demands. However, this morning I finally was able to spend some deep quite time reading my lesson for day and the beginning of chapter 30 which gives us simple directions on how to start our day. I […]

I was speaking to a mentee of mine recently and the topic of special relationships came up. It got me thinking about how in our lives the closest people are often those we perceive as the most hurtful. How do we navigate that reality? Well the Course, and Islam actually, say we are really dreaming.n

I’m up late at night the evening before Ramadan and thinking this month I want to do one thing in the Course’s direction and one thing from my Muslim self. So here is what I came up with for myself and I’m just sharing as a model. Maybe you can find your own Course step

Ramadan is upon us. May we feel the breeze of it’s grace surrounding us in the air we breathe. Rituals from the Course’s perspective are not necessary, it’s a training of the mind in the end. Rituals that we do from guilt are not necessary either, it’s literally coming from our unconscious guilt and we

So I wrote a post a few weeks ago about my own deep struggles with forgiveness and lamenting the world I see (1). From that post I got a few responses asking me questions on how I forgive. So the song of prayer states that: To you who are in time a little while, prayer

Ok so I’ll start with the full quote here from lesson 326: And all Your attributes abide in me, because it is Your Will to have a Son so like his Cause that Cause and Its Effect are indistinguishable. (ACIM, W-326.1:5) As I read this yesterday and the day before I realized this is what

So in the Muslim world we put a lot of credence and value in the concept of the evil eye (Hasad). I think we have gotten it wrong though. If there is no one but ourselves out there we see and interact with, then their thoughts are ours, and their thoughts of jealousy are simply