Sharing Experiences of Practical Application of A Course in Miracles
A YEAR OF INNER PEACE ~
February's Theme
What Love Is
“No course whose purpose is to teach you to remember what
you really are could fail to emphasize that there can never
be a difference in what you really are and what love is.
W-127.4:1
Prayer for the Month
Lesson 267 – My heart is beating in the peace of God.
Surrounding me is all the life that God created in His Love. It calls to me in every heartbeat and in every breath; in every action and in every thought. Peace fills my heart, and floods my body with the purpose of forgiveness. Now my mind is healed, and all I need to save the world is given me. Each heartbeat brings me peace; each breath infuses me with strength. I am a messenger of God, directed by His Voice, sustained by Him in love, and held forever quiet and at peace within His loving Arms. Each heartbeat calls His Name, and every one is answered by His Voice, assuring me I am at home in Him.
Let me attend Your Answer, not my own. Father, my heart is beating in the peace the Heart of Love created. It is there and only there that I can be at home.
READINGS FOR FEBRUARY'S THEME
For use in the in-person study in Madison, WI , Tuesday ACIM Gather Radio Show
and the Tuesday Drop-in Phone/Skype Study
Week of:
2/5/12 - Month's Prayer Lesson: Workbook for Students, Lesson 267 – My heart is beating in the peace of God. (p.429), Text, Introduction (p.1) Paragraph 6 from Text, Chapter XI. Christmas as the End of Sacrifice (p.327), Workbook for Students, Lesson 127 – There is no love but God's. (p.230)
2/12/12 – Text, Chapter 7, VI. From Vigilance to Peace (p.123)
2/19/12 – Text, Chapter 29, I. The Closing of the Gap (p.606)
2/26/12 – Text, Chapter 13, X. Release from Guilt (p.262)
Additional Readings: Text, Chapter 16, IV. The Illusion and the Reality of Love (p.337), Chapter 16, V. The Choice for Completion (p.341), Chapter 24, I. Specialness as a Substitute for Love (p.499), Workbook for Students, Lesson 46 – God is the Love in which I forgive. (p.73)
Page Numbers correspond to Foundation of Inner Peace 2nd or 3rd Editions of A Course in Miracles
WITH REV. DEB PHELPS
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1/31/12 - The Little Hindrance This week's Readings: |
Rev. Deb Phelps and co-host MiraclesOne Ministerial Student, Gayle Bartlett share their insights and personal experiences in relation to this week's readings. | |
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1/24/12 - Recognizing the Spirit This week's Readings: |
Rev. Deb Phelps and co-host MiraclesOne Ministerial Student, Gayle Bartlett share their insights and personal experiences in relation to this week's readings. | |
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1/10/12 - Branching of the Road This week's Readings: |
Rev. Deb Phelps and co-host MiraclesOne Ministerial Student, Gayle Bartlett share their insights and personal experiences in relation to this week's readings. | |
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1/3/12 - Choose Once Again With MiraclesOne From our Tuesday ACIM Gather Radio Show 2012 - Year of Inner Peace January's Theme - Choose Once Again This week's Readings: Prayer of the Month: Lesson 241 - This holy instant is salvation come. Text, Chapter 31, VIII. Choose Once Again |
Rev. Deb Phelps and co-host MiraclesOne Ministerial Student, Gayle Bartlett share their insights and personal experiences in relation to this week's readings. |
| Available in Bookstore and in our Members' Library | 12/27/11 - Into His Presence Reading: Workbook for Students, Lesson 157 - Into His Presence would I enter now. Text, Chapter 8, Section III. The Holy Encounter |
Rev. Deb and co-host MiraclesOne Ministerial Student, Gayle Bartlett share their insights and personal experiences in relation to this week's readings. |
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12/20/11 - From Darkness to Light Reading: Text, Chapter 11, Section III. From Darkness to Light |
Rev. Deb and co-host MiraclesOne Ministerial Student, Gayle Bartlett share their insights and personal experiences in relation to this week's readings. |
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12/6/11 - Light of Joy - December's Theme This week's Readings:
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Rev. Deb, Rev. Paul and co-host MiraclesOne Ministerial Student, Gayle Bartlett share their insights and personal experiences in relation to this week's readings. |
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11/29/11 - Love is the Way I Walk in Gratitude With Rev. Deb Phelps and Gayle Bartlett Closing Our Theme for November: Love is the Way I Walk in Gratitude This week's Readings: Prayer of the Month: Lesson 293 - All fear is past and only love is here. Workbook for Students, Lesson 195 - Love is the way I walk in gratitude. |
- Who is the enemy? - Gratitude for ALL of our brothers (politicians, celebrities, etc.) - Bless EVERY one - Laugh and experience joy in gratitude and appreciation - Appreciation heals any relationship |
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11/8/11 - It Can Be But My Gratitude With Rev. Deb Phelps and Gayle Bartlett
Lesson 293 - All fear is past and only love is here.
Lesson 197 - It can be but my gratitude I earn. |
- Accepting Others Where They Are
Music by Scott Kalechstein
Karen Drucker |
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11/1/11 - The End of Illusions
Text, Chapter 16, VII. The End of Illusions |
- Special Relationships
Music by Pamela Galadriel |
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10/26/11 - Grandeur vs. Grandiosity With Rev. Deb Phelps
Text, Chapter 9, Section VIII. Grandeur vs. Grandiosity |
Rev. Deb records a replacement session for ACIM Gather as she could not broadcast for Tuesday's show. She shares on this week's reading.
Music by Donna Marie Cary |
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10/18/11 - Specialness as a Substitute for Love
Text, Chapter 24. I. Specialness as a Substitute for Love |
- Motivation for learning this Course - Willingness - Hidden Warriors and Hidden Beliefs - Your Brother is Your Friend - No Differences - A Commonalities Practice
Music by The Beatles |
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10/11/11 - Bringing Fantasy to Truth With Rev. Deb Phelps and Gayle Bartlett
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Rev. Deb and co-host MiraclesOne Ministerial Student, Gayle Bartlett share their insights and personal experiences in relation to this week's reading: - Opening Meditation with the first 10 Workbook Lessons - The Past Intruding on the Present - Forgiveness - Give all to One Teacher Music by Donna Marie Cary |
| Available in Bookstore and in our Members' Library | 10/4/11 - Illusion and the World Month's Prayer Lesson: Lesson 272 - How can illusions satisfy God's Son? Workbook for Students, 3. What is the World? Workbook for Students, Lesson 140 – Only salvation can be said to cure.
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Rev. Deb, Gayle and Rev. Paul share: - We make the Haunted House and then we're afraid of it! - What is the illusory thought that I am cherishing in my mind? - Let Go! - Rev Deb and Gayle share personal examples - Rev. Paul joins in and share some of his personal experiences occurring while on deployment in Iraq Music by Styx and Donna Marie Cary |
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9/27/11 - Simplicity of Salvation
The Reading: Text, Chapter 31, Section I. The Simplicity of Salvation |
Rev. Deb and Gayle share:
Music by Ramon York and Thomas Dunn |
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9/20/11 - Justice Returned to Love With Rev. Deb Phelps |
Rev. Deb shares: - Willingness to Open Eyes to See Innocence - Choosing Peace or Chopping Peace? - No One to Blame, It was an Accident, a Mistake - Let Love Decide - Love One Another as I have Loved You Music by Donna Marie Cary and Sean Mulcahy |
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9/13/11 - Innocent, Holy & Free AND More!
Theme for September: Innocent, Holy & Free |
Rev. Deb shares: - Laugh! Don't Take Yourself So Seriously/Conversation with Judy Skutch Whitson - Warped Reality Bubble from Star Trek: The Next Generation - The Officer who Presented "Speeding Ticket of Peace" - The Breakdown of the Alternator or Can I Recharge My Power? - Spirit, am I. I am Holy, Holy, Holy These studies integrate the concepts with Practical Application of A Course in Miracles. Music by Karen Drucker |
SOME THOUGHTS FOR OUR YEAR OF INNER PEACE ~
We used the following as part of two presentations called "Illumination Through Silence" back in 2005. We started the presentation much as is described in the brief excerpt below, that is as Morrie did in his classroom, in absolute silence. In our observations in those 5 whole silent minutes, (EDIT - Actually I now believe it was 10 minutes!) we witnessed spiritual people and ACIM ministers become increasingly agitated by the silence. Some did simply meditate with eyes closed, yet others talked, flipped angrily through magazines and the like. There was an uncomfortability that was present in the air. Why DOES silence make us so uncomfortable? Why do we feel we need to fill in the gaps?
We can sit in stillness in a quiet room all alone, yet where is the stillness when we are in a traffic jam? Dealing with screaming kids? Becoming anxious while in a conversation with someone? The practice of stillness can be that at first, taking the time to sit down, get comfortable and quiet the mind. Then we move from that structure and into carrying it with us everywhere we go. We do not want the structure to become rigid. We want to be free, we want to be connected with Holy Spirit 24/7. Wherever I go, there I am, and I am with the peace within.
The Value of Silence by Rabbi Boruch Leff
Thoughts on the book “Tuesdays with Morrie” by Mitch Albom
Mitch describes a college experience with Morrie:
"He enters the classroom, sits down, doesn't say anything. He looks at us, we look at him. At first, there are a few giggles, but Morrie only shrugs, and eventually a deep silence falls and we begin noticing the smallest sounds, the radiator humming in the corner of the room, the nasal breathing of one of the students. Some of us are agitated. When is he going to say something? We squirm, check our watches. A few students look out the window, trying to be above it all. This goes on for a good fifteen minutes, before Morrie breaks in with a whisper. 'What's happening here?' he asks. And slowly a discussion begin -- as Morrie has wanted all along -- about the effect of silence on human relations. Why are we embarrassed by silence? What comfort do we find in all the noise?"
The question got me thinking. Noise lets us ignore our most difficult struggle and our most precious possession: our true and profound selves. Very often, it is painful to face one's true inner core. It is hard to be absolutely honest with oneself. Shakespeare writes in Hamlet, "This above all: to thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day," but we often fail in this regard. We fool ourselves, and the noise and distractions of life help us in this effort. Constant external stimuli and occurrences allow us to avoid dealing with our inner being.
When we're alone in the car, do we immediately reach for the radio? Is it any wonder that talk radio is such a booming international business? We are so afraid of silence, so fearful of the opportunity to be with ourselves and penetrate our inner world.
Be at Peace,
Rev. Deb Phelps
Sharing Experiences of Practical Application of A Course in Miracles
