I love my job working for God, Inc.!  There’s not a day that goes by that I don’t feel gratified, fulfilled, shifted and impressed.

I’m impressed by how much can heal for us when we’re willing.  Truly willing.  And sometimes it takes a lot of attention to get there.

Most A Course in Miracles students say they’d like to have holy relationships, but they don’t allow it.  Really, that’s the main thing that’s required.  We have to have the willingness to allow the Higher Holy Spirit Self to transform our mind about the relationship, about ourselves and about the other people and about life.  

We fool ourselves and say we’re so willing, when, in fact, we’re not.  I used to see it in myself and I see it in many other people.  It looks like this:

We say we’d like to improve our relationships and have holy, healthy, happy, harmonious relationships, but then when there’s a conflict we think we’re right.  We fight to be right.  We lack patience.  We don’t go to Spirit for healing and clearing.  We tell our friends about how “it’s not our fault” and we make the other person responsible for how we feel and think.  As if they have the ability to make us think anything.  

Can we be willing and complaining at the same time?

Can we be willing and be blaming at the same time?

No, of course not.  This is the essence of all of our inner conflict.  

We say we’d like Peace, holy relationships, Prosperity, etc. and yet, we’re choosing something else.  

If people told the truth they’d say, “I could have Peace instead of this, but I’m so convinced of my stinking thinking, I’m just going to think those thoughts again and again like a hamster on a wheel going nowhere and wearing myself out.  It’s exhausting!”

We’ve all done it, and we can all stop doing it.  

But it does take a REAL commitment.  

When I started my deepest time of healing, I was falling into judgment and complaining every minute, again and again and again.  But practicing the mind-training of A Course in Miracles I was able to learn the value of going the other way.  I began to experience that I could have Peace for longer and longer stretches.  

I spent the past weekend at Bill Free and Lisa Natoli’s house and we love to talk about how God works for hours and hours and hours.  It never gets old or tired for us.  

Bill was talking about getting glimpses of truth.  I was saying how they’re so magnetic.  We begin to be able to really hold onto our aha’s and live them as truth.  Realizations of truth are deeply and profoundly healing because they shatter our attachment to the illusions we’ve lived inside of and that experience of Freedom, of liberation, is so nourishing we don’t want to go back to the prison of our false beliefs.

We have to cultivate the ability to value the truth above our perceptions and projections.  It’s not hard, but it requires great willingness because it requires attention and commitment.  It really does.  

One of my favorite things that I see year after year is the people who begin my Masterful Living Program in January (we start next week) and they are feeling so down, depressed, agitated, despairing of their relationships in the beginning and then it all turns around for them.  I’m talking about people who are experiencing things like this:

• children no longer speak to them 
• on the brink of divorce 
• no longer speak to their parents
• feel alone and very distant from their entire family
• having battles with their siblings

It’s gut wrenching and it can feel so unstoppable.  It can feel crushing.  It feels like we’re failing at life itself.  

Here’s what I love to witness and support – people decide that they’d really like to go for that holy relationship.  They begin to see how much they resist it.  They begin to really see how attached they are to their view of themselves, their loved ones, and their view of hopelessness and despair because they can’t see a healed future. 

Then they begin to do the ACIM practices we work with in Masterful Living.  They have a commitment, alongside their prayer partners and the whole community.  They ALLOW the support in.  They begin to remember to laugh.  They start to fundamentally change their mind.

They let the Higher Holy Spirit Self be in charge little by little and they see the tangible results.

It’s often very much like one of my all-time favorite quotes is from W.H. Murray.  The following passage is from the beginning of Murray’s The Scottish Himalayan Expedition (1951):

… but when I said that nothing had been done I erred in one important matter. We had definitely committed ourselves and were halfway out of our ruts. We had put down our passage money— booked a sailing to Bombay. This may sound too simple, but is great in consequence. Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiative (and creation), there is one elementary truth, the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred. A whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising in one’s favour all manner of unforeseen incidents and meetings and material assistance, which no man could have dreamt would have come his way. I learned a deep respect for one of Goethe’s couplets:

Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it.

Boldness has genius, power and magic in it!

That’s what I witness again and again (2024 is the 16th year of Masterful Living) and it shows up as the healing of the mind of the people in the Masterful Living Program.  They  release their attachments to the blocks to Love that they’re actively holding in their heart and mind and then Spirit is revealed.  The holiness that was there all along is revealed.  

Miracles of healing happen in their minds, and then the relationships shift and change.  Marriages are renewed, restored, revitalized.  The sibling wars end, truce is declared and new discoveries of Love are made.  Despair and depression dissolve.  

At the beginning of the year when people tell me they really don’t like themselves or someone else, when there’s a strong sense of hatred, victimhood, blame, resentment – it’s something I know quite a lot about from my own experience and from 23 years as a spiritual counselor.  I find it remarkable how quickly these things turn around and transform when people are willing to do the inner work.  

I can think of someone who deeply disliked their stepdaughter.  And many who deeply mistrusted and disliked their daughter-in-law, their son-in-law, their mother-in-law, their spouse.  Situations that seemed like betrayal and adultery.  Where there was a deep dislike and anger – and all of it gets healed in a miraculous way for those who are willing.

 … the moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred. 

In the aftermath of the healing, there’s such a flow of Love that it’s impossible for me not to be moved by it.  These are the things that make me weep with gratitude that Love is our healer.  It works.  Love is so profoundly healing.  God works in our lives.  God’s infinite grace is alive in our hearts!

I am so completely and fully grateful for my life and what I get to participate in.  I cannot imagine anything better.

When we apply Love to our difficulties they have to heal.  This is what I call “proving God works in your life.”  When we prove it, then we know it, and there’s no going back from that.  It’s the end of complaining because we remember that we have the power.  It’s not outside of us and it’s not against us.  It’s what we are.  

Love is what we are.  And remembering that through demonstrating it is the great healer of our life.  

Our mind is the mind of God.  

Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it.

Boldness has genius, power and magic in it!

Be bold.  

Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. 

Let’s not be ineffective anymore.  Let’s live in our true identity AS the Love of God.  Let’s be that fulcrum point of healing in all of our relationships.

Let’s always remember:  the moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves too.

Yes, because we’re one with all, united and undivided, all of life supports us.  EVERYTHING works together for our good.

One Week Left to Register! If you feel called, come join us in 2024 for the best year of your life – the year that changes EVERYTHING, if you’re willing.  Let’s do it together. If you’d like to find out what others are saying about this powerful community please click here to learn more about Masterful Living now.

If you’re willing, I’m willing. If this is right for you, you WILL know it.  In my year-long Masterful Living Course, a number of people have healed their depression gone off anti-depressants, let go of old hurts and sadness that has troubled them for many years.  They have accomplished what they never believed they could do, because they gave themselves a chance, and they didn’t give up.  You can do it, too.

If you ever have any questions about any of our programs, you can book an exploratory call with one of the spiritual counselors and let them answer all your questions.  They can even help you prioritize your goals for the year!  Click here now to book an exploratory call.

Information isn’t healing.  

Spiritual practice is healing.

Follow your intuition – let yourself be guided by Spirit to join us or not.

I am grateful for this path we’re on and our ability to take the next healing step upon it!

Are you unsure about whether my year-long Masterful Living 2024 is right for you right now?  You can book an exploratory call with one of the spiritual counselors and let them answer all your questions.  Click here now to book an exploratory call.

LATEST PODCAST EPISODE!  The new episode of my podcast’s topic is Claim Your Holy Relationship Now. We can all have holy relationships – and they’re heavenly! Just as we’re entitled to miracles, we’re entitled to holy relationships. In this week’s episode, I share how to achieve the holy relationship. It’s not elusive. It’s not difficult, in fact, it’s much easier than having ego-based special relationships.