Yesterday was the solstice and I rejoice to know that every day for the next six months there will be more and more sunlight. YAY! It means so much when you’re as far north and down east as I am here on Deer Isle, Maine.

You know what’s great? When I have experiences that challenge me, where it feels like things are going wrong, and I don’t have to make it into something unpleasant. I can just go with what’s occurring and make the best of it. That’s evidence of real healing, because, for a long LONG time, I didn’t have that capacity.

I’ve been talking with many folks in my Masterful Living Program this year and we’re looking at the past year/years to see what’s changed and how much our lives have improved. One of the things that we recognize that we have in common is we all get the same lessons, and the same opportunities again and again and again.

Because I counsel so many people, I’m well aware that we’re all pretty much the same:

The conclusion we draw is that the reason we’re repeating the same lesson again and again is because we’re stupid. We’re idiots, morons and fools and we “never learn,” and on and on. Pretty much, we all draw the same conclusion.

These things aren’t true.
We’re not stupid.

We’re resistant.
We’re reluctant.
And that’s different than stupid.

I used to feel hopeless and helpless because of the meaning I made of the constant mistakes and errors.

Like the world we live in, I couldn’t feel better unless I blamed someone, and I was the one to blame. Of course, others took some pretty ferocious heat too. Often, I just felt like I wanted to burn everything down.

My sense of helplessness led me to feel destructive, self-destructive, blaming and shaming and then I’d just spiral down into a puddle of:

“I am fundamentally bad and not good.”

This darkest time of the year (here in the U.S.) was the worst time for me. I didn’t get depressed so much as I’d just get angry. A constant aggressive anger.

When I learned the power of forgiveness, it saved me. It absolutely truly saved me.

And that’s why when I found A Course in Miracles, which is the only spiritual teaching I’ve seen (besides the mystical teachings of the Ascended Masters of St. Germain and Jesus and that group) that is focused around forgiveness.

Forgiveness IS the way out.

In my programs we focus on forgiveness in a particular way that we’ve found to be super effective at quickly healing and clearing and releasing the past hurts and resentment. I call it TRUE forgiveness.

Forgiveness clears the reluctance and resistance.
Why? Because it erases the root cause of it.

Without true forgiveness we’ll never fully feel free,
and we won’t fulfill our destiny.

Yesterday, I had a litany of things that didn’t go well. Nothing bad happened it was all just things that took hours and hours and none were expected, and it’s all on a weekend when I already have so much to do, getting ready to go to New Jersey for Christmas.

I’m not a victim. It’s just stuff that’s happening.

On one hand, I felt more love for my dog, Bodhi, who I had to track and chase because she ran off and I couldn’t find her on a cold snowy day, but I get that she and I are learning how to walk together off leash and not have her leave me. She’s doing better and better, but not perfect and that’s life.

The HOURS of time spent on the phone with apple support because the new update freaked my phone out, and nobody could figure it out until finally we did, were tedious largely because I had to stand with a corded phone held to my head because it had no speaker and for 2 hours that’s what was required. I did speak up and say to the apple support guy that I thought apple could give me something for the hours of inconvenience – and they did – some new AirPods will be coming to me for free. I’d rather have my time back but that’s something.

The other day, I dropped my phone when I was out walking with Bodhi, on the dirt trail where we were walking and it cracked on the back even though it was in a case. For a while the flashlight didn’t work. And then it did. Now it works fine. I’ve dropped it a hundred times, but this time it cracked. It didn’t bother me. That’s my victory.

What has helped me is that I do not know what anything is for!!!! That’s ACIM Lesson #25 (my explanation points added)

Not knowing, not giving it meaning is my way out of hell and I have taken it so many times, hell is a distant memory and not a place I dwell. Phew!

And this is the great relief that those who practice with us in Masterful Living.

Over the course of the year we can really make MAJOR headway in dissolving the resistance and finding the sense of Love and mastery that is so life-changing – when we’re willing.

When we don’t judge, and condemn then there’s nothing to forgive.

I was nice to all of the tech support folks I spoke to, of course, and they were nice to me. Nothing to forgive.

Healing the mental patterns of separation, lack and limitation are a major part of what my year-long Masterful Living Program is all about. It’s about feeling more connected with Spirit ALL of the time and reducing the sense of separation from Spirit means reducing fear, pain and suffering of so many types: physical, emotional and mental. Fear affects our body, emotions and our mental stability – we all know that. If you’d like to live with a sense of trust and faith, Masterful Living might be for you! You’ll get my New Year Reboot Workshop as a bonus!

NEW ACIM PODCAST EPISODE: my topic is Erase Fear and Worry with ACIM. Fear can grip us and over take us.  Worry confuses the mind and that causes so many mistakes and produces a stronger belief in problems.  In this episode, I share how to apply the teachings of ACIM to reduce and eliminate fear and worry in practical ways – especially in our relationships.  We’re not victims of the world, we’re the Light of the world!

May your day feel blessed and let’s release the patterns of the past and put that full moon to work for us!