Let me share a story that stays in my mind from one of my favorite teachers, Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
When Abraham Lincoln was running for president, a man named Stanton traveled the country saying terrible things about him. “You don’t want a tall, lanky, ignorant man like this as president,” he’d say.
Then Lincoln was elected. And when it came time to choose his Secretary of War, Lincoln chose… Stanton.
Love Your Enemies
His advisers were shocked. “Are you a fool? Do you know what he’s been saying about you?”
Lincoln replied, “Oh yes, I know about it. I’ve heard him myself. But after looking over the country, I find that he is the best man for the job.” Stanton got to know Lincoln up close and became one of Lincoln’s greatest champions.
Dr. King explains: “If Abraham Lincoln had hated Stanton, if Lincoln had answered everything Stanton said, Lincoln would not have transformed and redeemed Stanton.” But through the power of love, Lincoln was able to redeem Stanton from his own hatred. Stanton went from hating Lincoln to loving him because Lincoln was able to see something good in him.
When Lincoln was assassinated, it was Stanton who said, “Now he belongs to the ages,” making one of the most beautiful statements ever about Lincoln’s character. The Power Love Builds
As Dr. King said, “There’s something about love that builds up and is creative. There’s something about hate that tears down and is destructive.”
A Course in Miracles teaches us to “Love oour enemies.” Not by making ourselves available for mistreatment. No. Definitely not, but by holding them with love in our heart.
Our Practice This Week
Who in your life feels like an “enemy”? Someone who’s criticized you, hurt you, betrayed you?
What if you stopped answering their attacks? What if you chose to see their qualifications, their goodness, their potential—even when they can’t see it themselves?
This doesn’t mean being a doormat. It means being so grounded in love that you can’t be moved by hate.
In my Masterful Living Program, we practice this radical love that transforms. Because there’s a power in love that our world hasn’t discovered yet.
You have that power. Will you use it?
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LATEST ACIM PODCAST EPISODE: Accountability Is My Power Tool.
In this episode, I explore a word that doesn’t even appear in A Course in Miracles — accountability — and uncover its surprising connection to what the Course calls the second characteristic of God’s teachers. I share why most of us are already consistent… just in the wrong direction. And I reveal the three-legged stool that transformed my practice from oscillating chaos to grounded peace.
I get honest about years of being “consistent in judging, attacking, complaining, worrying” and what finally shifted. I tell the story of Susie’s birthday party — and the meaning I made for years that turned out to be completely wrong. Plus, a real-time demonstration of what it looks like to feel invulnerable when life throws a curveball.
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