Mother’s Day brings up so much for many of us. Whatever’s present today, bright or heavy, I’d like to share one of the most liberating sentences in A Course in Miracles:
“The guiltless mind cannot suffer.”
Six words. Let them land.
What ACIM is telling us is that suffering doesn’t come from circumstances. It doesn’t come from other people. It doesn’t come from what’s happening in the world.
Suffering comes from guilt.
Not the guilt we can name. Not just “I shouldn’t have said that” or “I should have called her back.” That’s surface guilt. We can address that with a phone call, an apology, a course correction.
ACIM is pointing to something deeper.
The unconscious guilt that runs underneath everything. The buried belief that we’re not good. That we did something wrong somewhere we can’t even remember. That we deserve whatever pain comes our way.
That guilt is the source of all of our suffering.
Here’s the relief: a guiltless mind cannot suffer.
Not “won’t.” Not “shouldn’t.” Cannot.
It’s a structural truth. Remove the guilt, and the suffering has nothing to hold it up. The whole edifice of “I’m bad, I deserve this, life is hard, God is angry with me” collapses.
That’s the promise. It’s real. It’s true. I’ve experienced it.
The work is the willingness to release the guilt. Not to figure out where it came from. Not to analyze why we have it. Not to trace it back through three generations of family trauma.
Just to be willing to let it go.
We hand it to the Higher Holy Spirit Self. We say, “Please undo this. I’m done with carrying it.”
And then we get out of the way.
This week, I’d like to invite us into this work together. My Healing Religious Guilt Deep Dive Workshop is this Saturday, May 16, less than a week from today. Many of us are carrying religious guilt we don’t even recognize as religious guilt. It’s just woven into our sense of being “not good enough.”
Let’s release it together.
The healing is happening NOW! Yes!
If you’re carrying religious guilt – whether from how you were raised, from past lives spent in churches and orders, or from a wound you can’t quite name – join me for my Recovering from Religious Guilt Deep Dive Workshop This Saturday, May 16. God doesn’t punish us. We do. And we can stop. Let’s lay this down together. 
. Register at PowerofLoveMinistry.net/
LATEST PODCAST EPISODE: You’re Not a Victim What if life isn’t happening to me at all? This week I’m sitting with one of the most foundational sections of A Course in Miracles — Chapter 27, Section 7 — and walking us into a teaching that took me a few years of real willingness to fully accept. Why does almost every problem feel like something the world is doing to us? What’s the difference between responsibility and blame that most of us have never been taught? And what was the one tiny shift that helped me realize I’d never actually been a victim at all? This is part one of a two-episode arc. Listen with me on Episode 737.
Mother’s Day brings up so much for many of us. Whatever’s present today, bright or heavy, I’d like to share one of the most liberating sentences in A Course in Miracles:
“The guiltless mind cannot suffer.”
Six words. Let them land.
What ACIM is telling us is that suffering doesn’t come from circumstances. It doesn’t come from other people. It doesn’t come from what’s happening in the world.
Suffering comes from guilt.
Not the guilt we can name. Not just “I shouldn’t have said that” or “I should have called her back.” That’s surface guilt. We can address that with a phone call, an apology, a course correction.
ACIM is pointing to something deeper.
The unconscious guilt that runs underneath everything. The buried belief that we’re not good. That we did something wrong somewhere we can’t even remember. That we deserve whatever pain comes our way.
That guilt is the source of all of our suffering.
Here’s the relief: a guiltless mind cannot suffer.
Not “won’t.” Not “shouldn’t.” Cannot.
It’s a structural truth. Remove the guilt, and the suffering has nothing to hold it up. The whole edifice of “I’m bad, I deserve this, life is hard, God is angry with me” collapses.
That’s the promise. It’s real. It’s true. I’ve experienced it.
The work is the willingness to release the guilt. Not to figure out where it came from. Not to analyze why we have it. Not to trace it back through three generations of family trauma.
Just to be willing to let it go.
We hand it to the Higher Holy Spirit Self. We say, “Please undo this. I’m done with carrying it.”
And then we get out of the way.
This week, I’d like to invite us into this work together. My Healing Religious Guilt Deep Dive Workshop is this Saturday, May 16, less than a week from today. Many of us are carrying religious guilt we don’t even recognize as religious guilt. It’s just woven into our sense of being “not good enough.”
Let’s release it together.
The healing is happening NOW! Yes!
If you’re carrying religious guilt – whether from how you were raised, from past lives spent in churches and orders, or from a wound you can’t quite name – join me for my Recovering from Religious Guilt Deep Dive Workshop This Saturday, May 16. God doesn’t punish us. We do. And we can stop. Let’s lay this down together. . Register at PowerofLoveMinistry.net/
LATEST PODCAST EPISODE: You’re Not a Victim What if life isn’t happening to me at all? This week I’m sitting with one of the most foundational sections of A Course in Miracles — Chapter 27, Section 7 — and walking us into a teaching that took me a few years of real willingness to fully accept. Why does almost every problem feel like something the world is doing to us? What’s the difference between responsibility and blame that most of us have never been taught? And what was the one tiny shift that helped me realize I’d never actually been a victim at all? This is part one of a two-episode arc. Listen with me on Episode 737.
