Have you ever repeated your Workbook lesson only to have it feel like a rote and
useless exercise? This
Practice Tips card is the antidote.
Have you ever repeated your Workbook lesson only to have it feel like a rote and
useless exercise? This
Practice Tips card is the antidote.
Dear subscribers,
In this week's Circle News, Robert writes about the total honesty the Course calls us to embrace and live from. Also featured is an article by Greg in which he reflects on how to see the holiness in people whose behavior is considered criminal. And be sure to check out this week's testimonial from one of the founding members of our Circle Course Community.
In Peace,
The Circle Staff
Featured article by Robert Perry. "Honesty" We all lie, at least in little ways, usually to save our image. Yet a real feeling of wholeness can only come from a kind of ultra-honesty, an honesty more total than we have conceived. That is what A Course in Miracles is calling us to.
Featured article by Greg Mackie. "How can we forgive people like murderers, rapists, and child molesters?" How can we forgive people like murderers, rapists, and child molesters? How can we accept these people as loving children of God who perpetrate "bad" behaviors without judging the behavior?
Robert's Blog Be sure to also read "Robert's Latest Thoughts."
Circle Course Community member Sharon E. shares her appreciation for the richness of conversation that takes place in our online community:
Sharon E:
I have used the Circle of Atonement website to assist in my study of A Course in
Miracles for a very long time. The Course, while unique in its ability to bring
peace to a world-weary heart, can also be difficult to fathom when working solo. The
Circle material currently authored by Robert Perry and Greg Mackie has been a great
help to me over the years, uniquely able to sort out the tangles in my thoughts and
bring clarity and inspiration.
At the end of 2007, the Circle announced the formation of a new group called the Circle Course Community. They invited those of us who had silently frequented the website or participated in their phone classes, to become more visible and available to each other. It was an idea ripe with potential and even though it felt safer to wrap myself in anonymity, an inner push urged me to accept the invitation and open to the experience. My expectations were that I would check into the site from time to time, and perhaps get some helpful advice. Oh, me of little faith! The CCC is so much more than I had hoped for. It has become the first place I go when I turn my computer on in the morning. It is a community in the truest sense of that word—a wonderful place full of Course friends.
It's funny because for the most part I've never seen these CCC members in person, and wouldn't recognize them if they crossed the street in front of me. Yet I feel like I know them better than many of my "in the flesh" neighbors because our sharing is so heart-felt, intimate and honest. We share our inner struggles to overcome fear and Course passages that lit up a dark fork in the road. We find joy in the breakthroughs, insights, and even the honest-to-goodness miracles that play out along the way as we listen for Love's guidance and learn from each other.
I so heartedly recommend the Circle Course Community. It's a place to reveal your true self as you put the Course to work in your life—a place to laugh with irreverent humor and to cry when someone touches that soft place in your unguarded heart. It's a place to support and be supported. I understand now what the Course means when it talks about our "mighty companions" because I have found them at the CCC, and my life has been enriched.
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