A Course of Love by Mari Perron

Called to birth new life

Lay aside your want of other answers, other stories, and accept the story we share. The Bible and all holy texts can be seen clearly now as one creation story. One story of one beginning. One story with many promises made. D:Day1.28

Here in the cabin, the sky is beginning to turn from black to blue. There is a brilliant crescent moon with an absolutely stunning star next door, a few other stars…

Rest and Research ~ ACOL’s new Concordance and Search Facility

Listen to your weariness and to your heart’s desire to rest. D.Day5:20 

Winter has come. The first snow of the season fell on Thanksgiving and I didn’t make it out to the cabin to relish it up close. I didn’t make it out the day after Thanksgiving either. Now after two days away, I find the remains of coffee left in the percolator to have frozen. I find frost on the window in delicate, expressive…

Memories and dialogue and new memories

You can respond to love with love. D:7.10

I so wish I had been walking each morning of this lovely long fall. I walked today. It was just about 7:00, I suppose, that I went around the horn. It was almost light, but not quite, the sky sitting close, keeping her eye on the street. The street keeping an eye on the children. The sense of a benevolent eye, a friendly watcher of the neighborhood, the…

Reminders of the need for unity

In the worst of times, we feel our love arise and extend. We realize love cannot be defeated. In the worst of times we are united in love. And in the worst of times, we are reminded of the great need, of the urgency, to bring our awareness of who we are, and the loving acts we are capable of, to this world in need.

We exist in unity. Starting out in “the Course” each of us hear that the only…

Changing the world takes being present as all that you are

While you know you have not allowed yourself freedom of expression, you believe you have allowed yourself freedom of thought. You believe you have allowed yourself freedom of feeling. And yet if the truth be admitted, you know that even this is not quite true. You know that you censor your own thoughts and feelings, accepting some and not others. D:Day 9.7

As I sit at my cabin window each…

Bring your voice to this continuing dialogue. This is all that is asked of you. This is the gift you have been given and the gift you bring the world: your own voice, the voice of Who You Are.  A.49

It’s Sunday night. Way too late to start a post. I had one written . . . wrote it yesterday . . . or maybe two days ago. I figured I’d posted enough about taking my mom to church, and writing as I…

Expressions of love are as innumerable as the stars in the universe, as bountiful as beauty, as many-faceted as the gems of the earth. I say again that sameness is not a sentence to mediocrity or uniformity. You are a unique expression of the selfsame love that exists in all creation. Thus your expression of love is as unique as your Self. It is in the cooperation between unique expressions of…

If you can’t remove yourself from life, what choice have you but to join with it? Love it. Love yourself. Love yourself enough to accept yourself. Love will transform normal, ordinary, life into extraordinary life. Loving exactly who you are and where you are in every moment is what will cause the transformation that will end your desire to remove yourself from life. All those frustrations you…

The sensuous allure of being alone

Such is the world that God did create: A world so lovely and so peaceful that when you see it once again you will cry with joy and forget your sadness in an instant. There will be no long remembering of regrets, no feeling badly for all the years in which you saw this not. There will merely be a glad “Aha!” as what was long forgotten is returned to you. You will but smile at the childish games…

Astronauts and the creation story

I’m traveling to California tomorrow to visit with the people at Take Heart Publications who enable the sharing of A Course of Love in form and spirit. There isa spirit to ACOL that takes some getting used to. It’s an adventurous spirit. A spirit that says “the new is yet to be created.” I was reading Day 1 of The Dialogues this morning because there is an ACOL group that meets among the friends…

The gift, the edge, and the embrace

You might think of yourself as a channel through which union with God is expressed and made real here and now. There is no other time. There is no “higher” self waiting to do what only you can do. There is no one else who knows what you know the way you know it or who can express the unknown in the way that you can express it. The unknown can only be made known through reception and expression.…

Staying “in life” with sharing and story

If you can’t removeyourself from life, what choice have you but to join with it? Love it. Love yourself. Love yourself enough to accept yourself. Love will transform normal, ordinary, life into extraordinary life. Loving exactly who you are and where you are in every moment is what will cause the transformation that will end your desire to remove yourself from life. All those frustrations you…

The freedom to be a badass . . . or your true Self

I asked myself the other day if the questions I’ve been exploring about my life couldn’t be more pleasurable than they’ve been. Yet as I thought of sharing this feeling, I realized it relates to my feelings of being in transition, and that I’m always writing of transition! I need to get off this subject, is what I thought. But then, for the first time, I realized, What the heck. We are all in…

How can memory so deceive the eyes, and yet fail to deceive the heart? C:8.28

Our place in the pattern of God’s creation “is not a place of physical form but a place of holiness, an integral place in the pattern that is oneness with God. It is a place you have never left but that you long for, believing that you know it not. Your life here is much like a search for your story. Where will this…

Noise and joyous noise

We have not removed ourselves from life in any way, and yet we have reached a place of retreat, a place of safety and of rest, a place away from “normal” life and the lack of freedom you have experienced there. I am your refuge from the past, your gate of entry to the present. You have fled the foreign land, where freedom was merely an illusion, and arrived at the

Promised Land, the land of our…

Service to God and being “used”

You who have so worried over what to do have both welcomed and feared the idea of some kind of service being required of you. . . .  To be of service to God is not to be a slave to God but to attend to God. To give God your attention and your care. C: 29.3

I’ve been working diligently on finishing up the audio of ACOL the last week or so. I’ve been at it for the always appropriate nine months,…

The heart’s path

The mind goes from the small to the large, the heart from the large to the small. Only the wholehearted see the connection of all. C:23.12

  It’s 5:52 in the cabin.  The sun’s imminent rising is visible as a streak of light-infused coral. The frogs or crickets hum in their chirpy way.  5:55   I sit up. Look out again. There’s a fiery quality beginning to build. At 6:02 the sky has faded into…