As the year draws to a close, the Christian world celebrates the season of Advent and then Christmas. In this blog post, I bring in ideas from Buddhist tradition and from A Course in Miracles on cultivating joy.

This post is inspired both by the season of Advent and by Chapter 5 of A Course in Miracles, titled, “Healing and Wholeness.” Right in the introduction of the chapter, we learn that healing, joy, love, and union with one another and with our Source are all tied together.

This last post of 2021 is a meditation on the light within our minds found in Workbook Lesson 75 of A Course in Miracles. The post has a brief first section introducing the meditation, and then a longer “deeper dive” into the background of the meditation drawn from the Lesson instructions and from other parts of the Course.

This post describes two experiences of grace and gives the perspective of A Course in Miracles in understanding these moments as memories of our true reality.

The one year anniversary of the start of the pandemic earlier this month inspired this post on changelessness, which A Course in Miracles describes as an attribute of Heaven.

Today’s post, inspired by the season of Christmas, has as its theme the limitless light and strength we each have in our minds. It characterizes light and strength as taught in A Course in Miracles and ends with a meditation that anybody can do on the place in our minds where light and strength are one.