Begin. Continue.

Lush forest area on southern Vancouver Island, stairs set into the natural landscape.

Imperfect action is better than doing nothing.

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Right. My head is constantly filled with thoughts, ideas, plans. If I think about it (ha ha), they are mostly focused on the outcome, the finished product, the one-day-we’ll-get-there.

Thank you for the reminder to get moving. The outcome is in the unfolding action. It’s because of it.

The next right step — we have to actually take it.

What does your own day full of ideas look like, now?

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feet in shoes taking a step

A piece of courage

You may be familiar with a description of courage that says:

Courage isn’t the absence of fear. It’s feeling the fear and doing it anyway.

There was a very specific time in my life, an entire lifetime ago, where this got me through each day. Sometimes each moment of each day. I will be forever grateful for that.

Yet now, I do not want to ask for courage. Because I feel in this current space of Me that what I’d be unwittingly asking for is more fear — so that I could then face it by doing the things anyway.

But I’m “doing the things anyway,” anyway.

I would really like Not Fear. I want to focus on the Not-Fear, rather than on overcoming it.

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Patience as a spiritual practice

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Impatience is a regular thief of joy.

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Where in our lives are we impatient? When do we find ourselves in a situation that we wish were different, and we are perhaps a bit out of sorts?

Maybe it’s being stuck in a standstill drive-through. Could be during monotonous days of weather involving a lack of sunshine. Waiting for that online order to be delivered. Counting down the days until vacation. When another is behaving in a way that, well…

Anyime I find myself thinking, “Are you (expletive) kidding me?!?”

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Perception engineer

As a student of A Course In Miracles, I hereby own that I find the ACIM text a bit tedious to read at times. (*GASP*). 

I do love the messages, however, and find my life to be a much better experience when they are embraced.

Speaking of embracing, my two favorite sources of everyday-ACIM-human-living are everything Pam Grout and Mike Dooley. May I share here with you a recent message that I currently carry in my heart. May it be of value for you as well.

Perception Management for Very Advanced Souls (a.k.a. You)

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