What is your foundation for inner peace?

While contemplating A Course in Miracles this morning, a few lines really stood out at me.

"The miracle enables you to see your brother without his past, and so perceive him as born again. His errors are all past, and by perceiving him without them you are releasing him. And since his past is yours, you share in this release. Your past was made in anger, and if you use it to attack the present, you will not see the freedom that the present holds."

I let my imagination go free and tried to overlay this paragraph over my life to see if it would look any different. It's so true that I see people in my life based on their past as we have related to one and other over time. But I really noticed the judgements about these people and it was quite eye opening to see character areas that I was critical of, I was also critical of myself in the same area. The areas in which I enjoyed others, I enjoyed myself as well.

What a miracle it is to see others as they are right now, without the overlay of past mistakes. It really is freeing.

Author Elizabeth Gilbert coming to Denver

Elizabeth Gilbert, the author of Eat, Pray, Love is coming to Mile Hi Church in Lakewood Colorado on Sunday, February 15. Visit http://www.milehichurch.com/ for tickets and more info.

With over six million copies sold and nearly two years on the New York Times Best-Seller List, Eat, Pray, Love’s author has become a literary rock star with fans and media. Elizabeth Gilbert will make a rare appearance at Mile Hi Church to speak about her current and future book and previous writings.

If you are going to be in the Denver area, perhaps you can put this event in your planner. I am a local member of Mile Hi Church and should you need directions, feel free to email me.

And just what is Mile Hi Church anyway? It is completely different from any church that I have ever been to. It is a refreshing breath of fresh air in its acceptance, its tolerance, its holding to its own tenets of belief. It is a place to allow you to come to Spirit on your own terms. Mile Hi Church is a place where all walks of faith are welcomed, because at its very core, all walks of faith lead to the Eternal One. Mile Hi Church is the place where I can be MyBestMe.

Every human being is a doorway through which the Infinite passes into the finite, through which God becomes human, through which the Universal becomes individual.
-RALPH WALDO EMERSON-