MaryBeth Scalice

Wait, Wait, Wait, He Comes to You: WB Part 2 of the Journey of A Course in Miracles

Channeled Writings / By MaryBeth Scalice

by marybethscalice, August 16, 2018 Moving and waiting, though apparently opposite intellectual ideas, are thoughts introduced to us now as we move from words to direct experience; as we hold our tongues from repetitious mantras, and open our hearts to a new goal. Our new goal encompasses both movement and stillness. Movement occurs in mind, …

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Mommy Long Legs

Blogs-Letters to Friends / By MaryBeth Scalice

Dear Hearts, Today, a little spider brought my desire for healing and helpfulness into shimmering clarity. Jesus said, healing that is of Him (Holy Spirit) always works. acim 7 VI .44 …Love is incapable of any exceptions… acim 7 VI .45 (even spiders?) The whole glory and perfect joy that is the Kingdom lies in you to give. He …

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A Rabid Fox Bit Mama Francesca

Blogs-Letters to Friends, Inspired writings / By MaryBeth Scalice

Dear Hearts, Summer grows a little thinner, giving us so much harvest, so much of her goodness. Our summer meetings are a wonderful, easy place to come relax and remember the bounty of life, of God’s gifts and mighty companions. Here is your reminder to join! We meet tomorrow, Thursday at 7:30 at St. …

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I Want the Peace of God. I Forgot He Already Gave It to Me

Blogs-Letters to Friends / By MaryBeth Scalice

I am resting now. I have been reeling. A part of me has been under siege from another part. It took some effort to get me to the couch. I notice whenever my thoughts are sizzling with judgment, my body runs from meditation as if from fire. There is a lot of doing little nothings …

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Are You Breathing?

Poetry, Writings / By MaryBeth Scalice

Right now, can you give a moment, bringing awareness to your lungs, your belly, your body? Are you breathing? Deeply? Free of the grip that clamps the jaw; free of the strain that stiffens the shoulders; free of the worry that sutures the stomach, pocking the breath into slivers and pits? Notice, air moving in, …

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Everything Changes

Inspired writings / By MaryBeth Scalice

Everything changes. You are changing right now Don’t believe those who say you are an old dog, Change is inevitable. That’s what this place is. Why just a moment ago this pen was flowing sweet blue ink and then it stopped. That little insignificant act motivated a decision. Would I still write this poem? Or …

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Vacation and The Boss

Blogs-Letters to Friends / By MaryBeth Scalice

Dear Hearts, I’ve been in Martha’s Vineyard this week with my family and friends. I was sooo excited to go and to let go of my “obligations” to God. Haha. Sometimes I make my lessons, our retreatsnand the Course in Miracle meetings into some kind of job. I pretend I am working for JC (Jess), and …

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Judging God

Blogs-Letters to Friends, Writings / By MaryBeth Scalice

…and in His judgment will a world unfold in perfect innocence before your eyes. ACIM WB 164 Dear Hearts, Do you think you can judge God? Perhaps you feel you are right to evaluate, to appraise His world. Perhaps you have judged God to be a failure, a loser. Perhaps He is dead, or so …

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Listen

Inspired writings, Writings / By MaryBeth Scalice

Call to your Father, certain that His Voice will answer. He Himself has promised this. And He Himself will place a spark of truth within your mind wherever you give up a false belief, a dark illusion of your own reality, and what love means….In loving gentleness He will abide with you as you allow …

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Self Deception

Writings / By MaryBeth Scalice

Sometimes in forgiveness we forge perky little formulas for healing and moving on, except that mostly we just move on, making a ritual of what once was a sincere effort to heal and let go. Self-deception hides self-will. Self-will attempts to pull truth into your illusion. Self-love requires sincere and earnest efforts to reach the …

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