Time to Teach A Course In Miracles

Time to Teach A Course in Miracles is an effective teachers program with a simple class structure. This structure enables you to present your understanding and experience of A Course in Miracles, in a safe, supportive, and non-judgmental environment. This environment stimulates you to voice your innermost convictions of the truth, in all its aspects and simplicity. Equally gifted as teachers of God, we gather and share, accelerate and celebrate the transformative message of A Course in Miracles.

On the website you will find all the necessary guidelines and directions, to participate in and facilitate this unique program yourself. I post all the current assignments and upload video presentations with several guest teachers as an example of how time to teach works.
http://timetoteachacim.com

A Time to Teach Online Class will be held every friday at 1 pm Central Time USA. Prepare your presentation using the assignment posted for the week. You will be given 5-15 minutes to teach, depending on the number of participating teachers. See you there. No registration is required, just visit the link below and enter the class.
click here to go to the online class

The website further has audios, videos, articles, prayer, and links to inspiring blogs and useful websites.

That this program may inspire you to teach the message of A Course In Miracles with your unique voice and expression.

To receive the weekly assignments and other updates by e-mail write me a short message at:
timetoteachacim@gmail.com

Thank you.

With Love and Light,

Bastiaan Berende

Petaluma Poetry Walk Reading in Petaluma

A program to celebrate
the recent publication of the Petaluma Poetry Walk
Ten Year Anthology:1996 to 2005
will be presented on Saturday, March 8, at 2:00 p.m.
at the Petaluma Regional Library.
100 Fairgrounds Dr. Petaluma (near 101 and Washington)

Join us for a celebration of this very special publication event.
During the program, poets published in the anthology will read selections from their poetry.
Among the distinguished poets participating in the program will be Michelle Baynes, David Bromige, Geri Digiorno, Sharon Doubiago, Terry Ehret, Randy Fingland, Marko Fong, Godelieve, Judy Grahn accompanied by Anne Carol, Amy MacLennan, G. P. Skratz, Don Emblen, Gail Calvello and Bill Vartnaw.
For more information, please call (415) 271-3564.

The Ladder of Prayer -- Sent in by Paul Hampton

THE LADDER OF PRAYER

WHAT IS PRAYER FOR? GOD IS THE GOAL OF EVERY PRAYER.

PRAYER IS THE MEANS BY WHICH GOD'S SON LEAVES SEPARATE GOALS AND SEPARATE INTERESTS BY, AND TURNS IN HOLY GLADNESS TO THE TRUTH OF UNION IN HIS FATHER AND HIMSELF.

RUNGS	DISTINCTIONS BETWEEN PRAYERS	EXAMPLE OF PRAYER
Being the Prayer	Now prayer is lifted from the world of things, of bodies, and of gods of every kind, and we rest in holiness at last. There is no asking, for there is no lack. We are transformed, for we recognize the Christ in ourselves. (We are that which we have prayed for.) Prayer is now the single voice Creator and creation share.	I cannot go without you, for you are a part of me. (With this prayer, we stand at the gate of Heaven.)
Praying With Others (Continuing to rise: Now it is possible to help in prayer, and so reach up yourself)	We are enemies no more. In praying with others, we share a goal. Yet it is likely, at first, that what is asked for even by those who join in prayer is not the goal that prayer should truly seek. Even together you may ask for things, and thus set up but an illusion of a goal you share. You may ask together for specifics and not realize that you are asking for effects without the cause. Even the joining, then, is not enough, if those who prayer together do not ask, before all else, what is the Will of God. (This, then, is praying with others, asking for the Will of God.)	We go together, you and I.
Praying for Others (Beginning to rise: Until this second level at least begins, one cannot share in prayer.)	Praying for others, if rightly understood, becomes a means for lifting your projections of guilt from your brother, and enabling you to recognize it is not he who is hurting you. The poisonous thought that he is your enemy, your evil counterpart, your nemesis, must be relinquished before you can be saved from guilt (to be saved from guilt is to recognize that our brother is not our enemy). For this, the means is prayer.	What I have asked for for my brother is not what I would have. Thus have I made of him my enemy.
Praying Out Of Need (lowest rung)	There are two asking-out-of-need prayers: The lowest of the two forms is prayer about wanting; prayer that comes out of a sense of scarcity and lack. Often, this prayer does not make an appeal to God or even involve Him. The next to the lowest prayer is a higher form of asking out of need. The asking may be addressed to God in honest belief but without understanding. It asks for things of this world and also for such gifts as honesty and goodness, and for forgiveness. At this same level, we have prayers for one's enemies, but our belief in enemies means we have limited prayer to the laws of this world. Praying for enemies suggests "otherness" and the Course recommends we pray for ourselves.

Eckhart Tolle

Eckhart Tolle is going to be giving a 10 week on-line teaching thru Oprah.com beginning March 3rd for free.

See the link and share share share!!!!
http://www2.oprah.com/index.jhtml

Watch the trailer http://www2.oprah.com/index.jhtml

Donna Moldovan
Body Mind and Spirit
www.body-mindandspirit.net