I would like to share an experience I had after the last meeting of the study group.
It felt like chills going up the spine. It continued for a while and I paused and asked what the feeling behind it was. The feeling was surprise. I understood that there was a feeling of surprise caused by the answer Cate had given someone in the group who had asked a question about her daughter. I will briefly describe the question as the surprise seems to be due to me being unconsciously certain what the right answer would be.
The situation was that an ACIM friend, who knew a lot about Ken Wapnick, was going to spend Christmas at her place, and then her daughter, with whom there was not an easy relationship, asked if she could come for Christmas with her family. There was doubt about whether the guidance was to stick to the original plan.
Cate answered that this was a call for love from her daughter and she could choose to answer the call. Our job is to be the Christ love in the world, which makes no demands that anyone change… We take responsibility for being the love and answering that call.
I realized that this answer was surprising, because I still believed it was necessary to leave my children (they are now 22 and 27 years old ) to practice the Course’s teaching. And it felt like the possibility of answering the call for love from a daughter allowed this belief to be undone. It feels good to know that the call for love can be answered anytime and anywhere we choose it, now and now and now…