Miracle Voices - A Course In Miracles Podcast (ACIM) · Judy Skutch Whitson, Tam Morgan, and Matthew McCabe

Conversations on Course with Gary Renard

·1 hr 15 min·5 clips

Gary Renard says forgiveness is a habit, not a natural reflex, and he practices it every morning.

1. Miracle Voices - A Course In Miracles Podcast (ACIM) presents "Conversations on Course with Gary Renard" as a Foundation for Inner Peace webinar conversation with a strong ACIM focus. 2. Selina Granada, from the Foundation for Inner Peace, hosts Gary Renard, whom she names as a best-selling author and respected A Course in Miracles teacher. 3. The episode asks how Gary personally views the message of A Course in Miracles and how that view connects to his books and long teaching career. 4. Gary opens with the chapter 2 prayer "I am here only to be truly helpful" and says he would not have been able to lead workshops without it. 5. He keeps his usual joke-first tradition by telling a retirement-community story set in Arizona before moving into heavier teaching. 6. Gary says Southern California rain matters to him because fires forced an evacuation one night in West Hollywood. 7. He calls forgiveness "the central theme" of A Course in Miracles and says it is "the glue that holds the whole thing together." 8. He argues that the Course is about a specific forgiveness that does not make the world real, and he tells listeners to write down "Don't make it real." 9. Gary points to the 1977 preface and reads lines about the world of perception being "a dream" and the Holy Spirit helping us "reverse our thinking." 10. He says the Course teaches undoing rather than fixing the dream, and he ties that to the line "seek rather than to change your mind about the world." 11. Gary recommends workbook lesson 132, "I loose the world from all I thought it was," because it says "There is no world." 12. He also recommends lesson 169, "By grace I live, by grace I am released," as evidence that "there is an end to this" and that time will end. 13. Gary links workbook lesson 248, "Whatever suffers is not part of me," to his point that the body, sickness, and death are not the Course's main concern. 14. He says the Course's three-step forgiveness process begins when you feel upset, then stop, then switch from the ego to the Holy Spirit. 15. He describes the second step as overlooking the body and thinking in terms of spirit, because the other person is not a body but "Spirit, immortal, invulnerable." 16. Gary says the third step is recognizing that the same divine creation is in everyone, which means "As you see him, you'll see yourself." 17. He explains that he puts the Holy Spirit in charge of each day before getting out of bed, and he says even a hotel-room rush can become a quick "hey, Jesus, you and me" moment. 18. The conversation is informal, personal, and workshop-like, with Gary moving between jokes, quotations, and practical applications. 19. Listeners who follow A Course in Miracles teachings and forgiveness practice. 20. Listeners wanting a narrative interview with little Course background.

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A patient Course conversation that turns personal friction into a practical forgiveness practice.

The conversation stays with forgiveness, projection, and the practical edge of what A Course in Miracles asks of ordinary upset. Its best stretches keep close to lived frustration and lay out the three-step forgiveness process in plain language, which makes the material easier…

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