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

Ep 149 - I Am Not This Character - Bill Free

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Bill Free joins the show from Maine. He says A Course in Miracles entered his life by surprise and felt like a huge welcoming. Before that, he spent 25 years as a Christian evangelist. The arc keeps circling the gap between the role he played and the self he is learning to question. Matt and Tam give him room to stay with that shift before moving into the harder material. His marriage to Lisa, also a Course teacher and the author of Gorgeous for God, had reached a breaking point. They had filed for divorce. While Lisa was in Denmark teaching an ACIM retreat, Bill was recovering from a knee replacement. A friend named Vicky Poppy took him in and helped care for him during that stretch. The divorce process had a waiting period, so Bill and Lisa kept talking by phone. Those conversations stayed tense. Lisa said she did not want counseling and wanted the divorce. Bill answered by talking about a marriage book he was reading and the way childhood experience shapes adult behavior. He remembered a young version of himself who did not believe his mother loved him. That memory becomes the hinge of the episode. The hosts keep asking gentle follow-up questions and let the story unfold without rushing it. The emotional center stays on hurt, the childhood imprint behind it, and the chance to see a relationship differently. The episode does not try to tidy the pain away. Instead, it lets surgery, separation, travel, and spiritual reorientation sit together in the same room. By the end, forgiveness feels less like a slogan and more like a practice that has to survive real life.

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A marriage strain turns into a hard look at forgiveness and ACIM practice.

Bill Free's conversation tracks a surprising turn: after 25 years as a Christian evangelist, A Course in Miracles entered his life, and the change ran straight into a marriage already under strain. Bill and Lisa are both teachers of the Course, and she wrote Gorgeous for God.

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Hear a former Christian evangelist unpack a marriage crisis, childhood pain, and ACIM's lens on forgiveness.

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