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

Ep 161 - Forgiveness Happened of Its Own Accord - Donna Lee Humble

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She says forgiveness happened only after she remembered “the love that I experienced as a child.”

1. Miracle Voices interviews Donna Lee Humbel about forgiveness, healing, and A Course in Miracles. 2. Hosts Matthew McCabe and Tam Morgan introduce Donna Lee Humbel, who lives in Glenwood Springs, Colorado, and writes books about her Course experience. 3. The episode asks how Donna Lee moved from resentment and grief into forgiveness through A Course in Miracles. 4. Donna Lee says she first met the material while commuting in Vale with a friend and reading Gerald Jampolsky’s “Love Is Letting Go of Fear.” 5. She says that book had “like 12 little course of miracle lessons in it,” and the two women studied it daily during a 40-minute drive. 6. Donna Lee says she later joined a Course in Miracles group in Eagle, Colorado, in about 1989, and about 20 people stayed together for a year. 7. She says many people in that town were softball teammates who went to the bar after games and wanted “some spirituality in their life.” 8. Donna Lee describes being 30, newly sober, and working as a dental assistant when she had what she calls a spiritual crisis. 9. She says she was sterilizing instruments at work, using a line from “The Practice of the Presence of God,” and then saw Jesus Christ standing beside her. 10. She says the vision was memorable because he looked stockier than she expected, wore a robe and sandals, and left her in tears. 11. Donna Lee says that moment told her she was supposed to follow Jesus Christ through A Course in Miracles. 12. She says her main shift was not understanding the Course intellectually, but trusting that it was “my way.” 13. Donna Lee then gives the background to her forgiveness story, starting with being the eldest of five children in a home marked by divorce and her father’s mental illness. 14. She says she tried to protect her siblings, while her mother stayed depressed and unavailable during the violence. 15. Donna Lee says she lost a brother to suicide, her mother to a heart attack at 38, her father to cancer, and a sister in an unsolved alcohol-related car accident. 16. She says resentment was dangerous to her sobriety, so she tried therapy, the 12 steps, sponsors, begging, and meditation before forgiveness changed. 17. Donna Lee says a Course passage about love being real and everything else being an illusion let her remember the love in her childhood. 18. She says that memory changed her perspective enough that “forgiveness happened of its own accord,” even though she is still working on self-forgiveness. 19. The conversation is calm, personal, and reflective, with Matt and Tam using follow-up questions and short Course references to guide the story. 20. People interested in A Course in Miracles, sobriety, and family forgiveness will get the most from this episode; listeners wanting a fast, purely practical self-help format may skip it.

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