The Awakening Essay

The purpose of writing an awakening essay is to share your spiritual awakening experience. When I read the essay, I want to feel you. I want to know about the lessons you learned and the insights, visions and revelations through your study, practice and teaching of A Course in Miracles.

In my classes and seminars I always encourage teachers to use either the first or the second person in speaking and writing. That gives me the feeling that it comes from you personally or is directed to me as the reader or listener. Either way I can identify with you. And through my identification with you I can identify with my own experiences.

The problem with writing or speaking in the plural "we" or "us" is the fact that to an awakened mind, like mine and other teachers in this program, is that we are in a singular experience of self.  I encourage you to be vulnerable in your writing as well as in your speaking. Be with Jesus and take responsibility for the fact that it is your dream you are awakening from. In that awakening there is no us, there is only you waking up.

My questions in regards to writing your awakening essays are:
What has happened to you?
What did you realize?
Where are you in all this?

I am looking for the changes in you. The reader wants you to convey to him or her that miracles are happening to and through you. That the spiritual awakening experience of A Course In Miracles has been realized in you.