The Lighthouse Group studies and meets quarterly at RMMC to read and discuss a selected newsletter written by Dr. Kenneth Wapnick. This quarter’s topic is a delightful newsletter addressing our choosing Jesus as our companion on our Journey. It is Volume 11, Number 4 from December 2000 and it is called just that: Jesus: Companion on Our Journey.
Here is an excerpt from the Lighthouse article:
Students of A Course in Miracles would most likely not hesitate to state that they would love to have Jesus as their companion on the journey home. Indeed, who wouldn’t (including even those who profess not to believe in him)? And, in fact, the message of A Course in Miracles can very simply be summarized by saying that our journey home is made with him as our companion and teacher, rather than with the ego. So, for example, he pointedly says in Chapter 8 of the text:
“When you unite with me you are uniting without the ego, because I have renounced the ego in myself and therefore cannot unite with yours. Our union is therefore the way to renounce the ego in you…. Ours is simply the journey back to God Who is our home…. On this journey you have chosen me as your companion instead of the ego. Do not attempt to hold on to both, or you will try to go in different directions and will lose the way.
The ego’s way is not mine, but it is also not yours…. Reach, therefore, for my hand because you want to transcend the ego” (T-8.V.4:1-2; 5:4,8–6:1,8).
The article begins in chapter 6, on page 417 of the print version of From The Lighthouse: To Look Upon Darkness Through Light Must Dispel It, an anthology of Lighthouse articles by Kenneth Wapnick, Ph.D. and Gloria Wapnick from the Foundation for A Course in Miracles. This anthology is also available in ePub (digital) format (in 3 volumes). In addition to Course-related products such as the Lighthouse anthology, newly re-designed FACIM website has numerous new additions, including an excellent hyperlinked glossary of terms used in ACIM and much other new material.
The quarterly Lighthouse study group at Rocky Mountain Miracle Center is facilitated by Chris Dixon-Bubick