The Lighthouse Group studies and meets quarterly at RMMC to read and discuss a selected newsletter written by Dr. Kenneth Wapnick. We will be using one of the earlier articles Vol. 11, #2 (originally printed June 2000), and entitled “A Kind and Simple Presentation of a Kind and Simple Message.” You can read the article here:
FACIM.org/kind-simple-presentation-kind-simple/
NOTE: This meeting will take place online via zoom. Please see the details here on how to use zoom to attend RMMC meetings.
Here is an excerpt from the beginning of the Lighthouse article:
Readers accustomed to seeing articles in our newsletter that deal with metaphysical issues, will be surprised at this one. Our basic emphasis here is why we as students of A Course in Miracles persist in not doing the simple things salvation asks (T-31.I.1:10–2:2), thereby rejecting the wonderful benefits that the Course is offering to us, and through us to others. Moreover, the simplicity of its message goes hand in hand with the kindness that is inevitable if one truly practices forgiveness—clearly the heart of the message. In the following article, therefore, we focus on how this simple message falls prey to the lethal barrier of our choice for the ego thought system, which results in our core need to judge and attack others. In the spirit of this non-metaphysical simplicity, we take our cue from Jesus’ opening words to Workbook Lesson 133, “I will not value what is valueless.”:
The article appears on pages 350-353 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, the FACIM website has numerous new additions, including an excellent hyperlinked glossary of terms used in ACIM and much other new material.
Through 2019, the quarterly Lighthouse study group at Rocky Mountain Miracle Center was facilitated by Chris Dixon-Bubick; going forward starting in 2020, Charles Lang and other RMMC teachers will facilitate. Barb McKinstry will facilitate this meeting.