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FROM THE HEART Jordin’s softball game reminded me of a story I heard about
the French and German armies fighting each other in World
War I. One Christmas both sides agreed to a cease fire, and
Alan Cohen is the author of many popular inspi- soldiers from both armies came into a small border town to a
rational books, including the bestselling A Course tavern where they ate dinner together, drank wine, sang, and
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heart for a day, can we not do it for two days? Or a week? Or a
Guess Who’s Coming month? Or a lifetime?
to Christmas Dinner The popular and healing spiritual training A Course in Miracles
began when two people who were odds with each other chose
to join instead. Dr. Helen Schucman and Dr. Bill Thetford
When I texted my niece Jordin, an attorney who were research psychologists and professors at Columbia Uni-
works as a public defender, she told me she was at a versity’s College of Physicians and Surgeons. As is often the
softball game. Every month, she explained, the town law- case in academia, the two were immersed in egoistic power
yers get together with the inmates at the local prison, along struggles, competition, and backbiting. One day Dr. Thetford
with the guards, and play softball. I was jarred to hear this, came to Dr. Schucman, and told her, “Helen, there must be a
as I usually think of lawyers, guards, and inmates as being in better way.” Helen agreed, which changed the entire dynamic
adversarial positions. They are too busy fighting and being of their relationship.
angry with each other to enjoy each other.
Soon afterward Helen began to hear a voice that gave the
But not so in Jordin’s town. For a few hours each month, all world A Course in Miracles through her. Course scholars cite
of these people rise above their social identities and come the moment the two agreed to work together rather than
together as equals on the same playing field. What a model against each other, as the seminal moment that opened the
for how good it can get if we let it! door for entire Course to come to the world. Behold the power
of sincere willingness to join.

One Mother’s Day I saw my friend Danielle walking into a
restaurant for brunch. “My husband and ex-husband are taking
me out for Mother’s Day,” she told me. Odd, I thought, that
these two men would join to support their current and former
partner. “We all cooperate around taking care of the kids, so
we thought we would celebrate,” she went on. What a won-
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in relationships rather than use changes as an excuse to sepa-
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