Obtain One Again: A True Story Of A Different Kind Of Forgiveness Narrated By Linda Jean McNabb Shown In Edition

as A Course in Miracles teaches it is NOT your grandfather's kind of forgiveness, which really looks down on other people, and at best bestows the magnanimity of the forgiver on the forgivee.


Forgiveness as the Course teaches it, takes place completely in the context of taking responsibility for one's life and realizes that all the charachters that are in the play with me are fundamentally aspects of myself, and I'm accusing them of things that I'm secretly accusing myself of.
The Course asks "Would I accuse myself of this" as the key question, so it directs us back to the source of the conflict in the mind.
Once we take responsibility for the projection we are thus back at the point in our mind where the wrong decision was first made, and we can now make another decision, once we realize we really do not want the misery and conflict of this life any longer.


The Course also makes clear that the problems start with the "tiny, mad idea" of the separation from God, As Linda describes it in her book, "I was born insane, Things pretty much went downhill from there, " She wrote those lines long before she ever came across A Course in Miracles, but once she did, she realized the deeper significance of them,

An easy life it wasn't, but it's good to remember that our own particular insanity may appear easier or harder to the next person, for us it's our life, and we are usually pretty blind to our own issues, and we have a struggle and a half coming out of the fog

and beginning to wake up.
In Linda's life the contrasts are dramatic, both the extent of the self destruction on the way down, and her very strong inner sense of direction once she began to look for the way out.


At just the right time A Course in Miracles fell into her hands, via the work of Gary Renard she subsequently actually became his part time assistant and evidently the material of Gary's books and the Course clicked with her immediately and helped speed up her inner work, and make sense of a lot she had already intuited at that time.


And in the end, with profound forgiveness, which always ends up being forgiveness of ourselves for the dumb mistake of thinking we could lead a life separate from God, comes the time when all of our struggles seem worthwhile in a new way, because they can form the examples with which others can identify and recognize themselves in some of our experiences.
Having been "through it" makes it easier to connect with the next person who is stuck in the mud,

Through this wonderful book, which is in a sense the "middle part" of her story, she gives the reader a good feel for the hell that was her life, and then the crisp and clear change that set her on the way out of hell, and how help showed up along the way, in particular Gary's books and the Course.


Linda's hell was all about the sex, drugs and rock 'n roll, including a gang rape in school, which has been the life of so many of the baby boom generation, so I'm pretty sure her story will be helpful to a great many people, for with the inner freedom that forgiveness has given her, she makes a lot of issues discussable which are demons in the lives of many of her contemporaries.
Linda is also still working on both a prequel and a sequel to this book, I recomment visiting her website sitelinkwww, lindamcnabb. com and if you're lucky, she might be doing a workshop in your town,

In a word "Wow!",

In two better words "God Is" An inspirational memoir, One Again is the story of Linda McNabb, who began life with a distant and abusive father, was molested by a relative, and was gangraped at the age of thirteen.
After such a harsh life, most people would give up, McNabb didafor a while. After years of selfdestructive behavior, McNabb found herself in Hawaii, hiking up a mountain, With time to reflect, making slow progress along the trail, McNabb discovered the secret of forgiveness, You only get one life, Don't waste it. Become a catalyst for change, Let your wounds heal and heal the wounds of others, Become one again. .