The Stone family and their relationship partners gather for Christmas and experience a profound undoing of pride and an opening of the heart.

To the family, Everett’s partner Meredith seems difficult and uptight, and they don’t understand why Everett is with her. They have no idea that her deep call for love and acceptance is his own. Only in laying aside judgment and bringing the stranger in can they open up to receiving the gift that Meredith brings. Through a series of incidents where it seems that everything is going wrong, a deep healing occurs. When the pressure of trying to be perfect finally cracks, what is underneath is allowed up for healing, and Meredith’s natural light can finally shine through.

The Spirit is in charge of a truly miraculous plan for our happiness, and when we let go of control and allow the plan to be revealed, we can enjoy the ride. Love is recognized only through non-judgment and complete acceptance. Who we are is already perfect.

The Family Stone is a transformational, awakening movie that shows what is underneath the family dynamics of compromise, perfectionism, protectionism, judgment, pride and private thoughts. There’s a lot of mirroring in this movie. The main character, Everett, has a deep call for love that is answered by a Holy Spirit orchestration of the ones who gather for Christmas. Everyone in this movie wants to connect in an authentic way, but they don’t know how so long as dysfunctional family dynamics are in the way. Following the Holy Spirit is the how.

The movie ends with the symbol of everyone gathering in gratitude after their big journey together. It shows how practical the Holy Spirit is in using relationships for healing. The healing is involuntary. They were all just swept along in the plan, like the ring getting stuck on Julie’s finger and Meredith waking up with Ben. You could feel that everything was following a divine plan, because of the prayer for healing. It’s only the mind in fear that is judging against the plan.

ACIM Advocates Relationships as the Fast Track to Forgiveness & Inner Peace

Unlike many other spiritual pathways which advocate meditation alone, A Course in Miracles is one that emphasizes the use of our relationships as a fast-track to spiritual enlightenment. Why? Because only through relationships do we learn how to forgive, and true forgiveness leads to consistent inner peace. Enjoy these resources on the subject of using relationships for awakening.

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The Perfect Opportunity to Love
Is With Whomever Shows Up

When you open up your heart, the Holy Spirit says, “Bring the stranger in.” See nobody as a stranger, treat everybody with all the love and dignity in your heart and don’t exclude anybody. You can be fully present with whomever you’re with, and that can be all the universe. This is really the path of opening your heart, of not trying to keep love limited, but of being able to share your heart with everyone. It’s really a joy to express all of this love and to see that everyone is a dear friend. That’s how we let go of pain and suffering; just include the whole world in your heart. Can you feel it? That’s the direction.