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May-August, 2025

There Really Is Nothing to Fear

by Rev. Myron Jones, Ordained Ministerial Counselor

As I am writing this, I am doing Lesson 48: “There is nothing to fear.” I love this Lesson. It is so clear. There are no caveats. It is simple, straight-forward and uncompromising.

I seldom read news other than the headlines of local news, since I might need to know what is going on in my town. But every once in a while, I hear about something or read the national headlines.

This morning, I decided to do that in conjunction with the Lesson. Each article would trigger a response in me and each time that response was fear, it was an opportunity to remember that there is nothing to fear.

How could it be that some of the things happening in the world today could not be fearful? Well, let’s start with the fact that there is no world. It is an illusion we chose to experience, but it cannot hurt us. It is like dreaming of a scary moment and awakening to discover nothing happened except a dream. Whew! That was good news. And today’s lesson is good news in the same way.

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May-August, 2025

Letting Go of the World

by Rev. Dan Strodl, Ordained Ministerial Counselor

We live in a world built on the ego thought system of fear, guilt, separation, and sin. And we have taken on many worldly beliefs, opinions and judgements to help us navigate our way through this mad illusion, believing that we are separate bodies, needing to defend ourselves, protect ourselves from others, surrounded by dangerous people, facing climate change, getting old and dying. But this world is not real. It’s a mad illusion created to escape from who we truly are… we are eternal Love.

“The world is false perception. It is born of error, and it has not left its source. It will remain no longer than the thought that gave it birth is cherished. When the thought of separation has been changed to one of true forgiveness, will the world be seen in quite another light; and one which leads to truth, where all the world must disappear and all its errors vanish. Now its source has gone, and its effects are gone as well.” (W-pII.3.1:1-5)

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May-August, 2025

Guideposts

by Rev. Joyce Peebles, Ordained Ministerial Counselor

A Course in Miracles describes the dream we experience as a journey that never was in reality. In a sense, there is a journey we take to wake up from this dream. It’s the shortest journey you will ever take, and it takes the longest time to get there. It’s the one that starts in your brain and goes to your heart.

We were taught in school to study and accumulate a lot of information that will help us accomplish our chosen occupation. This information is useless unless we use it to get the job done. As Course students, we can read the Text, do the Lessons and have an intellectual understanding that stays in our head. To wake up, this information needs to travel to our heart. How do you know that this is happening? The Course gives us some guideposts or landmarks along the way. The following is a list of some of these guideposts or landmarks: (they are not in any particular order).

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May-August, 2025

The Value of the Opening Preparation

by Rev. Larry Glenz, Ordained Ministerial Counselor

I have had quite a few mind-healing partners while studying the Pathways courses over these many years. Studying these Pathways courses with a partner is a great way to take the teachings of the Course deeper.
 
Each of the Pathways of Light courses begin with the Opening Preparation. As a student and teacher of A Course in Miracles, I believe the Opening Preparation describes a powerful dedication to connecting to Holy Spirit.

By repeating the Opening Preparation each time I practice as suggested, I let Holy Spirit do His work on my thoughts.

The Opening Preparation asks us to dedicate this time to healing our minds and awakening to our true Nature.

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May-August, 2025

We Will Light the World

by Rev. Ashley Rose Legrand, Ordained Ministerial Counselor

We are brought together in unity
to recognize that we are really
One. Never separate.
Never alone.

We come together to
magnify and multiply Love.
Eliminating the fear that bound us.
Flying into freedom and release.
A release that brings eternal
joy and fulfillment.

To join, to give, to Love, is to
invest in our own mind healing.

In joining and unifying, the false
concept of separation is undone.
It is then that we are made happy.
Led to remember that we
are whole and lack nothing.
A recognition of our completion.

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May-August, 2025

Seeing Through the Lens of Love

by Rev. Melissa Arterberry, Ordained Ministerial Counselor

I am grateful to have the opportunity to share how the Course continues to assist me in this life experience, particularly in the area of parenting.

I have two wonderful college age boys that I now recognize as two of my greatest teachers. This means that they have mirrored to me some of my most limiting beliefs that I have projected onto them. Looking into that mirror and owning the limiting beliefs, all with roots in fear, has not been an easy or pleasant task. It has been messy, emotionally and physically draining at times. However, the results of pulling out the weeds of fear in my garden of life continues to be deeply rewarding. I have experienced more peace and freedom than I ever thought was possible AND I still forget, at times, who I am and who they are.

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May-August, 2025

A Close Encounter

by Sabrina Rollins, Pathways of Light Spiritual Counselor student

“All His children have His total Love…” (T-1.V. 3:3)

I recently had a close encounter with Elon Musk. And before you think this is a political commercial for or against Musk’s actions in the White House, please know that God used Elon to teach me about Love.

I, like many others, have had a challenging time trying to see through the smokescreen of all the mandates emanating from the White House since Jan. 20th. My “right” mind tells me “It’s not real,” yet my “other” mind screams at me: “Look at all the suffering Musk (and Trump) are causing by taking away thousands of Americans’ livelihoods! Look at the millions of people across the world who won’t get the aid they need to stay healthy and fed! People will actually die because of all these mandates! Even your own son may lose his long-held job and be thrust into a position of suddenly not being able to support his family!”

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May-August, 2025

Holy Spirit’s Gentle Lessons in Contrast

by Rev. Nicole Witt, Ordained Ministerial Counselor

“I sure like the wheat bread (that we are out of) more than this sourdough.” (what we had, and he is currently eating), my husband shouted (ok, maybe not shouted, said) from the other room. “Well, I bought that because I was using it for a soup recipe where it gets blended in, so I didn’t buy the good kind that we like.”

A few moments later, I notice I am tense, a little uptight, not in a state of peace.

“In my defenselessness my safety lies.” (W-153)

I defended myself. My husband was merely sharing a preference, and I took it personally and defended myself. My peace was shattered.

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May-August, 2025

Extending Love Is Our Only Purpose

by Revs. Robert & Mary Stoelting, Founders of Pathways of Light

We bring Love into the world as we remember that our true purpose is to extend Love instead of judgment to everyone in this world.

Our Inner Teacher leads us past our individual ‘self’s’ belief in guilt and separation by helping us see the innocence of every brother we see in the dream of separation.

It is the Holy Spirit in our mind that shows us the Light of Love that is the truth of every brother. The Love in every brother is not a dream but the eternal truth of What he is. It is our one true Self that shows us this as we are ready and willing to receive the truth.

In the Course Jesus tells us, “Forget not that the healing of God’s Son is all the world is for. That is the only purpose the Holy Spirit sees in it, and thus the only one it has. Until you see the healing of the Son as all you wish to be accomplished by the world, by time and all appearances, you will not know the Father nor yourself. For you will use the world for what is not its purpose, and will not escape its laws of violence and death.” (T-24.VI.4:1-4)

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May-August, 2025

Bright Light — A Love Song

by Rev. Dan Cratcha, Ordained Ministerial Counselor

A Course in Miracles perspective on the Garden of Eden and Holy Spirit, from the album —  Love Songs to A Course in Miracles.

Sitting in the Garden, under a tree
Just my lady friend and me
Apple fell into my hands 
I took a bite and fell asleep
Crazy dreams that made no sense
North was south and east was west
I need a bright light, to shine thru

Going to places that just aren’t there
Still in the Garden, haven’t moved a hair
Trying to see but I’m running blind
Hallucinations based in time
But I remember something
in the back of my mind
It’s patient and thoughtful and oh so kind
I need a bright light, to shine thru

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May-August, 2025

A Recipe for Peace!

by Rev. Vicki Evans, Ordained Ministerial Counselor

Today I woke up thinking about anger and while acknowledging that anger is a human feeling, I also had thoughts about how anger is almost like its own being.

Holy Spirit even provided me with an emoji type image of a yellow and red flame with arms and legs, running erratically in all directions until it finds a place to ignite. The being of anger is a thief that steals or takes away present moments of joy and happiness, replacing precious memories and peace with bitter thoughts and distorted memories focusing on the negative. Anger also seems to enjoy creating fear for future events which leads to a domino effect of dread in place of happy anticipation!

What combustible elements come together to create this tornado of feelings that replace the calmness of peace?  The emotional cauldron of ego asks for a recipe of the ingredients of judgment, mind reading, false assumptions, fear, frustration, confusion, insecurities and personalization.

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May-August, 2025

The Forgotten Song On the Porch
(God Is and I Cease to Speak)

by Rev. Rev. Bill Poppa, Ordained Ministerial Counselor

“Listen,—perhaps you catch a hint of an ancient state not quite forgotten; dim, perhaps, and yet not altogether unfamiliar, like a song whose name is long forgotten, and the circumstances in which you heard completely unremembered. Not the whole song has stayed with you, but just a little wisp of melody, attached not to a person or a place or anything particular. But you remember, from just this little part, how lovely was the song, how wonderful the setting where you heard it, and how you loved those who were there and listened with you.”
(T-21.I.6)

On my front porch, the world breathes with me. It’s a mid-November morning in New Orleans, and the air feels like a soft embrace, cool enough to awaken but warm enough to comfort. The porch is old and weathered but alive. It sees countless lives and stories that have passed by its steps. The creak of the wooden rocker beneath me feels familiar as if it is an extension of my being.

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May-August, 2025

I Love You Like

by Mary Michele, a student of A Course in Miracles

I love you like a sound
loves a Voice, like the dream
loves to finally wake;

I love you like error loves correction, like forgiveness
loves to heal the ache.

I love you like salvation
loves to cure, I love you like the state loves to always be grace;

I love you like Holy Spirit
loves Its Self, like happy
loves to smile your face.

I love you like purpose loves a job, like words love to say what’s right; I love you like belonging loves to welcome, like understanding loves to shed the Light.

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May-August, 2025

Laughter Is the Best Medicine

by Rev. Vicki Rostant, Ordained Ministerial Counselor

“The ego has never given you a sensible answer to anything.” (T-8.II.2:4) This was a line in the reading for discussion at a recent Sunday ACIM Study Group Meeting, in the section titled, “The Difference between Imprisonment and Freedom.”

When it was read, at first I smiled, then I heard myself laugh out loud! This was followed by a breakthrough: I saw exactly how VERY seriously I have always taken everything, and I mean everything — my responsibilities, my duties, the Course, doing-the-right-thing, decisions, life and its challenges, etc., etc.

Then I saw very clearly all the anger and judgements that come with holding that position. In that holy instant, the truth in that sentence radiated very brightly. It cracked open my self-imposed prison, and revealed the Light.

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May-August, 2025

An Extraordinary Opportunity

by Rev. Myron Jones, Ordained Ministerial Counselor

Every time I see someone as if this is the only moment of their existence, I am undoing the separation. I see that one as they are now and without a past, and that is a miracle. It is a miracle of true perception and a miracle of healing brought into the world. If I see my child as if a moment ago doesn’t exist, he is pure in my mind. If I do that for you, you become pure in my mind. Now you are the same. If I have done it for me, then we are all three the same. The miracle has helped me to know that we are all aspects of the One. We are each whole and each part of the Whole.

As I do this in the world, I have accomplished forgiveness in its truest sense. I have accepted the Atonement. This is my gift to the world, this deliberate choice to use Christ vision to bring Light into a darkened world.

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