Miracles News

October - December, 2005

The Prison

by Rev. Veronika Wilcox

image I had sat down to have an open and honest talk with my husband. Then came the old grievance — he can’t understand why we are now having this difficulty when the first few years we got on exceptionally well. I accuse him for not letting go of the past and for not liking me as I am now but always comparing me to how I used to be in the beginning.

I went to my room because I was beginning to feel upset. The inner pain poured out in bitter tears. With it came the hurt voice of the ego feeling bitter resentment. But I knew I was not alone and everything was in His Presence.

Then I realized that I was in the ‘bubble.’ (from the Accessing Inner Wisdom process) The grievance was very pleased it was in the bubble because it wanted to hide from the truth. It was cornered because Truth is everywhere. I could hear Truth’s quiet Voice: Is this what your husband says and what angers and hurts you so actually true?

I stopped and said, NO! More pain tried to surface but this was the end. I saw clearly that I had based my self worth on his view of me. But I now remembered that my worth was established by God and changes not.

I told my husband the insight that we were miserable because we both had put our feeling of self worth on how the other evaluated him/her. And that in the first few years, when we were still newly weds, we had only seen the good in each other! But now we had stopped doing this. It was time for a shift to practice seeing in the other again the Love he/she really is. This was a major healing for me. I could see how simple it is to just bring illusions to the truth. The only question I need to have is:“true or false?”Thank you Holy Spirit for your eternal Presence.


The Prison

I am sitting in my little prison. It is round like some tower but not as high. Above, little windows all around with bars. I sit here and defend my kingdom against any intruders. I am even ready to take one of the bars down to defend myself with by attacking any brother who might threaten to take away this prison – kingdom.

Then I look up at the prison bar, reach out, touch it and remove it. I thought I had to pull really hard to do this but it comes off easily the moment I had the thought.

Well, I think, why not remove another one? As soon as I had thought this the bar disappeared. This intrigued me. How about thinking ‘door.’ At this, one appeared. It was shut. I thought of it as open and it opened instantly. I could now see the light and parts of a landscape. I thought of stepping outside and I found myself outside looking at a vast and beautiful landscape before me.

Now I am thinking of all my imprisoned brothers who sit in just such a prison as I have left behind me. I see them all huddled up tight in there, not wanting to move for fear that their current state of being might be changed. I call out to them. I throw some stones up to the windows and beckon them to step out and to join me to explore this magnificent landscape with me.

I can do no more then call. When and how they follow is their decision. I now step forward into the landscape. It lays there, bathed in Light. I know that I walk not alone but all those who have gone before are with me and all those behind will follow when they are ready.

Rev. Veronika Birken is a Pathways of Light minister who lives in Bega Valley, Australia.

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