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Miracles News, May–Aug., 2026

 

“I Accept
Holy Spirit’s
Help.”

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Remembering the Dreamer

by Rev. Bill Poppa, Ordained Ministerial Counselor

I am 67 years old, which means I have been watching the world’s conflicts unfold for as long as I can remember. When I was five years old, I remember sitting in front of the television as the nation watched the assassination of John F. Kennedy. For days the coverage continued, culminating in the shocking moment when Lee Harvey Oswald himself was shot on live television. Not long after, the Vietnam War filled our living rooms each evening as the nightly news reported the body count of American soldiers. Even as a child, it was impossible not to feel that something about the world was deeply unsettled.

The 1960s brought a cultural upheaval as well. Protests and riots filled the streets while a younger generation began questioning the institutions their parents had trusted. At the same time, music carried a different message. Dylan and the folk singers gave voice to a longing for truth and peace, while The Beatles symbolized a generation searching for a new way to live. Yet conflict never seemed to leave the stage.

Before I was born, two world wars had already taken tens of millions of lives. The Great Depression and devastating droughts reshaped the early twentieth century. In my own lifetime I have watched the Cold War dominate global politics, and later the attacks of 9/11 change the course of history. The wars in Afghanistan and Iraq followed, reshaping geopolitics for decades. And even now the pattern continues. Drug cartels destabilize regions closer to home, global powers reposition themselves, and old geopolitical ideas like the Monroe Doctrine are quietly reconsidered. As I write, the war rages on in the Middle East.

The players change, but the stage remains the same. The ego, much like the law of gravity, always seems to steal the show.

And yet A Course in Miracles offers a completely different interpretation. It teaches that the world we see is not the cause of our suffering but the projection of a mind that believes it has separated from God. Conflict, whether between nations or individuals, reflects that deeper belief in separation.

The miracle does not fix the dream. It simply reminds the mind that it is the dreamer, not the dream. Through forgiveness, perception begins to shift. What once looked like enemies become mirrors. What once appeared as chaos becomes a classroom.

The Holy Spirit gently reminds us that we are not victims of the world we see. We are the dreamer of the dream. And as the dreamer begins to awaken, something remarkable happens. The world may still appear to move through its familiar cycles of conflict and reconciliation, but the mind that once felt trapped within it begins to experience peace.

I am learning, slowly and imperfectly, that forgiveness is not something we offer the world. It is the quiet way the mind remembers it was never separate from God. And in that remembering, something else becomes clear. Though forgiveness is not something we offer the world, it is nonetheless the salvation of the world.

Not because the world has changed, but because the dreamer has.

Until the dream ends completely, forgiveness remains our practice. It is the quiet way the Light returns to memory. As the Course reminds us:

Forgiveness is the key to happiness. (W-pI.121.13:6)

And perhaps that is the miracle hidden beneath the long arc of human history: even when the ego appears to steal the show, the Light of Christ quietly reminds the dreamer that nothing was ever lost.

Rev. Bill Poppa is a Pathways of Light minister living in New Orleans, LA.
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They Are My Classroom, Not My Problem

by Rev. Myron Jones, Ordained Ministerial Counselor

“Who is there but wishes to be free of pain? He may not yet have learned how to exchange guilt for innocence, nor realize that only in this exchange can freedom from pain be his. Yet those who have failed to learn need teaching, not attack. To attack those who have need of teaching is to fail to learn from them.” (T-14.V.5:5-8)

As I sit with this passage, I see that the Atonement is really about our shared innocence, and that the miracle is simply the recognition of guiltlessness. When I attack, I am not correcting anything; I am failing to learn. And those I am tempted to see as needing correction are actually offering me an opportunity to remember the truth.

Here is the sentence that stood out to me in this paragraph:
“To attack those who have need of teaching is to fail to learn from them.”

To accept the Atonement (God’s plan for our salvation), recognizing the innocence in everyone is what is required. Everyone. I first must acknowledge that the Atonement is needed.

There are times when I still see myself or others as guilty, though the practice of the Course has lessened those times. Still, I read the news every day. I don’t read a lot, just the headlines and an occasional article, but some. And of course, since I spend time on Facebook, I see more news.

I’ve noticed a difference in this lately. Reading the news, a headline catches my attention, and maybe the first thought is a judgment. But I also notice that I acknowledge it, and then I easily let it go.

That was not always the case at all. I used to ignore those judgments, or if they felt strong to me, I would ‘try’ to let them go. In other words, I was playing lip service to guiltlessness. I didn’t want to let them go.

That does not happen anymore. This Course stuff really works! Who knew? Just joking, of course. Yes, it does work if we keep at it.

Here is why I think that at least paying lip service was helpful when I couldn’t yet do otherwise. The truth is in my mind. It is just obscured by my attention to the ego. So when I remind myself that guiltlessness is my goal, even when I am not sure that it is, I am awakening the memory that this really is true. I am awakening the memory of our Oneness.

So, reluctant compliance with our only function is a step toward it. Eventually, the effect of doing these practices encourages more enthusiasm and desire for the Atonement.

In the practice of reading the news, I discovered the strongest tendency to judge when fear was triggered. This happened often with political situations that I judged as unacceptable and so I judged harshly those who were responsible. Because of the element of fear involved, it took much longer for me to shift my thinking about this, but that occurred as well.

It did not mean that I ignored events or that I didn’t do what I could to help. But I helped everyone concerned. Not just the ones who agreed with me. I did it without making anyone guilty. It is only recently that this became an established reaction for me, and it is such a relief to be free of judgment and all the emotions that came with it.

Now here is where that sentence comes in. “To attack those who have need of teaching is to fail to learn from them.” In the world, people harm others, act selfishly at others’ expense, and make poor decisions that affect others. When we make those decisions, we are responsible for their effects, but no one is guilty. If I think they are, I have attacked them instead of teaching them. In so doing, I have failed to learn from them.

How do I teach them? Most of them I will never have contact with, and they would not be interested in my help anyway. My help comes in the form of non-judgment, and from there, I can love and support them on their journey. This is done in my mind, but that is where everything actually takes place anyway, so it is helpful.

What we learn from those we are tempted to judge is not about them at all. In noticing how I feel when I hold guilt, I learn how painful it is, and I discover that I do not have to keep it. I learn that innocence restores peace, and that attack always hurts the attacker. This is what they teach us, if we are willing to learn.

Those whom I have judged and found guilty have given me the opportunity to be free of pain. By choosing to see their innate innocence, the contrast in how I feel teaches me that living in guilt is indeed painful. They are my classroom. Not my problem. And if I fail to be helpful to them, I have missed an opportunity to heal my own mind and to put myself back on the path of Atonement.

This teaching is just as helpful in my personal relationships with family and friends. It can be just as tempting to judge in these situations and to see guilt where there is none. Maybe even more so because we have a history together. And we teach ourselves to expect certain behaviors, so we can end up judging on our expectations, whether they play out or not. The problem is the same, and so is the solution.

Jesus tells us not to arrest our sight at the body. I try to look past what the body says and does to the Self that is their reality. To the degree I am successful, I also begin to see myself in the same light.

Rev. Myron Jones, OMC, is a Pathways of Light Spiritual Counselor living in Westlake, LA. Email: .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)  Website: forgivenessisthewayhome.org https://www.youtube.com/@RevMyron

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The Peace of Not Knowing

by Rev. Stella Berthelette, Ordained Ministerial Counselor

Sometimes peace returns in the most unexpected way — through a single sentence remembered at exactly the right moment.

This past year asked a great deal of me. My life seemed to rearrange itself all at once — moving, renovations, changes in my partnership, and a professional workload that brought an enormous amount of trauma into my office each day. It felt as though everything accelerated simultaneously, like standing where several currents meet. Somewhere in the midst of it all, anxiety quietly returned.

When the mind feels overwhelmed it tries to take control, and mine was no different. It began organizing the future, evaluating my path, and trying to determine what should happen next. I found myself thinking more and more about the direction of my work and the gifts people often see in me. For more than twenty-five years I have shown up for others, holding space for their healing and their stories, yet another thought had begun to surface quietly beneath the surface of that work.

I am getting older — or so the body would suggest. And with that simple thought the mind began measuring time, as though the gifts of God could ever be limited by it.

It is remarkable how much noise the mind can gather around such a simple realization. Questions began circling: How long am I meant to continue doing this work in the way I have been doing it? Is there another expression of these gifts waiting to emerge? I feel drawn toward coaching and teaching through the principles of A Course in Miracles, yet the form of that calling still feels undefined. When the mind does not know the future, it often fills the space with worry.

Throughout this year, however, one quiet habit continued to guide me. In my personal life I have learned to take A Course in Miracles quite literally. When a passage appears, I listen. When guidance arises, I follow it. Time and again that simple trust has proven dependable.

One morning, feeling particularly tired and uncertain, I opened the Manual for Teachers and found myself reading Section 6: “Is Healing Certain?” The opening line felt like a bell sounding through the noise of my thinking: “Healing is always certain.” (M-6.1:1)

Something in my mind softened immediately. The Course was reminding me that healing does not depend on my ability to manage life or anticipate the future. As I continued reading, another sentence seemed to rise quietly from the page: “It is not the function of God’s teachers to evaluate the outcome of their gifts. It is merely their function to give them.” (M-6.3:1–2)

In that moment I could see clearly what had been happening in my mind. My anxiety had not come from the work itself, nor from the changes unfolding around me. It had come from trying to determine what my gifts were for — trying to measure their outcomes, decide where they should lead, and when they should take a different form. But the Course quietly removes that burden. Our function is simply to give the gifts we have been given. The rest is not ours to determine.

Further down the page another passage settled into my mind like still water: “How can it be lost? How can it be ineffectual? How can it be wasted? God’s treasure house can never be empty.” (M-6.4:5–8)

If nothing given in Love is ever lost, then none of our offerings are wasted — not the years spent listening, not the quiet compassion extended to another, not the simple willingness to show up and allow healing to unfold. All of it rests safely in God’s storehouse.

Reading this, something inside me softened in a way I had not expected. The pressure I had been carrying about the future — about age, about direction, about what my work should become — began to loosen. I do not know what any of this is for. I do not know how these gifts will evolve, or when their form may change.

But I do know this: Healing is certain.

The outcome itself was never uncertain. What had been uncertain was only my willingness to trust that the outcome already rests in God. And in that moment the mind grows quiet.

“What concern, then, can a teacher of God have about what becomes of his gifts?” (M-6.4:11)

Nothing given in God can be lost. Nothing offered in Love can be wasted. The outcome was never uncertain.

Healing is certain. The gifts have already been received where they were truly given. And so the mind no longer tries to determine the future. It rests instead in the strength of God — and in the deep peace of not needing to know.

Rev. Stella Berthelette, OMC, is a Pathways of Light minister living in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)

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