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July-September, 2017

You Are Perfect Love

by Rev. Susan Comello, O.M.C.

Once upon a time I was a sad, lonely human being. Or at least that’s what I believed. Everything was always so hard! I worked and efforted and would try so hard to be happy, to be even okay. But it was always more problems, more disappointments, more hardship. Those times when I did feel some happiness or love always had a cloud hanging over me with a hidden message of gloom: “Even if you are happy for awhile, it will end!”

So fear also was my constant companion, along with the sadness, the confusion, and the belief that something was wrong with me for feeling so bad. A lose-lose life. Poor little me.

In my 30’s, I went to college to learn how to be a counselor for children, believing that perhaps, if I was able to help kids, they would not grow up to feel so alone and fearful in this world. And I would find some meaning in life. In my final year, I was doing an internship. I was also ending a relationship that had been good for a few years, but then his alcoholism became too much to bear, and so I was sad again.

There was a conference, called SingleFest in Spring, and because of my sadness, I went to the conference to meet someone or learn something or to find a way to hope again. The conference was actually good with some great experiences for me. But the gift of all gifts was meeting Robert and Mary that day.

I was tired from being there most of the day and decided to just give all the booths a glance. In a sea of booths and people, I saw a very interesting T-shirt from across the room. It was white with a picture of the Earth on it — the words said “All One People.”

I was drawn to it like a bee to the most beautiful flower. I went straight to the booth and started to talk to Robert and Mary. They were so humble and yet so warm. They showed me the (green printed) brochure from Munedowk.  (That’s what Pathways was called in 1990.)  And I saw the picture of the lake.

Folks, truth is, it was the lake that called to me. I bought the shirt (and still have it) and I dreamed about how I could go to the retreat in July, since I had two kids at home and no job or money, I didn’t know how I could ever do it. But Mary knew.

Mary and I spoke on the phone a few times over the next couple months. I told her about my situation and her response was complete love. She would say things to me like, “You are perfect love.” When she first said this to me, I was stunned. I was speechless. I had never heard anything like this in my life. I could not really understand what she was saying, but she kept saying it to me in different conversations and slowly, the truth started to sink in.

Over the years I have had so many loving experiences both in person and on the phone, that I began to open to the possibility that I am truly pure love. It took a pretty long time (yet, what the heck is time?). But eventually, I let the Truth be in me more and more fully.  

I did go to the retreat that July  (I made beds and washed dishes and found eight different babysitters/family to watch my kids for 11 days). I got to swim in the healing water of Love Lake,  I found A Course in Miracles and became lifelong friends with my family of Pathways members. This has changed my life forever.  

I now know I am perfect love, even if I forget, I KNOW I will remember! Yippee!! I have faith in love.

I went to a retreat last week.. A friend had just told about her meeting with the Dalai Lama. I heard Spirit say, “It’s like when Mary first said You are perfect love, so maybe I will tell that story.” Sometimes I am shy with new people, but I felt the inspiration to share this story, even though these were not Course people. When I shared the story at lunch, I was speaking to five or six women, and when I said the part about, “You are perfect love,” I looked right into the eyes of a young woman, who seemed to drink in my words, open and receiving what I said. “Yes!” they all said, “a beautiful story.”  

After the retreat, the young woman found me and told me how much my story meant to her. She remembered a story about a teacher who had said something so meaningful to her when she was younger. She said that she had forgotten until I shared at lunch. And so, Love extends.  

When I shared this whole story with Robert and Mary and fellow ministers, I said that I was feeling the role shift in me from the scared, lonely person I had been when I first heard those words, to one of the teachers of God, who knows the Truth and is now extending what I have been given. Mary said, “Perhaps you would like to share the story in Miracles News and extend the love even more.” And on and on love flows. We come back to where we have never left. We share the one Perfect Love with each and every brother and with God. We are all ONE perfect love. Thank you God.

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