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All You Need Is the Love of God -- by Rachel Tredinnick

My lease was up and I was in the need of a place to live. I was getting pretty worried, money, etc., etc.... The Holy Spirit continued to remind me, "You are Home wherever you go." Although deeply comforting, a tiny part of me still feared having no illusory shelter to rest my head! Time elapsed and I grew more and more tense about the situation. Fluctuating between the truth of not really needing anything but Love and the sneaky, fearful thoughts of suffering and loss.

Now, in a miraculous way, I am able to live by the ocean in a house for a small sum. The landlord needs medical help and I, trained in medicine, am able to swap gifts! What a beautiful answer to my prayer! I was skipping and laughing exuberantly on the beach. thanking God, when I heard Him say this...

All you need is the Love of God...

Yet the Holy Spirit will provide all that
you need, while you think you still need it!

All you need is the Love of God...

Yet the Holy Spirit will provide all that
you need, while you think you need it!

All you need is the Love of God...

Yet the Holy Spirit will provide all that
you need, while you think you need it!

The Blessings in My New Job -- by Rev. Julie Thornell

I was very leery about taking this new job. The job is working with people who are mentally unstable, and this can be challenging at times. I also had heard many terrible things said about my new co-worker, and how impossible he was to work with. I took the job anyway, feeling that I could handle it with the help of Holy Spirit.

I consider it to be part of my job to send peace and love to my work place while driving to work. Because there is a lot of down time with this job, I am able to do a lot of reading of my favorite spiritual material while at work.

During the day the co-worker I described above would come up to me and complain about everything. He just continued to complain and complain. As he went on and on, I would practice blessing him mentally, instead of defending.

While at work I have the opportunity to practice the Course lesson that I am giving everything in the world all the meaning that it has for me. As I hear him complain, I am learning to ask myself, "What meaning am I giving to this?" Am I feeling a need to defend or attack back, or am I willing to see it as his call for Love?" As I mentally ask the Holy Spirit for help in seeing him differently, I find myself gently blessing him in my mind instead of trying to find ways to avoid him. As I remember my new job is just to see the innocence in him, I can relax and extend peace instead of ramping into tension.

Another important function of my job is to do bed checks on the patients at night. My job is to take the flashlight and shine it on them. When I do this, I mentally say, "You are total Love -- and nothing else." This also helps me strengthen the truth about my true reality in Love.

When I leave work, I am thankful that I have the opportunity to practice remembering the Truth about my brothers and myself, no matter what they may be thinking about themselves or what I am thinking about myself.

One day, another co-worker was bad-mouthing this co-worker and I made a comment. After I did this, I felt guilty and stopped. That night, I felt this co-worker was really attacking me. After looking at it closer, I realized that I was feeling guilty for bad-mouthing him. I then took a couple of minutes to turn the guilt over the Holy Spirit. After I did this inner healing work, he never attacked me again. What I am learning from this is that when I feel guilty, then I see attack. The next night, I set the intent to see only his innocence. That night, I saw a lot of good in him. I am starting to see how powerful seeing innocence and extending Love really is. I am seeing I really am writing my own script. What I see out there is really coming from my mind.

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The Angel Haly -- by Rev. Georgeann Medved

Our grandniece, Haly Elizabeth Race, was born July 20, 2000, on a very close cousin's birthday.

Haly was a beautiful baby who had a rare genetic disorder of which only 1,000 cases exist in the entire world. During her first year of life she had surgery to close 3 holes in her heart. At 7 months old, she was not gaining weight and the doctors felt she would die if the surgery was not preformed. Three months later she had surgery for cancer that was discovered during the heart surgery. Haly bounced back very quickly from both procedures. She had real gusto! She was inspiring to watch.

Haly was also born with no thumbs and some bones missing from her arms. However, she used her very deformed hands and arms to reach for, pick up, play with and hold everything. She often gave me her toys to play with when I visited. In August 2001, she still weighed only 17 pounds but learned to walk, which was an engineering feat, so I understand. Amazing!

In April of 2002, a bone marrow transplant was attempted to cure Franconi's Anemia. It failed. Our hearts broke, but Haly's spirit did not. She inspired me to keep placing her in God's hands and let Him take care of her.

Again in October, 2002, still weighing only 17 pounds, Haly was prepared for a second bone marrow transplant that was supposed to take place on November 6. On that day Haly chose to go into cardiac arrest and cross over into Heaven to be with God before the transplant was started.

November 6th was the 20th anniversary of our cousin Scott's (Mary's husband's) death. He was 37 years old when he died of a sudden and unexpected heart attack. I personally believe that he helped Haly step across the great divide into peace with our Creator and His infinite wisdom.

Haly was buried on my husband Joe's birthday (November 11). This day is also the anniversary of Joe's Grandfather Stanley's death. Stanley died 37 years ago.

We are all honored that Haly chose these very special dates to share with us in a very loving way. I personally will never forget Haly, who I believe is a very special messenger from God. I thank God for every day she was with us and inspired me.

From Course 202: The Healing Bridge of Symbols & Rituals, I have chosen an angel as Haly's everlasting symbol.

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Radiant Christ•mas Lights -- by Rev. Therese Ward

Amid all the hustle and bustle and lure of Christmas shopping that began in earnest before Halloween, I take pause today to sit at my kitchen table, sip Cinnamon Apple Spice tea and look out on a winter wonderland in my back yard. Three days old wet snow covers the grass, leaving a medicine wheel design peaking through from the warmer cement stepping stones. Every needle of pine, every twig of tree, is shimmering in translucent ice. The redbirds are at the feeder while a squirrel, eyeing from a nearby tree, waits his chance.

Splendor, sheer splendor is my proclamation on this winter world scene. My eyes come to rest on the tall, lone, undecorated Blue Spruce "Christmas" tree. No tinsel, plastics and glass for this "star" tree. It has a radiance of it's own. In fact the whole yard is shining this light.

My thoughts jump to human beings and how we are "trees of life." Our spine is the central circuit bringing heaven to earth. Our glands, the generators illuminating consciousness; our chakras, glowing a rainbow of colors and The Christ star, in which we live, move and have our being, shining above our head.

Each of us IS a living Christ•mas tree, the essence of Christ embodied, of which our decorated trees are but a symbol. Christ•mas is happening NOW, through, with, in and as us. Our lights are turning on. Christ•mas vision brings Peace to all men of good will means, when we are Willing to let Holy Spirit light the way. Christ•mas is here, now, everyday, when we let Holy Spirit lead the way.

The words to an old Christmas song took on a whole new meaning for me recently:

Oh Holy Night... (in the quietness) The stars are brightly shining... (unseen Masters) This is the night of the dear Savior's birth... (It happens in us. We become savior.) Long lay the world in "sin" and error pining... (We've been making pain and suffering for ourselves through our nightmare dreams.) Till He appeared... (till we see Christ's vision) And the soul felt it's worth... (We know who we are -- extensions of Love.) A thrill of hope... (for the human self) A weary world rejoices... (Our ordinariness sings out.)

For yonder breaks ... (The veil is rent.) A new and glorious morn ... (We experience the holy instant.) Fall on your knees... (The ego dissolves, we surrender.) Oh hear the angel's voices (we hear the Voice for God) Oh night divine (we experience Divine nature) Oh night when Christ was born (We know our Divine nature even as we experience our human nature.)

So I ask us, are we getting Christ•mas? If not, why not? It's the greatest gift of all. In truth, the only Gift.

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Brian holds to a conservative practice of a traditional religion. And me, embracing holy instants, Inner Wisdom, and other such "cultish" beliefs. Oh, and the big divider -- giving up a belief in sin. Getting into warm discussions around religion/spirituality has pushed our buttons a few times. Since my move to the neighboring county though, it has seemed safer to stand back from touchy subjects. Well, there are the inevitable leaks in these kinds of silent agreements.

This afternoon some comments were made in the direction of some of our other sacred cows, leading to reaction on both sides. Later, I took a walk wondering how that had happened, regretting that it had. But we got on with the day of celebrating, as the energy of four children, new toys, and lots of food will provide.

After dinner, Brian and I were left together at the table, and he broached a subject I felt relieved to discuss... yeah I can handle this. Somehow that comfort zone was lost when our sharing led to spirituality... and his comment that he feels we are on totally opposite ends of the spectrum in belief.

I share that I believe we are very much alike; both gentle, loving, deeply spiritual people. No, he doesn't see that. "Mom, I don't see that your spiritual practice has brought you that deep core of happiness from which to live. I see you as having a lot of problems." I respond that my willingness to grow brings my issues to the surface for me to sit with, and yes, they do show on me, for I've chosen a life-style of very few distractions. He says he can see that. Yet, "If I would look at my sins of the past ..."(Whew, no recall of the rest of his statement).

I do not remember how we concluded this conversation, or if we did. I was shaken, holding this implosion at bay, while I attempted an evening of joining with my grandchildren. (And mindlessly stuffing Christmas cookies in my mouth... one after another.) An invitation to spend a second night was extended, and I gratefully accepted.

I laid in bed wide awake, my spiritual core seemingly shaken. If Brian can't see the evidence of my strong spirituality, the joy that flows from me, then perhaps I have failed. The center I live from must be a false one, if someone who loves and cares about me doesn't witness it. One of the reasons I relocated to this area was to share love and growth with this beautiful family. Is this discounted in his eyes too?

What's the point? The bliss I'd experienced in their church service that morning... a sham. My steadfastness with A Course in Miracles... poof. I think of my friends who share my path, these same core beliefs, who also appear to be struggling. Are we all missing something?

I watch my reactive thoughts. OK, this gives me permission to pull back, to not have as much interaction with this family. The thoughts I've entertained of moving on to another region... this is my permission. It's like the whole day was a setup to validate what was on my mind.

Feeling crushed, like the legs kicked out from under me, I sit with the feelings of emptiness, loss... My stressful thoughts and feelings are keeping me wide awake.

And now I turn it over to the Holy Spirit... I don't recall what happened after that... All I know is I awoke hours later feeling peaceful, with a sense of all stress and doubt erased... And my core spiritual strength returned and actually upped an amp. Though the self-doubt had been there, my trust in Holy Spirit never wavered. There were no resolutions, no person made wrong... just peace.

In the glow from the candles in the windows, I begin to write, nudged by a desire to share with others that, when someone we love questions our living (loving), and it seems momentarily that living (loving) hasn't served us... it really has, is, and continues to. The wellspring only seems to be stilled for a moment.

My lesson is to continue to "show up" again and again, happier and freer than the day before. Getting it right in someone else's eyes isn't the point. I have Holy Spirit's vision to guide me through the self-doubt. The enlivened promise of Christmas is fulfilled.

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