Inspiration for Healing Through Changing Your Mind --The articles in this newsletter are written by people from around the world who are taking their perceived problems to the Holy Spirit, and sharing their miracles stories of how their thoughts are being healed.

What Is My Level of Peace with This? -- by Rev. Mary Stoelting

The world was made to make separation seem real. The world was made to make bodies seem real. In this world the stories of limitation and problems we make up and believe in really do appear to be real. In my life, it often appears like there is not enough time to get everything done that needs to be done. When I think that, I have forgotten that I am making that problem up to keep separation going.

In ACIM Workbook, Lessons 79 and 80, I am reminded that there is only one problem -- my belief in separation, and that this problem has already been solved. This understanding helps me to remember to step back and ask, "What is my level of peace with my perception of this situation?"

If I am wrapped up in thinking that the 'problem' is real, I will feel a sense of urgency or distress about it. I will not feel peaceful. I might feel vulnerable or defensive or afraid. When I am in this state of mind, I have forgotten that God is my strength and vision is His gift.

When I forget, I might think I have to solve this problem on my own. The truth is that when I do this, I am making separation real. In truth, only Love is real. This world of bodies with all its 'problems' is not real. Believing in separation is the only problem and the return to oneness is the only solution. So how do I apply this in my life where it seems like there is a steady flow of problems? How do I recognize that what I am feeling or experiencing is a signal that I am trying to make separation real?

Recently at the dinner table there was a discussion about finding a solution to a perceived problem. I found myself straining to figure it out. I observed that I was not peaceful. When I backed off, I got more peaceful. When I am not wrapped up in making the problem too important, I relax.

With the Holy Spirit's peace, the problem is seen differently, with ease rather than strain, stress or struggle. Then I am open for a peaceful solution to come into my mind.

I am learning that if I take the problem too seriously, I am making separation real. Lack of peace is a signal that this is what I am doing. If I remember to ask, "What is my level of peace with this?" I can step back and give the 'problem' to the Holy Spirit. As I return to accepting peace, my perception about the problem is open to change. I remember to listen and receive. I remember not to take this world of separation seriously. Only Love is real. This is only a dream of separation. The world never really happened. I am safe in Heaven. Everyone in the dream is safe in Heaven. No one has really left Heaven.

Let me recognize there is only one problem -- separation. Let my mind be healed. Asking myself, "What is my level of peace with this?" helps me come back to sanity. I then remember to open up my mind to receive the truth of everyone's oneness in God. All is safe in God. No one ever really left God. God is all. Love is all. I remember not to take the story too seriously. I now can be happy again. I can be truly helpful again. Only Love is real. The rest is illusion.

Rev. Mary Stoelting is co-founder of Pathways of Light living in Kiel, Wisconsin.
Email: office@pathwaysoflight.org

Be Willing to See the Truth --by Rev. Robert Stoelting

In a recent meditation, I received the following insight from my Inner Teacher.

God's will for you is perfect happiness, because that is His will for Himself. He created you one with Him so He cannot will for you what He does not will for Himself. If you are not experiencing perfect happiness, you are rejecting His will, which is your will. You have replaced it with an illusion of a will that opposes your true will and God's, which are the same.

Because God is all that is real, the opposing will that you made up cannot be real. But because you believe in what you made, you experience this opposing will as real. Because you forgot that you made it up, you do not recognize it as of your own making, and so perceive it as a will imposed on you. You believe you are powerless against this will, its victim and its slave.

Yet how can you be a slave of your own idea, a thought that remains in your mind, a thought that is held in place only by your belief in it? It is only your forgetting that it is your idea that makes this seeming opposing will appear powerful and frightening. It is not so.

You are the maker of the world you see. Everything you see is a reflection of your thoughts and beliefs. Your world changes when your thoughts and beliefs change. You have had experiences of this when you thought you understood the meaning of a situation. But when you learned new information about the situation, you realized you had misinterpreted the meaning. With the new information, the meaning changed. Use these experiences as reminders that in every situation, there is another meaning than the one you are giving it through your interpretation of the body's senses.

As you open your mind to the possibility of another interpretation, you make way for a new vision. You become willing to be taught.

With your willingness, your Inner Teacher will show you the Light beyond the darkness of your mistaken interpretations. This is how you can free yourself from the tyranny of an imagined will in opposition to God's and yours. You cannot do it alone because you made the opposing will and believe in it. But your Inner Teacher does not believe in it and knows your true will. He will lead you steadily back to the remembrance of your will. It is a path to joy.

If you feel fear, sadness, anger or grief, anything other than peace, remind yourself, "This darkness is not true. I am willing to see the Light of truth." Ask your Inner Teacher, "Help me to see what is real and true in this situation." Your Inner Teacher will lovingly and gently guide you to the light of happiness. What used to seem to be an insurmountable mountain of fear will dwindle to a little pile of dust, a minor disturbance that you easily sweep aside as you walk on to the Light.

This is what God wants for you -- complete serenity, perfect happiness and eternal Love. There is nothing else.

Rev. Robert Stoelting is co-founder of Pathways of Light living in Kiel, Wisconsin.
Email: office@pathwaysoflight.org

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The Fellowship of the Ring --by Rev. Lorraine Merritt

Being an Ordained Ministerial Counselor with Pathways of Light puts a whole new spin on the title "The Fellowship of The Ring."

I began my studies with Pathways of Light in 1998 and was ordained in 1999. From the onset, which was a glimpse at Pathways' ad in On Course magazine in June of 1998 at an Attitudinal Healing Conference in Orlando, Florida, I felt within me a shift of my sense of my personal place in the world.

I have three children, belonged to a church in Florida, lived in an adult community (very close to the neighbors on either side) and had lots of relatives and friends in Florida and New Jersey. However, I walked and lived with a feeling of being the one branch that didn't fit in with the others when they were being wound around the tree trunk. I have collected Little Drummer Boys for years, thinking all the while that I marched to a different drummer. I felt a separation from everyone around me, which left me standing one space apart from my brothers.

As I sat at my PC connecting into Pathways' web site, a stirring began in my heart and my gut. Thanks to Pathways' prompt handling of such matters, the program and product catalogs reached me within days. Oh, how I wanted to be part of this wonderful Mission. I called immediately and arrangements were made to ship out Step 1 of "the rest of my life" to me, the lone branch, the Little Drummer Boy, ME! I received the package several days later and was beside myself with eagerness. When I called to speak with the minister assigned to facilitate my studies, I was told she was not available. She had gone on a trip and would be back in two or three weeks. Oh, NO! What now?

Here we go again. Mary Stoelting was the Angel I was speaking with on the phone. I needed my facilitator to do the Opening Preparation with me. Mary said she would do the Opening with me. And, she did. The Fellowship of The Ring begins. It was as if I were no longer alone. I felt as if I were part of a Circle of Love. The courses I studied brought awareness of my real place, my real space. My daily living, thoughts and actions were guided with loving insight from Holy Spirit.

When I was picked up at the airport, The Fellowship of The Ring was evident and in full swing. Arrival on campus kept the Circle shining and glowing. All the facilitators on staff, the other participants (there were nine of us being ordained), our wonderful founders Robert and Mary Stoelting, the Monday night group who come every week for ACIM studies and for The Fellowship of The Ring, the Advisory Council who came to approve the ministerial candidate applications, the families and friends who came to witness the ordination, each and every one were loving, trusting and willing sharers of The Fellowship of The Ring.

I have come to Pathways of Light Center in Kiel, Wisconsin for a while. Holy Spirit is in charge of that. I know full well that I fit in with all the other branches of this Fellowship. This Circle of which I am part, this connection with all my brothers, this existence in the Light, Love and Peace of God, is the only true Fellowship of The Ring. I am able to know my Truth in this Fellowship.

And so it is.

Rev. Lorraine Merritt is a Pathways of Light minister living in Kiel, Wisconsin.
Email: reverendcookie@cs.com

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