Finding Our Way Back to Love

Truth or Dream

A friend of mine gave me a plant bulb for Christmas.  At first I thought, poor plant you’re gonna die. I almost didn’t even want to plant it because I knew with my lack of green thumb abilities the outcome was inevitable. But as reluctant as I was I put the soil into the pot and stuck the bulb in and then added the water it needed.  I put it in my kitchen window so it would get the right amount of light.  Every day while I am washing the dishes I watch my plant grow.  At first it wasn’t very noticeable, but soon I started noticing the shoot looked a little longer.  It was such a minute amount that I would measure it so I would be sure it wasn’t dying but actually alive and growing.  Then one day I saw a little bud just starting to peek out.  I got so excited.  I thought it’s going to make it after all.  I imagine it will be a radiant red flower, bold and beautiful in all its glory.  Then I got really sad. It really is gonna die.  All the beauty it exudes, and then it will live shortly enough to display itself in vivid color and then wilt and die.  Is that what life is?  A peek of the world and then we just rot and decay. Then I read in ACIM, “You dream of a separated ego and believe in a world that rests upon it. This is very real to you.  You cannot undo it by changing your mind about it.  If you are willing to renounce the role of guardian of your thought system and open it to me, I will correct it very gently and lead you back to God.” If I continued to believe in the ego and its plan for me I would really be depressed. But now I am learning through the Holy Spirit that what I thought I knew, was just an illusion that I created. The more I invest in the world I see, the more conflict I see.  Why would God who Loves us create us to watch us die. This is the same God I used to believe sent non- believers to hell fire to burn in eternity. Wow what an image we created.  For in truth, “God is as incapable of creating the perishable as the ego is of making the eternal.” I thought I am so glad that Holy Spirit said He will gently correct my thinking because it seems like everything I once believed to be true was incorrect.  I kind of feel like the guy in the movie, A Beautiful Mind when he realized everything he knew as his truth, his friends, his life was an illusion brought on from his mental illness. Whereas mine is just a dream that I created. But as I listen to Holy Spirit I realize how insane the belief in the egos lies really is.  Because God really does Love us he could not create us imperfect and perishable.  His Love is eternal not hell fire. He created us perfect, and the Holy Spirit is helping us remember that.  I am so grateful that He communicates with us through the language of Spirit; as we become more willing to go to Him for guidance He plants thoughts or imagery in my mind that shows me the truth. This gives a whole new perspective on “the truth will set you free”. In truth we are eternal, we are beautiful we are Love, just as God created us.
Rev. Peggy Rivera
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We Are Eternal

  My brother Jimmy passed away last month.  It was a significant time because it was exactly one year ago that I became a Pathways Of Light Ordained Minister.  How Loving is God That he knew how much I would need this amazing work to be able to cope with the perception of this loss.  When the time came I sat at his side and held his hand as he took his last breath and I felt his pulse come to a gentle halt.  I kissed him on his forehead and said goodbye.  I know that God had us wrapped in His Love because of the peace I felt.
    I have read so many inspiring articles on after death experiences, but the most comforting thing I read was from The Course In Miracles.  In The Manual For Teachers It says, “He did not make death because he did not make fear.  Both are equally meaningless to Him.” It also says that “God is and in Him all created things must be eternal. Do you not see otherwise He has an opposite and fear would be as real as Love?”  He asks us to except no compromise in which death plays a part. If I had not been a student of this Course I think I would have been absolutely devastated.  But now I see that my brother as all of us cannot be destroyed.  He left a pain filled body and now is resting in the arms of Our Father who Loves him.  Where he felt so much pain and fear here on this earth he now knows his true reality. He is basking in the Light of Gods Love.  Whenever I look up to the beautiful colors of the sky whether it be a sunset or a rainbow, I will know that Jimmy is soaring in those colors laughing at the wind.

Rev.Peggy Rivera
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Recieving Guidance From My Inner Source

    I recently had a disagreement with a friend of mine.  I lost sleep over it, I felt insulted, and I thought negative thoughts about her.  I wanted it to be about her.  Then I remembered that what we think are our own projections.  I remembered to take it to Holy Spirit. I asked Holy Spirit why I had created this in my life.  What in me needs to be healed?  I’m innocent I said.  I felt the warm comforting feeling that comes over me whenever I go to Him for help and heard the softest voice whisper; if you find yourself feeling angry at her, look deeper.  I saw I was angry that I felt dismissed, unimportant, discredited.  And then I heard him say, none of that matters, you have to see through the egos needs for importance.  We are all extensions of God’s Love.  The ego needs power and anything outside of Love does not exist in reality.
    The more I engage in the ploys of the ego the more turmoil I feel. When I woke up the following morning I checked my e-mail for the lesson of the day and in it I found solace. It said, “Today I would practice freeing my brother and myself from the insanity that comes from the split mind.” It was so amazing to me that I had asked for guidance the night before and I was so restless, even though I felt He had answered me.
He also further confirmed what he said through the lesson of the day.  This now happens all the time.  I find comfort in knowing that all I have to do is ask for help.  I find that we need not look any further than our own Inner Source. The Holy Spirit leads me into peace every time.

Rev. Peggy Rivera
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My Brother Jimmy

This last weekend I went up to see my brother Jimmy.  He was diagnosed last Thanksgiving with small cell lung cancer. I think I am growing from this experience and thank God I found Pathways and ACIM.  I have prayed for him and I was so frustrated because he continued to smoke cigarettes no matter how sick he got. I got angry at him because I felt like he wasn’t even trying to get well. I have been riding a roller coaster of emotions as long as my ego could keep me in its grip.  But this time was different for me.  He is in a lot of pain, he can’t walk and has lost the use of his arms from the nerve damage radiation has caused. I feel very empathetic for him, but I also realized that the healing that I so much want for him may not be the same form of healing he is receiving .  I heard him say things differently now than he has in the past.  He is kinder, and more tolerent of others.  I saw him laughing at little things more and he also told me how much my smile meant to him.  He told me how the room lit up when he saw me smile.  I haven’t ever heard my brother say those things.  I love my brother very much he is younger than me so I call him my baby brother,  I realize now that my judgement of his lifestyle wasn’t doing anything to promote healing.  But now I see he is also pure love and his body reflects the belief system of the ego and the world we live in, and until we all see through the smoke to the indwelloing spirit , we will need to really work at releasing the ego and correct our thinking so we can all be healed.  I release all judgement of my brother, and anyone else.  I see only love and light and pure intention to Love.  The healing of his thoughts are healing my thoughts and as I read in ACIM the only thing that needs to be healed is our mind because nothing else exists.

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You Get What You Focus On

I have heard somewhere, “you get what you focus on”.  It makes me think of how I used to think about people and life and cruelty, deppression, fear, anger, hostility.  I thought the world was a pretty hostile place.  As I read the lesson today I so welcomed the words I read, “Father I did not make myself, although in my insanity I thought I did…..Let me remember You created me,  Let me remember my Identity”.  I am now focussing on my connection to my source.
The world I see is made of Love, I am surrounded by Divinity.  Nothing outside of Love exists.  If we focus on fear, pain,
lack, and hostility that is what we create in our world.  Now I realize the connection and it really gives me a whole new vision.  I see a world of people reaching out to others to help everyone become safe and full of Love and joy, a world without hunger, or sickness.  I forgive those who have lost their way in the world of dreams.  I focus on Loving them as Jesus asked us to do.  I know that judging others causes me to attract being judged. In this world of dreams we can help each other find our way back home, by reaching out to others, offering kindness, warmth, shelter from the storm.
This is what makes us holy, when we reach out to others to help them loosen the ego’s choke hold

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I Thought I Knew Love

There was a time when I thought I knew what love was all about. I have a wonderful husband and lovely family. I have great friends who would do anything for me and I would them as well. We share laughter and also tears.  I think I was relatively happy or so I thought.  But as I grow in Love I realize that the love that I knew was incomplete.  That type of love has boundaries and expectations.  As I connect with True Love I see how that love was O.K. but without the depth I am beginning to see.
As I repeat to myself, “I’m not a body I am free I’m just as God created me”, a new sensation envelops me.  It is peace I am not so anxious anymore.  I feel compassion more often than judgement.  That is pretty big for me.  I never realized the beliefs I had about others, and the expectations I put on them.  As I ask the Holy Spirit to show me where I still need to heal my mind he gently nudges me when I start letting old thought patterns seep in.  That is when I realize that, I almost by reflex action find empathy for others.  Maybe not in the traditional way, or the way maybe they would like me to feel sorry for them, but in the way that makes me wish we could all find our way back home right away.  That they don’t have to create a world of suffering.  That they really are innocent.  We really don’t need anymore than that.  We have all we need to find our way back home by following Holy Spirits lead. I am so grateful to know
how much God Loves his Son.

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welcome new ministers

I would like to say hello and welcome to the new ministers. Pathways is a very supportive group to belong to.

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