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October-December, 2010

Thoughts with Power

by Rev. Nancy Miiller

  Today, in my workbook practice of A Course in Miracles, Lesson 281 resonated to the core of my being with an astounding feeling of truth. Lesson 281 states “I can be hurt by nothing but my thoughts.” As the sentence finished, the whirling sense of truth began to fill my mind. The Course teaches us that we have never left our home in God. We just think we have and our thought of this has created the dream we see with our eyes. Each time I believe that someone, something, some event or some issue is causing me pain, I am not thinking about the truth of my Self; I have never left my home in God.

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October-December, 2010

Letting Go of the Need to Understand

by Rev. Larry Glenz

I know that many people believe that God has abandoned them when they suffer the tragic loss of a loved one. After turning to Holy Spirit during the seven years that my son, Kevin, battled with an opiate addiction, he relapsed again and died last winter of an overdose at the age of 27.

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October-December, 2010

Living in the World While Waking Up

by Rev. Peggy Booth

  I’m in the middle of doing the Pathways of Light Miracles Studies Course 910: “Living in the World While Waking Up.” Part of why I was drawn to this course is my trying to make sense of my employment situation which is seemingly getting more complex and daunting all the time.

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October-December, 2010

The One About Peace

by Rev. Stephan Mead

  After spending a day in seclusion at my family’s farm cabin, an hour driving and a short ferryboat ride away from Seattle, I realized what I was looking for — Peace! What a fabulous word! It even sounds attractive. Why do I always end up thinking peace has either been withheld, or denied to me? Or, that for some strange reason, I just have to suffer a little while longer and then I can enjoy peace. As I sat out on the porch surveying the acres and acres of ready to cut alfalfa, watching several deer wandering through the pasture, I experienced one of those rare (for me) moments when my mind was just quiet.

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October-December, 2010

Comparisons

by Rev. Joanne Kraenzle Schneider

  Comparisons have been floating through my mind and disturbing my peace.  I compare my friend’s sporty car to my less desirable “old lady” car, others’ exotic vacations to my weekend retreat vacations, my friend’s perceptions of the world to what I perceive about the world. I even compare what people think to what the Course teaches!

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October-December, 2010

A Path of Depression

by Rev. Barbara Siegel

  I went to visit my 93 year old father who is in a rehab/nursing home in Denver. For 92 years, he was fine, but the last year has seen a decline in his health to the point that there is nothing more that can be done to make him well.

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October-December, 2010

Who Is Responsible

by Rev. Steve Ruohomaki

The story of my current life includes a tidy assortment of victim themes which have been the material for “convincing” me of shortcomings, maladies, disease, incompetence, and unacceptability. If these weren’t enough, throw on the additional phenomenon of aging! So with all of this, shouldn’t I at least deserve to be a little grumpy and irritable? How is it that I have a shot at being happy and at peace? It would seem to take some kind of miracle to pull that off. A miracle of mind to be exact; but I am getting ahead of myself. What would I have to do to feel happy and at peace?

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October-December, 2010

Hoodwinked by ACIM

by Rev. Jean Weston

A few weeks back I had a thought pass through that A Course in Miracles was really ‘hoodwinking’ its students, who would otherwise be a resistant strain. Normally, I let thoughts pass through that are not useful. But this thought seemed to contain some light, so I held it to take a closer look.

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October-December, 2010

An Old Hymn

by Rev. Stephen Cox

I was thinking about the verse of a hymn I learned in Sunday school a few years ago now and how it could be altered to reflect A Course in Miracles.

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July-September, 2010

Letting Go of the Battle with God

by Revs. Robert & Mary Stoelting

Mary: God is changeless oneness. If I am not experiencing changeless oneness, changeless Love, then I am trying to make up something other than what God created. I am in a battle with God about what Is.

I am in a stage now where my willingness to give up this battle is getting stronger. This willingness shows up in my dream of separate bodies as a consistent practice in stepping back from what I think is true.

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July-September, 2010

A Beautiful Experience of Love

Rev. Cathey Jo Tomilenko

God introduced my husband David to me in October of 1998. He made his transition in 2005. I have lived a life time of blessings in those few years we had together. We were very spiritually connected. Each morning began in prayer and every evening ended in prayer thanking God not only for each other but for every blessing in our lives. Each challenge and experience we shared brought us closer to God, knowing the Holy Spirit was always working through us for our higher good.  We both new that the Holy Spirit is the activity of God working through us all.

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July-September, 2010

Allowing

Rev. Gary Winslow Ledson

Since being ordained in January, I have come to realize and experience a new way of being that I had only studied before — namely, to experience Spirit (Love’s Presence) being expressed through me. Until recently I’ve been the doer and maker of my life. This way of living was a huge jump from being run by the world of events and circumstances. However, being captain of my ship still left me striving and uneasy. Running my life was an ongoing job, an ongoing struggle. Was there another way to be?

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July-September, 2010

The Only Message Worth Teaching

by Rev. Larry Glenz

Teaching had been my profession for 36 years before I retired almost two years ago. I taught at the high school level – Global History and US History; and I stressed the great importance of the knowledge that history provides. Studying A Course in Miracles, however, certainly has changed my perception of the value of knowing details about the past. I made a nice living and now collect a healthy pension from the New York State Teachers’ Retirement System. But how valuable was the actual information in the course curriculum that I spent years teaching?

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July-September, 2010

Reconciliation

Rev. Vicki Rostant

Last week I received a call advising that the health day we had scheduled months ago at a publishing company for Tuesday this week had to be cancelled. When I received the call, although I had offered the day to Holy Spirit to make all decisions, the ego quickly took over and I started fretting about the inconvenience and lost income. Fortunately, sanity returned and I asked HS what the freed-up day was to be used for. I was moved to call my sister and ask if she was free that day and if I could come to visit. She was delighted and we both looked forward to getting together. We would visit her husband’s grave (he passed away last June) to see the tombstone her son had chosen. I offered to plant some flowers at the site, then she would take us, her other son and me, out to lunch. Then I would leave in time to pick up my partner at her work-place (she is a teacher), where I had dropped her off in the morning. We parted after a delightful day together in sharing and fellowship, and she saw me off with thanks and a message of greetings and love to my partner.

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July-September, 2010

And Then There Was a Gathering

Rev. Stephen Cox

It was the evening of Sunday 16th May 2010 — well it was over on the United Kingdom side of the pond which we call the Atlantic. I was being ordained as a Pathways of Light Ordained Ministerial Counselor. It was being done ‘virtually’ over the ‘phone since it wasn’t actually possible to lay hands on me physically.

It was a lovely event. It was the culmination of the work that I’d put in to doing the Pathways course modules over the previous six months or so.

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