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May-August, 2025

A Recipe for Peace!

by Rev. Vicki Evans, Ordained Ministerial Counselor

Today I woke up thinking about anger and while acknowledging that anger is a human feeling, I also had thoughts about how anger is almost like its own being.

Holy Spirit even provided me with an emoji type image of a yellow and red flame with arms and legs, running erratically in all directions until it finds a place to ignite. The being of anger is a thief that steals or takes away present moments of joy and happiness, replacing precious memories and peace with bitter thoughts and distorted memories focusing on the negative. Anger also seems to enjoy creating fear for future events which leads to a domino effect of dread in place of happy anticipation!

What combustible elements come together to create this tornado of feelings that replace the calmness of peace?  The emotional cauldron of ego asks for a recipe of the ingredients of judgment, mind reading, false assumptions, fear, frustration, confusion, insecurities and personalization.

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May-August, 2025

The Forgotten Song On the Porch
(God Is and I Cease to Speak)

by Rev. Rev. Bill Poppa, Ordained Ministerial Counselor

“Listen,—perhaps you catch a hint of an ancient state not quite forgotten; dim, perhaps, and yet not altogether unfamiliar, like a song whose name is long forgotten, and the circumstances in which you heard completely unremembered. Not the whole song has stayed with you, but just a little wisp of melody, attached not to a person or a place or anything particular. But you remember, from just this little part, how lovely was the song, how wonderful the setting where you heard it, and how you loved those who were there and listened with you.”
(T-21.I.6)

On my front porch, the world breathes with me. It’s a mid-November morning in New Orleans, and the air feels like a soft embrace, cool enough to awaken but warm enough to comfort. The porch is old and weathered but alive. It sees countless lives and stories that have passed by its steps. The creak of the wooden rocker beneath me feels familiar as if it is an extension of my being.

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May-August, 2025

I Love You Like

by Mary Michele, a student of A Course in Miracles

I love you like a sound
loves a Voice, like the dream
loves to finally wake;

I love you like error loves correction, like forgiveness
loves to heal the ache.

I love you like salvation
loves to cure, I love you like the state loves to always be grace;

I love you like Holy Spirit
loves Its Self, like happy
loves to smile your face.

I love you like purpose loves a job, like words love to say what’s right; I love you like belonging loves to welcome, like understanding loves to shed the Light.

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May-August, 2025

Laughter Is the Best Medicine

by Rev. Vicki Rostant, Ordained Ministerial Counselor

“The ego has never given you a sensible answer to anything.” (T-8.II.2:4) This was a line in the reading for discussion at a recent Sunday ACIM Study Group Meeting, in the section titled, “The Difference between Imprisonment and Freedom.”

When it was read, at first I smiled, then I heard myself laugh out loud! This was followed by a breakthrough: I saw exactly how VERY seriously I have always taken everything, and I mean everything — my responsibilities, my duties, the Course, doing-the-right-thing, decisions, life and its challenges, etc., etc.

Then I saw very clearly all the anger and judgements that come with holding that position. In that holy instant, the truth in that sentence radiated very brightly. It cracked open my self-imposed prison, and revealed the Light.

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May-August, 2025

An Extraordinary Opportunity

by Rev. Myron Jones, Ordained Ministerial Counselor

Every time I see someone as if this is the only moment of their existence, I am undoing the separation. I see that one as they are now and without a past, and that is a miracle. It is a miracle of true perception and a miracle of healing brought into the world. If I see my child as if a moment ago doesn’t exist, he is pure in my mind. If I do that for you, you become pure in my mind. Now you are the same. If I have done it for me, then we are all three the same. The miracle has helped me to know that we are all aspects of the One. We are each whole and each part of the Whole.

As I do this in the world, I have accomplished forgiveness in its truest sense. I have accepted the Atonement. This is my gift to the world, this deliberate choice to use Christ vision to bring Light into a darkened world.

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May-August, 2025

The Student

by Rev. Joyce Peebles, Ordained Ministerial Counselor

When I first picked up A Course in Miracles, I did not know it was a book about learning to be honest with myself. I thought I was a “good” person and was unaware I had chosen to deceive mySelf. In fact, I did not know that I did not know my Self.

I was clueless that any pain I had experienced was a symbol of the fear and guilt thoughts I was not able to acknowledge in the Mind. The idea that people who hurt me or circumstances that were “awful” did not exist was insulting to my sensibilities.  To accept that I could not be a victim anytime was preposterous. The only thing I did know was I wanted the suffering to stop, and I was willing to consider new ideas that brought relief.

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May-August, 2025

The Ocean of the Mind

by Rev. Sandi Christie, Ordained Ministerial Counselor

In the place where “I” arises, in the ocean of the mind,
Where the ego’s dark disguises for a moment fall behind,
And the wisdom that we cherish, is wrapped up and pushed across 
On the waters of awareness to a river where it’s tossed
Like an anchor, gently sinking, on a chain that has been cut,
Now perceived, a distant twinkling, where a ladder does abut—

In the ocean of the mind, there’s a ladder you can find.

In the silence, like a diamond, shining brightly in the heart,
Where the spirit knows no crime and all illusions fall apart,
And the meaning of a minute is dissolving like the hands
Of the paint upon a portrait in a Dali-painted land.
Past and future have no meaning, only timelessness abides,
Here the Spirits are convening, in His glory, they collide—

In the ocean of the Mind, where the body’s left behind.

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May-August, 2025

Welcoming the Love That Is Our Inheritance

from Pathways of Light Daily Inspiration

God’s peace and joy are mine.
Today I will accept God’s peace and joy, in glad exchange for all the substitutes that I have made for happiness and peace.

Let me be still and listen to the truth.
Let my own feeble voice be still, and let me hear the mighty Voice for truth Itself assure me that I am God’s perfect Son. (W-11.1-2)

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January-March, 2025

Miracles News, Jan.-Mar., 2025

 

I let my mind
radiate with
Love today.

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January-March, 2025

Learning to Let Holy Spirit Take the Wheel

by Rev. Larry Glenz, Ordained Ministerial Counselor

Recently, I had given an interview with Robin Singler representing Pathways of Light for a video program entitled “Holy Spirit, Take the Wheel.”

I was honored to be asked to be interviewed. Then I started to think about some of the difficult times that I allowed Holy Spirit to do the driving. And I also thought about those times I had difficulty letting go.

I picked up the Course 30 years ago during my divorce with my first wife — the mother of my two sons. At that time, 1994, I believed I felt no connection to a Higher Power. But I was shaken by this severe change in my life. I was looking for something to give me the strength and confidence that seemed to have escaped me.

It was then that A Course in Miracles came into my life. I found it so inspiring. I started with the Workbook and have been a devoted student ever since.

My thinking started to change. I was practicing the instructions of handing my problems and my thinking over to Holy Spirit. I started keeping a journal and communicating with Holy Spirit through my writing.

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January-March, 2025

The Silence of the Heart

by Rev. Jim Peterson, Ordained Ministerial Counselor

Holy Father,
I turn to you
in this moment.

But I desire
Your presence
moment to moment
without end.

My love for You
has no end
and no beginning.

It is as eternal as is
our Unity
as One.

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January-March, 2025

One Function Only

by Rev. Joyce Peebles, Ordained Ministerial Counselor

On Sunday afternoons, I attend a zoom call where we are presently studying the lessons in the workbook. Lesson 66, “My happiness and my function are one.” Was helpful. My function is to practice forgiveness, it is not to understand anything in the world. It is not to try to change anyone in this life. I have this one function only.

A few days prior to this zoom call I went on a road trip to a workshop for back pain. It was created by Esther Gokhale who wrote “ 8 steps to a Pain-Free Back.”

I took Gary Renard’s Advanced Forgiveness CDs with me. We were asked to think of someone or a situation we think it hard to forgive.

The following is a summary of a meditation on that CD: “Visualize a beautiful, pristine, white, comforting Light. It’s very soothing, very healing and wonderful. The Light expands and is everywhere. There is no place where the Light is not….

All of a sudden just before we disappear into this Light, an altar appears, and on this altar, we are asked to put everything we think needs to happen in this world in order for us to be happy. We put all our dreams, our hopes, and our ambitions and our relationships upon the altar.

Those are our gifts to God because they tell Him we have no other gods before Him, that we need no love but His… then the altar disappears. For just a split second we felt that maybe we were giving something up because we are so attached to the idea of being a body. Now as we become One with God, we realize that we haven’t given up anything and instead we have been given everything. We feel whole and complete. There’s no feeling of lack or scarcity in wholeness. What is more, everybody is there too in our awareness, because nobody can be left out in perfect Oneness.”

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January-March, 2025

Turning Blocks into Gifts

by Rev. Dan Strodl, Ordained Ministerial Counselor

“The course does not aim at teaching the meaning of love, for that is beyond what can be taught. It does aim, however, at removing the blocks to the awareness of love’s presence, which is your natural inheritance.” (T-in.1:6-7)

We have many things in our lives that give us blocks. The world is an ego construct, to keep us from returning to who we really are… the Son of God. The ego will try everything to trigger us: fears, judgments, grievances, separation thoughts. They are all showing us where there is unconscious guilt in our minds that needs healing.

When we notice these blocks and give them to Holy Spirit for healing, they are dissolved and the light in our minds comes shining through, and the blocks become gifts.

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January-March, 2025

The Holy Spirit is My Psychotherapist

by Rev. Myron, Jones, Ordained Ministerial Counselor

I’m studying 924: Miracles Practitioner, Part IV, which is a study of the Psychotherapy Section of A Course in Miracles. I had not been very interested in this section of the Course at first because I am not a therapist, so I didn’t see how that applied to me. But as it turns out, the Holy Spirit is the Psychotherapist, and as we allow Him to work through us, we are His psychotherapists. 

We play this role each time someone asks for help, whether we realize it or not. The only question is, do we let the Holy Spirit work through us so that we can be truly helpful? Once I understood this, I became very interested in this section of A Course in Miracles, and I have enjoyed the two courses from Pathways of Light that cover it. In fact, these are now two of my favorite courses.

This morning, I read something in Psychotherapy: Purpose, Process and Practice that caught my attention.

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January-March, 2025

Butterfly Wings

by Rev. Deb Fee, Ordained Ministerial Counselor

We had another powerful reading today on the Sunday call. As always, the message for me was timely and perfect. Chapter 8, Section VIII in the ACIM text is The Body as Means or End.

The sharing in the group was powerful and I was reminded of the real purpose of the body. It is a communication device. We are often told this in the Course. I have often interpreted that to mean that I am to share the teachings of the Course when I have the opportunity. However, I am also prone to defining what that opportunity should be in my experience. Specifically, to use my voice to share the principles and Truth of what I experience as A Course in Miracles. Also, to demonstrate a mindfulness of peace and joy amid the chaos of daily living. Today, I was able to see beyond this limited view.

In my physical journey, I have often reacted to body illness or disease as a lesson to be learned. What is this teaching me? What am I doing wrong for this to happen? Is this another wake up call to focus more on my mind healing? Is good health the reward for living “right?”

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