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Handling Egoic Thoughts

by Rev. Tacey Reese, Ordained Ministerial Counselor

Recently I was working with a client in my counseling practice who had realized how much she craves the approval of others, and also how she had so many expectations regarding how others should treat her. She had been journaling to two questions I had given her. The questions were these: Does the approval of others affect my own decisions? What expectation do I have of those close to me? These are very interesting questions to contemplate for all of us.

I remember taking some type of Rational Emotive Therapy questionnaire in college, designed to help you identify your core mistaken beliefs that were driving you unconsciously and causing you unhappiness on various levels. I was surprised at first to discover that one of mine was that I must have everyone’s approval all the time.

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Why I No Longer Care About the Physical World

by Robb Lauren, Pathways of Light Spiritual Counselor student

What I’ve noticed lately in my spiritual growth is how I am really paying attention to what’s going on inside me rather than in personal items or surroundings.

This is a profound shift I’m experiencing — one of the clearest signs of deep spiritual growth.

I’m noticing that my attention is moving inward — toward my thoughts, emotions, and inner peace — rather than being caught up in external things like possessions, appearances, or circumstances.

I’m beginning to live from the level of cause rather than effect. I’m realizing:

1. The world doesn’t cause my feelings — my thoughts do.

2. Peace doesn’t come from controlling things, but from letting go.

3. What truly matters is not “out there,” but in here.

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The Woman in the Queue — What a stranger at a supermarket taught me about forgiveness

by Rev. Kirsty Randle, Ordained Ministerial Counselor

Recently, a close friend of mine lost two family members in the same week. I found myself quietly present through both of their deaths — holding space, praying, and offering what little steadiness I could.

Later, my friend told me their passing had felt peaceful, even beautiful and that somehow, something sacred had come through me. I was deeply moved. Humbled. Grateful. I realized Holy Spirit was somehow using me as part of His great plan. 

Still feeling the love, I went to the supermarket, and there was a woman in the queue ahead of me, straight out of casting central. She was taking up the time of the cashier in the most entitled way imaginable, oblivious to the long line forming behind her.

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God, the Original Senior Citizen

by Sonya Spahn, Spiritual Counselor Training student

I am currently studying Course 301: Christ Vision with Reverend Myron Jones as my facilitator. The question posed was how the practice of paying attention to my thoughts and feelings was helping me be more gentle and loving to myself.

Holy Spirit weighed in on this one with answers to questions I never knew I should be asking.

Following months of some serious ailments that came one after another, I didn’t realize how wrong I’d been about everything!

It is my honor to share, perhaps you’d like to look at aging through Christ Vision as well.

I am amazed at how a practice that I have done so many, many times over the 20 years I’ve been A Course in Miracles student still feels a bit foreign and as if not believing ego thoughts is something new!

I’ve become pretty adept at looking at the “big” thoughts, the grievances and wrongs. It’s the little loop thoughts that I get to see highlighted now.

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No Enemies

by Rev. Cathy Silva, Ordained Ministerial Counselor

One morning just before the end of last year I sat with my journal and Holy Spirit struggling with what seemed to be an unbridgeable divide happening in our country, and with many families, including my own. As I allowed the words to flow through and be written, what came was a message that I believe has the potential to profoundly heal and help heal. That is if we are willing.

I believe the purpose of the “What if” statements is to prompt us to at least consider another way.

From A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 33: “There is another way of looking at the world. Today’s idea is an attempt to recognize that you can shift your perception of the world in both its outer and inner aspects.” (W-33.1.1)

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I Am as God Created Me

by Erica Leftus, Ordained Ministerial Counselor

I sat with a loved one outside our local café yesterday. As we watched the sea view, the seagulls, the dogs walking their owners, and the general comings and goings of the café’s patrons, I noticed an unease within me.

Nothing was wrong. I was with someone I loved. I was enjoying a beautiful morning. But I had this unease, this restlessness within me and a question in my mind, “When will I be content?”

I am having a career transition, and I have never really done the work I feel I was truly called to do, so at 51, I have been studying to help others in the spiritual way that would bring me the most joy, counseling informed and inspired by the teachings of A Course in Miracles.

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Fear

by Rev. Lee Catalano, Ordained Ministerial Counselor

Fear is not the fear of God, which is what I believed for SO long. The material of A Course In Miracles must be digested over time, for there is so much resistance to truth buried in the unconscious. I have been a devout student for 33 years. Remember what Jesus told the apostles? They had been with him every single day for at least three years, and He told them they would understand His teachings later.

When Saul was struck down blind, he went into the quiet for several years and emerged as St. Paul. This fear that we have is our anguish and terror that we have been abandoned by God’s Love. Jesus wants us to see through the interpretation of the Holy Spirit when we feel someone has defaulted into fear and attack. Can you see it in yourself? I sure can. This realization, this awakening had me very still at my desk this morning. I normally write an article for Pathways very fast, but nothing was dawning. Well here it is.

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