Miracles News

Tweet

September-December, 2025

Indivisible

by Rev. Sandi Christie, Ordained Ministerial Counselor

“In quiet I receive God’s Word today” is the title of Workbook Lesson 125, and as I was reading over that lesson for the day, the “Word” came quickly. INDIVISIBLE, the Voice said.

For the last four months, I’ve become a permanent care giver for my ailing mother, which has been a very challenging time for both her and I. Mom is recuperating from a recent hospital stay and is having difficulty walking, standing and doing daily tasks. She also suffers from extreme anxiety and depression. While I can do things for her to make her physical life easier, at the same time, this very giving person cannot deal with someone giving and doing for her and this upsets her greatly, and makes her feel less and less like a useful human which greatly taxes her mental state.

Mom has crying episodes every day, often from fears and anxieties of her own making which I cannot make go away. She looks through the world through a darkened lens, always focusing on the negative, and she has no concept of God to draw upon, nor does she want to hear about any such thing.

She is not interested in learning about meditation or going within and she is quick to negate the efficacy of any solutions presented to any problems she may have. It is easy to fall prey to my own depression as I am a witness to hers.

I call upon the Holy Spirit for help for my own mental state, and again I hear the word INDIVISIBLE, and I am soothed. I am reminded (re-Minded) of the Truth of Oneness.

Read Full Article.

---

September-December, 2025

Rising from the Knees: Finding Truth in Heartbreak

by Rev. Maureen L. Yarbrough, Ordained Ministerial Counselor

Pain in the illusion (this world) can be all consuming. It can be gut wrenching, bringing-you-to-your-knees kind of suffering that seems to eclipse everything else. It feels as though your very being is under assault, and the world has become a relentless tormentor. However, we know any pain is qualifying as all pain is rooted in fear — the ego.

We’ve all experienced it in different forms: the loss of a loved one, the betrayal of a trusted friend, the shattering of a cherished dream. For me, it was the agonizing separation from my children due to my own struggles with addiction. I remember vividly the despair that drove me to curl into a fetal position (ego’s desire to retreat into the illusion of safety and separation), as if trying to return to a place of safety and wholeness that felt impossibly distant.

In those moments, the pain was so visceral, so absolute, that the idea of finding solace or meaning seemed like a cruel joke. Yet, it is precisely in these darkest of times that A Course in Miracles offers a path, a way to navigate through the seeming impossibility of unbearable pain and find our way back to the unshakable truth of Who we are.

Read Full Article.

---

September-December, 2025

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.

Read Full Article.

---

September-December, 2025

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.

Read Full Article.

---

September-December, 2025

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.

Read Full Article.

---

September-December, 2025

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.

Read Full Article.

---

September-December, 2025

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)

Read Full Article.

---

September-December, 2025

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.

Read Full Article.

---

September-December, 2025

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.

Read Full Article.

---

September-December, 2025

Messages from Spirit (Via Joey My Cat)

by Laura Woodyard, Pathways of Light Spiritual Counselor training student

My cat Joey went missing one day. My husband asked if I’d seen him in the morning, and I hadn’t. He didn’t show up for his breakfast.  The search began. My three kitties are indoor only, so I looked everywhere, opened every drawer, looked under all the furniture, scoured the closets. I rattled the box of food, which usually brings him running. The basement and garage were searched as well, no cat.

I decided my (guilty) husband had carelessly opened the garage door and he had run outside. So I made flyers, walked through the neighborhood, looking under cars, peering into bushes.

Read Full Article.

---

September-December, 2025

Letting Holy Spirit Purify Our Minds

by Revs. Robert and Mary Stoelting, Founders of Pathways of Light

In dreaming of a world of separation, we have made up a concept of an individual self. This concept hides the changeless Self that God created from our awareness. We have not lost our true Self. But as long as we identify with a separate self, we cannot know the glory that God shares with our Self. But we have a choice. We can choose to let go of a self-concept we made and accept our Self as It is.

We need to accept the Holy Spirit’s help, Who always speaks for our Self and our Father. By declaring that the power of decision is our own, we are reminding ourselves that we can choose once again. We can choose to let go of our self-concept and accept that we are Love and nothing else. In this acceptance we awaken to the Heaven of God’s Love.

Read Full Article.

---

September-December, 2025

The Body as Means or End

by Rev. Myron Jones, Ordained Ministerial Counselor

“It has been particularly difficult to overcome the ego’s belief in the body as an end, because it is synonymous with the belief in attack as an end. The ego has a profound investment in sickness. If you are sick, how can you object to the ego’s firm belief that you are not invulnerable? This is an appealing argument from the ego’s point of view, because it obscures the obvious attack that underlies the sickness. If you recognized this and also decided against attack, you could not give this false witness to the ego’s stand.” (T-8.VIII.3:1-5)

I have decided that sickness is a defense against God in every case. No matter what kind of sickness I am experiencing, what pain or discomfort, I know that it is the symbol of an attack thought in my mind.

Read Full Article.

---

September-December, 2025

The Sacrifice of Fear

by Rev. Joyce Peebles, Ordained Ministerial Counselor

In the present story of Joyce, my husband wounded me with words, and I felt unjustly treated. My ego analyzed why he would say such hurtful things. This was not his normal behavior. It did not make me feel better to rationalize that he was coming from his own old wounds. It still amounted to him taking out his bad day on me. My heart closed down. I barely spoke to him the rest of the day. I was suffering.

At the same time, almost immediately after his attack began I heard the Holy Spirit’s Voice tell me to say nothing. It felt very hard. I wanted to defend myself. Although physical violence did not occur, I hurt from the verbal blows I received.

Read Full Article.

---

May-August, 2025

Miracles News, May-Aug., 2025

 

Rise Above
to See
the Love.

Read Full Article.

---

May-August, 2025

There Really Is Nothing to Fear

by Rev. Myron Jones, Ordained Ministerial Counselor

As I am writing this, I am doing Lesson 48: “There is nothing to fear.” I love this Lesson. It is so clear. There are no caveats. It is simple, straight-forward and uncompromising.

I seldom read news other than the headlines of local news, since I might need to know what is going on in my town. But every once in a while, I hear about something or read the national headlines.

This morning, I decided to do that in conjunction with the Lesson. Each article would trigger a response in me and each time that response was fear, it was an opportunity to remember that there is nothing to fear.

How could it be that some of the things happening in the world today could not be fearful? Well, let’s start with the fact that there is no world. It is an illusion we chose to experience, but it cannot hurt us. It is like dreaming of a scary moment and awakening to discover nothing happened except a dream. Whew! That was good news. And today’s lesson is good news in the same way.

Read Full Article.

---

Back to main page of Miracles News.