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From Facilitator to Friend to Hermana!

by Rev. Barbara Adams, Ordained Ministerial Counselor

I met Rev. Maria Felipe in NYC at an ACIM conference produced and presented by Community Miracles Center of San Francisco. Maria was, and continues to be a powerful speaker. At her presentation, Maria made a statement that caught my attention which ultimately helped me to heal. “We did the best we could with the awareness we had at the time.” POW!

That one sentence uttered by Rev. Maria hit me hard. But in a positive way. Not only did it help me to understand my own parents’ motivations and actions better, but it helped me heal the pain that I had been carrying for too long about coming out to my children. As a gay woman who hid in a closet for more than half of my life, the coming-out process was a journey filled with relief and remorse. My children were devastated by the break-up of our little family. My guilt consumed me. But Maria’s statement helped bridge the divide. I did the best I could with the awareness I had at the time.

After her talk at the conference, I introduced myself to Rev. Maria. Her warmth and understanding demonstrated her truth. This was a lovely woman both physically and spiritually who had a mission to help guide others toward healing. This former model embraced me. From that moment, I have not let her out of my life.

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Crossing the Bridge

by Dani Novak, Student of the POL Ministerial Program

In previous issues of Miracles News I wrote about my experiences with depression and how rays of divine light penetrated through the darkness and allowed me to experience Peace, Love and Joy for a while. What helps me in the dark times is to keep a journal of my experiences. Lately I started to accurately document the depression and I am posting here from my journal.

I noticed that the last three depressions lasted exactly 21 days while the elated time in between the depression varied (sometimes it was months of peace but the depression always followed). I distinctly remember that I was 100% convinced that the depression will not return… that I “finally got it” but it always returned and now I know that it was a blessing beyond words. 

I have been listening to the YouTube videos by Keith Kavanagh who is teaching me to practice looking at my ego reactions to triggers from the seeming outside world without judgment and thus not identifying myself with the thought of separation.

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Giving and Receiving Are One in Truth

by Rev. Jennifer McSween, Ordained Ministerial Counselor

On April 12th, 2017, I announced to the world via Facebook, that I was in the process of writing a book. Until then, the only people who knew that I was doing so were my husband and daughter, and the members of the Authors group coaching program I had joined a couple of months earlier.

To this day, I cannot recall who sent me the email in February of 2017, promoting a webinar for going “From Blank Page To Published Author In 90 Days.” Though when I first read this, I didn’t think it was possible for me, because I had been trying to write and publish a book for the past four years, but found myself struggling to get the ideas out of my head and onto the paper.

For some reason I felt led to attend. So I signed up. I took the Action Step that was given at the end of the webinar. That first step did help me to get the ideas out of my head and onto paper, and I started writing on March 10th, 2017. On April 7th, 27 days later, I had completed writing my entire first draft and made the announcement on a Facebook post. A little less than 7 months later, with the help of Revs Robert and Mary Stoelting’s professional editing, I became a published author.

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On a Mission for God

by Rev. Myron, Jones, Ordained Ministerial Counselor

One time I was talking to Jesus as I do throughout the day. I said that sometimes things seem to happen in such a random way. It looks like there is no rhyme or reason for the occurrences.

Then I felt a surge of fear at the thought. It seems terrifying to believe that everything is meaningless, that there is no purpose to anything.

Then I was given an idea that grew into the following story. It is, like most things we know about reality, a metaphor, but it is a helpful metaphor, in my opinion.  

I was explaining to someone that it is safe to look at our thoughts with the Holy Spirit. This is a necessary step in forgiveness, and forgiveness is what we came to do. I assured her that, of course, we are not guilty for our thoughts. They serve a purpose. These untrue thoughts are the reason we are here. You see, we are on a mission, a mission for God. 

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Goals

by Rev. Joyce Peebles, Ordained Ministerial Counselor

I recently read a lesson and reread the comments I had made the year before. I concluded I had not made much progress on how I was perceiving my projections. I am still projecting guilt on someone outside of my mind. Therefore, I am still finding value in judgment. I still think anger is justified at times. I am still entertaining the idea that I am a victim, in short, this ego/ body self I see as Me.

My only function is to recognize this is a lie. That’s it. To accept the atonement for myself. This is done by knowing I am not this ego-body character, neither is anyone in my projections. Reality is I have no difficulties, anger is never justified, and peace can be recognized if I want to enough. I alone have caused my misery. Nobody needs to change because there is no world “out there.” Jesus tells me when I decided to reject love and wanted to be a separated individual, I also decided to invent goals I think I now need.

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Miracles News, October–December, 2023

 

“God is with me.
I live and move
in Him.”ACIM W-222

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Freedom or Bondage

by Rev. Joyce Peebles, Ordained Ministerial Counselor

“You must choose between total freedom and total bondage…” (T-15.X.9:3)

Jesus says the truth shall make you free. What is this truth? It is simple and almost nobody wants to believe it. It is this:  You are innocent, totally without guilt, and so is everybody else. The reason you don’t want to believe this is because you are unaware you harbor this idea of sin and guilt.

Jesus says it is unconscious until the Holy Spirit reveals it. You may not believe that you are guilty, or maybe you do, but you believe that someone else is guilty.

The world you see was made by you on purpose as a place to prove that what God says is wrong. He says guilt does not exist and all are innocent. You are imagining a world you want to be real. If you do not think you feel this way, it is because you are unable currently to see beyond the devices of the ego.

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