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July - September, 2009

Gratitude for the Willingness to Hold Jesus’ Hand

by Rev. Sharyn Zenz

Having spent the weekend hosting the “ON” workshop at Pathways of Light, I went home on Sunday evening after being gone for the last 6 days. I went to bed and was suddenly awakened by a pain shooting up my neck into my head. It woke me from a sound sleep at 3 a.m. Then I had been having dizzy spells, so the next day I thought I had better call the doctor.

I’m not one to go to the doctor very often, but this time I thought I should go. I made an appointment for the next day. When I got there, I had my blood pressure taken and after answering a lot of questions the doctor said I had to have some blood drawn and an EKG. After fasting, I went to have the blood drawn the next morning and then drove to Pathways of Light to work.

That afternoon around 2:30 p.m. I received a telephone call from the doctor saying that the results of my blood tests from that morning were a little disturbing to her. She said I needed to go directly to the emergency room to have some further tests taken and plan on staying over night! She also said I had to go immediately and have someone drive me! I told her I was alone and had to drive myself.

After calling Robert and Mary and transferring the phones over to them in Florida, I was on my way. I was about an hour and 20 minutes away. When I was walking to my car talking to Jesus I heard, “Well you have to practice what you preach now, my dear.” 

At the weekend workshop we had been talking all weekend about holding Jesus’ hand every minute of the day and being aware of His presence and asking Him for our every need. So, I said, “Okay Jesus, I feel myself holding your hand and you are with me all the way on this trip!” 

As soon as I got on the road, Robert and Mary called me on my cell to talk to me all the way to the hospital. They were my angels. We kept allowing Jesus to lead the way and Mary kept asking me, “What is Jesus saying to you now Sharyn?”

I remember once saying that he is telling me he is in the driver’s seat. Another time he said, “Remember that I am with you always and we are always connected.” Another time He said, “You are in my hands and everything will be all right.”

On the drive to the hospital we did a meditation together where we all pictured the nurses and doctors that I was about to meet in white Light and they were all Angels of Light. If a little ego thought entered my mind during the trip I was reminded to let it go and just concentrate on the Truth.

When I finally arrived at the hospital, the nurse was truly an angel. She was so filled with Love and Light and humor. She was just the best. And so were the doctors.

They repeated the EKG and took more tubes of blood and did a CAT scan on my head.

I just kept talking to Jesus during that scan and was told to think only of thoughts of Love. I kept hearing, “The Light of God is shining in me now.” Then I heard, “The Love of God is shining in me now.”  I just kept repeating it over and over like a mantra and before I knew it, the test was over.

When the doctor came into the room after receiving all the results from the tests and the EKG he said, “Sharyn, I don’t know what happened, but the EKG is great and doesn’t look anything like the one done yesterday. And the CAT scan is fine. The blood test results aren’t even like they were yesterday!”

I asked him if he could tell what my cholesterol and triglycerides were, so he paged through the papers and said, “They look great too!” He said he didn’t know how to explain it, but what I was sent there for appeared to be fine and there was nothing wrong! I said “Thank you so much. Can I go home now?” He said,  “Yes, of course.”

I knew that my walking and talking with Jesus had changed any doubts or unconscious beliefs I might have had about my health and that a miracle had taken place. And I also knew that with the help of Robert and Mary holding the Light for me I was well. Thank you for extending God’s Love and Truth to me. Thank you Jesus for carrying me.

Rev. Sharyn Zenz is a Pathways of Light minister living in Green Bay, Wisconsin. She serves as the Office Liaison for Students/Facilitators at Pathways of Light.

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July - September, 2009

Christ Vision

by Rev. Myron Jones

I open my heart to You, Holy Spirit, and invite You in. I ask for Your guidance. I gladly step back and let You lead the way. Holy Spirit, help each of us to receive from this article whatever it is we most need. Amen

I never write or teach or counsel without first stepping back and setting the intention to allow the Holy Spirit to lead. Sometimes I become enamored with the sound of my own voice and forget to listen, but am getting good at recognizing when this happens and then deciding to stop. Not perfect yet, but definitely better.

The first paragraph in Lesson 158 of A Course in Miracles says, “What has been given you? The knowledge that you are a mind, in Mind and purely mind, sinless forever, wholly unafraid, because you were created out of Love. Nor have you left your Source, remaining as you were created. This was given you as knowledge which you cannot lose. It was given as well to every living thing, for by that knowledge only does it live.”
The knowledge that you are a mind, in Mind. This lesson begins by establishing with great clarity that I am not all I have identified with. I am not body, emotions, personality. I am not seeker, student, mother, teacher. I am mind in Mind. I am Son of God and I exist in God. As Son of God, I am sinless and unafraid because I am as God created me. I have never lost this knowledge and can never lose it. As this paragraph says, knowledge was given to every living thing, for by that knowledge only does it live. So I live, therefore I Know.

The philosopher got it wrong when he said, “I think therefore I am.” I know therefore I am. There is a distinct difference. Thinking is what the ego does. Thinking is a process whereby we gather information, label it (that is, give it meaning according to our desires), organize it and store it for use in the future. We use the brain to perform this function.

It is in using the thinking mind that I give all the meaning to each thing that it has for me. It is not truth, but perception. The truth of something never changes or varies in anyway, but perception is fluid and therefore unreliable.

I have been married and divorced three times. I have gathered lots of information about relationships. I have decided what all this information means and have organized it in different ways within the brain. When someone asks me a question about their relationship, if I turn to the thinking mind for the answer, it will pull up the file marked relationships, find the sub category most like the experience of the questioner, and give the answer found there.

The answer won’t be truth, because it was never based on truth, but always on perception. The answer, whether to someone else about their relationship, or to myself about a present relationship, is always a perception based on past experience. I am always bringing the past into the present. What do you think I will get in the future? The same as I got in the past? Right.

We do not have to continue chasing our tails, running in circles repeating the same story over and over. Even when we change the form of the story, the content remains the same. This is insane behavior; doing the same thing over and over in the hopes that the result will one day change.

How do we step out of this insanity? Ego thinks. Spirit knows. That is all we have to remember. What shall I do? What shall I say? Where shall I go? Having spent literally thousands of years listening to the ego’s answer and watching more of nothing happening, I am learning to ask a different teacher. This is simple to do. I ask. I listen.

What makes it seem hard is that I like writing my own stories. It gives me a sense of control. I am the author of myself. I place high value on intelligence and my ability to think and figure things out. I completely ignore the fact that it doesn’t work. It has never worked and it will never work because I am simply repeating the past over and over while dressing it in different costumes so that I can pretend it is different.

In the meantime, I don’t know what peace is. How could I know? I have never experienced it. I have only experienced less anxiety and more anxiety, and overwhelming anxiety. Even when the anxiety level is so low, I hardly notice it and I think I am happy. There is the little niggling thought that this won’t last. And, of that one thing, I am right.

None of this is necessary. In my mind is knowledge. It is whole and complete. Nothing is missing, ever. There is never a moment when there is something I do not know. It is through the Holy Spirit that I am learning to access that knowledge. It is through the Holy Spirit that knowledge flows into my awareness. This happens automatically if I do not block that flow with my desire to create my own knowing.

Here is a little process you can use to see this in your own life. Write down a question you are facing in your life. It doesn’t have to be a major issue. Perhaps you have to decide whether you want to stay in your present job or move on. Maybe you just can’t decide what to eat for lunch. It doesn’t matter. Just think of a question you haven’t completely decided on.

Now ask your self, your small self, the ego thinking mind, what the answer should be. Notice how this works in your mind. Notice the process the thinking mind uses. For instance, if I am trying to decide if I should fly out to see my daughter in California or if I should save my money for unexpected expenditures, if I work this out in my mind, I am going to be conflicted.

If I go see my daughter that will make me happy, but it will also worry me because money is tight right now, the economy is uncertain. How do I know this? Well I have lots of bits of info stored away. I have visited my daughter and know how much fun that is and how happy I am to spend time with her. I have also been reading the papers and know how uncertain the economy is. But if I stay home, I will be disappointed because I miss my daughter. I feel frozen in place. No matter which I choose…. I lose.

So think about your question, noticing the steps you go through. Notice where the information comes from that you use to make the decision as you work out your answer. After you have done this, talk to the Holy Spirit about this same question. Become quiet and ask Him to lead you to the answer which will be most helpful to you at this moment. Be careful not to allow the thinking mind to take over. Simply ask and receive your answer.

When I do this, I quiet the mind and relax the body. I say something like this: “Holy Spirit, I gladly set aside the answers I think would make me happy and I open my heart to you. This is the question…” I tell Him all about it and then I await the answer in patience and in trust. Holy Spirit will always give the answer that is helpful in the world, but that does not keep me in the world.

The answer which would best serve you is always there. All knowledge is always there. To access that knowledge you need only be willing to set aside the desire to find your own answer. Surrender your story and be willing to step back and allow the Holy Spirit to bring His answer to you. It will always be an answer which serves you and everyone else involved.

In Lesson 158 we are also told, “Christ’s vision has one law. It does not look upon a body, and mistake it for the Son whom God created. It beholds a light beyond the body; an idea beyond what can be touched, a purity undimmed by errors, pitiful mistakes, and fearful thoughts of guilt from dreams of sin. It sees no separation. And it looks on everyone, on every circumstance, all happenings and all events, without the slightest fading of the light it sees.” (W-pI.158.7)

Both Regina Dawn Akers and Byron Katie talk about something that made a world of difference to me. Katie put it like this. She said that no one has ever met another person. They have only met their own thoughts. And the Course tells us those thoughts we see projected onto the other person are really about ourselves.

Imagine you are looking at me. There is a glass in front of me and on that glass you have painted your thoughts. All that you can see when you look at me is that painting, and since it is a painting of your thoughts, you are really looking at yourself. Most people, however, choose to see that image as if it were the other person. Other people can become the receptacles for that which we don’t want to see in ourselves.

What happens if you clear away the painting of your thoughts, your projections? As you do so you look through that glass and what do you think you will see? You will see Christ. Turn to your neighbor and behold Christ. Everywhere you turn there is Christ. There is only Christ. There is nothing else to see unless you disguise Christ by painting over him with your fearful and guilty thoughts.

Looking through the clear glass as if it were not there and seeing Christ is what the Course refers to as Vision. When you see Christ it is because you are Christ — so you are using Christ Vision to behold your brother, who must also be Christ as there is only one of us. Vision is true seeing. It is the overlooking of all ego behavior and seeing the only thing that is real; what God created. This is undoing the ego, and it is forgiveness. This is love.

The Holy Spirit (Christ Mind) brings us to the truth about Love’s oneness and the fact that everyone is still Love and nothing else, no matter what dreams they dream. The Holy Spirit helps us see beyond our fantasies and shadows. The Holy Spirit takes our wandering thoughts and brings them into alignment with God. He brings us from time to what is eternally true.  (From Pathways of Light course Christ Consciousness)

Rev. Myron Jones is a Pathways of Light minister living in St. Charles, Louisiana. Read more of her inspiring Healing Journal articles on the Pathways of Light web site. Web site: http://www.forgivenessisthewayhome.org

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July - September, 2009

Reflections on a Slave Fort — A Healing Across Time

by Rev. Dennis Gaither, M.D.

I wish to share with you a very moving experience that I had while visiting the West African country of Ghana. I was there as part of a delegation, sponsored by the Seattle based organization Global Citizen Journey (http://globalcitizenjourney.org/), consisting of a small group of Ghanaians and North Americans on a many-faceted mission to build an orphanage in the fishing village of Axim. It was a challenging, but also joyful process in which hands, minds and hearts reached across the illusory barriers of geography, language, race and culture to join in common purpose.

The outpouring of welcoming friendship, gratefulness and love we shared there was so deeply moving! For many in the village, this was their first close contact with North Americans in which people from the two continents really had a chance to know one another. There were so many highlights from this trip that it is hard to single out even a few, because there was a flow of so many converging currents. But I will give it a shot anyway.

One of those standout experiences would have to be visits to some of the slave forts along the coast. These were built in the 17th and 18th centuries by the colonial powers, initially for trading, especially for gold, but soon turned into commercial centers for the sale of human beings. In these places terrified people were crammed by the hundreds into small, dark, poorly ventilated dungeons amidst the smell of death and excrement where they stayed for weeks or months until a ship arrived to carry them through “the door of no return” to the new world to work as slaves on the plantations.

As we visited these places, I would find myself pausing and just standing alone in the darkness of the dungeon for awhile, breathing in the experience of those who were here long ago in time —both the prisoners in the dungeons and the “prisoners” who imprisoned them — and breathing out a deep compassion and forgiveness to all.

Yes, all of the participants in this drama were prisoners. For some, the walls were tangible and surrounding them. For others, the walls were in their own hearts and minds in the form of their blindness to what was in front of them and the ghastly events they participated in. I wondered what these people were seeing as they looked upon the suffering of their prisoners.

At the time we visited the forts, we were immersed in the vibrant culture and people of West Africa. Everywhere we went were beaming, joyous, friendly, welcoming faces around us and as part of our delegation. It was a wondrous journey, filled with love and connection. It would not be possible to see what we were seeing and experiencing and still carry out the acts of two centuries ago. One’s heart would break first.

No, to imprison and mistreat another requires first that we not see them as the divine creation that they are. We first must see them as something different, something separate from ourselves that we can project our own sense of guilt upon and then attack that. And as we do so, we no longer can see ourselves as the creation that we are, but only as a body, also vulnerable to attack. And as the guilt in our own mind grows and grows from repeated attacks on others that push it out of awareness but does not save us from its effects, we become more and more fearful of attack directed against us. We erect more and more defenses, but they never quite seem to be enough to completely allay our fear of attack.

It is neither an accident nor a coincidence that those slave trading centers were also military forts. They were all fortified with high, thick walls with parapets at the top and many cannon to fend off the outside attackers made necessary by the attack within. They represent a stunning example of projection in form of the conflict inside.

And yet there is also hope here in these forts. Just beyond the “door of no return,” when one turns and looks back, there is another sign, “the door of return,” that is an invitation, a welcoming, to African Americans to reconnect with their roots. But the hope and healing that I see is deeper than just a compassionate awareness that this is the ancestral heritage of the vast majority of African Americans, though that is certainly a part. Real healing is not a matter of validating the victims and vilifying the perpetrators and trying to wrest out some retroactive justice that only perpetuates the guilt-projection-attack-more guilt cycle.

Real healing comes first through recognition of the thought system from which the horrors of the slave trade stand out as only an extreme example of a daily occurrence within us all. We are all capable of great cruelty and its counterpart, the angry, devastated victim, when we see the world through the lens of the ego, the thought system of separation, of attack. Through its blinding filter we are all very capable of projecting our own sense of guilt onto another and then seeing them as worthy of our contempt and attack. In doing so we inevitably see ourselves in the same way and fear the contempt and attack of others.

The undoing of this cycle is the process of forgiveness. It begins with our willingness to look upon the ego’s devastation in ourselves, in honesty and humility, and take responsibility for it. This is an essential and often seemingly difficult first step. But by itself it is not sufficient. We cannot undo the ego with the ego. In recognizing the ego’s voice inside of us, we become aware also of another Voice.

Unlike the intrusive clamor of the ego’s voice, this Voice, this Inner Teacher, will not force Itself upon us, but is always available in the stillness of the heart awaiting only our openness to hear It. It goes by many names in many traditions: Holy Spirit, Higher Power, Higher Self, Christ Consciousness, Buddha nature. The specific names are not important, except as symbols of an experience that transcends our limited sense of separation and leads us gently home to our true nature as divine beings at one with one another and with God as transcendent Oneness.

As we are willing to come to a place of stillness inside, even if only momentarily, a door is opened. As we are willing to see our projections in a different light, as we are willing to gently look upon the ego, not through its judging lens, but in the light of that wise Inner Voice, that Voice that remembers who we really are, not the little separate selves we think we are, the ego’s fortress begins to crumble and the walls we perceive around us can no longer contain us.

We stop being our own jailers as we stop trying to jail others in the boxes we place them into in our minds. We see beyond bodies and forms to the divine essence within. As we see that quality in what seems like others, we inevitably experience it in ourselves as well. As we experience our Selves as that essence, we recognize that there is only Love, and Love wants only to be extended.

Attack, imprisonment, enslavement are not possible for us as long as we remain in that holy instant in which there is no time, no place, no bodies, no separation, but only One. From A Course in Miracles:

We say “God is,” and then we cease to speak, for in that knowledge words are meaningless. There are no lips to speak them, and no part of mind sufficiently distinct to feel that it is now aware of something not itself. It has united with its Source.  And like its Source Itself, it merely is. (W-pI.169.5:4-7)

And so we find our freedom and our healing not by throwing off some yoke of oppression from outside of ourselves, nor through vindication for our stories of personal and collective victimization that are so often used to justify the victimization of others.  The ego will always demand justice on its terms and offers an empty sense of righteousness as its reward while the peace and the healing that we deeply yearn for eludes us.

But, if we will listen in willingness to that quiet Inner Voice, we will be shown how our freedom lies in the freedom we give, not in the freedom we try to take. It is impossible to be a jailer without being in some way imprisoned in turn. It is impossible to see another as a body, a personality, or any of the countless categories we fragment one another into without perceiving ourselves in the same, limited, way.

As we forgive each other, we realize forgiveness as accomplished in ourselves. As we free one another from our projections, we free ourselves from the burden of our own deeply harbored sense of guilt. As we see the Divine Light in others, we experience it and know it in ourselves.

I am grateful for this “side trip” that moved me more deeply than I could have imagined beforehand. I was deeply touched both by the horror I felt as it flowed upward through me in the sacred silence of the dungeon’s darkness, but also by the very loving bond formed with the African people all around us that filled me with a sense of joy and hope. I could feel the healing occurring within me and amongst us. In A Course in Miracles it says, “When I am healed, I am not healed alone.”  We all owe it to each other to be healed!

Dennis Gaither, M.D., O.M.C., is a Pathways of Light minister living in Mt. Vernon, Washington.

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July - September, 2009

Forgivenes Is the Answer

by Rev. Jennifer McSween

I was looking forward to September of 2003. My daughter had turned 5 earlier that year and was starting school. I had chosen to put my professional life on hold during the last 5 years so I could be at home with her. This decision not only afforded me the joy of this time together, but also gave me a more flexible schedule. I was able to work on certain personal and professional areas of my life. It was during this time that I completed the Pathways of Light Spiritual Counselor Training Program, enrolled in the University of Metaphysics graduate studies program and began developing the professional speaking business.

Although I was looking forward to getting back to business, so to speak, I felt a little saddened and was somewhat apprehensive about this inevitable next stage of my daughter’s life: starting school. Well actually, I was a border-line basket case thinking of “my baby” going out into the world, without me, making her own friends and being with other people, strangers, people I didn’t know, from 8:00 a.m. till 2:00 p.m. after being with me almost 24/7 every day for about 4 1⁄2 years (except for those 11 days of In-person training at Pathways). But other than that I was at peace with the idea. I was looking forward to being a full time professional again.

I was also looking forward to my mother returning to Montreal to live after 31 years. This was going to be the first time, since the age of 8 that she and I would be living in the same country, let alone the same city. Though we had always been in frequent contact with each other, our relationship over the years would not have been described as predominantly “loving.” During the 10 years or so leading up to 2003, a shift seemed to have occurred in the way we communicated with each other. As a matter of fact we had actually begun to communicate with each other as opposed to talking at, or throwing words at each other. 

With the birth of my daughter I felt another shift had occurred. I felt more of a gentleness towards her, more understanding, more compassion as I was now able to identify with her as a mother. As I watched her interacting with my daughter — her granddaughter — I saw a gentleness and love being expressed that I had never before seen expressed through her. I also felt that she was responding to me more lovingly and less defensively. It was as if we had both dropped our guards; literally dropped our “defenses.”

So, as I said, I was looking forward to her return. It was not about my having a “mommy,” but about us being able to share some form of a genuinely loving adult relationship. Shortly after her return she became progressively ill. After what appeared to be a complete breakdown followed by a battery of medical tests, we received a diagnosis of “dementia-alzheimer’s.” The prognosis was: She may get worse or stay the same, but she would not get better.

She was confused, suspicious and distrustful of everyone; incoherent at times, stubborn, argumentative, and very afraid. I seemed to be her primary object of distrust, her chief persecutor and public enemy #1. To say that I was somewhat afraid, confused and overwhelmed myself, would be an understatement. I wanted to be there in a loving way for her. I wanted to be available for her in the same way that I was available for my daughter, but I found that I was entertaining some very unloving thoughts.

That I was having these unloving thoughts came as quite a shock to me, because until then I had been convinced that I had released all feelings of bitterness and resentment that I had in the past directed towards my mother, along with the accompanying guilt I felt for having had those thoughts. In addition, I was feeling “put-upon” and taken for granted.

I am my mother’s only child. She does not have a spouse or a partner, so naturally, she was now my responsibility. I felt like I had sent off one 5 year old off to school and gained another. I was not at peace. I couldn’t see how I could be at peace with all those fearful thoughts that now seemed to constantly occupy my mind. I had convinced myself that “I” no longer had issues with my mother. “I” had helped other people to deal with their issues with their mothers, but I felt stuck.

I literally was stuck for about three months on Workbook lesson 155: “I will step back and let Him lead the way.” I realized I was angry, afraid. I was throwing a spiritual tantrum. “When was it ever going to be about me? When am I going to matter to her? Am I ever going to experience a mutually loving relationship with my mother… Whaaaaaaa!!!...?”

My mother had been placed in a Geriatric Medical Residence that provided the round the clock medical care that she needed at the time. I would dread each visit, as I did not know whether she would recognize me, and/or how she would respond to me (or so I thought… given that I’m never upset for the reason I think).

Somewhere underneath all this angst and fear there was a faint awareness that this seemingly painful, discordant situation, seen “rightly,” held the answer to my prayers. I had no idea how to “see it rightly.” There was no evidence to support this idea in any “form” that was taking place in my life. All there was was a faint, albeit certain, awareness that there was another way of looking at this. So, in between bouts of fear I would ask myself, “What was it that I was praying for? What did I want to experience most? And what was blocking my experience of it?”

I came to realize that what I had been wanting most was to be more available, more present, more loving for and towards my self, and others. I wanted to feel more loved, more whole; experience more joy, feel more complete; feel less “burdened”; be more creative, more giving, more passionate, more alive. I wanted to be happy and be at peace.

As if on the wings of that awareness came the following thought, “…if you want to experience all or any of that, you might want to let go of those thoughts of resentment, bitterness, judgment and guilt… in other words, you might want to Forgive.” 

At first I thought to myself, “You want me to do what?” Then I remembered the title of Workbook lesson 193, “All things are lessons God would have me learn” and the passage that states: “Each lesson has a central thought, the same in all them. The form alone is changed, with different circumstances and events; with different characters and different themes, apparent but not real. They are the same in fundamental content. It is this: Forgive, and you will see this differently.” (W-pI.193.2:3-7)

Something about the message of this lesson struck a chord. However I wasn’t sure I knew how to truly practice forgiveness, nor what it really meant “to forgive.”

I had been led to the Pathways of Light Miracles Studies Course 906: Healing Through Forgiveness as well as some other Course based material. Early in the reading of Course 906 I read, “Forgiveness is when we are willing to surrender our ideas to our Inner Teacher, the Holy Spirit, to have our thoughts returned to knowing the One Light that we all are in the Mind of God.”

Forgiveness seen from that perspective, for me, provided answers that I had been seeking. It provided the answer to: What forgiveness is; How to forgive and what to do about my unloving thoughts about my mother, myself and the current situation. I asked for guidance in practicing forgiveness and over the next couple of years my focus was on being open and willing to be taught how to practice forgiveness. 

I began, very subtly at first, to experience that same gentleness that I had felt towards my mother and myself when I first detected a shift in our relationship, only this time that feeling of gentleness extended towards other people and situations (past and current). The angst and the fear I had been experiencing that I had attributed to my mother’s prognosis had disappeared even though her condition had not changed and the prognosis was still the same. What had changed was my feelings of bitterness, resentment, judgment and guilt. I found the thought of visiting my mother no longer provoked anxiety.

Slowly but steadily my mother’s condition “miraculously” improved. She became coherent, conversant, aware of everything and everyone, with all memory (long term & short term) intact, except for the period during which she was most ill. Remarkably, she remembered none of it. She continued to live at the senior’s residence in the Assisted Living section where she literally blossomed, building relationships with other residents as well as staff. And when my daughter and I visit her, she literally comes to life and I see that same gentleness, love and joy that was expressed before her illness.

Having released — forgiven — my previous misperceptions, my mother and I share genuine laughter, express our love for each other more easily and are more at ease in each other’s company. The Course teaches that “Forgiveness Is Your Function.” It is what we are “here” to do. It’s the only thing we can do about the seeming challenges we face. I have come to understand it this way: Regardless of the problem, Forgiveness provides the solution and regardless of the question, Forgiveness is the answer.

Rev. Jenifer McSween is a Pathways of Light minister living in Quebec Canada.

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