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January-March, 2009

G.O.L.F. Lessons — Gratitude, Oneness, Love and Forgiveness

by Rev. Patty Jackson

I cannot know or see in another something that I don’t know within myself. This is where we are one. The seeds of all humanity lie within me. The form another takes to express part of me might be different than the way I have expressed, but what I perceive in them, I know in myself in some form or experience. What I see in another, I can see with compassion when I accept that part of my own humanity. When I can’t see with compassion but with resistance, a trigger, I know this is a part of me that I have not fully forgiven within myself. What does it mean to forgive, then? Forgiveness here means releasing self judgment around part of my humanity. In that release, the truth of who I really am is free to return to me and the way I see myself and the world.

The G.O.L.F. process is one that came to me as I repeated a pattern that I desperately wanted to change. It uses the energies of Gratitude, Oneness, Love and Forgiveness, but not necessarily in that order.

Here is how it works.

1. Choose a scenario you would like to see differently, one where you find yourself judging another person.

2. Get clear on what you perceive in them. They are being so…. Let yourself know the thoughts of why you think they are behaving this way.

3. Next start the thought of love, self love, by repeating and receiving the thought of “I Love You, I Love You, I love you” to yourself. Let yourself fill with the thought of self love.

4. Gratitude comes next. Bring in gratitude for you. For being this brave earth adventurer, willing to put yourself out there, take some knocks and share, give and receive love. Roll thoughts of gratitude to yourself along with this love.

5. When this feels solid, begin with the other person. They can be in the room with you or far away. Bounce the thought of love back and forth between the two of you. This may be difficult at first. It may be easy. Know that you are tapping in to love for the person behind the perceived problem. Remember parts you do love and allow the perceived problem to move away from your connection to this person, rolling the thoughts of I love you and I love you between you and them.

6. And, gratitude. Bring in the energy of gratitude for this person and for their walking this world with you, being a fellow earth adventurer on this path of life.

When you feel that soulful connect and that the problem is separate from both of you, it is time to bring in forgiveness.

7. Look at the perceived problem, either the energy of it that gathered away from you or the thoughts you defined in step two. Think love, gratitude and “I am so sorry for the part of me that created from the fear that (whatever you are perceiving in the other) back when I didn’t know. I am so sorry for the times that I have… my way, back when I didn’t know.” Feel the waves of forgiveness wash over these memories and continue with all that you perceived as a problem in another.

8. Think “Thank you for helping remember what I DO know now. My truth. Thank you for helping me remember that…”

Enjoy the feeling of relief, expanded truth and knowing within you. Take powerful loving actions from this space, knowing that the shift is felt universally and the other is open to something new now, too.

One day I was riding in the car with my husband. He started going into worry about a snow plow truck that was plowing one of his properties. I felt myself getting sucked in to his worry and it got worse. I stopped in my thoughts and started G.O.L.F.ing. “I love you, I love you, I love you.” I started to myself. And, “I love you, I love you, I love you,” I thought to him. “Thank you (self) and thank you (husband) for walking this world with me. And, I am so sorry for the part of me that creates from the thought of worry in the world. For the part of me that forgets that I am connected to God, the Divine, and that there is nothing that I cannot do and nothing I need to worry about. I am so sorry for the part of me that feels that I am all alone and has to take care of everything. Thank you for helping me remember I can ask for anything. Please help him stop worrying and let him know everything will be alright.” I felt good.

Right then, the conversation shifted. “Oh, that’s right, he did a good job last time. I think it will be alright. He can always come out and plow more after the snow stops falling,” was the new conversation.

Rev. Patty Jackson is a Pathways of Light minister living in Sussex, WI.

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January-March, 2009

The Girl Who Loved to Laugh

by Rev. Barbara Caldwell

Once upon a time there was a little girl who loved to laugh. She would laugh from pure joy at the butterflies, the leaves rustling in the trees, the milk pouring on to her cereal, the hugs from her parents and pretty much everything else that crossed her daily path. Her laughter was like angels’ voices singing praises. People felt warm and fuzzy when they heard her, even though they didn’t really put it together that their good feelings came from her joy.

So great was her delight in the physical world that the little girl did not know about sadness and anger.

I bet you think this is going to turn into a story of pain and sadness and struggle, but no. The little girl went to school and she laughed her joy when she played with the others in the sand box, when she coloured a picture, when the teacher read stories. Her sweet gentle laughter lightened the day for the teacher. In her teen years she delighted in all the activities of teens — applying unneeded makeup, completing a test in math class, reading teen magazines, babysitting, teasing the boys.

After graduation she worked at the local stationery store. She loved organizing the shelves and making displays and watering the big plant at the front window. When she handed customers their purchases, she smiled into their eyes, touching a soft warm place deep within their beings.

She married. For the fifty four years they were together her husband’s heart did somersaults every time she smiled and laughed. Lucky for him, hearts don’t wear out from happiness because his somersaulted at least ten times a day.

No child on the face of the earth has been raised with as much delight as her four. Her joy and happiness did not fade as her children grew from infants, to toddlers, to school children, to teens, to adults and parents in their own right. They never really understood how blessed they were.

The husband, the children and grandchildren and all who knew her did not feel sad at her passing. They all ended their days with a quiet contentedness at having been in her presence not realizing this was not the normal process of grief most people experience.

If you could look down on earth and see her seventy-four years, you would see a radar trail of rainbow-coloured lights sparkling around your town. And if you happen to touch on one of those places of light and laughter she left behind, look up. You will hear the angels’ voices singing praises for you.

Rev. Barbara Caldwell is a Pathways of Light minister living in Pouce Coupe, BC, Canada

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October - December, 2008

Colleen Celebrates Life

by Revs. Annie Arbona & Colleen McNally

One of our dear ministers, Rev. Colleen Mc Nally, passed away recently. We wish to honor and celebrate all the many blessings she has given us during her time with us.

Rev. Annie Arbona — Just as Colleen celebrated Life and Spirit in all her writings and poems, we celebrate her as she moves on in her story line to a greater body-free awareness of her True Self. It is so easy for me to picture Colleen celebrating all that she became aware of. And that she was so obviously aware of Truth, and had such ability to express it.

We were in the some ordination group of September, 2007, and it was a joy to share with her free, wise and loving Spirit. Love to you, Colleen. You are in our hearts, in the Heart of all hearts. Below are some of Colleen’s beautiful messages and poetry:

Holy Spirit Is My Answer

After sitting around for a couple of days absorbed in worry about my future, I re-immersed my self in my Pathways studies. The process itself brought me to a new found sense of peace within myself. The words that comforted me as I immersed were, “The Holy Spirit is the answer to all your problems. He not only has the answer but is the Answer.” (921: Miracles Practitioner, Part I, p. 20) This awareness and this thinking began to put me in my right mind. In the Course we are told, “Right-mindedness listens to the Holy Spirit, forgives the world and through Christ’s vision see the real world in its place.” The words “the Holy Spirit is the Answer” are the words that seemed to capture me first and speak to me in a profound way. I centered by self in love and along with this centering came the change in perception, the miracle.

I was working with, Joining Holy Spirit’s Pathway of Light (922 Meditation). As I meditated, I connected with Holy Spirit’s pathway of Light in my mind and I began to feel the Light and the presence of Spirit within me. As I took in the words, “You know that if you ever feel any hesitancy or doubt, you can hand every concern over to the Holy Spirit, Who welcomes all that you hand over to Him. He takes every concern and gladly shines a Light on it” (922 Meditation).

I became aware that all of my concerns can be handed over to the Holy Spirit. “You let go of excluding some problem areas from Holy Spirit’s healing light…” (922 Meditation) He gently and gladly receives them all and offers guidance. I said, “Holy Spirit, help me. I give all of these concerns to you.” “As you hand every idea in your mind over… you feel more peaceful…” (922 Meditation) And as I listened Holy Spirit told me to relax in life. He said, “I will help you. I will show you the way. Return to Love.” “You are returning to your eternal, real Identity… You are returning to the awareness of Love’s presence.” (922 Meditation)

The awareness that Holy Spirit has the answer to all my problems and concerns hit me in a way that I knew I could give all of my life concerns to Spirit knowing that He will gently guide me to take the steps that I need to take each day. I could feel the miracle, the shift in perception. And as I proceeded with my day, I was so grateful for the return to Love and for the sense of peace as I knew Spirit was guiding me.

My daily dedication and re-dedication is to let Spirit help me and guide me with the profound knowing that Spirit not only has the answer but is the Answer to all my problems. “The Holy Spirit is your bridge to remembering the truth.” (922 Meditation) The Holy Spirit in my mind is the bridge to truth. Love is the bridge to truth.

Be still
Let Love in
Let Love fill all the spaces of Who you are
Let Love be

Spirit Through Me Today

I just love the words “Spirit Through Me.” “Here creation is proclaimed and honored as it is.” (W-pI.162.2:2) These words from Lesson 162 seem to capture the meaning and feeling of Spirit through me. It is an efflortless flow.

Be very still
Bring Love forward
Do everything you do today from the
highest Source of Love Within.
Act with Love.

The ego would react over and over again,
judging everyone and everything,
knowing what is right.
This is non-sense.
This is insanity.

Bring awareness of Love
into your consciousness.

Feel Love now in all your being.
Let it guide you and
Act with Love.

Being as God created me seems like being Love and being creative as Spirit’s Light shines. “You are as God created you. These words dispel the night and darkness is no more. The light is come today to bless the world.” (W-pI.162.6:3-5)

Love Is All I Need

“My holiness shines bright and clear today.” These are words that introduce me to Lesson 285 (ACIM). I opened to this lesson seeking guidance after feeling short of breath. This lesson immediately gave me the perspective that I needed to hold me. I felt such a miraculous gift in these words. I even shifted to a more open, relaxed way of being. These words offered me a perceptual framework that was holding my being. Any sense of worry or fear had left my consciousness and I was filled with perceptions of holiness, filled with perceptions of Love. Peace was mine again. “Father, my holiness is yours.” (W-pII.285.2:1) One with God; one with all. I was experiencing this beautiful connection to truth. “And what can alter Holiness Itself?” (W-pII.285.2:5)
 
Nothing can change this sense of peace. Nothing can take away this Love. I am one with God, one with Love, one with All. I have this beautiful image of the sun shining. And in the sunshine of Love, all hearts connect. My physical concerns melted away. I have long had this image that fits my experience that Love just melts away my fear.

These words spoke to that shift: “For what would be the use of pain to me, what purpose would my suffering fulfill, and how would grief and loss avail me if insanity departs from me today and I accept my holiness instead?” (W-p-II.285.1:4)

Moving

As one
We are the Light

We journey with Spirit leading the way
We walk to God
We move to inner spaces
Where we awaken
To the Light
And
Love shines

Spirit guides me to trust and to Love.
With every step, I walk to God.

Amen Colleen. Thank you so much for enriching our lives and joining with us on our journey of awakening. — Robert & Mary

Rev. Colleen McNally was a Pathways of Light minister who lived in Crystal Lake, Illinois.

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October - December, 2008

Healing Fear Thoughts

Revs. Robert & Mary Stoelting

We are so excited about the new CD and DVD albums that are this year’s gifts of gratitude for member donations. They include recordings of Undoing the Ego II presented by Nouk Sanchez and Tomas Vieira and 3 Awakening workshops by Regina Dawn Akers and Laurent Elie Levy. Also included is Rev. Myron Jones new CD audio book Healing Family Relationships. These 3 albums will be shipped in segments as they are completed during the year.

Mary ­— As we watch the daily news about the economy and the upcoming election in the dream world, it seems to be so focused on thoughts of scarcity and blame. There seems to be so many ‘problems’ in the world which are hard to resolve. As I observe all these ‘events,’ I find it important to take all these stories to the altar within my mind to receive a correction in my perception. There the Holy Spirit shows me a picture of a comic book and I am gently reminded that all these stories are just like the scenes in a comic book. There may be a lot of ‘pows!’ and ‘bams!’ and ‘booms!’ in the world’s stories just like we see in children’s comic books. But just like a comic book, we can lay the stories down and realize they are no more serious than the comic book.

With Holy Spirit’s help I return to the truth that everyone is safe. Everyone in the dream of separation is still in truth an extension of our one Creator’s Love. The Course tells us, “Nothing real can be threatened. Nothing unreal exists. Herein lies the peace of God.”

This remembering helps me feel how safe and truly abundant we all are in truth. When we are ready, we can all lay the comic book of separation down and rejoice that only what is eternal is true and nothing else is true. We can dream of time and differences, but we cannot make our comic book stories real.

Now as I observe the continuing saga going on the the world, I can more easily see it as just another page in the ego’s comic book. It is just a silly story that could never be what we truly Are.

I am so thankful that I know about the inner altar of Truth that is within us all. I can take all the fear thoughts that show up and take them to this inner Altar. In the Course I am reminded, “Bring your perceptions of the world to this altar, for it is the altar to truth. There you will see your vision changed, and there you will learn to see truly. From this place, where God and His Son dwell in peace and where you are welcome, you will look out in peace and behold the world truly. Yet to find the place, you must relinquish your investment in the world as you project it, allowing the Holy Spirit to extend the real world to you from the altar of God. (T-12.III. 10:6-9)

As I continue to practice this, the fear thoughts are transformed. I find an inner peace and a sense of safety that is not found in the world. I remember that all is well. And nothing in the comic book dreams of the world can change this Reality.

I feel so grateful that this inner altar to truth is always there in my mind, waiting to receive and heal all my fear thoughts. It never fails when I am willing enough to receive the correction to behold the world truly. A deep feeling of peace and happiness replaces what I momentarily thought was real. Ahhh! The mountain turns into a molehill. What seemed like a big deal is softly melted away. I am left with the feeling that I am invulnerable. I remember that “Salvation comes from my one Self. Its thoughts are mine to use.” (W-pI.96.9:2)

I can join with the ego thoughts or I can join with the thoughts that come from my one Self. I first have to ask myself, “Do I want to hold on to fear thoughts and real-ize them or do I want to accept and use the thoughts that come from my one Self? I answer this question by watching where my state of mind is in every now moment.

Mary & Robert Stoelting are co-founers of Pathways of Light. They currently live at the Pathways of Light Center in Kiel, WI and will soon be moving to Florida.

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