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May-August, 2025

The Ocean of the Mind

by Rev. Sandi Christie, Ordained Ministerial Counselor

In the place where “I” arises, in the ocean of the mind,
Where the ego’s dark disguises for a moment fall behind,
And the wisdom that we cherish, is wrapped up and pushed across 
On the waters of awareness to a river where it’s tossed
Like an anchor, gently sinking, on a chain that has been cut,
Now perceived, a distant twinkling, where a ladder does abut—

In the ocean of the mind, there’s a ladder you can find.

In the silence, like a diamond, shining brightly in the heart,
Where the spirit knows no crime and all illusions fall apart,
And the meaning of a minute is dissolving like the hands
Of the paint upon a portrait in a Dali-painted land.
Past and future have no meaning, only timelessness abides,
Here the Spirits are convening, in His glory, they collide—

In the ocean of the Mind, where the body’s left behind.

In arpeggios ascending towards a symphony of One,
There’s a melody extending as all borders come undone.
An ancient song remembered from a long-forgotten place,
Every sorrow unremembered in a perfect state of grace.
A gentle Voice, susurrant, in a language ears can’t hear
Is now flowing on Love’s current, every fear now disappears—

In the ocean of the Mind, where all Spirit is aligned.

Now the current lifts you higher and the veil falls away
And the feelings that transpire, there is not a word to say.
The door is finally open, the forgotten Son is home,
The mind no longer broken knows it never walks alone.
All that misery engenders has now finally been released.
The guilty mind surrenders in acceptance of His peace—

In the ocean of the Mind, it’s His peace that you will find.

Rev. Sandi Christie, OMC is a Pathways of Light Spiritual Counselor living in Port Charlotte, Florida. .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)

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May-August, 2025

Welcoming the Love That Is Our Inheritance

from Pathways of Light Daily Inspiration

God’s peace and joy are mine.
Today I will accept God’s peace and joy, in glad exchange for all the substitutes that I have made for happiness and peace.

Let me be still and listen to the truth.
Let my own feeble voice be still, and let me hear the mighty Voice for truth Itself assure me that I am God’s perfect Son. (W-11.1-2)

If we want to experience the Love that is our inheritance, we need to be willing to quiet our mind and listen to God’s Voice. It is ever present in our mind. Only our mistaken interest in the ego thought system makes us deaf to His Message.

God’s Voice always conveys His Love. But the ego is afraid of Love’s oneness, so it blocks out all thoughts of our true Self which accept that we remain Love, as we were created.

Today we practice frequently pausing to welcome the Holy Spirit’s loving guidance. He will show us the Love that is the truth in every brother. And He will teach us to answer calls for Love with Love. This is how we will claim God’s gifts of peace and joy.

As God’s Son, we have never left the Heaven of His Love. But our wish for specialness has made an alternate ‘reality’ which we have accepted in place of the reality of Love’s oneness. Yet our heart still yearns to respond to Love’s call. It is the call of Truth.

Today we remember that our heart’s desire is to be the Love we were created to be. We accept this reality with the singular purpose of forgiving the wish for specialness. As we learn to forgive its myriad forms, we learn that they all represent the single mistaken belief that we could be separate from our Source.

With this practice, we reach the truth. We gradually remember the life we live in God’s eternal Love.

The world we see is a reflection of our projections of what we believe we are. When we forgive our mistaken belief that we are a separate identity, the world we perceive changes. Thus forgiveness is a gift we give ourselves.

We want to be happy. Each time we forgive a perception of differences, we let the Light we are dispel a barrier that has hidden the presence of Love.

We take another step toward awakening to the Love in which we live. Forgiveness is the way Home.

The key to finding the happiness and peace God wills for us is to lay down our mistaken wish to have an identity we can call our own.

Our true Identity is shared with our Father. We remain united with God, no matter what dreams we may have.

We free ourselves from the dream of conflict and loss, fear and guilt. As we accept the Holy Spirit’s help to see with Christ’s vision, we overlook the world of form and accept the Love of God as our Identity.

With this acceptance, fear and guilt disappear and we remember the joy and peace of our true Identity as God’s Son.

Pathways of Light Staff

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January-March, 2025

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I let my mind
radiate with
Love today.

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January-March, 2025

Learning to Let Holy Spirit Take the Wheel

by Rev. Larry Glenz, Ordained Ministerial Counselor

Recently, I had given an interview with Robin Singler representing Pathways of Light for a video program entitled “Holy Spirit, Take the Wheel.”

I was honored to be asked to be interviewed. Then I started to think about some of the difficult times that I allowed Holy Spirit to do the driving. And I also thought about those times I had difficulty letting go.

I picked up the Course 30 years ago during my divorce with my first wife — the mother of my two sons. At that time, 1994, I believed I felt no connection to a Higher Power. But I was shaken by this severe change in my life. I was looking for something to give me the strength and confidence that seemed to have escaped me.

It was then that A Course in Miracles came into my life. I found it so inspiring. I started with the Workbook and have been a devoted student ever since.

My thinking started to change. I was practicing the instructions of handing my problems and my thinking over to Holy Spirit. I started keeping a journal and communicating with Holy Spirit through my writing.

I was learning that forgiveness was the key to happiness. Holding grievances was hurting my peace. I was practicing letting go of my resentments. I was beginning to learn the power of my connection to God.

That was the beginning of me letting Holy Spirit take the wheel. My life was changing for the better. I was recognizing that all the credit for this change of mind goes to Holy Spirit. By following the guidance of the Workbook lessons, I gained a strong connection to the Spirit within me.

Years later, my younger son, Kevin, shocked our family when we realized he had become an opiate addict. The seven years of addiction, rehabs, recoveries, and relapses was certainly the most difficult years of our lives as a family.

But I had a strong connection to Spirit. I handed my decisions as the father over to Holy Spirit. I kept a journal to stay in touch. I asked questions of Spirit, and wrote down the answers I received in my journal.

Despite the destructive behavior of my addicted son, I repeatedly received the answer that I was to love and forgive him. I was told that I have no idea how Kevin’s life was to develop.

Kevin needed to steal in order to feed his habit. He lied constantly and would say anything he thought I wanted to hear. Despite my deep fear and anger, Holy Spirit’s answer was “Just love him anyway. You have no idea what Kevin’s path forward will be like.”

I tried to keep Holy Spirit in charge but the fear in me did not allow me to let go. Half the time I was meditating with Spirit for answers. Other times I was in a full blown physical and verbal battle. Rage is a terrifying form of fear and I suffered from it.

After seven years of addiction, rehabs, recovery, and relapses, Kevin died of a fatal overdose of heroin. His daughter was only four months old.

I can’t imagine anything tougher for a parent to endure. But I had been trained to let go and let God. My family and I were devastated. But Holy Spirit promised me I would not be left comfortless.

I appreciated that I could hand all of my sorrow to Holy Spirit when Kevin passed. There was no better way for me to react. Hundreds of people poured out their love for Kevin and my family. It was that love that allowed me to heal. I wrote my only book, Forgiving Kevin as my way of grieving his loss.

Holy Spirit gave me the strength, not only to write the book, but to give presentations of Kevin’s story to many high schools, middle schools, colleges, and community groups for the past 14 years.

Then another challenge to my peace of mind surfaced. I received a diagnosis of metastatic prostate cancer. The cancer is in my lymph nodes. Handing this fear over to Holy Spirit was now my preferred process.

After three different forms of treatment in three different hospitals, I am now receiving the treatment of hormonal therapy.

Each day I ask Holy Spirit to take the wheel. I try to accept that He is in charge and not me. The years of letting Him take the wheel has strengthened me. I am not afraid. I feel good. And I have an acceptance that all is good today — right now — the only time there is.

It is all in God’s Hands. Studying the Course has taught me to accept this. And I am grateful for the love and strength I have been given.

Rev. Larry Glenz, O.M.C., is a Pathways of Light minister living in Long Beach, NY. Email: .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)

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