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January-March, 2021

Pathways of Light Minister: Action Required

by Revs. Colleen and Deb Fee

Hello Beautiful Lights!

Please help us help you and your ministry. We are performing much needed updates on our Minister Services files. Recent improvements on the Pathwaysoflight.org website have increased significantly the number of catalog and information requests. As we always include a Minister profile flier (selected by nearest zip code), it is imperative that our Minister Profile fliers be current and up to date.

Additionally, Minister Profiles online need to be updated and email delivery confirmed. Current Pathways of Light membership assures your online profile will remain available for those seeking guidance in your area and state. Also, Pathways of Light membership is required in order to legally officiate wedding ceremonies.

Here is how you can help us help you:

1. If you have a Pathways of Light profile online, please go to your page and send yourself a test email to confirm you are receiving emails.

2. Are you available to facilitate students? If so, review your profile information. Email us to confirm if it is okay as is. Or submit any changes through the Support for Ministers online form at www.pathwaysoflight.org/forms/update_photo_bio

3. If you are no longer available to facilitate, please let us know as we send out active Minister fliers with catalog requests in your area.

4. If you have not been facilitating and would like to be available, you can refresh your facilitating skills by silently auditing Step 4 courses 1001 and 1002 Facilitator Training at no charge.

5. If a student emails you and you are unable to fulfill their request, please forward their email to the Pathways of Light office. Or have them call the office for assistance at 1-800-323-7284 or 386-625-7284. It is critical to respond promptly to these requests in order to best serve our brothers and sisters.

6. We are asking all Pathways of Light ministers to respond in order to update our files. Please direct your correspondence and any questions to us at:
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Thank you so much! Love and Blessings,

Colleen and Deb Fee

“Love is ALL in ALL”

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January-March, 2021

ACIM Text Questions and Answers

Excerpts from Text Made Simple

Below is in reference to Text Chapter 1, Section V on pages 12-13.

In the first paragraph, the miracle and the body are both described as learning aids, which are used only as long as they are needed. As we return to the awareness of our original state as Love, direct communication replaces the miracle and the body. Because we did not create ourselves, we cannot change our innate ability to create (which means extend Love) as our Creator does. We can imagine that we have destroyed our communication with our Source, but we cannot make it true.

In A Course in Miracles, what is the difference between between ‘make’ and ‘create’?

In the first paragraph of section V the Course introduces the distinction between “make” and “create.” Whenever the Course refers to creation, it is referring to God’s extension of Love. It is not referring to creativity as we commonly think of it in reference to artists, writers, inventors, etc. In the Workbook for Students section 11. titled, What is Creation? we are told, “Creation is the sum of all God’s Thoughts, in number infinite, and everywhere without all limit. Only Love creates, and only like Itself.” (W-pII.11.1:1-2)

The ego, on the other hand makes illusions. When it says, “You can make an empty shell, but you cannot express nothing at all,” (1:4 italics added) it means the ego can make the body, which is an empty shell, but this empty shell can still be used by the Holy Spirit as a medium of communication for teaching.

What does it mean to be miracle-minded and how does it help us in our life?

In the second paragraph of section V, a key idea is that, as we become miracle-minded (or open to the correction of our perception), we shorten the need for time. As we open to miracles, we remember our true Identity as an extension of God’s Love and become aware of the universal abundance of Love in everyone. We remember everyone is the same Love because God gives all Love to all equally.

What does it mean to be dependent on God?

An important concept in the third paragraph of section V is that we must remember our total dependence on God in order to know the power of “the Son in his true relationship with the Father.” (3:4) The truth is we come from God and are just like God. God’s strength is ours. If we try to be independent of God, we lose awareness of our God-given strength. The ego’s highest priority is independence, and the idea of being dependent is repulsive to the ego. Yet this very independence from God is what makes us feel weak and vulnerable because we have lost awareness of God’s strength in us. So, contrary to what the ego teaches, to acknowledge our dependence on God is to accept God’s strength as ours and know our perfect safety and invulnerability.

The truth is we cannot change God and we cannot change God’s eternal extension of Love, Which is called the Son of God or the Sonship. If we do not realize we have been given all of Love (God), our perception is distorted. Because the Sonship is one, if any part of the Sonship is asleep to the truth, it affects the whole. That is why the Course often tells us that we don’t go Home alone.

How does Jesus describe God’s extension?

The central theme in paragraph four of section V is that God’s extension is whole or one or holy. As we accept miracles, we are accepting our state of wholeness or our innate abundance because we recognize that All has All. We are affirming the truth about ourselves.

In paragraph five Jesus returns to what was discussed in paragraph three. We cannot change God’s Creation and we cannot change God. As we learn to accept Creation as It is and not try to change It, we release ourselves from the tyrannous and limiting control of the ego and we place our mind under God, or true Authority.

How do we return to the abundance awareness of the Christ Mind?

As we learn to step back and return to the abundance awareness of the Christ Mind, we let go of the false ideas of the ego, which is trying to replace God’s oneness with the individuality of separation. We let go of the idea that our safety lies in illusions of separate bodies. As we begin to recognize the illusions we have been believing in for what they are, it can seem quite disorienting. It is as though the foundation on which we have based our lives is crumbling.

Some react by defending their illusions more vigorously in an attempt to make them seem more real and thus hold on to them. But being illusions, they can never really provide a solid foundation. Beneath the bravado of defense, there is an underlying awareness that what we are defending is untrue. It is really upside down thinking, confusing illusion with truth. So we are seeing here that the disorientation and instability that seems to come with giving up the illusions that we had thought were true is to be expected. But it does not need to last. In exchange for giving up our belief in false ideas, the Holy Spirit offers us the rock solid, changeless strength of God. Nothing could be more stable.

Read Chapter 1, Section VI. (pages 13-15)

This section has some core ideas that are important for us to learn to apply in our lives. If we really want to awaken to the truth of our oneness in God, we need to fully understand and integrate these key ideas into the way we think and live our lives. An important idea Jesus states in this section is: “A sense of separation from God is the only lack you really need correct. This sense of separation would never have arisen if you had not distorted your perception of truth, and had thus perceived yourself as lacking.” (2:1-2)

What does Jesus mean by, “Belief produces the acceptance of existence.”?

It is important to realize that this is why we see the world we see. We see a world of separate bodies because we thought we would “be better off in a state somehow different from the one you are in.” (1:5) We wanted a world that was different from God’s oneness. We wanted to believe we were separate and could have something for ourselves alone. We wanted to experience a world of uniqueness that was separate from the unity of God. We wanted to put ourselves in God’s place and make a world of unique identities that we as individuals could control.

Excerpts from Text Made Simple at www.pathwaysoflight.org/acim_text

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October-December 2020

Miracles News, October-December 2020

 

We open our
hearts and minds
to the
Light and Love
in everyone.
(ACIM W-pI.274.2:2)

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October-December, 2020

Be In the World, But Not of It

by Rev. Dan Strodl, Ordained Ministerial Counselor

“There is a way of living in the world that is not here, although it seems to be. You do not change appearance, though you smile more frequently. Your forehead is serene; your eyes are quiet. And the ones who walk the world as you do recognize their own. Yet those who have not yet perceived the way will recognize you also, and believe that you are like them, as you were before.” (W-155.1)

The world we live in is an insane ego thought system that thrives on fear, judgments, grievances, conflict, worry and stress. It is all projected from the ego thought system which we inherited at the separation and developed through our lives.

Attack, defense, conflict and fear keep us locked in the ego’s prison. But we can open the prison door with forgiveness. Forgiveness is letting go of all the illusions that block us from the truth of who we are.

“This is an insane world, and do not underestimate the extent of its insanity. There is no area of your perception that it has not touched, and your dream is sacred to you. That is why God placed the Holy Spirit in you, where you placed the dream.” (T-14.I.2:6-8)

When we notice that insane thoughts are bubbling up in our mind, we can step back, quiet our mind, and ask Holy Spirit for a new way of seeing. Holy Spirit’s job is to heal our minds, and He is with us all through the day holding our hand.

With consistent letting go of insane thoughts, the ego support system will slowly lose its power and the light of our Right Mind will come shining through. We can still live in the world, but experience true Reality, seeing the world through the eyes of Love.

I had an experience this morning which was a good example of being in the world but not of it. I live in an apartment, and one of my neighbors had taken it on herself to make the street in front of our block beautiful.

She has worked on it for the last five years, and planted beautiful shrubs and flowers. A boring gray cement road has been transformed into one of the most stunning roads in London. She was out there almost every day, watering, pruning, and planting.

Then last week, she had a grievance with cyclists. They were riding their bikes on the pavement. So she moved three big plant pots and spaced them out across the pavement, so their bikes couldn’t get through.

Some residents complained about her blocking the pavement to the authorities, and she was told to remove the plant pots.

She took offense at this and sent an email through to all the residents, to let them know that she was withdrawing her efforts to look after the beautiful street garden.

Someone else would have to do it. When I read her email I was upset. I didn’t want her beautiful street garden to die. I feared that no one else would come forward.

“Pause and be still a little while, and see how far you rise above the world, when you release your mind from chains and let it seek the level where it finds itself at home.”  (W-pI:128.1)

So, I stepped back and asked Holy Spirit for a new way of seeing. I sensed that it was a call for love ... and so, I sent her blessings. I blessed her in her love, happiness, peace, and her acceptance. And as I did that, I noticed that my upset had vanished and peace had returned.

Every time I catch a grievance and let it go, I feel real freedom from the ego thought system. I’m still in the world but participating less in the insanity. Thank you neighbors for giving me the opportunity to heal my mind.

P.S. The next day she was outside watering her garden again.

Rev. Dan Strodl is a Pathways of Light minister and publisher of Miracle Worker magazine in London, UK. His email is: .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) Visit Miracle Network online at http://www.Miracles.org.uk

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