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January-March, 2020

Letting Your Mind be Healed by Holy Spirit

by Gina Lucia, Ministerial Candidate

Every moment of every day is an opportunity for us to heal our perceptions of the world around us, the one in which we see with the body’s eyes. This can only be done with the assistance of the Holy Spirit. This is why it is necessary to have some sort of “spiritual” practice every day. To align ourselves vertically with our higher Holy Spirit selves before we begin the day’s journey can save us from the illusions our inventive minds love to participate in. Lesson 137 teaches us, “When I am healed I am not healed alone.”

“And as you let yourself be healed, you see all those around you, or who cross your mind, or whom you touch or those who seem to have no contact with you, healed along with you. Perhaps you will not recognize all that your healing touches, nor realize how great your offering of healing is to all the world, when you let healing come to you. But you are never healed alone. And legions upon legions will receive the gift of healing that you receive when you are healed.” (W-137.10)

Healing or sickness are your own mind’s decision. Sickness supports the illusion of separation and the limitations that come with the body. Just like with forgiveness, when illusions are brought before the Holy Spirit, the illusion of sickness disappears from the mind of the dreamer. This can only be achieved with the help of the Holy Spirit.

We must ask, “Holy Spirit, how do you see this?” As we quiet our minds, we open to the healing perception. We have opportunity every day to practice receiving miracles from the Holy Spirit. As we receive these miracles let us not forget to extend the miracles that we receive.

Let us give thanks with A Song of Prayer!

“So now return your holy voice to Me. The song of prayer is silent without you. The universe is waiting your release because it is its own. Be kind to it and to yourself, and then be kind to Me. I ask but this; that you be comforted and live no more in terror and in pain. Do not abandon Love. Remember this; whatever you may think about yourself, whatever you may think about the world, your Father needs you and will call to you until you come to Him in peace at last.” (S-3.IV.10)

Be still an instant with me! Let’s go to our Father with empty hands and open hearts, let us accept this, that we do not know what anything in the world means, only our open hearts can bring us home to a world that lay beyond what our body’s eyes perceive. Heaven is here, and Heaven is our home.

Gina Lucia is a Pathways of Light ministerial candidate living in W. Sacramento, California. Email: .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)

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January-March, 2020

Perfect Creation

by Rev. Paula Richards, Ordained Ministerial Counselor

I was recently moved by a video I watched about service animals. This young boy, Matt, is epileptic, and he now has a service dog. Merlin can sense an oncoming seizure long before it occurs, giving Matt’s family time to medicate and protect him.

It was what Matt’s mother said that really got my attention: “When Merlin looks up into Matt’s face, he doesn’t see a kid with epilepsy. He sees the most perfect creation God ever made. If you see that sort of adoration reflected back at you day after day, it changes the way you feel about yourself.” Wow! Isn’t that precisely what A Course in Miracles has been trying to teach me to do for all these years? To look right past what my senses are showing me, and see God’s perfection in everyone and everything?

We just never know how Holy Spirit is going to reach us with His message of love. We need to pay attention because love is all around us. And love is God’s perfect creation.

Rev. Paula Richards, O.M.C., is a Pathways of Light minister living in North Billerica, MA. Email: .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) Web: spiritrisingministries.com   Call me at 508-517-9361

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January-March, 2020

Claim Your Power in 2020

by Rev. Barbara Goodman Siegel, Ordained Ministerial Counselor

My New Year’s resolution is to own my power. I am talking about the power that A Course in Miracles so clearly tells me is literally my God-given right. As one of my dear teachers said to me: “Barbara, it is just as arrogant not to acknowledge your power as it is to boast about it.” In other words, not claiming our power keeps us, in a rather weird way, special and certainly separate.

There are times when I accept my God-given power. But I also have old, worn out beliefs that I am powerless, unworthy and, despite great evidence to the contrary, inadequate. Too often, I allow these beliefs get the better of me.

I hereby proclaim that I am done with those old beliefs! To that end, I wrote a list of affirmations that state what my God-given power consists of. I want to share the list with you for you to use to reclaim your God-given power as well. It is through each of us claiming and owning our power that we and all our brothers are saved.

I intend to read this list of affirmations every day for at least 30 days. I encourage you to do the same. Here we go and with enthusiasm:

I am the power of Love

I am the power of kindness

I am the power of prayer

I am the power of compassion

I am the power of Truth

I am the power of the Divine Mind

I am the power of forgiveness

I am the power of Creation

I am the power that dissolves all fear

I am the power of innocence

I am the power of joy

I am the power of understanding

I am the power of hope

I am the power of right thinking

I am the power to choose again

I am the power of Divine communication

I am the power of Divine seeing

I am the power of Divine expansion

I am the power of what is changeless

I am the power of what is eternal

I am the power of salvation

I am the power of freedom

I am the power of abundance

I am the power of healing

I am the power of teaching

I am the power of learning

I am the power of remembering

I am the power of the one Self

I am the power of peace

I am the power of gratitude

I am the power of Source energy

I am the power of infinite Intelligence

I am the power of blessings

I am the power of faith

I am the power of trust

I am the power of holiness

I am the power of miracles

I am the power to save the world

And so it is!    Amen

Dear Ones, please note that beginning Friday, Jan. 3 and every Friday thereafter, I will be on ACIM Gather radio (which you can find via a google search) from noon to 1:00 PM EST.

Each week, I will review the upcoming week’s Course in Miracles lessons using the affirmations from my book: Finding Your Self in the Mirror — Awakening Through Mirror Affirmations for the 365 Lessons of A Course in Miracles. I invite you to join me and let these affirmations take the lessons from your head to your heart so that you may continue to strengthen and empower your true Self.

Rev. Barbara Goodman Siegel, O.M.C. is a Pathways of Light minister living in St. Louis, MO. Email: .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)  Web: Barbaragoodmansiegel.com

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January-March, 2020

On Being Special

by Peggy Rivera, Ordained Ministerial Counselor

What does it mean do be special? Doesn’t everyone have their own specialness, their own way of being special? It has often felt like that to me. Many times in my life I felt un-special. In other words, I felt that everyone else was so special in their own way, but me — I was a dud.

Nothing special here. There were also times when I strove to be special. When I wanted to be better at singing than someone else or look better in my prom dress than another girl in hers, but that feeling was awful because for me to feel special, someone else had to feel bad. So when I ask what it means to be special, I am reminded that specialness is a judgment. It is the great illusion. It is an attack against God.

Jesus says, “Love is extension. To withhold the smallest gift is not to know Love’s purpose. Love offers everything forever. Hold back but one belief, one offering, and love is gone because you asked a substitute to take its place. And now must war, the substitute for peace come with the one alternative that you can choose for Love. Your choosing it has given it all the reality it seems to have.

Beliefs will never openly attack each other because conflicting outcomes are impossible. But an unrecognized belief is a decision to war in secret.” (T-24.I.1-2:2)

So I think this is part of the tragedy of believing an untruth. It goes underground, and operates subtly without recognition. Here we have then decided to have beliefs about ourselves and others that are not part of the truth of Who we are.  When we believe in the illusion we must defend our beliefs. For our specialness to survive, we must attack what we perceive as different.

I think that this is a source of so much of our discomfort in this life. It seems to me another word for specialness could be judgment. We judge ourselves, compare ourselves to others and then we have to find a way to make our brothers guilty so we can feel better about ourselves. We compete with each other and gossip about each other. We cheat each other in the work place. It is easy to find people stabbing each other in the back so they can seem better than their co-workers to get that promotion everyone is fighting for. We can get locked into our own separateness and loneliness.

I love to watch the Hallmark Channel on TV in the evening with my husband. Last night we watched one where a couple had been notified that they were owners of an old farmhouse because the owner had died and left it to them. They never knew her but they read about her and decided to restore the old house and make it a Bed and Breakfast. They were not married but they fell in love from coming together over this house. After they fixed it up, they decided to get married. They had come to love the town and all of the people.

Suddenly a distant relative (Emily), shows up and declares she is also part owner and wants her share of the property. The couple could not afford to buy her out so they were faced with having to close the B & B to pay for her share.

The woman, Jenny, who originally inherited the farmhouse never judged Emily. She took her in as family. Emily asked her why she was being so nice to her and Jenny said, “You are family.” Emily found herself softening. She even fell in love with a man from the town.

The towns people came together and donated the money to help them pay Emily off. Happy ending: Emily decided she would move to the same town and they would be able to spend time together.
     
The Treachery of Specialness

“Comparison must be an ego device, for love makes none. Specialness always makes comparisons. It is established by a lack seen in another, and maintained by searching for, and keeping clear in sight all lacks it can perceive.” (T-24.II.1:1-4)

In the movie I found myself thinking the new lady, Emily, was mean taking the property. I fell into that “stinkin thinkin” of judgment. Jenny, did not judge anyone, she only offered love and kindness. It made me see where I still need to heal my mind. I was seeing the work in healing the relationship between relatives that really didn’t know each other and how it led to the whole town coming together in love to work for a good outcome was very inspiring.

There is so much depression, sadness and loneliness in this world because of the replacement of truth. As we learn more and more to see the truth more and more, good will come not just for us but for the whole world.

When Jesus says that Love is an extension means we are here to extend Love. When we replace Love with the illusions of our specialness, we are cut off from our Source.

“You can defend your specialness, but never will you hear the Voice for God beside it. They speak a different language and they fall on different ears. To every special one a different message, and one with different meaning, is the truth. Yet how can truth be different to each one? The special messages the special hear convince them they are different and apart; each in his special sins and “safe” from love, which does not see his specialness at all. Christ’s vision is their “enemy,” for it sees not what they would look upon, and it would show them that the specialness they think they see is an illusion.” (T-24.II.5)

There is a way out of these lies though. It is forgiveness. “Forgiveness is the end of specialness. …Forgiveness is the release from all illusions, and that is why it is impossible to partly forgive.” (T-24.III.1:1,3)

When we see ourselves as different from what God created, it is easy to lose track of our peace. That is why we have days that we feel less than our brother. A belief in lies has no stability. It can change like the direction of the wind. But when we stay in our truth, we are standing on solid ground. The truth is always the same, never changing. Just like God’s Love for all of us, it is the same yesterday, today and tomorrow. There is stability in that knowledge. We don’t ever have to doubt that.

We know that our brother is the same as we are. He is Love too. And the wonderful thing about recognizing our brother, friend, life partner, etc.; is we can extend our love to each other and remind each other that we are Love and nothing else, just like Jenny and all the characters in the story. They all found their way to each other.

I look forward to staying in my truth more often and helping those in my path do the same.

Rev. Peggy Rivera, O.M.C., is a Pathways of Light minister living in Palm Bay,FL 305-322-6610 Email:7seas@bellsouth.net Web: http://www.revpriveralifeministries.com

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