Miracles News

Tweet

July-September, 2019

A Miracle with 8% Interest

by Rev. Dan Strodl, O.M.C.

What is a miracle? A miracle is a shift in perception from fear to love. Instead of seeing the world through fear, anxiety, stress, judgments and grievances, we see through the eyes of love, peace and happiness. While miracles are a healing of our mind, they can manifest in our outer world ... as healing of an illness, money issues, relationship struggles etc.

To choose a miracle is to invite Holy Spirit to guide us. To hold a grievance is to forget who we are. When Holy Spirit replaces a grievance with a miracle, we re-awakened to the truth of who we truly are. The result is happiness. The opportunity for everyday miracles is there for all of us, we just need willingness and mind training. True forgiveness (letting go of judgments) is the key to bringing miracles into our lives. As we notice our upsets, grievances, judgments, and hand them over to the Holy Spirit, they dissolve into nothingness, and in their place comes peace. When practiced regularly it becomes a habit, and in time our world shifts from anxiety to peace, from judgments to acceptance, from fear to happiness.

I have been practicing this for many years, and my world has changed beyond recognition. I rarely get trapped by fear, and if I do I quickly hand it over to the Holy Spirit for healing. I feel a happiness and joy that has nothing to do with what’s going on outside. I am so grateful for the gifts of God. So many things of the world that had to be a certain way have disappeared, like needing to be right, worrying about what others think of me, getting my way, and on and on. 

But there was one area I struggled to let go of ... money. Money has always been an idol. I was trained in the ego thought system to believe that money was necessary for happiness. And although intellectually I knew this wasn’t true, I couldn’t let it go.

Then last year I got snagged by a big internet scam. Online thieves wrangled their way into my bank and stole £11,000. I went to my bank and told them what happened. They listened intently to the story and concluded that I allowed them into my account and there was nothing they could do, it was my fault. End of story. I was devastated. I was trapped in fear of lack.

So I did the only thing I knew, I saw it as a forgiveness opportunity and took it to the Holy Spirit. I asked “How would you have me see this?” What I received was “All is well. You will always have enough”. That helped me to calm down for a short period, but the fear returned. So I kept handing it over to Spirit … and kept receiving reassurance that all is well. I decided not to talk about it to anyone because that was giving energy to the story and feeding the fear. In time I was able to let it go and I returned to peace.

“What could you not accept, if you but knew that everything that happens, all events, past, present and to come, are gently planned by One Whose only purpose is your good?” (W-pI.135.18.1)

I realised I had experienced a miracle. I had let go of the money that was stolen ... it meant nothing to me. The miracle showed me that happiness and peace have nothing to do with money, possessions, cars, holidays, or stuff. I am so grateful for this. I felt such a wonderful sense of freedom from the money prison I had been trapped in all my life.

“The world that seems to hold you prisoner can be escaped by anyone who does not hold it dear. Withdraw all value you have placed upon its meagre offerings and senseless gifts, and let the gift of God replace them all.” (W-pI.127.3)

Then last week I received an email from my bank. They had decided to give me the money back, with 8% interest.

A miracle with 8% interest!!

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 www@.Miracles.org.uk

© 2019, Pathways of Light. https://www.pathwaysoflight.org
You may freely share copies of this with your friends, provided this copyright notice and website address are included.

Tell a Friend

Printable Page

---

Tweet

July-September, 2019

Another Step Out of the Closet

by Rev. Larry Glenz, O.M.C.

I have recently completed my work on my website: larryglenz.com. I felt guided to do this, but it has been difficult for me to tell people that it even exists.

Although I enjoy being an Ordained Ministerial Counselor (O.M.C.) for Pathways of Light over the past 11 years, I have remained “in the closet” about my ministry to much of my family and friends with whom I have had the longest relationships. We just don’t talk about it.

My past identity for most people has been as a history teacher, athletic coach, and part-time bartender. Although I remain a volunteer assistant coach, my pursuits in life have greatly changed since my retirement 11 years ago.

My website is about my ministry of which I feel passionate. I love to think of myself as one of God’s teachers. A Course in Miracles encourages me to do that. But to those people who have known me the longest, I speak of it rarely or not at all.

Yet I most certainly have gone public. I have written a book, many articles, officiated weddings, spoken publicly as a reverend for Pathways and made videos explaining my passion for being a minister of God.

But I never speak of this with my only brother, Mike. My closet friends either don’t know or understand very little about this important aspect of my life.

But now I have a website. It’s all out there. I recently felt encouraged by Spirit to tell my son, Matt. He checked it out and noted with a smile that my life has certainly changed over the past decade.

I said to him, “Don’t tell Mom,” (my ex-wife). He just laughed. Neither of us could imagine her actually thinking of me as a minister of God. Fair enough. These people think of me in a different way, perhaps, and are comfortable with their perception.

As a motivational speaker to young people about the heroin epidemic, I do not mention that I am a reverend. I do, however, speak of the importance of love, forgiveness, and the strength of connecting to one’s Higher Power. I have been guided to do that.

I feel like the establishment of my website is like me taking another step out of the closet. My deepest thoughts about being a teacher of God are out there for everyone to see. Holy Spirit guided me.

I am grateful I was given two Pathways ministers, Rev. Michelle Rado and Rev. Deb Fee, to build the website. At this point I am not sure how it is meant to help others.
But I can leave that up to Holy Spirit. And I feel strong as I step out of the closet while holding His hand.

Rev. Larry Glenz, O.M.C., is a Pathways of Light minister living in Long Beach, New York. Email: .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) website: http://www.larryglenz.com

© 2019, Pathways of Light. https://www.pathwaysoflight.org
You may freely share copies of this with your friends, provided this copyright notice and website address are included.

Tell a Friend

Printable Page

---

Tweet

July-September, 2019

Do Not Arrest Your Thought in This World

by Rev. Myron Jones, O.M.C.

There are two sentences in the Text, Section III, paragraph 16 that feel really meaningful to me this morning. One is that “freedom from illusions lies only in not believing them.” I love this for its simplicity. Yes, it can feel difficult not to believe in what seems so real, but then that is the purpose of the illusion, to feel real. So, when I experience the effects of believing in the illusion, I ask the Holy Spirit to remove those thoughts from my mind, the thoughts I believe that could not be real.

I felt harassed yesterday. There seemed to be too much work for one day and I felt overwhelmed. I noticed that I was projecting, placing blame on people and situations. These are illusions. They affected me because I believed them. I could easily have questioned them, but I didn’t. Normally, when I feel like I have too much to do, I ask that Holy Spirit decide for me what to do and what to let go. I remind myself that it is just a thought in my mind that I have more to do than I can do. For some reason, yesterday I didn’t question my thoughts and so I suffered until I changed my mind about that.

The second sentence that stands out to me says, “Do not arrest your thought in this world, and you will open your mind to creation in God.” When I accepted the idea that I was harassed and overwhelmed and did not question that thought, I had arrested my thought in this world. When I finally realized what I was doing and I asked for correction, the barriers that seemed to hold me hostage to my suffering fell away. I was in immediate peace and I was given ideas that corrected some of the errors I made while confused.

What I have discovered is that I can always choose to not believe the illusion. Sometimes it feels hard and I have to talk myself into letting go. Sometimes I have to ask for help over and over, not because I have to talk the Holy Spirit into helping me, but because I have to talk myself into accepting the help. But this is something that I can do.

I can, with the help of the Holy Spirit, free my mind from the belief in illusions and the process is very simple. I notice I am not happy and I ask that my mind be healed, then I allow the aberrant thought to be removed from my mind. I sit for a while as my mind is healed and I am in awe of the process that is occurring. I am deeply grateful for what is being done on my behalf. I remind myself that I am not this body or this story. I am spirit. I am the Thought of God, created by Him, like Him. This silly moment cannot be reality. Then I allow my mind to fly free of this world.

Rev. Myron Jones, O.M.C., is a Pathways of Light minister living in Westlake, Louisiana. Read her inspiring Healing Journal articles on the Pathways website. Email: .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) Myron’s website is: http://www.forgivenessisthewayhome.org

© 2019, Pathways of Light. https://www.pathwaysoflight.org
You may freely share copies of this with your friends, provided this copyright notice and website address are included.

Tell a Friend

Printable Page

---

Tweet

July-September, 2019

Don’t Let Ego Drive False Narratives for You

by Rev. Peggy Rivera, O.M.C.

Be careful what you tell yourself and also what you believe about yourself. The ego likes to make you believe you are not worth anything. The ego wants you to loathe yourself and feel worthless. In Dr. Wayne Dyer’s book, Your Sacred Self, he describes “Some Typical Peace Avoidance Behaviors.” He says that, “When you have an absence of peace at any time in your life, know that your ego, the false idea of yourself, is responsible.”

Here are some peace avoiding behaviors:

1. Confronting and arguing — When you choose this option you are pushing your higher self into the background.

2. Competing and comparing — When you compare yourself to others, you have bought into the idea that God plays favorites, and you have to go out and prove that you are better than anyone else.

3. Chasing and striving — is part of that dance of proving that you are better than your brother. This is a sure way to guarantee chaos and pain.

4. Saying notice me — when you engage in these thoughts you will spend a lot of your life energy getting noticed, you will lie, cheat and spend much time trying to get approval.

5. Giving yourself deadlines and pressure — this allows your ego to tyrannize your Higher Self, filling your thoughts with outside pressure to prove your worth.

6. Accumulating and acquiring — The more you have the more special you are. Storing many things may make you feel a sense of pride and accomplishment.

7. Chattering to yourself — living in your thoughts makes you focus on the world around you and can rob you of peace. The ego loves for you to concentrate on the white noise of living in the world.

8. Rejoicing in the troubles of others — this is the ego hard at work proving you are separate from others.

9. Worrying — the ego loves for you to worry and feel discontent. It wants you to forget the God within and forget who you really are.

When we let the ego drive our narrative, we forget who we are to the degree that we live on the earth in a fear-based existence, with no purpose other than to chase ideas of superiority, comparing ourselves with others, and creating more pain for ourselves and others. When we see past the false lies of the ego, we see there is enough Love to go around. We don’t have to prove we are acceptable. There is no need to outshine anyone; Our only need is to support each other. And to help others see the truth of who they are as well as accepting our True Nature.

Healing our minds is another step in healing the entire Sonship. We can create heaven on earth through Love and compassion. We can see the beauty in ourselves through the beauty in our brothers. Watching others grow in patience, kindness and truth is rewarding in that we are all One and as each of us awakens we see how expansive and Lovely we all are. We give thanks to our Creator and feel perfect peace in His Love. We all get to know our eternal selves and realize there is nothing to fear, ever.

We will all be together for all eternity. The mistakes that we make while we are here have already been forgiven. God Loves everyone of his Creations.

God gives us a way to find peace while we are here on the earth. We can go within and meditate and pray. Stop letting the ego run away with our thoughts. Make a point of praying and meditating every day. Seek peace in everyday moments like noticing the beauty of the earth around you. Everything and everyone is imbued with Gods Love and Light. We only need to search for it. Look for it even where you think it doesn’t exist, because it exists everywhere. If it seems hidden, it is only waiting to be found.

It isn’t easy, no doubt. That is why we have the Holy Spirit to help us along the way. We can always ask for assistance. I can tell you there are days when I feel totally abandoned, and then I remember the story of “Footprints in the Sand.” And I remember it is I who turned away from Him. And I also remember that He is always welcoming us back to the remembrance of Eternity and who we all are.

I am in such gratitude for His Love and guidance. So today I am grateful for His forgiveness and I am also grateful for the words in this book, written by Dr. Dyer. This is God expressing through a man who loves his Father and all of his fellow souls. This is how God shows himself to us, through the expressions of others. That is a perfect example of how we can help heal each other. I so needed these words from Dr. Dyer today, I needed to remember that I am no more and no less than anyone else. We are all expressions of God’s Love.

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

© 2019, Pathways of Light. https://www.pathwaysoflight.org
You may freely share copies of this with your friends, provided this copyright notice and website address are included.

Tell a Friend

Printable Page

---

Back to main page of Miracles News.

Has this page been helpful to you?
Your contribution to support this site is greatly appreciated. To make a tax deductible contribution with a credit/debit card, click here.
Click here to donate from your PayPal account.
Or send a check to Pathways of Light, 12530 Lions Chase Court, Huntley, IL 60142.