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January-March, 2017

Miracles News, January-March, 2017

 

Our hearts are
filled with the
Light of Gratitude.

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Pathways of Light Miracles News is published quarterly in print and online to provide a forum for Pathways of Light ministers to share their process of allowing the Holy Spirit to heal their minds. As we read and share these miracle stories with each other, we are inspired and we inspire each other to accelerate our return Home to Love, peace and happiness.

Subscriptions to the printed version are available without charge, but tax-deductible donations are gratefully received to support the printing and mailing expenses of this magazine. A suggested donation of $20.00 a year is invited.

Pathways of Light is nonprofit, providing spiritually focused courses with A Course in Miracles orientation, and has served spiritual awakening for over 27 years. Pathways of Light is dedicated to joining with people around the world in awakening to the Love and peace of God. As part of this joining, Pathways of Light offers training in a new kind of spiritual ministry.

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January-March, 2017

My Ancient Truth

by Rev. Susan Smith, O.M.C.

I have a memory of being born in a cocoon of light and love. An ancient memory of God’s love in creation… my ancient time of birth and of unspeakable joy, light, love and beauty. God wanted one more little child and so He thought of me. I am so loved.

In one sad instant, I made a crazy decision to experience time and distraction. I eroded my truth by straying and identifying with distraction. My ancient truth degraded through eons of time. But the good news is my ancient truth remains if I accept it. It will instantly return and overthrow all my illusions and distractions. It will instantly take its place as my sole reality as if nothing happened.

To help with that, I look within and see no sin because I reason with True Reason (reason is the act of carrying out sane premises in a logical way to yield sane conclusions… only this is done with spiritual reason). I reason that on the day I decided for time and separation God had a plan for my salvation. God does not will apart from me so I accepted and received as God’s Son His plan for my happiness. God’s Will is my will. I am co-creator and a co-willed creator with God. This happened instantaneously and is eternal. The instant God willed the Plan, I joined with it and it is in me eternally.

The Holy Spirit has also been there since this beginning and has also been part of God’s plan for my salvation. There is a place in me where I received and joined with Holy Spirit and is given to me all the way up to my present moment. I implicitly accept this and this leads to a logical conclusion — True Reason — I am One with God and the Holy Spirit and eternally safe in God’s love and light. By accepting True Reason I remember my ancient truth of unspeakable joy, light, love and beauty. I am loved.

(ACIM Text Chapter 21.V, Page 456 — The Function of Reason)

Rev. Susan Smith is a Pathways of Light minister living in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania.
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January-March, 2017

What I Call Practice

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

One of the many things I love about A Course in Miracles is that there are so many ways to practice. It is practicing that helps us to take the concepts deeper into our Right Mind and be guided by Holy Spirit.

Practicing ACIM has been a spiritual force that has guided me for many years. I started with the Workbook lessons over 20 years ago I still read a lesson every morning and try to remind myself of it throughout the day. I close my day with it before I close my eyes at night.

This is not a “chore” for me anymore but perhaps it was in the beginning. When I started the Workbook in 1994, I heard the comparison that doing the lessons is like lifting weights. I didn’t have to enjoy them or believe them. However, I was taught that if I was willing to do the lessons every day, throughout the day, I would get spiritually stronger.

That sounded really good to me. What did I have to lose? I worked at doing lessons despite often having resistance to what I was being taught. I was going through my divorce and had moved out of my home. Learning about forgiveness, sinlessness, and guiltlessness was certainly challenging while my life turned upside down.

It took me two years to get through the Workbook in the first years but there was vigilance to my efforts. I would also occasionally read the Text by myself at night a little bit at a time. I remember thinking, “I have no idea what this means” as I read the Text. But I kept coming back to it.

Without understanding it, I had the strong feeling that what this book was saying is the Truth. It would take time to seriously consider that my “life” was not the Truth. It would take practice to recognize forgiveness opportunities and to embrace them as such. Learning that I am God’s perfect Son takes practice.

I practiced primarily on my own. Well not really on my own — just my book, Holy Spirit, and me. I was reluctant to talk about it. And even with those I love most, I avoided discussion of my spiritual path out of fear of their possible criticism or disapproval. After all, these concepts are radical to the world’s view, as I perceived it.

I started to read what others were saying about the Course. The Internet provided me with ACIM communities that were studying the Course together. I was hesitant at first to join any of these groups. I had read books by Course authors like Marianne Williamson, Ken Wapnick, and Jon Mundy.

I was somehow drawn to Pathways of Light. I started their Ministerial Training courses with really no overt desire to be an ordained minister. Now I was practicing ACIM principles with a facilitator — a spiritual partner with whom to share my deepest fears and thoughts. I started using these spiritual concepts in my history classroom, in my athletic coaching, my parenting, and even into my little gig as a bartender.

Once I finished the ministerial courses and became a Pathways of Light minister, I served as a facilitator for others taking the courses. I also started taking the ACIM Practitioner courses that are specifically designed to help us take the Course principles even deeper. Then I started facilitating these courses as a Mind Healing Partner for others. This is what I call practicing.

Upon my retirement from teaching high school history classes, I started to search for study groups in my area on Long Island. After attending several different ones, I settled on one with which I was most comfortable. I joined with groups online as well.

I felt guided to start my own study group on Tuesday nights at my home in Long Beach. That has continued now for 8 years with a steady attendance of 5-10 people. I keep finding new ways to practice.

Practicing is not effortless for me but I certainly do not see it as a chore. I am drawn to it. The more I practice, the easier it becomes for me to accept the Atonement for myself. If I didn’t feel this stirring in my heart when I practice, I am sure I would have stopped long ago.

The more I practice ACIM, the more love I seem to accept into my life. The hard times are not as difficult. The good times appear more numerous and powerful. It is this experience that encourages me to keep connecting to Spirit.

Thank you, Holy Spirit, for being here now. I continue to feel Your strength within me. And I’ll keep practicing.

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).

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January-March, 2017

God’s Promise

by Rev. Tammy Roupp, O.M.C.

What have I promised you, do you know?

I know what I did not.

I never promised you the sun, the moon,
the stars, the heaven or earth.

I never promised to provide for you a house,

a car or money to buy what you wish.

I never promised to keep you safe
from how you chose to live.

I never promised to rescue you
from what you chose to do with your life.

What I did was not a promise,
it was a Gift.

The Gift is the extension of Who I am.

I created you in Love — The Love
that I am, the living part of Me.

This Love, It is Who I am,
It is Who you are.

It is a flow so peaceful, so gentle you
do not even know that it is there.

But it is always there, always filling you.

This part of Me that lives within you.

Love never wavers, it never falters.

Love flows from Me to you,
from you to Me.

All who stand in My grace of being can
feel this Love,
It calls to them to awaken.

No matter how lost you may
think you have become,
the flow of Love is always there,
calling you to awaken to your Heart.

I am not a promise;
I am the beingness of Love…
living within you.

I have never left you,
for I am part of you.

I am that part of you
that you gain strength from.

That part of you that creates joy,

laughter, compassion and love.

My Love calls you now,
to awaken to My Gift.

Love is Joy

Joy is Peace

Peace is Love

It is time to live
in the Joy of Peace
through the Love of God
that you are.

Rev. Tammy Roupp is a Pathways of Light minister living in Logan Station, Pennsylvania. 
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