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Listening to the Music of the Heavens

by Rev. Maria Kingsley, O.M.C.

We’ve all been there: We get into ‘the zone’ and things flow easily; life is a breeze. But then it ends, and we get stuck and can’t seem to find the rope, the feeling, the connection that we can grab hold of which will pull us back into the stream of good energy. There are many distractions that we seem to feel attracted to and follow, all kinds of thoughts to hold on to and spin another story. At times there seem to be no good ones anywhere.

I’ve found that these distractions, these obstacles and familiar thoughts of ‘I should, I have to, I ought to,’ etc., seem to have a strong hold on me. What does work, however, is to remember that this Moment is the exact and best time to change my mind. I can choose a new thought right now, I can decide to follow the thought that I really want which is leading me to the right and chosen goal.

Yet, it is not always easy to ‘just choose.’ I have to remember and trust that there is a strength within me which is not the ego strength. I want to remember that I have that strength available to me when I connect with it. I want to open the door to allow it to be an experience and an energy that not only gives me strength, but also wisdom, guidance, knowing and joy. It will bring relief, happiness and really what I want. Truly.

This experience of being connected on a — let me say — higher level came to me while playing tennis. I learn so much while I am on the court because I can see the results of my thoughts so easily and quickly; the result is quite obvious. I either win or lose the point. During playing, I noticed how I had thoughts of … oh, I’m not so good, others seem to be so much better, they’ve had many tennis lessons and are more skilled, stronger and faster than me.

But then, I remember that I can choose joy and bring back the joy of playing, of just being out there on the courts, breathing in fresh air, feeling the sweat and the breeze, hearing the popping sound of the racquet and ball, and the fun of hitting the ball back and forth for several volleys. And so, somehow, I chose to feel joy and bring back my love for the game.

All of a sudden, I was winning more points, and I was able to follow the ball clearly, have a better overview of the court, was able to anticipate the ball coming, and felt so much more in ‘the zone.’ I realized that I had moved to another level of awareness. I was no longer in my small ego mind, in my little self, but I felt a strength within that gave me clarity. I was not above anyone else, but I was free and enjoyed myself. What it gave me was a point of connection. I could now recognize this feeling of freedom and enjoyment and bring it back as I thought of it, at a time when I fall back into the ‘little ol’ me’ mode.

This new level of awareness and point of connection is not just a little bit better than what I experienced before; it raises up my feelings to another level. This feeling is what we are always going after, whether it is hitting the ball just right, saying just the right thing to our friend or neighbor, completing a project or talking to our children and we feel we are on the same page. We want to allow the Divine Wisdom (big word) come through, but this Divine Wisdom is a feeling inside of us, a feeling of being in alignment, being connected, hitting the target, whatever the target is. And it is the Holy Self that has guided us to get to this feeling; the ego or our small self did not. So we don’t want to give our ego the credit. This change was not a coincidence, it was not just that we learned well, it was not that we are very talented or better than others, we just listened. And we were able to listen because we removed whatever obstacle was in the way.

So for me, I need to ask for help, then remember to listen, and when I really want to let go of whatever was in the way, that will be given me. I will know what I am trying to avoid looking at, what I don’t want to feel, and I will find the obstacle and allow the Holy Spirit to take it from me.

This morning I asked how to let go of constantly attacking myself with judgmental thoughts — I’ve done this all my life. I want it to stop. During meditation I was given an image of an ear. I thought — which was a question to the Spirit — what does that mean? And then I was given: Listen to the music of the Heavens. Wow. That made me feel good. Listening to the music of the Heavens brings me immediate feelings of joy and peace. Nothing bad or judgmental comes with that at all; it’s all so wonderfully affirming and uplifting. I love it.
And so I pass this on to whomever is asking similar questions: Listen to the music of the Heavens. It will fill you with all the feelings you’ve been looking for; it will relax you; it will communicate that all is truly well, and you are loved.

Whenever I choose to connect with the Divine within, and I send love or gratitude into that direction, I immediately feel love being returned. It seems like ‘they’ are waiting for me to open the door, and in floods the loving feeling. To me, it’s a feeling of being connected, a feeling of peace, good energy, happiness, and ‘all is well’.

Divine essence
Come into me
Enliven my will
To be clear and free
Remind me when I’m stuck
With nudges and feelings and thoughts.
I want your delightful nectar
Nourishing all that I Am
I bathe in your Light and revel
in your gentle power.
I am listening to the Music
of the Heavens.
I am so loved!
I am at Peace.

Rev. Maria Kingsley is a Pathways of Light minister living in Tucson, Arizona. Email: .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)

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October-December, 2016

Miracles News, October-December, 2016

 

We find freedom…
as we accept the
truth that we are still
as God created us.

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October-December, 2016

One Face

by Rev. Mary Gerard Lenihan, O.M.C.

I notice a nagging unworthiness, a not good enough, not getting enough done, not “waking up” fast enough. I sense an “internal rut.” Is there anyway out of this I ask my Self. Must I be plagued with this again? It is a gnawing deep within which surfaces now and again, telling me that something is “radically wrong.” I name the problem which I always find very helpful > “internal rut.” I pause and hear the solution > Internal Guidance.

In the pause, Inspiration names the internal rut specifically: “I don’t truly believe in my True Self. That is, I am not certain about who I am. If I am not certain about who I am, it follows that I am not certain about who and what Love is because who I am is an extension of Love.”

Whoa. My lack of certainty in my True Self is a reflection of my lack of certainty in Certainty! inspired Love is Certainty, This big Love is a sure thing — Love consistently loves — that is how it is the big Love. And, if I am uncertain about Certainty, I am uncertain of everything and everyone. Judgment commences!

If that isn’t enough, if I say I am certain of Love, I believe in Love, and yet I am uncertain of whom I am — that is hypocrisy! Such is the dilemma of the cubicle mind, the imprisoned mind. It says one thing and lives another. The imprisoned is imprisoned because it has two faces.

I hear from Inspiration: “To truly believe in who I am, I am to truly believe in the One who sent me.”

What is radically wrong, says the imprisoned mind, is me; I am radically wrong and I need to keep searching and seeking and doing and producing and accomplishing so I can be radically “right!” There is the lie and deception of the cubicle mind.

I hear in the pause that the problem is not that I am radically wrong. The problem is one of belief. I believe in the lies and deception of the cubicle mind telling me that who I am is wrong.

The solution is to believe in an Absolute, All-Encompassing, out-of-the-cubicle, Love. Not just say the words, “I believe,” not just write, read, study, talk, pray, seek enlightenment, meditate, contemplate, get certified in, become a minister of etc. — Love — but decide — and it is a decision — that I want to Believe, Experience and Truly Know the vast view Love, that is Certainty — no matter what.

I observed my father live this way; he was unwavering. At 19 I was taking a Philosophy of Religion class and my whole religious belief system fell apart in the course of 16 weeks. Each religion had its own version of “God.” Within, I resounded with an inner knowing that there is only One.

Sitting at the kitchen table with my father, a religious man yes, but his faith ran deeper than that. He prayed in the foxholes of World War II, a forward scout in the Battle of the Bulge. His infantry troop, the “Timberwolves,” hailed the slogan, “Nothing in hell will stop the Timberwolves!” I looked at my father and asked, “Do you ever doubt?” He paused as he so often did, his fingertips resting on the kitchen table in his way, his pursed lips, eyes gazing beyond his self, he lifted his head, looked at me and said, “No.”

My father was certain of who he was truly because he truly believed in an unwavering, absolute, stable, present here and now, and at the end of his earthy life – God. He was a man of very few words. He walked in this world as a mailman, always with a side job whether a security guard, a school bus driver or a factory worker, yet he so clearly never identified himself with any of those things. They were all passing roles. I would see him reading his prayer card that I still carry in my purse:

Let nothing disturb you,

Nothing frighten you,

All things are passing,

God never changes.

Patience obtains all things.

Nothing is wanting,

To him who possesses God.

God alone suffices.

That was my dad!

I used to wonder if he was just born that way or if he had decided to believe and have faith in a one, true God and never turn back. He decided in the foxholes. While facing earthly death, he decided to believe in Life.

How do I know I am uncertain of who I am? I still look to my changing feelings, my chained up thoughts, my aches and pains, the cubicle expressions of others, the nods of their heads, the look in their eyes, their encouragement or lack thereof — I look to the two-faced mind instead of the One Face of Love. I am immensely encouraged by this revelation I have received about deciding to want to Truly Believe, Truly Experience and Truly Know this vast view Love so I can begin to truly believe in who I am in this Love.

Now, it may sound absurd to speak of this as a decision. I agree. Yet, I see now that Truly Believing is not halfway, one day yes and one day no. Truly Believing is unwavering — no matter what. Truly Believing is not shaken by another person, a fleeting emotion, a passing thought. I am not speaking of believing in “belief systems.” Truly Believing is believing not in cubicle mind images of Love, no matter how beautiful the image.

Someone told me once, “You don’t believe in Love.” Knowing for sure I believed in Love, upon his challenge I asked The Mentor Within, “Do I believe in Love?” The Mentor responded:

No, you are in love with images of Love which Will not sustain you. If you truly believed in Love, You would love your Self and your neighbor as well.

Inspiration spoke to me of what it is to Truly Believe. To Truly Believe, Truly Experience and Truly Know LOVE, is to “act from Love.”

It may seem here that I have presented an impossible challenge. After all, in our human condition, we doubt, we seek, we fail, we forget; we can’t be expected to act from Love all the time. Am I saying that if I Truly Believe in this Big Love I would believe in my True Self and always act from Love? Yes! Yet, in those moments that I choose to be two-faced – and I don’t say this in ugliness, judgment, to be rude or arrogant — but simply to share what I actually am aware of sometimes and that is I choose the two-faced cubicle mind – I hide. I hide from Love — and when I hide, I feel imprisoned. But, even the times I choose to hide does not undo that I can choose again.

I encourage you with this; we have been provided with Another Way so we don’t have to hide. Love planted a homing device in each of us; it is willingness. You need only be willing to turn around from the two-faced, double-minded cubicle mind, and say to Love, “Here I am. I am willing to receive the Vast View Love.” When I choose not to act from Love, and it is a choice, then I can Pause, and there is still One Face I can call upon, gaze upon and receive a new breath, a new moment, a new life. For this One Face gazes back, looks at me without a doubt, and shows me Another Way — that I am Vast View Love.

Rev. Mary Gerard Lenihan is a Pathways of Light minister living in St. Louis, Missouri. Email: .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) Visit our website: http://www.pauseforinspiration.org The Pause is expanding; we now have The 4 Decisions pocket-sized cards: Kids Can Pause, Parents Can Pause, Teachers Can Pause and Prisoners Can Pause.

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October-December, 2016

Playing Golf

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

The sport of golf had little attraction for me until recently. I haven’t played much in my life. But I feel now like I have been guided to start playing as I enter these senior years of life. I borrowed a friend’s old set of clubs, took a few lessons from a pro, and started hitting golf balls six days a week. This has been going on for over 2 months now.

Today, for my 66th birthday, I received a new set of Callaway clubs from my wife. I feel like the 8-year old Larry who got a brand new baseball glove for his birthday after first playing with his big brother’s old cast off. I can feel that same sense of little kid excitement today.

I woke early to go to the driving range to fully experience all 12 new clubs. After coming home for lunch I went back out to another golf course for further practice with my new possessions. My friends and family are quite surprised by this sudden devotion to a sport in which I previously showed so little interest.

I do feel Holy Spirit’s Presence in all this. This, however, is the first time I have spoken of it. I am not going around telling people, “God wants me to take up golf.” But I am quietly putting Him in charge of this new adventure. And I definitely like it.
Old friends with whom I have been out of touch are now inviting me to play. Some have been playing over 50 years. It does seem to be quality time — playing and catching up on each other’s lives while riding around in a motorized golf cart for five hours in nature’s beauty. I’m having a great time socially.

But like anything else, one improves only with practice. In this it reminds me of beginning the study of A Course in Miracles more than 20 years ago. I had very little spiritual background when I first started the ACIM Workbook. But once I started I never put the book down.

Without realizing it, I was then being invited by my Higher Power, Holy Spirit, to follow a pathway of Light. My family and friends were very surprised back then to find out I was immersing myself into this little known program of spiritual psychotherapy. I was surprised, too, but the positive experience kept me going. I started to enjoy talking to God.

One could question, “Is this a valid comparison — playing golf verses devotion to God?” Well… there seems to be a connection on several levels. My father, Marshall, was an avid golfer and was always a bit disappointed that his two sons never shared his passion. I find myself talking to him again — to his spirit really — while I am playing. I can almost hear his voice kidding with me as I make poor shots. When my father passed away in 1991, connecting to his spirit invigorated me with a new experience of Inner Guidance.

Now, I am also using each potential golf shot as an opportunity to repeat the ACIM lesson of the day to myself when addressing the ball. Today I’d say to myself, “I give my life to God to guide today.” (Lesson 233) Then I swing the club.

Letting Holy Spirit guide me while playing golf has alleviated much of the stress and frustration that comes with the natural desire to play well. I have a long history of being a competitor. Staying with Spirit helps me keep my sense of humor with an acceptance of what often seems like an unsuccessful outcome.

Although I am a poor golfer, I am confident that I will get better. I feel certain that I am being encouraged by Spirit to play golf for reasons that I don’t know. I trust the process and will try to put Him in charge.

This will take some effort on my part because, to tell the truth, I’m a pretty lousy golfer right now. I have a tendency to let loose with a few violent screams now and then. But Holy Spirit works in funny ways. And I am laughing.
“Fore!”

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). To read more about the movie production in progress and view a video by Larry Glenz about the purpose of the move project, go to: http://www.forgivingkevin.com

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