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October-December, 2016

Shifting My Vigilance

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

I have been using the idea of being vigilant for my thoughts and giving them to the Holy Spirit for healing. I have been doing this for a long time now and it is a good practice. I notice my thoughts, give them to the Holy Spirit, and accept His correction. Simple and effective. Something I have been guided to add to my practice is to pay more attention to my tendency to try to heal myself.

I have always been about making things happen. I do, I fix, I work. I set goals and meet them. Now I am trying something different. I am watching. I watch Myron. I watch her behavior. I notice her thoughts. I let go of any desire to fix anything. Does her behavior stem from a true belief or from an ego belief? Is her thought a true thought or an untrue thought?

Sometimes this new practice is hard for me to do. I have always been a “git her done” kind of gal. Show me a problem and I’ll find a solution. When my kids came to me with a problem I would say, “OK, let’s look at our options.” I would find options or create options where none were obvious. Then I would get to work implementing them. In the illusion this seems very sensible and seems to often be effective. But sometimes, even in the illusion, it doesn’t work.

When my son was very sick, I looked at the options and was pretty pushy about him trying each and every one of them. Each time he would try something, seeing this doctor or that one, trying a new diet, a new healer, whatever I could come up with, I would feel relief. It was temporary relief because it disappeared when the option didn’t work. After awhile I realized that I wasn’t really trying to help him as much as I was trying to relieve myself of the panic of not being able to fix this. My whole world was based on the belief that, if I tried hard enough, I could fix it.

For a long time I was enamored with the idea of controlling my world through positive thinking. I tried to keep only strongly positive ideas in my mind. I had to finally admit is that this is not possible. It seems that ideas simply appear and the more I try to rid myself of them, the more entrenched they become. I realized that I don’t really know what I want, so even when this powerful mind I use brought into my life what I thought I wanted, it did not make me happy.

Years of being vigilant for my thoughts and beliefs has helped me to be very aware of the ego at work. Giving these thoughts to the Holy Spirit for correction has been a very helpful healing process. As a result, my mind is clearer than it was before, which is making it possible for me to see that sometimes I am unwittingly allowing the ego to hijack my process. In my plan I have two jobs. I pay attention to my thoughts, noticing if they are true thoughts or untrue thoughts. When I notice that they are not true thoughts, I ask the Holy Spirit to correct them. Easy, right? That’s all I have to do; the Holy Spirit does the rest.

I am beginning to notice that sometimes I feel overwhelmed by the sheer number of ego thoughts I am discovering. I also feel overwhelmed by the realization that I can’t seem to do anything about them. I have a thought and give it to Spirit and, before you know it, the thought is right back. I feel ineffective and guilty. How do I keep them gone? What’s wrong with me? Some days I will seem to be in constant judgment. I will have mean thoughts. I will feel my reluctance to let go of something that is obviously keeping me in the ego storm. These are the things that panic me.

I think the bad feelings when I made the discoveries of ego thinking and ego behavior came from my belief that I had to do something about it and I couldn’t, really. And when I tried, that was just me repeating the original error and trying to take over as God which, of course, increased my feelings of guilt.

I asked the Holy Spirit for clarity about this and He helped me to see that I was trying to assume His job and that is why I felt overwhelmed and frightened. He reminded me that I don’t know what anything means and have no way to judge what I am seeing. He encouraged me to just watch without trying to put my own understanding on what I see.

Doing this, I am beginning to feel gratitude for my little discoveries instead of feeling dismay as I used to. What do I do about the discoveries? Nothing. I desire that my mind be healed. That’s all. As I practice this, I notice I am not feeling overwhelmed or discouraged as I so often did in the past because I am not taking the Holy Spirit’s job onto myself.

Sometimes nothing seems to be happening, but I remember that I want to wake up and so I will. Now it is just time to trust, even if I don’t understand what is happening. Regina Dawn Akers has this teaching that is about rest, accept and trust. That’s what I’m doing. The ego, of course, says that I am lazy and ineffective and that if I don’t do something about my behaviors and thoughts, I am doomed. But the ego is wrong and, while I can’t shut it up, I don’t have to believe it.

So what does this look like in my life? Well, here is an example. I am very afraid of heights and recently something triggered this fear. I noticed the fear thought and asked the Holy Spirit to heal my mind. I also noticed that the fear thought didn’t seem to be going away. I worried about that. I felt guilty about it. I fretted and tried harder. Now it was all I could think about and was driving me crazy. Now, not only was I mired in fear, but also in doubt and confusion.

Finally, I just gave up. I told the Holy Spirit that I surrendered this to Him, that I had no idea what to do with it. I told Him that I give Him all the willingness I have to let go, and that I was also willing to stay in the fear if that is what I needed to do right now. I admitted that I didn’t know what any of this meant and I had no idea what would be the most helpful outcome at this time. Then I went to sleep. When I woke up the fear was gone.

What did I do to finally overcome the fear? Nothing. I did my part in noticing the fear and in desiring correction. Then I surrendered the solution to the Holy Spirit where it belongs. I need do nothing, and when I choose to do something anyway, it just gets in the way. I am learning that when I cannot seem to extricate myself from an ego storm in my mind that it is better not to fight it. I just rest in it; no fighting, no inner argument with it, no efforting. I just sit there with it, waiting to see what the Holy Spirit would do with this problem.

At first it seemed hard, but really the only part that is hard is convincing myself to give up control and the desire to judge the outcome. After that, it is the easiest and most peaceful solution I can imagine. I am learning to shift my vigilance to remembering that I need do nothing.

This is a prayer that came to me. I think it is appropriate to my new practice:

Holy Spirit, I ask that you be with me all day today, helping me to keep my focus on what is true. When I allow my mind to wander into illusions of what might have been, or what I fear is to come, please remind me of the moment I am in now and that this is the only moment there is. It is in only this moment that I can choose again. As I go through my day acting and reacting, please help me to bring my attention to my lesson, understanding that the body and the world are just the classroom for the lesson. I often forget that this is true and begin to act as if the purpose of life is to change the classroom. Help me to keep the purpose of life clearly in the forefront of my mind.

When I stand before my brother, I often see the body and its actions and errors. Please help me to see the light that stands behind this dark vision so that I may learn to see the light within myself. I will be mindful of the judgments I make of my brother’s behaviors and I ask that you correct my thinking so that I don’t foolishly believe my brother is his behavior any more than he is his body.

Holy Spirit, it is so easy for me to forget that the body and personality associated with Myron is just a story of separation, and that I can watch this story to help me remember the truth about who I am. Please help me to remember to step back from this dream figure and notice what she does and says rather than thinking I need to control what she does and says. I am tired of trying to fix the dream, and long to awaken from it. But at the same time, it calls to me and tempts me to once again enter it fully. I cannot do that because I no longer fully believe in the illusion, and yet cannot fully release it. Please help me as I learn to detach from the dream.

This morning it is quiet and easy to feel Your ever present help. I can rest in You, and feel deep gratitude for that rest. As others join me in today’s story I become distracted and feel like I have lost my contact with You. Please help me to see that this is not possible. Help me learn to rise above the battleground and to be aware of You within me all during the day, no matter who joins me or what dramas distract me. Help me to see the dramas as lessons rather than distractions. Amen

Rev. Myron Jones, O.M.C., is a Pathways of Light minister living in Lake Charles, Louisiana. Read more of 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 net

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July-September, 2016

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You are the Light
of the world…
You shine on
All as One…

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July-September, 2016

We Are All Perfect Love

by Rev. Linda Wisniewski, O.M.C.

For the past year, it seems like I have been experiencing one illness after another. I have also been in deep communion with Holy Spirit and asking for healing? What is going on?

Workbook Lesson 76 in ACIM says, “I Am Under No Laws but God’s.” From my understanding, the Law of God is the Law of Perfect Love. If I am not experiencing Perfect Love, then I am believing in the ego law of fear and guilt. The belief in fear and guilt are the obstacles that are blocking my awareness of seeing my brothers and myself as God’s Perfect Love. The belief in fear and guilt are the beliefs that are calling to be healed if I am to experience God’s Perfect Love. 

As I have been giving my willingness to have these ego beliefs be healed, opportunities are coming up to show me how deeply this belief in guilt has been buried. I believed I was guilty for not being a good mother. I believed I was guilty for still harboring unforgiving thoughts about my ex-husband and his wife and my ex-son-in-law. I believed I was guilty for still relying on magic to fix this broken body. I believed I was guilty for asking an herbalist to work with me in helping me relieve these physical symptoms instead of just relying on God’s help. I still believe I am guilty for still being so attached to this body and believing this is who I Am.

I believed I was guilty because I have been so afraid to want to awaken because I thought that this would mean I would have to let go of this body I made to separate from God. You get the picture; It’s a picture of guilt, guilt, guilt.

The sickness is an outer picture of an inward condition all held together by the belief in guilt.

The toxic belief in guilt is keeping me from truly knowing that my Reality is Perfect Love and that my brother’s reality is also Perfect Love. The Course says there is only one problem and one solution. The problem is believing we are guilty for choosing to separate from God. How could we be guilty for a belief? It really doesn’t make any sense.

It’s so freeing to know that we have the answer to this one problem and it’s right there within us. I don’t have to go seeking outside for the answer. It’s always been there but I never knew where to look. God put the Answer in us because He knew we would forget to remember the Truth when we believed we separated from Our Source. God placed the Holy Spirit in our Mind to help us remember the Truth.

I am learning through this Voice for God, the Holy Spirit, that the one problem is I don’t believe I am Perfect Love. And why don’t I believe it? It’s because a teacher who wanted me to believe in guilt taught me and that I wasn’t worthy of Perfect Love. I thought the belief in guilt called for punishment, not Love. The sickness I have been experiencing all my life wasn’t coming from my body. It was an outward picture of the belief in guilt.

So why, after asking Holy Spirit to work with loosening this belief in guilt, do I seem to experience worsening symptoms in the body? The answer came in the form of an email from a Course student, Patricia, who sent some quotes from a book by Tom Carpenter called, “The Miracle of Real Forgiveness” He writes, “The truth is that while we are transitioning through the ‘evolution’ of the forgiveness process, surrendering ever more deeply the guilty thoughts we value most, there will likely be sickness. Forgiveness is the process of helping us find the places in our mind where sin and sickness still hide.”

This put me in such a state of peace and helped me release the belief that I was doing something wrong because I still had physical symptoms. No, exactly the opposite. It might appear worse as my mind gets healed because the belief in guilt that has been buried for so long is coming to the surface and is being healed. It’s like a purification process.

One time I went on a food fast and for the first couple of days, I felt sicker because the toxic stuff was being released. It was only temporary. And as I continued, I suddenly felt more energetic than I ever felt. And this is what is happening as I’m healing my mind about the belief in guilt. I am feeling more at peace and more joy. I am not focusing on outer appearances like I once did. I am focusing on connecting with the Source of Love within me.

I am also not feeling the guilt about using magic as I once did. Like my mind healing partner, Myron, told me: “Take your eyes off of what your are ‘doing’ and focus your attention on what you are thinking.”

I was also very fearful of awakening. The ego belief is that to awaken means I have to let go of the body I so strongly identify with. To the ego belief system, awakening means death. I was still seeing awakening as a curse and not as a blessing. But again, Holy Spirit is teaching me that I am not asked to give up the body but to give up attachment to the body as who I think I am. I am now ready to let the Holy Spirit use the body as the vehicle to extend Love and help the Sonship awaken.

With this new understanding, I am not afraid to awaken and, in time, will not be afraid to let the body go when its usefulness is complete. I am learning that awakening from the dream is a gradual process of undoing all I learned and most important to let go of the belief in guilt which has been so deeply buried.

I am so grateful to really be getting on a heart level that the source of every problem is the belief in guilt. Holy Spirit is healing my mind and showing me that I can’t be guilty for my beliefs. I can’t be guilty for dreaming. My beliefs are being changed with my willingness to have Holy Spirit change them for me.

The Course is teaching me that I can’t experience the truth of Perfect Love and the belief in guilt at the same time. In Perfect Love there is no sickness, there is no lack, there is no conflict. There is only wholeness and Oneness and Perfect Love. The only choice I have to make is whether to believe what I have been taught by the ego or to allow Holy Spirit to be my teacher and teach me of my innocence and the innocence of my brothers.

This is how I am now choosing to spend my time. Forgiveness is our function and there is only one thing to forgive — our belief in guilt. There is only One Truth to embrace. We are All Perfect Love. Thank you Holy Spirit.

Rev. Linda Wisniewski is a Pathways of Light minister living in Plymouth, Wisconsin.  Email: .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)

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July-September, 2016

Trust

by Rev. Maura Williams, O.M.C.

Sometimes I doubt myself. I can think of a million and one reasons not to trust myself, but I’m beginning to see this is a very destructive habit. I’m working, once again, on trust and trust always boils down to trusting myself.

I tell myself, “I don’t trust you.” I tell myself, “People cannot be trusted,” and world affairs would prove this to me. But what is trust? If I already know I can’t trust anything outside myself, then what is trust? If I’m constantly trying to control or influence situations outside of myself, am I trusting?

I think trust is a deep reliance on God and the faith and belief that He knows what is best for me. Knowing this enables me to trust myself. He created me like Himself. The Holy Spirit watches over me and can use anything I do for my good and for the good of all mankind. This way no one loses and that is God’s way. Sometimes this is hard for me to accept.

A Course in Miracles says, “You are asked to trust the Holy Spirit only because He speaks for you. He is the Voice for God, but never forget that God did not will to be alone. He shares His Will with you; He does not thrust it upon you. Always remember that what He gives He keeps, so that nothing He gives can contradict Him. You who share His life must share it to know it, for sharing is knowing.” (T-11.I.11:1-5)

Sharing is a good gage for me to use to see just how trusting I am. When I feel trusting, I share and I share willingly. When I’m mistrustful or full of doubt, I’m afraid and I’m not willing to share. I’m stuck in the ego thought process, and I’m not willing to be open. I would lock myself in my house and refuse to answer the door or the telephone. Yes, I have done this. Sometimes this down time is very healthy and necessary. Feeling the feelings of hurt, anger and lack of trust show me how miserable I really am all by myself. Not only have I locked myself in my physical house, I have locked myself outside of my spiritual home. The ego always wants to isolate. It is afraid to share and is incapable of being honest.

The ego needs compassion and understanding. There is nothing it can do or undo to hurt me. Ultimately there is nothing anyone can do to hurt me. I don’t have to be afraid. I don’t have to feel doubt or mistrustful. These are choices. I can choose again with the Holy Spirit. I can accept the love and the peace of God inside me. It’s always there. Accepting and being in touch with this part of myself helps me to be open, to trust and to share.

The events of the last two days have been lessons in accepting and have brought me the gift of peace. These two situations have shown me how silly it is for me to worry about anything. I had scheduled a meeting, but I really wanted to consult one other person before the meeting. It just didn’t seem to work out. Then my plans were abruptly changed by situations beyond my control and now I’ll be able to meet with that person before the meeting. That same day an important decision I thought I was going to have to make was made for me. I had no control or influence over these two situations. Things just worked out. I didn’t have to do anything, but sit back, relax and observe. Why on earth would I ever doubt myself or this journey we call life?

But what would I have done if things didn’t turn out so well? I recently attended the memorial service of someone who died too young by his own hands. He suffered from depression. Depression is a great isolator. It will always leave you feeling alone in the world. Depression is one of the reasons sharing is so important. If he had been able to share his feelings with even one other person he may have changed his mind about ending his life. I cannot judge what he did. I can only accept it and learn from it. He is why it’s so important to reach out to others. You never know who may be helped by your words or your simple actions. You never know, but you can trust. I can’t say it any better than this quote from A Course in Miracles.

“You may wonder how you can be at peace when, while you are in time, there is so much that must be done before the way to peace is open. Perhaps this seems impossible to you. But ask yourself if it is possible that God would have a plan for your salvation that does not work. Once you accept His plan as the one function that you would fulfill, there will be nothing else the Holy Spirit will not arrange for you without your effort. He will go before you making straight your path, and leaving in your way no stones to trip you. Not one seeming difficulty but will melt away before you reach it. You need take thought for nothing, careless of everything except the only purpose that you would fulfill. As that was given you, so will its fulfillment be. God’s guarantee will hold against all obstacles, for it rests on certainty and not contingency. It rests on you. And what can be more certain than a Son of God? (T-20 IV 8:1-12)

Rev. Maura Williams, O.M.C., is a Pathways of Light minister who lives in Hot Springs, Arkansas. 
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