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April-June, 2016

Dandelion Fluff — A Symbol of the True Me

by Rev. Gayla Monk, O.M.C.

A delicate sphere ever so
airy and light,
An inner awareness begins,
to my delight.
Feeling so joyfully happy,
so ready to play,
For this is how I shall
see myself today.

Dandelion Fluff, resting in
God’s gentle hand,
So perfectly formed, an awareness

That I Am.
A Holy Message of Love,
ready to be shared,
For this moment
have I been prepared.

As God gently blows
on my dandelion fluff,
I notice seeds of Love
dispersing with a soft puff.
Peacefully floating
on warm gentle breezes,
The destinations…
as God pleases.

Sending His Love
in all directions,
You can’t help but
see It’s Perfection.
Spreading God’s Love
ever so bright,
My only purpose is
sharing Love’s Light.

As God’s seeds of Love
are softly landing,
In places so
perfectly unsuspecting,
An Awareness was planted
within each strand,
To share a life filled with peace
wherever it lands.

In all the places I find
my Self arriving,
Supported, protected,
there is no denying.
For I am one and
all in His Holy Plan,
Nurturing Love’s Presence
is His Command.

Rev. Gayla Monk is a Pathways of Light
minister living in Barrie, Ontario, Canada.
Email: .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)

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January-March, 2016

Miracles News, January - March, 2016

 

Put all your faith in the
Love of God within you; eternal, changeless and
forever unfailing.
This is the answer to
whatever confronts you today. (ACIM W-pI.50.4:3-5)

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January-March, 2016

Ownership

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

Recently I had one of the most empowering insights I’ve had in quite a long time. I brought my pastor, Rev. John Vise, a copy of something I’d written for his feedback. He carefully read the words I’d written and quietly looked up at me and said, “Stop taking ownership of the ego.” He then used a highlighter and marked all the times I’d used the word “my” in reference to the ego. I had never noticed myself doing this, and had never thought about the implications of taking ownership of the ego.

When we take ownership of something, we believe we are responsible for it. It’s ours and we have to take care of it. The care and feeding of an ego is impossible. It has a voracious appetite for drama and is never, ever full. It always wants to see more sin, feel more guilt and feel more fear. In this way it proves that it is right and God is wrong.

“Sin ‘proves’ God’s Son is evil; timelessness must have an end; eternal life must die. And God Himself has lost the Son He loves, with but corruption to complete Himself, His Will forever overcome by death, love slain by hate, and peace to be no more.” (W-pII.4.3:3-4)

The ego is nothing more than a thought process. Using the ego thought process is what gives us our perceptions. Usually our perceptions come in the form of seeing things as black and white, right and wrong or one or the other. The problem is, we believe our perceptions are true.

The ego is just a thought process. It is not something I have or someone I can blame. It’s a way of thinking that leads to perception. The ego does not belong to me, and I am not responsible for anything about the ego. I’m simply responsible for knowing it exists and for not using it.

I am not a thought process. I am a child of God who has a choice. I can decide to use the ego to guide my life or use the Holy Spirit. Staying in touch with the peace I feel inside helps me remember whom I’ve chosen.

Anytime I’m not at peace, I’ve made the mistake of thinking with the ego.

“Your part is very simple. You need only recognize that everything you learned you do not want. Ask to be taught, and do not use your experiences to confirm what you have learned. When your peace is threatened or disturbed in any way, say to yourself:

“I do not know what anything, including this, means. And so I do not know how to respond to it. And I will not use my own past learning as the light to guide me now.

“By this refusal to attempt to teach yourself what you do not know, the Guide Whom God has given you will speak to you. He will take His rightful place in your awareness the instant you abandon it, and offer it to Him.” (T-14.XI.6:3-11)

It really does sound simple and in applying this truth to my life, I’ve come to see it is that simple. It’s up to me to decide which thought process I want to use. It’s up to me to decide if I want more peace or more drama in my life.

Today I’m choosing peace.

Rev. Maura Williams, O.M.C., is a Pathways of Light minister living in Hot Springs, Arkansas. Email .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)

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January-March, 2016

Authentic Prayer — The Kind of Prayer That Works

by Rev. Joseph Wolfe, O.M.C.

I never really understood what genuine prayer really is. I used to think that to pray involved some measure of reverence — getting down on my knees and begging for some thing or some circumstance. Sometimes, though rarely, that kind of praying actually seemed to be effective, but most of the time I felt that I’d get better results beating on a dead horse. Usually for me prayer was a one way conversation, a plea or wish for something I thought I needed, something I wanted but didn’t have or a situation that I perceived would ‘make everything better’ if fulfilled.

Growing up, I observed many others praying in the same manner. From members of my family, to schoolmates and even entire church congregations, I saw what I perceived as the normal method of praying which was begging for stuff.

I went through many periods of time when I was downright angry and frustrated with praying. For the most part it didn’t seem to work. Many questions came up like who was I praying to and did “He” hear me or was “He” deliberately ignoring me? Did I do something to anger “Him” to the point that I was somehow unworthy of any answers to my prayers?

At one point I completely gave up on the idea of prayer and even renounced any belief in that God Guy (whoever He was.) I was convinced that the entire concept of investing any effort into prayer or God was a carefully strategized conspiracy designed by controlling powers to keep people in line.

Then one day God showed up and that was the day when everything changed. Eventually I found an integrity-filled discipline that taught me a way to forgive. Not as an act of absolution or letting a person or situation off the hook, but as a way of seeing past the smoke screens of deeply rooted convictions created by my own thoughts to a Power greater than any of these five very limited senses could possibly comprehend.

I learned that I am not a body but free and still as God created me. I learned that my natural state is pure spirit created in the likeness of God Itself. I discovered that I cannot die, that death is impossible, and God’s Will for me is only my perfect happiness. I learned that real prayer is a declaration of Gratitude for all of God’s gifts which are my inheritance. Real Peace, like real prayer comes, from the unmistakable conviction that everything I need I already have and that God’s guidance and help are always closer than my breath.

Recently I published a book entitled, Prayer For All Solutions; How To Pray. In it I share my take on authentic praying and how every question will be answered, every need fulfilled and every seeming lack supplied even before it is asked.

Excerpt from book:

How to Pray — Prayer for All Solutions

Dear God, I love You! You created me. I live in You and You in Me. Only my own limited, unconscious guilt and belief in this ego, this false personality’s individual identity keeps me confused.Thank You for everything You give me! Grant me the power to live in your Presence, and to accept Your unconditional Love as I learn to forgive. Allow me to remember that You are with me always with every breath I take, in every movement, in all thoughts, actions and feelings.

Remind me many times during the day until every second becomes another moment spent living in Your Loving embrace and constant Presence. Allow me to be a servant of Your Will, a vehicle of Divine Love and a channel of God’s Will. Give me direction and Divine Assistance as I surrender all personal will to the devotion to You. Allow me the help to dedicate my life to the service of God. Grant me the ability to choose Love and Peace above all options while I commit to the goal of unconditional Love and Compassion for all life and all of its expressions as I surrender all judgment to You God.

Make me aware that the world of my ego is a constant and tenacious tendency to react, to feel bad, guilty, mad, defeated, bored, scared, inferior, embarrassed, annoyed, lonely or superior and condescending. All these give validity to judgment regardless of the form and by reacting with judgment I feed and strengthen the ego’s world and reinforce the seeming reality of a separation from You.

Please remind me constantly to view all others as my brothers, to realize that we are all One and to forgive them for they are One with me, joined in One Mind and also innocently caught in the ego’s identification with the world of illusion. Never let me forget that I am not this temporary body but Pure Spirit created in Your Likeness, as I continue to live every moment in the knowledge that You are with me always where I am; You God! The Alpha and Omega, the All and Everything, the Absolute.

Love, Light and the Peace of God,

Rev. Joe Wolfe, Spirit Light Outreach

Rev. Joe Wolfe is a Pathways of Light minister living in Ormond Beach, Florida. Email: .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) If you would like to purchase his new book or help Rev. Joe Wolfe bring A Course in Miracles and related materials to prisoners, contact him by phone: 708-985-1754. Spirit Light Outreach, or go to the Website: http://courseillustrated.com

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