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January-March, 2016

Prayer for Peace and Love

by Rev. Cheryl Hubbard

Connecting now to the Highest Power within
to center me, relax me and bring me peace.
While at the same time sharing that peace
with those in my immediate vicinity, my village,
my city, my province, my country.
Understanding there are no separate places,
only Unity and Oneness fills all space.

I allow Love and Peace to flow through
me to all people and all situations. Love
blankets everyone, everywhere. It flows across
every conflict in the world, enveloping it.

It surrounds the hungry and the homeless,
the sick and the lonely. It touches refugees
fleeing from war torn areas of the planet:
The frightened, the desperate, the ill,
the injured, the maimed.

This same Love and Peace comforts those
in places where violence has suddenly
shattered their lives. It reaches out to all
animals that are in fear and are suffering.
It allows people and animals to
connect at a higher level.

It encases the earth itself in healing Love.
There is no situation it does not touch.

Love and compassion wrap its arms
around the world and everything in it.
There is no right and wrong.
There is just the call for Love everywhere,
and I answer only with Love.

Peace surrounds us.

Rev. Cheryl Hubbard is a Pathways of Light minister living in Reno, Nevada. Email: .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)

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January-March, 2016

My Trip to Fantasy Land

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

Like all stories in the dream world of fantasy, this story of my trip to Disney World has a beginning, middle, and an end. And like all stories in the dream, it offers many opportunities for forgiveness that lead to awakening from the dream.

Beginning: My family which consists of my husband, two daughters, one son-in-law and 3 grandchildren ages 16, 12 and 10, went on a vacation to Disney World and Universal Studios in Florida for eight days. Everyone but me loves vacationing at Disney World. The 10 year old never was there and we all promised her that for her 10th birthday, she would get to go there. I used to look forward to vacations, but now I look forward to being in stillness and resting in God. So, I was not looking forward to this trip. In fact, I was dreading it. I was also dreading that I would be in a wheel chair because since I broke my hip a year ago, I knew I wouldn’t be able to walk the distances that Disney World and Universal Studios required.

There were many guilty thoughts coming up at the beginning. One of the thoughts was, “What would others think? Going to Disney World isn’t something a ‘spiritual person’ would do. It’s so frivolous and ‘unspiritual.’” Shame also came up about having to be in a wheel chair and believing everyone out there would see me as being crippled, weak and vulnerable and helpless. I must have done something awfully wrong to have a body like this that can’t move freely and is in pain much of the time. But aren’t these guilty and shameful thoughts the modus operandi of the ego? No different than the guilt that arose from the beginning when we believed we separated from God. I didn’t know what to do; I was feeling so conflicted. I knew that only Holy Spirit could help me sort it all out.

In the past, when I was new to being still, it was very helpful to write a letter to Holy Spirit, lay out all my confused thinking, and allow Holy Spirit to answer me in letter form. So, this is what I did.

Dear Holy Spirit, I am so confused about this trip; so much guilt and shame is coming up. Please help me sort this all out and see the Truth. Please help me heal my mind about what this all means.

Here is Holy Spirit’s answer:

Dear Linda: This trip is a love gathering and has nothing to do with form. Remember, everything in the dream is a fantasy; only Love is real. Being spiritual has nothing to do with behavior or what you do. It’s the state of mind that you are coming from that is important. Everyone’s reality is spiritual because our true nature is spiritual. We are Spirit in the Mind of God and we are the Spirit of God’s Love. Don’t think of Disney World as a place; think of it as a symbol of Love’s Presence in the midst of all the hoopla.

Holy Spirit then continued to tell me to use the trip as an opportunity to be child-like and remember innocence and the innocence of everyone else. Use it as an opportunity to demonstrate the God-given qualities that created us. Be the Spirit of Love —  joyful, peaceful, blessed, innocent. See Disney World as the Idea of Spiritual Innocence, connection, joining in Love.

And then Holy Spirit spoke to me about being in a wheel chair. Remember Workbook Lesson 1 and 2: Lesson 1: “Nothing I see in this room (on this street, from this window, in this place means anything.” Workbook lesson 2: “I have given everything I see in this room (on this street, from this window, in this place all the meaning that it has for me.”

Yes, Holy Spirit; I believe that riding in a wheel chair means I am weak, vulnerable, helpless, limited and crippled.

Holy Spirit: What does it matter whether you ride in a wheel chair; it is just another mode of transportation; no different than a car, a bus, a train that moves you from one place to another. It has nothing to do with who you are as a Divine Idea in the Mind of God. In Truth, you are Infinite, boundless, limitless Love. See the wheel chair as God’s chariot and God’s angels are carrying you in ease. The wheel chair doesn’t define who you are. The physical body doesn’t define who you are. You are the creative idea of God’s Love extending into the world. God’s Love is boundless, limitless, pure, whole, child-like innocence, harmonious. You can be all this whether you are in a wheel chair or walking. It has nothing to do with the body. All you need to do is change your thinking about it and you will be in peace and free.

Thank you, Holy Spirit, for re-interpreting my erroneous thinking. I can now join with my family in ease and peace.

The Middle: I am learning that every thing we experience in the dream offers us an opportunity for forgiveness and awakening from the dream, even Disney World. First, I enjoyed the ease of being in a wheel chair and not having to have blisters or tire from the great distances that were required. The rides also provided me with an opportunity to really experience that this world we believe we are living in is really an illusion. One of the rides was called Star Wars. All we were asked to do was sit in a chair and a movie was projected onto a screen. The movie had you hurled into and through space at a very fast rate; it was filled with images of crashing into comets and facing other dangers. It seemed so real because the chair moved up and down and had me believe I was really being hurled into space and crashing into these objects. I was so fearful and just screaming. Finally, the ride ended and I had to laugh; nothing happened. I never left the chair; it seemed so real. You couldn’t have convinced the body’s senses that this wasn’t really happening.

This ride, as well as many of the other rides in Disney, very clearly demonstrated what the illusory state is all about. It is all a projection of fear coming from a mind that has been in a state of fear since it believed it separated from its Creator. What we experience with the physical senses is just our projection. Nothing is happening; we are still safe at Home in the Mind of God.

There was also a wonderful message on the ET ride. ET came on the screen and asked us all for help; ET was calling for help from all of us to help him get home. He couldn’t do it without our help and we would all go home together. Isn’t this the same message ACIM gives us? That we all need each other’s help and the help of the Holy Spirit to return us home and we all go Home together.

I also was given an opportunity to be a peaceful presence in the midst of chaos and a few family meltdowns. I also had an opportunity for self-forgiveness when I observed how I was judging others for their “impatience” and when I withdrew my projections, I was able to ask Holy Spirit to help me heal from my own impatient way of thinking.

End of Story: The story also had a joyous, happy ending. Before I returned to Wisconsin, I spent the weekend with one daughter and granddaughter in Ormond Beach, the home of Pathways of Light and its founders Mary and Robert Stoelting. While my daughter spent time at the ocean, I spent time with Mary and Robert and Trish Kearns, another minister who now lives at Ormond Beach. It was a wonderful and joyous joining filled with laughter and spiritual lessons reminding us of what is really important and what our true purpose is. I even had the honor of sitting in on a teleconference where those who were about to be ordained as ministerial counselors of POL got to share about what led them to go through the training. This was a real blessing and it brought me back to the time when I went through the training and was ordained in 2005 and all the healing and Miracles that have happened since.

So what I am learning can be summed up perfectly and couldn’t have been expressed better than in the “Opening Preparation” which we use to begin each session of the ACIM Practitioner courses.

As I do this mind healing work:

• I am willing to be mindful of my thoughts without judgment.

• I am willing to look at how I view all my life circumstances as helpful feedback that shows me where there is still a need to heal my mind.

• I am willing to take responsibility for letting go of limiting thoughts and belief that reflect separation and specialness.

• I am willing to let go of judgments against about myself and others, and see the innocence beyond the circumstances and events.

• I am willing to quiet my mind and ask Holy Spirit to take the lead.

• I am willing to let go of tension… I soften and imagine the Holy Spirit leading me into peace; my aware Self leads me as I now focus on healing my mind as I go through this mind-healing course.

Going to Disney World was the opportunity, i.e. the “mind healing course,” I was being presented with to “surrender to the Source of Love within me and let It guide my way.” (from the opening preparation of the POL ACIM Practitioner Courses)

Rev. Linda Wisniewski is a Pathways of Light minister living in Plymouth, Wisconsin.
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January-March, 2016

Help to Change Our Mind

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

“The patient [brother] must be helped to change his mind about the ‘reality’ of illusions.” (P.Int.1:8)

I have found most recently that I was drawn into a circle of “emotional disturbances” and I think that most of us can say that from time to time we get drawn into these circumstances that take our Peace away. Following is what I find to be most helpful when I find myself drawn into these emotional disturbances.

First and foremost is to immediately recognize what is happening and this can be acknowledged by the feelings we are feeling, for example either say to yourself or to another: “I am feeling anxious, or I am feeling sad or I am not feeling my joyous self.” It is important also that if you are expressing these feelings with another that you feel safety and feel trust in expressing them with another. Safety and trust are the two most major components in a healing space. Also, by making “I” statements it takes the risk away of projecting or blaming and placing the responsibility of what you are feeling on yourself and not on your brother.

In A Course in Miracles, Jesus says, “Your mind and mine can unite in shining your ego away, releasing the strength of God into everything you think and do. Do not settle for anything less than this, and refuse to accept anything but this as your goal. Watch [or observe] your mind carefully for any beliefs that hinder its accomplishment [the goal of uniting your mind with Jesus], and step away from them [in other words, step back from the beliefs that hinder and just peacefully observe them]. Judge how well you have done this by your own feelings, for this is the one right use of judgment. Judgment like any other defense can be used to attack or protect; to hurt or to heal.” (T-4.IV.8:3-7, underscore added)

In summary, observe your thoughts and feelings for any ego thoughts and feelings, unite your mind with Jesus and, with the right use of judgment, experience the miracle shift to the shining Love and strength of God in your every thought and feeling. So now you can say, “I feel the Love of God, I feel the Peace and I am my Joyous self again.

If you are alone, observing and acknowledging are key factors in beginning the healing process. We can also turn to the Course “Chapter 4.IV This Need Not Be” as this is an excellent section for meditation and reflection in helping to change our mind.

Fortunately for me, I have some very close Miracle friends who aide me in working through disturbances; Miracle friends who I feel safety and trust with in expressing my thoughts and feelings; Miracle friends who can watch and observe with me and share with me the right use of judgment (thoughts and feelings) for my “protection and healing.”

If you find that there is no one you can feel safety and trust with and the disturbance is too intense to bear, it is always better to find a professional who can help. “Sometimes he [the patient/brother] needs a more structured, extended relationship with an ‘official’ therapist” (P-Int.1:7)

Jesus promises us, “Your mind will elect to join with mine and together we are invincible. You and your brother will yet come together in my name, and your sanity will be restored. I raised the dead by knowing that life is an eternal attribute of everything that the living God created. Why do you believe it is harder for me to inspire the dis-spirited or to stabilize the unstable? I do not believe that there is any order of difficulty in miracles; you do. I have called and you will answer. I understand that miracles are natural, because they are expressions of Love. My calling you is as natural as your answer, and as inevitable” (T-4.IV.11:5-12)

May our minds be united in the Mind and Love of Jesus. Blessings.

Rev. Susan Smith is a Pathways of Light minister living in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania.
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January-March, 2016

The Real Life

by Rev. Trish Kearns, O.M.C.

“God is the Light in Which I See.” (ACIM W-44)

I am in the process of working through Pathways of Light ACIM Practitioner course 908: Abundance Awareness. Part of this course has us review Lesson 44. After revisiting this Lesson for many days now, I am experiencing more and more of what this lesson means. I had recently found myself going into deep levels of despair and depression, from what I consider to be a state of limbo.  My telecommuting job seems to be done in the illusion; however I have not heard from Holy Spirit that it is time to resign.  Since making the decision to sell my Colorado home and move to Florida, my job responsibilities have grown ten-fold. I find myself working many days 10-15 hours without a break. I have been feeling very overwhelmed and confused about all this.

Because of my dedication to embracing Lesson 44, I repeated it over and over again, while asking Holy Spirit to help me with a changed perception. Finally, after over a week of this devotion and dedication, the Light is starting to shine through. I am understanding that the Light is always shining for me to see, however, I block it with my fears. 

All my of my fears and desperation really stem from past and future concerns and trying to figure out what I think is best for me. These fears or conditions of how I think things should be block my awareness of Love’s presence. By continually asking Holy Spirit to take it all from me, I am lifted up.

I envision a tunnel that ends in magnificent bright Light… the edges are lit up… guiding me toward this bright Light. As I look back from inside this tunnel, I see the illusions of this world… dancing figures… shadows… faint images.

“As long as your life is just a stale repetition of what has gone before, its nature will be illusion, and all its activities meaningless. The past is over and gone; to hold it in memory and imagine that what has long since passed away is still here and now, to respond to it as if present, is to dance with shadows.” (From the Christ Mind Book II pg. 29)

Removing the fears and concerns that block the Light allows me to align with the present… in which all my needs are taken care of. I am assured everything will be alright… because it is alright in the moment. There is nothing to fear as I am embraced in the arms of Love. All these illusions I hold onto are meaningless… including my job. All those involved I see with the Eyes of Love, respecting that it may not be their time to awaken… that they still may see it all as valuable and meaningful. I need not judge them or any situation that comes up. I am here only to awaken and represent Him who sent me… content knowing He goes with me… and that I do not know my own best interests. I recognize that all that is happening needs to happen for me, and for my brothers and sisters… so we all open up to our full Reality.

“The mind will open ever so little, and the Light will shine in. Now the real life can begin.” (From the Christ Mind Book II pg. 29)

When I align with Light and Love, my blessings show up because I am available to the guidance that directs me to them. When I am happy and at peace, I am not blocking the fulfillment. It’s all about trust, staying in the moment, and asking for His Guidance… then miracles can manifest in my life, because it is His Will. By removing the blocks to awareness and staying in the present, I can be a puppet for Holy Spirit, an empty vessel that is guided by Love. His Guidance leads me to experience only more Light, Love and Joy. When my separate self takes responsibility and becomes the authority expecting certain outcomes, I lose my connection… and miss the blessings that are waiting for me.

I envision a maze that I am navigating. When I walk with Holy Spirit, I walk softly… gracefully… avoiding the walls… the path is straight. I am at peace… trusting… perfectly guided.

When I hit a wall of the maze I recognize that my ego has taken the reigns… Little me is in control and is trying to arrange things in this world according to what it thinks they should be. Guilt now sets in, as I have taken authority from God… trying to do things my way. I am no longer aligned with God’s Will which is also my TRUE and ONLY will. I become the author of my own separate life; therefore fear and limitation are now running the show.

Once I return to the Holy Instant, and ask Holy Spirit to release it all from me, I return to Love… and am gently led back onto the path that leads me to the Light.

While I am in constant communion with my Source, I am in a state of humility. There is no arrogance that “I” know the way. Therefore there is no fear. I am awake to the Love and Light of my True Self navigating me. This is the happy dream… the REAL Life. The Light has come…

Rev. Trish Kearns, O.M.C., is a Pathways of Light minister living in Ormond Beach, Florida. Email: .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)

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