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January-March, 2014

BE STILL and Remember God

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

Through my ministerial training we had to listen to many different CD’s and get insight from Holy Spirit and write it down.

There is something that I wrote back in 2009 that I was inspired to find and not by chance! I feel it’s exactly where I find myself right now… It makes sense to me now… Back then it did not.

I share it with you and everyone. I know it’s for us all.

Holy Spirit’s message:

You no longer need to suffer and live a vicious cycle of fear, lack, sadness, etc. The truth has been revealed to you and you can live that truth!

There is nothing lacking in your life! You are complete. You have access to the power of Love or fear while living in this body… in this dream. All you need to do is remember me. BE STILL. Practice being still every day and remember God.

Your thoughts and beliefs about separation will begin to disappear into the nothingness that they came from.

Now you have released all the beliefs that have held you back from living in peace — those beliefs do not exist anymore.

The truth has been revealed to you, Maria. You are now to live in gentleness, love, peace and knowing your oneness with all.

You can now begin to see through the eyes of Holy Spirit. Now you will begin to see and experience life differently — don’t be alarmed — the shift is a process.

BE GENTLE WITH YOURSELF.

You will be seeing more light.

Things won’t bother you as much.

Life becomes simple.

You experience connections with people at a deeper level. You live more in the present as you let go of all the past and remember only the love you gave and that was given to you.

The future?! No need to worry… As you know, it will be one of peace because that is what you are projecting now!

You are amazing. I appreciate your commitment and you are making a gigantic step to waking up sooner than later than you would ever think!

Rev. Maria Felipe, O.M.C., is a Pathways of Light minister living in Valley Village, California. www.mariafelipe.org

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January-March, 2014

Pixel by Pixel

by Rev. Paula Richards, O.M.C.

I have been studying A Course in Miracles for almost three years. The ego tells me I should have “gotten it” by now. At times I do get frustrated and feel that I am not making any progress, but I keep doing the work.

I do it because, lately, I find myself experiencing moments where a teaching resonates so deeply within me that I know I have experienced a shift. I have allowed more light into (or out of?) this seemingly dense body I call Paula. I feel myself becoming lighter, as if tiny particles in my body are randomly disintegrating. It seems like I am spreading out and coming undone; sort of like reducing the number of pixels on a computer screen. “Paula” is becoming less clearly defined as I realize that the picture in my mind of a solid body is only held together by my original thought of separation.

It is then reinforced by a gazillion other little, fearful thoughts (pixels). When I zoom in close enough and examine these thoughts, I discover that there is no picture — no body. There is only fear (false evidence appearing real). I laugh at the absurdity of it all and remind myself that I have been “getting it” …one pixel at a time. Let your spirit soar!

Rev. Paula Richards is a Pathways of Light minister living in Lowell, Massachusetts

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January-March, 2014

When Ego Rules

by Rev. Anita Ottley, O.M.C.

It’s been a long time since I’ve written anything for the Miracles News magazine but recent events in my life inspired me to share an experience that has proven to be a valuable lesson for me. We all tend to get caught up in our day to day lives and sometimes when that happens, we end up losing touch with spirit. Ego loves when that happens because ego wants to jump right in there with all the judgments and negativity possible to keep us separate from one another.

Last week at work, one of my co-workers was having trouble with her laptop computer. The company utilizes a program called Citrix which allows employees that travel to access their desktops on the road via a remote connection.

When she came to me with the problem, she said our IT manager had told her that she never had an account. Ego immediately jumped right on that statement and I started searching my email archives for a saved correspondence showing the existence of the account. I found it and forwarded it along to her with a statement saying, “Save this email to send to John in case he has issues with the IT manager saying it doesn’t exist.”

After the IT tech was unable to get her laptop working, he said that she needed the Citrix login information. She forwarded the email along to him and that’s when I received a very valuable lesson about allowing ego to rein over Holy Spirit. My need to be right had caused injury to three people, not including myself. I had insulted the IT tech, the IT manager and caused more difficulty for the person trying to get her laptop fixed.

In any given situation, we have a choice to listen to ego or Holy Spirit. In my case, I chose the one that was not going to raise my consciousness or align me with Holy Spirit. I chose to prove I was right and in doing so, I proved just how wrong I could be.

What I got out of that interaction was a lesson that was more valuable than any lesson I’ve had in a long time. It might seem trivial to find so much truth in one simple statement but I did. That one line in an email humbled me. When the people involved were hurt by my statement, I felt that hurt right down to my very core. It was in that moment I realized just how far I had traveled away from Holy Spirit.

I can’t promise I will never slip up again but I plan on being more aware of my thoughts, judgments and negative criticism toward my brothers and sisters. While playing the game of “life,” I am reminded that we are all Spirit. We are all loved and it is my job to remain loving to those people in my life. So today, I choose to “be loving over being right” because in 100 years from now, my being right won’t matter. Since love is energy then I choose to leave positive loving energy after I’m gone. The daily battle with ego is a challenge but after this experience, I am re-committed to being aligned with Holy Spirit because being love is all I have to be.

Rev. Anita Ottley is a Pathways of Light minister living in Newark, New York.

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January-March, 2014

Why Do You Imprison Your Brother?

by Rev. Michael Ciavarella, O.M.C.

It happened suddenly. I was not prepared for what the Voice would tell me that day. Of course, I know better than to allow myself to think ill of a brother, but nonetheless, there I was mumbling words of condemnation. “And there he is, doing…”

What he did doesn’t matter here. You know the story. I thought someone did something to me, so of course, I must find fault and tell myself that he is guilty of some imagined act.

That’s when it happened. Holy Spirit was as clear as any voice I could hear with my physical ears. The message was given in the usual gentle tone, but it pierced me like a razor-sharp sword.

“Why do you imprison your brother?”

Huh? Imprison who?

“Your brother. Why do you wish him to remain in prison? In the process, you are holding yourself in the same prison. Why would you do that?”

It hit me. Whenever I roll my eyes and complain about someone, anyone, I am holding both of us in prison. I remember reading something like this in the Course.

As a minister of the Course, I have opened myself to the call to free myself and my brother from this illusion we know as hell. Yet, here I am, closing the gate on him while the gate behind me also slams shut.

Over the next several days, whenever I begin to point a finger of guilt at a brother, those words echo once again. “Why do you imprison your brother?” Those words rise before me each time I begin my barrage of accusatory thoughts. It didn’t take long for those words to stop me in mid-mental slander and I changed my thought to, “Be blessed.”

This went on for several days. It is getting where “Be blessed” comes just as the thought, “Why, you dirty, rotten…” (or something like that) slips from my thought process.

I understand that this is something that needed healing from the beginning of my journey through the Course. I asked my Mind Healing Partner, who I was working with in an ACIM Practitioner course, how she exercised great patience as we went through the courses I took with her for ordination.

Holy Spirit must have seen fit that this day was the day to bring healing to my error; to give opportunity to forgive and open the prison gates freeing my brother and me.

Today, when I think someone is doing something to me, the first thought is, “Be blessed.” I don’t even want to hear that prison gate slam. I would rather hear the cheers of freedom than the cries of imprisonment.

Be free my brother. Step out into the Light. Breathe the fresh air and touch the beauty that surrounds you. Know that you are perfect, invincible, eternal and utterly free.

You are Spirit. Neither God nor I want you in a cage. Take my hand. Let’s step out together. Do not fear. Only Love exists.

Rev. Michael L. Ciavarella is a Pathways of Light minister living in Oak Lawn, Illinois.
Read more of his inspiring Healing Journal articles on the Pathways of Light web site.

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