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July-September, 2013

Lesson 84 — Love Created Me Like Itself

by Rev. Gail Hamley, O.M.C.

“I am in the likeness of my Creator. I cannot suffer, I cannot experience loss and I cannot die.”

This is a hard concept to really grasp. As a Pathways minister, I counsel people all of the time and it becomes more and more clear that each situation, each circumstance is caused by our forgetfulness.

We forget that we are created the same as our Creator. Our Creator is Absolute-Unchanging-Perfection. It is easy to forget. After all, just look around and see and hear and feel all of the pain going on in the world and in my own world.

Recently my eldest daughter and her family announced they are moving across the country. We are very close and I love seeing my grandsons regularly. She is expecting a new baby in the fall and I won’t be there as easily as a car ride to her. It seems silly in retrospect, but I started to grieve her absence while at the same time celebrating this new opportunity for them.

I asked for help and suddenly became aware that distance is an illusion and a sense of joy emerged within me. It is okay that I was sad and glad. I understood, though, that there really wasn’t anything to be sad about!

Another difficulty in “remembering” came when I felt ill. I searched within to find the core belief about why I had contracted this illness. Surprisingly, the little voice told me to STOP! Stop trying to find fault with myself. Really? Well, that was exactly what I was doing! What would I do if someone came to me in this condition? I certainly would hold them in my arms, listen to them, comfort them and remind them that they are perfect — no matter what is showing up — they are perfect. They cannot not be perfect!

How could I know this about them but not myself? So this is what I did for myself. Each and every time I started to worry, criticize or blame myself, I stopped and turned all attention to Love — my True Self. I would turn every thought into a loving one, drop my attention to my heart and breathe. Instantly I would become calm and teary because the Truth was just so beautiful!

It takes awareness of my thoughts to recognize when I am thinking untrue thoughts and to bring myself back to the Truth. No matter what is going on or how I am feeling, Love created me like Itself. I feel calm and I know that whatever is going on, Love will reveal itself and I relax.

Rev. Gail Hamley is a Pathways of Light minister living in Tustin, California.

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July-September, 2013

How the Miracle Heals All Appearances

by Rev. Nouk Sanchez, O.M.C.

There is only one Power — God’s all-encompassing Love. Anytime we see or feel anything other than this, we are believing in illusions. God’s Love is eternally changeless, just like our holy Self. Jesus’ message is uncompromising. In order to bring about consistent miracles, we must cultivate a single-minded conviction in only ‘one’ Power — God’s Love. While we still retain our belief in a hierarchy of illusions, we will reject knowing and demonstrating that there is no order of difficulty in miracles.

What we seem to see in this ego-made paradigm is constantly changing. The body appears to be born, it grows and matures and then it seems to wither and die. All this we take to be reality. Yet true Reality is changeless. The things we see in this paradigm are always changing. This unconscious propulsion for constant change comes from the ego’s beguiling intent to keep us forever running from God’s Love.

Everything we seem to see here is purely an ‘appearance.’ And appearances, because they do change, are not God’s changeless Reality. Appearances are projected by the ego to hypnotize us into believing they are real. While we believe the ego’s appearances of pain, sickness, loss, conflict, scarcity and death, we remain spell-bound by an hallucination. And instead of waking up from it, we go deeper into by: 1) searching for pleasure, fulfillment and remedies within the hallucination. And 2) by defending ourselves against illusions within the hallucination.

There are two diametrically opposed realities and only one of them is real. There is this fear paradigm we experience here as an epic and ceaseless loop of change. And there is God’s changeless Reality that remains quietly but powerfully active beneath every ‘appearance’ that we choose to see. We choose which of these two realities to manifest depending on the one we value.

To most, what the body’s senses report is taken as truth. Once the hallucination is believed then no healing can take place. However we can invoke the miracle in any instant that we question reality; in that instant we become lucid. We remember that what we see is not God’s Reality. We must be hallucinating. We stand fast, choosing to look past ‘appearances’ and we trust in God’s changeless Reality; a Reality that cannot be accessed nor activated while we still prefer to be mesmerized by illusions.

This insane world with all its demented laws based on fear and death, is clearly not of God. It’s as if we placed a veil of terror over our eyes. The veil holds images of the ego’s most cherished gifts, guilt, pain, sickness, conflict, loss, scarcity and death. So when we look out through this veil at our body, others and the world, we cannot see them as they really are. Everything we see is superimposed with terror. We fall for the images of terror that seem to dance in the veil. And we plan our entire lives around attempting to navigate through it.

It’s just a veil! It has no reality. And look, who is holding the veil over our eyes. We are! While we live our lives, reacting to the illusory images on the veil, we cannot see nor feel Love. We can’t give it and we can’t receive it. We remain empty, no matter how much we seem to achieve according to the rules and laws of the veil.

The veil of terror made its own laws apart from God’s Love. It’s central commandment, the one that supports every other law, is the concept of ‘death.’ But once the concept of death is questioned, the center of the veil is pierced and the veil of terror loses its hypnotic conviction.

When we recognize that the world we seem to see with the body’s senses is really this veil of terror, then we can decide with Spirit to be vigilant only for God’s Reality. This means that we consciously choose to look past (forgive) the images we see. We look past appearances, whatever they may be. Our body’s eyes might see the veil of terror in the form of cancer, pain, financial loss, divorce or death, but we remain vigilant to keep our vision on God’s changeless Reality beyond what the ego’s senses report.

While we choose to look past illusions, we place our trust in what invokes the miracle. And the miracle can heal anything and everything. We must choose only one Power though. Just like the healing of the lesion on my leg in the summer of 2012. It took a while, but eventually I was able to truly surrender it to Spirit in full trust while knowing that it was ‘already’ healed. Some weeks later it just disappeared.

When my soul-buddy and teaching partner Tomas (Vieira) had cancer in 2010, I did not have the level of trust that I have now. So I was not able to see completely past the veil of terror. I did see the tumors and I did feel fear, which is an indication that I still believed in what my body’s eyes saw; instead of God’s Reality. To the degree that we continue to fear, to that extent, we will ‘expect’ and manifest what we fear.

Fear separates us from God’s Love and help — from miracles. The Atonement is the undoing of fear. That is why Jesus says that the one responsibility of the miracle worker is to accept Atonement for himself. We can’t help ourselves or others while we ourselves remain fearful, anxious or concerned. When we accept Atonement, we accept healing. Then we can truly give what we know we already have.

Note: To read the full article, go to http://www.undoing-the-ego.org/articles.html. You will also find many more helpful exerts from her new book, “The End of Death.” For life-changing workshops visit: http://www.undoing-the-ego.org/events.html
Nouk is co-author of best seller, Take Me to Truth and Founder of the ‘Take Me to Truth Foundation,’ which is based on the teachings of A Course in Miracles, http://www.undoing-the-ego.org The launch of her latest book, The End of Death will be announced in her Newsletter. You can sign up for the Newsletter here: http://www.undoing-the-ego.org/newsletter.html

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July-September, 2013

Guilty… NO!  I AM… YES!

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

In the dream of separation, Linda, the dreamer has been hypnotized by messages constantly bombarding her and filled with fearful stories of sickness, sin, and death. Until becoming ACIM student, she wasn’t taught to even question the messages and asking whether they were true. She didn’t know she had within her an Inner Teacher that was the Voice of Truth and Wisdom, the Voice for God. She didn’t know she could go within at any time and ask her Inner Teacher, the Holy Spirit, to help her sort out what was real from what was a made up story. Until she learned to trust this Voice, she was lost in a dream of terror and guilt, and in stories of pain, sickness and suffering.

Linda also believed that the way out of suffering and sickness was to focus on changing her behavior or using magical solutions to fix whatever she thought the problem to be. For example, she was told that the pain and swelling in her joints were caused by a tic that had infected her body and that the Lyme’s disease that resulted was creating all the havoc in her body and if she didn’t do something about it, all her organs, including her brain would be infected. This induced such fear in Linda that she forgot to ask Holy Spirit to help her sort out the truth from the fearful stories. Her daughters also were very concerned and kept trying to get her to go to the Doctor and get it healed. She initially got upset with her daughters and blamed them for inducing more fear in her. Was that the truth or were they just broadcasting back to her the fear she had in her own mind that what was going on in her body was real and she was in danger. So, she in fear ran to the doctors and was put on medicine and supplements. Then she felt guilty because she knew the problem was in her mind, not her body, but the fear was so great that she couldn’t trust the loving and healing messages coming from Holy Spirit. And so, Linda the dreamer felt she was a failure and that only increased her feelings of guilt. Not only wasn’t she able to receive the loving messages from Spirit, she felt so guilty about using magic and going to the doctors that the medicine wasn’t working either and she continued to have the pain and inflammation in her joints. What a bind she was in. What was going on?

Finally, in a moment of desperation, Linda humbly called out for help and simply said, “Help me Spirit.” She didn’t use fancy words or come with an agenda or a desire for a particular outcome. She came to Holy Spirit as a child would go to his parent and ask for help. In a gentle voice, she was guided by Spirit to ask in a child like voice two questions:

Holy Spirit, am I guilty?

Holy Spirit, does God love me?

Right after asking she started to notice that the tension in the body was relaxing and she started to laugh. In that holy instant, she felt so loved and safe. As long as Linda, the dreamer of her dream, had been trying to focus on the symptoms and trying to work with the symptoms, she was getting no results. But when she asked these questions as guided by Spirit, she realized that she hadn’t addressed the cause of her perceived suffering. She was only focused on the effects. As soon as she asked the question and the answer was in the question, she realized what the cause of her suffering and perceived sickness was.

The cause wasn’t in the body. It wasn’t the tics that was causing the pain and inflammation. It was the belief in guilt and out of that belief arose stories of sickness, pain and suffering that would confirm her belief in guilt. No wonder that, in spite of the medicine, she was not getting much relief. Should Linda feel guilty for using magical solutions? No, as long as the fear was there. She was learning from ACIM and from Spirit not to deny the fear or feel guilty for the fearful thoughts that come up. As long as she still believed she was a body and could be hurt, she shouldn’t feel guilty for using magical solutions. She knew this time, though, that the magical solutions were not where the healing was and that it was only a temporary measure so that she could focus on where the real problem and the real solution was.

The cause of her pain and the sickness was coming from the mind and the belief that she was guilty and had to atone for her “sins” (i.e. the mistaken thought that she separated from God and Love) through suffering.

The solution was going to Holy Spirit and asking that her mind be healed of her belief in guilt. As her belief in guilt was healed, so would the effects of that belief be healed. And the effects were the stories of sickness and feelings of unworthiness and self-hatred that came from that belief.

And it wasn’t the magical solutions that were the problem either. The magic was not in the solutions but the magical thinking that was going on in Linda’s mind that made her believe she was being punished for a thought she had that she had separated from God and God was out to seek revenge. And of course, the biblical stories in the Old Testament which she bought into only confirmed this belief.

Holy Spirit is helping Linda sort out the real from the unreal. By asking Holy Spirit the child like questions, “Am I guilty? Does God Love me?” Linda is remembering once again the truth of who she is.

“Spirit Am I, a holy Son of God, free of all limits, safe and healed and whole, free to forgive, and free to save the world.” (W-pI.97.7:2)

Thank you Holy Spirit, for asking me to ask the question and receive the Truth. Am I guilty?… NO! Does God Love Me?… Yes! “Spirit Am I, a Holy Son of God.” And through receiving the truth, forgiving that which isn’t true, she can now extend that message into the world and fulfill her purpose.

Rev. Linda Wisniewski is a Pathways of Light minister living in Plymouth, Wisconsin.

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July-September, 2013

Feet First

by Rev. Vicki Rostant, O.M.C.

Sometimes I feel guilt around the fact that, even though in my heart I want to be healed, and I do put some effort into remembering I am free, I don’t make as much effort as I should; I don’t remember the truth as often as “I would like” and I despair that I’m getting nowhere closer to any healing. Then something happens that shows that Holy Spirit knows that there is willingness in my heart and that no effort is ever wasted.

Walking has always been my preferred form of exercise. I walk for hours to and from appointments, volunteering, shopping, enjoying the day, etc., when time allows. Several months ago, I started having heel pain in my left foot, which slowly progressed to the entire sole of the foot and walking became slightly uncomfortable. I say “slightly” because that initial discomfort was minor to what came later. I noted it and waited for it to run its course and go away. It didn’t. Over the summer, busy having fun, I did not pay it much attention. However, going to the bathroom during the night, and getting out of bed in the morning, I could barely put my foot down due to the heel pain, and the hobbling for the first few minutes was comical. After a few minutes, I could resume normal walking, but the discomfort was always there.

Through research, I thought that it might be heel spurs. In the early fall I saw a podiatrist, who confirmed that it was plantar fasciitis. Recommendations included: stretching the calf muscle, applying ice to the sole of the foot, rubbing the foot on rollers, not going barefoot and wearing specially padded and supportive footwear. I practiced all the above. I purchased expensive sandals with maximum padding for use in my work (Shiatsu massage), which I usually did in bare feet. I bought expensive walking shoes, and high-priced inner-soles for my winter boots.

Somewhere along the way (pun intended!), discomfort also started in the right foot, though not the heel pain that continued to plague the left foot. There were periods when there was a burning sensation in both feet. I continued to walk to where I volunteer for Meals on Wheels — 45 minutes each way. I’m the runner, so I was going to and from the car, taking the meals to the clients. Interestingly, with the proper footwear, I was able to do that and all my usual activities, however, next day, both feet were usually so sore, they did not want to be walked on, especially in the first few minutes after getting up from a sitting or lying position. This was the situation, on and off, for about three months.

One evening I was at a client’s home doing a treatment. As I walked around the massage table working on different parts of her body, there was discomfort in both feet. This slowly intensified, to become very painful and uncomfortable. About half-way through the treatment, the pain and discomfort became more intense and I was in despair. I had a vision of not being able to walk without pain or ever be able to walk bare-footed again. It was horrible. At the horror of this vision, something rose up strongly in me that would not accept that possibility. I heard, very clearly, the words, “I refuse to accept the concept of the reality of pain.” Almost immediately, there was relief in both feet. As I continued the treatment, I marveled at the miracle that had occurred, and by the end of the treatment, and during the time after, when I stayed and visited with her, there was no discomfort at all.

In that moment of clarity with Holy Spirit, that declaration of freedom changed my perspective about what was happening. I had totally identified with the body and its operation. As Rev. Myron Jones said in her Miracles News article, “Good News! Pain is not real! “I have a belief in pain and suffering in my mind and that belief is being projected on the body.” I had forgotten that basic premise that the body is an ego construct of illusion designed to keep me distracted, in myriad ways, from remembering the truth about myself, that I am safe and at home, at one with Love. This blessing brings me a step closer to healing the false belief that what the body is experiencing is the truth about myself.

Now, I am no longer defined by that body condition. No longer do my fears about the condition — my worry about the future effects of the condition; my focus on “fixing” the condition — rule my thoughts. I did not realize to what extent my thoughts had been ruled this way until after this miracle happened and I felt the relief of no longer being in the grip of those fears.

Now, a couple of months later, has all my discomfort vanished? No. Do I still do stretching exercises? Yes. Am I still making sure I wear the right footwear for my walking sojourns? Yes. Are there times when my left heel lets me know that it’s not happy? Yes. However, even as I go through the motions of taking care of the perceived needs of the body, I feel detached from the effects of what is going on in the body, and this is the miracle. In that moment when the pain was becoming unbearable, it was clear that there was a decision to be made — fall down the rabbit hole of the drama, or choose to say “No! There is a better way!” I do not think the specific words are important. All I know is, in that moment, a choice for Love was made, and there was healing. I give Thanks.

P.S. Isn’t it interesting that it takes 959 words to rattle on about the problem, and the healing came in 11 words? You have to laugh!

Rev. Vicki Rostant, O.M.C., is a Pathways of Light minister living in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

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