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April-June, 2013

Understanding Forgiveness

by Rev. Mary Beth Ellis, O.M.C.

Forgiveness is probably the most important spiritual lesson for many reasons, one of which is that our lives depend on it.

To truly forgive we need to understand the why’s and how’s of how it works. As with any fix-it project, the most important factor, after the decision to repair something, is to use the right tools. Without the proper tools, all the determination in the world usually results in little change. We are fortunate to have these tools today. I wish I’d had them at 16. I wish I’d had them at 30 when I was blaming the world for my problems. I wish I’d used them yesterday when I felt slighted by one of God’s children, and condemned him in my mind.

Historically there have been three major steps in the development of Judeo-Christian spirituality. Out of the chaos of our animal ancestors and Cro-Magnon man’s habit of randomly killing to get whatever food and territory the other had, a giant step in our spiritual evolution arose. Some tribes quit randomly killing anyone in their way. They would only kill the tribes of a tribesman who had harmed them. The whole tribe was mercilessly slaughtered — but it wasn’t done randomly, but to avenge a wrong. Then another giant spiritual step was taken.

With the advent of Judaism and the teachings of Moses, a second giant spiritual step was taken. The Jews were admonished to live by the dictum of, An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth. Instead of punishing a whole tribe for what one member had done, only the person who had transgressed was accountable. Think what peace ensued and how much more sane life must have become.

Then somewhere around 2,000 years after Moses came another Jew who introduced the 3rd major spiritual step — a revolutionary idea that changed Western culture. He asked us to turn the other cheek. He lived his idea by forgiving sinners and even asking God to forgive his crucifiers for they ‘know not what they do.’ Lest we think that idea of forgiving too daunting for ordinary men, Christ very clearly said, These things that I do, ye shall do also.

We see instances of forgiveness everywhere. It is possible. When the Dali Lama was asked if he had forgiven the Chinese communists for invading Tibet, stealing their land and mercilessly killing countless Buddhist priests and monks, he answered that he had forgiven them because he understood that they were doing the only thing they were programmed to do. He saw that the Chinese soldiers were like a wind-up toy soldier that had been made to stand straight until a child wound it up and set it on its course. Even if one of these toy soldier’s tracks spilt milk all over the floor or scratched the antique chair, few sane people would have issues with forgiving it. Everyone understands that it was just doing what it was constructed and programmed to do. The Dali Lama understood that about men. We are programmed by hundreds of thousands of years of instincts. We are programmed by society

Let us now turn to the real crux of the issue of forgiveness. Why should we forgive everyone for everything and how in the world do we do it?

There are many reasons why we should forgive:

1. First of all, it’s just the right thing to do. Probably most people would like to be able to do it. It’s mature. It’s noble. It’s respectable.

2. Secondly, forgiveness sets us free ­— free from the negative energy that consumes us when we don’t, from the negative emotions that make us sick, and from the torture that we inflict upon ourselves as a result.

Dr. Hans Seelye won the Nobel Prize in 1937 for his “stress theory.” He said that there is a chain of factors precipitating all diseases, but that the stress link was the common denominator. For example, for polio there are a number of links, the polio bacillus, a somewhat compromised immune system, fatigue being some of them. But if a person doesn’t have stress, even if he has all the rest of the polio links in the chain, the person won’t contract the disease.

Not forgiving, holding inside the negative emotions of not doing so, causes stress and depression. Many doctors have written about the correlation of stress and depression to diseases like cancer. Not forgiving is a spiritual cancer.

3. The third reason for forgiving is that it brings us closer to God. If He made us in his image and likeness, and if He is all good and loves all His children unconditionally, shouldn’t we want to be more Godlike, more like who we are, and see the good and God in everyone? We are all part of God. In the East, people say “Namaste” when they encounter others. It means, “I salute the God in you.” Namaste.

We all know that we should forgive, so let’s get on with the real biggy: How do we forgive? What are the tools? How can we get to a point where it is sure and even automatic in our lives?

Most of the tools involve a greater understanding of the process and the psychological awareness of how our minds and programming work. Just going to church and hearing about it doesn’t always make forgiveness possible for most of us. Going to church doesn’t make us a good Christian any more than standing in a garage makes us a car.

It takes understanding and awareness, but it is also up to each of us to practice. Just being aware and admitting to ourselves that we aren’t forgiving someone is a huge step. Most people repress it. But ultimately we have to: 1) be aware that we aren’t forgiving, 2) understand the process, and then 3) practice, practice, practice, until our original fumbles go on to a touchdown.

So we come to the first tool which has two sides: a) awareness and b) turning it over to God. Awareness means simply allowing ourselves to admit that we are harboring negative, unforgiving thoughts about ourselves and others. If we don’t own up to it, we’ll never be able to deal with it and cure it. If someone is in denial about being ill, he or she usually won’t be able to cure the malady. Sometimes the result of looking at these thought processes is alcohol, drugs, or ‘schitzing’ out — or some other form of buffering it out. *This inability to be a forgiving person makes us feel separate from others, separate from God, separate from the All. Often we can’t accept what we see because we feel guilty and we condemn and won’t forgive ourselves.

Some Eastern religions say that one should not change anything for a period of time after seeing an issue. If you start noticing that you aren’t a forgiving person, just notice all the times you aren’t. Don’t try to change yourself right away, or you will be inclined to buffer it out. The ego doesn’t like seeing these things.

Once we have clearly seen and had time to digest what it is that we want to deal with about ourselves, we need to realize that all that we have seen should simply serve as a learning experience in the school of spirituality. It can help us see where there is an opportunity to see differently and be free. The last thing we should do is not forgive ourselves. It’s then that we must remember part B of this tool: b) turn it over to God and ask to see the situation differently. We needn’t use our egos to forge a battle against it. That is just playing into the old habits of letting our self-serving egos that got us into the situation in the first place get us out. We need to a) identify what we aren’t forgiving and then b) sincerely ask the Holy Spirit to help us see the situation differently. We simply need to realize that we are powerless with our special anti-forgiveness programming that we inherited through evolution and from society that often corrupts. We no longer need to kill our prey to eat. We don’t need to wipe out our neighbors to be safe. We don’t need all those instincts any more. In fact, the remnants of that programming are counter productive in our society. We may have some remnants of the fight or flight tendencies, the vengeful thoughts, and our egos even have the reasoning power to figure out ways why forgiveness doesn’t apply to a certain situation. We may feel powerless when dealing with the vestiges of the very traits which helped our genes survive. But if we admit to ourselves that we are powerless and then turn it over to God, the answer will always come — maybe not in three minutes or even a day, but it will come. “Ask and it shall be given.” Our Higher Selves know the answer right now. It is within our power to forgive. If we turn it over to God and then listen for the answer, peace will come in a form you will recognize.

So tool #1 is to let yourself clearly see when you aren’t being forgiving and then to turn it over to God and ask that He help you see the situation differently. And, of course, don’t fail to forgive yourself for not being perfect.

Another tool is visualization. Imagine the person whom you can’t forgive as a newborn baby. Imagine that adorable, innocent, precious child smiling at you and reaching for your love. Then it starts screaming during your important conversation with its parent. You’re irritated, but it’s not hard to forgive the newcomer to planet earth for being hungry, sick or in need of attention. The baby is just doing what babies do. Fast forward 40 years. The baby is fully programmed. This baby in a man’s suit, was allowed to watch the wrong programs, meet the wrong people, play the wrong video games. He steals your wallet or idea at work. He is mean to you. Maybe that baby, for whatever reason, grew up physically, but never did psychologically. Its adult self is still crying out for love, screaming to get what it wants, spitting up on people, if it needs something. The baby who didn’t understand that its demands for being the center of its universe weren’t acceptable in society has matured physically but is dwarfed psychologically. It never grew up.

Scott Peck, who wrote The Road Less Travelled, also wrote a book called People of the Lie. Those are the people who only grow up physically and who commit terrible crimes because they still believe they are the center of the world. Dr. Peck refers to this phenomenon as pure narcissism — the adult stays psychologically dwarfed as a baby.

We are all narcissistic at times, but most of us sooner or later realize we aren’t the center of the universe and we develop compassion for others. We don’t metaphorically scream and throw toys or shoot people ‘til we get what we want. Some of our brothers never had that opportunity, and they became hardened criminals — maybe even serial killers. It might be helpful for us to visualize them as Scott Peck suggested — as overgrown babies who are still narcissistically demanding and taking what they want, with no thought to the inconvenience and pain it causes others. Some don’t have the capacity.

Now our society has carefully decided what the social contract is that we are all to abide by, and it has decided what should be done to those who don’t or can’t live in accordance with it. That is not the issue here. I’m merely suggesting a tool. The tool of imaging the “sinners” in our lives — those who don’t say and do what we want them to — as grown narcissistic babies, no different from a mentally or physically challenged adult who can’t function. This tool of imaging can be helpful to work with until we learn to use more complex spiritual tools.

So the second tool is to visualize the person we can’t forgive as the innocent baby that he was originally, before the damaged child got corrupted. We can never judge a man until we’ve walked in his moccasins. We never know how physically, socially or psychologically damaged another might be.

There is God in everyone, and most people who do bad things probably wish they hadn’t done it or hadn’t needed to do it to survive. Do we condemn Jean Valjean in Les Miserables for stealing the loaf of bread from the baker so that the young child wouldn’t die of starvation? He served his 20 years for being a thief, but do we find it hard to forgive him? Many people honestly feel like what they do is right. Many can’t help it. Some are too damaged not to. Some just don’t think. But if we condemn them in our hearts, we are hurting one of God’s children and ourselves. We are also exhibiting a kind of insanity ourselves for thinking that the world and others should be just like we want them to be, like the psychotic who thinks he’s Napoleon and that everyone should salute and obey him and be exactly as he wants them to be, and not who they are.

Another, and the most complex of these tools is one that we all learn in Psychology 101. It is the tool of projection recognition. It tells us that when we feel bad about ourselves and can’t accept it, we often project what we think of ourselves onto others and then judge them. This creates an unreal, uncomfortable world that is founded on myth. It creates confusion, more negativity and separation. We feel that we have done or thought something unworthy, like being selfish, rude or controlling, and then we see another as selfish, rude or controlling, and we judge and condemn them. We thus don’t have to deal with it in ourselves.

We think that we aren’t supposed to be selfish — we can’t accept it in ourselves so we project it on Henry or Jane Doe and we hate them for their vile actions. Jane took the last portion of chicken. Henry didn’t give you credit for your idea in the workplace. It’s not to say they didn’t do these things, but the judgment, often hate, and certainly not forgiving these things is more charged because that’s exactly what you have condemned yourself for and suppressed. We then project it onto another and deal with it there.

There’s a saying, “If you spot it, you’ve got it.” I suppose that some true sociopaths or psychopaths can escape these guilt feelings, but most of us feel bad about ourselves when we don’t live an exemplary life. The result is that our unconscious knows what is going on, just as the man in the mental ward knows on some level that he’s not Napoleon, yet he lives his life in an insane quagmire. So, tool #3 is an awareness of the fact that we often project our guilt onto others and then find them hard to forgive.

So the logical conclusion to this phenomenon is to Stop, Look, and Listen. Stop your monkey-mind thoughts and see what’s going on so clearly that nothing is between you and the reality — no judgments, no emotional responses, no suppression. Look carefully at what is going on. Are you judging another for something that you yourself feel about yourself? Forgive yourself. Turn the tendency of self-condemnation over to God. Ask the Holy Spirit to help you see it differently. Then listen to the answer. It’s all just a spiritual learning experience.

We need to forgive ourselves. When we do, there is no longer a need to project what we don’t forgive onto another. Then the miracle of forgiveness happens automatically and sets us free to be at one with Holy Spirit and others. Peace, balance and love can enter our lives. This principle is interesting, because by forgiving others of their “sin,” we are forgiving what we have suppressed in us. By forgiving ourselves, we won’t have to project the “sin” onto another.

So, the third and often most difficult tool, is to look at the things that we can’t forgive in others, consider that it’s a symbol for something we can’t forgive in ourselves, and ask God’s help in forgiving ourselves. Realize that it’s just a learning experience, and nothing to feel bad about — and then enjoy the peace and the realization that you have taken a huge step in your spiritual growth. You are also free to live your life with this part of yourself healed.

When really looking at this idea of forgiveness, I am probably most struck by something from A Course in Miracles workbook. It says about forgiveness that, if we do, Your brothers stand released with you… God’s Son will weep no more… Heaven offers thanks for the increase of joy your practice brings even to it… I hear the Voice That God has given me, and it is only This my mind obeys.

Jesus said, Forgive them, for they know not what they do.

May we all have the willingness to bring understanding to the process of forgiving so that we may do so and be more like the Christ. May we thus be liberated from living a life separate from God and His children. May we practice until we have gained the peace and joy that is ours to have.

Rev. Mary Beth Ellis is a Pathways of Light minister living in Metairie, Louisiana.

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April-June, 2013

A Lesson from the Holy Spirit

by Rev. Cathey Jo Tomilenko, O.M.C.

The last ten months of 2012 have been very challenging in my life. I had a lumbar fusion in March of 2012 and another one which was an emergency in August of 2012. I thought I was finally on the upswing of mending this physical body when in October I slipped and fell and broke my leg. Up until this event I knew that the Holy Spirit was guiding me back to health. In fact, the Holy Spirit and I were partners for many years in healing mind, body and spirit. I was doing my part and the ability of the billions of cells in this miracle body of mine was doing the rest.

Something happened to my Spirit when I fell and broke my leg. I lost my ability to depend on God and the Holy Spirit to help me. For the first time in many a year I felt lost, angry, upset, frustrated and kept saying to myself, “Why, why, why?” How could this happen when my faith has already gotten me through at least 30 surgeries over the years from a car accident and especially the last two fusions on my back? I was so angry at myself for slipping on my kitchen floor, which is how I broke my leg. I was so upset in the emergency room at the hospital I was crying, saying to the doctors, “Don’t tell me this. I can’t handle anymore, I don’t want to hear it.” I couldn’t even make any wise or healthy decisions at the time. My friend Miriam had to make them for me. I spent the next two days at home, now wearing a leg brace for 10 weeks, in a wheel chair, not being able to do anything, having a great pity party with myself. I was still angry, although I wasn’t sure if the anger at the time was directed more at me or God. Where had my faith and trust in the Holy Spirit gone?

After two days of nothing but anguish, I finally decided this is enough. It was time to take a deep breath, and step back and get myself out of the way. I was sitting in my chair with my leg up, reading the book mark “ I REMEMBER WHO I AM” from Pathways of Light. I read, ”I accept that I am Love and I stay in tune with the Highest Source within me and let It guide my ways.” I calmed myself down and went back to my basic principles of Spirit. I finally said, “Okay God, I don’t know why this happened and right now I guess it doesn’t make any difference, but I need help.” I then sat quietly and prayed, asking the Holy Spirit for help in bringing me back my peace, my joy, my happiness that I was able to experience and live through all the other surgeries. For I do know in my heart that the Holy Spirit is always there guiding me, helping me through any challenge I may experience in this world, knowing that in truth nothing in this world counts anyway, that the dream we created in this world is so temporary that it has no value and I for the last two days had given my power to it. Only the truth would get me through this event. I am a spiritual creation, the same creation of God. I was finally able to get out of my head and into my heart, feeling the Holy Spirit within me. I continued to read “I know the perfect circumstances present themselves for my perfect continued growth. I am Love, I am Joy, I am Peace.”

Once I could let go of the anger and go back to the basic principle of being this wonderful creation of a living and loving God, peace came over me. I knew from that moment that the Holy Spirit, which is always with us, was guiding me to my higher good, which is living truth principles and not giving my power away to the dream.

I soon began to understand that the Holy Spirit was teaching me many lessons, especially one of humbleness. It is so easy for us to “Give,” so why was it so difficult to “Receive”? As ministers we give prayer, support, and love in so many ways, but all of a sudden I found myself having to say “HELP.” I couldn’t drive a car, I couldn’t grocery shop, I couldn’t get myself to doctor appointments and at the beginning, I couldn’t even get dressed by myself. I remembered my sister once told me, “When someone offers to help you, don’t take away their gift to you.”

In my ACIM class I always say, “We are all teachers and all students, and we all minister to each other in many ways.” Well I guess I really became the student.

This experience in the last ten weeks has really taught me how to receive lovingly and with gratefulness. I also learned that blessings come in many ways.

The first blessing was knowing that the Holy Spirit is always guiding me and never leaves my side. I didn’t break a hip, I didn’t need surgery on my leg, I was still able to laugh, sing, talk, read, see, hear — all the little things we take for granted. I even felt how blessed we are with all the little gadgets that man created to make life easier while our spirits are in these bodies, such as a wheel chair, a grabber to pick things up and a little plastic thing with a long string on it so I could put my socks on.

My church family sent me cards. After several weeks, I was able to be picked up so I could go to church. My church family and friends called me every day to pray with me. Miriam, my friend who lives next door, helped me shower, dress, and grocery shop.

This probably has been the most humbling blessed lesson I learned throughout my years of working on living a very spiritual life and learning about truth. My life will never be the same again. I am and have been blessed in so many ways. No matter what the events are in the dream world our ego’s create, the Holy Spirit is always guiding us for our spiritual growth.

I learned to receive with love and be grateful for all the little things we take for granted that most of us never pay attention to. I am so grateful for being a student of A Course In Miracles. At the moment the biggest miracle was knowing that the Holy Spirit was with me all the time, that I am and always was in God’s care. I just had to go back to the basic principle into my heart and recognize the truth of my creation. My brace will be off in two weeks. I will again be able to drive and the best gift is being able to get back to facilitate my class again, A Course In Miracles. The truth is I AM LOVE, I AM JOY, I AM PEACE all the time, and the Holy Spirit has many ways to remind me of this truth. This experience was one of them.

Rev. Cathey Jo Tomilenko is a Pathways of Light minister living in Bloomfield, Michigan.

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April-June, 2013

Inspiration in Motion

by Rev. Mary Gerard Lenihan, O.M.C.

My eyes, my tongue, my hands, my feet today- Have but one purpose; to be given Christ
To use to bless the world with miracles. W.pII.353

In the midst of thoughts about “caring for” the body, I have been given sight as follows. Inspiration In Motion is an experiential practice of accessing Inspiration Within through your Inspired HeartMind any time, anywhere while in the midst of everyday living. Inspiration Within is This Inner Present Love, wholly free and absolutely present, here, now, everywhere, at all times. There is nowhere This Love is not. This is how This Love is Love.

Inspiration In Motion is the experiential practice of “de-compartmentalizing” how you come into the awareness of Inspiration’s presence within. Experience Inner Stillness and Union while being still and while moving through life’s daily activities, communicating and interacting in all kinds of relationships and even while involved in activities that seem to be body focused such as eating, exercise, cooking, touch, walking, housekeeping, caregiving, playing sports or the physical aspects of a job.
Inspiration In Motion is de-compartmentalizing how, when and where one can experience Inspiration Within. Freeing us up from the ideas about needing to keep the body still or take on certain postures or positions, close the eyes or perform a specific technique or way of moving, or be engaged in a “spiritual” activity or form. Life is experienced as spirit-filled as we are aware of that Inspiration. This Inner Present Love is Life. One can enjoy certain practices, both with the body still and moving, and reap the benefits. However, we need not confine ourselves. We can experience Inner Peace and Union all throughout the day.

Inspiration In Motion helps to heal the mind of the many body images and judgments of the body that the cubicle mind (ego unawareness of Inspiration Within) perpetuates as it identifies itself as a body. It does this by helping one move away from an experience of disconnection as the cause of dispiritedness, and moving towards an experience of connection and union with Inner Present Love.

When the body is still, such as seated for meditation or laying down for sleep, it is less of a distraction, that is, we are more easily able to focus on Inspiration’s peace. Then we begin moving about for our daily life activities and often lose the experience of peace, contentment, rest and connectivity that we were experiencing while being still. Or it can be that being still raises thoughts about the body into our awareness due to discomfort, pain, illness and/or injury.

Inspiration In Motion is the practice of accessing Inspiration Within in body stillness and motion as a way to heal thoughts and judgments about the body and be present with bodily sensations that may be drawing us into unawareness.

Inspiration In Motion is the practice of awareness of Being while not elevating the body and placing it on a pedestal to be worshipped and adored, and not degrading the body or being ashamed of the body. Both stances are judgments and give the body meaning that in and of itself it does not hold. Both perspectives are placing meaning upon the body as they are both rooted in believing I am a body. Inspiration In Motion is not denying the experience of having a body, rather it is recognizing and accepting the usefulness of the body as a means of Love’s extension. Now the body becomes truly helpful.

The body participates in the experience of the mind. If the cubicle mind experiencing separation, disconnection and fear is in charge, the body follows suit and takes on disconnection and fear. If one chooses to be aware of one’s Inspired Mind experiencing connection, union and Love, the body shares this communication and naturally, without thought, participates in extending this healing message to others.

Inspiration In Motion is practicing awareness of Being, Love, Peace and Union, even while engaged in what we may normally think of as “body-activities” such as in exercise, what we say and do while interacting with others and daily physical activities.

We need not become ego-minded. Inspiration In Motion guides us to focus less on how we think we should be exercising, what we think we should be saying and doing and how we think we should be performing a physical task and instead keep a one-pointed focus on how Wisdom and Inner Knowing is literally moving us towards our true nature. It is trusting that there is an Inner Present Love Who truly knows what is in our best interest at this moment in time.

If you are exercising and feel a need to go through a certain routine, you can do so with the awareness of your Inspired Mind. The goal is to move away from disconnection and body identification and towards an experience of connection and wholeness.

Inspiration In Motion is not instructing how to move the body or not move the body by way of a special technique or form for some specific benefit(s). Inspiration In Motion is the practice of trusting This Inner Wisdom and Knowing and allowing the body to follow. This practice naturally allows our experience of being human and this body experience to now have real meaning and purpose. Meaning and purpose that are founded in Inspiration Within.

Inspiration In Motion is truly an experiential movement practice of The 4 Decisions: Pause, Step Back, Step Aside and Let Inspiration Guide. All for the purpose of being a willing vessel of Inspiration Within, inspiring the dispirited, including yourself, thus bringing healing to yourself, others, relationships and the world.

To practice Inspiration In Motion in the midst of your everyday activities, simply allow awareness of Inner Present Love as living, moving and being “in you, with you, through you and beyond you.” This is how you participate in your life, relationships, activities and the world as Inspiration In Motion.

Love does not stop at the level of the mind, heart or body. Inspiration In Motion is an unending, unceasing, continuous, constant Flow. You are inside of This Love and This Love is inside of you.

Note: Mary will be demonstrating and sharing the practice of Inspiration In Motion in person and through the website: http://www.pauseforinspiration.org

Rev. Mary Gerard Lenihan is a Pathways of Light minister living in St. Louis, Missouri. She is author of the books Visions of Illumination, The Mentor Within and the inspiring new CD Album WNYHOO Now!.

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April-June, 2013

All Is Well in God’s Hands

Jim Klapperich

I have a flooring business to earn money in this earthly illusion. One of my customers had some water damage so she called me on a Thursday and I went to her house to correct the problem. I removed the wet pad and propped up the carpet so the fans could dry the floor and carpet. I got a strong message that I should come back on the following Monday to finish the repair.

When Monday arrived, I was about finished with the repair when my wife Diana called and said that my ex-wife had called and wanted to talk to me. Because this did not happen very often, I was concerned if there was some emergency in the family.

When I called her, I could hear that she was very upset. She was very angry about the fact that our son does not communicate with her. It was her birthday on the last Friday and she had not heard from him again, and was asking what she had done to him to make him so distant to her. Thanks to all the help I’ve had over the years from Holy Spirit, Robert and Mary Stoelting from Pathways of Light and from A Course in Miracles, I remembered to stay calm and loving as this was unfolding. As the conversation continued, she shared that her beloved pet dog had just died and her husband had just been diagnosed with bladder cancer. She finally said she just needed to vent her anger and frustration.

The job I was at just happened to be two blocks from where she lives and, trying to bring some peace to the situation, I was lead by Spirit to ask her if she would be available when I finished the carpet repair. I told her that I would also like to see her mom, my ex-mother in law, who was 98 years old. I asked her if her mom would remember me.

By this time my ex-wife was starting to relax a bit and said she would meet me at her mom’s house which was close by.

When we arrived at her Mom’s house, I was so welcomed by her mom. We had a wonderful visit for about an hour. I could see my ex-wife smiling and laughing and really enjoying herself. After our visit with her mother I stopped at my ex-wife’s house and talked to her husband and was thanked for coming over.

As I left, my ex-wife apologized for being so angry and said she just needed to talk to someone. I told her that she could call me anytime. She also told me to thank my wife Diana for always treating her with respect and being kind to her. Apparently her husband’s ex-wife has harassed her all the time they have been together.

As I drove home, I thought, “Wow, this had nothing to do with a piece of carpet, but Spirit knew I had to be there at that time because of my ex-wife’s call for love. A week later and I’m still on a high because of this wonderful experience. I know that all is well in God’s Hands. Love Rules!

Jim Klapperich is a Pathways of Light ministerial student living in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin

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