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October-December, 2012

Peanuts and Pushing Peas

by Rev. Nancy Moore, O.M.C.

One busy morning in a rush to get chores out of the way, I spilled a box of packing peanuts on my patio. They were scattered out all over, and so went my mind, to numerous scatter thoughts of regret and of picking them up. I resigned myself to the task and soon relaxed and softened with a mind shift, opening to Holy Spirit’s message. With each single or handful I scooped, I thought, “I am Spirit. I am Love. All is well. We are one.” There was no struggle, the time flew, and I was finished with the pickup feeling soothed and uplifted.

I have since used this practice for other “Oh pooh!” Situations, like dumping a cup of pencils and markers, and in the garden pushing exposed pea seeds into the ground after a hard rain.

This morning I saw the pile of little pebbles from a bamboo planter I’d spilled and ignored the night before. (Have I ever been in denial about my mistakes before?) With a new attitude, I could hardly wait to hear what Holy Spirit would have me remember as I mind trained. “My heart holds loads of Love” was the reminder.

This practice reminds me that all my mistakes are just that and can be corrected with a mind shift. It’s a process of releasing judgment, and emptying my mind to receive messages of forgiveness and love.

Rev. Nancy Moore, O.M.C., is a Pathways of Light minister living in Asheville, North Carolina.
Web site: http://www.artspiritmedicine.com

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October-December, 2012

Applying the Rules for Decision

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

For the past five years, a water conditioning company has placed us in a collection agency trying to collect a fee from us for a service we haven’t used in the five years and which we have asked them to take back their equipment. Each time we get a notice from the collection agency, I initially panic and imagine myself being carted off to a prison or having my husband’s wages garnished. Oh what vain imaginings the ego constructs to keep us in fear and separation.

I also noticed how, in the ego thought system, I was projecting blame onto this water company. From a split dualistic mind, ego tries to make someone right and someone wrong. Of course, it wants me to believe, they are wrong and I am right. That way, I don’t have to look at the hidden guilt in me. And if I keep projecting it onto them, that cloud of guilt in me will never be lifted and God’s Light and Love will remain hidden from me.

From a fearful place, the ego seeks fearful solutions and wants punishment for the guilty party. So from this place, I focused out there in the illusion for a way to solve this problem. I sought legal help and the more I wanted to punish them and make them guilty, the more I was really punishing myself because I wasn’t at peace. In fact, I was at war — not with them, but in myself. It didn’t feel good and the body played it out in all kinds of painful symptoms. In trying to defend myself, I ended up crucifying myself. Lawyers became my false idols because I was seeking them out to help me win the war against a perceived enemy. I was shutting God out, and isn’t this what ego stands for — edging God out?

I remember there was a section in ACIM that talked about the Rules for Decision: Chapter 30 Section I. So I went there because after five years of trying to solve this from Linda’s own separate will, I knew there had to be a better way. So, rule number one states:

“Today I will make no decisions by myself” …This means that you are choosing not to be the judge of what to do.” (T- 30.I:2;2,3)

In Linda’s attempt to judge on her own, she not only judged but became her own executioner.

“If I make no decisions by myself, this is the day that will be given me.” (4:2)

Holy Spirit, I would rather be happy than right. I want peace above all. When I chose on my own that I wanted to be right; the days were filled with anguish, not peace.

“I have no question. I forgot what to decide.” (6:4)

Oh Holy Spirit, I didn’t step back and ask you first; I tried to decide on my own what was going on and tried to come up with a solution from my own separate will, a will that believed it was in danger in the world and that the source of this danger was the water company.

“At least I can decide I do not like what I feel now.” (8:2)

Oh, Holy Spirit, I don’t like feeling fearful and anxious and worried.

“And so I hope I have been wrong.” (9:2)

Oh, Holy Spirit, I realize that on my own, I will never solve the problem peacefully because in this separate mind, I judge everything to be a conflict. I seem to be a victim of a world I made in this separate mind, a mind that believes everyone is my enemy and there is no room for love.

“I want another way to look at this.” (11:4)

Dear Holy Spirit: I am willing to open this mind and am willing to be shown a better way. I am willing to choose peace instead of this pain.

“Perhaps there is another way to look at this. What can I lose by asking?” (12:3,4)

Holy Spirit, I come to you and ask you to help me see this differently and I am in gratitude that you are there waiting for me to give you my willingness.

In the instant I sought Holy Spirit’s help to see this differently, I was given the following image:

The water company, the collection agency, the lawyer, my husband and myself were all standing in a circle of light which was pouring down on all of us. We were all drinking from a beautiful cup of water that we passed around. It was an endless supply of pure delicious water. Then I heard myself shout: La Chiam, which in Hebrew means Life. There was so much joy. Each on of us then lifted the cup upwards to God shouting our praises and La Chiam.

This image given to me by Spirit showed me that God is Life, there is no hatred in the Kingdom of Heaven. All is Love, all is Light. There is no separation; there is no law but the law of Love that joins all of us in a circle of life, a circle of Love. I no longer felt hatred towards the water company; I no longer felt scared or that I was a victim or in danger.

For the first time in the five years of dealing with this issue with the water company; I was at peace and in joy as a result of practicing following the rules of decision as laid out in ACIM.

In fact, that is a decision I now willingly make. Seek ye first the Kingdom of Heaven, be willing to seek guidance from the Holy Spirit first. Holy Spirit helped me to see the truth of the situation. As a result, peace was given and I experienced joy. Doesn’t Holy Spirit guarantee the outcome will be a happy one when we ask to be shown the truth? Isn’t that God’s Will for us, His Children, that we be happy?

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

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October-December, 2012

Healing Emotional or Physical Pain and Sickness

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

Excerpt from ‘The End of Death’

If we truly wish to help ourselves or another to heal from emotional or physical sickness, then it’s wise to look more carefully at our intent. The ego seeks to cure through fear, so as the underlying cause of all sickness (guilt), it is never found and addressed. If we have un-relinquished fear beneath our intent to heal, then we’ll inadvertently increase fear in ourselves and/or the one we’re attempting to help.

When we are suffering or sick, it’s because we unknowingly believe that it will bring us something that we want. That’s the unseen ego playing its role. So if someone is in pain or sick and we want to help them, we can’t truly help them until we examine our own motive first. Are we fearful? Because if we are, then we need to acknowledge our fear, without self-judgment, and take an instant to suspend the fear and ask for Atonement instead. It only takes an instant to suspend our fear, inviting the miracle to take over. Remember that Spirit cannot take away our fear. Fear is a choice we make and our ego ‘will’ cannot be over-ridden by God. We must be disciplined to suspend fear to allow Love and Right-Mindedness to take over.

“The presence of fear is a sure sign that you are trusting in your own strength.” (W-pI.48.3:1) Also, fear proves that we believe the threat is real. Once we believe it is real, we cannot forgive it. Forgiveness can only take place when we willingly recognize that any expression of fear is an inappropriate response because it is not part of God’s Love. Therefore it must be unreal. We choose to remember that only God’s Love is real. We remember that this ‘appearance’ of sickness must be just that — an appearance other than God’s Love, and therefore unreal. This acknowledgement opens the mind and heart to forgiveness and miracles.

“The only sane solution is not to try to change reality, which is indeed a fearful attempt, but to accept it as it is. You are part of reality, which stands unchanged beyond the reach of your ego but within easy reach of spirit. When you are afraid, be still and know that God is real, and you are His beloved Son in whom He is well pleased. Do not let your ego dispute this, because the ego cannot know what is as far beyond its reach as you are.” (T-4.I.8:4-7)

A sick person does not usually recognize the ego’s underlying desire for pain or sickness which, when truly investigated, reveals the desire to separate from God’s Love. The sickness will always mask an unrecognized ego sabotage. And in some cases, if we try to help someone who believes unconsciously that they need their sickness, then we may cause ourselves and the one we attempt to help, unnecessary suffering.

For example, my mother was in physical pain for most of her life. I tried desperately at times to help her find and release the cause of her misery. But I was met with fierce resistance so many times that I gave up in the end. Her resistance and anger made me resentful.

What I didn’t know back then was that her ego clung to sickness and pain as her identity. And through trying to help her find and undo the cause of her suffering, I was threatening her perceived identity. No wonder she was so resistant. Due to my own ignorance about true healing, I unknowingly caused separation between us instead of joining. And joining is where all healing lies.

Much later, after examining the deeper intent beneath my desire to help my mother, I found that it was from fear and guilt. Anything we do from this intent will produce separation instead of joining and healing.

Miraculous Healing Only Takes One

When we desire to help heal another, we must look at our deeper intent. As difficult as it is to grasp, there is always only one to heal, and that’s our self. So in my mother’s case, I could have been instrumental in her healing and mine had I just become more mindful in watching my own reactions to her pain and physical deterioration. The real healing for both of us lay in recognizing my own pain and fear, along with my own concerns, as they revealed to me how much I still feared to trust in God’s Love. This fear is the unconscious guilt that drives all adversity in our lives. And when we get an opportunity to see it and relinquish it (forgive), it is an incredible healing for ourselves and for the person who believed they were sick.

During that time of doubt, I was certainly not demonstrating trust in my mother, my Self or in God. And this is what longed to be seen (with Spirit) without judgment, and surrendered in exchange for the Atonement, for the miracle.

Here is a miraculous prayer for healing that was given to me by Spirit, “Holy Spirit, please help me to forgive myself for using ______ (the appearance of pain or sickness in myself or another)_____ to attack myself and to separate from Your Love, as my Holy Self.”

There are never any problems. Only the temporary absence of Love’s presence in my awareness. Love’s presence, in the form of a miracle, is invoked the instant I remember, “Regardless of the appearance of chaos, I am wholly perfect and innocent, therefore I share in God’s Strength, safety and invulnerability. I call on these to help me look past (forgive) all ego appearances. I trust and accept that only Your Will is done.” This is accepting the Atonement, which is the healing of unconscious guilt.

We can help heal another without saying a word to them. True joining and healing occurs when we refuse to believe what the ego-body senses tells us is real. Sure, magical medical remedies might still be administered. However, true healing of the fundamental cause of all suffering is gently taking effect as we quietly place our trust in the miracle.

Rev. Nouk Sanchez 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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October-December, 2012

Taking a Stand

by Rev. Carol Witfoth, O.M.C.

When I received the email regarding articles, I was sad because I had no subject material and hadn’t contributed for some time. God answers all requests!

This morning I received a post on Facebook for which I felt a need to address the sender. Then it dawned on me that it is perfect material for this article.

The post was a joke about a man who goes to pick up his welfare check and says to the person at the counter, “You know I’d really rather be working than be on welfare.” The welfare worker advises the man about an available job as a chauffeur to a very wealthy man. Actually, the job is to chauffeur the man’s daughter and perform all kinds of tasks — which, and I quote — “includes servicing her personal needs.” The job had a twelve-hour day.

The welfare recipient starts out by protesting the time and other things and he refuses the job. The implication of the whole post is that all welfare recipients are on welfare because they don’t want to work. You are familiar with the stereotype, I’m sure.

Now, I took the joke personally. You see, I get food stamps and Medicade because I, like millions and millions of Americans, can’t get a job. I’d really rather be working! Though I have an excellent work history, I am of a certain age and, trust me, I know that’s why I am unemployed.

I choose to stand to represent all persons who receive any assistance for whatever reason and it is from this position that I responded to the post and from which I write this article.

The person who forwarded the joke has issues with her former daughter-in-law. Guess what? The former daughter-in-law is on assistance/welfare. The joke sender is a Christian and claims to be spiritual.

So, here’s the lesson I was given to learn and to teach. How do we personally think and respond to people on assistance including those who abuse the system?

My thoughts went to my favorite teacher, Jesus. What would Jesus do whether the scorned daughter-in-law, the person in the joke or me in my situation is the subject?

He would do today what he did before. Jesus would love and offer a hand to us and accept us. He would heal us. He would feed us. And, if we were willing, he would teach us.

How do I know this? Because that is what He’s done for me and I am no different than anyone else!

Lest you feel sorry for me, I chose to not be angry. I decided to do something new with my life. I have spent eight quarters at one of the best community colleges, Southeast Community College, Lincoln, Nebraska, in their excellent Entrepreneurship Program. I’m an award winning artist, author and now entrepreneur. My first novella will be published this week or next on Amazon.com, Barnes & Noble and in the near future available in epub and audio formats on etsy.com. I have to finish the cover first.

Never in any of the last four years did He leave my side! I love Him dearly.

Rev. Carol K. Springer-Witfoth, O.M.C., is a Pathways of Light minister living in Lincoln, Nebraska.

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