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July-September, 2010

If I Only Spoke Once…

by Rev. Bob Thompson

If I only spoke once, what would I say to my wife, to my six children, to their six spouses, to my 20 grandchildren, my great grandchild, and to all the loving members of my very extended family? What could I say to everyone? What would I say to you? 

I would say: I appreciate you. I have been blessed that you were in my life. And also, I would add, that the following is what I have learned in life.

I am responsible for all my own thoughts, my own feelings and my own happiness (or lack of it). 

Many times in my life I have had (and occasionally still do have) thoughts and feelings of disappointment, expectation, anger or denial. Jeepers… Sounds like a confession, doesn’t it?      

My life’s journey of “stumbling” for nearly 74 years has proven to me how difficult it is to change, even when I know that the change is the best thing for me. It took most of my life to stumble on the truth that: change is not really difficult! The secret to change is to want something more than what I have right now! Of course, it is crucial to know what it is that I want more than what I have right now.    

It took me most of my life to experience a personal peace that is truly unspeakable. That personal peace has become the most important thing in my life. I discovered it late in life in a near “death dream experience.” It was the most awesome experience I have ever had. 

To experience it, I had to eventually let my thinking wind down, until I had no thoughts or attachments at all about this world or anything or anyone in it. In a “state of grace,” of “tranquility,” I was willing and prepared with my best preparation possible to slide into death and the mystery of eternity. I experienced how to approach death and die in peace, and apparently “survived.”

Much later a thought occurred to me: If it is so important to me to die in peace — if peace is really so important — than why not live in peace? The experience of Peace, the peace that truly passes all understanding, is what I wanted and want more than anything else. Thus my ability to change my life has been given a great motivation. Over the years, the changes have been obvious, not only to me, but also to family members and friends of long acquaintance. 

One of the things that I have to do to achieve this is to take total responsibility for all of my feelings as being created by me and that all my feelings came from my own thoughts. If I want to change, how I feel about anything, all I have to do is change my thinking about it. Only my “addictive thinking” makes it difficult or seem impossible. 

One of the ongoing side effects of my own stumblings is that, as I emotionally shared my own stumblings with others, I immediately triggered their own stumblings, which they frequently blamed on me. One of the “prices” I have had to pay for sharing my own stumblings with others is that I have “lost” a few friends. (Although I truly don’t believe that any friendship or loving relationship is ever “lost”). Some chose not to see me again. Others I have chosen to not see again. It usually is something that we have different thoughts about and are not able to “agree to disagree,” thus rupturing our relationship. 

My own limited experience suggests that when I don’t like a certain behavior, I distance myself from that behavior by distancing myself from that person. Thus there are mutual stumblers, whom I will love forever. I send them love, although I may temporarily, or perhaps for a lifetime, not choose to be with them. For me it is a simple matter of saying “no.” Their eternal soul is aware that my eternal soul loves them. So for me, saying “no” is one of the ways that I am true to my own soul. It is a blessing that I give to myself and simultaneously extend to another.    

Grateful am I to have finally discovered in this lifetime that such a thought change that takes me to peace is a personal miracle that is available to me at anytime, under any circumstance. My two true friends, gratefulness and awe, always take me back to an indescribable peace. All I have to do is remember that these two, gratefulness and awe, are always there for me, if I will but remember.    

I still stumble on occasion, but I do notice that I am stumbling less often, and also that when I do stumble, I am able to regain my balance much more quickly. I am greatly encouraged by the decrease in frequency of my personal “stumblings.” Perhaps I am less and less into self-punishment.

It is impossible to communicate with words the peace of God that truly passes all understanding. For those who have not experienced it, it may be very hard to believe that it exists. Those who have experienced it and found it to be the most significant experience of their lives are witnesses who bring the message that such peace truly exists. Occasionally, I am able to be such a messenger.
 
All I have to do is want that peace more than anything that I think about, right now. The choice is mine. I can and do change. That is how I eventually unstuck myself from the prison and punishment, of my own “negative” thoughts. 

Late in life I discovered that if I am truly quiet, open and willing, I can become awesomely aware of the peace that has been waiting for me in my own heart. It’s really very simple. Is there something that I truly want more than what I have right now? When I am at peace, that question and all questions cease to exist. 

I am especially grateful to you who have witnessed my stumblings and not judged me as only a stumbler. I thank many of you for recognizing and sharing with me that there is an eternal Spirit trying to guide each of us, if we will but be truly quiet and listen.

Rev. Robert Thompson, O.M.C., is a Pathways of Light minister living in Portage, Wisconsin. Email: .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) Web site: http://www.bumpityroad.org

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July-September, 2010

Your Only Problem

Rev. Mary Manke

Recently I received these thoughts after a Sunday teleconference service.

“Holy child of God, accept your innocence now, that is all you need to accept.”

“What you find unworthy in yourself is only fantasy. It is a false thought based on a poor belief.

“You find yourself struggling because you are attempting to undo what is not yours to do. You need only invite Holy Spirit into your mind and allow Him to do what is His only function. Decide only that you want Him with you on your journey. Decide to forget the empty thoughts and your will is done. 

“While you believe that you have turned away from God, you will experience fear and all its accompanying thoughts. When you accept that truth is true and take the illusions to the truth, you enjoy freedom only truth gives. It seems that you left your Home, your Source, which is Love. But it never happened. It is an impossible idea. It is not real. You have never hurt your Father, but you did accept a false idea taking the place of truth. Laugh now, laugh at the silly idea of being separate. Remember to laugh and laugh often! There is not one thing to take seriously in your life.

“Your only problem is believing that you are separate. The one solution is to accept there is no separation from Love. That is the impossible dream. It is meaningless. Love is all you are. Love is truth. Love is All there Is.” ❦

Rev. Mary Manke is a Pathways of Light minister who lives in Wautoma, Wisconsin. Read more of her inspiring Healing Journal articles on the Pathways of Light web site. Email: .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)

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July-September, 2010

Oneness

Rev. Phil Manke

How wonderful to experience the mind of Oneness, however brief or temporary it seems in this world of time and distance apart.  The One true mind has all true thought already accomplished, and for all. I need not effort to think if I open to oneness. I need not fear time, or the seeming lack of it, when I accept eternal now. The truth in all Love is the truth in me, now. This is always true, but for my awareness of It, may seem to lack. This Love. This Oneness. This attraction of like to like, Love to Itself, perhaps even from cell to cell and on through time, to our awareness of self, selves. Thinking we are bodies, then knowing our truth in Spirit.

Willing to know what now Is, accepting It, sets us apart from worldly beings who believe time and bodies and substance are real and bring all sense of pain and suffering. The preference for another time brings more anguish in its illusion. Accepting now, just as it is, connects my being with all that is, no pain, because there is no perception. Just acceptance. 

Loving Spirit is eternal, it knows no end, no matter if it seems to be in a body or myself. But for my own awareness is it ethereal.

God is not a body. I must accept this or not, and be given the thought system it affords. I am created in God’s image. I must accept this or not, and use the thought system it affords.

I am complete and healed and whole, right now. I cannot attack and I cannot be threatened because of Who or What I am.

I am Love in the Mind of Love. Every thought emanates from this foundation in mind. I do not think it because it is already thought for me in the One Mind of Truth.

So are you, Dear One. So are you.

Rev. Phil Manke is a Pathways of Light minister who lives in Wautoma, Wisconsin. Email: .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)

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July-September, 2010

I AM Vitamins for the Soul

Rev. Petra Sundheim

I am present to my
process of purification.
I allow a shift in perception
when I ask for peace and
pardon the past to free my Self.

I am tuned into my body’s
physical needs and listen for
cues of Spirit unrest.
I know peace within prompts
patterns of health,
part of my path to my true wealth.

I am prayerful in my
practice of peace.
Never alone, I partner
and listen to the
I Am Love presence within,
and feel Love’s power over fear.

I am playful in the
play of our planet,
New perspectives come easily.
I am patient with myself.
I see all as expressions of God.

I am persistent in intention
to follow the desire of my Heart.
Allowing Source to cue the details,
surrender of ego, that’s my part.

I am following my purpose
with passion: To embrace,
experience and enjoy, to express and
extend my eternal Love Essence.

I am prosperous in all areas
of being and doing.
Gratitude and blessing bring
a spirit of joy.

Visioning abundance
attracts more good to me.
I give my self freely
on the Cue of Love,
bringing forth a sharing response —
rippling outward, touching many.

I Am on the path of the Heart,
and let it open through the portal
of feelings felt and released.
I am grateful for waking from illusion.

I am Love and Light, Joy and Peace.
I am as you are, you are as I Am.
One with Source, One with all.

Aloha!

Rev. Petra Sundheim is a Pathways of Light minister living in Kauai, Hawaii. Email: .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)

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