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You, Me and the Holy Spirit

Rev. Terese Ward

Daughter, your faith has made you well; go in peace and be healed of your disease. (Mark 5:34)

Yes. Life is as faith is.  It’s all about faith. Faith heals all mistaken notions and we learn truth through faith.

One way for me to witness to this truth is to share with you two weeks of my daily morning writing with Holy Spirit. I believe that you’ll agree that Holy Spirit is the Great Healer.

4/15/10 — Holy Spirit goes before me, making straight, easy, correct, safe and peaceful my path, to the good of all concerned. “Stay present with the Presence.”

4/16/10 — Holy Spirit thank you for this time with Leta and for all it brings forth for the good of all concerned. “Just BE, Therese, just be present.”

4/17/10 — “Into this paradise, I’ve placed you; learn joy.” Holy Spirit, show me the way in service to the Grand Plan, for my good and the good of all concerned; that I live, work and be in the Peace of God, Love and Joy.

4/18/10 — Back in January, my friend Leta, invited me to come spend time at “the Farm” in Oregon, her treat. I cried tears of “if only I could.” Grieving the death of my husband of 50 years, I felt so alone and fearing the unknown future.  “If only I could” beat within my heart. I thought ahead, April 14, would be the one year anniversary of Dan’s death; April 27, my sixty-eighth birthday; April 4, Easter.  Within the longing to find inner happiness again, the thought came “I could, if I only would.” I could if I only would! Yes! I decided I would accept Leta’s gracious offer and visit her from April 15-22.

Through the power of that decision, anticipation began to fill my work of preparation for the journey. I declared: This is going to be a journey of transformation for me. Time to release the past, forgive the past, give thanks for the learning gifts of the past, turn the page, step through the door into my new life which was before me to create and live.

This morning standing on holy ground, at the farm, at the river’s edge, Leta, my soul sister at my side, I cried tears of Home — Love’s Home — Open Heart Home, Joy’s Home, the Peace of God’s Home. Sweet Home, Oregon, Home Sweet Home.

In that moment my heart opened the latch from its mourning room and stepped out into a garden paradise. “I have placed you in paradise; Play.” Transformation was happening in the power of two gathered with the Holy Spirit in the name of Love.

Through the tour, the walks, the meals, the talks, the silences, the laughter, the memories, new possibilities arose, new visions came; imagination’s creativity was alive again, truly risen from the dead, Easter was happening in me.

Walking at Soda Creek, I knew I could live again in happiness for that is just what I was experiencing; Present happiness welling up in my whole being.

Transformation had happened quietly inside and spread it’s wings in joyful gratitude in this now Presence in all the forms of Love’s Presence. I know all these beautiful forms are impermanent yet I hold them sacred, and it is the Love Source behind them, which co-created this that I feel Oneness with. It seems I have come Home to this Oneness; the prodigal is Home again and gratitude leads all the other gifts of Spirit in my heart. Thank you, thank you, thank you.

4/19/10 — “Play, love, laugh, and learn.  Let your life be play; become as the children, thus is the Kingdom of Heaven. Let what you love, be the work you do. Labor not in your works, for My manifestations are effortless play of the children. By your works I will be known, you will be known.”

4/20/10 — “I am with you always. Now, here, is the only life there is. Present moment matters; thinking makes it after its thought. What are you thinking?”

I think I love you.

I think I love life.

I think all is well.

I think I am at peace.

I think I am grateful.

I think I am a co-creator with God.

I am, I am I am.

4/21/10 — The people in our life, present and past are like flower blossoms; different color, different shapes, different sizes, different fragrances, different stages of opening up, yet all a flower unfolding the beauty of One manifest life.

That I see the beauty, smell the fragrances, delight in the colors, dance in awe of the varieties, touch the tender shapes and appreciate all stages of growth and unfolding, is my prayer. Thank you, God, for life and all those journeying with me, past, present and future. I am willing to do my part extending the Great Plan of Your Knowing.

4/22/10 — As I take leave, I do not leave; my heart is with you always.

4/23/10 — Home. I am Home. “Again I say, I have placed you in a paradise, Play!”
Thank you, God, for this home of beauty; my heart sings its joy; Your peace fills my soul.
Home is lifting up your heart to God; it’s the prize for praying.

4/24/10 — Holy Spirit, my forever companion, taking a form most beautiful, nothing is left wanting.
Thank you, thank you, thank you.

4/25/10 — Life rolls on and I flow through it.

4/26/10 — Holy Spirit , I make known my want and you fill it beyond my dreams.

Thank you, thank you, thank you.

4/27/10 — Happy 68th birthday to me!  And I am happy, healthy and hopeful. A single dove came and sat on my railing this morning and stayed while I talked with Dan. Naturally I took its picture, commemorating this mornings tryst with Dan and Holy Spirit. I am grateful; I give thanks that it is so.

4/28/10 — “Be still and let creativity flow. Still mind, walking; creativity comes to visit.”

4/29/10 — Holy Spirit, guide, direct and protect me every moment of my life.  Thank you, thank you. I let go and enter the flow of God’s grace.

4/30/10 — Holy Spirit guides me through my new life, love and happiness. Thank you, thank you, thank you!

And on and on, step-by-step, day-by-day, moment-by-moment it goes.

Holy Spirit is Reality. I love You, Me and the Holy Spirit.

Rev. Therese Anne Ward is a Pathways of Light minister living in Newport, Kentucky. E-mail: .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)

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The One About John Galt

Rev. Steve Mead

“Who is John Galt?” is the question asked throughout the timeless novel, Atlas Shrugged (copyright 1957 by Ayn Rand). As it turns out, John Galt can be likened to the voice of the Holy Spirit.

In John’s radio address to the nation, he assures everyone that “A will always equal A.” I immediately thought of the often-mentioned law in A Course in Miracles, “The Truth is always true.” Why is that sentence of such impeccable logic so difficult to understand?

When I first picked up the book A Course in Miracles in 2003, I was involved as the lead actor in the play, “Dark Night of the Soul.” Of course I am speaking metaphorically, but at the time my situation, as I saw it, was so desperate, so painful and so hopeless that all I could do was utter the phrase, “there must be a better way.” (Who is John Galt?)

As I started my study of ACIM, encouraged with one of the opening phrases, “nothing real can be threatened,” I eagerly read on, waiting to come to the place where I would see the spiritual reason why others had wronged me. After all, my love was real. My love should have never resulted in suffering. My love was so special! (Who is John Galt?)

Reading A Course in Miracles is not for the faint of heart. By the time I got to chapter 24, “The goal of specialness,” I saw that what I had considered “real and holy love,” was actually just a poor substitute for an energy I wanted to spend the rest of my life in. “Look on your brother, and behold in him the whole reversal of the laws that seem to rule this world.” (T-24.VI.5:1)  At that time in my life, all I was capable of beholding was “my brother (intimate partner) was wrong!” (Who is John Galt?)

As every student of the course finds out, another possibility is presented, giving us an additional choice in the belief, “my brother is/was wrong.” “Ok,” I thought, “maybe I did confuse love with fantasy, holiness with specialness, and sacrifice with well being,” If I am ever in the position of a new partner, I’ll just do things differently. (Who is John Galt?)

Naturally, the opportunity presented itself almost immediately. My new game plan was to always be spiritual, never expect anything from her, and never give her reason to expect anything from me except the promise that “I only want your happiness for you!” My ego congratulated me with a real back-slapping sense of “Good plan, Stephan. That can’t possibly fail! You can keep yourself protected from ever being hurt again.” Guess what happens to my ego-made plans!

In the novel, Atlas Shrugged, John Galt sees individuals and society itself play out the effects of believing ego thoughts, while he stayed in the world, but not of the world. The deeper I read into the book, the more I saw the principles of the Course and how I had yet created one more relationship disaster. In the quietness of my heart, I asked again, “Why can’t things go my way?” (Who is John Galt?)

You see what you believe is there, and you believe it there because you want it there. Perception has no other law than this. (T-25.III.1:3-4) A wonderful consequence of devoting time with the Course is that suffering becomes much more intolerable. As I became more willing to let the Holy Spirit direct my thinking, my perceptions changed and the people (my brothers) who could be most beneficial to me, were right there in my life to help me heal. My ex wife, my ex girlfriend and John Galt.

Rev. Stephan Mead is a Pathways of Light minister living in Seattle, Washington. E-mail: .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)

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Dreaming and Awakening in the Open Heart

Rev. Annie Arbona

Some nights ago, I had a dream (while sleeping) where I was asking a spiritual healer to give me some advice. I was asking for a “consultation,” which in my language meant an appointment to consult my spiritual state of affairs. In the dream, I was wearing a turban and a robe of some kind, and so was the person who was taking care of me. I really don’t know what that meant. That is really not essential to the dream.

She started the session by placing a big star of David on the wall and she began striking it with her hands at each of its six points. As she did this she would say the word “Anahata” out loud. I did not know until later that the six pointed star is a symbol of the heart chakra and so is the word Anahata. I had this dream a short time before I woke up last Saturday on the day of my birthday and almost at the exact time that I was born. Upon awakening, I felt guided to stand before a meditation table where I have two statuettes, one of Jesus and another one of Buddha, both meditating. As I stood there I felt Spirit saying, “The rest of your life is only about awakening to the Love that you are.” With these words, I felt Spirit taking me to the Open Heart, a space I recognize as the Real Heart, the One Heart. Then I had the thought, “I imagine as my levels of fear subside, Spirit will show me more and more that this is where I really Am.” What a place to be!!

I saw the dream both as a preamble to the experience and as part of the beautiful gift itself. In it I felt my internal Teacher showing me, through the symbols in the dream, where I need to spend the rest of my life.

I believe this is a Universal Calling — it is in everyone’s heart. It is a call to reside in the Heart of hearts where we are eternally experiencing True Oneness and real Love.

I want to share my gift with all of you, and I want to invite you to join me as we all consciously move more and more into the Open Heart, only to find out that we have never really left It, and that in the Open Heart we find ourselves and each other.

The Open Heart is the exposed Heart, where we are no longer hiding from Love. The Open Heart is the place where Love is freely given and received, and is unconditionally extended to all of Creation.

If you want to share with me about any experience of yours with the Open Heart, I would love to hear from you. I would love to join with you in this beautiful journey deeper and deeper into the Heart. For our sharing you can email me at anniearbona33@ yahoo.com. Thank You Love!

Rev. Annie Arbona is a Pathways of Light minister living in Melbourne, Florida. She supervises the translation of Pathways of Light courses into Spanish.
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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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