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From the One Who Knows

by Rev. Mary Manke

This morning I woke to find another symptom in the body. The left knee would not straighten. In this dream circumstance, it means that the nerve impulses are not getting through to the muscles in that area. I shared with Holy Spirit that I was feeling frightened, confused, disappointed and guilty for choosing this.

Holy Spirit gave this to me: In your daily dream you fall into the habit of accepting the ego’s meaning of the world, people, events around you. Dear One, look not to the world for answers, for images change at the slightest thought. You dream that you are a body. You dream that you are guilty. You dream that you are separate, alone, without help or solace.

Ask yourself, “Are dreams true?” When you wake from your night dreams, you look at the symbolism from the images that played in your mind. Can you ask yourself the same question for your waking dream? “Is this dream true? Is this image true? Is this thought true?”

Be willing to open to Holy Spirit’s answer, His interpretation. He holds for you what you have forgotten. He knows the outcome of your choice — every effect it will produce. Be willing to ask of every thought that pops up, “Is this true?” Step back and be still. Listen to Holy Spirit and feel the warmth of His Love surround you. Let Him decide for you, as you remind yourself that by yourself you do not know. How can you know what is true or real when you have given all the meaning to everything you see? The meaning that you “see” comes from past experience, and that experience is from dreams, which are not reality.

Defend not your choices, but lay them down. Ask only for meaning from the One who knows. He will not keep from you what He would have you know. If you think that you separated from God, then you think you deserve punishment. Now ask, “Is this true? Did I really leave God?” If you did not leave God, then you have been fooling yourself, playing with hallucinations. If you did leave God, then you do not exist, for there is nothing outside of God. Would you rather accept that you may have been wrong in your thinking? You have never left God, and there is only God, only Love. You are only Love, for nothing alters nor changes what God has created. Simply let this be.

Rev. Mary Manke is a Pathways of Light minister who lives in Wautoma, Wisconsin. To read more of her inspiring Healing Journal articles, click here.

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Excerpts from Course 918: The Power of Prayer and Meditation

Pathways of Light

In the Introduction to The Song of Prayer, Jesus describes true prayer as “The single voice Creator and creation share; the song the Son sings to the Father, Who returns the thanks it offers Him unto the Son.” (1:2) Here we are learning that all true prayer is sharing one voice with our Creator. True prayer is the Love the Father and Son share and extend as they recognize their oneness. True prayer is accepting our Father’s Love and extending that universal Love in one grateful, joyous voice. It is joining in one unified song of gratitude, appreciation and Love. It is sharing our Creator’s Love with the whole Sonship equally.

We are also learning that true prayer is accepting our one Identity in Christ and a recognition that we have no needs, only an eternal giving of praise and gratitude to our Creator, Who has given us all there is to give.

This means that true prayer is not needy. It does not supplicate out of fear or lack. True prayer does not make up a separate voice, different from our Creator. True prayer does not insist that we are vulnerable and weak.

True prayer does not make up images or personalities that are not true. True prayer does not give credence to the ego’s lies of being separate from God and the rest of the Sonship.

Jesus is being very clear in this introduction that true prayer is not asking God to make our dream of separation more to our liking or enhance our dream of specialness. Praying for more of the things of this world to bring us more of what we think we want is the opposite of true prayer.

We are learning here that we have but one need, and that is the need to recognize our oneness in the Mind of God. We are learning that laying down our dreams of specialness is the means by which we open to true prayer. We are learning that true prayer is sharing God’s Love with all equally.

In this world we think we have specific problems. This world was made up to keep our mind distracted from what is real — from God’s peace and Love — so we keep ourselves distracted by dreaming of having a continuous supply of problems. We do not realize that the problems are coming from our split minds and are illusions. That is why Jesus tells us, “…in prayer you overlook your specific needs as you see them, and let them go into God’s Hands. There they become your gifts to him, for they tell Him that you would have no gods before Him; no Love but His. What could His answer be but your remembrance of Him?” (4:3-5)

In our learning about true prayer, some key things that we want to remember and reinforce in our thinking are:

• True prayer asks for nothing and recognizes that we already have been given everything that is real. • To ask for something other than the truth of God’s Love is to ask for illusions and to receive what is really nothing. • The Holy Spirit purifies our mind so we can reach true prayer. He takes our thoughts of need and helps us recognize what our real need is. He helps us recognize that what is truly needed is already provided. • True prayer moves us past every perceived problem and helps us accept the one true answer to every prayer. • True prayer joins in our one eternal prayer of thanksgiving and Love.

What is Meditation? Meditation is the practice of quieting the ego mind, joining with the truth and accepting communion with God.

Process: Take a few minutes to step aside from your worldly activities… Let go of your everyday thoughts … Let your mind quiet and open your mind to your holiness … Let your mind go to Love… Remember that you are fully entitled to receive everything Love has to offer… Let your individual self-image go and unite with Love…

Let yourself be aware that Love is eternally present in your mind. It is still there, behind all the ego thoughts…  Lift the veil… Take as long as you need…

We are reminded that not everyone can attain the level of true prayer as yet. When we are still committed to the belief in separation from God, we are not yet able to accept God’s answer of remembrance of Him. When we pray with fear in our hearts, we have forgotten God’s goodness and we have forgotten our unity with God.

When we see that we or our brothers are in fear, we can help by recognizing the Christ in both of us. As we recognize that the Christ is still there in our minds, we are remembering our Self. This remembering helps us all.

What happens as we climb up from the bottom rungs of prayer? We see that our hidden belief in guilt is the source of our experience of scarcity. Our asking can change to move us higher on the road to healing. Instead of asking for more things of this world, we can “ask for gifts such as honesty or goodness, and particularly for forgiveness for the many sources of guilt that inevitably underlie any prayer of need.”

As we open to Holy Spirit’s healing perspective, we learn to recognize that our brother is joined with us in the one Christ Spirit. At this level we rise up the Ladder of Prayer and realize that judging another is really judging ourselves. We realize that we are only imprisoning our own sick mind that is in need of healing. We realize that a prayer for our enemy is really a prayer to heal our own projections, which are trying to make separation real.

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© 2009, Pathways of Light. https://www.pathwaysoflight.org
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Complete Surrender?

by Rev. Myron Jones

As I was journaling with the Holy Spirit I asked Him about goals. He suggested I write down my goals for today and then we would look together. I wrote that I needed to finish this project. Then I had a list of things that had to be done before my friends arrived. This list included things like getting dressed and cooking lunch. The longer my list became, the more stress I felt. This reminded me that my list was not complete. I added to it. “I want to step back and allow the Holy Spirit to guide the way. I want to remember my purpose.”

As I added these goals to the list I realized that my list was exactly backwards. I changed the order and stepping back and remembering my purpose went to the top. When I did that I realized that I did not need to finish the list of things to do.  If I would be willing to allow the Holy Spirit to lead me today, then I would not need a list. Could I set aside what I thought I needed to do? Could I set aside all decision-making and turn to the Holy Spirit in complete trust? Could I surrender the idea that I need to be in charge of my life?

I thought about that for a while. I have said that I want to be lived, but do I really?  What would I have to give up? I would not make decisions about what to do and in what order. I would not write any more stories. I would just watch the story already written as it unfolds as Myron’s life. I would have to give up the drama that comes with judgment as I simply observed the story of Myron’s life without deciding what it means. Would I miss that drama? Would I feel deprived if I wasn’t in charge of this life?

I decided to try. I sat at the computer after I wrote the last word and waited for a thought to appear. I thought to get up and take my shower. On the way I thought to put the rice on. I didn’t question the change in plans, or ask myself if that was the right order. I didn’t wonder if I should do something else instead. I just put the rice on and took my shower. While showering I did only that. I didn’t use the time to plan my next move or to decide what I would do when my friends arrived. I just enjoyed the feel of water and soap on my body.

I completed each chore exactly as it came to me to do it. Just as I finished the last thing that needed to be done, the first of my guests knocked on the door. Probably everything would have been done if I had made plans on my own, but by making no plans on my own and following Guidance instead, my morning went smoothly and was completely stress free.

Since then I have fallen back into the habit of trying to be in charge of my life. I notice that it is a lot more stressful. I forget things I need to do. My mind is in conflict nearly all the time as I argue with myself about what to do and when. I see that there are whole blocks of time I am living unconciously. I could not even tell you what I did because my mind was someplace else; in the future or in the past. It was focused everywhere except now. I seem to be missing my life.

It is not hard to allow myself to be lived. It is a little harder to want to do this. However, I am motivated to try again because the first time was so peaceful. I am beginning this day by reminding myself that not I, but Christ through me this day will be done.

Rev. Myron Jones is a Pathways of Light minister living in St. Charles, Louisiana. Read more of her inspiring Healing Journal articles on the Pathways of Light web site. Also to learn more about her new audio book titled, Healing Family Relationships — Applying the Principles of A Course in Miracles, click here.
Web site: The Way Home

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Concepts

by Rev. Phil Manke

Concepts are formed of beliefs
and help the ego avoid reality.

Concepts of eternal, concepts of dead.
Concepts of mind and what’s in my head.

Concepts of thinking, concepts abound,
Concepts of silence, when there is a sound.
Concepts of everything can surely be found.

There is one concept that comes from One Mind,
it seems so elusive and so hard to find.

My concept of concepts is failing somehow,
to encompass that Love is here, true and Now.

Rev. Phil Manke is a Pathways of Light minister who lives in Wautoma, Wisconsin

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