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Sea of Love

by Rev. Maureen L. Yarbrough, Ordained Ministerial Counselor

The tides of change in this world,
Beat you down in tumultuous waves.

Gritty sand blurs the vision,
Encrusting sight with indecision.
Swim or sink, is that the choice?

In fighting for survival, I lose my voice.
Drowned out by the thrashing of my limbs,

It dawns on me to relax, release, let go…
And I am carried to safety by the winds.

Oftentimes in this life we are presented with obstacles that seem so incredibly impossible to overcome. Loss, grief, fear, disease, sickness, financial fear…the list goes on and on.

In my repeated, and often very painful, experience it has only been in forgiving… in releasing…. letting go, and turning to Holy Spirit, that my faith and trust has been restored.

I have attempted over and over to try to fill the space within me that just cannot be filled with anything of this world. No relationship, job, drug, exercise, food plan, sex, vitamin, shopping, a dog! (yes, I said it – we have 8!) can fill that “God sized hole,” as I have often heard it referred to. 

I had a dear friend “unfriend” me on social media because she said that she had no option to choose peace with all that she had going on in her life. She then proceeded to give me her laundry list of reasons why… a chronic disease, depression, limited income, no family, no one to help, etc., etc.

I (definitely the small “I”) then shared with her tips and tricks on how she can try. She became offended, as I am sure I would when dressed all up in my snazzy victim suit (I can still go there, to be sure!).

I wish that I had not responded and only loved her, but I wasn’t in my “right” mind myself at that moment. My job is only to love, not try to change, fix, make better…only love.

That was a good lesson for me, albeit painful. I’m pretty sure it is only the painful ones that teach me, unfortunately!

This leads me to the awakening power of pain. It will stop hurting once I identify the feeling behind my suffering and where it stems from and let that s@#$ go!

It has always proven to be a form of fear I am clutching protectively. I often get surprised when I see another manifestation of it sprouting up…like, “whoa, I thought we already let that go.” The booger creeped up on me again in a different guise. This continues over and over and over again as I imagine it will as long as I am in this chaotic world.

Currently, my husband and I are moving some great changes now (again!). Oh, what fun! he-he. He is exceptionally optimistic, though not a student of A Course in Miracles, he states that he is “by proxy.”

Myself, well, I am witnessing and forgiving, witnessing and forgiving, witnessing and forgiving, as often as is necessary to not allow this illusory existence power over me to steal my joy.

I know that no matter what, we will be okay… our true kingdom cannot be dismantled by anything here.

It can be quite entertaining to see all the different fears crop up; it’s quite the game!

Oh, there you are again! Time to go! I surrender you in the name of LOVE, peace and joy! Ahhhhh….Yes, that’s it! Relief!
I will never stop. No matter what. This ocean is not real.

Only the sea of Love can carry me. And when I forget, I will choose again.

I’m grateful that I can open up A Course in Miracles randomly to any page and be given a gentle hug of a reminder, too.

Rev. Maureen L. Yarbrough, O.M.C., is a Pathways of Light minister living in Yulee, Florida.
Email:momohere@gmail.com
Web: https://runningwithbulldogs.com/acim/

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I Hear Your Love

by Rev. Ashley Rose Legrand, Ordained Ministerial Counselor

I hear your Love
It calls to me in the silence.

A peaceful melody
embracing me
Wrapping its arms
around my mind
Soothing all my fears,
one at a time. 

Into a nothingness
I enter with you.
Holding your hand, the
strength of Heaven is in me.

I enter in, a new world
Beautifully embellished with
nothing but Love.
Unburdened, expansive,
free, unlimited.

Every object glimmers with the
Light of your perfection.
Your Holy word caressing,
blessing each precious thing.

My face is beaming.
My smile, cannot be contained.
My heart, wide open.
Shining in radiant Light,
as grand as its ever been.

Your Love transformed by being,
called me to a new space,
a higher place,
Where only Love exists.

In your comfort and sure protection
I come to recognize
my eternal safety.

Now I rest, in you.
I see your Love,
I feel your Love,
I hear your Love.

The sweet sound, reverberating
out into infinity. And here in this
Holy place, full of grace
is everything made new.

Everything is at peace.
Everything is healed.

Rev. Ashley Rose Legrand, O.M.C., is a Pathways of Light minister living in Metuchen, New Jersey.
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All Attack Is Self Attack

by Rev. Myron, Jones, Ordained Ministerial Counselor

“The only safety lies in extending the Holy Spirit, because as you see His gentleness in others your own mind perceives itself as totally harmless. Once it can accept this fully, it sees no need to protect itself. The protection of God then dawns upon it, assuring it that it is perfectly safe forever. The perfectly safe are wholly benign. They bless because they know that they are blessed. Without anxiety the mind is wholly kind, and because it extends beneficence it is beneficent. Safety is the complete relinquishment of attack. No compromise is possible in this. Teach attack in any form and you have learned it, and it will hurt you. Yet this learning is not immortal, and you can unlearn it by not teaching it.” (T-6.III.3)

There is only one way I will feel safe in this life. As I let go of the belief that I am anything less than what God created me to be, I remember my true Self. I become gentle and loving, wholly kind and harmless. Knowing myself as God’s Son, I know God’s protection. There will be no desire to defend or attack. So, I know what I am to do.

I watch my mind for the desire to attack.

When I find an attack thought, I remember that it is in my defenselessness my safety lies. If I attack, I teach myself that I need defense and am weak and vulnerable. If this is true, then I cannot be as God created me, and to believe I can alter creation is not sane.

As Jesus tells us, safety is the complete relinquishment of attack. No compromise is possible in this. I appreciate these uncompromising statements. I know exactly what to do in every circumstance in which I feel unsafe.

Rarely do I feel the desire to attack anymore. But I still notice those attack thoughts in my mind sometimes. This can happen when I read the news or consider politics. But I am aware and grateful for the opportunity to remember the truth.

The mind always gives us what we ask for, and I no longer want to ask it for dissension and anxiety. So when I realize I am attacking anyone in any way, I laugh at myself for my foolishness and ask the Holy Spirit to correct my thinking.

The following is from my journal:

I was still working at that time. I both loved and hated my job. Though I loved many things about it, at the same time, it seemed to cause me a lot of anxiety.

In retrospect, I understand how important that job was to my spiritual awakening. In overcoming the ego fears and desires that were triggered in the workplace, I healed my mind. Here is something that happened and how I worked through it then.

Before I could even begin to journal this morning, I had to clear my mind of something that had been hurting me since yesterday. I woke up with it on my mind, realizing I still had not relinquished it. I reviewed my process, examining the thoughts causing the anxiety and asking for the Atonement. As I did so, I realized that I was relinquishing attack, and I read this paragraph. It was perfect. Here is the process as it happened for me:

Yesterday, we had our sales meeting, and a new person is working for us with whom I have had more than one forgiveness lesson. He asked a question that I should have let the boss answer, but instead, I jumped in with an answer. I was not really answering his question but telling him that he hasn’t worked there long enough to know everything and should sometimes say, “I don’t know, but I will find out.”

I didn’t use those words,
but that is what I was saying.

He rightly ignored me and went for the real answer. ~smile~ I immediately regretted my attack on him and wished I had kept my mouth shut.

This problem I have with this man and my reaction to him bothered me all day, and I was still asking for healing last night before I went to bed. But the thing is, I wanted to be healed of my anxiety, not the problem.

This morning, I noticed that I was still exhibiting signs of anxiety. For instance, I woke up exactly the moment I wanted to wake up and started my writing with plenty of quiet time.

It should have been a happy, relaxed time for me, but instead, I was anxious that I would not get everything done and worried about forgetting something. I knew I needed to take care of this before I went any further.

I started watching my thoughts, and the first thought I noticed was that from now on, I would keep my mouth shut when this man talks.

Holy Spirit told me that was not the problem, so it wasn’t the solution. I waited for more and realized that I would not have to keep quiet if I allowed my mind to be healed. A healed mind is gentle and does not attack.

So, I asked for the problem so that
I could also ask for the solution.

I saw that I have felt threatened ever since he came to work here. I know he will take my job someday, which is fine. After all, I don’t want to work here forever, and it is the kind of job that takes a while to grow into.

I am glad that my boss had the foresight to hire him early so he could learn the ropes. Also, I am grateful because he has taken over the hard work I used to do.

It would seem a perfect solution, except that he is doing such a good job that I feel threatened. I don’t really think I am going to get fired, but I feel like I am not as important to the company. Once I admitted this to myself, the thoughts began to rush through my mind.

I think that I am what I do.

And I think that my worth is determined by my value to the company.

I have always been secure in knowing that I would be very hard to replace, and maybe that is no longer true.

My ego projects these beliefs, and I see the problem as this interloper with the gall to come into the company and start doing a really good job immediately. Ha ha.

It is good to just get all these feelings out into the open and see what is happening. It is a relief to see that the problem isn’t really this man but my own mistaken beliefs about who I am.

“Holy Spirit, who am I?” I know my worth is not established by what I do but by God in my creation. And I am grateful to remember this.

I looked at my fear of loss.

I not only fear my loss of my value to the company but also the loss of my job. What if I did get fired? I fear the loss of my income, my home, my new car. As I think about this, I realize that this is a real fear in my mind that I have not looked at.

I know it is not supposed to be true, so I tell myself it is not true, but really, I see the fear right there in my mind.

I look with the Holy Spirit and ask that my mind be healed, but He wants me to see the rest. So, I see that I am also afraid to say that all I want is to wake up, that waking up is my only purpose.

I want to say that my purpose is not to earn a living or be the best employee in the world. My purpose is to wake up.

But I am afraid to say this because what if it is a “one or the other” kind of thing and I really do lose my job so that I can wake up?

I know what this is.

It is the ego belief that I have reason to fear God. It is the belief that God wants my sacrifice.

I think of the Old Testament story of the guy who put his son on the altar and was going to sacrifice him to God, and at the last moment, he got a reprieve. Is this what God wants me to do? Put my job on the altar and sacrifice it to prove I want to wake up? What if there is no last-minute reprieve? I say I want only the Will of God in my life but could pain and suffering be the Will of God? Is the ego trying to confuse me again?

I waited to see if there were any more ego thoughts about this situation.

Nothing else came, so having looked honestly with the Holy Spirit (and felt the fear), I was finally ready to ask for the Atonement.

None of those thoughts are true, but that doesn’t mean they are without effect. These fearful thoughts lead directly to projection and attack. I attacked the man in question, and I attacked myself, and I attacked God. No wonder I felt awful.

So, I have asked for and accepted the Atonement, and now I am testing the waters to see where I really am with this. I don’t want to kid myself about the level of my acceptance.

I know I did my best, but I need to be honest about what that is. So, I did the acid test. I visualize putting on the altar my dearest desire, knowing it will be fulfilled. What is that desire?

I try it out. “God, I want to wake up.”

I want to wake up more than be respected and admired. I want to wake up more than I want a job, home, and car. And I want to remember who I am and remember You.

I want to remember what it feels like to love unconditionally, and I want to remember what it feels like to be One. This is what I want, and it is all I want.

My commitment passed the first test, as I am not reluctant to make that statement. I did feel a shadow of fear cross my mind, and I ask that my mind be healed of even the slightest belief that I want something else, that the world has anything to offer me that compares to the peace of God.

“Holy Spirit, I remain open and willing to see any belief in my mind for which I need the Atonement.

If this is not done, then I am willing to do it. No more hiding behind my projections.” I don’t want to teach attack ever again.

Rev. Myron Jones, O.M.C., is a Pathways of Light minister living in Westlake, LA. Read her inspiring Healing Journal articles on the Pathways website. Email: .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) Myron’s website is: http://www.forgivenessisthewayhome.org 
Phone: 337-515-1042

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Gifts and Miracles

by Rev. Joyce Peebles, Ordained Ministerial Counselor

We have traditions in which gifts are often given. God has gifts as does the ego. The ego’s gifts include such things as anger, depression, conflict, and pain. The only way to get the ego’s gifts are to choose them.

The Holy Spirit’s gifts are peace, love, and joy. The only way to experience them is to choose them. If you decide you don’t like your choice, you can choose again. The problem is you choose based on what you value at the moment. Who would not choose love, peace, and joy?

Everybody who wants to be right maintains that they are this ego body and that the world is real. Furthermore, they want to believe they are not responsible for their misery, someone else is to blame. Guilt is valued. To get the gifts of the Holy Spirit, you must decide that only innocence and love are real, everything else is not.

You recognize your willingness to do this by what you see projected from your mind every day. Are your projections showing you only love or calls for love? Do you think someone, or some situation needs to change or be fixed? Do you believe you would be happier if someone outside of you was different? No doubt the ego body would temporarily be happier, but the gifts of the Holy Spirit are only recognized when you believe you are not the ego body.

A couple of decades ago when I first became a student of A Course in Miracles, I went quickly over the first 20 lessons. They seemed so short, and I spent very little time on them. For example, lesson two says, “ I have given everything I see all the meaning that it has for me.” Today I am still reminding myself that this is true. I am learning that nothing outside of my mind has any power over me. All conflict occurs in my mind and everything I see in the world is a picture of an inward condition.

Lesson 5 is, “I am never upset for the reason I think.” The key to understanding these lessons is willingness. This lesson tells us there are no small upsets. They are all equally disturbing to my peace of Mind.

I am grateful for the teacher who recently explained this lesson further. In summary, she told me the moment I forget who I really am, I forget who my brother is.

Cultivate the awareness that you either have peace or you do not. There is no peace when I have judged another as guilty.

A miracle occurs when I recognize the truth. I cannot have a little bit of love. You either love or you don’t. In the illusion an event appears to happen, but it never happened.

Constantly remember nobody is guilty, and I am giving everything all the meaning it has for me.

I also appreciate what someone else shared, “When your heart is set on waking up, everything becomes easier.”

I am so grateful for the help of others in the Sonship who are studying and struggling too.

The ego believes that what the body’s eyes see really exists, and that someone out there is trying to take advantage of me or treat me unfairly. The Holy Spirit helps me to see that what I am seeing in you is a projection of what I really see in me.

The Holy Spirit has one gift the ego can never offer; it is the miracle. A miracle is a change in perception whereby we take back our projected thoughts. It is a decision that I no longer want to perceive mySelf as guilty of rejecting love, a realization that I have done this faulty thinking to mySelf and now decide to reverse it.

Guilt gradually disappears as I stop attacking myself and others. You do not give up the ego/body/story. You understand you do not want it because of what it represents and the suffering that goes with it. There is no sacrifice involved when you see the choice is for love and peace.

A major stepping stone in the attainment of a miracle is recognizing that giving and receiving are the same. You can only give to yourself, whether it is attack or love. That “someone out there” I see is me. Reality is we are all connected and only the love that binds us is real.

There are some things you have no control over. You are Love and Light, a Spirit.

You can hallucinate, dream, fantasize all you want, yet this fact cannot be changed. No matter how much you or someone else has screwed things up, the reality is that it did not happen. You simply fell asleep and had a nightmare.

Neither do you have control over the fact that you are going to wake up from the nightmare.

You can delay it, but it is going to happen. You are not going to be allowed to suffer forever. The only choice you have is how long you delay.

The world is going to end for you because you will no longer have any use for it. God did not make a meaningless world, you did. It disappears when you no longer want it.

A miracle happens when you realize you have this kind of power.

Another thing you have no control over is that this dream will not be remembered at all. The people, wars, etc. you obsessed over, you have no choice, none of it will you remember when you wake from the dream.

The world disappears because you know you made it up. It was only a thought in your mind. Ask yourself: Why suffer so much while in the dream before you are fully awake? It has no lasting value or effects.

“Loss is not lost when properly perceived. Pain is impossible. There is no grief with any cause at all. And suffering of any kind is nothing but a dream.” (W-pII.284.1:1-4)

I remember reading this years ago and thinking this cannot be true. Look at the rest of the lesson. “This is the truth, at first to be said and then repeated many times; and next to the accepted as but partly true, with many reservations. Then to be considered seriously more and more, and finally accepted as the truth.” (1:5-6)

I am now ready to believe these words. I am grateful for all the help I have received. I do suffer less as I have been willing to put aside my fearful thoughts.

Everything has all been a learning opportunity. Gratitude is gradually taking the place of suffering.

Rev. Joyce Peebles, OMC is a Pathways of Light minister. Email: .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)

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