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The Gifts of the Spirit

by Rev. Barbara Eberle

I can’t count all of the gifts Holy Spirit has brought my way. Yet, this morning, as I speak with my daughter on the phone and experience the exercises of Lesson 4 with her, I feel Spirit’s joy well up inside of me. 

I found the Course over 20 years ago. I sat it on my bookshelf. I would take it out on occasion, do the lessons for a day or two, and then place it back on the shelf. Sometimes it remained there for years. Sometimes it remained there for only a day or so before I began the lessons again. Still, the authority of the Course changed me, gently. It gave me sight where I had been blind. 

Twenty years ago I tried to do it all. I tried to be the wife of a corporate executive and live up to the role that model called for; raise my kids according to society’s expectations; live according to my parent’s views and most of all, victimize myself in ways that only the worst abuser could think of. Finally, I had to stop. I was so depressed I couldn’t function. At that time, I didn’t know there was another way to live my life. I didn’t know that “ego” was hijacking me. I didn’t even know what the “ego” was. And then came the Course. 

My depression began to leave. I began to be less concerned with what other people thought of me. I began to feel at peace. I began to hear my children’s laughter rather than their whining. I began to have compassion for individuals I used to gossip about. I began to feel “love.”

And now, my grown daughter meets the Course at the exact same age as I was when it first found me. Now, she is the corporate executive. Now, she is raising two energetic boys, and now, she is trying to find peace. 

What is miraculous about this situation is that I never mentioned the Course to my daughter. Oh, I’m sure she has seen it lie around my house and has wondered about it, but I never preached the Course to her. Yet, the Course has found her.  And, she has asked me if we can begin our day, together, over the phone, with the daily lessons.

What a gift the Holy Spirit has brought to me and to my daughter. What a way to start our day. Still, as taught in Lesson 4, “These thoughts about my daughter do not mean anything.” While my thoughts are “good” they do not represent my real thoughts, which, according to the Course “...are covered up by them. The ‘good’ ones are but shadows of what lies beyond, and shadows make sight impossible.” 

And so, I give these thoughts to the Holy Spirit and ask that He do with them what He will. And, I experience the peace that only His love can give.

Rev. Barbara Eberle is a Pathways of Light minister living in Darnestown, MD.

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Are You Ready for a Miracle?

by Rev. M. Huckabay

I heard this question powerfully asked in a recent performance by a Musical Worship Ensemble a few weeks back and it has stirred my body, mind and heart deeply. My initial response was yes, absolutely yes!  I personally, locally, nationally, globally – long for a miracle! But later, in a silent pause, I heard the question more deeply in my heart and mind “Am I really ready?” As I continued to ponder this readiness question, I began to think of the scripture “As a man (or woman) thinketh in their heart, so is it.” In all honesty, even amidst my daily prayers, focus on miracle thinking and even more often… after reading the news or watching TV; my attention and the “thinking in my heart” has often focused on the “bad news.” 

I want to be “ready” in my body, mind and heart for a miracle, for many miracles!  Jesus brought us His Amazing Gracefilled message of the “Good News” and His Two Great Commandments. So, how have I fallen into paying too much attention to the “bad news.” It seems increasingly clear that my choosing to pay this “undue attention” to the abundance of “bad news” allows fears/worries to overtake my mind and heart. It also seems very clear this needs to change, now!

Jesus told us how to be truly “Ready for miracles.” He called us to “Love the Most High with all–time, attention, talents etc., “Love One Another”— as he loved us, unconditionally, and to focus on sharing the Good News — “that which is beautiful, right, pure and just.” So, I can see if I am to be ready for miracles and miraculous healing, I have conscious “loving now” choices to make. My ongoing hope is that wholly “embracing” Christ’s Perfect Love will cast out the fears in my mind/heart and that in “living out” His message of Unconditional Love… (that amazing purifying Love) will “resound” increasingly through my heart and offer a resonant blessing for all of our hearts creating a “concordia” (a re-sounding) union of hearts). Perhaps, this would be “the more perfect union” our forefathers dreamed of, I know, it would be a “miracle” to me and nurture an abiding hope for many more miracles to follow!

Rev. M. Huckabay is a retired Pathways of Light minister living in Shreveport, LA.

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Change — The Ego’s Trick, the Holy Spirit’s Treat

by Rev. Jim Armfield

Fall is the season of change. Nature, in all its forms, senses naturally its own response to the consistency and necessity of change. Beautifully without effort, change occurs. There is no resistance, no fear and in the consciousness of a tree, it accepts change by giving the world a harvest of autumn colors as its gift.

But can we face change with such grace? How does the ego use change? What is its interpretation of this natural occurrence?

The ego uses change as evidence of a fearful world. “Change is always fearful to the separated.” (T-4.I.2:2) The ego plays tricks with change — enticing with the glamour of new and better, the desire to keep up with everything material, the things of the world. But as with all the ego’s processes, duality appears — the good the bad. So this allows fear to enter and is then associated with change. Change becomes scary. It becomes hard, something to resist. Your very identity is thrust into jeopardy. This is the ego at work.

The ego does not care if your situation is mundane, dark or uninspired; the ego informs you that it is safe. This is the way your circumstances are and will be, because to change would bring a loss of who you are, and the illusion that you cannot change what you are. Time is then employed to imprison you to the past and here lies all the reasons why you cannot accept change.

Can it be as simple as thinking, “When you change the way you look at things the things you look at change”? “Learn to change your mind about your mind.” (T-7 V.7:8) Can we face change, knowing that “Whatever is true is eternal, and cannot change or be changed?” (T1.V.5:1)

Can we realize that true change is available to us? “Change in motivation is a change of mind, and this will inevitably produce fundamental change because the mind is fundamental.” (T-6.V.B.2:5)

Can we remember to… “Retain your gifts in clear awareness as you see the changeless in the heart of change; the light of truth behind appearances”? (W-122.13.4)

As you may have guessed, the subject of change has floated in and out of my thoughts recently. Some situations could have brought the flow of these particular thoughts. For example, I am experiencing a search for a different career. I have lots of extra time, but I have found myself confused. I feel tormented by my ego. It shows up in my trying to be constantly busy so I avoid the chance to be aware of this non-career phase. It is making me nervous and uncomfortable and recently suspicious with anger overtones. The feeling then comes in with unworthiness, and lack of selfness, separateness.

It has been very interesting how my ego has so distracted me with tricks and fear. Lost in this distraction, I have moved away from my Source and the Holy Spirit’s counsel. This is indeed the ego’s version of change that I am experiencing.

My wife’s mother has just passed and I find myself experiencing this with my wife as an opportunity to be of service and a peaceful presence. But again the ego finds the opportunity to involve the past and I find myself dwelling on the many of my family who have also passed. Torments, distractions, the ego brings them all. I can remember that here are all the ego temptations and then ask the Holy Spirit for guidance. “And He [the Holy Spirit] will reinterpret all temptation as just another chance to bring him joy.” (T-25.III.6:8)

How can I have become so lost, so mesmerized by the ego’s tricks? Well, I should have remembered that we forget to remember better. And now, with the funeral at hand I have been given another chance to remember that, “Every chance given him to heal is another opportunity to replace darkness with light, and fear with love.” (T-14 III.6:2)
Seasons change with consistency and beauty shared. How then can we accept change or better yet, be aware that change is the opportunity to experience anew? How can we face what we perceive as unsettling and a threat to ourselves with the grace of nature?

As with everything God has offered us, the answer lies within us, easily reached and amply given. Our soul yearns for new true experiences so it may experience itself, its God Self. It yearns to experience itself as compassionate in the face of hatred, to experience itself as peaceful in the face of stress, to experience itself loving in the face of fear, to experience itself whole in the face of separateness.

From this place of true changelessness of who we are, can we not see change as a gift to experience that which we are truly meant to be? “The world will change through you; no other means can save it.” (W-125.2:1)

I will ask for the beautiful awareness, as with the trees, to experience change and to give to the world the beauty of this experience; being secure in the changelessness of my true identity, my true self, one with God.

Rev. Jim Armfield is a Pathways of Light minister living in Fargo, North Dakota.

© 2009, Pathways of Light. https://www.pathwaysoflight.org
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Course Koans — Lists to Heal Our Minds

by Rev. Jean Weston

The following are Lists from Chapter 4 of my little book, Course Koans. They can be used as great little lists we can post on our fridge or bathroom to reflect on. Enjoy!

What Is Fear?
1. Fear is untrue and does not exist (T-  1.VI.5)

2. Can be confused with ‘awe’ and must be understood before advancing to a direct approach to God, as the experience could be traumatic rather than beatific due to this confusion (T-1.VII.5)

3. The separation is also called the ‘detour into fear’ (T-2.1.2)

4. The basic misperception that you can usurp the power of God (T-2.1.4)

5. Miscreations that must be undone (T-2.III.2)

6. Right-mindedness (our alignment with Holy Spirit/Higher Self) turned upside down causing malfunctioning of miracle working inclinations (T-2.V.1.4)

7. Perception devoid of Holy Spirit (T-2.V.7.6)

8. Destructive acts that seem involuntary (T-2.VI.1)

9. Choosing wrongly (T-2.VI.3)

10. A sign of strain arising from what you want conflicting with what you do (T-2.VI.5)

11. A state produced by your mind when conflicted in what it wants (T-2.VI.6)

12. Lack of love (T-2.VI.7.6)

13. A need for a remedy (T-2.VI.8)

14. Something everyone experiences (T-2.VI.7.6)

15. Comes from thoughts of miscreation   (T-2.VII.3)

16. Nothing (T-2.VII.5.3)

17. Lack of being truly alive (T-2.VIII.5.4)

18. The ‘devil’ (T-3.VII.5.1)

19. Not authored by God (T-4.I.9.1)

20. Little scraps that prevent the Holy Spirit from entering (T-4.III.7.2)

21. Anything divisive (T-5.V.3.7)

22. Causeless (T-9.I.9.6)

23. Noncreative (T-9.I.13.5)

24. Anything perceived beyond yourself   (T-10.IN.1.1)

25. Cause of forgetting (T-10.II.1.4)

26. Lies in the minds of those unaware of reality (T-11.VIII.14.4)

27. It is an appeal for help (T-12.I.8.7)

28. Unloving and guilt (T-13.X.10.4)

How To Become Fearless
1. Be miracle-minded (T-1.I.26&28)

2. Replace your fearful thoughts with forgiveness (T-1.VI.4)

3. Use this world to help you correct your perceptions and know you cannot control the effects of fear alone (T-1.VI.4.1-2)

4. Submit your beliefs to this test:
  a.  Perfect love casts out fear.
  b. If fear exists, then there is not perfect love.
  But,
  c. Only perfect love exists.
  d. If there is fear, It produces a state that does not exist.
  e. Believe this and you will be free. (T-1.VI.5)

5. Accept the atonement (that we are not and never have been separate from God) enabling you to realize that your errors never really happened. This will help you awaken from a state of believing ‘light’ is fearful.  (T-2.I.4)

6. Bring the atonement to the center of the inner altar where it will undo the separation and restore wholeness to the mind, making you perfectly invulnerable (T-2.III.2)

7. Take care to not increase fear in anyone. (T-2.IV.4)

8. Express help in whatever way is most helpful to the receiver; in a language that the recipient can understand without fear.  (T-2.IV.5)

9. Hand it over to Holy Spirit, thus removing body thoughts from the level of the mind (T-2.VI.1) 

10. Be willing! Change your mind. (T-2.VI.3)

11. Ask not for help in removing the fear, but rather help in conditions that have brought the fear about and if this choice is in accord with Holy Spirit’s. (T-2.VI.4)

Rev. Jean Weston is a Pathways of Light minister living in Salisbury Mills, NY.

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