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The Girl Who Loved to Laugh

by Rev. Barbara Caldwell

Once upon a time there was a little girl who loved to laugh. She would laugh from pure joy at the butterflies, the leaves rustling in the trees, the milk pouring on to her cereal, the hugs from her parents and pretty much everything else that crossed her daily path. Her laughter was like angels’ voices singing praises. People felt warm and fuzzy when they heard her, even though they didn’t really put it together that their good feelings came from her joy.

So great was her delight in the physical world that the little girl did not know about sadness and anger.

I bet you think this is going to turn into a story of pain and sadness and struggle, but no. The little girl went to school and she laughed her joy when she played with the others in the sand box, when she coloured a picture, when the teacher read stories. Her sweet gentle laughter lightened the day for the teacher. In her teen years she delighted in all the activities of teens — applying unneeded makeup, completing a test in math class, reading teen magazines, babysitting, teasing the boys.

After graduation she worked at the local stationery store. She loved organizing the shelves and making displays and watering the big plant at the front window. When she handed customers their purchases, she smiled into their eyes, touching a soft warm place deep within their beings.

She married. For the fifty four years they were together her husband’s heart did somersaults every time she smiled and laughed. Lucky for him, hearts don’t wear out from happiness because his somersaulted at least ten times a day.

No child on the face of the earth has been raised with as much delight as her four. Her joy and happiness did not fade as her children grew from infants, to toddlers, to school children, to teens, to adults and parents in their own right. They never really understood how blessed they were.

The husband, the children and grandchildren and all who knew her did not feel sad at her passing. They all ended their days with a quiet contentedness at having been in her presence not realizing this was not the normal process of grief most people experience.

If you could look down on earth and see her seventy-four years, you would see a radar trail of rainbow-coloured lights sparkling around your town. And if you happen to touch on one of those places of light and laughter she left behind, look up. You will hear the angels’ voices singing praises for you.

Rev. Barbara Caldwell is a Pathways of Light minister living in Pouce Coupe, BC, Canada

© 2009, Pathways of Light. https://www.pathwaysoflight.org
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Colleen Celebrates Life

by Revs. Annie Arbona & Colleen McNally

One of our dear ministers, Rev. Colleen Mc Nally, passed away recently. We wish to honor and celebrate all the many blessings she has given us during her time with us.

Rev. Annie Arbona — Just as Colleen celebrated Life and Spirit in all her writings and poems, we celebrate her as she moves on in her story line to a greater body-free awareness of her True Self. It is so easy for me to picture Colleen celebrating all that she became aware of. And that she was so obviously aware of Truth, and had such ability to express it.

We were in the some ordination group of September, 2007, and it was a joy to share with her free, wise and loving Spirit. Love to you, Colleen. You are in our hearts, in the Heart of all hearts. Below are some of Colleen’s beautiful messages and poetry:

Holy Spirit Is My Answer

After sitting around for a couple of days absorbed in worry about my future, I re-immersed my self in my Pathways studies. The process itself brought me to a new found sense of peace within myself. The words that comforted me as I immersed were, “The Holy Spirit is the answer to all your problems. He not only has the answer but is the Answer.” (921: Miracles Practitioner, Part I, p. 20) This awareness and this thinking began to put me in my right mind. In the Course we are told, “Right-mindedness listens to the Holy Spirit, forgives the world and through Christ’s vision see the real world in its place.” The words “the Holy Spirit is the Answer” are the words that seemed to capture me first and speak to me in a profound way. I centered by self in love and along with this centering came the change in perception, the miracle.

I was working with, Joining Holy Spirit’s Pathway of Light (922 Meditation). As I meditated, I connected with Holy Spirit’s pathway of Light in my mind and I began to feel the Light and the presence of Spirit within me. As I took in the words, “You know that if you ever feel any hesitancy or doubt, you can hand every concern over to the Holy Spirit, Who welcomes all that you hand over to Him. He takes every concern and gladly shines a Light on it” (922 Meditation).

I became aware that all of my concerns can be handed over to the Holy Spirit. “You let go of excluding some problem areas from Holy Spirit’s healing light…” (922 Meditation) He gently and gladly receives them all and offers guidance. I said, “Holy Spirit, help me. I give all of these concerns to you.” “As you hand every idea in your mind over… you feel more peaceful…” (922 Meditation) And as I listened Holy Spirit told me to relax in life. He said, “I will help you. I will show you the way. Return to Love.” “You are returning to your eternal, real Identity… You are returning to the awareness of Love’s presence.” (922 Meditation)

The awareness that Holy Spirit has the answer to all my problems and concerns hit me in a way that I knew I could give all of my life concerns to Spirit knowing that He will gently guide me to take the steps that I need to take each day. I could feel the miracle, the shift in perception. And as I proceeded with my day, I was so grateful for the return to Love and for the sense of peace as I knew Spirit was guiding me.

My daily dedication and re-dedication is to let Spirit help me and guide me with the profound knowing that Spirit not only has the answer but is the Answer to all my problems. “The Holy Spirit is your bridge to remembering the truth.” (922 Meditation) The Holy Spirit in my mind is the bridge to truth. Love is the bridge to truth.

Be still
Let Love in
Let Love fill all the spaces of Who you are
Let Love be

Spirit Through Me Today

I just love the words “Spirit Through Me.” “Here creation is proclaimed and honored as it is.” (W-pI.162.2:2) These words from Lesson 162 seem to capture the meaning and feeling of Spirit through me. It is an efflortless flow.

Be very still
Bring Love forward
Do everything you do today from the
highest Source of Love Within.
Act with Love.

The ego would react over and over again,
judging everyone and everything,
knowing what is right.
This is non-sense.
This is insanity.

Bring awareness of Love
into your consciousness.

Feel Love now in all your being.
Let it guide you and
Act with Love.

Being as God created me seems like being Love and being creative as Spirit’s Light shines. “You are as God created you. These words dispel the night and darkness is no more. The light is come today to bless the world.” (W-pI.162.6:3-5)

Love Is All I Need

“My holiness shines bright and clear today.” These are words that introduce me to Lesson 285 (ACIM). I opened to this lesson seeking guidance after feeling short of breath. This lesson immediately gave me the perspective that I needed to hold me. I felt such a miraculous gift in these words. I even shifted to a more open, relaxed way of being. These words offered me a perceptual framework that was holding my being. Any sense of worry or fear had left my consciousness and I was filled with perceptions of holiness, filled with perceptions of Love. Peace was mine again. “Father, my holiness is yours.” (W-pII.285.2:1) One with God; one with all. I was experiencing this beautiful connection to truth. “And what can alter Holiness Itself?” (W-pII.285.2:5)
 
Nothing can change this sense of peace. Nothing can take away this Love. I am one with God, one with Love, one with All. I have this beautiful image of the sun shining. And in the sunshine of Love, all hearts connect. My physical concerns melted away. I have long had this image that fits my experience that Love just melts away my fear.

These words spoke to that shift: “For what would be the use of pain to me, what purpose would my suffering fulfill, and how would grief and loss avail me if insanity departs from me today and I accept my holiness instead?” (W-p-II.285.1:4)

Moving

As one
We are the Light

We journey with Spirit leading the way
We walk to God
We move to inner spaces
Where we awaken
To the Light
And
Love shines

Spirit guides me to trust and to Love.
With every step, I walk to God.

Amen Colleen. Thank you so much for enriching our lives and joining with us on our journey of awakening. — Robert & Mary

Rev. Colleen McNally was a Pathways of Light minister who lived in Crystal Lake, Illinois.

© 2008, Pathways of Light. https://www.pathwaysoflight.org
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Healing Fear Thoughts

Revs. Robert & Mary Stoelting

We are so excited about the new CD and DVD albums that are this year’s gifts of gratitude for member donations. They include recordings of Undoing the Ego II presented by Nouk Sanchez and Tomas Vieira and 3 Awakening workshops by Regina Dawn Akers and Laurent Elie Levy. Also included is Rev. Myron Jones new CD audio book Healing Family Relationships. These 3 albums will be shipped in segments as they are completed during the year.

Mary ­— As we watch the daily news about the economy and the upcoming election in the dream world, it seems to be so focused on thoughts of scarcity and blame. There seems to be so many ‘problems’ in the world which are hard to resolve. As I observe all these ‘events,’ I find it important to take all these stories to the altar within my mind to receive a correction in my perception. There the Holy Spirit shows me a picture of a comic book and I am gently reminded that all these stories are just like the scenes in a comic book. There may be a lot of ‘pows!’ and ‘bams!’ and ‘booms!’ in the world’s stories just like we see in children’s comic books. But just like a comic book, we can lay the stories down and realize they are no more serious than the comic book.

With Holy Spirit’s help I return to the truth that everyone is safe. Everyone in the dream of separation is still in truth an extension of our one Creator’s Love. The Course tells us, “Nothing real can be threatened. Nothing unreal exists. Herein lies the peace of God.”

This remembering helps me feel how safe and truly abundant we all are in truth. When we are ready, we can all lay the comic book of separation down and rejoice that only what is eternal is true and nothing else is true. We can dream of time and differences, but we cannot make our comic book stories real.

Now as I observe the continuing saga going on the the world, I can more easily see it as just another page in the ego’s comic book. It is just a silly story that could never be what we truly Are.

I am so thankful that I know about the inner altar of Truth that is within us all. I can take all the fear thoughts that show up and take them to this inner Altar. In the Course I am reminded, “Bring your perceptions of the world to this altar, for it is the altar to truth. There you will see your vision changed, and there you will learn to see truly. From this place, where God and His Son dwell in peace and where you are welcome, you will look out in peace and behold the world truly. Yet to find the place, you must relinquish your investment in the world as you project it, allowing the Holy Spirit to extend the real world to you from the altar of God. (T-12.III. 10:6-9)

As I continue to practice this, the fear thoughts are transformed. I find an inner peace and a sense of safety that is not found in the world. I remember that all is well. And nothing in the comic book dreams of the world can change this Reality.

I feel so grateful that this inner altar to truth is always there in my mind, waiting to receive and heal all my fear thoughts. It never fails when I am willing enough to receive the correction to behold the world truly. A deep feeling of peace and happiness replaces what I momentarily thought was real. Ahhh! The mountain turns into a molehill. What seemed like a big deal is softly melted away. I am left with the feeling that I am invulnerable. I remember that “Salvation comes from my one Self. Its thoughts are mine to use.” (W-pI.96.9:2)

I can join with the ego thoughts or I can join with the thoughts that come from my one Self. I first have to ask myself, “Do I want to hold on to fear thoughts and real-ize them or do I want to accept and use the thoughts that come from my one Self? I answer this question by watching where my state of mind is in every now moment.

Mary & Robert Stoelting are co-founers of Pathways of Light. They currently live at the Pathways of Light Center in Kiel, WI and will soon be moving to Florida.

© 2008, Pathways of Light. https://www.pathwaysoflight.org
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Gifts from Gustav and Ike

Rev. Myron Jones

In the last few weeks I have evacuated twice. On the level of form I was doing this because hurricanes were coming. But as with everything that happens in my life I get to be the one who gives meaning to each occurrence, and I give it all the meaning it has for me. The purpose I give it determines my experience of it. I noticed that it is a moment to moment decision. Each moment is an opportunity to decide what I value right now.

Gustav seemed to be coming our way and though it never made it to us we didn’t know that until after it actually touched down elsewhere. While we were still unsure about the direction it was taking, we decided to evacuate. I was pretty calm about the whole thing, just doing what I had to do to make it happen. But I noticed that it required constant vigilance not to join in the drama that was going on around me. There were lots of rumors flying around and it is hard to know which of them were true. I had to watch TV to keep up, but I hate to do that because TV is really big into drama. While searching for the elusive tank of gas (when everyone in town is gassing up at the same time the stations run dry) I heard a lot of ego chatter, many people expressing fear. In each of these moments I had to decide anew which voice I wanted to listen to. If I was not vigilant I would find myself joining in the drama. Panic is contagious.

Off and on during the day I would notice that I was thinking: “I hate not knowing where it is going to hit. I wish it would go someplace else. I sure hope it doesn’t hit New Orleans. That would be the end of them.” I became aware that I was wanting things to be different. This is the same as saying that I could not be happy unless things changed, and that I am the victim of the world I see. None of this is true. I was grateful that I have been practicing forgiveness and acceptance. This constant practice made it easier for me to notice these thoughts and to relinquish them.

My family and I actually enjoyed our evacuation. We went to Houston and stayed at a nice hotel. I traveled with my daughter and two grandchildren. My oldest son lives in Houston and we don’t visit that often so it was nice to have this visit. My youngest son lives in New Orleans and he and his girl friend joined all of us for lunch at a really good Mexican restaurant, so it was a pleasant family reunion. Later we took my two year old granddaughter to the children’s museum.

Still I began to notice my stress level increasing. It was because I was allowing my mind to engage in ego stories. I began to wonder when we could go home and if there would be damage. I worried about the cost of the evacuation and what if we had to do it again. I started thinking about how this was affecting my job and what I could do about it. I started planning for a future that was only happening in my imagination. I then remembered that I have committed to making no plans on my own, and that when I leave the future in God’s hands I can trust that I will be given the answers I need when I need them. It is only the ego that thinks I need to bank answers for future use. As I let go of my need to plan, I also let go of stress and went back to my evacuation vacation.

Gustav caused a lot of damage in Louisiana, but none in my town and I went home to discover that everything was as I had left it. I’m glad I didn’t waste too much time worrying and making plans.

In just a few days we had to evacuate again for hurricane Ike. Instead of getting a hotel room for me and one for my daughter and grandkids and then eating out three times a day for several days, we decided to get a cabin on Lake Bistineaux. It is at the top of the state and so would be much further from the hurricane wherever it hit. It is a beautiful place and the cabin was very nice. It was fully furnished and had a full kitchen so we did not have to eat out.

We had left everything packed and hurricane ready so there was not all the hard work of getting prepared for Gustav, and this evacuation would be much less expensive. It was also in a very peaceful and lovely area. This evacuation should have been a lot less stressful and yet, as I told my daughter on the second day, I had a migraine I just couldn’t shake. She said that it was probably due to the stress. I know that this is true, but like I told her, I just didn’t feel stressed. She said, “Mom, you’ve been through a lot in the last few days.”

When she said that to me I felt the prickle of tears behind my eyes. I was so surprised. I really did not know that I was feeling the stress of two back to back evacuations. I was failing to acknowledge my emotions. I was making the common error of going from “mistaken thoughts” straight to my destination of “healed thoughts” without stopping off to hang out with Holy Spirit for awhile. This is the ego trying to usurp the Holy Spirit’s job, but the ego cannot solve any problem. It can only conceal and that is what happened and the reason I didn’t realize I was experiencing stress.

I asked the Holy Spirit to help me. I was pretty cut off from the outside world as there was no Internet service and my phone seldom worked, but I could sometimes get and receive text messages. Very soon after I asked for help, I received a surprise message from Regina Dawn Akers (the scribe for The Holy Spirit’s Interpretation of the New Testament) which was very helpful. The first message I received said, “Let the storm pass. That’s what storms do.” How perfect that was! I was having my own personal storm going on and fighting it wasn’t going to calm it down. I went into acceptance and simply allowed everything to be as it was. I immediately felt more peaceful. The Holy Spirit, through Regina, helped me to return to sanity.

I spent the rest of the time giving my thoughts to the Holy Spirit for healing and Regina’s messages continued to help me do this. Regina posts her Single Quiet Thoughts from the Holy Spirit daily at her yahoo group: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NTIDiscussionGroup/. The one that was most helpful to me was:

The mind will tell you stories to defeat the peace within. That is only because the mind was made to deliver the experience of something different. The mind is not bad. It is not scary or frightening. It is simply distracting you with stories so you may choose to have an experience. To return to the peace that resides within, remember that peace is your reality and stories are just a game you play. (From our Holy Spirit)

This message was really helpful to me because I was starting to feel like a victim to my own mind. I knew I was indulging in ego stories but I couldn’t seem to stop. Reading this helpful message reminded me that the ego is just doing what I designed the ego to do. It is not bad or scary and even though it was my desire at one time to make an ego, I do not have to continue to believe what it tells me.

Also helpful to me is that the peace which I am in truth is not changed when I play the ego games. Sure, I lose my awareness of peace when I listen to the ego stories, but I do not change. Peace, love, joy, all are my true nature. I cannot destroy or even alter that because it is true creation and cannot be lost. So I can stay in the ego all I want and love remains what I am and waits patiently for me to return my awareness to it.

Once again, I have been given the opportunity to use what is happening in the illusion for the purpose of awakening. At times during the evacuation I felt as if I were failing in my purpose and sometimes lost awareness of that purpose. But always I came back to it and when I did, I realized that I never failed at all; I simply chose an experience and then decided it was not worthy of the Son of God and made a different choice. I am in gratitude to Gustav and Ike for the forgiveness opportunities they brought to me.

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. Web site: http://www.forgivenessisthewayhome.org

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