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Accepting God’s Plan

by Rev. Mary Ellen Freundl

I shouldn’t be surprised when I catch myself making plans again. I seem to wax and wane in terms of allowing Spirit to show me what to do and planning on my own.

I can make plans in my mind all day and not even be aware of what I’m doing. I am surprised by this but I accept it. I’m surprised because when I can see clearly, I gladly give up my ideas and patiently know I will be told what to do. I feel so happy when I do this and I think I’ll never resort to planning on my own again but I seem to continue to take a detour into illusions.

I “plan” on reducing my time spent planning in the mind! Ha, ha. Insidious, isn’t it!

Let me say it this way… I am willing to continue to offer up my own plan and accept God’s Plan.

For some reason I am going to Florida for spring break. I thought I knew why I was going. I “planned” a trip to meet a possible new roommate, talk to a potential employer, look at some properties, just generally check out the area.

Right now I realize I do not know why I am going. None of the reasons make any sense any more. I do not know what the purpose is. I do know that I can choose what it is for, though. I can choose to have only Spirit show me.

I truly only have one purpose here and that is to know my Self.

Everything is for the purpose of waking up. I can spend a whole bunch of time imagining what events are for, but then I’m wasting my precious now moment with irrelevant interpretations. I have come to a point now where I’m tired of that game. I know I do not know and confusion and fantasy no longer satisfy this Son of God.

Inertia seems to still be in place because I do resort to my own planning, but I am certainly coming to see I no longer want fantasy. As I continue to offer my willingness and stay aware, I can reverse this energy force and create a new habit of having everything show me what it is instead of me defining it.

This actually sounds like fun! My interpretations are boring anyway or way too over dramatic. Its the same old… same old!

I’m ready for something new from Holy Spirit! I want to truly see so I am surrendering my own ideas and making room for the new!
I reading The Holy Spirits Interpretation of the New Testament (NTI) and I found the following words in the introduction from Spirit inspiring. Now, this idea is certainly not new and the Course tells us this over and over in a million different ways but for some reason these word symbols came together for me and created a whole new level of willingness to let go of my interpretations.

Here they are:

“The new testament is a symbol just as you are a symbol and the words I share through you are a symbol. What they point to is Truth.

“In order to understand the symbol, one must accept the Love of Christ.” One prepares himself to accept that Love by recognizing he does not understand the symbol and then he asks for understanding. By opening up to receive understanding without judgement, he opens up to accept the Love of Christ. With that Love comes Christ’s knowledge, for they are the same and inseparable. Then the meaning that is beyond the words is understood as a light that shines for all who look to see. Whhooaa! That’s rocking!

If I want to understand anything, mySelf included, I am to accept the Love of Christ. Then Holy Spirit explains how to do that!

Recognize I do not understand the symbol and ask! It’s that simple. We recognize we don’t understand and we ask. In return we receive understanding which is the Love of Christ!

Well, I’m in! I accept.

Rev. Mary Ellen Freundl is a Pathways of Light ministerial candidate living in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

© 2008, Pathways of Light. https://www.pathwaysoflight.org
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Healing a Projection

Rev. Myron Jones

There is a young woman I do not like. I find it disturbing because usually I would say there is this particular thing about this person I do not like and from there I work with it until whatever it is in me has been forgiven. But I could only look with dislike on this person and be very uncomfortable.

I finally mentioned it to a couple of people hoping something would pop up. I know I am projecting. That I recognize something in her can only mean that I am familiar with it. Either I have done it before and failed to forgive it in myself or I do it now and am repulsed by my own behavior and so try to get rid of it by tossing it onto her.

I told Holy Spirit that I was tired of carrying around this projection. Once you understand projection it is impossible to keep kidding yourself about it. It is like sitting uncomfortably on a fence unable to get down on either side.

I tried to let the source of my dislike float up into my mind but I was too resistant. I tried to figure it out, looking for signs of myself in this woman. Neither thing worked. I mentioned it to a mind healing partner and she told me about a process she is doing with a long held resentment. She began praying for the person she resented. She prayed that this person would receive everything that she herself wanted. She wrote down each desire of her heart and asked that the other person be granted these beautiful gifts of love and abundance. She is doing this for two weeks.

I was very excited to hear this because it felt right to me. When I hear something meant for me I feel a kind of vibration deep within myself. The truth in me recognizing the truth in her, I think. So I began that process and prayed for this woman asking that she be granted all the things I want for myself.

Immediately I felt better, knowing I am finally going to come into a full willingness to be healed of my disturbance.

Then I spoke to another mind healing partner and though I had not planned to mention this situation, it came up. I was trying to explain what it is about her that I don’t like, even though I had never been able to do this before. I mentioned that it was hard to like her because she put up a wall that was impenetrable, just no way to get close to her. I had not realized before that this was bothering me, but as I talked to her about it I thought about what it feels like to hug her, kind of like hugging a tree, smoother bark but just about as responsive. As I spoke I started feeling some recognition in my mind.

I used to be pretty closed off. I hated hugging and didn’t want people too close. It was just a little flash of recognition and nothing I wanted to think about because there is still some of that in me.

Then I told my friend I didn’t like her voice because it sounded like a helpless little girl and was ridiculous coming out of this grown woman. Oh my, as I said this I heard myself. The venom in my voice indicated how strongly I hated this about her.

I know I have a scared little girl in me that I have spent a lifetime ignoring and shutting up. She only shows herself masked as something else. She steps out as the trusting and loving person who gets victimized in the name of spiritual sacrifice. She slips out in relationships and acts as if love is sacrifice.

She is like a fearful dog that rolls over to show her belly in hopes that submissiveness will ward off attack. I am very ashamed of her and have been for many years. That is why I hide her and pretend she doesn’t exist. She was born to be a victim and I don’t want to be identified with her.

I don’t hate this other woman; I hate this part of myself. She just shows me the parts of myself that I loathe the most. Is this classic projection or what? My prayers for her have taken on a new quality. I know what I most want for her and I really want her to have it. I want to look at her and see, not the weak and fearful child victim, but the wholly loved and accepted child. I want to embrace her child and so embrace my own. I have begun to see this woman differently. I hid my child but she honestly put hers forward. She is playing an important part for me, and so is facilitating a healing in my mind.

For awhile now I have been accepting healing in little small increments for my little girl, and this feels like a chunk. Woohoo!

Rev. Myron Jones is a Pathways of Light minister living in Lake Charles, Louisiana. Web Site: http://www.forgivenessisthewayhome.org

© 2008, Pathways of Light. https://www.pathwaysoflight.org
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I Need Results!

by Rev. Larry Glenz

Having recently finished my ordination courses and having been a student of ACIM for years, I know full well that the practice of asking Holy Spirit for guidance in every concern or problem that I have is the path for receiving miracles. That being acknowledged, when it comes to life’s greatest challenges, my strongest tendency is to believe that if I don’t fix the problem it won’t get fixed.  I need results.

As the parent of a 25 year old drug addict, I feel like I have been in a battle with a powerful, fiendish demon using only prayer and meditation as my weapons. I am taught that my safety lies in my defenselessness. I am taught to always put “peace first.” I am taught to see the innocence in a son who must continuously lie and steal from his family to continue his addiction. After more than five years of in-patient rehabs, out-patient rehabs, addiction counselors and psychologists, AA, NA, and Al-anon meetings, sometimes I feel like I’m losing hope.

I have become pretty well versed in the problem of addiction and the behaviors that this disease will lead the addict to do. I am grateful for the lessons of the Pathways of Light courses, my wise and compassionate facilitators, and especially the guidance of the Holy Spirit in keeping me patient, calm, and compassionate in the face of this disease. Yet in my weakest moments I ask, “Why isn’t this working? What good is all this if it doesn’t get results?” 

Yet in my best moments, I hear a Voice tell me, “Of course it’s working. Love always works. Don’t judge the process with your own time table or your own standard of results. You don’t know what your son needs to go through or what those who love him need to learn. Love him anyway and serve as an example of compassion, understanding, and patience. Everything will be okay. Never, never give up or turn away.”

I am being taught that there is strength in defenselessness, non-judgment, gentleness, compassion, and trust. It is in a struggle as serious as this that these spiritual principles must be adhered to in order to do all I can to bring peace to myself and others.

No one ever said that following the teachings of A Course in Miracles would be easy. But it does guarantee that the direction of the Holy Spirit will bring me peace. That’s what I’ve signed up for. That’s certainly not a small result. In fact, it is and will be a miracle.

Rev. Larry Glenz is a Pathways of Light minister living in Long Island, New York.

© 2008, Pathways of Light. https://www.pathwaysoflight.org
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Heaven On Earth

by Rev. Colleen Mc Nally

There is an edge for me. It is an edge where I know that Heaven is real to me. And when I know that Heaven is real, all is well, everywhere. To me, this is like experiencing Heaven on earth. The memory keeps me returning. It is a spiritual practice and it feels like it is the essence of my ministry.

In writing my morning pages today, I came upon the quote, “Creativity is a spiritual practice. It is not something that can be perfected, finished and set aside.” (Julia Cameron, p. 182, The Artist’s Way) As I came upon this quote, I had just been writing and reflecting on how important it is for me to stay connected to my ministry on a daily basis.

I am very aware of what happens in me as I study A Course in Miracles and I was thinking about what I need to do and how I can build this practice into my daily life as I feel it is a requirement for me. For one thing, I love the way I feel and I gain perspective on and in my life. I do my work but for some reason I am wanting a more consistent structuring of my spiritual focus.

My ministry is really about a spiritual practice. It is the “practice” part that I am talking about. The practice requires time, energy, commitment, and study — at least for me it does. So then I come upon this quote, “creativity is a spiritual practice.” So then I think, my spiritual practice is about being creative. “It is not something, that can be perfected, finished, and set aside.” To me this means it is an on-going process and project. All of this fits for me. I am seeking to structure my life in ways that my ministry is central. Right now I don’t know what that means but I do know that this is where I want my focus and I know that I want to create this daily in the structure of my day.

I think in writing this I am planting seeds. And I also think that I am defining for myself an understanding of what my ministry is. My ministry is in the moments of each day. It is about creativity and it is a spiritual practice. It begins in me. It must be my ego that flounders during the day because my spiritual focus brings me back to peace. I keep realizing this as I practice. And I think it is Holy Spirit’s Voice telling me, “Just Be Peace.”

It is so different for me when I am at peace. I feel it; I experience it. Something in me shifts. I cannot even describe it. Right now I realize that my ministry is “in the Moments.” Maybe my ministry is the truth of who I am; maybe my ministry is Love. Holy Spirit is with me. His gifts to me are alive, treasures of my existence. I am peace. I am joy. I am Love. I find my strength. Everything else falls into place.

What an experience it is to learn and to practice that God is with me every moment of every day and learning to trust in the creative unfolding of life moment by moment. I am sitting now to embrace these thoughts and breathe them into my very being. All that matters is the moment. All that matters is the presence of Love. All that matters is loving kindness. I bring all of this to the center of my attention, bringing to my consciousness that all is Love.

It is all in the service of serving God.

Rev. Colleen McNally is a Pathways of Light minister living in Crystal Lake, Illinois.

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