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Healing Messages from Rev. Veronika Wilcox

by Rev. Veronika Wilcox

Steady Practice

Once I attended a master class for violin as a listener. The lecturer was a Russian violinist. He told the Australian students that the Russian students practised about twelve hours a day! Laughter was the answer.

It seemed too incredible to those students who seemed to practise only about three hours on an average. When I was a student I practised six hours a day for years.

Last Sunday I heard a very good cello student play beautifully. His whole life is focused on learning his instrument well so that he can express himself through it. This reminds me of spiritual practice. It seems to be little known that this too needs concentrated effort in order to have results, that is, that the Higher Self finds a purified vehicle in me to express Itself through me.

I just read The Russian Pilgrim. It is a wonderful story of dedication to the inward prayer of the heart. He started off by saying his short prayer a thousand times, then three thousand times and then six thousand times. What discipline! Yet this is not difficult if I thirst for the living waters — the presence of God in my life.

A Course in Miracles is also a training to replace wrong-mindedness with right-mindedness. And believe me this takes perseverance too. But it is worth it because peace and joy start to become steady guests instead of worry and stress. Amen.

Busy, Busy, Busy!

I have noticed that everyone I meet and everyone I know is very busy. I know that in this world it is looked upon as a virtue to be busy. My sons are busy, my friends are busy and even the spiritual minded friends are busy. I just love it how Jesus says for us to seek first the Kingdom of Heaven and that then the rest will be given unto us.

When I first decided to test this statement, I was amazed how well everything in my life fell into place. Trusting Jesus who lived all he taught, is the way to go for me. Believing that I can reverse this and say that I first need to attend to all my daily duties and then (maybe!) make time for God, is putting the cart before the horse. Will you also want to put Jesus’ advice to the test and be blessed? Amen.

Crossroad

I am standing in the middle of a crossroad. One goes into the past, the other one goes into the future. What am I to do? Where am I to go? There seems to be nothing else to choose from.

I watch my thoughts and notice that they are like two dogs on a leash. One pulls me back into the past. I tug at the leash to make it come back into the NOW. The other rushes off into the future to make me dream about the future. Again, I notice it and tug at the leash to make this dog come back into the NOW too. Why look for roads which either pull me back or take me away into dreamland? What is wrong with the NOW? Is it because it seems to be stationary?

I like to compare the NOW to a boat. The boat remains the same. It is comfortable and slowly moves along the current. I have the boat steered by Holy Spirit Who knows the way and I can relax and be assured that all is well in the NOW moment. Amen.

Blame

Whenever I notice that the blame game is going on in me, I know that it is ego using everybody and everything to blame them for my loss of peace and happiness. It can be husband, friend or the weather or anything else. The name doesn’t really matter.

The next step is to try to fix whatever is disturbing. I might even try prayer to get things to fit my way of thinking. Still no peace!

Then the bells ring and the memory of the truth returns. I need to go within to find the problem and the Answer.

The problem is now released and goes up into the Light and the Answer comes from above and is the peace of God which comes from acknowledging and accepting Oneness — the Atonement. Amen

Rev. Veronika Wilcox is a Pathways of Light minister living in Bega Valley, Australia.

© 2007, Pathways of Light. https://www.pathwaysoflight.org
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I Want the Peace of God

by Rev. Michael L. Ciavarella

This article was inspired by Lesson 185 in A Course In Miracles, Workbook for Students.

I don’t want a house anymore. I want the peace of God. That’s all I really want. And yes. I am sincere in this desire. It is not simply words to say. It is what I really want. It is what everyone really wants, isn’t it?

I don’t want a house anymore. Oh, it would be nice to have a house, but holding a desire like that is, in the long run, buying into the illusion. It is a compromise that would spoil the whole need for my wanting the peace of God and that’s what I really want.

I don’t want a house anymore. Besides, wanting the peace of God is truly home anyway. Isn’t that where we reside? This world is all smoke and mirrors. This is just a dream — an illusion of what we think would bring us peace and happiness. All the while, our peace and happiness resides with God. I want the peace of God. That’s where I’ll find home.

I don’t want a house anymore. What a poor substitute for what God has created for us. There’s no place like home and I’ll not find it here. A home of concrete and wood cannot take the place for the awesome mansion that God has prepared for me. Jesus told us that there are mansions that are prepared for the Sonship. No home that some brother prepared in this world can hold a blessed candle to even a shack that God may have created. I want the peace of God.

I don’t want a house anymore. That would be a special relationship with brick and mortar or wood and aluminum. Why would I want to carry on a special relationship when I can have the genuine article made by my own Father? Even the wanting is a special relationship with my desire. No. I want the peace of God and nothing more.

I don’t want a house anymore. I want the peace of God. I surrender my desires and my will to the Holy Spirit. He is the one that is pointing out the error of my ways. He is the one that is leading me to my real Home. I offer my mistaken thought pattern to Him; allow Him to heal my thoughts and desires; allow Him to put me into the path that will ultimately bring me to an awakened place and find that I have never left my Father’s arms and the Home He has made for me.

I don’t want a house anymore. In fact, there is nothing this world offers that I want anymore. I’ll tell you what I really want. It is not a special relationship. It is not something that will support the illusion. It is something of real substance. It is something that holds all of the meaning of the universe and more. I want this more than life itself. I want the peace of God.

No. I don’t want a house anymore.

Rev. Michael L. Ciavarella is a Pathways of Light minister living in Sioux City, Iowa. Read more of his inspiring Healing Journal articles on the Pathways of Light web site.

© 2007, Pathways of Light. https://www.pathwaysoflight.org
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Beautiful Dreamer

Rev. Mary Manke

Beautiful Dreamer
Walk in the Light,
Be at my side now,
It’s no longer night.

You dreamt of division,
At war with the One,
Because you’d forgotten
Where Life had begun.

Carry this message,
To those who dream on,
There is no darkness
For those who choose dawn.

Waking only seems empty,
If you dream you’re alone,
But I Am still with you
And We’ll carry on.

Beautiful Dreamer
Dream not apart,
I Am still with you
And we share One Heart.

Rev. Mary Manke is a Pathways of Light minister living in Wautoma, Wisconsin. Read more of her inspiring Healing Journal articles on the Pathways of Light web site.

© 2007, Pathways of Light. https://www.pathwaysoflight.org
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Grandeur vs Grandiosity

by Rev. Lee Catalano

Grandeur is of God and equally shared. Grandiosity is the belief in littleness. If the mind didn’t first believe in lack, it would not need the illusion of grandiosity to comfort itself. Grandiosity is a vehicle of pain because it is not shared.

The entire Sonship shares granduer equally and therefore it is of God and it is the truth. As I recognize the granduer that is my brother, I experience it myself because it is the truth of us both.

Grandiosity is always a cover for pain and therefore always a call for Love, no matter what the apperance. The Son’s true and only desire is for a recognition of the truth of who He is in all of His granduer. Amen.

Sacrifice

Everything that I think by myself is a sacrifice is really Spirit trying to set me free.

Do I keep my dark thoughts to myself and not surrender them for healing because I believe it will be a sacrifice to admit I am having them? Do I believe that it is weakness to expose hurt, pain or anxiety?

Jesus is teaching us that the truth is quite the opposite. Everything that I am believing is a sacrifice is for me to heal.

I once believed that the end of my marriage would be a huge sacrifice. I cried I was so afraid of so many things. Spirit was trying to set me free from my thoughts of dependence on an ego and make me God dependent. This was no sacrifice.

When I am at home and one of the many people I live with want my attention, I see the thoughts of sacrificing my time (again), going through my mind. This is no sacrifice. It is all for me — a chance to have a peaceful healing encounter with my Brother.

Having a venue for an ACIM group given and taken away in one swoop. No sacrifice. I was able to receive forgiveness within ten minutes of the conversation and move on to having a wonderful day — a powerful opportunity, a gift.

There is no sacrifice. Only my belief in it can jerk my mind around.

Forgiveness Prayer

Oh Father, I have made myself
weary in feverish dreams.

May your healing balm of Love
wash over me at this moment.

Thank you Father for this
moment of rest.

Thank you Father for this
cleansing of my mind.

Thank you Father for this
gentle rest in Heaven. Amen

Rev. Lee Catalano is a Pathways of Light minister living in Belmont, Massachusetts.  Web site: heavensongministrypages.com

© 2007, Pathways of Light. https://www.pathwaysoflight.org
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