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Being Open… Being Willing

by Rev. Etienne Pait, O.M.C.

I would like to share a few of the many times when I was open and willing to listen to Spirit. The first of which I remember happened when I was a mere babe, less than six months in my body. (I confirmed the outer conditions with my mother when I was in my early forties.) When I was about 3-4 months, I had a conscious OBE (out-of-body experience). I remember my dad, my mom and myself cruising in a sky blue color ‘55 Chevy. My dad was in the front while my mother and I were in the back. I was securely snuggled in a blue blanket, simply laying still inside a wicker-like bassinet. Then IT happened! The real me, the part of me that knows, the aware part of me, shifted its point of view from being inside this little, gentle baby body to a much larger field of vision outside of the body.

I saw the three of us. We looked perfect — perfect in everything we did. We were being. And I knew we were guided by a Force greater than what we knew. In fact, I knew we were part of this Force! Within this awareness, a voice spoke to me in a clear and articulate language about our souls and what our purpose is. The whole experience was so matter-of-fact and downright natural, and at the same time larger than life!

A second willing and open experience happened when I was nine years old. My parents, sister and I lived in Chicago. I’d been out of the city only at most a couple of times and that was to go to Evanston, a neighboring suburb. We planned a trip, an adventure! An exploration to Quebéc, Canada. WOW! Going to Quebéc was a very expansive journey, to say the least, for a nine-year-old sheltered boy.

So here we are, the four of us, going through Michigan. Our destination was St. Anne de Beaupré Shrine, fourteen miles NE of Quebéc City. When we arrived at the shrine, I think my almond-shaped eyes transformed into saucers from the amazing forms that overwhelmed my psyche!

My mother and I, hand-in-hand, are walking up toward the shrine and we encounter a huge, French-speaking man. My mother asked him a question in French. He pointed and we walked some more, all the while, on the path we are surrounded by life-size pewter sculpted figures of the stations of the cross. WOW! Especially for a nine-year-old altar boy! My mother and I reached the enormous, heavy, thick doors of the shrine. The doors must have been at least twenty feet tall. She grabbed one door. I pulled on the other and voila — the experience! At the entrance of the shrine are two pillars filled with attached crutches, canes, swathes and other items people left because of the healing they received.

In the moment of seeing inside the entrance, I had what’s called a “oneness” experience. My mother, the shrine and the rest of the surroundings seemed to have disappeared and Spirit once again spoke to me, but this time not in words but in a knowingness-like energy! Spirit gifted me with a conscious recognition of my innocence and purity. Spirit also gave me a “beyond conscious” knowing of true healing.

The next visitation by Spirit that I will share occurred when I was 24 years old. I had previously gone through many experiences and many feelings reflecting these experiences over the past 5-6 years that covered a full spectrum of emotions. I had been involved in both self-healing attempts and self-non-healing attempts. So consequently, I had some decisions of the heart to make because the fence that I was straddling was grinding away at me and I was becoming more and more conflicted inside. So I prayed a sincere prayer of heart, not fancy in words, but one in intention — “HELP!”

I didn’t know what I was praying for exactly, but I did receive a timely response. I’d say within a week to ten days, Spirit answered my prayer with a direct reply - IN FORM!

At 10:30 at night, I was laying in bed and all of a sudden I received an electric shock (like the kind you’d receive if you accidently stuck your finger in a wall socket.) This shock coursed throughout my entire body — head to toe, front to back! The shock lasted about five seconds. I screamed, “NO!” The shock came again for another five seconds. I relented by saying, “Okay!” By this time, the electricity in the room stopped! The refrigerator was dead, the clock stopped and my body was in a cascading sweat!

I sat up on the side of the bed and in front of me appeared a luminous beach-ball size sphere. The colors radiated a northern lights display. And from this ball came a very simple and direct message: “You can create your own Heaven or hell right here on earth!”

Believe me, I took this message to heart! Not only did I receive the blessing of the message but I also witnessed the mixture of senses, such as hearing the lights, seeing the sounds and smelling the words! The entire experience made absolute and complete sense, in spite of what my human brain-mind would like to interpret the experience as.

So from these wonderful experiences two questions came to mind. How do I apply what Spirit has so generously given me? How do I make this wisdom work here? Well, one possible answer that comes is that I have a choice — a choice of two paths.

One path is the path of judgment. Judgment gives birth to disturbance, which produces fear. Fear creates separation or the experience of aloneness. Aloneness is the experience of hell.

The other path, the one of which I choose, is the path of forgiveness. Forgiveness gives birth to acceptance, which creates peace. Peace invites awareness, which allows the experience of unity and unconditional Love. Unity and unconditional Love are the experiences of Heaven!

If my calculations and deductions are correct, my judgment leads to the experience of hell and my forgiveness leads to the experience of Heaven. My choice is made clear — Forgiveness! or simply, Awareness.I have found that there is never a time when forgiveness (acceptance) is not appropriate and there is never a time when Love is not necessary.

My experience at St. Anne de Beaupré echoes back the Truth on Healing, which is: both Love and forgiveness are the panaceas for all that is out of balance. So. . . whatever the problem. . . forgiveness is the medicine, and. . . whatever the question… Love is the answer!

Rev. Etienne Pait is a Pathways of Light minister living in Green Bay, Wisconsin.

© 2004, Pathways of Light. https://www.pathwaysoflight.org
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Weeding Out Specialness

by Rev. Christine Anderson, O.M.C.

This morning I am asking for assistance from Jesus. When I call to Jesus I can “hear” His Voice. This Voice, this Presence, is very real to me. I call this taking a “Light” break and try to remember to stop several times a day to do this for the insurance and assurance of my sanity.

I find that by listening to what Jesus says and applying His messages to my life, I experience more peace. However I find there are some areas where I “hold back” from receiving peace — like seeing specialness.

This reminds me of a poem I’d like to share:

As children bring their broken toys with tears for us to mend, I brought my broken dreams to God because he was my Friend.

But then instead of leaving Him in peace to work alone, I hung around and tried to help with ways that were my own.

At last I snatched them back and cried, ”How can you be so slow?” “My child,” He said, “What could I do, you never did let go.”

I asked, “Jesus, would you please help me on this specialness business?”

He responded: Sure thing, child! Remember the Creeping Bend in the grass in the yard? It is a good symbol for specialness. Once it is introduced into the grass, it grows pervasively. It is green like the grass, so unless your trained eye is looking for it, it remains hidden (especially if you don’t want to see it!).

You ask what is wrong with leaving it there — well, its tough vine presence can choke out much of the healthy grass in time unless it is weeded out. What was once soft grass becomes a bunch of tough vines that you could trip on.

Specialness will “trip you up.” It is a guilt trip. Let it go. I will help you. It is only because you mistakenly think you don’t measure up to your own Creator that you have times when you think someone else is favored or loved more than you. In those times, you are deluding yourself and have been caught up in the dis-ease of EGO PROJECTIONITIS.

Another mistake is in thinking your own Creator doesn’t measure up to you — in which case you are hallucinating that you are favored above all others. Believe me, there are NO OTHERS!! There is only ONE — ONENESS, an idea that is only resisted by a meaningless and powerless thought system.

Specialness can remain hidden to you if you don‘t really want to see it, just like the vines in the grass. It can overtake your life experience unless you and I do some serious gardening, and of course, we will have fun in the process. It is good that you are recognizing specialness thoughts in your own mind — your “trained eye” is a valuable asset.

The next step is to let these thoughts go. I will help you by removing each “vine,” one by one, as you recognize them and offer them to me. I will be gentle. I will never rip them out. This process, I promise, will be painless.

I will heal the mistaken thought with a soft beam of God’s Light. It will feel like a little “tickle” in your mind! Stay at peace, for peace is like the antivirus program that will help you to “clean up” the specialness thoughts that you thought were of value. Where there is peace, there can be no ego!

Another image you can use is that of unplugging an electrical appliance. Specialness is no longer an “ego appliance” plugged into your mind. Specialness has no “juice” for you.

Remember that what you perceive “others” as having to learn — most likely you are in need of learning — again there are NO OTHERS! Thoughts of unity and equality that are not acceptable to the ego thought system will become your Reality as you let go of specialness. You have everything to gain as you claim your Divine Birthright — Oneness. You have nothing to lose as you let go of seeing any value in the ego.

Take a few moments now to “slip into something more comfortable” — peace, your best friend. Open to the Love you are — be like a sponge — soak it in. You are worthy and deserving of unconditional Love. Thank you for stopping by so I could tell you — you and I share Oneness.

Thank you for your help Jesus!

Rev. Christine Anderson is a Pathways of Light minister who lives in Chicago, Illinois.

© 2004, Pathways of Light. https://www.pathwaysoflight.org
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We Are One in the Thought of Love

by Rev. Barbara Kraetsch, O.M.C.

There is really only One Thought, and that is God. This One Thought extends Itself endlessly. It is the Thought that says, “I AM” forever and ever. There is nothing other than this. There is only God proclaiming Himself, extending Himself. There is only Love proclaiming Itself, extending Itself. Love says, “I AM.” There is nothing else. It is inconceivable to Love that anything else could be.

We are part of this extending Love. It is really all we need to know. If we merely sit with this idea — rest in this idea — all else will be made known to us. It sounds so simple and it really is.

When I sit and get in touch with the Thought of Love, feel my connection to It, and just rest in It, I feel certain of existence. I feel certain that I am. Is there anything else I need to know in any given moment? If so, I know it will be made known, for I am what there is to know.

This sense of certainty rises up in me, filling me. It feels complete. There is only Love and that’s all I need to know. Everything extends from that, I am certain.

I don’t know exactly how Love works. I don’t quite grasp that. But, it is not a concern, for Love minds Itself. The Thought of Love minds all there is. All I need do is be aware that I am connected to It, that I can’t be anything else but connected to It. This is all. I can do this, for I can be my Self. I can be the Thought of Love extending Itself everywhere through my Self.

How simple an idea, yet how far reaching, nowhere and everywhere at once. For there is nowhere Love is not. And Love is everywhere. Love encompasses me and sets my boundary of eternity, the placeless place where I can only be.

Today, I am Love. And today, I recognize that there is only Love. Everyone and everything that seems to be other than Love cannot be. For there is only Love and I am surrounded by It. There is no other way than to fulfill Love’s Presence. Let us together be Love’s Presence today, for you are only Love as well as me. And in our joining in the Thought of Love are we made One with It.

Rev. Barbara Kraetsch is a Pathways of Light minister living in Hartford, Wisconsin

© 2004, Pathways of Light. https://www.pathwaysoflight.org
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I Was Re-minded of… “Love Ye One Another”

by Rev. Therese Anne Ward, O.M.C.

There is a motion picture that is said to show the passion of a man who lived 2,000 years ago. Talk is, it is an extremely violent and bloody movie. From past experience I have learned that when I see such things, I have nightmares and flashbacks for weeks after. Yet this was supposed to be the story of God’s Son’s death and resurrection. I was conflicted; to go, or not to go. I affirm, “Feel the fear and do it anyway.” Taking my partner, Holy Spirit, I affirm, “Spirit go before me, make straight and easy my path; translate my perceptions to truth.” I seat myself in theater number 9.

He seemingly had agonized in a garden, alone. I was re-minded of the times I seemed to sweat blood, alone in my agony of being betrayed. Life is not supposed to be this way. Help me God, help me!

He seemingly was unjustly condemned to die. I was re-minded of the people in Iraq and elsewhere, condemned to die, labeled terrorists or other such.

He seemingly was scourged and forced to carry his cross. I was re-minded of the children born with fetal alcohol syndrome, aids babies, sexual abuse victims, starving and homeless millions and my own crosses to bear. Life is not supposed to be a bed of thorns.

He was depicted carrying his cross through the streets, bloody, beaten and near death; being jeered at and tortured, bearing all suffering. I was re-minded of the lesson he was teaching. You are not a body, you are eternal Life. See: I have overcome the world’s belief that there are bodies that can attack and suffer; and so can you.

He was seemingly executed by means of crucifixion. “Father why have you forsaken me?” I was re-minded of the wailing of mothers clutching the bloody bodies of their dead and mangled children. People dying, drenched in blood in Oklahoma City bombing and New York City 9-11 and the citizens of Baghdad being blown to bits. Nothing had changed in 2,000 years, in the world of man’s inhumanity to man.

He had a crown of thorns on his head, seemingly, profusely dripping blood over his swollen, disfigured face. There was not an inch on his body that was not gouged open, his blood flowing down the cross, spewing over the barren earth. I was re-minded of eight hours each day spent in makeup, of all the pixels of light it took to make this illusion.

“Father, forgive them, they know not what they do.” I am re-minded that in the world, forgiveness is the only way to At-one-ment without suffering.

He seemingly died on the cross. I was re-minded of his words, “You do not take my body. I have the POWER to lay it down and take up again.” In other words, there is no death. The world believes there is; he demonstrated otherwise.

His body was placed in a tomb. I was re-minded of the steel blue coffin bearing the body of my 32 year old sister; a victim of the war on cancer. Re-minded of the numerous bodies in flagged draped coffins, carried through the streets, today, in memory of those hailed as heroes of the war on terror.

The stone was rolled back and it seemed his bloody body disappeared, leaving only burial cloths behind; then he reappeared in a radiant body. I was re-minded of seeing my father, mother and sister after each of them died, and of the many stories of others who had seen their loved ones after they passed from this world. I was re-minded of a teaching “dream” I once had in which my five year old son fell to his death, impaled on an iron fence. In the midst of my agony, I heard his laughter, and looked up to see him happily walking down the sidewalk towards me, with his six year old sister. I ran to him and embraced him for dear life, crying tears of joy. He then stood back and laughed at me and said, “Don’t you know you can’t die?” Well, I knew after that experience!

During the movie I noticed that I was indeed at peace. During the movie I had awakened to the truth that it’s all in mind; that matter reflects mind. I realized I was in the peace of God. Indeed, all was one, silent peace.

This morning my husband and I sat for our daily reading of what I call, A New Word for a New World; actually it’s A Course in Miracles. The reading was my confirmation of truths revealed. “When you equate yourself with a body you will always experience depression. When a child of God thinks of himself in this way he is belittling himself, and seeing his brother’s similarly belittled.” (T-8.VII.1:6-7) I invite you to check it out. See your Self with/in Holy Spirit’s vision.

Rev. Therese Ward is a Pathways of Light minister living in Cold Spring, Kentucky.

© 2004, Pathways of Light. https://www.pathwaysoflight.org
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