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The Enemy Within

by Rev. Gina Lucia, Ordained Ministerial Counselor

I must say I’ve never in my lifetime seen such a “collective” opportunity to really go within and look at where perception is coming from. The entire world has the opportunity to do so. Are we up for the journey? Have we begun? Are we still asleep? Would we rather just stay that way? Has fear paralyzed us? I firmly believe that if we haven’t awakened yet, the collective pull will keep challenging every aspect of our waking mind.

“Many stand guard over their ideas because they want to protect their thought systems as they are, and learning means change. Change is always fearful to the separated, because they cannot conceive of it as a move towards healing the separation.” (T-4.I.2:1-2)

The body’s mind is only capable of recycling thoughts, feelings, memories, emotions, all from its stored past. That’s where perception arises, from our own life script experiences, the mind of the matrix. “Understand that you do not respond to anything directly, but to your interpretation of it. Your interpretation thus becomes the justification for the response.” (T-12.I.1:4-5)  Over and over every day, we are scripting our future, more of the same.

If we find ourselves in a state of “resistance,” we are most likely not trusting in God, that still small Voice of our Inner Truth, Inner Guidance. “Every loving thought is true. Everything else is an appeal for healing and help, regardless of the form it takes.” (T-12.I.3:3-4)

I return time and time again to the Course’s teaching, “The ego speaks first, and the ego speaks loudest.” I constantly put myself in check, listening to my own ego chatter. It takes discipline to have a daily practice of aligning with the higher part of my mind, where I can hear the Voice for God.

As we view the landscape of the world, in one facet, it appears to be so polarized, yet such an opportunity for unity. “The ego made the world as it perceives it but the Holy Spirit, the reinterpreter of what the ego made, sees the world as a teaching device for bringing you home.” (T-5.III.11:1)

May we all join together in His Love. Where are we standing? The collective ego sure has a polarizing script in action. There seems to be an appearance to stand with fear, and hate, or to stand with unity, and love. The rubber band is being stretched apart further than ever before, to the point of snapping. Every aspect of one’s beliefs are being asked to question. There’s a huge spotlight shining on everything unlike Love.

Each one of us on this planet is being asked to question everything. A stand in unity, with each other, is needed now more than ever. We’re going to need to be
empowered at a much deeper and sacred level than we have ever been before.

We cannot do this alone. We need to ask the Holy Spirit to enter into our minds, into our beliefs, our relationship to everything.

Follow your heart, listen to your gut. The gut has an independent nervous system separate from the body, hence the term, “my gut feeling.”

“Nothing can reach Spirit from the ego, and nothing can reach the ego from Spirit. Spirit can neither strengthen the ego nor reduce the conflict within it. The ego is a contradiction. Your self and God’s Self are in opposition. They are opposed in source, in direction and in outcome.” (T-4.I.2:6-10)

We are all in this together. What an opportunity we have in life now to really look at what keeps us separate from each other, from our Creator. We can ask ourselves, “What am I co-creating in my life? Am I joining the ego or co-creating with God?”

In my life there are times when I feel like a swinging pendulum on a clock. I liken it to literally walking between two worlds (ego thinking). I stop, ask Holy Spirit to reinterpret. I realize I always have a choice. I must have decided wrongly, because I’m not at peace. This recognition alone brings me to a place of balance, knowing the Holy Spirit will undo all the consequences of my mistaken decisions, if I will allow Him.

The narrative this past year has completely given me the opportunity to look at everything that externally has rocked my world, and look within myself. Can anything really exist at all without informational content? We are programmed to see everything in the physical world. After all, we wouldn’t know anything existed unless there were information on it. It’s feedback looping.

“All of your present functions are divided and open to question and doubt. This is because you are not certain how you will use them, and are therefore incapable of knowledge. Perception did not exist until the separation introduced degrees, aspects and intervals. Consciousness, the level of perception, was the first split introduced into the mind after the separation, making a mind a perceiver rather than a creator. The ego is the questioning aspect of the post- separation self, which was made rather than created.” (T-3.IV.1:2-5, 2:1, 3:1)

So the mind will stand confused, for the ego is capable of asking questions but not of receiving meaningful answers. Perception always involves some misuse of the mind because it brings the mind into areas of uncertainty. Hence, ego thinking can be equated to a constantly changing script. Thinking with God brings peace, certainty, unity and Love. No miscreation exists. We are always choosing between two thought systems, Love or fear.

We need each other now more than ever. Forgiveness is key. Forgive that shadowy figure in front of you. Forgive you. Go within, ask yourself, “Is there something I’m harboring in my own mind about my self projected onto my brother? Am I projecting a blind spot in my own mind about myself?”

Forgive the “enemy” outside, for it is a projection of something hiding within your own mind that is a shadow aspect of the enemy within. Bring the darkness to the Light.

“Alone we can do nothing, but together our minds fuse into something whose power is far beyond the power of its separate parts. By not being separate, the Mind of God is established in ours and as ours. This Mind is invincible because it is undivided.” (T-8.V.1:6-8)

Be the Light.

Be the Love.

Receive and extend.

Having faced my only enemy, which is within, I am now FREE to walk in God‘s Light…  and there is nothing more to say.

Rev. Gina Lucia is a Pathways of Light minister living in W. Sacramento, California. Email: .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)

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Spirit Always Answers My Prayers

By Daniel Cratcha, Ministerial Candidate

My Dad passed in 2016. It was a “complicated” relationship and we struggled to communicate. Since I started living ACIM, I have come to view him very differently, in a much more loving and nonjudgmental way. A couple of weeks ago, I started thinking more and more about him. I missed him, I wanted to see him, I wanted to feel him. I prayed to Spirit for assistance.

The day after I started asking Spirit for help, my daughter, who enjoys going through old family photos, sent me one to identify, a young male toddler in what seemed like a very old picture. I had no idea and sent it to a cousin a few days later in the hopes she might identify the boy.

“That’s your Dad. My Mom had the same picture. Isn’t he adorable?”

Wait…what!? Oh, my goodness! I looked again at the picture. How had I missed it?

A beautiful little boy, a mischievous grin on his face, my Dad beaming up at me! My prayer was answered to a tee. I saw my Dad, I felt my Dad. I saw my Father, I felt my Father. Thank you, Dad, thank you Spirit, thank you Father. Thank you for showering me with Love, for this wonderful glimpse of Heaven. 

Spirit always answers my prayers, even when I was so busy looking for some sign of Dad that when Spirit put him right in front of me, I missed him. I stepped out of the present into a nonexistent future. Spirit has told me many times. When I stay in the present, when I am calm and still and truthful, I will always understand, even if He has to tap me on the shoulder occasionally.

Daniel Cratcha is a student in the Pathways of Light Ministry Program. He
lives in Fairport Harbor, Ohio. Email: .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)

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Healing Prayer

by Rev. Michael Atkins, Ordained Ministrial Counselor

My Beloved, Who is always
with me, hear my prayer.

I call to You from my heart,
which I share with You,
knowing You cannot fail to hear me.

I quiet my mind and lay down all
my defenses, as I welcome the
Holy Spirit within me now…

I ask that the Light of Love
guide me in all that I do…

Speak to me Father,
Help me hear Your Voice…

Open my mind, open my heart,
and open my eyes…

Help me to accept whatever
it is that confronts me today…

and help me to give it to
You in response…

Help me to recognize that my true
function in this world
is only to heal and
be healed through my forgiveness
of what could never be.

Let me remember that
Love is what I am and that
Love is all I have to give,
for Love is all there is…

And let me be grateful
that God created me like Himself,
happy and at peace, in perfect
unity with all that exists

so that Love is all that
I can ever know

and all that I can ever truly share.
And so it is, and so we say, “Amen.”

Gratitude Prayer

Heavenly Father, we thank You
for all that You share with us.

You have given us all You are.
We lack nothing,
for You are everything.

Your perfect Love holds us all
forever safe in Your everlasting arms,
for there is no opposite to Love.

You alone are the Source of all Life.
All Creation is blessed by Your
Perfection, for by the grace of God
does every part contain the whole.

And so we thank You, Father,
that we find our Self in You.
We reach out to one another today
through the faith and Love that You
have given us to share to find that we
stand together in the Light,
forever free and at peace.

Rev. Michael Atkins, O.M.C., is a Pathways of Light minister in Georgetown, Texas. Email:mea35tx@hotmail.com

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Miracles News, January - March, 2021

 

God gives me
only happiness.
Therefore, my
function must be
happiness.
(ACIM W-pI.274.2:2)

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