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Soul Nectar

by Rev. Mary Lenihan, Ordained Ministerial Counselor

Ever since a hummingbird and I had a mutual exchange of souls as I stood praying in the meditation garden outside St. Mary’s while my mom’s soul was moving towards full transparency; ever since, I have been communicating with my soul. Two weeks after the fluttering wings of the hummingbird danced Infinity upon my forehead, I received the meaning of this encounter and clear direction in these words, “to companion souls.” That answered an eternal question I had asked over many days and many of nights. Pouring myself out to the Holy Spirit, waiting upon Spirit to pour upon me.

I stepped outdoors for a walk muttering the words in my mind, “Soul, I want to connect with you.” The word soul does something for me. I am opened, drawn more inward, deeper, while the expansiveness lures me to envision what I otherwise would not see.

The Course doesn’t use the word “soul.” “The term “soul” is not used except in direct biblical quotations because of its highly controversial nature. It would, however, be an equivalent of “spirit,” with the understanding that, being of God, it is eternal and was never born.” (ACIM, Clarification of Terms) I can see that, but for me to call upon my soul is without the constriction of dogmatic walls. I have always been able, since a child sitting in the pew, to see beyond the traditional definitions, meanings, and understanding of “religious” words.

This walk had a purpose. Two questions are repetitively being asked of me by well-meaning people. Not having answers to these questions leaves me feeling hanging in midair, quite like the hummingbird. Hmm. Hummingbirds are said to pause in mid-flight to drink the sweet nectar from the flower. I suppose this is what I am doing in conversations with my soul~flower, consuming God’s sweet nectar.

Over many years several people have asked me in regard to our nonprofit, Pause For Inspiration. “Who is your target audience”? I have always thought, “What is it with this target audience business”? To which others will say, “Oh, you have to have a target audience, that’s how marketing works.” Hmm. Firstly, I have never been interested in marketing Pause or myself. I am willing to share my experiences of applying The Pause Practices with everyday life stuff, hopefully encouraging others to give it a whirl and experience it for themselves.

The purpose of Pause was to “Inspire the dispirited.” Pause is a simple blessing I received from Inner Inspiration. I trust Wisdom Within will provide the vision, arrange all encounters, and give me all I need to do my part in it. Let me tell you this, the way I see, and experience Pause, in NO WAY fits into the world’s ideas of “vision.”

Somewhat adrift with my soul, I ask these two questions. After all, who could answer these two questions better than who I am as God created me? As I walk with my soul, I am aware that I am remembering something. My soul is helping me to remember. The following communication ensues:

Soul: Mary, Pause is helping the whole world in ways seen and unseen. And as you accept your part in God’s plan for salvation, you will be doing your part in the world. Your cooperation on this side of the veil is essential. As you accept your part in God’s plan for salvation, that is cooperating.

Mary: I realize that my soul has relayed an ACIM lesson to me; “My part is essential in God’s plan for salvation.” (Lesson 98) Hmm, my soul knows the Course! And one of my favorite lessons. I look forward to opening the Course and practicing the lesson when I get home from walking. I feel immensely relieved. Since childhood I have been wanting to do my part, to know that I even had a part. Hoping for God’s sake that I did because otherwise, what was I doing here?

Acceptance brings with it no need to continue struggling with these ominous questions about Pause. No need to feel shame, that something is wrong with me because I can’t seem to focus on a target audience or conjure up a vanishing vision for Pause.

And the repetitive thoughts about “Am I doing my part? Is there something else I should be doing? What is my part?” can stop harassing me because I choose to hear another Voice, the Voice that was sent to speak for the Unspeakable.

I can stop feeling like a failure because I don’t have a business plan for something wonderful that was given me by a Mind so complete, an Insider LOVE, a LOVE that loves me; a LOVE who’s business plan is a healed mind, whose currency is forgiveness, and whose revenue is giving.

Now, I am clear that as long as I accept my part in God’s plan for salvation, I will be doing my part. The acceptance of my part is the fulfillment of my part because LOVE is the Great Fulfiller. How cool is that?

Soul:  Whew!

Mary: I began to laugh because it is all so simple. “They will see their function in your shining face, and hear God calling to them in your happy laugh.” (W.98) So, there you have it, our part. A shining face, a happy laugh, an embodiment of God’s calling to those longing to know their part, so they can once again be fulfilled. And, yes, an embodiment! The body has this glorious role as a vehicle of Inspiration’s communication that gives fulfillment. And so, I do not deny the body, yet I don’t identify myself as a body either. “Give me your face” says the Great Fulfiller. “Give me your laugh. Give me your tears. Give me your eyes. Give me every word that enters your consciousness, and I will give you back the Word in their place.”

Oh, how easy You make this sound. So mathematical. Give me this and I will give you that. “Holy Spirit, give me the how.”

HS:  When you judge people, you disrespect your Self. Self-respect is something I can give you; others cannot. Lack of respect for your soul and the communication it is constantly sharing within you, causes deep pain and inner conflict. You are at war with yourself. Self-acceptance is not surrender. It is the end of suffering. Acceptance of Self is the end of self-conflict, the war with yourself. There is no conflict, Mary. With whom would LOVE provoke a war? Let LOVE ~ love you.

HS:  Stop judging the self, in you and everyone else.

Mary:  But HOW do I stop judging the self? Show me —

HS:  I will show you. As you live your life, ask me all throughout the day, this question, “Holy Spirit, SHOW me how to accept my Self, in this moment?” And I will SHOW you. I will be a living, visual demonstration of the Word. Watch me, and follow.

Mary:  Okay. I can do that, beginning now.

Mary:  At that moment, my ACIM hourly lesson bell went off. It was Lesson 100, “My part is essential in God’s plan for salvation.” Hmm. Then I received the answers to those two annoying questions about the Pause target audience and vision in words the world seems to need right now! I saw the yellow book in my mind and the words I first heard when Pause showed up in October 2008.

“Someone needs to help these people. They need training on how to be helpful. We are all one another’s customers in this world. We are here to provide one another with supreme customer service — to be truly helpful. I am your customer. You are my customer. . . This is for the WHOLE WORLD.” (There’s the target audience!)

Then I saw the vision:

The Pause Vision is a simple one brought to life through Your Helpful Self.

Use these Pause Practices to meet Your Helpful Self and experience that it is in your shining face, your happy laugh, your voice, your hands, your feet, that LOVE ~ loves. Let LOVE ~ love you. Let LOVE ~ love everyone. Set your heart and mind at ease. Everyone is waiting to be truly loved. Pause is a Present Hope because of you.

Rev. Mary Lenihan, O.M.C., is a Pathways of Light minister living in St. Louis, MO.
She is Co-founder and Co-creator of www.pauseforinspiration.org
Email: .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)

© 2020, Pathways of Light. https://www.pathwaysoflight.org
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Our Power Is in Our Willingness

by Rev. Maria Kingsley, Ordained Ministerial Counselor

When we are willing, we are in the Now.

Through our willingness, we can remember that what we are experiencing is our choice. Does it feel good or bad? When we don’t like it, we have the power of choice to change it.

Of course, sometimes we don’t want to change. We want to be right, be angry, feel justified and want others to feel the pain we are feeling. That is the moment when it is really important to ask for help.

In all the Pathways of Light courses, we begin with the Dedication Statement. It begins with “I am willing to …”

If we are not willing, nothing will happen. Even the bad things have to be willed by us. Yet we are usually not aware that we have chosen what we experience. We allow the little self to will for us, but there is no guarantee that the outcome will be a happy one.

I am willing to be mindful. I am willing to ask the Holy Spirit for help. An open mind is needed: Trusting that it will actually change what we experience. This world is not what it seems, and we have given all that we see the meaning it has for us.

I am always amazed what we can do when we want to accomplish something. Our mind is very powerful, but we have to believe in it.

There is one more ingredient that really helps, and that is Love.

When we use love, things run so much smoother. Love is not an emotion, and we don’t have to be ‘in love’ with something. Love is a power and an intelligence. We are asked to command with Love. We command our world to be what we co-create with the Divine. We will not do this alone, because we are all One. But we are here to extend love in whatever way is best, and guided for the greater good of all. Since we don’t really know what that is, we need the Guidance from the higher perspective.

Guidance is such a wonderful thing. It is gentle and yet clear. It is so helpful, and I have experienced often what happens when I don’t follow the gentle Voice within. It does seem a little tricky at times, because the guidance sometimes comes immediately before we act, and so there is no time to reconsider. Yet we will, at times, just go ahead with the wrong choice, and so we hurt ourselves, or we spill something, or we say the wrong thing.

I ordered a computer the other day, and I got Guidance that I should not go ahead with it. But I wanted that computer. Well, it was very messy, and I tried to correct some of the aspects of the purchase, but no matter what I did, it didn’t work out.

I got very angry and upset, and I tried to get the customer support with a foreign accent to do what I wanted, but he could not or would not. I finally decided to cancel the whole deal. It took my sleep that night, and I felt unsettled and unhappy for the rest of the day. When I finally canceled the order, it again took me a few hours to let the whole story go. But I felt better, and I realized I should have listened in the first place.

Fortunately, I realized right away I should not have made the purchase, and immediately after I did what I was not supposed to, I felt a twinge, almost like a pain, within. It was a recognition that I acted alone, I did not listen. It was a good lesson.

Why don’t we listen? Don’t we know that the gentle Voice within can see just a bit further than we can? We act out of habit, thinking we know best. Yet we do know that we don’t always know best.

It’s an inner Awareness that we need to practice and pay attention to. Ideally, we want to consistently ask ourselves, “Am I feeling good, or is there something in the background that I need to first pay attention to so that I am clear on what is happening in my life?” It is my life that I want to be clear about. It is this life within me that I am in charge of. I can steer it down a clear path and stay out of the bushes, or I can take what seems to be a shortcut and get stuck in no man’s land. Our little self will try to move us onto paths that follow our dreams or selfish wishes, but it does not get us to peace and joyful experiences.

And so, for myself, I choose to be willing.

Jesus tells us in ACIM to ask: “What do you want to come of it?”

And the answer is usually, “I want to feel good, be peaceful, have things work out for me and others.” But, in order to get there, or be there, we have to be guided and allow all things to be as they are, trusting that there is a way to get there. But we need help.

And so I need to be willing to let go of tension, to soften and imagine my true Self leading me into peace. Everything else will fall into place.

For the power to turn it over, I am thankful!

Rev. Maria Kingsley is a Pathways of Light minister living in Tucson, Arizona. Email: .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)  520-780-0170

© 2020, Pathways of Light. https://www.pathwaysoflight.org
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There Is and Old Ego That Lives in My Head

by Rev. Barbara Adams, Ordained Ministerial Counselor

There is an old ego that lives
in my head, has multiple voices.
I often feel dread.

Been trying to tame her and
drag her on down. “I got you,”
I scolded. She screeched
like a clown.

“Shut up!” I would tell her.
“Stop screaming at me.”
“Your voice is so loud.
I’ll never be free!”

“I know,”I once offered.
“I’ll smother your face.
And then I’ll be happy
and claim my own space.”

She sat there so stubborn,
so smug and aloof, tempting and
taunting, and claiming her truth.

And, almost as sure as I was of
her sound, a Light caught my eye
and turned me around.

“Just ask me, dear one. I’m the
truth of God’s Voice, I’ll tell you
what’s real and offer true choice.

“For all you need know
is that I am your Guide.
I’m always right with you.
I’m here by your side.”

“Don’t fret with confusion
and call yourself bad.
Remember the Truth.
Feel joyous! Feel Glad!”

“Let ego be other than
temptress and foe,
her voice is a call
to remember, Me so.”

“I’m here to remind you there’s
nothing to fear. Just ask for my
input, be silent and hear…

“…that I’ll guide you and
love you and offer you peace.
My word is your comfort.
Your worries will cease.”

“I love you my sister,
we’re one with our Source
Our joining’s a given.
Our direction’s on Course.”

Rev. Barbara Adams is a Pathways of Light minister living in Rochester, New York.
Web: PeaceandHarmonyMinistry.org Phone: (585) 633-8769

© 2020, Pathways of Light. https://www.pathwaysoflight.org
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Pathways of Light Minister: Action Required

by Revs. Colleen and Deb Fee

Hello Beautiful Lights!

Please help us help you and your ministry. We are performing much needed updates on our Minister Services files. Recent improvements on the Pathwaysoflight.org website have increased significantly the number of catalog and information requests. As we always include a Minister profile flier (selected by nearest zip code), it is imperative that our Minister Profile fliers be current and up to date.

Additionally, Minister Profiles online need to be updated and email delivery confirmed. Current Pathways of Light membership assures your online profile will remain available for those seeking guidance in your area and state. Also, Pathways of Light membership is required in order to legally officiate wedding ceremonies.

Here is how you can help us help you:

1. If you have a Pathways of Light profile online, please go to your page and send yourself a test email to confirm you are receiving emails.

2. Are you available to facilitate students? If so, review your profile information. Email us to confirm if it is okay as is. Or submit any changes through the Support for Ministers online form at www.pathwaysoflight.org/forms/update_photo_bio

3. If you are no longer available to facilitate, please let us know as we send out active Minister fliers with catalog requests in your area.

4. If you have not been facilitating and would like to be available, you can refresh your facilitating skills by silently auditing Step 4 courses 1001 and 1002 Facilitator Training at no charge.

5. If a student emails you and you are unable to fulfill their request, please forward their email to the Pathways of Light office. Or have them call the office for assistance at 1-800-323-7284 or 386-625-7284. It is critical to respond promptly to these requests in order to best serve our brothers and sisters.

6. We are asking all Pathways of Light ministers to respond in order to update our files. Please direct your correspondence and any questions to us at:
.(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address).

Thank you so much! Love and Blessings,

Colleen and Deb Fee

“Love is ALL in ALL”

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