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Miracles News, January-March 2020

 

We dedicate this
year to following
the guidance of
the Holy Spirit to remember
the Love everyone is.

Pathways of Light Miracles News is published quarterly in print and online to provide a forum for Pathways of Light ministers to share their process of allowing the Holy Spirit to heal their minds. As we read and share these miracle stories with each other, we are inspired and we inspire each other to accelerate our return Home to Love, peace and happiness.

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Kindness Created Me Kind

by Rev. Myron Jones, Ordained Ministerial Counselor

I strove to be a kind person, to treat others kindly, to dream of my brother’s kindnesses instead of dwelling in my dream on his mistakes. Sometimes it felt like a struggle, many battles fought and some won but the effort endless. And yet, I knew it must be possible because in Lesson 67, I am told that Love created me like Itself and that Kindness created me kind, and I know that what God creates remains as He created it.

God created me kind so how is it that I felt a need to struggle to express what I am? I was not actually struggling to be kind, but was struggling to overcome the ego tendency toward judgment and defensiveness. As, over the years, my mind has healed and become clear, kind is simply what I am. Jesus expresses this transformation perfectly in Text, Chapter 5.

“How can you who are so holy suffer? All your past except its beauty is gone, and nothing is left but a blessing. I have saved all your kindnesses and every loving thought you ever had. I have purified them of the errors that hid their light, and kept them for you in their own perfect radiance.” (T-5.IV.8)

I’ve been thinking about this transformation and my part in it. The transformation itself is not for me to do; it is the Holy Spirit that heals. My part, however, was essential. I had to desire the healing. You would think this would be easy and certainly it turned out to be easy, but at first it felt difficult indeed. The difficulty was that I wanted two things and the two things were in opposition to each other. I wanted both separation and Wholeness. The problem is obvious, right?

It didn’t always seem so obvious to me, though, because I was confused. I was confused about my very nature. I thought I was both body and spirit, both human and divine. Everything became simple and easy once that basic misunderstanding was cleared up. I am not a body and I am not human. These identifications are an illusion, something we made up in order to have an experience and not what we are.

We decide what we want to experience, we choose images to represent these desires and the stage is set. We come onto the stage fully involved in the play and with no memory of how we got here. I have a favorite movie, Inception. In this movie there is a dream within a dream within a dream, much as happens here in our very own dream of separation.

In the movie one character points out to another that when we dream, we find ourselves in the middle of it with no memory of how we got there. Again, this is much the same thing we experience in the dream of a world filled with separate bodies. We are here without a memory of how that happened. We are clever at disguising this problem through pro-creation so that we can go on believing in the stories we live, but that doesn’t change the fact that this is only an elaborate dream.

Once I figured it out, I could see clearly that the world is just a manifestation of the beliefs in our mind. What a clever thing we have done! Now we can look at these beliefs, and interact with the beliefs. We feel the effects of that interaction and decide if we want to keep the belief or let it go to the Holy Spirit who will purify it for us. We cannot change our reality, but we can dream for as long as we want to, or as long as we can withstand the pain and suffering. No matter how long we delay the process, eventually, we will return to our true state as the Divine Beings we are.

It’s a gentle transformation sometimes taking many years, many lifetimes. But what we actually are cannot be undone; we are as God created us and nothing that we do within this illusion can change that. Actually, it is the belief that we did change our nature that is the problem. When we accept that this is all fun and games, we have no problem accepting our nature as kindness and that kindness moves through us and is extended naturally and without any effort on our part.

When we take the world seriously, and believe that we have succeeded in separating ourselves from God, we think we have separated from our true nature as well. Now, instead of naturally extending Love, it feels like moving through quicksand to do this. We belong to God and to think we have undone this is frightening and creates an overwhelming sense of guilt in our minds.

Our cockeyed solution to this guilt is to fling it out of ourselves and onto the others who share the stage with us. It doesn’t work because it is also our nature that thoughts do not leave their source so all we accomplish is more guilt for trying to hurt others. It is easy to see now why we have to struggle to be kind. How can we be kind to the ones who we need to be the scapegoats for our guilt?

Once I began to understand what was going on and how really awful this dream is, I became determined to awaken from it. I began to watch my thoughts like a hawk. I knew that it was my thoughts that gave form to everything in the dream. As Jesus tells us in Lesson 15: 

“My thoughts are images that I have made.

It is because the thoughts you think you think appear as images that you do not recognize them as nothing. You think you think them, and so you think you see them. This is how your ‘seeing’ was made. This is the function you have given your body’s eyes. It is not seeing. It is image making. It takes the place of seeing, replacing vision with illusions.” (W-pI.15.1)

And, “There are no idle thoughts. All thinking produces form at some level.”(T-2.VI.9:13-14)

These thoughts of mine are making up everything in the dream so if I want to undo the dream, I must change my thoughts. This is what I have done. I noticed that I was projecting guilt onto my brothers and sisters and I dedicated myself to changing my mind. There is no way I can be kind if I think I am guilty. I can act as if I am kind and sometimes, I will seem like a kind person. But the guilt will out me. Where once I was kind, soon I will be cruel.

I won’t be able to help myself if I believe in guilt. I will judge and I will attack and I will feel justified in doing so. The only solution is to give up the belief in guilt. It is not actually hard, though it might feel hard at first. Each situation will feel like it is different and special and this is what I had to overcome. I forgave each separate instance in which guilt showed up and did this for a long time.

Finally, I saw the pattern and realized that while guilt shows up in different forms, the belief that guilt is real is the only thing that needs to be undone. Then it went a lot faster. I accepted that I am not the character I play in this story of Myron, and that I am the unaffected Self that cannot be changed.

Since I know that I am an extension of God, and since I cannot conceive of God as suffering from guilt, I knew that guilt could not be real and therefore I could not be guilty. Without suffering from the belief in guilt myself, I had no desire to see anyone else as guilty. Now I can be truly kind because there is nothing interfering with my true Self. Here is something from the Course that brings me joy to read.

“Today I am redeemed, and born anew into a world of mercy and of care; of loving kindness and the peace of God.” (W-pII.306.1:4)

Rev. Myron Jones, O.M.C., is a Pathways of Light minister living in Westlake, Louisiana. Read her inspiring Healing Journal articles on the Pathways website. Email: .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) Myron’s website is: http://www.forgivenessisthewayhome.org

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Seeing My Life as a Movie

by Rev. Christine Anderson, Ordained Ministerial Counselor

This article came from inspirations I received from the meditation, “Healing by Seeing Your ‘life’ as a Movie,” from ACIM Practitioner Course 922.

From the 922 Workbook I read: “I am willing to have the truth reinforced and not illusions. I remember that everything I see with the body’s eyes is unreal. It is a made-up script that is being played in my mind, like a movie on a screen. Remembering this will help lift the hypnosis of the ego and free me to become aware of my true identity again.” 

I like movies, like “Groundhog Day,” depicting the ego’s story of separation, showing up as manipulation and control, and trying to replace God’s Love through the ego, playing out day after day until the main characters open to Love and the new day dawns!

When I’m at the movies, I really enjoy when the actors play their parts so well that I forget that it is a movie. For awhile, I don’t give “my own personal movie” even a thought.

There’s been times I’ve asked Holy Spirit to help me be aware of my healing opportunities when I watch a movie. So then I am on the look out for when I am judging the behavior of a character.

Maybe I experience my emotions being triggered by a scene in the movie that is like a carbon copy to an event in my past experience. Then I have a healing opportunity.

What I do not do is go up to the movie screen and try to change anything, because I realize its just a movie. All of the characters are actors, working from a script.

I see this as an analogy to my everyday life. In this dream life where I am waking up, I want to take responsibility, see innocence and call back my projections when I realize I am being triggered to look at something from the past, and see all triggers as opportunities for forgiveness.

Nothing has happened!! Only Love is Real!! 

The ego thought system is full of trickery. It shows up over here and then over there in different disguises — physical sickness, a thought of not having enough, or anger over some perceived hurt.

They are all based on the idea that I could be separate from God’s Love. These are some of the changes that will disappear as I open to the Presence of Changeless Love.

The illusionary system was designed to keep the game of separation going and being made by the confused Son of God with lots of underpinnings. It seems fool proof. Looking at this with the helpfulness of Holy Spirit, I see it as a “house of cards” no longer being able to stand in the Presence of remembered Love.

My movie has had its ups and downs, hairpin turns and dizzying spins. The worst thing that seemed to have happened on my “dream screen” is my daughter, Darlene, making her transition in February of 2018.

I can’t believe she’s gone, but of course she’s not. The ego wants her to “magically” come through the door so we can go on to do the things we said we would.

I am very grateful that I am learning through our Course 922 group about the script that is already written before we come to this “school” called the world.

It let’s me off of the “hook” from taking the ego’s bait of guilt that I could have, should have, would have, done anything to change her script.

I get it that I can ask Holy Spirit to help me see the script differently, through the eyes of Love! My Spiritual Sister reminds me from her vantage point that we are ONE and that we are being together eternally.

This message brings no comfort to the ego, but of course, the message is for me — the sleepy Spiritual Being that I seem to be.

I am waking up!! As my Faith and Trust strengthens in the Reality of my Real Life in God, I am certain I will become aware of the ever expansive activity going on in the Oneness that includes the whole Sonship.

Rev. Christine Anderson is a Pathways of Light minister living in Bolingbrook, IL.
Email: .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)

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Healing Relationships Is an Inside Job

by Rev. Cathy Silva, Ordained Ministerial Counselor

On a Saturday morning I went for my walk around the neighborhood and as I did I listened to the audio version of a book I learned about from Pathways of Light. The book is titled The Only Little Prayer You Need by Debra Engle. It’s a short read and I was able to listen to the entire book in just a couple hours. I love that. I also love that this short prayer is a way of practicing the true forgiveness referred to over and over in A Course in Miracles.

The prayer is:

Please heal my fear-based thoughts.

As in the steps in practicing true forgiveness, we first become aware of our fear based thoughts or ego, which is something I’ve been vigilant about doing for the past few months especially.

Once a fear based thought comes up, you say the prayer to Holy Spirit (Higher Power), Please heal my fear-based thoughts about… (whatever the bear based thought is).

The last step is you witness the miracle.

I’ve noticed lately as I acknowledge my fear based thoughts with at least the intent to let them go that my ego is having a hissy fit; like it’s hanging on for dear life, knowing its days are numbered. I have experienced such healing in my relationships from the inner work I’ve done with Spirit’s Guidance, especially in my relationship with my husband. With Love in charge, our conversations together while he’s away at work for two months at time and our time together while he’s home has been for the most part void of the bickering, struggle and strain that had become a regular thing when fear was running the show. Now most of the time we thoroughly enjoy each other even while we are apart. We miss one another but there is a new sense of peace and appreciation about the purpose of our relationship and we are happy to each have the opportunity to do work that feels meaningful and on purpose.

When I returned from my walk, I went about the house and did some chores while I finished listening to the audio book. At around 11 a.m. I received a FaceTime call from my husband. He’d been working nights so it was early for his call. I’d noticed lately he’s been calling right after he wakes up so he’s still groggy and especially so this morning since he had not gotten his desired amount of sleep. Now I could have interpreted this as he was excited to talk with me after he woke up.

However, my ego went right into judgment about him calling me while he was still tired and not alert enough to have a ‘good’ conversation. From this position of blame and judgment I got downright mean — poking fun at him and referring to him as Eyore, the donkey character from Winnie the Pooh who is portrayed as being down and negative all the time. Then I asked if he had downloaded the Love Languages app I’d sent to him, fully expecting of course that he still had not. He said he downloaded it but had not had time to do anything with it. Well, with my ego large and in charge, my fear based thoughts about not being a priority or important were triggered. All of these thoughts boil down to I don’t matter. I have learned that quite possibly that is what all our fear based thoughts boil down to.

I jumped to the conclusion that he really didn’t want to download the app; he was just doing it to appease me. And further- more he didn’t really care about our relationship or thought doing anything to make it better was worth his time.

I have been really craving connection and intimacy with him and I think I was grasping at any way we could achieve that together.

The fact is that the desire for connection and intimacy is one we all share. When we are not in our right mind, we look to get our needs met outside ourselves and from what the Course refers to as ‘special relationships.’ I was looking to get my need for love met from my husband and I felt using this tool together would be helpful toward that goal. Though when he didn’t respond the way I wanted him to then it confirmed the fear based thought — I don’t matter. We ended up falling back into an old pattern of blame and judgment and defense. We hung up the call with “I love you’s” that felt void of any real feeling of love at all.

It’s interesting that I have been so aware of my thoughts lately that even as I seem to be entrenched in the ego tirade I’m aware of it’s antics. As we were engaged in this hurtful exchange, there was that part of my mind that was observing it all play out, though in the thick of it I didn’t seem to have the power to stop it.

There is a line in ACIM Text, Chapter 2 Section VI Fear and Conflict, that stands out to me where Jesus says, “Fear cannot be controlled by me, but it can be self-controlled. Fear prevents me from giving you my control.”

To me this means that at any moment the decision maker part of my mind can make the choice to quiet the fearful ego mind so that I may be Guided by Love. It’s also important to remember that the ego is simply a mistaken identity. You are the decision maker, not the ego. This puts the control back with what is for our highest good and the good of all concerned.

My husband and I share the highest intention to be loving in the best way we can. We’ve made the commitment to one another to love unconditionally and support one another in our growth. Sometimes we just get off track.

Remembering that commitment was key to the shift I was able to make once we got off our call together, I made the decision to step back from the confrontation that still raged in my mind and remember the love we share and remember the prayer, “Please heal my fear-based thoughts.”

I surrendered to the Source of Love within me. Then what arose in my awareness was Ho’oponopono, the ancient Hawaiian practice for healing, and a prompting to send my beloved a text saying:

“I’m sorry. Clearly my ego was engaged and in charge. Please forgive me for allowing that to happen and affect our time together. Thank you for your love and being my partner in life. I love you.” I instantly felt peace. I wasn’t even concerned about how or if he would respond. It was a total giving from my heart to his without the need to ‘get’ anything in return.

I went on to enjoy my day and he got some more sleep. After a while I received a return text: “I’m sorry too. I love you.” He’s a man of few words (smile). In actuality there were no more words necessary. I felt his heart. The blocks to the awareness of our love for one another were removed. Later in the evening we had another conversation where we shared what had happened and what we learned from it from a fresh perspective.

Rev. Cathy Silva is Pathways of Light minister living in Punta Gorda, FL who specializes in being of help to heal our relationships. To learn more about working with her visit her website: cathysilva.org or reach out via email: .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) or phone: 941-626-5551.

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