I will be released from fear when I allow my Spirit to reinterpret my thoughts.

The Course states:

“Now you must learn that only infinite patience produces immediate effects. This is the way in which time is exchanged for eternity. Infinite patience calls upon infinite love, and by producing results now it renders time unnecessary. We have repeatedly said that time is a learning device to be abolished when it is no longer useful. The Holy Spirit, Who speaks for God in time, also knows that time is meaningless. He reminds you of this in every passing moment of time, because it is His special function to return you to eternity and remain to bless your creations there. He is the only blessing you can truly give, because He is truly blessed.” (T-5.VI .12:1-7)

So, what is time used for?

I want to remember that time is a gift from God to His Son to bring Him back Home. And so I accept my wise Guide, the Holy Spirit, to tell me what I need to watch out for, to notice when my thoughts turn to fear or worry and know what to replace them with right then and there, no matter where I am or what I do, and I say:

My safety is guaranteed by God. I choose to join with God and let Him lead me through this seemingly difficult time. I choose the Joy that He offers, the Peace of Mind and Safety of the body. It is all given. I follow His ways gladly. And I am grateful.

May time always be a string of moments of Joy. Thank you.

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Something Shifted

by Rev. Savina Cavallo, O.M.C.

I discovered A Course in Miracles in February of 2007 and since then I’ve been in several study groups, listened to teachers online, done the workbook lessons several times along with reading parts of the Text.

In 2014 I was ordained as a Pathways of Light minister. The teachings and principles of the Course have influenced me deeply and my trajectory on this path has been a healing one.

Still, I always felt I wasn’t as dedicated as I wanted to be nor as consistent in my daily practice of the principles and I wanted to experience more love, peace, joy and the good stuff that results from being on the path.

A few months ago, I enrolled in a transformational program based on the Course Text and Lessons. As I read and then did the daily practice, I slowly sensed something shifting inside of me.

A few weeks into the program, my husband and I had a very strong argument and I stayed angry at him for quite a few days. I just couldn’t let it go. Lesson 78 of the workbook, “Let miracles replace all grievances” was one of the weekly assignments I was to do right smack in the middle of my grievance. I knew this was not a coincidence, but Holy Spirit speaking directly to my heart.

It was time to heal the anger I was feeling. A specific portion of the lesson stood out to me and that’s what I took to practice… with my husband. It says, “We will select one person you have used as target for your grievances, and lay the grievances aside and look at him. Someone, perhaps, you fear and even hate; someone you think you love who angered you; someone you call a friend, but whom you see as difficult at times or hard to please, demanding, irritating or untrue to the ideal he should accept as his, according to the role you set for him.” (W-pI.78.4.4-5)

I chose my husband. I love him but he had angered me….and I was holding an ideal of him according to the role I had set for him.

I asked Holy Spirit to help me see him as he truly is. I practiced looking beyond the body and connect to his true being, the light within.

Then the anger lifted, and I felt so much closer and loving to my husband just by taking these deliberate steps and doing the lesson. All the anger just disappeared. 

As a result, my husband also was more loving towards me. We are now closer and more connected at a deeper level than ever before. I can honestly say that I am the happiest I’ve in my 63 years of life. These principles do work when we practice them consistently.

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Teach Only Love for That Is What You Are

by Rev. Barbara Goodman Siegel, O.M.C.

“Teach Only Love for That Is What You Are” Do I Believe It?

I just finished a wonderful two weeks of listening to the first global conference based on A Course in Miracles called “Awaken to Love.” I hope you also got to hear at least a few of the wonderful teachers that presented. (By the way, if you didn’t hear Mary & Robert’s interview, it soon will be posted on the POL website. It truly was one of the best I heard and well worth your listening time.)

Anyway, as I was saying, the conference ended and I wanted to listen to a recording of Diedrick Wolsak’s talk which I had not been able to listen to when he did his live interview. For those of you who may not know Diedrick’s work, he is the founder of Choose Again as well as a book by the same title. Choose Again is a wonderful process based on A Course in Miracles that has the purpose of removing the ego beliefs that hold us back from being our true Self, i.e. the Self of Love. I have been to two of Diedrick’s workshops and have been practicing his method for the last three years. I have found the process invaluable in my own awakening process.

Looking forward to listening Diedrick’s talk, I got in bed early, turned on my tablet and then the recording. Oh my! Was I in for shock! What I understood Diedrick to say was that all this “Awaken to Love” was a wonderful thought, but pretty impossible for most of us (including himself) because we really don’t love ourselves. Indeed, according to Diedrick, it is quite the opposite. We pretty much all hate ourselves (albeit unconsciously), and until we clear out that hate our ability to “Awaken to Love” is just another egoic fantasy.

Way to pour ice cold water on everything, Diedrick! Part of me wanted to turn off the rest of the interview. Here I was feeling all warm and fuzzy about love and my “Awakening” to it. Indeed, I had a rough draft of another article I was going to submit to Miracles News that reflected this warm fuzziness, and now Diedrick is telling me to be careful not to fall for another egoic hoax. Actually, all I think he was really saying is that if we truly want to “Awaken to Love”, we must clear out the obstacles we have put in front of it, and those obstacles are the beliefs we, from our ego mind, made up about ourselves; beliefs that were developed in childhood and are not the truth of who we are. 

These beliefs only serve the ego’s purpose of making us feel separate and alone. Diedrick sited Lesson 93 in A Course in Miracles Workbook entitled: “Light and joy and peace abide in me.” This lesson clearly points out how we truly feel about ourselves. The first sentence of the first paragraph says: “You think you are the home of evil, darkness and sin.” Wow! Jesus knows what dark beliefs the ego wants us to believe to keep us separate from God, doesn’t he!

Diedrick’s “Choose Again” method has 6 steps (and is well outlined in his book), and he wanted to spend the majority of his interview time taking anyone who was willing through the process. To my surprise, several brave people volunteered (brave because it meant baring their souls to thousands of people). As I listened to these wonderful people go through the process and expose their deepest dark beliefs about themselves, I had an “Ah ha” moment — I realized that my deepest dark belief about myself is that I ruin everything from my mother’s life, to events in my marriage that led to divorce, to my children, and to my own life in many ways.

I got up the next morning and immediately read Lesson 93 over and over. In the first two paragraphs, Jesus does not mince words about what our true beliefs about ourselves are, but then he goes on for the next nine paragraphs telling us why this isn’t true. I sat with pen and journal in hand and contemplated the lesson and I heard Holy Spirit say to me: 

“The truth is you were and always have been God’s perfect child. Light and joy and peace have always abided in you from the moment you were born (actually before that), and the belief about not being wanted was a story you were told. Had you been told the opposite story, you would have had a whole different set of beliefs. Isn’t that amazing? Do you see by this how it is the stories you were told (or you told yourself) that then become your judgments of yourself and, from these judgments, you (your ego) made up your false beliefs? The stories are built on stories other people told you and those people had their beliefs and their beliefs came from stories other people told them, and so on and so on. Can you see from this how such dark illusions are made?

Change your beliefs to change the world. All are one! All are worthy! All are God’s holy children whom He loves equally and without exception. Light and joy and peace abide in each of you and only your old, tired stories cover this up. Let go of the stories! Be who you are right now, the holy child of God, filled with love to give to all. Let love be your story every day. I will help you if you turn to Me to remember your truth. Just say:

Holy Spirit, please remind me who I am — I forgot, I am sorry, please forgive me     and show me the truth. Thank You, I love You. Amen

Then listen only to My voice and I will speak the truth to you. Believe that and only that. That is how you hand it over. That is how you take away the power the ego has had over you all these years. Let Me love you. You are worthy, you are beautiful, you are holy, and you are loved.”

I saw a wonderful quote by Deepak Chopra that seemed to put all this into a very simple sentence: “Awakening is not changing who you are, but discarding who you are not.”

I am willing to discard those old beliefs! I know that they are what chain me to the self I made. They do not serve me or my brothers. In my practice of releasing old beliefs, in addition to reading Lesson 93 over and over, I am also doing the same with Lesson 127, “There is no love but God’s.”

In this lesson, Jesus tells us to: “Call to your Father, certain that His Voice will answer. He Himself has promised this. And He Himself will place a spark of truth within your mind wherever you give up a false belief, a dark illusion of your own reality and what love means. He will shine through your idle thoughts today, and help you understand the truth of love.” (W-127.9:1-4)

The mirror affirmations (affirmations that are to be done as you look at yourself in the mirror) that I wrote in my book, Finding Your Self in the Mirror, for Lesson 93 also helps me in eliminating those old beliefs. I pray they might also help you. The affirmations are:

1.  I am sinless.

2.  My sinlessness is guaranteed by God.

3.  I am as God created me.

4.  I am one Self.

5.  Light and joy and peace abide in me.

6.  In gratitude, I accept this truth.

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Tai Chi with Holy Spirit

by Rev. Peggy Booth, O.M.C.

Here’s a simple practice I do most days to be joyfully joined with Holy Spirit in another area of my life.

Most mornings, my husband and I do a simple version of tai chi in the backyard or living room.  More often than not, I’m the human leader, meaning that I need to determine when we’ve reached the last of nine repetitions of a specific move and say “one more” or “last one” aloud. Instead of counting repetitions of the move “1, 2, 3, … 9.”  I use ACIM-related words in place of each number. Specifically, I say to myself the ACIM “Characteristics of God’s Teachers” and related thoughts as a wonderful way of counting to nine.

Thus, my practice in doing tai chi with Holy Spirit is:

Move 1 with left foot extended:  I am trusting, I am trusting, I am trusting, I trust in God, I trust in God, I trust in God, I am trusting, I am trusting, I am trusting.

Move 1 with right foot extended:  I am honest, I am honest, I am honest, I am consistent in word and deed, I am consistent in word and deed, I am consistent in word and deed, I am honest, I am honest, I am honest.

Move 2 with left …:  I am tolerant [x3], I judge not [x3], I am tolerant [x3].

Move 2 with right …:  I am gentle [x3], I do no harm [x3], I am gentle [x3].

Move3 with left …: I am joyful [x3], I am happy [x3], I am joyful [x3].

Move 3 with right …:  In my defenselessness my safety lies [x3], I defend not, [x3], I am safe [x3].

Move 4 with left …:  I am generous [x3], I give all to all [x3], I am generous [x3].

Move 4 with right …:  I am patient [x3], this is what time is for [x3], I am patient [x3].

Move 5 with left …:  I am faithful [x3], I believe in the Father, I believe in the Son, I believe in the Holy Spirit, I am faithful [x3]

Move 5 with right …:  I am open-minded [x3], I listen to Holy Spirit [x3], I am open-minded [x3].

Move 6 with left …:  I am light, I am hope, I am charity; I am kind, I am grateful, I am helpful; I am peace, I am serene,  I am love.  [This one I always start with “light” and then add 8 other spirit-led words as they come to me.]

Move 6 with right …:  I am innocent, you are innocent, we all are innocent, I am blessed, you are blessed, we all are blessed, I am Holy, you are Holy, we all are Holy

Move 7 with left …:  We are one [x9].  [These words are used with the “gathering chi” move.]

Move 7 with right …:  We are one [x9]. 

The rest of the moves I don’t use words, but just feel Holy Spirit’s presence. 

Doing tai chi with Holy Spirit always uplifts me.  I am grateful that this idea came to me.  I invite you to be inspired to have Holy Spirit lead you in your daily practices.

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