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Healing My Inner Child

by Tacey Reese, Ministerial Candidate

I began the Pathways of Light ministerial classes this year and have received so much from the meditations and exercises. This experience is from the “Sharing with Your Inner Child” meditation in Course 112: Knowing Your True Purpose.

During the guided meditation I find my infant self clothed only in a cloth diaper, sitting on the brown braided rug in the living room. She’s smiling, happy. I pick her up and her eyes are bright, shining love all over me. I bask in that love. We’re in a cocoon of love and I can’t look away from her eyes shining that love all over me and spilling out to fill the space we’re in.

I admire the rest of her, perfect skin, delicate fingers and toes and lustrous dark hair and I realize she is perfect. She came to this world perfect and a sense of relief washes over me. There’s nothing I can tell this infant that she doesn’t already know. I feel like she has comforted me.

Next I see her walking in the woods, solumn, brow furrowed. She’s looking at the ground, at the path she’s traversing, the path that’s there only because she has walked this same forest in the same way so many times. She is six and has to start first grade soon.

She’s worried because she knows things are going to change and not in a good way. Although she couldn’t tell you how they’re going to change, she just knows this change will take her farther from that quiet place inside where she prefers to dwell. In that quiet place she can rememer, almost, Who She Really Is and while she has no words for It, It comforts her and brings her joy. When she tried to talk to the grownups about all these thoughts inside her, they acted like she just didn’t want to do what she’s supposed to do, which is go to school. She’s scared of conformity, althought she doesn’t know yet what that word even means and she’s scared of forgetting her true nature, of losing that quiet place inside.

I go to her side and she seems surprised that a grownup has joined her here in the woods. I talk to her gently and I tell her that yes, things are changing and no, you won’t like all of it, but you survived all the changes. I tell her that yes, her greatest fears will come to pass, but so will her greatest hopes and that the Love She Is will refuse to be forgotten.

I tell her that yes, she will conform for a while but that before long, she’ll be angering all the grownups with her non-conformity and that eventually, when she’s an adult, many many moons from now, her mom will tell her how she admired that about her, and how the very traits that irritated her so much and seemed to cause so much turmoil between them also caused her to believe in her. And then I tell her how one day, even further away than that day, much further, that she’d be sitting in her living room writing about our encounter and about how she did survive her greatest fears and with all of the Love She Is, intact.

She perked up a lot at that and looked up at me with eyes as bright as her infant self’s. She grabbed my hand and asked if I wanted to swing on her bag swing first. “If you jump off the doghouse roof, you can swing really high!” she exclaimed. “I do,” I said, and off we ran towards the swing, towards the life waiting for us.

Tacy Reese is a Pathways of Light ministerial candidate living in Benton, Arkansas. Email: .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)

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The Power of Asking for Help

by Rev. Mary Gerard Lenihan, O.M.C.

“The Car and the Pause GPS”

Here at Pause we train people how to become Pause Practitioners and share this helpful practice with others, all for free! One of our current students shared the perfect experience with all of us last week; Perfect, because she was willing to ask for help!

Maxine got into her car excited to be on her way that morning to the Practitioner training. As enthusiastic as Maxine was, her car was, well, not so much. Cranking on the ignition and, nothing! Oh boy, what now?

Before pausing, Maxine’s mind began racing. Now what! What am I going to do? I’m going to be late. I’ll have to call roadside assistance. How much is that going to cost? I’ll be late for Pause training, oh no! Anxious, worried, a moment of helplessness and a bit of “Really, are you kidding me.”

While the car stood stagnant, the PAUSE GPS in Maxine’s mind flashed a turn signal:
> > > PAUSE, STEP BACK, STEP ASIDE, LET INSPIRATION GUIDE and Maxine’s mind turned around.

IN THE PAUSE Maxine’s awareness of her surroundings expanded! Yes, that actually happens. Look, there’s the maintenance man! Funny how she didn’t see him and his truck sitting there before she paused.

Maxine hops out of her car and asks him if he can help her jump the battery. He has no cables, but Maxine does and he is happy to help.

So often we think people don’t want to help. We fear burdening people or inconveniencing them in some way. Most of the time people are not only willing to help, they are grateful to have the uplifting experience that comes with helping one another.

A few minutes later the battery is awake, the car is running and Maxine is on her way to Pause Practitioner Training. She is relaxed, grateful, happy and early!! Best of all she has a perfect Pause story to share, one from which we can all learn the value of asking for help, receiving help and letting someone else be helpful.

Asking for help is coming from a position of strength, not weakness. The reason for this is that asking for help requires humbling this me-character who is often feeling embarrassed, ashamed and less than when it comes to asking someone, “Will you help me?” I find that when I am willing to humble this “me-self” to Inspiration — kind of like letting go of my hot air balloon into the vast blue sky — I create a way of helping another and myself — All in one simple Pause.

Rev. Mary Gerard Lenihan is a Pathways of Light minister living in St. Louis, MO.
Email: .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) Website: http://www.pauseforinspiration.org The Pause is expanding; we now have The 4 Decisions pocket-sized cards: Kids Can Pause, Parents Can Pause, Teachers Can Pause and Prisoners Can Pause. We also have a new book, “Kids can Pause for Help …and Parents too!  Get to Know Your Helpful Self”

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Reflection

by Rev. Diane C. Bernier, O.M.C.

This August, I decided that as I read the message of the day to take time to reflect and journal about it. I received some beautiful insights:

Aug.16: Lesson 228: God has condemned me not. No more do I.

I wrote: Why am I feeling so guilty? Why am I feeling like I don’t deserve the best? Why can’t I fully embrace my own Divine Self? Why is it so challenging to believe this fully and completely?

Holy Spirit: Dear Soul, it is what the ego is doing — playing you against You, making you want to stay small when you are not. Making you feel unworthy when you have Heaven within You.

It is just a game and you could choose to stop playing and know that as a reluctant player (at first) you will have to be mindful, attentive to refusing to play. Ego will leave you alone for a while, then he might come back. However you are stronger as you acknowledge the change of mind that is taking place…

You are strong, holy, worthy, loving and so much more… you might not realize it fully, however it is the only truth….We are here to help you, sweet child of God… with love and gratitude…

Aug. 17: Lesson 229: Love, which created me, is what I am.

Me: Okay, I know that God created me perfectly, so why is it that I hesitate to fully believe this?

Holy Spirit: Ah! Sweet soul, ego is fooling you, he is scaring you and you don’t have to believe him as he is nothing, and he never speaks the truth. Open your heart, soul and mind to Me, I will help you, I know what is real, what is important, what needs to happen for you to be You. So sweet soul, you are whole, holy, loving child of God. That’s it, trust… I am always there and it is the ‘job’ that God gave Me to be your protector, your communicator, your translator….Ask and receive.”

Aug. 18: Lesson 230: Now will I seek and find the peace of God.

Holy Spirit: Dear Soul, seek with your soul/your heart, listen to My Voice listen to the Song of Heaven, listen to the quiet within and you shall find the peace of God — it is always there waiting for you to acknowledge, to merge with. It is part of your divine ‘blueprint’, part of God so part of you. The peace of God is sweet, welcoming, calm, indescribable with words to do it justice. Spirit is there waiting for you to help you settle in that peace of God and to help you enjoy it… With Love.”

I thought I was done with these old thinking patterns… and then I realized that these are calls for Love. I asked Holy Spirit’s help …forgiveness and extending Love are the keys… I received with gratefulness… These daily messages help me reconnect with Source, be okay with choosing again and again if necessary, to be free to let go of the ‘self-insecurity’ and ego-driven expectation and trust that I have all the help I need.

On September 1st I wrote: ”I know nothing of what this month will be about so I open my heart, soul and mind to the guidance of Spirit to help me be the best I could be — a child of God, created like Him to Love, to be His ambassador.”

Rev. Diane C. Bernier is a Pathways of Light minister from Alexandria, Ontario, CA. Email: .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)  Website: http://www.newbliss.ca

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The Strength of Our Innocence

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Our crime was never meant to be… no, we simply believed some untruth but saw the better of it before any sentence could be laid. We remain innocent of any murder of God, ourselves or anyone else. The death of God could never be. Therefore, no death exists.

Only one who was guilty could suffer such a separation, and since we think not with the ego thought system, we are free of anything but God’s peace, joy and happiness eternally. This is the truth.

Deception is not for God’s children and has never been. The strength of our innocence keeps us strong in the Light that we are, the infinite Self of Love that is eternal. We rejoice in the freedom that comes in knowing our True Self and God as One in Heaven. There are no exclusions — only inclusion in the Love that is us.

There is never any wondering about our true Nature. Like as to God, we are the sinless, guiltless, fear-free Son of God in the one Mind. We are free forever to enjoy the unspeakable experience of our Being, which is of God.

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